Who wrote,
"<font color=orange>I Gotta Heater in My Truck
I don't give a shuck (sp?) -and-
I am off the the Rodeo-eo-eo, ,
Goddaya-aya yipie eye yae...</font>"
or words to that effect..?
I believe the subtext of your principle main complaint, on the whole, taking the lowest common denominator of the gist of your intention, at face value, and not meaning to read way too much into it, is, that, the 14,400 baud chinese no-name fax-modem, noisy telephone line, 13-inch B&W screen, 386 no-math-co-processor, windows 3.0, 4 megabyte ram, gotta-give-it-a-whack-every-once-in-a-while-to-keep-the-fan-going,
30 megabyte RLL Kaypro I-bought-it-at-the-Bric drive, Mosaic 0.78, trumpet winsock, proxy server, three keys missing dec terminal keyboard, one button mouse, all the software is on loan, computer; -- is due for an upgrade.
Is that your problem, son?
Yes, I would like a 1.8 gige, 1 gige RDO ram machine with a 19 inch flat monitor too, but I cannot afford it. So what?
I gave up on upgrades about 2 years ago. Now my perverse luddite justification is in taking aging, no good, noisy, obsolete equipment, and putting arcane operating systems on it, to squeeze out the last 5 years it can possibly be of cantakerous service to man or beast, with maniacal glee. The idea is to do without features in <font color=purple>New Windows Machines</font>, by telling yourself that real men do not need these features, as you can take 5 times more time to install a work-alike on <font color=blue>Linux</font> or even <font color=red>Plan 9</font> from Bell Labs, and if you cannot, it just goes to show you how cash-poor the windoze crowd is, for having to pay for it. Spending all your waking hours conspiring on getting along without the feature has a tendency to show you just how much of an obsession the feature itself might have become, if you had let it. Glad we didn't go there.
Besides I have no viruses. This fact alone sends spy agencies in the pay of Microsoft (registered trademark of an evil company whose name we will not mention) into an absolute frenzy in their drive to compromise the last vestige of supercilious antidisestablishmentarianism the hold-outs have in rebellion against the machine, and that is their system security. They will not rest until Linux and the idea of having one's own leaf-node mail, ftp, and http server is driven from this land, so they secretly wreak revenge by amassing all the information on everyone's drive in a massive super secure warehouse in Philadelphia, by downloading it with secret ppp codes written into the connection software for Bell Sympatico and the other hi speed ADSL players on the internet.
Might as well join the crowd and get the upgrades.
The myth of privacy is just a narcotized state of mind that the mistakenly non-paranoid enjoy. In the final analysis, no state can afford to offer these privileges to their citizens.
Leon Trabuco.
Hey, Leon wants you to sell his old jalopy you found in the stream bed with the one wheel missing, to the nephew of his first cousin's grandson's fiance. Just thought I would let you know. It's not really obligatory, just his dying wish. |
