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Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.

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On 2014-04-30 8:17 PM,  flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:07:18 -0400, Silver Slimer wrote:
>
>> On 2014-04-30 7:49 PM,  flatfish+++ wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:45:13 -0400, Silver Slimer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2014-04-30 7:23 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I've become quite comfortable with talking about GNU/Linux again. The
>>>>>> GNU/Linux people who don't want to discuss the OT
>>>>>
>>>>> I admit I'm actually amazed but it seems that they've *finally* reached this point (it took years!).
>>>>
>>>> GNU/Linux deserves a USENET group which isn't constantly disrupted by
>>>> stupidity. It's just too bad that they will only get it long after
>>>> USENET has died.
>>>
>>> Yea.
>>> Right now USENET's only real purpose is for those interested in
>>> downloading pirated software and illegal music. And only because
>>> USENET is still very slightly below the radar of the RIAA, publishers
>>> and so forth.
>>> Once that ends, USENET will be gone.
>>
>> I actually returned to USENET (I was around briefly in 2005 and in the
>> 90's) because I wanted to be able to discuss with people WITHOUT there
>> being a load of graphics loading in the background. As it is, USENET is
>> the only place other than IRC and e-mail where constant background
>> transfers aren't going on. No matter how fast my Internet connection
>> gets (I'm at 50Mbit right now), I'll never get used to the idea that
>> communication is impossible without ads, images and other distractions.
>
> +10000
> Same here.
>
> We are the oddballs though.

I don't think that we are. While I was a teenager, while Windows 95 was 
coming out and essentially showing the world that the future of 
computing lay in GUI and that the whole of the Internet was going to be 
accessible through a web browser, I ALREADY longed for a return to the 
protocols I had first used on the net. I wanted a shell Internet 
connection, one which forced me to use the CLI with Lynx, Pine and 
gopher simply because it was fast rather than a PPP dial-up connection 
which allowed me to use graphical utilities. Granted, much of it had to 
do with the fact that dial-up connections didn't allow for anything 
other than text to be transferred quickly.

Either way, even with a powerful computer as what I use today and a 
50Mbit connection, using the mouse and keyboard simply doesn't feel as 
"right" as a keyboard alone. You feel a greater deal of control if 
everything the system allows to be executed can be from a CLI with a 
keyboard. It provides for an awful web experience, but it provides for a 
much greater INFORMATIONAL experience. You learn a lot more and use much 
more of your brain when you're not being distracted by images and video.

-- 
Silver Slimer
Wikipedia & OpenMedia Supporter

163 Reasons not to deal with Michael "Snit" Glasser, the Prescott 
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Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. James <jlungo33@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 12:01 -0700
  Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 17:13 -0400
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 14:41 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:30 -0700
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:11 -0400
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:36 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 19:39 -0400
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:42 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:33 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:42 -0400
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:49 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:03 -0700
            Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-30 18:18 -0700
              Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 18:20 -0700
                @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-30 18:44 -0700
                Re: @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless.  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 19:00 -0700
                Re: @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 20:36 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 16:45 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-04-30 18:23 -0600
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 17:29 -0700
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 16:23 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 19:45 -0400
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:49 -0400
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:57 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 20:07 -0400
            Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 20:17 -0400
              Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 20:35 -0400
                Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 17:45 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:56 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2014-05-01 11:01 +0000
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 13:09 +0200
            Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-01 07:31 -0400

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