IOW, "Doomsday Preppers" will get the last laugh. ;-)
https://youtu.be/xembQvHGNUM
On 06/25/2015 02:27 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Software development would come to a halt. These days a programmer's
right hand man is the Internet. Instead of books you look up how to
solve a programming problem by looking it up online. Of course we'd
have to go back to selling software in boxes at stores and mailing out
discs with updates. That is if anyone bothered to turn on their
computers again.
It's lucky for us it's all fairly hypothetical.
But what if some terrorist group could create a virus so evil it took
down the web for a month. Would civilisation survive?
Shops wouldn't get food, shipping would stop, power regulation relies
on information gathered and passed over the net. Probably everything
in the modern world is connected in some way.
It's "lucky" that ISIS are more intent on buying nuclear weapons than
good programmers....
On 06/25/2015 09:43 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
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<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
Nah, just shut down the Internet. That should make everyone happy
........ or not!
Image what you'd do without the Internet.
Can't imagine life without it. But it would probably be like when I
used to go travelling and I'd miss the TV and phone for about half a
minute before adjusting.
The web has always been like a newsagents to me. Mostly for browsing
the magazines and trying to decide what camera/bike to buy. But it
does avoid the tedious going down the library and looking through a
catalogue to find the right book to order if I want to know how far
it is to the Andromeda galaxy, and then wait two weeks for delivery.
Much easier with Wikipedia.
On 06/25/2015 08:14 AM, steve.sundur@... <mailto:steve.sundur@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
yes, and as we continue to move past the "event" things will
continue to get better.
I'm down for calling it a "higher power" event. (-:
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<mailto:awoelflebater@...> wrote :
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<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <steve.sundur@...>
<mailto:steve.sundur@...> wrote :
Is this an obituary?
I'm trying hard to shed a tear, but it's just not happening. (-:
I was pretty positive half of FFL was going to leave as soon as
they found out Doug was going to be the moderator and I said so
to various people. Funnily enough, that didn't happen and
doesn't appear to be going to happen. I guess everyone currently
posting here just can't quite pull themselves away. Part of it
is addiction, part seems to be the love of drama and some of it
seems to be that some consider it their second home. Let's see
who voluntarily unsubscribes first, either in disgust or as a
protest move. I'm pretty sure, if things stay the way they are
currently, that it will be no one. But I like to be surprised.
&qu! ot;You can check out any time you like but you can never
(quite) leave."
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<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <anartaxius@...>
<mailto:anartaxius@...> wrote :
This place may just fade into the woodwork. It does get
tiresome. I am pretty sure Barry was feeling wearisome about it.
He did post many marvellous things. His not being here seems the
result of a personal vendetta at the hands of the moderator. The
problem with power is it reveals one's corruption. Judy seemed
to lose interest, maybe she just got tired. Her method of
posting did not seem to have changed. Barry challenged people at
the gut level as well as at the intellectual level. The gut
level is much more difficult to respond to because it activates
the lower emotional brain functions, and the intellect goes into
hibernation as a result. You even see this in the Bhagavad-Gita:
'From anger delusion occurs, from delusion bewilderment of
memory, after forgetfulness of memory, the loss of spiritual
intelligence, and losing spiritual intelligence, one perishes'.
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*Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:50 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick, Time to shut down FFL
(Great Beyond Dispatch #2)
Both, Barry and Judy are no longer posting here. I also
losing my inclination to post here.
Is it time for Rick to shut down FFL? Nothing lasts forever.
All things must end.
If Barry were around he would have quoted Nietzsche.
"Not only the wisdom of centuries --- also their madness
breaketh out in us. Dangerous is it to be an heir."
~ Nietzsche
--- <salyavin808@...> <mailto:salyavin808@...> wrote :
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I must say I'm impressed at your patience with this bullshit
Xeno. But perhaps it's time to point out the irony in what's
happening. Here we have a bunch of people with not much to say
about anything claiming that "mean old Bawee" stopped them from
posting because he was such a mean old meanie.
And here they are pouring abuse on you in the same way they
claim he used to get at them! I've said these people have no
sense of awareness but isn't this taking it too far? I think
that amoeba I posted about yesterday has a better grasp of
what's going on than Ms "Back for More".
Lets make a challenge out of it. If it was the Big Bad Wolf
stopping conversations here then why haven't they started again?
How come it's looking more like a teenage girl's facebook page
every day?
If you were being prevented from posting, start posting. Start a
thread, say something interesting, tell us something we didn't !
know, give us an insight into something - anything.
But stop this dumb harassment of Xeno, you're just making
yourself look stupid, he's got more to say than the rest of us
put together.
If you can't manage a whole thread you can share brain cells
until you've thought of something. Better still, have a look
back through the archives at some of Barry's pieces about
creative writing. He posted some good essays on how to get
started on the subject because, like me, he got fed up of the
lack of participation and one line posts that add nothing that
infest this place.
But any appreciation of Barry's writing and contributions about
archaeology, travel or history or even TV reviews would be a way
of admitting that he made up a huge part of what was worth
reading. Can't have that eh? Got to paint him bad and use him to
blame your lack of meaningful participation on.
When was the last time Judy started a thread? Hell, when was the
/first /time Judy started a thread!
