At 01:51 PM 02/01/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At 12:28 PM 2/1/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>>because you don't install "the (high speed) internet" on your pc; you
>>connect your pc TO the internet.  Sorry, but I'm just not that stupid, and
>
>This is an interesting statement. Why couldn't you say that you are 
>connecting the Internet to your computer? Isn't the Internet just a 
>collection of other computers? Since communication is bidirectional, isn't 
>it just as correct to say that you are connecting the Internet to your 
>computer as saying that your are connecting your computer to the Internet? 
>Where is our resident semantic guru?
>
>Regards, Dustin

         I guess that would depend on whether you're plugging a cable from 
your computer into the network infrastructure, or if you plug the cable 
into the infrastructure and then into your computer. :)

Jason


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