Every PC we can save from the landfill, can be used by someone to read ideas just like this one in plain ASCII. Some ideas you are not going to see anywhere else. Everywhere else is supported by corporate entities. AFAIK, the Corporation was invented so that the rich guys who owned businesses, could not be personally sued for anything which the business does in the pursuit of profit for the owners. That, on the face of it, strikes me as a blank cheque to screw the planet. They get the returns on investment, and dont havta worry about the effects. > Day said in part: " I would repeal the corporate right to free speech." > AND "I'd abolish that as well." > > Day: > > Say, Day, did you put too much chicory in your Wednesday morning coffee? > > Or did somebody vote you in as the Benevolent Dictator when I wasn't > listening to the chatter in the either <BG> I dont expect agreement on the above, but it should be pretty clear that these ideas are not going to be discussed in any of the mass market corporate media. Nor, are they particularly interested in us recycling computers. They make more profit in selling entirely new systems. I personally dont have that big a problem with spam. it might take me 30 seconds or so to delete it going thru the email. The cumulative effect on the net, however, is noteworthy. it hogs bandwidth. That inclines people to buy hispeed service and, as you suggest, tools to cope with it. inefficient. Why should we havta buy a service in order to avoid getting a service we dont want? The only reason spam exists is because corporations think they have a right to free speech. Were any given individual sending out SPAM, we'd know who it was, and would know who to go gunning for. The anonymity of the organization permits abuse. I aint so sure that corporations have the right to inconvenience everyone in order to make money. In fact, by my lights, as long as the corporation is a thing, it has no rights, only powers to make the court system do what it wants. Of course, this applies to governments and NGOs as well, but they aint so good at it. Global recycling has been held up by the sheer volume of the PC system. but as we replace the CRT with the flat panel, now we can ship out systems with the keybd and monitor strapped to the side of a much smaller box, doubling the number of systems that can be shipped in a given container. Then maybe they can make money at it. And maybe we can get more people online who lack money, but not ideas. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
