Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle
“books....many many people will keep books because digital books can be altered or banned...”
The ‘Written Word’ has been banned and altered many times.
I can’t stand it when someone calls me on their cell. The sound is all wonky. They’re always losing signals. What’s worse is they never say to hold on a second while they talk to a cashier or someone in front of them.
Who needs a smart phone. I want my old $5/mo. limited cell service back.
“Who needs a smart phone.”
I do.
Boaters come by 50 times a day with their rap crap blasting FU and other nasty stuff so loud the windows rattle. The author left out “Respect for others” off his list.
Finally got my parents to get caller ID but don’t think they bother using it.
It is also something else one has to carry around. It is not so useful as to warrant the expense or the space. And I got turned off years ago by seeing all the folks interrupting dinner conversations to answer the cell phone and large groups of youths obviously together and every one talking on their cells. I have a desk top at home and that is all the “connected” I care to be. There is still a world outside the Cloud.
I am still doing bookkeeping for 2 clients. I receive their data by USPS & sometimes Fed Ex, but I have to MAIL it back priority since I live rural. I take the completed data to the post office & MAIL it to them. Taking it to Fed Ex is about 31 miles further than my post office——ONE WAY.
Many rural people rely on their mail being delivered. People who are not real mobile also depend on those deliveries.
I refuse to pay any bills online. I get my bills in the mail, attach receipts to my Credit card statements, and write out checks once a month when my Soc Sec comes in. I use cash whenever I can.
I refuse to let Big Brother destroy my privacy about some things. It is nobody’s business what I buy with cash.
It is also something else one has to carry around. It is not so useful as to warrant the expense or the space. And I got turned off years ago by seeing all the folks interrupting dinner conversations to answer the cell phone and large groups of youths obviously together and every one talking on their cells. I have a desk top at home and that is all the “connected” I care to be. There is still a world outside the Cloud.
In school we were told by 1965 everyone would have flying cars guess some things just don’t work out.
“It is also something else one has to carry around. It is not so useful as to warrant the expense or the space.”
If you chose not to carry one, ok. But for many the convenience and money-savings are well worth it.
I could give you a thousand but I will give you one for now.
While on the road, my mother had an emergency and they were able to reach me so I could ensure she was getting the proper care and was able to go directly to the hospital instead of going home and possibly finding a message on my home phone.
What is Go?
Until they can make a simple lap top not crash, I’m not trusting a car not to crash.
Hope I can outlive Soetoro.
You have absolutely NO IDEA how many American citizens live rural & cannot lose their mail delivery. I know of ranches in NE Nevada that have driveways 3 miles long-—the ranches exceed 6000 acres.
“I have a desk top at home and that is all the “connected” I care to be. There is still a world outside the Cloud.”
Being connected make the world outside the cloud more convenient and safer ...
The whole concept of a cashless society sounds so convenient to most but it gives other people, especially the government, total immediate surveillance of all one's uses of money and thus total control of YOU and ME and everyone else.
“Until they can make a simple lap top not crash, I’m not trusting a car not to crash.”
I hope you don’t fly on the airlines ....
And you can talk on the phone without without having to get dressed, brush your hair and put on makeup, eat all you want and roll your eyes at the other person without them knowing.
“You have absolutely NO IDEA how many American citizens live rural & cannot lose their mail delivery. “
PO Box or General Delivery?
No dial- pushbuttons and a short non curly cord.
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