Good morning Dave
Posted on 03/24/2009 10:53:22 AM PDT by Tucson_AZ
Seems like a bunch of us Tucsonans around these days.
Aw nuts.
That’ll teach me to read through all the comments before I post!
Somebody forgot the “tin foil hat alert”.
You’re liable to also even with a cable modem, provided you actually shut down the modem between sessions.
However, your Internet Service Provider needs to know who you are when you log in - to verify that you are a valid bill-paying customer. To accomplish this, they give you a sign-in and a password (or at the very least, they look at the unique MAC address on your cable modem to verify that it is you). Either way, once you connect to your service provider, THEY know who you are, even if the government does not.
Once you successfully connect to your service provider, and sign in, THEN they assign you an IP address, which you then use for surfing the Web. Even if you hang up, log back in the next day, and get a different IP address (assuming you have dial-up), your Internet Service Provider will still have a record of which IP address they assigned to you the previous day (and probably every day before that).
Hence, all anyone with authority has to do is go to your Internet Service Provider and ask a question like: "on 10/14/08, at 11:23pm, which one of your customers was assigned IP address 43.67.21.56??". So I don't think that hanging up and redialing, or power-cycling your cable modem, will do much good if they are sufficiently determined to identify you.
Hubby works with a guy who just found out this election that his wife of 7 years is a flaming lib. He swears he had no idea and is completely shocked at her views. I knew in the first 10 minutes of conversation with her the first time I met her. That was over 3 years ago. How can you NOT have any idea the political leanings of the person you’ve been living with for 7 years? And they don’t even have kids, so it’s not like they were distracted other people in the house.
a plain crown vic across the street? oh dear, across the street is a police station and a mdot building.
how will i know which one’s out to get me?
That was pretty cool, tho’ at least one part was wrong. Since I have no idea what my IP address is, don’t know if it was right. ISP was, so probably...
must be a big lawn..
That's not necessarily true. I know several military folks that are ticked that they have sacrificed a lifetime of deployments and family separation to earn those benefits only to be told, “that's nice, get in the back of the line with everybody else, the doctor will be with you in a couple of hours.” They feel cheated and betrayed.
A. already.
You must be confused, we never make mistakes.
It all comes down to how much agreement on politics is believed necessary to run a marriage. For some, that’s very important. Others don’t value political compatibility as much.
My wife and I have been married almost 32 years. Our children are outstanding people, even my liberal daughter.
My wife doesn’t vote. She just doesn’t care that much. She thinks the rich will do as they please, that there is nothing we can do, and that we’re a bunch of dopes for caring so much about something we can’t control. She’s from the “trust in God and live your life” school.
So speak for yourself. I wasn't claiming anything globally, but telling of one military man I met. It is disturbing to meet a single military man who is an Obamite.
Click the link, type in your FR Name (or someone else s) and presto... point is everyone has something logged somewhere... especially insurgent websites like FR ;-)
http://www.google.com/swr?q=site:freerepublic.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&swrnum=2050000
Well... Netscape is kinda like Firefox.
Only different. Sorta...
Oh, I’m not saying you have to have political compatibility for a successful marriage. I’ve seen numerous cases of “opposites attract,” and it works great for them. And these two seem to be getting along just fine. I’m just having a hard time believing he didn’t have any clue that she was a liberal—for 7 years. That’s the part that gets me. He says he didn’t know. Seven years, and it never came up in conversation??
hectares and hectares...
:)
no more calls please, we have a winner...
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