Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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While perusing my local computer store, I picked up the current ComputorEdge and found this article. It definitely hit a cord with me and all those "Big Brother" types out there trying to control my world. What is suppose to be a free world where I can make my own decisions.

You’re a child, unable to protect yourself. Unable to make your own decisions about your privacy, not allowed to negotiate on your own behalf. Apparently unable to venture online without Big Brother holding your hand.

That, at least, seems to be the opinion of the European Union, a California legislator and the self-proclaimed “privacy rights” movement.

All three of the above-mentioned players are scrambling to try either to force Google to change the basic economic model for its pending free e-mail service, or, failing that, simply to ban it.

In the name of freedom, of course.

http://www.computoredge.com/colorado/Editorial/hotonweb.htm

Yes I am 40, and maybe the first paragraph does not apply to me (depending on who you ask!), but I remember a day in age when we didn't have shootings in schools, there where no seat belts in the family station wagon - in fact the back seat was left down and we just scambled all over the place!. No it was not a simpler time! The problems that our parents faced and we as children faced are just the same as today. How are we going to making ends meet, what click are we in, what am I doing with my life, I want that bike. Now they are pushed harder into our faces my the media that is just trying to make money. I blame it on a dysfunctonal country (Don't blame the family, they have always been dysfunctional) where money is more important the the human. Where the media has made it more important to have a bigger SUV that your neighbor than being conscience of what this does to our environment. Hell, I don't know, maybe I am being narrow minded, but I think this fixation on media is what is bring this country down. And, yes, I do believe that US of A is on a downward spiral. We no longer appriciate the simple things.

No We Don't!

When was the last time you went to your local ice cream store, bought an ice cream cone and walked around the neighborhood saying good evening to the people you saw?

How often do you say hello to people you walk by?

What would you do if you could not connect to the internet and read this of all things?

Life is as simple as we wish to make it. We just need to start needing to make it simple. Or maybe seeing it for what it really is, a brief travel through time. We really don't know what happens when we die! You can't do anything about tomorrow and yesterday is already gone. In fact if you think about it, tomorrow never comes, it is always today!

But that is just my humple opinion and I feel better having expressed this jumble of thoughts!