PC101-Personal
Computer 101
Why would I
even want a damn computer in my home!?
Well
that's a darn good question. You actually don't need a computer in your home at this
point of life but you may want
one, if you knew what they could do for you. Personally I
think Personal Computers are a huge waste of
material and effort, as it could all be done without a device in your
home at all, with today's technology. To just get a technical
answer, without having to put up with my personal philosophy on
personal computer -- go to the bottom of this page...
If you thing about it:... why should everyone have their
own personal
operating system, applications installed, hardware installed, power
system, backup programs, security programs, to make their individual
little box work, when it all could be provided by a central server with
all those applications and drivers installed for you!? It
actually makes no logical sense, but allot of financial sense for all
the companies selling those products to individual customers.
Why not have a system where, either via your phone line,
cable or
satelite connection, you selectively have all the applications that you
desire by choice, and not have to "remove" them, when you don't need
them, because you never actually had
them, but just stop the service for them.
This way there is only ONE application for millions of
people, only ONE
license for millions of applications, and the consumers pay for what
they want, when they want it, and not when they don't they don'ty
pay. To me, everyone wins, but I'm afraid the vendors (e.g.
Microsoft) do not quite look at it this way, as selling
individual applications to every computer in the world is much more
benefitcal to them.
Well, I've probably talked you out of buying a computer by
my words,
but
there is allot they can do for you...things you could and would never
do for yourself, because they can compute things about your life and
connections that you would not even think possible.
You actually cannot avoid the computer revolution,
and that is
what it is -- a revolution, as already you are now "computer chip"
tracked within the clothers you buy; the keyboard moves you make on the
internet; wherever you go in your new car; video taped on most city
streets
of America, all phone conversations are subject to monitoring and
recording whether land line or cell; and soon a chip will be in your
bathroom medicine cabinet that manages your medications and your
health, and maybe even one in you for the same purpose.
Maybe good me thinks, that is for da masses to
decide. But
whether you have noticed or not, the world has changed on you in the
last couple years...not just because on 9/11, but that did give many in
positions of power the free hand to instigate the changes we now indure.
Things have changed forever that is true, but how they
affect the
country we live in is of our own choice. Other countries
have been living with and dealing with the problems we now deal with
for years, and they have found a way to make it palatible for
all.
We do not have to overreact to the problem, although we have so far,
with trying to make the impossible happen: you cannot with any
amount of money or resources on this planet make even one airport save
from someone who is committed (including losing their life in
the process) to destroying a plane or killing people -- it's
just not
possible!
What then is the answer, it is so simple it elludes
us:
Disconnect the cabin from the plane:
Have the cabin crew come in via a
separate door.
Provide the cabin crew with their own bathroom and food.
Have the only communication between cabin and coach be
limited to a set
of codes, e.g. : (1) land asap-sick passenger (2) land asap-cabin
stucture
problem (3) land asap-problem with passenger
Sorry, I think I drifted off the subject here...
To get a much more detailed answer to the question of why I should even
want a computer click on this link: Having
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