[syndicate] Re: Is the Internet Dying?

[claudia westermann]

>I am not sure about the Internet dying but I am dying inside. I feel 
>like half the man I used to be. How do they know about my erection 
>problems and my under-sized penis? Some one is talking about me and 
>that really makes me feel bad.

Perhaps you think this is a trick, but in fact it works quite well. I 
just tell myself that I never wanted a penis anyway.

So easy .. just change your attitude and you will not be bothered anymore.

>A few years ago, I could satisfy all my pet and cement needs online 
>with confidence. I want to say defiantly "I am big, It's 
>the Internet that got small" but It feels like the false bravado of 
>a has-been with a little hard-drive and an operating system that 
>takes a long time to come up, if ever.
>
><http://www.fuckedcompany.com>www.fuckedcompany.com
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>Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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>Is the Internet Dying?
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>Recently there has been a great deal of discussion of "Is the Internet
>Dying" which is a very controversial issue. Some say the Internet is dying
>and will not survive. Others say the Internet will continue forever and it
>is fine. I think the Internet is going through difficult times and may not
>survive. I will tell you my reasons why.
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>First, the Internet is very busy now with many business and this hurts
>its chance of success of surviving. For example, if you want to order a
>car, you can order the car on the Internet and even pick the color you
>want. But this makes many people use the Internet who should go out and
>enjoy the weather to see the car, and this may be a real problem.
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>Second, there are so many spams on the Internet, sometimes it is hard to
>find a way to read them all, and they a! re almost always not very good. I
>think the spams are harmful, but there are some interesting offers from
>foreign countries that sound exciting. But I think they may be "scams" and
>not real, but I do not know. They sound exciting.
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>But they take up so much room that sometimes I have problems finding
>emails from my friends who also write and even my family. And sometimes my
>family will write and want to know should I take up this offer they have
>received, what do I think. So it takes a lot o f time and I feel I am
>drowning with so much to do in just answering these letters.
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>Third, I cannot watch movie on the Internet. I try, but my machine is so
>slow, the movie runs slow and I forget what I am looking at. I do not
>understand the language also when it runs slow. I think in the future they
>must speed the movies up. Then I will understand better but my machine may
>still be too slow. I do not know! but I will find out.
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>Fourth, there are ! so many language on the Internet and I cannot follow all
>of them. Sometimes I will try and translate one, but I cannot do this all
>the time and there is this important information maybe that I cannot read
>and do not know what I can do with it. I will ask my friends but maybe
>they cannot read either.
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>Therefore, I think the Internet is a very good thing, because there is a
>lot of information on it, and I can talk to my friends and my family, but
>I think it is maybe dying also because of th e language, the slow movie,
>the spam and the business. Only time will tell!
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