From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017110120393458550-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > They cost too much now, for me to mess with.   
      
   Another reason why we need a gift economy, so dreams don't keep being   
   denied! Planes DON'T HAVE TO cost so much, do they shouldn't. But in any   
   case that factor has nothing to do with the fact that I Love to fly and so   
   it shouldn't be prevented over the silly and Evil invention of Filthy   
   Lucre!!!   
      
   > Remember, I'm an old guy :-)  It's time in my life to be getting rid of   
   > things, not collecting more.  Happy as can be with my feet on the ground.   
      
   Why would ANYone ever want to be old? It's a Choice! JUST REFUSE TO BE!   
      
   AS for being on the ground, some lyrics in a tune of the first album,   
   entitled "Fly High" says it all:   
      
   I don't wanna come down   
   My home is up here with my feet way off the ground   
      
   Aircraft have amazed me since before I knew how  to talk, and when I w as   
   11, I actually got to pilot a Piper Cherokee 180, and my Love for flying and   
   flying machines was totally and profoundly confirmed!   
      
   Yet because of Satan's Vile invention, and *his* *FOOLS* who go along with   
   him, I'm still on the ground wishing, and that's simply not right!!!   
      
   > it made a good point regarding how much specialized knowledge goes into   
   > the things we take for granted.   
      
   That's not really the issue, but rather the reason WHY it's taken for   
   granted - LACK OF EDUCATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THINGS WORK...and thus   
   the  Understanding and Appreciation for what's going on!   
   There USED to be these places called schools where such things were taught,   
   specifically to emPower us Against the use of technology, or ANYthing else   
   to ABUSE us!!!   
      
   > people like graphic interfaces.  some things can only be done with those.   
      
   People are STUPID! So what else is new?   
   I've used DOS based menu programs that did the same thing. You could even   
   use a pointing device - my favorite then, and now, is still a large   
   trackball, to select, drag and drop. Sure, what you were dragging flashed   
   and flickered but no problem, they did Exactly what Bloatware NONsense   
   system resources WASTING GUIs do, only much more efficiently, quickly, and   
   reliably!   
      
   > Yeah, that process sounds scary. What if thye told you they could " upload   
   > " your mind into a machine that could live hundreds or thousands of years.   
   > Would you do it ?   
      
   Would I do WHAT? There's NO SUCH THING as 'uploading' your mind - that's   
   pure NONsense! Whatever they may really mean, assuming they even do in the   
   first place, by 'uploading' you mind would  have to refer to a technique to   
   enable with as high a resolution as possible,  electrical patterns similar   
   to those in one's brain, NOT their mind, to be made available for   
   programming a computer to Simulate, to Mimic brain function...and what would   
   that accomplish, in terms of it being  anything Good?   
      
   > They are phonies.  But they are phonies with money to spend :-)   
      
   Jim   
      
   Doesn't change a thing. Filthy Lucre and the love of it, the  root of ALL   
   EVIL notwithstanding, they're still Plastic Phonies.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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