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   From: ultimate.henchman.777@gmail.com   
      
   On Sep 25, 11:51 am, Lee Rudolph  wrote:   
   > Peter Terpstra  writes:   
   > >Why should we waste our precious time on the internet?   
   >   
   > Is time 'spent' (a funny verb to apply to "time", full   
   > of overtones and presuppositions) "on the internet"   
   > necessarily "waste"d?  That hasn't been my experience   
   > (but why should my assessment of "my experience"--another   
   > funny phrase--be particularly accurate?).   
   >   
   > >To feed  the Hungry Ghosts?   
   >   
   > The feeding of Hungry Ghosts hardly requires the high   
   > technology of an internet (or even of a printing press,   
   > or script--*maybe* it requires language, or at least the   
   > capacity for language); it's an age-old pastime of the   
   > Clever Ape.   
   >   
   > Lee Rudolph   
      
   "high five"...   
      
   just like there was a time solar flares did not effect the electricity   
   grids of major populationed centers leading to looting and rioting...   
   fucking sun!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)