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  1. 03-23-2010, 07:46 PM #1
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    Mt DSL crashed at around 1620 hours today so I set my laptop up for dial-up and hooked up. Good Grief!!!

    I had forgotten just how miserably slow dial-up is!

    I click a link and then sit here feeling myself getting older and older while I wait on it to download. Even with all the graphics turned off in the browser it takes forever.

    I don't see how people do it without broadband, or why they do it. If this was all I had I'd throw the computer away and just get a good calculator.

    Make me appreciate broadband that much more.
    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."
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    Back home on the farm my grandparents have dial-up. That's really all that's available to them other than a satellite connection. Even the cell carriers have an iffy connection in the house, so an air card probably wouldn't work. It's pure misery using their computer when I go home. The good thing for them is that's all they've ever really used, so they don't know how bad it is.
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    Yeah, I'd start readin' books if that's all I had.


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    Another geek post in the geek forum.

    When I graduated college, I moved back to the home place and dial up.

    I found lots to do...away from the computer.
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    I didn't switch to dsl till June of last year. I didn't know what I had been missing all these years.
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    Glenn,
    I know now why I used to read so many books. This is nerve wrackingly slow. It ain't no fun feeling yourself age while you wait on a page to load, specially when you as old as I am.

    Yeah guys, before I got DSL I didn't think nothing of this, but once you've tasted speed you're hooked.
    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mergie Master View Post
    It ain't no fun feeling yourself age while you wait on a page to load, specially when you as old as I am.

    I thought when you reached your as old as you are you didnt age anymore.......just kinda pickle.........lol.......

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    I got you a "pickle" right here!
    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."
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    I remember my first WWW and online experience. Dialing into Prodigy on a 9.6k modem. Thought I was high-speed when 14.4 access to AOL opened up, and I could hit it "high speed" through AT&T Net.
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