Rational Insanity
Ten comments
Last week's column entitled 'Save Target As' generated many text messages wanting to comment on the things I said in that particular column.One particular commentator who caught my attention was my good friend, Marcel Milliam.The reason why his were the most attention grabbing comments is the fact that he sent in ten comments, so, without further ado, here are his ten comments - unabridged, unedited:
1. You are so smug about your two thousand + songs in your computer's hard drive, you forgot they are actually violating the intellectual property law - this is the law student speaking of course - the 'Marz' believes in piracy, to hell with antitrust lawyers who have fat pay checks and expensive fees.
2. What you said about the speed of the acquisition of things in real life being proportionate to the effort put into it must be a big myth.Case in point:antitrust lawyers or all lawyers for that matter.That's why I am taking up law.
3. Net garbage is more than just binary codes; these came from real life garbage or from those who believe in comment number 2, and/or those who are not lawyers.
4. There is a real life 'save target as' button and 'antivirus', they are called friends - real friends, that is.
5. The net cafe owner guy is not an isolated case - I'll bet even Bill Gates shares something like that, not forgetting that he has a bot (robot or automatic program) to run the bot of his bot's bot;-)
6. Just like the complicated Lymewire, in real life, we don't need complicated things to find what we want, such as gym membership, fancy parties and socials, personal ads, dating services, etc.All we need is the very trusty smile from across the table, loads of confidence, sincere interest, and the old fashioned, but still effective, creative, and evolving pick-up lines like, 'Hi, I have been Google-ing this place and you came up as the top his, mind if I browsed around if you really did match my query?If you do, I promise I won't open a new window, but if you don't I can always arrow back or refresh.'
7. Garbage in the net is not that formless.They have one, same in real life; such as the blog that's really politically lip-service and self-praise or that child porn site only, they come as pay-per-view/members only, but have a free site tour, and with the pop-ups.
8. I agree with you.Getting things from the net is much more easier than getting getting things in real life as well as storing and retrieving what you get.In the case of the net, you only need a hard disc space, a flash disk, a cd-rom or any other recordable media, while in real life, this can only be done using one media, the brain.However, in cyberspace, it is easy to lose what you have downoloaded, but in real lilfe, the memory is something much more difficult to lose unless you develop alzheimer's, dementia, or amnesia.
9. Sometimes even looking in all the right places won't get you what you are looking for; trust me.For instance, when you look for jurisprudences you can't find them on-line, it's so frustrating.You have to find them in the Supreme Court Reports Annotated (SCRA).
10. I enjoyed your column, it made me think.
There you go folks, read them for yourselves -
Be rational; be insane...every once ina while! TTFN!
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