At 9:10 PM 5/15/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
I've gone even farther than that - I don't bother with having a TV, I just get my info from the net. There is the problem with the satellite net links that it tends to concentrate data production & distribution into relatively few hands, from which it can easier be taken by government and other
... Just to make it clear, the _least_ of _my_ reasons for having a satellite dish and televisions in general is to "get info." (Though even when I do want to "get info," I tend to turn to CNN, CNBC, PBS, etc., and not to use the generally short summaries that are carried on the Net, sans video of course.) I won't argue for television pro or con...I'm sure most folks here have met people who are religiously anti-television and who radiate superiority in pointing out that the last time they saw a television program was when "Nicholas Nickleby" was broadcast. Whatever. But having both a video/satellite system and, obviously, a Net/Web system, they are very different things. To each their own. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."