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That's what worries me, Doug I have been resignedly drifting towards the darkness; and then, after I die, someone stitches me together with a shedload of code and a couple of alligator clips Splendid responses from you and Dominic. Dominic is absolutely right, I'm sure. And I like the idea of Catullus with a Mac. Ooh Gaius Valerius! What are you doing with that handheld device? L On Fri, June 8, 2012 16:42, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Yes, sorry to hear that Chris, as it really can cost, in so many ways. > > > And Lawrence, > > > in one far future imagined by Canadian SF writer (which I cant find at > the moment), everything, including the air in habitats, is marked as a > commodity, & costed, so that it's a vision of high capitalism run amok. > Everyone can 'see' those costs, as everyone is 'on-line' via an implant. > > > It will probably happen after we die, though.... > > > Doug > On 2012-06-08, at 6:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > >> Very sorry to hear this, Chris >> >> >> Seriously. >> >> >> I stress that because I want to mention a pop article I read recently >> on the expansion of I P addresses so that we can I P tag everything we >> own -- pets, domestic electricals, clothes >> >> everything trackable >> >> anyway the last line of the article was something like Oh no the cat's >> gone off line >> >> I'm afraid that appeals to my simple brain's humour though most of the >> cats I know seem to be constitutionally offline >> >> but i have wondered what happens if someone hacks the pets >> >> goldfish going round the bowl backwards >> >> parrots broadcasting intimate details of one's life >> >> I'm having enough trouble with MSWord. I've been fighting an invisble >> block on a page break and it took a while before I turned "widows and >> orphans" off >> >> or I could offer you skype, last night, (a) announcing it couldn't >> connect to my machine and (b) offering help -- that I needed to connect >> to before I coud read it... >> >> >> I hope you recover control of your comms soon >> >> >> best >> >> L >> >> >> ----- >> Lawrence Upton >> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> New Cross, London SE14 6NW >> ---- >> >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > > Why can’t words mean what they say? > > > Robert Kroetsch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Lawrence Upton Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW ----