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ESAD

On 1/8/13 7:18 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 8:10:55 PM UTC-4, JustWait wrote:
On 1/8/2013 6:50 PM, BAR wrote:

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On 1/8/13 11:44 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

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On 1/8/2013 8:03 AM, BAR wrote:

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On 1/7/13 12:03 PM, wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:19:52 -0500, ESAD wrote:

On 1/7/13 11:07 AM, wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:33:11 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

That's odd, Mr. Internet Guru.... I use the same reader as you, and I

have no problems! And of course, name calling is what happens when you

have been found, once again, to be a complete idiot. How Harryesque.

Notice, if you will, the only ones to have trouble with the links I

provide are you, Greg and Meyer.... Everyone else says it's not a

problem!!! Hmmmmmm?

I know how to paste but I have to open a new browser instance, paste

the url, delete the space and launch it instead of simply clicking the

link.

It is really seldom worth the effort for the crap you link.

Well, perhaps if you weren't using a 19th Century news reader like Forte

Agent...

There are a number of reasons for using a simpler news reader than

Outlook or some other bloatware.

For one thing, it runs off a thumb drive and will execute on any

windoze platform without actually being installed. That is handy if

you have more than one machine.

You must follow some usenet groups other than rec.boats, because

carrying a thumb drive to be able to read this one from any windoze

machine seems a waste of time and effort, considering the lack of

content here.

Facebook, interestingly, updates itself to its users no matter what

machine they are on. If I visit with my iMac and then the next day visit

with my tablet, my stuff to read is just where I left it after I logged

out with the iMac...the old stuff I've already read is way down at the

bottom of the list. Of course, no one really gives a damn about usenet

anymore, so development ceased ages ago.

Facebook is a marketing tool, data mining specifically. There is no

other value to anyone but its users than the data and their

interconnections.

Yup, FB is real hard looking to have every face tagged.. Even try to get

your friends to put tags to your face in there. I am sure they already

have all the data they need for a full face recognition on most of the

county by now....

Insane Scotty thinking Facebook is going to take over the world.. Like a

guy I heard call in on the radio yesterday, claiming that he thinks

China has GPS coordinates for every American and are going to use them

to send bumblebee like drones to inject us with poison!!!! Just about as

sane....

I don't give a **** what FB tracks. There are ways to stay "private" on

FB and there are apps available that help you customize it to your

liking, including the elimination of virtually all advertising.

You really don't have a clue do you. You can register an account on FB

using any alias you want. The facial recognition software will pick you

out of any picture and associate it to Harry Krause by the process of

eliminiation.

Through FB, I've been able to re-connect with dozens of people I've

known over the decades and meet some new people, too, including actual

boaters from all around the world, and I've hooked up with a couple of

SIGs that have some really funny stuff, travel info, food, et cetera,

and all this without any of the right-wing assholes who have destroyed

rec.boats.

You are willingly giving FB what they seek, relationships. They really

don't care about you playing Farmville and Mafia Wars they want to know

who you chat with about Farmvill and Mafia Wars.

What you don't understand is that the fact that you exist isn't

interesting to FB. The fact that you tell them that you know someone is

what they are looking for.

I think it's more of a charting of your lifestyle...

Would they really be interested in a Peter Pan/Tinkerbell Neverland lifestyle??

Perhaps if they are selling short people's clothes.