Last Orders at the Free Speech Bar

Before the big red button is pressed to send this newsgroup into oblivion.

Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.

Before the rug of free speech is pulled from underneath the average Windows
user.

Before the Iranians get nuked for playing with a centrifuge and a bit of
Uranium.....

**NOW** is the time to ask those burning questions you've always wanted to
ask but never dared before.

Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....


--
Jon

You are absolutely right! These are the burning questions I've never had
any answers to.



Why are we here on the planet?

How did we get here?

What is our purpose and why?

Where do we all stand in the grand scheme of things?

What will be our final outcome, and where are we going?

Finally, what will evolution make us look like, say in a million years?



The burning question is, will all these questions be answered before the big
red button is pressed on these newsgroups?

Rod
"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:us#TiL#...
>
> Before the big red button is pressed to send this newsgroup into oblivion.
>
> Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.
>
> Before the rug of free speech is pulled from underneath the average
> Windows user.
>
> Before the Iranians get nuked for playing with a centrifuge and a bit of
> Uranium.....
>
> **NOW** is the time to ask those burning questions you've always wanted to
> ask but never dared before.
>
> Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....
>
>
> --
> Jon
>
>

On 6/29/2010 6:29 PM, Jon wrote:

> Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.
>

Too late, that tune has been playing for a few weeks now when people ask
where a newsgroup went or where a newsgroup is, they are given a link to
the forums, which are not newsgroups but they give that answer anyhow.

"Rod" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You are absolutely right! These are the burning questions I've never had
> any answers to.
>
>
>
> Why are we here on the planet?
>
> How did we get here?
>
> What is our purpose and why?
>
> Where do we all stand in the grand scheme of things?
>
> What will be our final outcome, and where are we going?
>
> Finally, what will evolution make us look like, say in a million years?
>
>
>
> The burning question is, will all these questions be answered before the
> big red button is pressed on these newsgroups?
>
> Rod



Great questions. For most of them, I'll have to refer you to God.

I'll also refer you to the works of the great theologians and philosophers
down through the ages, which, are currently still available in long form, in
what used to be referred to as 'books'.

Those raised on the WWW's hypertext linked associative thinking, and online
games may not be aware of such a phenomenon, but 'books' can in fact still
be found in many parts of a modern home and be purchased in modern shopping
centres.

What books look like ....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Bookspine.jpg

Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

Reading books is similar to reading screens, with which we are all familiar,
but they do not need to be turned on. Moving from page to page is actually
achieved by the physical turning of a page using one's hands, rather than
the scrolling of a mousewheel or click of a mouse button.

If anyone is still unsure as to what a book is, then perhaps the best
strategy would be to find one of those wrinkly-skinned old humans with white
hair, and to ask them. They may well still remember what a book is, although
admittedly the memory of such objects is fading fast.

What humanity may look like in a million years (asssuming we're even around)
is a particularly good question. 'Homo Interneticus' is one term I've heard
used, but I suppose that type already exists, so that probably isn't
thinking that far ahead. Actually I shudder to think what we might look
like, given that the results of cloning and other genetic experiments on
future generations aren't yet fully apparent.


--
Jon

"milt" <theatreguy_dunspam_@miltsweb.com> wrote in message
news:...
> On 6/29/2010 6:29 PM, Jon wrote:
>
>> Before the Pied Piper begins playing his tune to lead all to the forums.
>>


>
> Too late, that tune has been playing for a few weeks now when people ask
> where a newsgroup went or where a newsgroup is, they are given a link to
> the forums, which are not newsgroups but they give that answer anyhow.



True, he's already been playing his pipe softly in the background. The
volume of his pipe is likely at some stage to be increased.

--
Jon

In article <us#TiL#>,
says...
> Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....
>

This group isn't going anywhere - you just won't have MS monitoring it
any more.

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
(remove 999 for proper email address)

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:37:17 -0400, Leythos wrote:

> In article <us#TiL#>,
> says...
>> Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....
>>
>
> This group isn't going anywhere - you just won't have MS monitoring it
> any more.

Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.

Old posts will still exist on mirror sites.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:08:43 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:37:17 -0400, Leythos wrote:
>
> > In article <us#TiL#>,
> > says...
> >> Don't waste the opportunity. It could be your last ....
> >>
> >
> > This group isn't going anywhere - you just won't have MS monitoring it
> > any more.
>
> Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.
>
> Old posts will still exist on mirror sites.


Sorry, but that's not true. If the mirror sites stay in existence, any
of us can continue to post there, and the newsgroup can continue to be
active.

It may be, and will likely be, far less active, but it doesn't
necessarily go away just because Microsoft wants it to.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On 01 Jul 2010, "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.

Microsoft isn't the host - there hasn't been any one single host for as
long as it has been hooked up to Usenet. When Microsoft drops out, the
group will still continue as part of the Usenet network, and you will
be able to read and post to it via any news service that carries it.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:43:22 -0400, Nil wrote:

> On 01 Jul 2010, "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
>
>> Microsoft is the host. If they stop hosting it, it's gone.
>
> Microsoft isn't the host - there hasn't been any one single host for as
> long as it has been hooked up to Usenet. When Microsoft drops out, the
> group will still continue as part of the Usenet network, and you will
> be able to read and post to it via any news service that carries it.

What you and Ken Blake say makes sense. I hide my head in shame.

I should have figured it out. Somewhere along the line a few years ago, I
used one or another of those mirrors occasionally...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)