AOL Hometown is Closing

http://hometown.aol.com/

Yes but you may say, well so what, that is no big deal.

Ah, but you miss the bigger picture and other indications pointing to the death of the internet.

Why do I and why should you think this is a very bad deal.

Because Goddammit when lamestream wants you to have an opinion THEY will give it to you.

AOL the largest and most corporate of internet service providers is closing it’s hometown.  By itself it would be a non-event but the secret lies in industry trends and the disruptive cycle computing as a whole is entering.

The word is out that Vista sucks.  Microshit’s new operating system needs dual core processors and 4 gig of memory to get to a startup screen.  After that it spends most of it’s time checking if you really do have a license for the incompatible software that is on your machine.  I am an engineer who gave up on building computers for people as a business mainly because of the instant changes in entire buss structure.  It is obsolete when you order it.  It comes down to the usefulness of a product vs not.  In business speak the phenomena is called disruptive technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…

So the first of all aspects is that your machine sucks because it’s obsolete and won’t handle the latest and greatest of crap.

And what does make PowerPoint “excell” anyway?

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tuf…

The other indicator is my personal observation on a long term industry trend over the past several years.  That trend has been to develop the technology to shove as much data as possible into a serial buss which means the technology to shove crap,lamestream crap direct to any wireless media they choose.

Another thing I resent is always being under the ASSumption that I am a software pirate criminal or something.  My Myers Briggs type does conflict with the more anal assholes of the world and if I bought software to do something good for me the first thing is does is ask me to type in 58Cfe-78dbg-45iab-78klp-iIlr4-xc94md-23fls, what is this a sobriety test?

Do I really have a problem paying for software and supporting the hard work of people who created something?  No.

Do I have a problem with assholes building an infrastructure that will lock out whistleblowers within a corporation from sending out emails and documents should the magically discover the corporation is evil?  Yes.

The original concepts buried within Longhorn and DRM, digital rights management where just that anal.

http://www.google.com/search?h…

Plus to expand upon that “trusted computing” does mean that you need an internet connection for them to check up on what you are doing with their software with the added “benefit” to you in keeping your system “up to date”.

How big is the collection of assholes?  Well “they” are an infra-industry consortium, an oligopoly, an anti-trust megazoid.

http://www.bsa.org/country.asp…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…

http://www.riaa.com/

Regional encoding of DVDs, for business control and other assholian memes.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/rce.html

So the oldest,largest, most “mature” of internet services wants to wipe out your personal ability to “sort of” create your own homepage to express your opinions to a potential world-wide audience.  Well who did you think you were?  A “free” American or something?

Free of electronic crap I did practice on the Apocalyptic horse today.  It is a wonderful time to ride.  Bugs gone, perfect weather and the vibrant fall colors.  After that we took a two year old on a walk in the field.  He was completely amused chasing milkweed seeds around as my wife blew them into the wind.  We didn’t have to spend two grand for a machine to “entertain” him.  We didn’t spend two grand for a machine to “inform” him.  We just gave him a real day, a day grounded in solid reality.  We sat him on the three year old philly and he beamed from ear to ear.  I won’t be able to tell him how controlling assholes think until much later unfortunately.

There is one other link I had in mind.  It was about digital TeeVee and the resulting “free” internet service it promised to provide.  That “free” service, the article stated was to be heavily censored much like the “internet” in places like “Red” China.  Yes, China, host of the corporate sponsored censored “Olympics”, carbon exempt China, focal point of western investment houses China…….

Updated with a PS.

What did I know and how did I find out about this.

www/radarmatrix.com was in fact an AOL homepage complete with excellent links to those nifty weather satellites.  It also provided me with an at work connection to a website BANNED by our corporate babysitter software we have come to call “SmurfControl”, www.surfcontrol.com

The banned website was prohibited under the category “offensive/tasteless”.  The banned website also contained extensive links to mainstream world news sources but ran under the banner leaning toward “conspiracy themes”.  That banned website is www.propagandamatrix.com and is comes out of England.  I surmise that the parent company whose top officers are on the Bilderburg Group attendees list know of the site based upon geographical proximity.