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Re: Is The Listener License Coming?

Dale Fenner — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:28:52 -0000

I have played the credit game for many of my 87 years. The computer pop-ups constantly call attention to: Do I know my credit rating? NO! Will I enquire after it? NO! Follow this scenario if you will. In 1959, I purchased a home in a burb with public/private money backed up with my credit rating. Cost of home, (one of their better models) $13,950. Time passed the original home builder sold to another real estate firm interested in making a home available for everyman. Costs, payments, interest, taxes of course needed occasional adjustments. My home was paid for within the originally contracted time. I had, of course, used my credit rating to acquire, "Credit Cards" (Plastic, in street speak) Five children were added. Oh Bless you, my plastic God. After about 40 years of family raising and living, this old house needed some fixing. I went about it the cheap way, I enlisted a son, who is also a contractor. We carried out what I felt was needed. Credit cards proved very useful. Purchases + interest gave me a very fine credit rating. Whoops! My monthly payments were eating me out of house and home. Time for a Choice: Bankruptcy or reborrow on house. My family taught me the dishonor of bankruptcy and worse NO CREDIT FOR 10 YEARS . Presently, I consider myself favored among men. My 1959, factory built home, is here, right where it was when my wife and I bought it. This is now a $70,000 neighborhood. I have only $30,000 to pay before it is mine. Original Payment: $ 95/mo. Current Payment: $807/mo.
Credit ratings and mass media have become to me, "BIRDS OF A FEATHER". The less I have to do with either; The better.

Re: Is The Listener License Coming?

Kreas — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:26:17 -0000

Is the listener license coming? Likely. Will we be affected by it? F@#$ Yes. But what the are we doing to stop it?

Re: Is The Listener License Coming?

Will — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:38:47 -0000

Mahs, you wish you where in a boy band don't you?

Re: Is The Listener License Coming?

farlane — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:37:58 -0000

I very much enjoyed Tales from the Afternow and your well crafted post and agree that what we do now will have a huge impact on the future of humanity.

A new world is being born and the last thing we need to do is allow elected officials who couldn't surf their way out of their default homepage to lay the foundation.

Re: Is The Listener License Coming?

CountRob — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:07:38 -0000

Once Generation X comes of age, there will no longer be any confusion. Everyone will have grown up using the Web, unlike these current leaders who are mostly baby boomers. When the president calls it the "internets", you know we're in trouble.

Then again, maybe people familiar with the internet will be worse leaders because they will try to exploit everything. I mean, imagine if someone like that Mark Cuban guy were in power...

As for that strange piece of software you described, it seems like a serious invasion of privacy if they can use it to track you down.