Re: MSNBC (Oberg) - Deadly space lessons go unheeded

From: JazzMan (No_Spam_at_airmail.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:59:37 -0600

Fred J. McCall wrote:
>
> Terrell Miller <millerto@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> :Fred J. McCall wrote:
> :> :Paying for my health coverage would consume enough of my
> :> :after tax income that I would have to abandon my home and go
> :> :homeless.
> :>
> :> Yet you can afford a computer and internet access.
> :>
> :> Yeah, right.
> :
> :if you do the math, the Internet is a really cheap form of
> :entertainment. My DSL is $40/month. I probably average 60 hours per
> :month, so it's less than a buck per hour to get a "window on the world"
> :or whatever. Obviously you have to amortize your PC, but a decent
> :computer can be had for well under a grand and it'll last you five
> :years. That's about a quarter per hour of internet usage, not counting
> :game playing and spreadsheeting and MP3 playing and the like. So it
> :really only costs about a buck an hour to use the Internet. And it's a
> :good way to get exposed to an awful lot of stuff you wouldn't have a
> :chance to even know about otherwise.
> :
> :I'd say that JazzMan is making pretty good use of the resources
> :available to him. Gotta admire his spirit, and he's obviously very
> :well-spoken and intelligent. Good people.
>
> He'd be making better usage to not buy the computer, not buy the ISP
> access, and spend the money on something he's whinging about
> desperately needing and not having.
>
> It would have the added advantage of him not being here whining for a
> hand out.
>

Hmmm... I don't recall whining for a handout, let me go
back and look at all my posts over the last few years...

Nope, no whining for a handout here. You're a liar. Just
a dumb, stupid liar pulling crap out of your ass because
that's all you've got to work with. Color me surprised...

And of course, you ignored my post where I told how much
I spent to build this computer, it was $60. Most of it I
got out of a dumpster a few years ago, but as a P200 it wasn't
new technology then and most certainly isn't now. If you average
the cost of this system out over the time I've had it, I'm
running about a dollar a month into it. The internet is costing me
$20/month, and to help cover that I don't buy many books, rarely
go to more than two movies a year, and spend less than $75 a year
on music CDs.

I suspect you blow more that every couple of weeks eating at
restaurants and on other recreational activities.

And by the way, whining doesn't have two g's in it. :)

JazzMan 

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