P3D Re: Self Reliance

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> What's a carburator?  Weren't they those things they used back in the
> '50s and '60s for.... gosh, I can't remember.
>
> At one time, this country was far more self reliant and willing to do
> things on their own. I smile when I see all the stuff written about the APS
> Photo system, how better it is than the old way, all those people making
> mistakes loading their cameras, etc. Personally, I believe that the
> Marketing People out there in Consumerville take simple chores and tell us
> now they are too complicated, and the public buys it. Why have we changed
> so much?

First of all, I don't believe what you say to be true at all.  Secondly
I don't believe the marketting ads like you seem to and I don't think
that most others do either.  Look at old 50's TV ads which show up on some
cable shows, they're pretty dumb in their assumption as well.  Later
they had people floating on rafts in one's toilet tank, etc.  Do you think
that people thought they had miniature people in their tanks?

For that matter, people early in this century were pretty lazy
and not willing to do things on their own too.  They were too lazy
to sensitize their own glass plates and to process their own plates
immediately afterward -- instead they give up their own self reliance
and buy film (imagine, even gave up the glass!!!) already sensitized
by Kodak!  Where did self reliance go to!  :-) :-)

Mike K.

P.S. - I think life runs as high a speed as it ever has but
       what is being done personally has changed.  People
       aren't doing the same 'ol thing as was done in the past.  If one
       were completely self-reliant, he/she would be a closed-system
       farmer using hand-made plows cut from wood with a stone-axe,
       probably dying at age twenty-five.

P.P.S. - Instead of rebuilding your carb, why not tune your memory
         management parameters in windows 9x for highest performance?
         Or maybe tweek on your TCP/IP parameters?  Get'cha network
         engine running smoooothly!!!.


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