Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 5 14:13:23 CDT 2013
On 2013-04-05 12:56 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Sorry Arthur, but I think it is one of those things where you will have to abandon the computer all together, travel to some island, with no electricity of any kind and just try to vanish the best you can. > > Privacy as we knew it is dead. Reading & writing online doesn't entail that we all help FaceBook et al monetise all the details of our personal lives. PB ----- > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 7:57:07 AM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Any Way To Escape Facebook? > > All I want to know is how to get off Facebook, once and forever. A year or > two ago, I had a solution and even posted it. At that time it worked, but > apparently the FaceBookies (hey, I'm going to copyright that LOL) have > outsmarted me and I find myself once again the target of Pokes and other > things that I don't even understand. > > I'm over 65. I don't want any attention from anyone who does not come from > the stuff I write here on the various lists within the > DatabaseAdvisorsGroup and a few other leftist-lists to which I belong. but > in short all of social-mediacrity I want OUT OF, and I know nothing short > of abandoning everything I ever joined and starting over, posing (to quote > Tom Waits's classic song, Step Right Up) as a 9-year-old Hindu boy. > > A. > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen < > hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > >> Privacy died long before the Facebook and the Internet even. It's just >> becoming a lot more obvious to us and there's also a peer pressure >> component to staying on the grid now. >> >> - Hans >> >> >> On 2013-04-03, at 10:43 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hi Arthur: >>> >>> Everything put on the internet is public. That is its greatest strength >> and greatest weakness. >>> There are going to be huge forces of capital ventures trying to mine >> virtually unlimited data for financial gain but equally powerful is the >> social and open source communities. That has always been the way of things >> and it is not all bad. You just have to dig a little more for the best and >> just ignore the rest. >>> Everything is in balance without the bad there could be no good. Don't >> lose hope spring is coming. :-) >>> Jim >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> >>> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < >> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:42:54 AM >>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Any Way To Escape Facebook? >>> >>> I thought that I had escaped this evil witch, but apparently not. I want >> to >>> escape Facebook once and for all and to evaporate all traces that I ever >>> made the mistake of thinking that this might be interesting. It is NOT >>> interesting. I want out! I want never to hear another communication from >>> anything or anyone related to Facebook. I hate this site and everything >> it >>> stands for and I want out out out and permanently out. Can anyone tell me >>> to achivieve this? I have tried various solutions and still I receive >> crap >>> from said site. I want to be Gone and never thought of again. Can you >>> advise how I might achieve this? I'm going insane with crap from >> Facebook. >>> Please help me nuke this mofo. This is the worst plague in my life. I >> HATE >>> HATE HATE Facebook. >>> >>> Unless I was unclear, every single thing that Facebook represents is >> what I >>> regard as an assault on my privacy and my selected community of equals, >> and >>> a bunch more other things. I hate Facebook even more than I hate racist >>> mofos dedicated to various causes. I think that Facebook is an Evil >>> creation created by a man with serious social problems, and I want to >>> remove myself forever from its presence, and that is apparently not a >>> simple task. >>> >>> This sickens me. I wish I had the resources to launch a class-action >>> lawsuit against these people, but I don't. so that's just farting in the >>> wind. I want a way out of Facebook and every other similar "resource" -- >>> emphasis on the irony -- these fuckers are only interested in exploiiting >>> the community, and contribute Nothing! Get the fork away from me, all you >>> bloodsuckers. I want absolutely NO particpation in your ostensible >>> communities! I want you leeches to be heated with a hot iron and to die >> and >>> never again visit my feet. >>> >>> There is a larger picture here, and it's time that someone talked about >> it. >>> I guess that it's up to me. The corporatization of the net is the death >> of >>> the net. There. I said it. The net started out as an Information Machine >>> but it has been co-opted into a marketing machine. This is the most >> tragic >>> outcome possible. What began as a machine for democracy has turned into a >>> marketing machine. What began as "Freedom of Information" has turned into >>> "Information for Money". This, frankly, makes me puke. I know that I am >> not >>> going to win this war; they have drones and other evil weapons against >>> which I have little or no chance. All I can do is raise a flag and then >> die >>> when a drone hits me. >>> >>> But before the drone hits, I need this to be said. Once upon a time, the >>> internet promised a democratic future. Unfortunately, the corporations >> beat >>> us to the punch. The internet is now owned by them, and it is going to >> take >>> a huge rebellion to overcome this. >>> >>> I don't think that I shall be able to resist the black heliocopters >> lurking >>> over my apartment. I think that they are going to win this battle, and >> that >>> I shall be dead within this week or this month at best. They are >> hovering. >>> This may be my last Send. >>> >>> If there is any last message that I want to send, it's this: >>> Please get off Facebook any other similar thing. Get off it right now. >>> Change all your email addresses etc. and get OFF THE MAP! Do it right >>> fucking now or suffer the consequences. Trust me, I know what the >>> consquences are. I have been there and done that, and if you leave one >>> single trace, I can find you and all your relatves, and if you think for >>> one minute that is complex, try me. I can fin your second cousin's second >>> child, in a heartbeat. This has become trivial. >>> >>> I didn't say I was looking. Far from it. I am not that kind of person, >> and >>> I'm confident that most of you listers who know me would attest to that. >>> But that is not the point. I'm just saying that that everything you share >>> is a potential liability, which may affect your children, with hideous >>> outcomes. >>> >>> I thought that I knew a way to escape Facebook but apparently I was >> wrong, >>> because despite my best attempts I still receive mail from this >> despicable >>> organization. >>> >>> -- >>> Arthur >>> Cell: 647.710.1314 >>> >>> Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. >>> -- Niels Bohr >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >