(12-22-2017, 02:54 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(12-22-2017, 11:31 AM)Kane Wrote: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

I know people that live without the internet dude.
Work without internet.
Credit cards are not necessities. Get a bank account by going to the bank. Manage a bank account with a check book. Pay your bills by going down to the utility or sending a check in the mail.
Get a job by getting off your [BLEEP] and hussle through some applications and handing out resumes. (Employers actually love the initiative shown by people willing to go in and try to get a job)
OMG what a terrible life to have to do some leg work without the internet.

It's only essential to life to those who have lived their whole lives inside the damn computer.
Get out in the world, it exists beyond your screen kid.

Bunch of sissies in today's world... makes me sick.
If your government can't control these corporations with net neutrality, why is it needed?
If they've been limiting your net searches already, what are you afraid of?

Oh... that's right, everything must be over regulated... because regulation works soooo well.

I mean I understand where you're coming from but in the not too distant future, all those things you talked about will be obsolete. There won't be checkbooks. Banks create your account using the internet. Applications will be strictly online and not handing in a piece of paper.

Although the whole "Life exists beyond your screen" mantra is nice, it's not the way its going to be. Everything is going to be done by computers, the internet and machines soon.

"Bunch of sissies"? You're better than that (or maybe you're not) but just because the future is going to be different than when you grew up, it doesn't make it bad. "Color TV! Back in my day, we only had the radio. Kids today are so soft." See how that works?

This same [BLEEP] has been said since the day the internet was introduced to the world...

While I agree that the vast majority of day to day tasks will be done over the internet by most people, there will always be old school banking, bill paying by USPS with a check, looking for a job by actually visiting places such as the state's employment job service, looking for a new vehicle, and all that stuff...

The internet is not a survival mechanism or a live or die "utility" it does make things easier and faster, but many people don't like doing things online...There are tons of people who resist bill paying online, online banking, and online anything and there always will be...

If the ISPs start charging for entertainment packages in order to listen to music or youtube, or social media, some large corporation such as google or facebook will create their own ISP without such fees and start getting customers from companies who do that...

Who owns the internet? Who controls the internet? If you don't like one ISP [BLEEP] can it and get another...

This isn't an end of life as we know it thing

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