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Post By Chris of Japan

3 Jun 2011
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Originally Posted by mika
Hello Grant,
yes well said, and true ... I only use what I like the rest I ignore ... but also things that I like change and become unusable for me ...
after I read your word ... this came to my mind ....
you have 4523 friends on Fakebook/Twister or now on the Hubb .... but you have forgotten who is a real friend, and what the word friend means.
sure I understand that you have to make as many users of your website as happy as you can, make it as popular as Fakebook/Twister and have all informations on the Hubb easily connectable/exchangable with this websites.
first they changed from 4 to 5 gears, than from points to electronic ignition and in the near future you cant ride a bike anymore without a black box that records where you go, how fast you go .... and all other details of your life ... and than they switch off your bike from a remote computer because you could miss your next flu shot appointment if you leave town .....
One day I will walk into a bar, the cctv camera on the road told the owner of the bar already that I am coming ... he can see on his monitor behind the bar, that I had two  s in other bars in the last hour, that I did not pay for my health insurance in three months and also that in 1997 the police took my license for speeding. So I go to the bar and ask for a  , the barman tells me, because of all the smilies drinking  on my Hubb posts, he can not give me a  , because his insurance would not cover me having an accident in his bar because I have a drinking record.
Yes, everybody has to decide when to stop supporting this so called developments....
My 2 p worth at 2.50 am about your words connecting with *friends*
Saludos de Salta
Mika
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no argument from me Mika - I quite liked 1965!
Grant
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