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Mm, yes; there's an ad on TV now where people talk about getting pictures "out of the camera and onto the paper". I think I'd prefer to get photo paper and print them out myself, thank you. I didn't like the sound of this: The tool ... automatically detects photos as they are added to a PC - whether sent via e-mail or transferred from a digital camera. It just makes me think that the time of Big Brother is getting closer and closer. If/when we ever buy a new car again, I intend to find out whether those positioning gadgets can actually be used to track you (and possibly your speed) by somebody who could use the information against you; and if so, whether the gadgets can be disabled.
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Actually I was objecting to the use of "hotting up" instead of "heating up" or "heats up."
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Heating up becomes hotting up. So, it would follow that cooling down becomes colding down. Language. You can object, but you sure can't fight it.
I like the idea of a place to store photos. However, I've had a recent experience with an online teacher's website source that one Saturday inadvertantly dumped my entire year's notes to students--and dumped the files of countless other teachers.
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From Volume 40, Issue 30 of "The Onion" = America's Finest News Source. 28-July-2004:
"Internet Collapses Under Sheer Weight Of Baby Pictures SAN FRANCISCO—Many web users were trapped without service Monday, when a large section of the Internet collapsed under the weight of the millions of baby pictures posted online. "Some personal web pages contain literally hundreds of adorable infant photos," MCI senior vice-president Vinton Cerffe said. "Add to that the number of precious pumpkins on photo-sharing sites like Ophoto.com, and anyone can see it was a recipe for disaster. The Internet simply was not designed to support so much parental pride." Cerffe said he expects regular web-traffic flow to resume once the nation's larger Internet providers are reinforced with stronger cuteness-bearing servers."
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Isn't objecting to it = fighting it, just as "your one vote can make a difference"? I suppose one would have to have a place to make an objection just as *vocal as the BBC online headlines do...
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Yeah, you're right there, musick, about objections being a kind of fight.
I was using the expression 'you can't fight it' more as a light expression, such as when someone might say, 'You can't fight this heat..' or as a shoulder shrug of resignation. For the record, I don't like the sound of 'hotting up' at all. But then I didn't like the sound of my daughter having referred to 'hotties,' which just sounded plain silly.
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It just makes me think that the time of Big Brother is getting closer and closer. You may already be aware of this, Jackie: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html I have no idea how much of it, if any, is true.
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I'm colding as much as a I can.
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