Part 154 (1/2)
Hollywood Freeway Halts Coeles Times
A Day In The Life: Without Computers by Scott Mason
As bad as a reformed smoker, but without the well earned battle scars, I have been, upon occasion, known to lightly ridicule those who profess the necessity of computers to enjoy modern life I have been known as well to spout statistics; statistics that show the average ho than her ancestor 100 or 200 years ago I have questioned the logic of laziness that causes us to pull out a calculator rather than figure 10 of any given nu
Last Saturday I really noticed the effects of the Foster Plan an I h I have written about hackers and computer crime, it is axioone
Allow me to make ital phone lines have been scrupulously pruned, and therefore busy most of the time
The check out lines at the super over the bar code price scanner The system that I used when I was a kid, as a delivery boy for Murray and Mary Meyers Meat Market, seeue; enter the cost of the iteister and check for mistakes when the receipt is produced
I haven't found one store in hborhood that still takes credit cards Have you noticed the near disdain you receive when you try to pay with a credit card? Its real and perceived value has been flushed right down the toilet
Not that they don't trust my well known face and name, but my credit cards are as suspect as are everybody's Even check cashi+ng is scarce Seems like the best currency is that old time stand-by, cash If you can make it to the bank The ATM at my corner has been rented out to a flower peddler
All of this is happening in reasonably affluent Westchester County And in ieles and in Detroit and Miami and Boston and Atlanta and Dallas as well as a thousand Oshkosh's A what life is like without automation
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Bankruptcies Soar 600 Money Magazine
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Slow Vacation Travel Closes Resorts But Disneyland Still Happiest Place on Earth San Diego Tribune
Hacker Heroes By Scott Mason
I have occasionally wreaked verbal havoc upon the hacker coood and the bad The per- formance of hackers in recent months has contributed as much to the defense of the coovern- ment itself
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Newspapers interested in providing theho existing co hacker BBS's as sources