Itinerant Air-Cooled

I haven't dropped in here in for a week or three, but apparently Google knows I'm a fan. I was on another forum, and found a good place for one of my favorite Thoreau quotes, "I made myself rich by making my needs few". I wanted to double check the exact wording, so I searched "I made myself rich". This came up first:

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10107&hilit=made+m ... h&start=30

I'm impressed, but even more appalled. We're so worried that the NSA might know our porn preferences while looking for terrorist threats, but we have willingly given right-minded liberal California tech corporations all the intimate details of our lives. How do I block that?

Don't blame the tech corporations for a preference you can change… ;)

Turn cookies in your browser to "off" and browse in "private" or "incognito" mode if your browser supports it. And if you're using Internet Exploder, well, that's borderline asking for it. If you're not 100% satisfied, don't post things online you don't want strangers knowing. I still type-write my personal letters to friends and send them via post with a signature seal over the envelope fold. That Amskeptic fellow is too damn hard to keep track of, so he gets a pass……

For the vast populations of internet users that don't expect or care for online privacy, (myself included,) the tracking features of websites are often handy and helpful. The search on this forum has been known to suck, so I can type a few choice words into a Google search and get IAC forum results MUCH quicker than on here.

asiab3 wrote:Don't blame the tech corporations for a preference you can change… ;)

Turn cookies in your browser to "off" and browse in "private" or "incognito" mode if your browser supports it. And if you're using Internet Exploder, well, that's borderline asking for it. If you're not 100% satisfied, don't post things online you don't want strangers knowing. I still type-write my personal letters to friends and send them via post with a signature seal over the envelope fold. That Amskeptic fellow is too damn hard to keep track of, so he gets a pass……

For the vast populations of internet users that don't expect or care for online privacy, (myself included,) the tracking features of websites are often handy and helpful. The search on this forum has been known to suck, so I can type a few choice words into a Google search and get IAC forum results MUCH quicker than on here.

I write too much and too loosely, politics, religion, exploding Volkswagen carburetor bombs, I love fucking goats (damn this spell-check, I typed "docking boats"), I have shared my fascination with air crash investigations, woooooo, check fuse "C 4" if the damn lights don't light off, Cheney is evil, oh, and drone pilots are sure to be blinded when they see me working on some weird mechanical assemblage in the middle of nowhere . . . staying just as cool as can be.
Have at it You Who Track, I could be a threat to your survival if boredom could kill: