daryl1968
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Google has ruined my life
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:36:06
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What if Google was wrong?
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:37:35
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I "Googled" it.
It isn't.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:39:11
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Jonbouy
What if Google was wrong?
The dreaded Google paradox.
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daryl1968
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:40:43
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well that's the thing, t'internet is the authority on everything now.
I can remember having ongoing disputes with mates about who scored the winning goal against whoever. You would have had to go to a library, looked up an old game program or newspaper which of course you never did because it wasn't that important.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:42:50
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
Times have changed Daryl. You need to get yourself out of the dark ages and embrace this wealth of information........use it for good and not evil........use Bing.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 10:56:37
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I remember tracing back the chain of "authorities" to determine the value and authenticity of the original source.
It was usually along the lines of, "I heard from this guy with the big blonde afro in the record store in Uptown that he knew a dude at the SuperDawg who played bass in a band that used to jam in a garage down the street from this big guy with a huge Harley who would ride over to a club in Bucktown near that place with the great Gyros where that one guy burned his hands on the fries and the dude behind the counter was wearing a button that was the same colour as the old VW bug that used to sit in front of that abandoned warehouse where that kid with the scar would set off fireworks that he bought from a guy who looked a lot like that guy on the commercial for the used car salesman that wears a plaid jacket like this other dude's dad who said that he read somewhere that the Moon landing was faked. They made a mistake and landed on Mars. It's true. You can look it up."
Those were the days.
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daryl1968
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:00:59
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UbiquitousBubba
I remember tracing back the chain of "authorities" to determine the value and authenticity of the original source.
It was usually along the lines of, "I heard from this guy with the big blonde afro in the record store in Uptown that he knew a dude at the SuperDawg who played bass in a band that used to jam in a garage down the street from this big guy with a huge Harley who would ride over to a club in Bucktown near that place with the great Gyros where that one guy burned his hands on the fries and the dude behind the counter was wearing a button that was the same colour as the old VW bug that used to sit in front of that abandoned warehouse where that kid with the scar would set off fireworks that he bought from a guy who looked a lot like that guy on the commercial for the used car salesman that wears a plaid jacket like this other dude's dad who said that he read somewhere that the Moon landing was faked. They made a mistake and landed on Mars. It's true. You can look it up."
Those were the days.
UB gets it - they were the halcyon days of blagging
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:02:53
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Brilliant Bubba!! You've just about covered everything that's in Google.
Well Done!
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:11:37
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Mesh
use it for good and not evil........use Bing.
Like THIS?
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:13:02
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I was waiting for that, Bapu, as soon as I saw Mesh's post. It was inevitable. 
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Mesh
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:21:10
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bapu
Mesh
use it for good and not evil........use Bing.
Like THIS?
I'm not sure what to make of this, but at work the link gets this: Access to the URL www.thecoffeehouseband.com_bing_index.html has been denied.
The request was denied due to a content categorization adult-and-pornography.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:21:37
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Old55
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What if Google was wrong?
The dreaded Google paradox.
I googled my paradox one time. I rather enjoyed it.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:25:42
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bapu
Mesh
use it for good and not evil........use Bing.
Like THIS?
I'm not sure what to make of this, but at work the link gets this:
Access to the URL www.thecoffeehouseband.com_bing_index.html has been denied.
The request was denied due to a content categorization adult-and-pornography.
Sounds fair enough to me... It works here it seems like your work filter is blanking it on the ground that it has no specific classification with something like ICRA and not taking any chances. (cue another shameless plug)
post edited by Jonbouy - 2012/10/02 11:28:00
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:25:50
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
You know what'r really ruining my life Daryl? Youtube! I can't even watch a video without looking at things that are related in the side-bar. The next thing you know, 4 hours goes by and I say to myself "I did it again!" It's really getting nuts! I literally have to ignore the side-bar or I know I'll be here watching related material until the cows come home. LOL! Then....you get so into it, you somehow wind up in that "weird part" of Youtube where you don't know how you ended up there and are shaking your head wondering what type of people put these videos up? LOL! -Danny
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daryl1968
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:47:14
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
You know what'r really ruining my life Daryl? Youtube! I can't even watch a video without looking at things that are related in the side-bar. The next thing you know, 4 hours goes by and I say to myself "I did it again!" It's really getting nuts! I literally have to ignore the side-bar or I know I'll be here watching related material until the cows come home. LOL! Then....you get so into it, you somehow wind up in that "weird part" of Youtube where you don't know how you ended up there and are shaking your head wondering what type of people put these videos up? LOL!
-Danny
YES - it's all too easy. All these distractions are there to take our eye off the real issue. The English are trying to take over. Try and turn on US TV without seeing Gordon Ramsey, Simon Cowell or Sharon Osbourne. Even on this forum - they're everywhere. Bloody brits ;)
post edited by daryl1968 - 2012/10/02 11:51:02
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bapu
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:50:16
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Jonbouy
It works here it seems like your work filter is blanking it on the ground that it has no specific classification with something like ICRA and not taking any chances.
(cue another shameless plug)
Shamless Plug -----> TMC
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:50:30
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I was going to blame Google, YouTube, the BeeGees, etc., but it turns out that someone much closer to me ruined my life. After a long period of deep introspection, I realized that I can't really blame anyone else for my failures and regrets.
It was Captain Kangaroo. That dude was seriously strange.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 11:59:46
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UbiquitousBubba
I was going to blame Google, YouTube, the BeeGees, etc., but it turns out that someone much closer to me ruined my life. After a long period of deep introspection, I realized that I can't really blame anyone else for my failures and regrets.
It was Captain Kangaroo. That dude was seriously strange.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 12:01:26
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
I don't know...I've been searching if there's life after life and I could't find it....
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Mesh
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 12:02:11
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Now, I see  what you mean Daryl......(back to the pub with my (IT-less) drinking monkey friends)  (Capt. Kangaroo pic)
post edited by Mesh - 2012/10/02 12:03:52
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 12:04:41
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
Yes...pretending to know something was quite an art back then. Mind you, it goes on all the time here...
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 12:09:15
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daryl1968
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 12:15:48
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James - it's looking at me again
don't like it
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:07:53
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daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
Two minutes??! What are ya, the slow type? (Er, that should be the slow type r - just for full disclosure.  )
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:39:33
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Danny Danzi
daryl1968
well, that maybe a slight exaggeration but I really miss the days when you could 'argue' for days about 'which actor was in...'?, 'who wrote such and such a song...' or just about anything that in the olden days would have taken a fair amount of research.
These days, 2 minutes on t'internet and you have the answer.
You know what'r really ruining my life Daryl? Youtube! I can't even watch a video without looking at things that are related in the side-bar. The next thing you know, 4 hours goes by and I say to myself "I did it again!" It's really getting nuts! I literally have to ignore the side-bar or I know I'll be here watching related material until the cows come home. LOL! Then....you get so into it, you somehow wind up in that "weird part" of Youtube where you don't know how you ended up there and are shaking your head wondering what type of people put these videos up? LOL!
-Danny
Danny I am the exact say way in that regard. Youtube is my favorite place to watch TV now and I have a lot of other options. I think at least part of it is knowing that most of it isn't glossed over. It has videos on just about anything I want to see (and a lot of stuff I don't).Where else can you end up finding out things like this? There are a lot of videos you won't see anywhere else.lol.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:55:12
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UbiquitousBubba
I remember tracing back the chain of "authorities" to determine the value and authenticity of the original source.
It was usually along the lines of, "I heard from this guy with the big blonde afro in the record store in Uptown that he knew a dude at the SuperDawg who played bass in a band that used to jam in a garage down the street from this big guy with a huge Harley who would ride over to a club in Bucktown near that place with the great Gyros where that one guy burned his hands on the fries and the dude behind the counter was wearing a button that was the same colour as the old VW bug that used to sit in front of that abandoned warehouse where that kid with the scar would set off fireworks that he bought from a guy who looked a lot like that guy on the commercial for the used car salesman that wears a plaid jacket like this other dude's dad who said that he read somewhere that the Moon landing was faked. They made a mistake and landed on Mars. It's true. You can look it up."
Those were the days.
I knew that dude down at the SuperDawg... But he played a keytar, not bass. ;) Seriously though, that was an awesome steam of consciousness, UB.
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:56:46
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I googled "Who is right, me or the wife?" the wife told me it's her. Does that make google right or wrong though. 
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:58:10
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julibee
Seriously though, that was an awesome steam of consciousness, UB.
For awesome stream of consciousness see this fred. For awesome steaming pile of.....fred, see FSF.
post edited by bapu - 2012/10/02 13:59:38
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Re:Google has ruined my life
2012/10/02 13:59:14
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I googled "Who is right, me or the wife?" the wife told me it's her.
Does that make google right or wrong though.
Is she an actual wife? They have the goods on being right.
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