On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:10:32 +0000, "|--Spike=-"
<|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK> wrote:
>Hiya Polygon.
>I don't use Twitter, I thought that was just for the 'Celebs' of the
>world and then there is Facebook for the rest of us :)
Twitter is a good way of keeping up with the news and/or current
events without turning on the TV or radio. It works like this:
You create your own login, then you select who you want to follow.
When you follow someone [or a service], you get to see what they
write, called "tweets". When someone tweets, someone else can
re-tweet, so the followers of both the "someone" and the "someone
else" get to see the tweet. I follow BBC Breaking News and a number
of others. I don't tweet anything myself, so I have "protected my
tweets", which prevents anyone, including spammers, from following me.
It's much better than facebook.
>I use 3 torrent sites (directly) 2 open and 1 private. I'm pretty sure
>that I'm protected on the private site (IPT) but I also know that I am
>completely out in the open on the other 2 public ones.
>
>I 'normally' always pay back torrents I download at 1-1... no more, no
>less. (unless they steal some more back from me - which often
>happens).
>
>I realize the risk but then... if people don't pay back... then the
>whole torrent idea will fail.
>
>'Normally' - Some things I download are just 'Too Hot' to stay
>connected on and share back. IE... latest blockbuster movies, latest
>series which are instantly being taken down on Usenet.
>
>These I tend to dis-connect from. Not that I don't want to pay back...
>just that the risks are too great. Plus the chances are... that I will
>be paying it back by uploading to Usenet anyway !
>
>Retirement !
>Skipping country in your 60s sounds like a BIG Jump !
>Your reasons sound great :)
>I hope I won't be making Rars and Pars after I retire mate... by then
>it will be time for me to actually see for real some of the stuff that
>I have watched on documentaries over the years.
In my 20s, I was fortunate enough to fall into a job that involved a
lot of travel, so I got to see most of the world [missed out on
Canada, plus a few South American, African, and Middle East
countries], so I know where I want to spend my retirement, no need to
go looking. In 1995 - 98 I actually got to live and work there, so I
picked up some of the language and still have contact with people that
I knew there then.
Polygon
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