On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:11:16 +1100, Polygon <DeadParrot@the.Aviary>
wrote:
>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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Hiya Polygon, Sorry for the delay in reply but I was sure I already
replied... then didn't see my post anywhere... so if I'm repeating
myself, you know why.
I might give twitter a try out, it sounds a bit different to FB, I
always keep up with the latest news so it might be a better way for me
to keep up with it all.
I have hardly been anywhere out of the UK... America twice
(Kentucky/Memphis-Graceland)... which I'm thankful for, it was an
experience :)
Let me know when you get settled... I will be waiting for my holiday
invite :)
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