Drowning by Numbers or News from Evercrap

Posted by Fredy
Sep 1, 2012 at 04:28 PM

Hello Daly,

I just added to my rant against Goo1984, and you’re the one loudest touting EN for its convenience here. I KNOW convenience is of utmost importance, and THAT’s why I went from MI to UR to AO (which is crap but so convenient for those very early, “collecting” steps (and if you do heavy scripting on it) - so I perfectly understand your stance, and perfectly acknowledge your stance.

AND I know most, perhaps all of our “material” COULD be “read” / analyzed by the authorities, without being of real harm to us - within the current state of affairs that is.

But then, I just have deleted / pasted back to my system some 12 lines of text from here in which I tried to explain and gave specifics, though “known”, would have been intercepted by those authorities today, Sept, 2012, and would have appear me on their “lists” - and if I already am on such lists, would have made me jump up at least 100 positions there.

On the other hand, if, as a therapist, you have info on your clients, that will certainly not be used by the authorities against yourself, but what about your clients, then? This being said, I know most “material” of individuals is without any problems “shareable”, but what about corporate stuff, then? In Europe, it’s become common sense between corporations that per a certain American intelligence agency, they are pillaged from every little commercial “secret” they might have, in favor of big U.S. corporations, whatever that U.S. state agency can get hold of. Common sense of Europeon corporations, I say, not Fred’s specific paranoia!

So, we “happily disagree” here: Yes, for individuals, in most cases, no problem, ok, but even then, be glad you’re in an acceptable country where “they” don’t turn “normal things” against you. But even then, why should I take the trouble to have to decide what to stuff into the web, what into my “more personal files”?

I would not like to do it, and neither for “convenience in synching” reasons - best synch sw (= of the “normal” tools costing some dozen of bucks, not speaking of special tools costing several Benjamins) for many reasons: GoodSync2Go, the “2Go” part being the exceptional element here (will do a review sometime) : For several devices and multiple usb storage, didn’t find anything better, and I searched hard!

My real point is, if for you it’s okay to “semi-publish” your things, ok, but don’t think it’s safe there (cf. Goo1984).

III

What is the Australian called again - I do NOT think he will put EN’s market upside down. See, I have some knowledge with editors, and his is among the most overpriced of them all. Elsewhere, I say, “pay good price for good stuff”, so this seems to be an incoherent statement, but then, good price for sw where “all” the good elements are absent from? So he’s got a “good enough quality” philosophy I certainly don’t share.

As for (legit) notebooks, theoretically I’m perfectly on your side. Problem: It’s under the shower, on the steerwheel, in bed being so tired I can’t write anymore (be it in the dark or having switched on the light again), etc., that I am most in need of such notebooks, so I reverted to my old micro cassette recorder, but having adopted exactly that politics detailed by another contributor here some time ago: Afterwards, I do not literally transcribe, but I listen to it and reformulate / expand / compress whenever necessary or reasonable; I know the very last alternative might appear implausible in my case.

To end, those notes in the overpriced EN notebooks: The idea of automatic conversion to searchable text is very enticing, even given the price. But then, what adult has got a handwriting then that could be processed by any sw? Or the other way round: First, they force you to buy overpriced notebooks, and on top of it, they force you to readopt your child handwriting of 50 years ago in order / by pretext to be decipherable? But enough rant about “them” wanting us to act like children for today. (But what is TV else, then? Enough!)