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2001 UCLA Internet Census

Merry_B.Buck writes: "UCLA's Center for Communication Policy has finished its second annual survey on Internet usage. Some interesting claims: online shoppers believe prices are lower in brick-and-mortar stores, and experienced Interneters are less likely to use chatrooms, play games, and download music than their newbie counterparts. An unrelated report from Forrester Research claims that Internet newcomers tend to gather at LookSmart and MSN portals, while old-timers prefer InfoSpace and Yahoo. [I'm suspicious of both surveys -- neither had a Cowboy Neal option.]"

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  1. Proper Online Usage by bonzoesc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The link in my sig will help you optimize your online usage. It's helpful for exploring a larger portion of the Internet than normal.

    1. Re:Proper Online Usage by flufffy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      yes, the very same alex chiu who has been interviewed on slasdhot.

      but no relative of gene ray.

  2. ph1rst p0s1! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see subject

    1. Re:ph1rst p0s1! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      dammit

    2. Re:ph1rst p0s1! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      bwahaha, no, its not :p

  3. Lets make a law! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let's make a law - all new surveys reqire cowboyneal.

  4. who am i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what

  5. check this out by Transutus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you thought that was interesting, then you really need to read this.

  6. Remember the Alamo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, this is interesting:
    The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around
    larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years
    ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion
    or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass
    implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack
    (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos
    (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in
    boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas
    and there "packaged".

    His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading
    data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.

    When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people)
    captured him after six years of battle and put him in an
    electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone.
    The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length
    and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation
    never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by
    pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This
    liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

    One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is
    approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-
    running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one
    dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given
    and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a
    time.

    In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did
    and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only
    one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data
    now, but only that given here is needful.

    One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself
    or to the body.

    One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident
    I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good
    auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any
    preclear. Some large, some small.

    Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary
    error. Good luck.

  7. Re:Hey ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blanket statements are always wrong.

  8. Re:Proper Online Usage (deja vu) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    jbp123 asks: "So I am building a new house Ok ?. Dig this: Once the electrician person has already run through all the phone lines I want to run through the cat5e ethernet ring cable thing that came free with the cookies. Ok? So, I thing "what the heck?" anyway, just about then, I figure two of the drops to each one of the 6 rooms found hereinthere with PHONE lines. PHONE lines, for christs sake. Hahahaha. I've never before done this in my life, but my major plan is still to try and run through each one of the ethenet cables found here through the SAME path (hahahah) that the phone lines follow it. Again! So, I figure, "hey I'll just use up the remaining of the 1000Km foot spool by running a third cable to each and every of the rooms", Ok? Now, ethernet cable is generally cheap. Yeah, so I was told at least. But noooooo. I found a whole solid cat5e 1000Km foot spools for $60 with instant delivery at home so the decision to run cat5e cable is a big brainer. Do I run fiber? I really don't know anymore. For instance, how much the cable costs since I don't know what cable to use in the first place. The technician person is now in the WC (he's been there for an hour tho..) It is not so much easier to run cable behind the drywall goes in so I want to make an informed decision now. Ten years from now will I need/want the fiber ? What would you do if you were me? Did somebody actually sit down to write that? Why? "
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