Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit

tyroneking writes "Phil Hartup on bit-tech.net has captured the Zeitgeist of the web-aware generation: The Age of the Web Hermit describes how some lucky souls can live their lives, earn money, buy necessities and even find love on the Internet. 'Is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more?'; not me!"

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I was going to post something witty...

[tyroneking]

... and incisive along the lines that I submitted the story and got to first-post it as well but I was beaten to the ... err ... post.
Oh well - I'm still happy to get a story posted and this will spur me on the become even more of a hermit ....

Re:Just because you can...

[LordKazan]

I wasn't talking about the dictionary definition of the word, or even the educated person with-more-than-two-braincells definition of the word - i meant the Joe Sixpack (as much as I hate that term) meaning of the word.

I don't drink diet pop, not only can I not pallet the artificial sweeteners but their breakdown products are toxic IIRC - I tend to drink normal pop as sugars are easily metabolized with exercise - and even then only at meals - between meals I tend to drink water

as for "a little second hand smoke" have you not been paying attention to the toxicity of ETS? "a little second hand smoke" does a LOT of damage - the toxicity threshold of ETS is so low that any concentration can be considered toxic - a concentration strong enough to smell (not to mention even higher concentrations that you can see) is orders of magnitude above the toxicity threshold.

Furthermore - drinking pop is something you voluntarily engage in. Being exposed to ETS is something I am FORCED to engage in - walking down the street, sitting in the privacy of my own home with the windows open, driving down the road, walking through a parking lot, walking into a non-smoking establishment, and a million other daily activities.

request to kill thread denied. PK awarded to me for your attempt to manipulate the argument with false analogies