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Old March 27th 12, 08:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
MotoFox[_2_]
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And it came to pass that richard2 delivered the following message unto the
people, saying~

Heck, 5 years ago there were whole libraries of clipart for free on the
web. I just want to my local library, took out a few clipart CDs and
copied them to my computer for future use.


http://cd.textfiles.com/ has at least a couple clipart CDs in its
"shovelware" archive. Every single file up there for download. Best to use
wget -r -l0 --no-cookies http://site.url/directory/ to get anything from
that part of the site en masse, since downloading everything item-by-item
is incredibly tedious.

As far as I'm concerned, the internet is dead. Facebook will replace it,
and no one will be anonymous anymore. When these machines start peering
into my home and private life, it's time to move on to another hobby.


F???book and Google (the latter especially) are cancer. They are the
virulent, malignant cancerous tumours spreading about the Internet,
engulfing and infecting every single thing they touch. They consume
resources and transform the underlying makeup of unique sites to that of
itself, if not popping up like tumours or growths on other sites (e.g. in
the form of search bars, sidebar "widgets", ads, etc.) They weaken and
compromise the integrity and stability of the sites that have been
infected by them. If there ever was one "super computer virus", either of
those sites would have to be it.

So, that's the state of the Internet these days. Pretty depressing, but I
guess that's just the way it has to be.

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MotoFox
Originator of the word "enubulous"
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