“No, your monitor won’t blank out, your Internet connection won’t stall and your PC won’t crash, but a major event is about to ripple across the Internet today: CompuServe Classic is closing.
After 30 years the plug will be pulled on what was once the finest online service on the globe. (CompuServe 2000, a newer iteration of CompuServe will continue.)
And the saddest part is that it ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. Ask anyone about CompuServe today and the response will probably be “Are they still around?”
And that’s not fair for a service that once meant so much to cyberspace–long before we started calling it cyberspace. It dates to a time when most home PCs didn’t even have hard disks, just floppy disk drives, and when most PC users never went online. ” Blog Post Here
I signed up after my discharge form the navy in 1993; I was on both Prodigy and CompuServe, pre-internet. In a way the 1990’s were the start of conservative activism on the net. I remember the first attempt to pass the farness doctrine in 1993, for the first time we had the bills in hand while the debate was still going, it was then I realize the net will change the face of politics.
There was other non politic stuff, I was introduced to Bill Holbrook’s Kevin and Kell while on CompuServe and I still have some of my recipes downloaded form the cooking forum.
Wow in the US a 16 year (I assumed now x-gay) gets demon casted. I am glad he is here in the US. because if he was in Iran He would be shaking because he is being stoned to death or hanged. So forgive me if I do not show any outrage. I do find it scary how fast the story spread with all its misconceptions and bias.
While I am a Christian (more on the reformed sided) therefore, I have a lot of doctoral problems with Pentecostalism, I understand their mindset. I have hard time believing this is abuse, I seen my share of Pentecostal services more that I care . We had a good size group onboard an aircraft carrier I served on. I am not surprised with the idea of attributing sin to demons, something I do not ascribe to. Our sin nature is apart of us and will manifest in sin including that of homosexuality. The good news of the Gospel is Christ died for sin.
Assuming the 16 year came willingly, the probable the outrage is that a person can willing chose to leave homosexuality, blowing apart the myth one gay always gay, there nether one straight always straight.
In a secular philosophical sense, I get the feel humankind refuse to believe we are machine ruled by fate, especially art and music. It odd to me to say no we have the freedom to change but to say in regard to homosexuality we are slaves to instinct or genes.
There are many issues that bother me about this article; particularly about criticism on having the children in the first place, yet the large issue is what does the Gospel has to do with John and Kate or even with Julie Vermeer Elliott article.
The Gospel not about role models or even anti materialism, or John and Kate’s life or ordeal, but what has God done on our behalf, in sending Christ who is incardinated as a man, who lived the perfect life fulfilling the law. Who died for penalty my sins and resurrected for my Justification.
I might know what Ms Elliot is talking about How Christian hold up celebrities as example of Christian family values and Christian testimony, and missing the pitfalls of using personal testimony in place of God‘s testimony of Christ according to the scriptures.
A good discussion of what I am writing about is linked below:
While feisty I agree with McCain’s mother.While Rush very knowledgeable about the media, he is severely shallow in philosophical and intellectual thought and displays thedefective traits of conservatism in thatconservatism can impede liberalism but dose not offer a different course. In addition, Conservatism just offers the same form of collectivism at the expense of individual liberty. He drove the GOP to the ground by turning to populism and pietism rather than individualism and capitalism.
Speaking of conservatism, after a bit of a debate with the conservative loonies at Broadband Reports forum, I sought out thoughts of like minded people; the passage from Why I Am Not a Conservative by Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek captures the problem with conservatism.
