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Web Slowing Down: Another Fascist Dirty Trick?

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Has your experience been different? Where do you connect to the web?

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The last four to six weeks have been a consistent experience of frustration and maddening delays.

At first I thought it was because of my connection at home, or another of Microsoft's attempts at punishing those of us who weren't drinking the KoolAid for Vista.

Then I got a new laptop that used Vista.  The delays got worse.

Then I noticed the same problems at work.  All my favorite sites...slow as molasses in January.  Noticeably slow.  That has never happened before.  We have a screaming trunk in the defense industry I work in.

Have you been experiencing this phenomenon on the web, or am I just being paranoid?

Are we getting hosed just in time to watch these bastards steal ANOTHER election???

C'mon, folks.  We can't let them do this to us AGAIN.  We can't afford it.

 

Award winning poet, writer and refugee from the educational testing industry. Richard agitates, supports and motivates activists of all kinds, the most well-known being Cindy Sheehan. Web developer and designer by day, writer by night, Richard has (more...)
 

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Yes, I have been experiencing it. by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:20:51 AM
Is this for real? by Tom Murphy on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:08:46 AM
I just trust people to get it... by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:51:13 PM
the fact remains that it is happening, and is not... by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:13:56 PM
No, the "fact "does NOT remain - the perception does by Tom Murphy on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:27:30 PM
oh yeah? by martinweiss on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:41:11 PM
Such a myopic view of reality by Tom Murphy on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:55:29 PM