Adios, not goodbye.

Well folks. its been a thoroughly enjoyable few years, but the time has come for me to log off.
Not from choice, you'd better believe it, but I've just been beaten by technology.
CHR has got just too big for our out-dated networks, and our Socialist Government owned providers have not moved with the times to upgrade our infrastructure.
The Government has passed legislation to ban the physical chastisement of our kids, and they've passed legislation making same-sex marriages legal, but when it comes to actually advancing our technology to the cyber age.......Nah, forget it. We're still on dial up, 32.6 kbs per second. And I've seen it down to 9.3.
I could go satellite, but at $900 startup, and $115 per month, She Who Must Be Obeyed says it isn't justifiable.
Everything is just so slooooow. It took fifty minutes to read just six pages yesterday, and I don't wish to waste my time staring at a blank computer screen.
(That's not to say that the whole of New Zealand is without broadband, just us poor forgotten peasants in the backblocks rural areas.)
I'm gunna miss you-all, I have learnt a lot, just lurking and browsing, there's some very talented and clever people on here who also have a talent in being able to write and describe in easy to understand ways what they're doing. Or have done. These people are very generous with their time too, no question goes unanswered.
You-all know who you are, but you're just too many to name individually.
And when (if) we get broadband......."I'll be back!"

So, from Opunake in New Zealand, God's Own Country, this is johnboy, thanking you one and all.

Adios.

Ps I can still be contacted by e-mail, just please, don't make 'em too big, I can't handle much more than 250/300 KB

Pps Hank, (Tow'd,) send me a picture of that wee Fordson when you've finished it, okay?

That just plain suks!!!! I hope we see you back as soon as possible.

Sorry to see you go John
better get that winning lotto ticket

hank

Hope you find a fix for the problem John, that's some outrageous fees though!!~!

Wow John, that's terrible, and you sure are going to be missed here. We just sort of assume everybody has the same hookups we do, so it is surprising to hear this.

I hope you work out something so you can stick around on some basis. But as soon as things improve you better get your tail right back here. :)

Take care John.

Don

That sucks man!! I hope you can find a fix, and join back in the fun!! Take care.

win the lotto!!! man that really sucks hope to see you back soon!!!!

Yeehaa! This Kiwi's back!
Farmside, a rural provider allied to Fonterra, (New Zealand's largest milk processing factory,) have come up trumps with a package that has given me sattelite coverage for NZ$150 plus installation.
So I'm gonna be spending weeks wading through all that's been happening on here!
Man, I couldn't be happier if I was a dog with a thousand lamp-posts!:D :D
Oh frabjous day, Caloo Calay!

John, I wasn't even a member yet when you said adios, but I'd like to be one of the first to welcome you back.

Mike

Hi Johnboy
glad you made it back


hank

welcome back!:3dSMILE:

Hey Johnboy, really glad to see you back in the 21st Century!! :D :D There will be a lot of reading you have to do to catch up. Some new members and some old ones have moved off to other pastures.

Look forward to shooting the breeze with you again. :) Welcome back.

Don

welcome back.

I know where you were with dial up; from 97 until just a little earlier this year we had dial up, now high speed. It would take 30 minutes to bring up e-mail with pictures, and I would have to give up on trying to see pages of hot rod material.

Glad you on onboard now, don’t forget to watch youtube a lot of hot rod stuff on there, with dial up it would take forever and I would have to shut the computer down. Good deal.

Richard

I guess this means I can start sending you the sleazy stuff again???


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Shucks fellas, thanks for the 'welcomes back'......I really missed this site, I was like an addict, and just had to get my daily 'fix'.
I spent all yesterday just reading back items, guess I'll be doing the same today......
(So much to see; so little time.....)
Much to the disgust of She Who Must Be Obeyed: "Dunno what you see in it, you can't learn any more, you're a bleddy know-all now."

Good to hear from ya!

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Originally Posted by johnboy

Shucks fellas, thanks for the 'welcomes back'......I really missed this site, I was like an addict, and just had to get my daily 'fix'.
I spent all yesterday just reading back items, guess I'll be doing the same today......
(So much to see; so little time.....)
Much to the disgust of She Who Must Be Obeyed: "Dunno what you see in it, you can't learn any more, you're a bleddy know-all now."

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Yeah, well Rosie got that right,,:D
Johnboy and I are about forty kilometers apart,[as the crow flies],but there is a little mountain in the way,everyone down our side of the hill has,or can get broadband,JB's side still cant even get FM radio,,and their currency is probably ten years behind us,,,government still has not realised that most of the countries wealth comes from the rural sector,half of that ,from Taranaki..
Correct Johnboy??:HMMM:
Good to see you back on John boy,even if you were here before me..:D

W3lcome back i know the feeling of dial up . Well maybe someone will tote the cable and equipment over the hill soon .

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Originally Posted by lamin8r

Yeah, well Rosie got that right,,:D
Johnboy and I are about forty kilometers apart,[as the crow flies],but there is a little mountain in the way,everyone down our side of the hill has,or can get broadband,JB's side still cant even get FM radio,,and their currency is probably ten years behind us,,,government still has not realised that most of the countries wealth comes from the rural sector,half of that ,from Taranaki..
Correct Johnboy??:HMMM:
Good to see you back on John boy,even if you were here before me..:D

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Yep, that's correct, you dribbled a bib-full there Robin, the rural areas are where New Zealand's wealth comes from, but not the population, (read as: votes,) so the rural people are largely ignored by the politicians. :mad:
And that's just the way it is....you gotta live with it.
Bobby D, I had to install my own equipment (sattelite dish etc.) to get broadband.....if I lived in the big smoke it would be just outside my door.....fifty feet of cable and I'd have been into it.

I used to live on a cattle farm, by the ocean. There was a big ravine between us and these million dollar homes lining a golf coure. We had no cable or garbage service, but in spitting distance of the Golf course they had garbage service and cable. It was annoying to walk outside at night and see the huge screen t.v. lit up in a neighbors' fairway home, or wake up to the sound of garbage trucks, knowing it was another trip to the video store if we wanted to watch something, and a trip to the dump to get rid of the trash!
The cable companie, when asked, said it was too expensive to route cable to us, as we were only one house!:CRY:

good luck dude

Don't count me off for being late, I only seem to get around here once every couple of weeks - Glad to have you back, JohnBoy. I understand your technology frustrations; we were on dial-up when we lived in the High Sierras, the big mountains east of San Francisco and Sacramento. Cable company and phone company said it was too costly for the return on investment to run in the cables or to upgrade the old T & R phone system; we had speeds around 14.?? most of the time, but sometimes it would take an hour to load the mornings e-mail; of course, in the cities, it is a completely different story.

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Yep, that's correct, you dribbled a bib-full there Robin, the rural areas are where New Zealand's wealth comes from, but not the population, (read as: votes,) so the rural people are largely ignored by the politicians.

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This is also true of the States. Nevada, where I live is a good example: Approximately 80% of the state's population is concentrated in the two major cities, Las Vegas, and Reno, and the rural areas get virtually no attention from the "powers that be", until election time, or political fundraising time; then, they're the gold mine in the sky. But as soon as the elections are over, the rural folks won't hear from their representatives for a couple of years, until the next campaign cycle.

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Originally Posted by Rrumbler

This is also true of the States. Nevada, where I live is a good example: Approximately 80% of the state's population is concentrated in the two major cities, Las Vegas, and Reno, and the rural areas get virtually no attention from the "powers that be", until election time, or political fundraising time; then, they're the gold mine in the sky. But as soon as the elections are over, the rural folks won't hear from their representatives for a couple of years, until the next campaign cycle.

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(Sigh.)
It's the same, the whole world over,
It's the poor man takes the blame,
While the rich folk get the pleasures,
Ain't it all a bleedin' shame!


And there's not much can be done about it! :mad:

johnboy