TECH HELL: I have to laugh. My Printer has always "hated" me - printers are reasonably cheap, at least in the States, but hooooeeeee it ain't the printers, it's the INK that here costs an arm and leg - which is why I stopped using it at all; my Sony digicam "hates" me; my two cellphones definitely always "hated" me, one is "M.I.A." may have been stolen without my knowing it - never mind, wasn't using it anyway. Don't even ask about cellphone service in Canada, you'll get an earfull. Most expensive in the world.; my year old Win 7 computer "hates" me after using WinXP and OE for ten years - it's my fourth; now my new telephone "hates" me. Something wrong here. LOL. ::: Batteries and light bulbs - I "hate" them. I've gone bankrupt just buying new ones all the time. A fews year back I replaced all the light bulbs in the house with those newfangled ones - haven't been able to see anything since. LOL - My little camera, which I never much used anyway - well, I did buy a battery charger since they are li-ion batteries which are, unlike me, rechargeable. Life has become too complicated for me. Don't understand a thing anymore. ::: No, I do not live in cave somewhere in the Himalayas. I live in huge cosmopolitain City which hates me too. (laughing). ::: I kept receiving these SHARES in SU re the "Wall Street" movement which has spread faster than any wildfire around the globe. That sender, god bless her cotton pickin' soul never sent me a SHARE about a single thing that interested me. She is in the Phillipines. Maybe she should be out on the street with the rest of the Angries - demonstrating - instead of trying to preach to the annointed. I carefully explained to her yesterday, most politely, after that first SHARE about the demonstrations and that, 'yes, I am quite aware, thank you very much', only to be sent the whole darned thing all over again today. Are we thick? End that charade once and for all today. Sheesh! ::: It is pourring rain, extremely windy, freezing cold here and Montrealers - about 200 of them in total - are holding their own "Wall Street" protest...why, I do not know. Well, yes, I do...something about "poverty". ::: You know what I think about "poverty"? Goes like this: anybody in the world who owns a comptuter and has access to the WWW, a cellphone, an Ipad, Iphone, I-anything, is not POOR. ::: If you want to know what poverty is, go to Haiti. The poorest Nation on the hemisphere. Go to almost country, in eastern Africa. That is poverty. Not even the poorest of the poor in North America are "poor". It's all relative, isn't it? ::: As I sit here at my computer, with all those toys that "hate" me, crying in my soup, I may not be in that 1% obscenely wealthy list, or ever made it to the Forbes 500, but POOR? ::: What we are? Spoiled brats. Belly ackers. Disgruntled with the very systems we each of us have created through, either sins of ommission or commission most certainly by selective blindness, sitting in our comfortable pews right here in North America. Suddenly, we come face to face with our own petards. ::: Nothing in our disposable consumer society is working any more. EVERYTHING is disposable...even people, by the millions and millions. ::: Nobody ever envied the poor because they could not be robbed. "The meek shall inherit the earth." God forbid. They never wanted it to begin with. ::: Homo Saps, since the industrial revolution and the invention of Ford's automobile, has screwed up everything on the planet it has touched. Any wonder Homo Saps has turned on itself. ::: "Take what you want," said God "and pay for it."