Yeah, it was a good piece and not only did it raise some excellent points, but the solutions offered seemed more than plausible. To those of you that replied to my reply (and thank you for all the recs), you make an excellent point, one I wish I could expand, or even just acknowledge your brilliance in making it, but alas, I’m too old to get back to you.
We made the mistake of opening a Diary that other people also opened and some of them replied, too. If only it weren’t beyond the current state of technology to hide all the unseen elements in every reply, we might have learned something, but now it’s too late and we’re dead.
Now is the far-right column of our discontent made permanent, yet unreachable, by this issue of Kos. And all the videos that desire to load, on our connections, await.
Now are our browsers bound in interminable delays as ytimg.com ignores; DKassets.com is hung in limbo; and newrelic.com repeats its demand to know, over and over and over again…
Ill-considered umber hue now lurks aside, in the shadows of mem’ry, amid a blaze of white, requir’ing shades.
And now, where once he authored barbed jabs to fright the souls of wretched mercenaries, this King called Kos, capers nimbly betwixt geek and vendor frantically trying to still the cacophony of emptying tills.
Grim visaged users battle with scripts, as ISP’s, NSA, and Telcoms compete,
to plumb the greatest depths, to read the deepest meta, to know just what we eat.
But we, that lack alternative and crave the feel of home, have lost not just a site, but assurance we’re not alone.
Time’s up!