[AGL] report from the front lines

[Frances Morey]

Very interesting comments, all. I agree with the otherly aspects of
college, ie. some of my best friends were made during my college years and
held through my lifetime. The same can be said of all the school years. We
learn from one another as much as we do from our teachers or even parents.
So much for "home-schooling."
Yes, Mike, professors are a rare breed of professionals. I got a good look
at a lot of them when I was reduced to working for a living at UT, as a
receptionist in various departments. Wow, was that ever an education!  And
the publishing industry is also being turned inside out. The unavailability
of journals and new ideas on internet is one of the guarded features of
academia as institutional protection for their bailiwick.
Interestingly the pharmacy industry has recently acted to limit information
on the internet about their products. A couple of years ago I researched
some drugs that had injured me and Mike with the side effects. Now that
kind of i individual research is no longer possible because of industrial
interference. How about them apples?
Best,
Frances

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:47 PM Hans-Peter OTTO <hpo.photog at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With regards to ZOOM:
> UK reports it as malware / spyware to not be trusted.
> Skype has no such reputation.
> I´ve enjoyed it for many years. Never a problem and good for telephoning-
> is cheap.
> Trustworthy.
>
>
> > On 3. Apr 2020, at 19:38, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/3/2020 12:01 PM, Charles Loving wrote:
> >> No idea what Zoom is? The internet doesn't work for rural people very
> well. I doubt that 50% of the people in this county even have a computer.
> They have a phone and maybe a smart phone. I don't use my cell phone out
> here because there is no service. So the farmers and ranchers are without
> Zoom or Food delivery.
> > No, you are not eligible for home delivery from HEB. But the lack of
> Internet in the boonies is addressed in the 2 trillion dollar bailout. Free
> Obamaphones will again be available and the infrastructure to provide
> Internet to all and sundry will be coming to your neighborhood.
> >
> > Zoom turns out to be an interactive browser-based application that allow
> remote conferencing. In my case, it was a seminar with about 6 individuals
> taking turns to say something. If the participants enabled video on their
> computer, others could see them in their study as well as hear them.
> Predictably all the professors participating from home sat in front of
> wall-to-wall bookcases full of books. Zoom's stock price doubled recently -
> no surprise.
> >
>
>
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