What is the Internet best for....

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

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I love having a reference library at my fingertips--my job requires it.

I also like engaging in discussions with a variety of interesting characters, many of whom I'd never voluntarily choose to interact with in the 'real' world. There's value in the measured distance the virtual world affords, often promoting a more vigorous exploration of ideas and topics than our social norms typically allow--this occasionally breaks down too...

Making money, saving money, researching money and of course porn.

I'm excited about the Google IPO

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=71000001&refer=top_world_news&sid=a1ZjkrBqhQrQ

I had to vote for the car enthusiast sites. It's were the lion share of my internet time is spent. Otherwise it's a tool for online money management (i.e. bank accounts, credit card accounts, etc..........

Because of the Internet I don't really need the post office anymore.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

Everyone has pointed to great aspects of the internet. When troubleshooting mechanical problems on a site like this, I think of the net as a giant brain with far more experience than my simple brain. Everyone's mechanical experiences combine into a giant hypothesis machine that is far more powerful than each of our minds on their own.

I guess now that I think of it, it is kind of like a metaphor for the value of libertarian socialism over capitalism

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Favorite sites (not necessarily in any order):

Google.com
MercedesShop.com (and FastLane, who has some of my money)
MusiciansFriend.com (who has the rest)

Online banking and any online service that allows you to renew, order, or register instead of waiting in a long line to do the same in some stuffy building...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Working from home.

Instead of driving into town I can work, take a break in the garden, work some more, stare into space, and work in the evening if I have to to catch up with my loafing around. The time management freedom is great, but it depends on your employer of course. Some see it as an excuse to dodge work, but the smarter ones realise its results that matter, not how they are acheived. Anyone else do this, or is not Calvinist enough for you? (If you aren't working 80 hours a week you are a lazy slob, etc).

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'79 280SE
'87 560SEL
'83 280CE
'01 Nissan Micra
'98 VW Passat
'83 911 turbo

Only one??? I tried to summarize....but there are just sooo many best things. As Kerry said the synergy, as Z said, the resources, as jjl said, the freedom and power, plus the ability to share, plus online banking, real-time stock tracking and trading, up to the minute news, the ability to share in an extended family spanning the globe, to learn so much from so many. I would have to say, in brief, the web brings us all closer. Even binds us together. I'm delighted and in awe to live in this time of unimaginable transition. The web has and continues to bring about more change for the people of our planet than the invention of movable type. I sometimes wonder what the next generation will bring to this horn of plenty we call the web! I can’t wait to find out!!!!

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

Exactomundo, Lebenz.

In case you didn't notice, this poll contained check boxes, not radio buttons. So you could vote for more than one. I voted for the first 4 things yesterday.

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Rick Miley
2014 Tesla Model S
2018 Tesla Model 3
2017 Nissan LEAF
Former MB: 99 E300, 86 190E 2.3, 87 300E, 80 240D, 82 204D Euro
Chain Elongation References

e-mail, games, talking to friends in other cities/states/countries, great shopping deals (especially on computer stuff), help forums (cars, computers, etc.), and many more that aren't on the list.

Internet in the worker's paradise.

http://nytimes.com/2004/01/16/international/asia/16CHIN.html

I am absolutely SHOCKED at how many of you checked off "Porn and it's variations".

2nd only to car enthusiast forums. I don't think there are many moral people on this board.

Wow, and yet you all seem so mature! You can't fight that primal instinct to mate, and consequentially procreate.

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1987 300SDL (324000)

1986 Porsche 951 (944 Turbo) (166000)

1978 Porsche 924 (99000)

1996 Nissan Pathfinder R50 (201000)

One only needs to look at the "Pretty Girls" thread to be sufficiently prepared to NOT be shocked by that.

And, while exploitation's wrong, there's nothing wrong with appreciating and admiring the female form...