My Flag Flies Everyday
With all the discussion and debate about the Health Care Reform bill, I decided to download the bill HR 3200 for some late night reading. My computer is relatively new. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and a 4 gigabyte RAM, with a hard drive sized for the future. I connect to the internet through a cable network. This is clearly the fastest system I have ever owned. I couldn’t believe what happened when I began the download of HR 3200. The system froze. Seven minutes later I was able to move the curs er around on the screen. I had a call from Peggy to help with something, so I saved the file to my hard drive. It froze again, but I left the room, and it didn’t bother me.
Today, I opened the file to read the bill. It took seven minutes to open the file on my own machine. When it was completed, I couldn’t scroll down or move the pages much less read anything . If you believe your Senator or Congressman is reading this bill you are more naive than I am. I consider myself pretty good at using a PC, and I’m sure I can out do Senator Roland Burris, and even Senator Dick Durbin on PC usage. I also feel like I’m light years ahead of Debbie Halvorson. The only way these people are reading this bill is if it has been printed out for them.
If you think I am kidding, go to the government website and try downloading the bill yourself. If I am wrong, let me know how to do it right.
NOTE!
My son Mike read this post and downloaded HR 3200 in a few seconds. He Googled HR 3200 and selected the first government website on the list . He snet it to me via e-mail, and I was able to open it as easily as he downloaded it.
When technology works it is beautiful. When it doesn’t, it’s frustrating.
Filed under: Conservative, Government, health care, liberals, politics, Society | Tagged: Burris, Durbin, Halvorson, Health CAre Reform, HR 3200 |
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