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<p> : : : : : : : : : : : Hate to be a killjoy but for whom is the : : web "always there?" Aside from the fact that : : web navigator software crashes all the time so : : one cannot easily get "there," many around us have : : no relationship to the Web, or at least not a : : conscious knowledge of how it is encroaching on : : their lives. : : : : :I was suggesting a perverse possibility (or dinosaur) : : ... web-grown virtual citizens : : unaccountable for their actions : : feasting on, invalidating or judging the : : "technological homeless." They (including : : individuals attempting to generate fixed, stable : : identities : : outside a virtual world,) might not be protected : : anymore by anonymity. : : "Always there" with rights violations, panic : : enforcement and a Virtual Identity State theme park : : threatening to scuttle, scatter flavor and : : enhance domestic lives. : : "Always there" as in creepy police state? Okay, maybe. Or as smothering mother? Or as exuberant Disney-Style Celebration? http:\\yawn.com