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Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding
Red Leader. writes "This Thomas Friedman op-ed entitled "Global Village Idiocy" and this article by George Packer, entitled "When Here Sees There," both touch on some interesting observations regarding technology's impact on tolerance and understanding. My favourite quote from Friedman's piece is "the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information."" We've previously posted the Packer piece, but combined with other story, I think it's worth a retread.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Nothing brings Israel, Palestine and all the extremists of the world together like pr0n. This is truely the healing nature of the internet. Put the knives and the guns away, lets look at some pr0n...! How can you be violent when you have a big set of titties in your face. I would like to take this moment to thank all the pr0n webmasters of the world for their contribution to human peace. (Now if you don't kill the pop up windows it will be Jihad!)
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If the lady in India is SOOOOO bent out of shape about Fox News, there is a Knob on the TV that allows you to listen to other stations, Like:
CNN - The Clinton News Network
Here in the US, we also have:
NBC - National Broadcasters for Clinton
ABC - American Broadcasters for Clinton
CBS - Clinton Broadcast System
And the topper in the USA,
PBS - People's Broadcasters - Socialist
(a.k.a. National Socialist Radio / TV)
The truth is that people that are brain dead (i.e. Liberal) can listen to leftists all day and night without any balance. GOD BLESS FOX.
In sum, GET A LIFE you snot nosed whiny liberals.
What OS do you want to abuse today?
outrageous collection of porch monkeys:
I think it's worth a retread.
retread ??? retarded reread ?
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
This is how he starts! The NYT is totally biased towards the left. More biased left than Fox is right. The guy is even too cowardly to criticize Fox himself. He attacks Fox by quoting from a foreign resident who's political leanings we know nothing of then goes on to complain about the excesses of the Internet. What a hypocrite. If it wasn't for the internet and alternative news sources we'd only ever get the pap that the NYT and it's liberal elites and their ilk want to give us.
I agree with this post.
Whilst there is probably no totally unbiased media, at least if one of the major outlets (eg the BBC) did start publishing things which were clearly untrue, another organisation would pick up on it and criticise. (This is, of course, until Rupert Murdoch owns 90% of the media outlets.) On the Internet, anyone can publish anything and have it look professional and authorotative (apart from me - my HTML sucks). It is possible to troll bigtime (whoever modded the FP as troll needs to read the definition).
For all I know, the 4,000 jews who were warned not to work in the WTC on 9/11 may be true. If it isn't true, it's a fantastic troll.
To summarise, it's possible for all sorts of people to appear to be an authority for very little money. Tradiotional media does not allow this. I'm sure that there are some poor deluded saps out there who believe that Landover Baptist are a real Christian organisation, that Stephen King was really found dead aged 54, that this is an informative link.
On a puerile level, this is why trolling is fun. On a more serious level, who can you believe?
"Under the iron bridge, we fist" - The Smiths, Still Ill
The unfettered cesspool of FUD brought to you by Microsoft. I have notice a pattern in the FUD being shoved into the media as the Microsoft trial reaches its conclusion. This one was very clever but its still FUD. The internet is bad blah blah Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman and those open source coders we must stop them regulate the internet make it all run on the Microsoft Network. Ban Linux its evil only Microsoft Products allowed. Take a shit have to now get a fucking toliet that connects to the Microsoft Network each crap you take you have to deposit a microcrap payment to Bill Gates. Imagine a virus for your shitter that stops it up and makes the crap flow. Shit got to go get toliet 2002 and next year of course upgrade to toliet 2003. Yeah the MicroShit Network were the Crap just flows.Of course MicroMafia would have all the Governments in their back pocket as they take their cut from the corrupt politicians.
i read some of the pages they have on amazon.com. Honestly it does not impress me. Looks like an undergrad essay to me.
... yep.
The insights are obvious and they are peppered with some really inane literary devices - "the equation for the cold war is e=mc2, but the equation for globalisation is moores law"
Well i see you like him so i guess everyone can have their opinions.