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Old and New Technology in the Land of None

Posted by michael on from the mosquito-coast dept.

ninthwave writes "The Guardian has this article on the adventures of piano tuners in the Amazon. I think it is a nice lesson in the age of technology to see the perceived hardships of using technology in areas where the natives are quite happy without. More impressive is the old wooden piano seems to survive better than the new synth but that is horse of a different colour."

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  1. You can tune a piano by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    but you can't tuna Taco.

    Maybe you can, now, after the wedding?

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    diex0r

  3. Doobies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doobies

  4. Shoot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When can the nerds at slashdot come up with a filter for the words SOVIET, fp, RUSSIA, and 'first post'?

  5. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They send you to the Amazon for tuning!

  6. Re:In other news... by silas_moeckel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not being able to survive in the middle of a rain forest has les to do with our tech as with our reluctance to learn anything about how to survive. Most of the engineers I know would be pretty lost in a rain forest now there are a few of them myself included that would be able to survive barring random act of large agressive animal. Its all about what you decided to learn and our society does not value learing how to survive particularly much. Now persoanly I think everybody that wants to eat (think everybody is included in that one) should go out and kill there dinner at least once. Now I think the big question is would we be happy in the middle of the rain forests persoanly I would say not particularly it's a subsistance lifestyle for the most part.

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    No sir I dont like it.
  7. Re:phew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I was almost going to not to tell you to shut the fuck up, but I changed my mind. Shut the fuck up.

  8. Re:phew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Houston, we have a problem - another one who thinks that exaggeration = funny. But we have a solution as well, and that is shut the fuck up.

  9. Re:God I loved the smell of the tubes warming up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Boy, does it ever stop? I'm afraid that you are going into the weekend bearing the burden of shut the fuck up.

  10. Re:What needs tuning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Should you shut up? Or shut the fuck up? I think shut the fuck up.

  11. Re:Not exactly apples to apples.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have any of you seen how the sound for the Simpsons is mastered?

    Have you ever seen an episode of Shut The Fuck Up? Too bad, because then you'd have a preview of the life you're living. Shut the fuck up.

  12. in SOVIET RUSSIA, fp = first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    filter that, nurds.