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How To Balance Life And Technology For Kids?
brs165 writes "Being a newly minted geek father as of 4 months ago, I've thought about problems I've never had reason to consider before. One issue which I'd like to hear from the ./ crowd is introducing technology to their children. What got me thinking about this was a blog post about 'Nature-Deficit Disorder', and I think it brings up some good points. I grew up playing in the local woods and creek with minimal tech until our first computer when I was 13. I hear stories from coworkers how some of their kids/grandkids hating going outside because it is boring and they'd rather stay indoors. Should I avoid introducing them to technology until absolutely neccessary, or is it a matter of achieving a balance?"
America: Home Of The World's Most Dangerous Person :
I have something important I need to tell you. I anticipate it will result in my receiving a barrage of angry e-mail from Pres. Richard B Cheney accusing me of being stupid, but Cheney needs to calm down and realize that he is hardly the first proponent of self-serving, subversive extremism and he is unlikely to be the last. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on his teachings. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, if he wants to be taken seriously, he should counter the arguments in this letter with facts, not illogical panaceas, personal anecdotes, or insults.
Why is he really so fastidious? Is it because I indisputably seek nothing but justice? Or because his goal is to bathe in splendor while the rest of us go to work in the mines? Well, we all know the answer to that question, don't we? But in case you don't, then you should note that inasmuch as I disagree with his accusations and find his ad hominem attacks offensive, I am happy to meet his speech with more speech and, if necessary, continue this discussion until the truth shines. It's irrelevant that my allegations are 100% true. Cheney distrusts my information and arguments and will forever maintain his current opinions. If the mass news media were actually in the business of covering news rather than molding public attitudes to crush the remaining vestiges of democracy throughout the world, they would unequivocally report that I need your help if I'm ever to invigorate the effort to reach solutions by increasing the scope of the inquiry, rather than by narrowing or abandoning it. "But I'm only one person," you might protest. "What difference can I make?" The answer is: a lot more than you think. You see, relative to just a few years ago, self-deceiving, brain-damaged suborners of perjury are nearly ten times as likely to believe that 75 million years ago, a galactic tyrant named Xenu solved the overpopulation problem of his 76-planet federation by transporting the excess people to Earth, chaining them to volcanoes, and dropping H-bombs on them. This is neither a coincidence nor simply a sign of the times. Rather, it reflects a sophisticated, psychological warfare program designed by Cheney to deny minorities a cultural voice. I honestly wouldn't want to win support by encapsulating frustrations and directing them toward unpopular scapegoats. I would, on the other hand, love to defy him. But, hey, I'm already doing that with this letter.
At the very least, it has been brought to my attention that I, for one, am one of Cheney's victims. While this is doubtlessly true, Cheney is capable of only two things, namely whining and underhanded tricks. You may wonder why he is so short-sighted, I could waver between the alluring promises of a meretricious, detestable "new morality" and the sound dictation of my own conscience. It's simply because he is still going around insisting that his way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to him that it is immature and stupid of him to rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". It would be mature and intelligent, however, to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of superficial solipsism, and that's why I say that I have to laugh when he says that a richly evocative description of a problem automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. Where in the world did he get that idea? Not only does that idea contain absolutely no substance whatsoever, but he is not just stupid. He is unbelievably, astronomically stupid.
Cheney's self-indulgent recommendations leave the current power structure untouched while simultaneously killing countless children through starvation and disease. Are these children his enemies? I've never really gotten a clear and hon
It is a dead-end OS and the sound will never work.