we need to organize, and be heard, the first step would be to represented in government, there must be a couple of nerds out there with some people skills, it should be easy to get a representative from the valley into the house, and maybe one in the cal state legislature, one smart geek could spoil the bunch, if all this congressman did was hang around with the speaker, teach him how to use a linux box, and give him handhelds, then it would all be worthwhile (hey the greens have a party, what about the techs) as for the thing about history and our demise, we are in denial, because if we dont charge forward blindly, we arent moving at all
Indians are the only group which can legally open a casino without a single inch of red-tape (in states with legalized gambling, ie lottos etc) so they should be able to jump the loopholes on the internet just as easily, right?
Every useful household or industrial innovation that speeds up the time we take to do something, and also caused us to do more work, (sadly, the una bomber's arguments were also derived from this). Take the dishwasher for example, we don't sit around gardening or playing catch with the kids in the time we would be washing dishes, (as the early dishwasher commercials implied) we do other work. This seems to be a strictly western world thing, because we embrace each wave of new technology with open arms, but compared to other countries, like France, they tend to give each new thing a little time before ever they adopt it as part of they're culture.
Every one hates technology subconciously (yeah, i know both that sentence and the latter word are flamebait, i see you reaching for the dictionary). But when you think about every persons fantasies, (er, clean fantasies), a deserted island, a picnic, or a cabin in the woods, you dont see much technology, until your boss finds out your pager number and your email.
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"tools for hacking" you mean computers?
we need to organize, and be heard, the first step would be to represented in government, there must be a couple of nerds out there with some people skills, it should be easy to get a representative from the valley into the house, and maybe one in the cal state legislature, one smart geek could spoil the bunch, if all this congressman did was hang around with the speaker, teach him how to use a linux box, and give him handhelds, then it would all be worthwhile (hey the greens have a party, what about the techs) as for the thing about history and our demise, we are in denial, because if we dont charge forward blindly, we arent moving at all
Indians are the only group which can legally open a casino without a single inch of red-tape (in states with legalized gambling, ie lottos etc) so they should be able to jump the loopholes on the internet just as easily, right?
Every useful household or industrial innovation that speeds up the time we take to do something, and also caused us to do more work, (sadly, the una bomber's arguments were also derived from this). Take the dishwasher for example, we don't sit around gardening or playing catch with the kids in the time we would be washing dishes, (as the early dishwasher commercials implied) we do other work. This seems to be a strictly western world thing, because we embrace each wave of new technology with open arms, but compared to other countries, like France, they tend to give each new thing a little time before ever they adopt it as part of they're culture.
Every one hates technology subconciously (yeah, i know both that sentence and the latter word are flamebait, i see you reaching for the dictionary). But when you think about every persons fantasies, (er, clean fantasies), a deserted island, a picnic, or a cabin in the woods, you dont see much technology, until your boss finds out your pager number and your email.