I haven't reached the point of turning into the next Ted Kaczynski, but I often question the claim that technology has made our lives easier overall. The net effect appears to have been to cause everyone to demand instant access and instant responses to everything, complicate our lives, shorten deadline expectations to ridiculous levels, increase "information overload" exponentially, and ultimately create a helluva lot of stress.
Excuse me while I fire up Left for Dead and take out my frustrations on some zombie ass...
Oops, I mean *incorrectly supposed* lack of adequate manhood. False assumptions based on zero evidence and a drive for profit. Weak, limp, flaccid assumptions.
A fine match for their disposable e-mails.
I have to give kudos to Gmail; my personal account has not seen a single unwanted spam message since its inception. Not one. I used to check the Spam folder to see if anything legit got trashed, but now I just mainly ignore it unless I really want to see anonymous scumbags' assessments about my lack of adequate manhood.
Why would that be "quite obvious"? I don't currently work in such an environment, but I'm well aware of a lot of the commands, which are perfect examples of what I was talking (funnily) about.:)
Sometimes when reading Slashdot I find myself taking a step back and marveling at how a sentence like "Mozilla's new Jaegermonkey Javascript engine for Firefox, which will launch on September 1, is faster than Tracemonkey in key benchmarks" actually makes sense to me.
It is the 21st Century, and we talk funny.
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Check your sarcasm detector; I think it might be on the blink. ;)
A noogie research grant!
Not only is it obese, it's got gas.
I haven't reached the point of turning into the next Ted Kaczynski, but I often question the claim that technology has made our lives easier overall. The net effect appears to have been to cause everyone to demand instant access and instant responses to everything, complicate our lives, shorten deadline expectations to ridiculous levels, increase "information overload" exponentially, and ultimately create a helluva lot of stress. Excuse me while I fire up Left for Dead and take out my frustrations on some zombie ass...
Oops, I mean *incorrectly supposed* lack of adequate manhood. False assumptions based on zero evidence and a drive for profit. Weak, limp, flaccid assumptions.
A fine match for their disposable e-mails. I have to give kudos to Gmail; my personal account has not seen a single unwanted spam message since its inception. Not one. I used to check the Spam folder to see if anything legit got trashed, but now I just mainly ignore it unless I really want to see anonymous scumbags' assessments about my lack of adequate manhood.
Why would that be "quite obvious"? I don't currently work in such an environment, but I'm well aware of a lot of the commands, which are perfect examples of what I was talking (funnily) about. :)
Sometimes when reading Slashdot I find myself taking a step back and marveling at how a sentence like "Mozilla's new Jaegermonkey Javascript engine for Firefox, which will launch on September 1, is faster than Tracemonkey in key benchmarks" actually makes sense to me. It is the 21st Century, and we talk funny.
...but do they make your SAT scores any better?
I dunno about calling them slates; the first image it conjures up in my mind is "The Flintstones."