totally free. huge regular user base in all skill levels. you get to keep track of your score/ rank over many thousands of games. there are different servers for different skill levels
its a java app. i've had problems with it freezing on ie (so you lose a match and it hurts your overall standing), but it works fine in firefox. you can play time limit games, challenge spelling games, etc.
there are some quirks and minor complaints, griping about the dictionary of course being the biggest, as usual, but by and large i'm very satisfied by the player population and the overall challenge and the easy in/ easy out/ waste 20 minutes nature of play
you frequently encounter players with thousands of games under their belt, and you can check if their win/ loss ratio is suspect or their abandoned games count is suspect (meaning: they jettisoned games in the first few seconds before it hurt their score if they don't like their initial tiles, which is really lame). as for the players with the weird win/loss ratios: i don't understand why someone would cheat at such a frivolous nonmonetary past time, but you encounter such players way more than you would think. i don't get it. is someone designing bots for a CS class? is someone so interested in winning over enjoying themselves? i don't understand it
of course, it's not 100% scrabble, but how it departs from scrabble, such as pseudorandom letter tiles (chosen at the beginning of the game and fixed but from a much larger pool of tiles) is interesting. so some games are brutal because of a bunch of Cs, Is, and Us, and the next game might be surprising because of a surfeit of Js and Zs
i'm very happy with literati for wasting 20 minutes here and there
its basically just these huge turbines sitting over a bunch of steam gushing from the earth. its a pretty surreal place because its raining all the time (all that steam). its deep in the jungle and it is a major powerplant for the philippines, so it has all these checkpoints and guys with submachine guns (npa rebels are around). and the geothermal activity means all of the streams you pass are a brilliant cobal blue from mineral run off. it feels like the headquarters for a james bond villain, very doctor no
anyway, about those mineral laden streams stirred up from geothermal exploitation: cadmium, manganese, chromium... not too environmentally friendly, no? you have some of the same environmental issues as you would with any mining via chemical leaching in terms of poisoning the environment
in other words, pick an energy source, any energy source, and it has an environmental downside: wind kills birds, tidal energy increases silting, biofuels inflate food prices for the poor, solar panel fabrication pollutes, etc. such that, when you see all of the upsides and downsides, you realize the choice of energy source is not between evil and polluting and clean and carefree, but choosing between different levels of environmental unfriendliness
given that realization, the best energy source in the world is obviously nuclear (with breeder reactors, to make the byproducts far less worrisome)
this was an example of the one of the world's first deceptive real estate naming
real estate developers do it all the time: build a subdivision on top of a brownfield... call it "whispering pines". put a subdivision next to a nuclear plant, call it "bubbling brook"... put a subdivision next to a correctional facility, call it "friend's forge"... you get my drift
anyway, apparently leif ericson, or eric the red, or baldur raganarok, whatever the scandinavian dude's name was, i forget, he needed to persuade colonists to go to the much colder place, so he called it "greenland", as a deception, a joke, a combination of the two, but most likely, as a form of real estate propaganda
but safari still does default actions. you can't globally cancel a click, for example. i can't globally take over all anchor tag actions. safari will try to follow the href link still, no matter what you do in code. its really infuriating and im thinking of just dropping safari support
i just wrote some script to handle anchor tag clicks globally. firefox, fine. opera, fine. ie, fine. safari: doesn't work in safari, because safari insists on doing the default action no matter what
you can't cancel dom events in safari! fuck safari. so now i have to completely write off safari support, or completely alter my programming model because of its stupidity, and do some really guly hacks
is its neigbhorhood, where it is used. you spend 90% of your programming time dealing with the quirks between different browsers. ie isn't even the biggest offender, safari is
which is to say, there is nothing wrong with javascript. it a diamond trapped in a cage made out of shit
those same amerasians had the smallest penis sizes too, proving unattractive to future female mates, thus their genes died off
pffffffffffft
hey: if you want to traffic in racist thinking, that's the kind of thinking you get
pointing out differences between the races is a self-defeating game if the idea is to focus on intelligence. simply because it is unintelligent to focus on racial differences in intelligence
the only thing that can be deduced from examining the mental differences between the races is that we need to start a eugenics program to rid the human race of the genes of people who spend their time examining the mental differences between the races;-P
of a corporation dragging you into court on bullshit pretenses
given that thought, not showing up to court is really the only course of action you can take
of course, there are also those who want to see someone else fight their battles. this is the only reason in which you yourself who do not respect the legal status quo can expect someone else to respect the legal status quo for you
and to some extent, this is a valid attitude: if that someone else fighting for you is big and powerful while you are small and weak
but as others have noted, craigslist really is just craig and a few dudes in san francisco. they may have the exposure of a large corporation, btu they aren't a large corporation. as such, they are in the boat with you and me: someone else needs to fight this battle, or craigslist, due to the legal environment of our modern times, needs to give in to reality and turn into a corporate turd pile and fund a bunch of corporate lawyer whores in order to retain its integrity in the face of such legal bullshit
i dunno, i'm torn. i say fuck the courts on the issue of corporate chicanery, ignore them. but then they win by default in terms of enforceable rulings. such that you have to fund the legions of corporate lawyer whores
everyone has a lobby in washington. the brick and mortar institutions of higher learning don't want to see potential students go online instead. it is the same reason the usa has such strong laws against online gaming. its not for moral reasons, even though it is worded and implied that way. in reality, the gambling concerns like real world casinos in las vegas and atlantic city, they don't want potential customers sitting at home instead
these laws are caged in indirect requirements, but the message is the same: i will lobby to protect and fight for my turf
they will sign bands to advertising deals, promotions, live concerts, and take a huge amount of their income, for promoting them in the first place
britney spears and her corporate backers aren't going anywhere
its just that they will make $0 on media. from now on, song recordings are just free advertising
its not like this is weird and alien. this is how it works in a lot of nonwestern countries already
intellectual property of media is a dead concept. the internet killed it. it destroyed the economics of distribution, because it now costs $0 to distribute and no one can control it. it doesn't matter how you think intellectual property should work. this is how it now works, as determined by reality and technological progress. deal with it and accept it. there is no fighting it unless you wish to look like a fool
for giving developers a reason to build even hardier file sharing aps
it was easy to shut down napster: cut off the head
you had to poison morpheus, limewire, etc. with phony files
then emule and bittorrent proved immune to being shut down and poisoned. so now you have to go to the carriers and put the burden on them to search for file sharing patterns
the next step in the war is to build apps that obfuscate their activity. make it look like http form requests. make it look like smtp traffic. randomize ips, obfuscate ports, etc.
that's all your effort results in, dear music industry: stronger, hardier weeds that you can never kill
you lose. you just don't know it yet
legions of poor, music hungry teenagers: 3 hired guns of the music industry: 0
you're dying music industry. please just get dead already please
then again, i couldn't believe the posts defending hans reiser either
and i couldn't believe those who defended oj simpson
in oj's case, it was bias due to race
in reiser's case, and now the case of this paranoid schizophrenic "no one can be trusted with the passwords but me!" wackjob, it is bias due to techie subculture
for all those who defended reiser and now defend this password hording twit: if you want to know how foolish you look, go search on youtube and find a clip of someone defending oj simpson's innocence
that is what you look like and sound like to anyone sane and without prejudice
if you defend mr. password twit, you're prejudiced, blind, and incoherent
every banker in the world understands zimbabwe. everyone in economics 101 understands zimbabwe
the only only person who doesn't seem to understand what printing more currency does to zimbabwe is mugabe
there are no lessons for zimbabwe to teach us, as most anyone with the slightest understanding of economics would never do what zimbabwe is doing
in fact, what zimbabwe is attempting to do is the same stupidity that the gold and ilver standard idjits are trying to do: make zimbabwe an island. make its currency something walled off from the rest of the world
this desire to divorce yourself form the world, from teh larger osciet,y is in fact the source of zimbabwe's troubles, and is in fact the reaosn why the gold and silver standard doesn't work
to become rich is to trust more in society, not less. because all currency, all money is, is an abstract notion of the value of the trust in society. such that investing in that trust infates the vlaue of the currency, divesting yourself of that society's currency devalues it
meanwhile, bac king currency with gold or silver exposes you to MORE capricious whims and ups and downs, not LESS: mining, commodities, industrial demands, social fads, trading whims, etc.
do. you. understand. that?
do you farking understand that gold and silver standard makes a currency LESS stable?
or do you continue with your pathological distrust of government (rather than a healthy distrust of government) that you would actually like to see yourself and the value of your money impoverished?
its like talking to someone from some weird parallel universe without any foundation in reality and historical lessons. you're economics stinks of some guy in his armchair trying to figure out how his economy works without any foundation in the simple basics of economics 101. and so all of your economic prescriptives will actually only make things worse, not better
forget the tax objectives, i won't even touch that issue, lets look at this pure insanity of going back to the gold or silver standard. for whatever reason this is attractive to you, i can't figure out
dude: basing your currency on a previous metal leads to bank panics
the value of the metal fluctuates, and this is amplified through the value of the currency, causing much destabilization of financial systems and society. study the bank panics of the 1800s. LEARN from history. getting OFF the gold and silver standard was the wisest economic development of the last 200 years
the best i reason why i can think that armchair crackpots believe a currency backed by silver or gold is somehow superior is that you think it lends the currency some sort of intrinsic value. which is lunacy: gold and silver have no intrinsic value. the only reason they have "value", is because everyone else thinks they do! well, this same value-from-social-convention also lends currency itself value. except it is far better to attach your notion of what is valuable to manmade currency, as this can be controlled. but if someone finds a bunch of silver in the ground, the value of the silver in your pocket goes down
which is kind of funny, because i think you armchair economics crackpots believe that just printing more money is a source of your currency being devalued... and so you find your supposed protection from this printing of more currency in the form of placing value in something which has much more exposure to fluctuation in value due to forces beyond your control. your willing to give up the stability of a currency, enforced by a careful central bank, to the whims of commodities markets and mining concerns. insane!
but that reveals the REAL reason why you economic crackpots love the gold and silver standard: you detest centralized government. individualism, federalism, etc.: these are all noble concepts. but embracing the gold and silver standard takes a healthy instinct and turns into a pathological fear of government, good or bad
this is the truth, whether you like it or not: you are part of a human society. a currency is something that is only valued in the convention of human society. in other words, attempting to ensure value in something out of the only context in which it has value, is a mixture of stupidity and insanity, and reveals your blind spot in life: YOU are part of a society, and you don't understand it, or pathologically attmept to deny it
any money you have is nothing more than an abstract representation of your relationship with the society you live in. as such, there is no way you get to keep that value in such a way that means you are invulernable to the ups and downs of that same society's relative richness or poorness. you cannot divorce the value of currency from the government and soceity you distrust, fear, or despise, because currency is and always will be (even when it is gold and silver) merely nothing more than an abstract representation that you live in a human group, not on an island, and are subject to its government
my cell phone is permanently on mute, i don't have a home phone. text me or email me. its asynchronous communication, far superior. i don't have to immediately interrupt what i'm focused on to deal with something usually trivial
i've had trouble in my jobs because of this, i subtly train employers not to call me. i purposely miss their calls, let their call ring while i'm sitting there, and then i send them an email right after they call: "did you just call me?" i never call them, and always email
people romanticize dealing with someone directly as something that is lost. well people also romanticize the great depression and world war ii era london. people romanticize their teenage years (they are painful for everyone). what people romanticize means shit
i live in times square, and people romanticize how it was before it had been disneyfied and turned into just another mall setting. well i remember pre-giuliani times square: prostitutes, heroin addicts, and stinky adult stores. fuck that. people romanticize all sorts of crap. but its just empty pointless nostaligia, and has no real merit or valid argument on its behalf
saying something is lost with less people talking to each other in person or on the phone is bullshit. its not better. email and text is far superior to the telephone
Slashdot Mirror
http://games.yahoo.com/lt
(you need a yahoo login)
totally free. huge regular user base in all skill levels. you get to keep track of your score/ rank over many thousands of games. there are different servers for different skill levels
its a java app. i've had problems with it freezing on ie (so you lose a match and it hurts your overall standing), but it works fine in firefox. you can play time limit games, challenge spelling games, etc.
there are some quirks and minor complaints, griping about the dictionary of course being the biggest, as usual, but by and large i'm very satisfied by the player population and the overall challenge and the easy in/ easy out/ waste 20 minutes nature of play
you frequently encounter players with thousands of games under their belt, and you can check if their win/ loss ratio is suspect or their abandoned games count is suspect (meaning: they jettisoned games in the first few seconds before it hurt their score if they don't like their initial tiles, which is really lame). as for the players with the weird win/loss ratios: i don't understand why someone would cheat at such a frivolous nonmonetary past time, but you encounter such players way more than you would think. i don't get it. is someone designing bots for a CS class? is someone so interested in winning over enjoying themselves? i don't understand it
of course, it's not 100% scrabble, but how it departs from scrabble, such as pseudorandom letter tiles (chosen at the beginning of the game and fixed but from a much larger pool of tiles) is interesting. so some games are brutal because of a bunch of Cs, Is, and Us, and the next game might be surprising because of a surfeit of Js and Zs
i'm very happy with literati for wasting 20 minutes here and there
tongonan geothermal field, in leyte, in the philippines (not my page). i have a friend of a relative who works there as a nurse so i was able to tag along as a civilian, which isn't easy because of the heavy security there
its basically just these huge turbines sitting over a bunch of steam gushing from the earth. its a pretty surreal place because its raining all the time (all that steam). its deep in the jungle and it is a major powerplant for the philippines, so it has all these checkpoints and guys with submachine guns (npa rebels are around). and the geothermal activity means all of the streams you pass are a brilliant cobal blue from mineral run off. it feels like the headquarters for a james bond villain, very doctor no
anyway, about those mineral laden streams stirred up from geothermal exploitation: cadmium, manganese, chromium... not too environmentally friendly, no? you have some of the same environmental issues as you would with any mining via chemical leaching in terms of poisoning the environment
in other words, pick an energy source, any energy source, and it has an environmental downside: wind kills birds, tidal energy increases silting, biofuels inflate food prices for the poor, solar panel fabrication pollutes, etc. such that, when you see all of the upsides and downsides, you realize the choice of energy source is not between evil and polluting and clean and carefree, but choosing between different levels of environmental unfriendliness
given that realization, the best energy source in the world is obviously nuclear (with breeder reactors, to make the byproducts far less worrisome)
this was an example of the one of the world's first deceptive real estate naming
real estate developers do it all the time: build a subdivision on top of a brownfield... call it "whispering pines". put a subdivision next to a nuclear plant, call it "bubbling brook"... put a subdivision next to a correctional facility, call it "friend's forge"... you get my drift
anyway, apparently leif ericson, or eric the red, or baldur raganarok, whatever the scandinavian dude's name was, i forget, he needed to persuade colonists to go to the much colder place, so he called it "greenland", as a deception, a joke, a combination of the two, but most likely, as a form of real estate propaganda
i'll try that method
thanks for the tip
still a pain to change the whole programming model of how my page works just for safari
i'm current using document.onclick as a global handler
do i give up all of my work and program from scratch according to a new approach? or do i just ignore safari?
document.onclick=function(){
blah blah
}
then cancel event bubbling and default action, according to normal ie and firefox methods
the anchor tag is not modified in any way. the href goes nowhere
and i've tried to cancel the default action in safari in myriad ways, but it always tries to follow the bogus href ;-(
understands that the relationship between skin tone, eye shape and brain intelligence is nonexistent
everyone else thinks its "lefist-liberal dogma" to point this out
so please go sit in the corner there and play with the creationists please
but safari still does default actions. you can't globally cancel a click, for example. i can't globally take over all anchor tag actions. safari will try to follow the href link still, no matter what you do in code. its really infuriating and im thinking of just dropping safari support
i just wrote some script to handle anchor tag clicks globally. firefox, fine. opera, fine. ie, fine. safari: doesn't work in safari, because safari insists on doing the default action no matter what
http://codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-30983.html
you can't cancel dom events in safari! fuck safari. so now i have to completely write off safari support, or completely alter my programming model because of its stupidity, and do some really guly hacks
or perhaps, no hacks possible!:
http://www.peterblum.com/SafariBugs/CancelKeyPress.html
is its neigbhorhood, where it is used. you spend 90% of your programming time dealing with the quirks between different browsers. ie isn't even the biggest offender, safari is
which is to say, there is nothing wrong with javascript. it a diamond trapped in a cage made out of shit
those same amerasians had the smallest penis sizes too, proving unattractive to future female mates, thus their genes died off
pffffffffffft
hey: if you want to traffic in racist thinking, that's the kind of thinking you get
pointing out differences between the races is a self-defeating game if the idea is to focus on intelligence. simply because it is unintelligent to focus on racial differences in intelligence
the only thing that can be deduced from examining the mental differences between the races is that we need to start a eugenics program to rid the human race of the genes of people who spend their time examining the mental differences between the races ;-P
a sociopath recognizes the existence of others outside self in so far that pleasure can be derived from their pain and manipulation
but a narcissism so consuming like this isn't even aware of others outside self
who is the trolled? who is the troll?
the "troll" in question?
the website admin for posting this on slashdot?
the hordes of slashdot responders incensed at the existence of this story?
ah, the zen of the troll is a strange zen to understand indeed
where the trolled, and the troll, have fused to become one
ommmmmmmmmmmmmm
white boys should breed with asian girls, creating an uberrace of math chomping supergenius kids
i for one welcome our eurasian einsteinchan overlords
of a corporation dragging you into court on bullshit pretenses
given that thought, not showing up to court is really the only course of action you can take
of course, there are also those who want to see someone else fight their battles. this is the only reason in which you yourself who do not respect the legal status quo can expect someone else to respect the legal status quo for you
and to some extent, this is a valid attitude: if that someone else fighting for you is big and powerful while you are small and weak
but as others have noted, craigslist really is just craig and a few dudes in san francisco. they may have the exposure of a large corporation, btu they aren't a large corporation. as such, they are in the boat with you and me: someone else needs to fight this battle, or craigslist, due to the legal environment of our modern times, needs to give in to reality and turn into a corporate turd pile and fund a bunch of corporate lawyer whores in order to retain its integrity in the face of such legal bullshit
i dunno, i'm torn. i say fuck the courts on the issue of corporate chicanery, ignore them. but then they win by default in terms of enforceable rulings. such that you have to fund the legions of corporate lawyer whores
or kill them all. hard to say
concern for self is so overwhelming, that it transgresses even the desire to live
and murdering a 3 year old child? of yours? your wife?
"if i can't have them, no one can"
selfishness to the umpteenth degree. no concern but for self, like a psychological black hole
please send $5 to my pay pal account to read my comment
(oh man, i'm going to be a millionaire! it works for the music industry!)
everyone has a lobby in washington. the brick and mortar institutions of higher learning don't want to see potential students go online instead. it is the same reason the usa has such strong laws against online gaming. its not for moral reasons, even though it is worded and implied that way. in reality, the gambling concerns like real world casinos in las vegas and atlantic city, they don't want potential customers sitting at home instead
these laws are caged in indirect requirements, but the message is the same: i will lobby to protect and fight for my turf
they will sign bands to advertising deals, promotions, live concerts, and take a huge amount of their income, for promoting them in the first place
britney spears and her corporate backers aren't going anywhere
its just that they will make $0 on media. from now on, song recordings are just free advertising
its not like this is weird and alien. this is how it works in a lot of nonwestern countries already
intellectual property of media is a dead concept. the internet killed it. it destroyed the economics of distribution, because it now costs $0 to distribute and no one can control it. it doesn't matter how you think intellectual property should work. this is how it now works, as determined by reality and technological progress. deal with it and accept it. there is no fighting it unless you wish to look like a fool
the guy is the real world equivalent of spam
for giving developers a reason to build even hardier file sharing aps
it was easy to shut down napster: cut off the head
you had to poison morpheus, limewire, etc. with phony files
then emule and bittorrent proved immune to being shut down and poisoned. so now you have to go to the carriers and put the burden on them to search for file sharing patterns
the next step in the war is to build apps that obfuscate their activity. make it look like http form requests. make it look like smtp traffic. randomize ips, obfuscate ports, etc.
that's all your effort results in, dear music industry: stronger, hardier weeds that you can never kill
you lose. you just don't know it yet
legions of poor, music hungry teenagers: 3
hired guns of the music industry: 0
you're dying music industry. please just get dead already please
then again, i couldn't believe the posts defending hans reiser either
and i couldn't believe those who defended oj simpson
in oj's case, it was bias due to race
in reiser's case, and now the case of this paranoid schizophrenic "no one can be trusted with the passwords but me!" wackjob, it is bias due to techie subculture
for all those who defended reiser and now defend this password hording twit: if you want to know how foolish you look, go search on youtube and find a clip of someone defending oj simpson's innocence
that is what you look like and sound like to anyone sane and without prejudice
if you defend mr. password twit, you're prejudiced, blind, and incoherent
every banker in the world understands zimbabwe. everyone in economics 101 understands zimbabwe
the only only person who doesn't seem to understand what printing more currency does to zimbabwe is mugabe
there are no lessons for zimbabwe to teach us, as most anyone with the slightest understanding of economics would never do what zimbabwe is doing
in fact, what zimbabwe is attempting to do is the same stupidity that the gold and ilver standard idjits are trying to do: make zimbabwe an island. make its currency something walled off from the rest of the world
this desire to divorce yourself form the world, from teh larger osciet,y is in fact the source of zimbabwe's troubles, and is in fact the reaosn why the gold and silver standard doesn't work
to become rich is to trust more in society, not less. because all currency, all money is, is an abstract notion of the value of the trust in society. such that investing in that trust infates the vlaue of the currency, divesting yourself of that society's currency devalues it
meanwhile, bac king currency with gold or silver exposes you to MORE capricious whims and ups and downs, not LESS: mining, commodities, industrial demands, social fads, trading whims, etc.
do. you. understand. that?
do you farking understand that gold and silver standard makes a currency LESS stable?
or do you continue with your pathological distrust of government (rather than a healthy distrust of government) that you would actually like to see yourself and the value of your money impoverished?
its like talking to someone from some weird parallel universe without any foundation in reality and historical lessons. you're economics stinks of some guy in his armchair trying to figure out how his economy works without any foundation in the simple basics of economics 101. and so all of your economic prescriptives will actually only make things worse, not better
forget the tax objectives, i won't even touch that issue, lets look at this pure insanity of going back to the gold or silver standard. for whatever reason this is attractive to you, i can't figure out
dude: basing your currency on a previous metal leads to bank panics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
the value of the metal fluctuates, and this is amplified through the value of the currency, causing much destabilization of financial systems and society. study the bank panics of the 1800s. LEARN from history. getting OFF the gold and silver standard was the wisest economic development of the last 200 years
the best i reason why i can think that armchair crackpots believe a currency backed by silver or gold is somehow superior is that you think it lends the currency some sort of intrinsic value. which is lunacy: gold and silver have no intrinsic value. the only reason they have "value", is because everyone else thinks they do! well, this same value-from-social-convention also lends currency itself value. except it is far better to attach your notion of what is valuable to manmade currency, as this can be controlled. but if someone finds a bunch of silver in the ground, the value of the silver in your pocket goes down
which is kind of funny, because i think you armchair economics crackpots believe that just printing more money is a source of your currency being devalued... and so you find your supposed protection from this printing of more currency in the form of placing value in something which has much more exposure to fluctuation in value due to forces beyond your control. your willing to give up the stability of a currency, enforced by a careful central bank, to the whims of commodities markets and mining concerns. insane!
but that reveals the REAL reason why you economic crackpots love the gold and silver standard: you detest centralized government. individualism, federalism, etc.: these are all noble concepts. but embracing the gold and silver standard takes a healthy instinct and turns into a pathological fear of government, good or bad
this is the truth, whether you like it or not: you are part of a human society. a currency is something that is only valued in the convention of human society. in other words, attempting to ensure value in something out of the only context in which it has value, is a mixture of stupidity and insanity, and reveals your blind spot in life: YOU are part of a society, and you don't understand it, or pathologically attmept to deny it
any money you have is nothing more than an abstract representation of your relationship with the society you live in. as such, there is no way you get to keep that value in such a way that means you are invulernable to the ups and downs of that same society's relative richness or poorness. you cannot divorce the value of currency from the government and soceity you distrust, fear, or despise, because currency is and always will be (even when it is gold and silver) merely nothing more than an abstract representation that you live in a human group, not on an island, and are subject to its government
my cell phone is permanently on mute, i don't have a home phone. text me or email me. its asynchronous communication, far superior. i don't have to immediately interrupt what i'm focused on to deal with something usually trivial
i've had trouble in my jobs because of this, i subtly train employers not to call me. i purposely miss their calls, let their call ring while i'm sitting there, and then i send them an email right after they call: "did you just call me?" i never call them, and always email
people romanticize dealing with someone directly as something that is lost. well people also romanticize the great depression and world war ii era london. people romanticize their teenage years (they are painful for everyone). what people romanticize means shit
i live in times square, and people romanticize how it was before it had been disneyfied and turned into just another mall setting. well i remember pre-giuliani times square: prostitutes, heroin addicts, and stinky adult stores. fuck that. people romanticize all sorts of crap. but its just empty pointless nostaligia, and has no real merit or valid argument on its behalf
saying something is lost with less people talking to each other in person or on the phone is bullshit. its not better. email and text is far superior to the telephone