There were no specifics in the aritcal, so why on earth would you jump to conclusions? Is it not possable that they would only be used on the passenger side (for people walking down the footpath)? And why do you think that anyone who sues would win, considering the current state of law and justice.
Its possible but anything being projected on people's car windows would just be asking for trouble.
Soupisgoodfood said
Thank you for ignoring all the social aspects of society. If it were a case of doing the obvious, and common sence, then society would be fine. But they don't, and there's a reason for that. So please, no more "Then just don't..." comments. They ingore the fact--that there are complex reasons people "just do"--in the first place.
If you want it, buy it.
Otherwise don't complain when others do.
Soupisgoodfood said
But how does that make life easier? A good lock system and alarm would be a better alternative to your paranoid-american robocop idea.
That was a joke.
Maybe I should have used sarcasm tags or something.
[joke]
What do you mean paranoid?
I'm not Paranoid!
And how did you know I'm American?!?
You're watching me aren't you?!?!
[/joke]
Soupisgoodfood said
Holy shit. Calm down boy. The artical was not titled "The Downfall of Capitalism". People would still continue to exchange money for goods and services, and inventors would still continue to invent...usefull inventions.
I was calm.
That was more irony than any real malice.
Our consumerist technological zeitgeist is summed up in a question from Stuff, the techno-geek mag, in a recent article despairing of cyborg technology: "We've launched missions to Mars, so why can't we build a robot to pour us a drink?" The proper answer, surely, is that while interplanetary exploration is conceivably a noble human aspiration, needing a robot to pour your pop is the hallmark of the idle ponce.
Yes and I'm sure anyone who has lost a limb would be much more interested in going to mars then they would be about having a fully articulated robot arm.
The Article Said
researchers at MIT's prestigious media lab are currently working on a project to use stationary car windows as screens for projecting films or web pages, or even as advertising hoardings aimed at passing pedestrians or motorists. Such a project, of course, will be steeped in technical ingenuity. But where would this lead us? Our streets and car parks will be lined with vehicles advertising duff burgers and bad Hollywood films from their windscreens. Ah, you say, but the authorities will leap in to thwart such lucrative pollution. Will they? They didn't with car alarms or police sirens. There's often a downside to technological innovation, be it ever so clever.
Okay what is this guy smoking?
There is no way that advertisements projected onto people's windshields will ever be allowed.
The amount of problems that would cause to motorists would be way to high exspecially [sic] as sue happy as the average trial lawyer is today.
Also what do police sirens and car alarms have to do with it?
Sirens serve a very useful purpose by allowing emergency vehicles to get to where they are needed.
Car alarms however should be banned. They don't really do much good. (IMO)
The Article Said
You don't have to be a neo-Luddite to be queasy about the current tenor of technological innovation. You only have to ask yourself: "Do I need that?" or "Will this make me happier?" about a new gadget. And very often you'll find that the answer is no.
Then don't buy the product. Thats the whole purpose behind capitalism.
The Article Said
Ingenious. But why did the clever people at Electrolux spend so much time and brainpower on the Trilobite? "Our intention is to make life easier for people," says Michael Treschow, Electrolux's president. "And what could possibly be easier than an automatic vacuum cleaner?"
An automatic vacuum cleaner equipped with a gun to shoot people that break into my house. (Or track dirt on the floor) Hmmm.. Maybe I should patent that.
The Article Said
If people like Alan are right, one of technology's ends is to reduce our lives to such blob-like stasis that we hardly ever have to interact with other human beings. Another is to distract us from the shame we feel about our decadent lifestyles. Our response to being bored and rich is not to discard our possessions and live more simply, but to buy more stuff to reduce the space in which we might contemplate our shame.
Oh yes! Brilliant! We're rich so we should just sell everything and just sit around enjoying ourselves.
No don't buy anything, that would be bad.
After all money isn't supposed to make you happy its only supposed to make you feel bad about those who have less than you.
After all if you bought something then some of that money might spill over to some poor guy who invented a body heat powered personal fan or something, and then he would be rich and bored too.
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Because Microsoft is Microsoft and Apple is Apple.
And they say that microsoft is monopolistic.
Soupisgoodfood said:
Its possible but anything being projected on people's car windows would just be asking for trouble.
Soupisgoodfood said
If you want it, buy it. Otherwise don't complain when others do.
Soupisgoodfood said
That was a joke.
Maybe I should have used sarcasm tags or something.
[joke]
What do you mean paranoid?
I'm not Paranoid!
And how did you know I'm American?!?
You're watching me aren't you?!?!
[/joke]
Soupisgoodfood said
I was calm.
That was more irony than any real malice.
And as for your last paragraph... I agree.
Well... Maybe not pidgeons, Swallows though... What is the bandwidth of an unladen african swallow?
Not exactly the headline of the century, but it is good to know I guess.
Really and did the cheap whore increase their market value?
I wonder if the IP over avian carrier rfc would be included as a wireless protocol.
The Article Said
Yes and I'm sure anyone who has lost a limb would be much more interested in going to mars then they would be about having a fully articulated robot arm.
The Article Said
Okay what is this guy smoking? There is no way that advertisements projected onto people's windshields will ever be allowed. The amount of problems that would cause to motorists would be way to high exspecially [sic] as sue happy as the average trial lawyer is today. Also what do police sirens and car alarms have to do with it? Sirens serve a very useful purpose by allowing emergency vehicles to get to where they are needed. Car alarms however should be banned. They don't really do much good. (IMO)
The Article Said
Then don't buy the product. Thats the whole purpose behind capitalism.
The Article Said
An automatic vacuum cleaner equipped with a gun to shoot people that break into my house. (Or track dirt on the floor) Hmmm.. Maybe I should patent that.
The Article Said
Oh yes! Brilliant! We're rich so we should just sell everything and just sit around enjoying ourselves. No don't buy anything, that would be bad. After all money isn't supposed to make you happy its only supposed to make you feel bad about those who have less than you. After all if you bought something then some of that money might spill over to some poor guy who invented a body heat powered personal fan or something, and then he would be rich and bored too.
That sounds like the beginning of some sort of superhero origins story.
I liked that movie. It was as good as the original at the very least. Which is more than I can say about other movies. *COUGHMATRIXRELOADEDCOUGH*
By that time I will have my cyberjack installed and won't care anymore.
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