Folks might want to check out the actual proportions. Military spending significantly outweighs social spending--health, education, and welfare. I read a piece last week that said that one year of the Iraq war costs more than the tuition of every college student in the US for the last several years. My memory may be faulty there, and lies, damn lies.... But there's always the old "death and taxes" graphic: http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-9410862.
All that said, Joe Sixpack, um, Shiftworker isn't paying much taxes. I know. I'm an English teacher, but I make $32,000 a year. Altogether, including a really high local sales tax, about 17% of my income goes to taxes and social security. That's not much money. I mean, it's a lot to me, but a drop in the bucket. You can blow my year's taxes out the barrel of a machine gun in one firefight.
Um, so what about Gorecki? Pärt? Riley? Adams? Glass? Schnittke? Yes, there are popular forms entering into "classical" music. But the stuff that happened at the turn of the last century is still very relevant. And your post suggests that people like the Bachs weren't into music theory, which is untrue; all the way back to the Middle Ages music was approached as a logical construct that can be theorized, often because its logics had metaphysical and ontological implications. And of course many jazz artists were not only incredibly intelligent about music theory but they also composed in a fairly academic way to achieve that "ruleless" effect--which is not ruleless at all, only seeming so to someone untutored in the operating set of rules. Consider Mingus. Anyway, the description you offer is so over-simplified that all it does is convey anti-intellectual prejudices. I will counter argue that in an age when information is so readily available that the ability to synthesize and offer synoptic perspectives via intellectual work is all the more important because that's what is in short supply, relative to the glut of dumb (unspeaking) facts.
I feel you, but aren't you blaming the wrong people? The people making the commercials aren't the problems; it's the people running the media you're consuming. To a large extent, the increase in advertisement ratio you're put-out by tracks along with the consolidation of media industries and the narrowing of all sorts of margins as competition became more intense with the deregulation of markets. It also tracks along with the multiplication of media types. As the amount of viewers per minute gets less--because spread more thinly--they shout more loudly. At least I think that's the logic driving them. It probably doesn't add up, but that's the general drift I get from monitoring the whinings of the old media crew.
I am a university professor. I just wrote and deleted a long list of specific cases that make me worry about stuff like this. Yes, there are over-reactions. But, then again, I don't want to get shot, stabbed, blown up, or even stalked. And I don't want it to happen to one of my students either. And I don't want people threatening my students online or off. Maybe it feels comfortable and safe down in mom's basement, but some people actually get scared when someone announces they want to stab them in the throat.
And, yes, administration does over-react. But I can tell you that many faculty worry about this sort of thing and that we talk to our students when this comes up. In most cases, though, we are strongly encouraged to follow a specific response involving on-campus security and mental health facilities. And, if we didn't, and someone got hurt, it would be on us. In my case, during my graduate work, there were several suicides, a series of bomb threats, and a shooting... all at my campus, all involving graduate students. I'd say we have every right and very good reasons to take quick action in cases of threats or evidence of mental instability.
Yeah. I'd like a list too. My wife works in PC support for a large university (34,000 students). She works at the main repair and service center. When I go in, the shelves are lined up with Win laptops waiting for a wipe and reinstall of the OS to repair some virus (is that really necessary?), and there'll be a single Mac sitting there waiting for Office to be installed. Every new trojan or virus that comes out sees the Windows folks lined up, and Mac users only show up because the U uses a stupid website that forces you to install MacAfee to login to campus wireless, which means Mac people get confused (not seeing the little box that says "Dear Mac User go here," not that the Windows people would either).
All that said, I'm seeing in my classrooms more and more little laptops running various Linux systems.
As a scholar in the humanities, I would like to note that David Jao's dismissal of the concept or use of the term ideologies demonstrates a bias toward ideal states and zero-sum games that don't exist in the real world, which is populated by humans and the ideologies that motivate them.
I had a twelve-inch iBook with a G3 processor. After sending it to Apple twice because of an issue that Iater realized was graphics coprocessor delamination, they replaced it with a shiny new G4 model. I am typing on that very machine right now. It has had zero problems, like all the other Macs I've own except that one iBook, and I use computers for years (I've had 5 since 1988, not counting two old beaters I bought just to play with), since I don't give a damn about video game performance.
I read the posts and the article, and I can't believe no one else understands the "hate." People on Segways look like idiots. You're perched up high with a dorky bicycle helmet where everyone can see you. You look sort of like Rick Moranis in Spaceballs.
I had NEVER thought about Segways much until a recent trip to Vienna. Sure, I'd seen that photo of the Chinese riot cops on Segways or Sameways or whatever, and my reaction was, hmm, that makes sense. But in Vienna people were renting Segways to tool around the city. You could see them in the distance, tall dorky mushroomy touristy goobuses. Maybe it was the backdrop of florid Art Deco/Historicist architecture or the way everyone was nicely dressed.
Appearances alone. That's enough to inspire the so-called "hate." It's clear that the article's author doesn't get anything about style when he compares the Segway to a motorcyle. Let me set this straight: Marlon Brando on motorcyle, cool; Wozniak on a Segway, not cool. The problem is nerds have a messed-up idea of cool, or at least one not shared by the population at large. Aesthetics matters. I'm not saying this is perfect or right; it just is. And the general population has some dumb aesthetics. But appearances still matter.
Londovir, don't plan on working in a CC with a Masters. You won't make enough money to live, and you can't compete with the other folks out there. The collapse in jobs for university and college professors, teachers, and adjunct teachers means that CCs are finding it easy to get PhDs for peanuts.
I have a doctorate, work full time in the top university in my state, and high school teachers with a Masters make more money than I do, more money than doctorates at my same rank teaching math, religion, philosophy, Latin, and art (drawing and painting). Those are the people I know. And when I applied for my position, I was competing against just over a 100 other people. I bring home two grand a month, and I work about 55 hours a week during the school year (Aug-May) and about 35 hours a week during the summer.
I got an iPod touch for a graduation present. I use the thing all the time. It's an MP3 player. I watch TV shows on it when I don't want to bug my wife (a big plus: you can move from room to room to avoid wife's phone calls, screaming baby, neighbor's lawn mower). I use it for quick visits to the web to check TV schedules, weather, Digg, etc. I use it to check my e-mail when I'm out and about (free wi-fi at coffee shops). I use it to run my Azureus, um, Vuze (dumb name). I keep a shopping list on it, and it's replaced almost all the functions of my Sony Clie, which I finally retired after way too many years of use. I also play a few games on it. The only thing that really is a problem is the absence of a keyboard. I guess I'm not a tablet guy. Still, I'm surprised how much I use this little widget I formerly scoffed at. Then again, if I had a nicer cellphone, it could do most of this stuff. Or all of it. But I only get shite phones....
As a native of the rural South, I'd also like to point out that this majority votes time and again for Republicans who decrease taxes on the wealthy along with services to the poor, like education funding. It's called the "Southern Strategy," brought to you by Lee Atwater. It works because that majority of "just folks" tends also to be bigoted and susceptible to race-baiting and gay-baiting, probably because of the crummy education they got, along with the crummy, reactionary religion they're taught.
If you don't buy my argument, go read up on how the Fugitive Slave Law and various other slavery-related travesties got passed.
Federalist #10 explores how true democracy would be susceptible to faction: http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm. The "founding fathers" were very concerned about how easily swayed the common people are; in fact "mob" comes from "mobile vulgaris," the movable herd. I think Nietzsche's considerations on class resentment apply here too. Think about the true but disturbing populist movements like the French Revolution, the Stalinist and Maoist revolutions and so on. They're nasty things. Populism can become ugly quickly.
I'm about to start using TurnItIn.com. Why? The one or two students who plagiarize use a disproportionate amount of my time. Building a good case against a plagiarist takes 2-3 hours. I'd rather my time went to people caring enough or honest enough to do the work. I also want to remove the temptation.
Yes, there are idiots out there. I work with some. On a few recent days, I've been an idiot myself, having had only a few hours of sleep with my newborn son in the house. Sadly, many faculty members have a subspecialty in assholery.
However, most places have guidelines on how to use this service. At my institution, they (the Powers) ask repeatedly that teachers consider the TurnItIn reports carefully prior to accusing a student of plagiarism. I now I sure as hell will, as that decision to level an accusation is the point at which that 2-3 hours of documentation, paperwork, and signature collection will kick in.
By the way, the person who did this to you is probably hated by everyone around him (or her). You can content yourself with knowing that they are a miserable piece of shit. Failing that, or it failing you, George Herbert said that living well is the best revenge.
Well, thank god for anonymity, because it allows me to say that, as a college English professor, all but two of the marketing majors I've encountered over the years have been as stupid as a mildly retarded box of rocks. This experience only confirms what I learned working as an intern during my undergraduate years, where all the marketing folks were bleached blonde collections of grinning teeth and over-stuffed bras crammed into knock-off Channels.
It's a wonder they didn't come up with SoFa.
Oh come, on if you're going to get pedantic, go full on: those y's are yoghs, which is an entirely different letter than a y that had a value somewhat like/th/ or/zsh/ or/dj/, depending on the instance. Old English and Middle English had a whole raft of various versions of the/th/ sound, some indicated by other letters of old, like the eth and the thorn. And of course y was really just a j, but maybe that's carrying the pedantry too far. How do you say "get off my lawn" in OE?
I used to work in a an office in the English-Philosophy Building at the University of Iowa. The street in front of our window, Iowa Avenue, had a low bridge accompanied by a warning side about a 100 feet away with chains that dangled down to hit the roof or window of vehicles too tall to make it under the bridge. I'd say about twice a summer, when all the students were moving, moving trucks would ignore the horrible crash of the chains to next produce the extremely loud boom of a truck smashing off the first three to ten feet of the cargo box. Sometimes commercial trucks hit it too, but moving time was the real season to see this. I think I saw one truck in my whole eight years or so there that actually backed up and went around. Of course, I probably missed quite a few doing that, as what really made you take notice was the collision with the bridge.
If you were a teacher, you wouldn't be surprised at the level of moronism among students and faculty. I'm convinced we see as much if not more idiocy than systems folks. Two examples from the last semester:
Story One: A freshman student this semester copied her whole paper from a graduate-student textbook written by a PhD researcher. Cut and paste. I catch it, tell her she's getting an F. She turns in her next paper, same composition method. Zero, expulsion.
Story Two: I get my teaching evaluations back from the faculty committee. They say I'm awesome, god's sliced cheese, EXCEPT for two problems: my grading rubric is too confusing and I have no schedule of readings. BUT, my grading rubric was an exact copy of the one on the department website that I was told to use, and my schedule of readings was three of the six pages I submitted for their review.
Moral: Never be surprised at how idiotic people can be on a university campus. Some days it's almost like an upperclass twit of the year contest.
Your analysis of men and your sig go hand in hand. If someone disagrees, that someone is a man with a small dick.
And guys who don't approach you are pathetic little virginal boys.
I'd think that guys who don't approach you want to keep your teeth off their junk.
Just because you're a woman doesn't make you right when you're the one slinging around abusive stereotypes.
I understand your situation, and I'd be angry too. But what you did is pretty much the definition of road rage. Better to take the plate number, the car's description, and then call the cops. It's their job, not yours. And keep in mind: you could end up leaving your kids without a father, as plenty of people are happy to kill you for chewing them out.
I'm an English prof, therefore word nerd. So I just checked the Collins Cobuild dictionary, which provides frequencies of usage. Effluent meaning to flow out is a vanishingly small denotation in comparison to the denotation of sewage or flowing waste. The Webster's 3rd doesn't even list "out flowing" as a definition, restricting that to the etymology. The OED is holding the line, though. It lists "flowing out" as the first definition before progressing (regressing?) to streams, septic lines, industrial waste, and finally radioactive waste.
I think you're on the mark with your slam on marketing. This looks very much like someone emsmartening they're vocabumolary with a theseosaurus.
You assume that bandwidth caps/traffic shaping and capacity use fees are mutually exclusive. I'm cynical enough to suspect that Bittorrent will still be throttled and that latencies will still suck for gaming apps and possibly even VoIP will be throttled down the road. Ma Bell and the rest are in bed with Hollywood and the recording industry. I also bet that upload will still be a tiny fraction of download bandwidth. (Man I hate that one. As an academic I store gobs of research at home that I want to access from my laptop, whether it's in my office or in a coffeeshop.)
Sure, the Book of Mormon and umpteen similar texts from the time of Hakluyt and onward. Heck, let's lump in Brendan, Atlantis, and Avalon too. My point is that there are a lot of mythic texts which discuss ancient migrations and subsequent discoveries of remnants of these ancient cultures. But that's von Daniken country and not history nor anthropology.
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Folks might want to check out the actual proportions. Military spending significantly outweighs social spending--health, education, and welfare. I read a piece last week that said that one year of the Iraq war costs more than the tuition of every college student in the US for the last several years. My memory may be faulty there, and lies, damn lies.... But there's always the old "death and taxes" graphic: http://mibi.deviantart.com/art/Death-and-Taxes-9410862. All that said, Joe Sixpack, um, Shiftworker isn't paying much taxes. I know. I'm an English teacher, but I make $32,000 a year. Altogether, including a really high local sales tax, about 17% of my income goes to taxes and social security. That's not much money. I mean, it's a lot to me, but a drop in the bucket. You can blow my year's taxes out the barrel of a machine gun in one firefight.
Um, so what about Gorecki? Pärt? Riley? Adams? Glass? Schnittke? Yes, there are popular forms entering into "classical" music. But the stuff that happened at the turn of the last century is still very relevant. And your post suggests that people like the Bachs weren't into music theory, which is untrue; all the way back to the Middle Ages music was approached as a logical construct that can be theorized, often because its logics had metaphysical and ontological implications. And of course many jazz artists were not only incredibly intelligent about music theory but they also composed in a fairly academic way to achieve that "ruleless" effect--which is not ruleless at all, only seeming so to someone untutored in the operating set of rules. Consider Mingus. Anyway, the description you offer is so over-simplified that all it does is convey anti-intellectual prejudices. I will counter argue that in an age when information is so readily available that the ability to synthesize and offer synoptic perspectives via intellectual work is all the more important because that's what is in short supply, relative to the glut of dumb (unspeaking) facts.
I feel you, but aren't you blaming the wrong people? The people making the commercials aren't the problems; it's the people running the media you're consuming. To a large extent, the increase in advertisement ratio you're put-out by tracks along with the consolidation of media industries and the narrowing of all sorts of margins as competition became more intense with the deregulation of markets. It also tracks along with the multiplication of media types. As the amount of viewers per minute gets less--because spread more thinly--they shout more loudly. At least I think that's the logic driving them. It probably doesn't add up, but that's the general drift I get from monitoring the whinings of the old media crew.
I am a university professor. I just wrote and deleted a long list of specific cases that make me worry about stuff like this. Yes, there are over-reactions. But, then again, I don't want to get shot, stabbed, blown up, or even stalked. And I don't want it to happen to one of my students either. And I don't want people threatening my students online or off. Maybe it feels comfortable and safe down in mom's basement, but some people actually get scared when someone announces they want to stab them in the throat. And, yes, administration does over-react. But I can tell you that many faculty worry about this sort of thing and that we talk to our students when this comes up. In most cases, though, we are strongly encouraged to follow a specific response involving on-campus security and mental health facilities. And, if we didn't, and someone got hurt, it would be on us. In my case, during my graduate work, there were several suicides, a series of bomb threats, and a shooting... all at my campus, all involving graduate students. I'd say we have every right and very good reasons to take quick action in cases of threats or evidence of mental instability.
Yeah. I'd like a list too. My wife works in PC support for a large university (34,000 students). She works at the main repair and service center. When I go in, the shelves are lined up with Win laptops waiting for a wipe and reinstall of the OS to repair some virus (is that really necessary?), and there'll be a single Mac sitting there waiting for Office to be installed. Every new trojan or virus that comes out sees the Windows folks lined up, and Mac users only show up because the U uses a stupid website that forces you to install MacAfee to login to campus wireless, which means Mac people get confused (not seeing the little box that says "Dear Mac User go here," not that the Windows people would either). All that said, I'm seeing in my classrooms more and more little laptops running various Linux systems.
As a scholar in the humanities, I would like to note that David Jao's dismissal of the concept or use of the term ideologies demonstrates a bias toward ideal states and zero-sum games that don't exist in the real world, which is populated by humans and the ideologies that motivate them.
I had a twelve-inch iBook with a G3 processor. After sending it to Apple twice because of an issue that Iater realized was graphics coprocessor delamination, they replaced it with a shiny new G4 model. I am typing on that very machine right now. It has had zero problems, like all the other Macs I've own except that one iBook, and I use computers for years (I've had 5 since 1988, not counting two old beaters I bought just to play with), since I don't give a damn about video game performance.
I read the posts and the article, and I can't believe no one else understands the "hate." People on Segways look like idiots. You're perched up high with a dorky bicycle helmet where everyone can see you. You look sort of like Rick Moranis in Spaceballs.
I had NEVER thought about Segways much until a recent trip to Vienna. Sure, I'd seen that photo of the Chinese riot cops on Segways or Sameways or whatever, and my reaction was, hmm, that makes sense. But in Vienna people were renting Segways to tool around the city. You could see them in the distance, tall dorky mushroomy touristy goobuses. Maybe it was the backdrop of florid Art Deco/Historicist architecture or the way everyone was nicely dressed.
Appearances alone. That's enough to inspire the so-called "hate." It's clear that the article's author doesn't get anything about style when he compares the Segway to a motorcyle. Let me set this straight: Marlon Brando on motorcyle, cool; Wozniak on a Segway, not cool. The problem is nerds have a messed-up idea of cool, or at least one not shared by the population at large. Aesthetics matters. I'm not saying this is perfect or right; it just is. And the general population has some dumb aesthetics. But appearances still matter.
Londovir, don't plan on working in a CC with a Masters. You won't make enough money to live, and you can't compete with the other folks out there. The collapse in jobs for university and college professors, teachers, and adjunct teachers means that CCs are finding it easy to get PhDs for peanuts. I have a doctorate, work full time in the top university in my state, and high school teachers with a Masters make more money than I do, more money than doctorates at my same rank teaching math, religion, philosophy, Latin, and art (drawing and painting). Those are the people I know. And when I applied for my position, I was competing against just over a 100 other people. I bring home two grand a month, and I work about 55 hours a week during the school year (Aug-May) and about 35 hours a week during the summer.
I got an iPod touch for a graduation present. I use the thing all the time. It's an MP3 player. I watch TV shows on it when I don't want to bug my wife (a big plus: you can move from room to room to avoid wife's phone calls, screaming baby, neighbor's lawn mower). I use it for quick visits to the web to check TV schedules, weather, Digg, etc. I use it to check my e-mail when I'm out and about (free wi-fi at coffee shops). I use it to run my Azureus, um, Vuze (dumb name). I keep a shopping list on it, and it's replaced almost all the functions of my Sony Clie, which I finally retired after way too many years of use. I also play a few games on it. The only thing that really is a problem is the absence of a keyboard. I guess I'm not a tablet guy. Still, I'm surprised how much I use this little widget I formerly scoffed at. Then again, if I had a nicer cellphone, it could do most of this stuff. Or all of it. But I only get shite phones....
As a native of the rural South, I'd also like to point out that this majority votes time and again for Republicans who decrease taxes on the wealthy along with services to the poor, like education funding. It's called the "Southern Strategy," brought to you by Lee Atwater. It works because that majority of "just folks" tends also to be bigoted and susceptible to race-baiting and gay-baiting, probably because of the crummy education they got, along with the crummy, reactionary religion they're taught. If you don't buy my argument, go read up on how the Fugitive Slave Law and various other slavery-related travesties got passed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUP9Jm9SqvY
Federalist #10 explores how true democracy would be susceptible to faction: http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm. The "founding fathers" were very concerned about how easily swayed the common people are; in fact "mob" comes from "mobile vulgaris," the movable herd. I think Nietzsche's considerations on class resentment apply here too. Think about the true but disturbing populist movements like the French Revolution, the Stalinist and Maoist revolutions and so on. They're nasty things. Populism can become ugly quickly.
I'm about to start using TurnItIn.com. Why? The one or two students who plagiarize use a disproportionate amount of my time. Building a good case against a plagiarist takes 2-3 hours. I'd rather my time went to people caring enough or honest enough to do the work. I also want to remove the temptation.
Yes, there are idiots out there. I work with some. On a few recent days, I've been an idiot myself, having had only a few hours of sleep with my newborn son in the house. Sadly, many faculty members have a subspecialty in assholery.
However, most places have guidelines on how to use this service. At my institution, they (the Powers) ask repeatedly that teachers consider the TurnItIn reports carefully prior to accusing a student of plagiarism. I now I sure as hell will, as that decision to level an accusation is the point at which that 2-3 hours of documentation, paperwork, and signature collection will kick in.
By the way, the person who did this to you is probably hated by everyone around him (or her). You can content yourself with knowing that they are a miserable piece of shit. Failing that, or it failing you, George Herbert said that living well is the best revenge.
Well, thank god for anonymity, because it allows me to say that, as a college English professor, all but two of the marketing majors I've encountered over the years have been as stupid as a mildly retarded box of rocks. This experience only confirms what I learned working as an intern during my undergraduate years, where all the marketing folks were bleached blonde collections of grinning teeth and over-stuffed bras crammed into knock-off Channels. It's a wonder they didn't come up with SoFa.
Oh come, on if you're going to get pedantic, go full on: those y's are yoghs, which is an entirely different letter than a y that had a value somewhat like /th/ or /zsh/ or /dj/, depending on the instance. Old English and Middle English had a whole raft of various versions of the /th/ sound, some indicated by other letters of old, like the eth and the thorn. And of course y was really just a j, but maybe that's carrying the pedantry too far. How do you say "get off my lawn" in OE?
At a university I worked at in the late 80s, the vaxen were named Bilbo, Frodo, and Gandalf.
I used to work in a an office in the English-Philosophy Building at the University of Iowa. The street in front of our window, Iowa Avenue, had a low bridge accompanied by a warning side about a 100 feet away with chains that dangled down to hit the roof or window of vehicles too tall to make it under the bridge. I'd say about twice a summer, when all the students were moving, moving trucks would ignore the horrible crash of the chains to next produce the extremely loud boom of a truck smashing off the first three to ten feet of the cargo box. Sometimes commercial trucks hit it too, but moving time was the real season to see this. I think I saw one truck in my whole eight years or so there that actually backed up and went around. Of course, I probably missed quite a few doing that, as what really made you take notice was the collision with the bridge.
If you were a teacher, you wouldn't be surprised at the level of moronism among students and faculty. I'm convinced we see as much if not more idiocy than systems folks. Two examples from the last semester:
Story One: A freshman student this semester copied her whole paper from a graduate-student textbook written by a PhD researcher. Cut and paste. I catch it, tell her she's getting an F. She turns in her next paper, same composition method. Zero, expulsion.
Story Two: I get my teaching evaluations back from the faculty committee. They say I'm awesome, god's sliced cheese, EXCEPT for two problems: my grading rubric is too confusing and I have no schedule of readings. BUT, my grading rubric was an exact copy of the one on the department website that I was told to use, and my schedule of readings was three of the six pages I submitted for their review.
Moral: Never be surprised at how idiotic people can be on a university campus. Some days it's almost like an upperclass twit of the year contest.
Your analysis of men and your sig go hand in hand. If someone disagrees, that someone is a man with a small dick. And guys who don't approach you are pathetic little virginal boys. I'd think that guys who don't approach you want to keep your teeth off their junk. Just because you're a woman doesn't make you right when you're the one slinging around abusive stereotypes.
I understand your situation, and I'd be angry too. But what you did is pretty much the definition of road rage. Better to take the plate number, the car's description, and then call the cops. It's their job, not yours. And keep in mind: you could end up leaving your kids without a father, as plenty of people are happy to kill you for chewing them out.
I'm an Apple fanboy, but you are no doubt correct. Insightful I'd say, but my mod points expired yesterday.
I'm an English prof, therefore word nerd. So I just checked the Collins Cobuild dictionary, which provides frequencies of usage. Effluent meaning to flow out is a vanishingly small denotation in comparison to the denotation of sewage or flowing waste. The Webster's 3rd doesn't even list "out flowing" as a definition, restricting that to the etymology. The OED is holding the line, though. It lists "flowing out" as the first definition before progressing (regressing?) to streams, septic lines, industrial waste, and finally radioactive waste. I think you're on the mark with your slam on marketing. This looks very much like someone emsmartening they're vocabumolary with a theseosaurus.
You assume that bandwidth caps/traffic shaping and capacity use fees are mutually exclusive. I'm cynical enough to suspect that Bittorrent will still be throttled and that latencies will still suck for gaming apps and possibly even VoIP will be throttled down the road. Ma Bell and the rest are in bed with Hollywood and the recording industry. I also bet that upload will still be a tiny fraction of download bandwidth. (Man I hate that one. As an academic I store gobs of research at home that I want to access from my laptop, whether it's in my office or in a coffeeshop.)
Sure, the Book of Mormon and umpteen similar texts from the time of Hakluyt and onward. Heck, let's lump in Brendan, Atlantis, and Avalon too. My point is that there are a lot of mythic texts which discuss ancient migrations and subsequent discoveries of remnants of these ancient cultures. But that's von Daniken country and not history nor anthropology.