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Wait til they get the Rift
Tried it the other day. Agree.
And all the Zerohedgers commenting negatively about this trend. On tablets or computers over the internet. Without ANY awareness of the irony of the situation.
This observation brought to you from the subdepartment of ironic irony of the department of redundancy department.
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The smartest thing to ever come out of Einstein's mouth?
Tesla's cock...
Einstein was a thief and a fraud.
Not a real (Einstein) quote folks..
Einstein was a thief and a fraud.
Riiight...
He was a Jewish Supremacist psychopath that stole the theory of relativity from a French physicist. History is written by the victors pal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTQFFFeOVs
Right, Einstein stole special relativity from Lorentz like Lorentz stole electromagnetism from Maxwell..Good work detective, gold star!
Fantasy is the driving force to humans.
If wasn’t for our yearning for significance, religious supernatural, and superiority fantasies humans would never had achieve the growth that we have.
The distractions we’re witnessing, that blind us, ensure us that our self-destruction (by endless growth and progress on a finite planet) goes unmolested.
Because, the alternative would lead us to the painful reality that the greatest threat to us is our own specie.
And facing reality is the least attractive option of all.
The world inside the screen is better. It makes more sense, and is free of most of the conventions that have been built up in our world over time. One day we will be able to go into the screen, and the outside world will become less than a curiosity.
This is likely the reason we have never met alien species. Why explore this cold, uncaring universe with its vast stretches of absolute emptiness when you can explore one designed specifically for you to maximally satisfy your values?
Your statement is nonsense.
Unleashed in a torrent obscure arcane academic jargon.
Shame on you.
That is truly idiotic, since it is an artificial world constructed by people in the real world. All is does is further alienate people from acquiring the skills to cope more effectively in the real world.
Further alienate people from acquiring the skills to cope….
Exactly!
There aren't many humans around, but two million years of promoting the survival of man the savage is the driving force in society today. Psychopaths have been around as long as man has.
The modern technological world is primarily the result of pattern searching social intelligence being repurposed by the Autistic Spectrum brain to pattern searching in the physical world. You know, scientists, mathematicians, engineers.
And the greatest threat is from those who control or use other people as objects for survival. You know, those in control in governments.
Lucy: "Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?"
old naughty
Four billion years of biological revolution, the Camelot of the cosmos. A galactic pearl left to hairless, undeveloped, quarrelsome apes, equipped with little more than glib tongues, sharp wits, and nimble fingers [Reg Morrison].
It’s about to be destroyed.
Anusocracy
You don’t get it.
At least you’re consistent with the prevailed human stupidity that we humans, can fix it.
Your assumption is wrong. Besides, I don't consider you human.
Mankind can't evolve to human status fast enough to avoid the consequences of run until failure.
''
Meh. We will discover a new theory to supplant relativity. The establishment will suppress it (just like any good religion would) until suppression is no longer possible.
STFU. Horeshit. And Newton wasn't gay.
He based his Relativity Theory from Henry Poincaré.
I can concur with the photos in the thread... After being stamped in / out of 53 countries, the one common demoniator is the youth of all nations are so absorbed by their gadgets, they have become sheeple to the propaganda and cannot form an independent thought if their lives depended on it...
As for Mr HGR's post above, meh, let's see you come up with a theory such as special relativity... I thought not, so back to contemplating the fuzz in your navel...
On the positive side, the day government does something really stupid, they will all hear about it instantly and, assuming the right buttons are pressed, maybe they can be moved to make the change that is needed
Flash revolution
Right on, Huge. I'm surprised they're still called the Lorentz Transformations. Even so, I have to respect that 'ole Stein remained a strict Cartesian (unlike today's preening purveyors of agitprop science), and that he never had a nice word to say for quantum mechanics.
Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics was pathetic. Quantum mechanics is the most well-verified theory in science, with experimental measurements determined down to multiple decimal points of accuracy.
Einstein was championed by the U.S. WWII military establishment as the Great American Hope against the German physicists of that time, who actually developed and understood modern physics.
Only multiple digits? What happens if I need more, and they don't jive?
“It always bothered me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter how tiny a region of time. How can all that be going on in that tiny space? Why should it take an infinite amount of logic to figure out what one tiny piece of space/time is going to do? So I have often made the hypothesis that ultimately physics will not require a mathematical statement, that in the end the machinery will be revealed, and the laws will turn out to be simple, like the chequer board with all its apparent complexities.” - Richard Feynman
If someone like Feynman could stumble like this with the inseparable relationship between theory and mathematical modeling dominant in science today, then I'd say that it's still early in the game, and the fat lady ain't singing just yet. While QM's a fine canonical realization, the problem with standard forms is that they're not unique, and worse yet logically arbitrary. In other words, there are no standards except the ones we choose. So I'll keep an open mind when it comes to considering alternatives.
Thanks for the tip, though, about WW II American regard for German physics. I read something similar years ago about the German view in a book by Nick Cook. Apparently, the wartime Nazis felt likewise about "Jewish" physics, which was after all, QM!
zerohedgers posting over the interet, how about the size of the pie is infinitely, infinitely smaller and can't grow fast enough to grant the world a whopper-a-day standard of living. It take 70 years for an economy growing at 1% to double it's gdp, and all it would take is a quick flip of the cards for the US to be last on the list, honestly by the time the last starving soul gets internet and a big gulp computers will have more rights than humans.
These must be FED employees buying eminis and qqq calls.
I so want one :D
WhatsApping Mr Carrington, WhatsApping Mr Carrington.......
Interesting. http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2014/12/washington-despite-job-growth-native...
Have shared on Facebook
lol
Too funny. As I'm typing this (on phone), I'm also watching a sitcom with my teenage kid.
Take a deep breath.
Scream loudly:
- Now fucked!
hehe.
Tyler forgot the bees ...
Doing the same thing over and over again expexting_____
Nothing.
Most are just hamsters on a wheel.
Good one.
Hey FDR, why not get some nuclear scientists to make a bomb using a uranium chain reaction? Germany's gonna do it. It would be awesome.
And he thought giving those of the era the bomb not considering what their grandchildren might turn out like
Godamnit, stop reading my mind.
Was watching someone walking across the road texting,ignoring the oncoming traffic today.
My exact thougth was he will still be texting as they herd him into the death chamber.
If he lasts that long.
The irony is that I text more to ZH than anyone else.
Walking across a busy street ?
You schould double dog dare him Winston ;)
Idiots - "Full of sound and fury signifying nothing" - to paraphrase Faulkner
Actually, this sort of thing is quite useful - to me, individually. Now at just a glance it's easy to tell who I can have a conversation with, without having to "make conversation" with all the others (the idiots with a thing in their hand, because they're already ignoring everyone and everything). As soon as chaos sets in and the satellites go down forever, every one of these people will be useless.
I'm starting to wish I had become a hand surgeon.........
Apparently young people have a greater portion of their brain area's activity allocated to...are you ready for it...their thumbs! It is sad when I do try to text. I am finding the keyboard when most folks are hitting send!
If you use it, you get better at it, if you don't use it, you lose it. I wonder what gets lost while this area of competency grows?
Back in the day, everyone's memories were a lot bigger because you needed to remember a lot more shit. To survive. Being good at using these know-it-all doohickeys isn't a necessary portion of existence. If anything, it takes away from being closer to living in accord with nature.
What do you sacrifice?
- interpersonal interaction
- memory quality (putting crap in your head instead of useful knowledge)
- decorum and etiquette, decency
- interest in and knowledge of surroundings, the immediate atmosphere (is alertness a prized skill?)
...
The list goes on. Slaves to their phones.
I don't like cell phones. Life was much better when it was just land lines and people went outside to play.
It is already culturally taboo to ask someone to put away their phone so personal interaction can take precedence.
The other amusing thing is that out of all those people, not one of them noticed they were having their picture taken. I guess they were too busy thinking about something else.
Indeed, what else are they NOT noticing!
Indeed, that's the goal:
som•nam•bu•lismI am afraid that the problem is greater than that described by Einstein because we have more than just one generation of idiots.
No. The next step is physical implantation.
One Man's idiot is another Man's Vote....
Am I in the minority? I am on my laptop a good bit, but I don't use my phone hardly at all. My husband forces me to carry it when I am out, but it runs out of power all the time, I don't check it, barely know how it works, and honestly, I hate it. I would never phone and drive or text and drive because my mind just can't be split like that I know I would be in an accident.
I use my land line when I must.
No face book.
No twitting or tweetering.
I have a website but my husband put that thing up.
I do everything via email. It leaves it all under my control. People don't expect me to get back to them immeadiately and they can get fucked if they have hurt feelings about me not participating in all this shit. I don't want to spend my time that way.
My one sin is that I am on this website too much.
Yeah I am a zh addict too
I'm a porn addict ... ZH is a very close second though !
I agree with you. It is difference between push and pull.
Internet access, the way I use it, is driven by me, for what I want to do.
Phones allow me to be accosted by sellers, people asking for money, people wanting me to do something. Do not call list do not work. They are bad.
That makes two of us.
<3
^^
Freak!
Does your phone have a powerful vibrate only setting? Does your hubby call you often and over and over and over... lol
Now there is an app I could get behind!
You are doing great - as long as you haven't sent any emails to Sony!
Bravo! I'm with you, sister!
I have high computer and I.T. literacy - I've worked as a scientist as well as an I.T. professional in academia and in industry - and yet I don't/won't Facebook, or Tweet, or Instagram, or Whatsapp, or any of that imbecillic, asinine ordure. Hell, I don't even use Google. In addition I block all ads on my browser and I won't allow my surfing to be tracked, and I haven't watched television since the mid '90s.
As for cell phones, I won't allow anyone I'm with to use theirs unless they ask me politely first and give me a good justification for using it in my presence. It's my time they're wasting, after all, and if they don't value my time I won't welcome them to divide it with me. I have found the number of people that occupy my life to have dropped by a whole order of magnitude, and I'm grateful for it.
I am in agreement with you. At one time I worked with IBM, then later HP and about 15 years ago I just stopped using 'mobile computing products'. I also tossed away the cel phone and got rid of the TV about 10 years ago. I am no longer working where I need to be connected, tethered and tracked. No facebook or social media outside of leaving the occasional anonymous commnet on a few blogs like this one. I do use email and a ham radio for emergency communications in the car, no cel phone in my world.
I do not have a phone of any kind. Despite being an early adopter of technology I'm also an early quitter. Dumped my television and stopped buying music in late 90's, having grown up with BBS and Fidonet networks. Napster may have brought publicity to filesharing, but it's been going on for much longer.
The reason I quit my phone was because I realized "it" needed me more than I needed it. It consumed much needed time and offered little in return.
If I need to contact someone, there's always a way. If someone wants to reach me? Well, that is their problem. It it's an important issue, they'll put effort and find a way, otherwise it wasn't a worthwhile issue to begin with.
That's actually started about 5 years ago, when I stopped answering the phone. I got annoyed by the telemarketers and was only checking voicemail. I said to myself that if the call wasn't worth leaving a message, it wasn't worth answering. I now look the same way at communication in general.
I've been phone free for 2 years and couldn't be happier.
There's just 1 dormant cell phone that I keep in my car along with an activation card, just in case I get stranded in the middle of a desert somewhere. Other than that, no need for a phone.
I quit television long before it became a trend. I'm hoping that ditching the phone will also catch on with the masses. The gadgets obsessed teenagers? Well, it's not like they're paying their own bills. Their parents' impoverishment will solve that epidemic in a jiffy.
doom porn is nearly as addictive a regular porn.....OMG the youth of world are socially inept because they use phone, the Chinese have ICBMs, CONgress just passed the cromnibus bill, inflation, defalation.....this all in one day on ZH!
Excuseme...for a few minutes...I gotta go rub one out.
1. I've always bought my mobile 2nd. hand , never more than 40 EUR.
2. It is nearly always at home turned OFF
3. I only take it with me when "I" think I might need to call someone in an emergency.
4. .. and even then, it is always OFF until I need to call.
Call me old fashioned, but there is nothing more annoying than when a Mobile-Call interrupts "anyone".
And if you talking to someone and THEIR phone rings ... they normally then prove they have no good manners.
And thats why it's nearly always truned OFF.
A habit is not a sin, right ;)
Join the minority.
\rant on\ what kills me is a related problem. getting in touch with somebody nowadays involves not only knowing the contact info, but what KIND of contact info they respond to. XXX only responds to text messages, while YYY only answers facebook messges, while ZZZ will answer the cell occasionally but not the landline. god help us if the fax comes back into fashion..... \rant off\
A new app just realeased minutes after your post handles that problem.
Using voice recognition it will allow you to speak your message and immediately:
1. Call all known numbers for said contact (including next of kin). If they do not answer it will leave a prerecorded voice mail asking them to contact you immediately
2. Send a text (after having converted your message via "speech to text")***
3. Post an FB message on their wall and message through Fb messenger
4. Send out a tweet (early versions of the app crashed if your spoken messages was longer than 140 characters but it is now corrected)
5. Send a photo through instagram as well as be contacted via Vine
6. Post an audio file on you tube with your original recording
*** Text to speech version available Spring 2015. Pinterest and reddit support coming this summer.
Did I miss anything?
Now some dodohead CEO can create this, get 99 zillion "likes" and friend requests and go public. The IPO will be worth 84 gabazillion and balance will be restored to the universe once again.
I'd say that was a silly post, except that somebody probably will go public with this ap in the next few months and make zillions. <gag>.
They had something similar on an episode of The Office. It was called "Woof".
You missed snatchChat
Applicant processing during job searching is almost fully automated at this point. People are filtered by algos, so when they don't get a job, they have no way of knowing what they did wrong. They don't know if it's the qualification, the number of applicants, a spelling mistake or something else entirely.
Digital communication brings easy access and information abundance, with abundance comes the need for automated filtering. With filtering, ironically, comes total isolation.
My wife says that when I'm engaged in conversation on ZH it's as though I'm not here. Kind of ironic.
I'm in that minority with you Ms., and it does seem to be a minority now,or close.
A whole generation is wasting their life away on inconsequential bullshit.
Voyeurs on reality, never participating.
+1 for "Voyeurs of reality". Clever Brit.
I'd add "Narcissistic escapism ".
You should see the Apple loyal subjects. They think they are helping to change to world by buying a $800 phone that costs $20 bucks to make.
And amused to death
Roger Waters.Amused to death. (14)AMUSED TO DEATH.: http://youtu.be/uVSBawXaoT4
I wonder if the couple on that intimate date are texting to each other: "Wishing you were here"
Pink Floyd
Wish you were here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NavVfpp-1L4
One of my favorite songs. The things designed to help us connect, help us disconnect.
Great song, and one of my favorites too. I played it in my local bar when Richard Wright died.
No sex pleaae, we're just good texters.
There is sexting. They could do a little of that in public!
If only I was 20 years younger.
Being in public just used to just add to the spice.
And it wasn't sexting, i can assure assure you madam.
Siri, what do I say to him?
Siri, what do I say to her?
...and after that you can watch mindless entertainment on the boob tube.
Iphone. Your 24/7 personal tracking leash.
you are on point.
I recall thinking this years and years ago the same thing, but with the beepers.
how idiots would walk around with beepers on their belts, feeling self important. that they are so critical to the world that they must be instantly reachable at any time and place.
but my only thought was: you are an idiot and a serf, why do you feel that you must respond to every beep and burp.
that it was nothing but a leash around the neck.
are you not a man that you must jump everytime the bell rings? pavlovian idiots.
but now, with the cell phones, you are tracked everywhere you go, you can be listened in on, and your searches can be used to build a profile, your conversations stored so that they can be used against you at the appropriate time.
and I was irritated by the beepers.
little did I know.
http://windowstorussia.com/the-french-predict-the-future-in-1947-video.html
i still use phone with 2 colors - pretty ok with it. I need phone only to call somebody...
Technology surpassing human interaction? In his day, he would have been referring to the telephone or radio and even then he would have been completely wrong to presume that someone who spent his days listening to the wireless would be less informed than someone who spent his days listening to his neighbour.
Surely the whole thing would depend on the quality of the interaction - whether machine or biological? Give morons portable computers and they'll do moronic things on it. Give intelligent people the same and they'll get more intelligent. No? Once again, Einstein failed to think things through thoroughly. I think the images shown here of morons at play are more a collection of social faux pas, ignoring those around you, than an indictment of interacting with technology. (Yes, I'm on my phone a lot! But not when I'm with people obviously)
God, I have a celly and I want to smash everyone elses's cell that whips it out while driving or being oblivious to their surroundings.
Yeah, those pics look about right. When I go to work in the carpool van, in which passengers sit up high enough to see into cars, I constantly see people fucking texting while driving. It's so prevalent it's scary. Fucking morons. I don't give a shit if you kill yourselves in a car doing stupid shit, but don't fucking take me with you!
Dincha hear? Darpa's bastard child, Google, is coming up with an app for that. The driverless car! I'm so relieved i could puke. I can see it now no more APBs the car just hauls your ass into the FEMA camp on its own.
First it rolls up the windows and locks the seatbelts and doors.
But it will undoubtedly get great mileage and have a built-in wifi hotspot.
Yesterday's Departmental Christmas Party. Almost the same as Image no 3.
"Connected" to everyone (and their dogs), "Talking" to no-one.
I've had more meaningful conversations with our parrot . . . . . .
Bring on the frickin' Asteroid!
So an EMP blast will have silver linings?
It's just sad folks, lots of adults think their social strata is defined by social media too. Posting thier accomplishments and bragging about thier kids, and dump by dump drama of thier dogs housetraining. My friends don't need that much info and probably wouldn't be my freinds if they had to hear how much TP i use on a good wipe. Hashtag this bitches.
If I stick up for Einstein, am I pro-semitic?
Go Big Albert, master of relatively good quotes.
Nah, you're just pro-Cartesian.
OWK, is that you?
I would not say Einstein was a complete fraud, however, he is not deserving of the overwhelmingly positive reputation that he attained over the years. He made some important contributions, but he made major errors, and fell behind the times, staying within a 19th-century world view, and never really understanding modern physics.
Maybe looking at all those patents give him some inside....
Head down, texting "...and now they're loading us into cattle cars. Great, u know how I luv travel and surprises. No word yet on destination."
They know exactly where they are. GPS.
"Hey, I'm in the shower. LOL!"
That thread is eLOL !
We can't all be geniuses like you, Albert.
It's for you.
..http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GlA35y0bGQc
And for you, my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7MroTLDfU
Thanks www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ
Life is much too short for texting twaddle; Why would I be the least interested in someone else's life? I'm grappling with mine 24x7 and it's like riding a bull and someone wants me to read their bullshit? I think not...
My cellphone battery was only in when I needed to order a pizza or call in sick. I'm retired now and make my own pizza.
Read below excerpt from discussion on application of intelligibility criterion to detect scientific fraud in context of works of Einstein. Some Kant would help to read it.
A Note on Struggle between Faith in Science and Inteligibility of Science:
Do we really understand world better through modern science or we engineer world better through modern science? The central question of this post is question of intelligibility of our scientific worldview and whether it matters or not. And if holding unintelligible views amounts to spiritualism, religion, propaganda fraud, but not science.
The poster boy for intelligibility debate was A. Einstein. While in academics, after work of Maxwell (theory) of EM waves, only some remnants left of intelligibility requirements imposed by Descartes or its cultivation. Amateur Einstein in his patent office, free of institutional chains but drawing heavily on works of Lorentz, Poincare and Michelson, indulged himself into pure speculation producing most unintelligible theory to date, Theory of Special relativity which declares time an illusion, four dimensional space, speed of light in vacuum a universal constant, equivalence of energy and mass and ether dead.
It sounded like step in right direction, towards freeing us from chains of transcendental knowledge into new mindset. But his General Theory of Relativity (GTR) was utter disappointment. Instead of getting rid of space itself, giving us first peek into possible “objective reality”, he simply did a mind job, constructing completely unintelligible but all conservatively transcendental, non-linear space, based of guess of cosmological constant K (Lambda), replacing occult gravity force, in rush for Prussian Academy of Sciences presentation disrupted by preps to WWI. Now it was Newton time to turbine in his grave when yet completely unproven, erroneous in its original form for static universe, and totally unintelligible Einstein theory swept as tornado through headlines of daily newspapers all over the world while scientific literature repudiated it.
Let’s see what he did. In his universal theory of gravity (GTR) he left nature of gravity as before, undefined like occult forces of alchemists in middle ages. Proved transcendental nature of his theory, by folding it into Newton theory within classical range while fixing it in some outside range of parameter space. Hence, what we saw was just better description of space itself but unfortunately based on the same concepts, perceptions and sensations within transcendental limitation of our mind.
Einstein himself later practically abandoned his theories, similarly to Newton, due to fact that he could not comprehend that whole universe actually works according to arbitrary cosmological constant K (Lambda) that he himself as a mortal, made up. Spent decades trying to get rid of K (Lambda) but failed and instead, immersed himself in political and social life in which he though he could do some good for a change. But to no avail.
the part can't comprehend the whole
Funny thing is, Kurt Godel was one of them, moreover he was armed with proofs, something science is supposed to lap up.
Ol' Albert may have been a thief (he did work in the patent office, after all, and it is widely noted that he pilfered many of his ideas from his cousin), but the physical construction and mathematical formalism he build has stood up to thorough scienitific/experimental testing for over a hundred years. While this don't make it the final truth (in Science, there can't be one), there has been no other hypothesis/theory like GR that is this successful at explaining phenomena on the galactic/cosmological scales.
If he is full of shit, it will be demonstrated eventually. However, the intelligibility of his 'theories' is mostly a function of one's mathematical literacy. Intelligibility requires being able to read. One could impune upon the mathematical theory their own 'world-view wrapper', to interpet it using your own set of metaphors. You are always welcome to do this and, in most cases, scientists seek these novel viewpoints to give 'flesh' to what they are working with - especially in this more rarefied abstract realms of physics.
Name a generation that is not primarily comprised of idiots.
During landline epoch I knew by heart all my friends and relatives phone numbers today I barely remember mine.
That's called "getting old."
As the noose of reality and finite resources begins to tighten around the neck of mankind do not expect to hear those in charge to scream out warnings from the roof tops. The few mutterings we hear will be from people tagged as "gloom and doomers" who only see the glass half empty and are incapable of seeing it is really half full. When we approach the tipping point promises of easier, cheaper, and ever better ways of postponing the inevitable will prove to be an illusion. Problems will begin to materialize on a daily basis and reality will be both abrupt and harsh.
As I ponder our fate is it possible the "collective human-race" is also governed by the "Peter principle" and if so, how will humanity escape this trap? The Peter Principle is the notion that people are promoted as long as they are competent, but at some point will fail to get promoted beyond a certain job because they no-longer succeed. This means people rise to their level of incompetence and stay there, such is the state of those we have chosen to lead by making promises and promoting easy answers. The article below looks into the cost of failing to plan long-term and questions if "collectively" mankind is incompetent.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/12/does-peter-principle-apply-to-mankind.html
This is why in Israel we have Kosher phones without Texting and Internet. Just an old fashion phone that send and receives voice calls. Non Kosher phones are banned in schools and offices.
I did not know that. Interesting.
But watch out for the kook brigade which is about to come pouring out of the basements.
Kosher phones? Do they whine about 6 million of them missing?!?
so, they're circumcised
Too bad you don't ban bombs and fighter aircraft as well - and radical right-wing governments.
Oh, and by the way, smart phone use is Israel is expanding rapidly, just as it is in the rest of the world...so don't get too confident in your country's moral position....
http://www.euromonitor.com/mobile-phones-in-israel/report
In 2013 - http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-samsung-loses-dominance-in-israeli-sm... - smartphone sales were booming - about 2.4 million handsets were smartphones out of 3 million total sold (only about 600K basic handsets as you describe) - pretty significant for a country of only about 8 million citizens, wouldn't you think? Perhaps you live in some rermote illegal settlement. In that case I can understand your reluctance to acquire modern gadgetry, as spitting on Palestinians is likely much more fun for you.
And they are really hot on selling them to China as well, so apparently the Israeli moral disgust at smartphone useage doesn't stop them from selling them to the world.
Who is this guy? I'm sitting in an office right now with a "non-kosher" phone. Where do u live, Mea Shearim?
Everyone here has smart phones and the ISA also listening/reading everything on them. I prefer a shitty old nokia which has as its most advanced feature that "snake" game. I can blindly text way better than I can on a touch screen (1-2-3, 1-2 *switch key* 1 *switch key* 1-2 *switch key* 1-2-3 *switch key*).
Meanwhile, a cop pulled my dad over for reading a CD cover - not his phone, a CD cover This country is all kind of confusion...
Women are the worst. I can't even count how many times I've almost been hit by some broad texting, sexting or surfing while driving
One of my sisters wanted me to take her teenage daughter out shopping for back to school clothes because they always got into fights about what was appropriate. I get to the house and said "Ready to Go?". She replies, "Yup" without looking up from her friggin cell phone. I grab it out of her hands, turn it off and put it in my jacket pocket and she suddenly looks up and start screaming at me to give it back. Like a crack addict having a withdrawal.
My sister starts laughing and this drives her further into a rage. I tell her she gets the phone back when the trip ends. The faster and more efficiently she picks out appropriate school clothes the faster she gets her drugs back. She then tries to manipulate her mom with fake crying and the sympathy routine. But my sister is having none of it and says hurry up you need to be back in time for dinner. I've never seen a girl or woman move so fast when shopping in my life.
We had 4 respectable outfits in under 90 minutes and were back in time for dinner. And she proved beyond a reasonable doubt she could actually hold a conversation during dinner. She still didn't get the phone back until I left the house. Sometimes bad cop can be a good thing
When I pulled the phones out of my pocket to get hers and give it back she saw mine and starts laughing saying how she has a better phone than me. And so I see another tech and teaching opportunity. Have you read George Orwell's 1984 in school yet? Answer:No. I reply, the book contains three slogans War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. It is giving you a message about that society and so when you see my "Dumb" phone vs your "Smart" phone what conclusion might you draw from the 3 slogans I just said if our society were similar. She pauses for a minute and says my "Smart" phone is "Dumb" and your "Dumb" phone is "Smart"? And I follow with if this were the case why do you think that would the opposite meaning be the truth? She couldn't figure this part out. So I told her you'll know the answer when you finish reading that book. She's reading it now. And actually went to the library to get a real book not download a pdf. Maybe I should have her read Fahrenheit 451 next. Let's see if she figures it out
Wonderful to hear stories like this.....
Animal Farm is a great one.
Reminds me of last night...I see someone I know, go to say hello but they were buried in their phone; figured it was best to leave it at that.
I went on Amazon to buy a simple dumb-phone to replace my ancient now-unreliable simple dumb-phone. Most of the reviews were by people who were dumping their smart phones. They had had a smart phone, and they decided that they did not want one any more. The cost was a factor, but one woman wrote that her Ipad was bad for her health. That was cheering. However, most of the reviewers were probably older; probably there is no going back for young people.
The young people in the photos above are not fat, but they look physically unhealthy. I doubt that is a coincidence.
It's not the technology the issue, it's how you use it. My smartphone is 4 years old I think, don't plan to change anytime soon, it allows me to find my way if I'm lost with the GPS, or check in case of emergency a web page. I don't use any sociel medias, so I cannot be hooked. I use it very little, I miss half of the few calls I get cause it's always in another room.
Einstein, Einstein... all his work is based on Poincarré and others. I might be an idiot, but at least I did not facilitated the creation of the mightiest weapons on earth. Sometimes ignorance is bliss I guess.
There are so many retards with hundreds of facebook friends. Yeah, right. They are real friends. For long life real friends that will support you when you need help, you can count them with one or two hands.
For those retards with many LinkedIn. Work Anniversary, technology endorsement. FFS, get a life.
Twitters - people shouldn't give a shit what anyone said, especially those thick as shit celebrities.
Perhaps, people should start sorting out their own lives before nosing around others.
It just so happens all of those people are reading my FaceBook page - for 911Truth
And I swear that the girl in the white blouse (with a guy at dinner table) looks like my old roommate Rachel F - Rachel is that you?
https://www.facebook.com/wendy.davisguess
We don't care that beer isn't just for breakfast anymore. We are sharing links and saving considerable time by doing so. It takes hundreds of hours to reading/viewing to catch up on what is really happening. You know that. Sleeping Giant is awakening.
Eye contact when you are frightened can be contagious. American public is awake. If this is how it is going to happen, so be it.
Research shows that these new gadgets and they way people use them actually alters the brain leading to short attention span and bad memories. And probably all other sorts of stuff.
The last photo with the girls on the BMW is what we should soon as possible develop self-driving car like Google and incidentally why women aren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
I mean driving (without looking the fucking road) while using the phone, WTF ?
Neck surgery is going to be rivaling tattoo removal for the big bucks in about 10 years.
Einstein's prediction of technology is even worse than he predicted.
We now live in a world whereby - if technology exists for government to do "something", "anything" - they automatically assume it's necessary and they want to do it.
The implantation of RFID chips into babies at birth will happen - not because it's right - but because it's now possible.
and with more technology comes bigger shit lockers
While teaching a night time computer lab in a small college about 16 years ago a friend, a psych instructor, wandered in. We went to the corner of the lab where it was quiet and chatted. In the course of the conversation I noted to him “…see that guy over there he is a total computer geek. He virtually lives in this place on these computers and shuns people…”
My friend laughed and said “ …it’s only going to get worse. In schools today students are tethered to computers. The computers act as baby sitters and nannies for the teachers. In my studies of computers in class rooms I have found students love their computers because there is pain avoidance. Computers do your bidding, never chew you out and present all responses in a non threatening way. Computers act as barrier to avoid the pain of dealing with other humans. It’s scary…”
And look how far we have come in a few short years. Our worst fear should be is government becoming the operating system on our computers (if it has not already done so)….
"present all responses in a non threatening way"
not with me - when I was learning to compile f77 programs, it would always beep-beep-beep at me in ways that would expose my inadequacies....not threatening at all.
:P
The West has found a novel way of committing suicide.
Does anyone know how to get the long term financial charts that ZH gets? (specifically 100 to 200+ years? for gold, silver, dollar, gbp?) Have had no success finding this info.
Very long term charts on this page: http://forex-goodies.com/charts-longterm-currency.shtml