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quote:I guess when these lowlifes get their obama ‘fomes’…..they learn how to call their congressmen and demand more handouts. Then they call their pushers or their clients. The drug business continues to run at full steam. Happy days in the projects. Dark people are sooo………predictable. Best comment from the phone article.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Don't these people also want Bradley Manning to be crucified? Weren't these people all up in arms over the fact that the leaked video of an American helicopter literally murdering innocent reporters came about? Didn't I hear this same echo chamber saying that this sort of thing is the reason that censorship must exist because the left, via the media, only put it out there to make Bush look bad? One of the right wing conspiracy nuts I worked with explained it like this; Snowden's leak is OK because he leaked it to the US press while Manning's a no good traitor because he shared it that dirty foreigner Assange and WikiLeaks, therefore punishable under the espionage act.
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Let him know that Snowden leaked it to the British press.
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Let him know that Snowden leaked it to the British press. Technically speaking I think he leaked to the Guardian's US branch.
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Just a reminder that getting the extension that blocks YouTube comments was one of the best things to ever happen to me.
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Daily Currant is a joke site, like the Onion.
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Radish posted:"Generation Text" is similar to "Generation Wikileaks" that this article calls modern whistle-blowers. I think he was saying "generation text" in the context of ragging on younger people/voters who only communicate or read anything if it's texted. He may have a point. I find it baffling that people text while driving, watching movies, eating dinner or whatever and still can't get my head around what's so loving important all the time. Then again, I'm all  , use e-mail, have an answering machine and land line, call people and still have a flip phone.
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People still have landlines? What was it like in the age of sail anyways?
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You're not that much older than me, Boat. Ditch that land line!
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BiggerBoat posted:I think he was saying "generation text" in the context of ragging on younger people/voters who only communicate or read anything if it's texted. He may have a point. I find it baffling that people text while driving, watching movies, eating dinner or whatever and still can't get my head around what's so loving important all the time. It's not that anything is so important, it's that the overwhelming amount of information bombarding people every second of their waking lives has caused them to be overstimulated and to avoid dealing with the increasing complexity of the world we sort it out into simple rote tasks that we can repeat over and over again to avoid actually doing anything meaningful or challenging. People check their facebook and instagram and twitters 1000 times a day so they don't have to deal with anything of consequence.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:It's not that anything is so important, it's that the overwhelming amount of information bombarding people every second of their waking lives has caused them to be overstimulated and to avoid dealing with the increasing complexity of the world we sort it out into simple rote tasks that we can repeat over and over again to avoid actually doing anything meaningful or challenging. People check their facebook and instagram and twitters 1000 times a day so they don't have to deal with anything of consequence. There's a difference between texting and compulsive Facebook checking though.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:It's not that anything is so important, it's that the overwhelming amount of information bombarding people every second of their waking lives has caused them to be overstimulated and to avoid dealing with the increasing complexity of the world we sort it out into simple rote tasks that we can repeat over and over again to avoid actually doing anything meaningful or challenging. People check their facebook and instagram and twitters 1000 times a day so they don't have to deal with anything of consequence. Those drat kids and their texting! Maybe people check their texts and twitter because they like knowing what their friends and family are up to. No, it's because they're overstimulated and afraid of the complexity of the world.
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sidewalkjesus posted:Those drat kids and their texting! It's easier to read about and comprehend your best friend's sandwich than it is to understand the massively complex economic issues that are wrecking the world's poo poo. Less terrifying, too.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's easier to read about and comprehend your best friend's sandwich than it is to understand the massively complex economic issues that are wrecking the world's poo poo. Less terrifying, too. It's not as if those things are mutually exclusive, and I think you'll find that most people weren't interested in that poo poo before they had texts and twitters.
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sidewalkjesus posted:Those drat kids and their texting! Yeah I totally am an old man who is out of touch with today's kids. There's a difference between people who check their phones throughout the day and people who literally check it every two minutes because they don't know how to function otherwise. If you don't know people from both camps you probably don't know that many people. I have a friend that I can't go to the movies with anymore because he can't ignore his phone for 5 minutes, much less 90 and it's obnoxious having to tell a grown adult to put his drat phone away. Fandyien posted:It's not as if those things are mutually exclusive, and I think you'll find that most people weren't interested in that poo poo before they had texts and twitters. Yes but they probably did more productive things while avoiding those issues than retweeting celebrity tweets and posting photos of every meal on instagram, and they probably had at least a basic awareness of the world around them rather than being oversaturated with non-information. Anyway it's just a potential explanation that I'm far from the first person to suggest. It doesn't really have much to do with right wing media specifically, though, so I'm going to stop derailing.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Yes but they probably did more productive things while avoiding those issues than retweeting celebrity tweets and posting photos of every meal on instagram, and they probably had at least a basic awareness of the world around them rather than being oversaturated with non-information. You are hopelessly naive if you really thought that, I mean look at how much poo poo people don't believe. I had to explain to people that Buddhists are allowed in China and Sweden is not socialist, and this was from people who hate facebook, twitter, and all of the other poo poo.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Yeah I totally am an old man who is out of touch with today's kids. Your first post seemed to be talking about people generally instead of the very specific people you're talking about now. So yeah, people that can't sit through a movie without checking their phone are ridiculous. So are people that can't sit through a movie without talking through most of it. The problem is that only one of those things is cited as a reason that kids today are awful. The first group of people is overwhelmingly young because that's the demographic of people that are very connected with technology. quote:Yes but they probably did more productive things while avoiding those issues than retweeting celebrity tweets and posting photos of every meal on instagram, and they probably had at least a basic awareness of the world around them rather than being oversaturated with non-information. No, they didn't have a better understanding of the world around them. They were undecided on whether African-Americans should be allowed to drink from the same water fountain as white people, and they're still not aware that gay people aren't going to destroy America.
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Hate to break it to you, mr. mephistopheles, but there was no golden age of democracy when people all informed themselves about the world around them. Citizens have gotten more apathetic towards voting, but given the relatively tiny amount their vote counts for, and the even tinier potential for real change in policy direction, I don't blame them.
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Thump! posted:People still have landlines? Soonmot posted:You're not that much older than me, Boat. Ditch that land line! True story: The security system on my house and my HOA require a land line in order for it to work. It's cheaper for me to get the land line, internet and some semblance of basic cable than it is to just get the internet and phone, if you can believe it. There's no other cable/internet/land line provider in my area so Comcast gets to do what it wants. I hardly live in the sticks either. I also own a beach home in St. Augustine and the security system there doesn't work without land line service either. Without a security system working, if I get robbed, I get hosed over by my insurance company. The free market, ladies and gentlemen! I know this has nothing to do with right wing media, really, but dittoheads and republicans would probably just say "who told you to own TWO homes?! Just get a better paying jobs to pay for the land lines!" etc. etc. I don't know about the age of sail, Thump, but the age of not constantly having a machine making a noise that you were expected to immediately pay attention to, checking your messages when you got home, calling people when you had a spare moment and enjoying some semblance of balance between privacy and being on call 24/7/365 were actually sort of OK. edit: Holy poo poo. Rush caused a de-rail. Is there a "Texting/Cell phone/Facebook" thread somewhere? A "Modern age of communication" D&D thread? Because, honestly, I've sent maybe 25 texts in my entire life, am not on Facebook and never feel like I'm really missing anything. I'm not a complete shut in. I have friends, a wife, a kid and two homes. I write down things I need to do on a little note pad. I am old. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Landlines are still useful for fax machines and houses with lovely cell phone reception.
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Plus a lot of phone companies offer unlimited long distance now in order to compete with cell phones. It's actually pretty nice for older people who have no desire to ever get a cell.
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Cell-only households is generally higher in poorer areas then richer areas, due to the fact that even cheap landline plans are still more expensive then getting a $20 Tracfone with a hundred minutes or so. The CDC makes reports yearly-ish on wireless vs landline usage: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr061.pdf
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BiggerBoat posted:True story: You're not alone. My company builds FTTH to gated communities as they're being built. They're the next big thing here in MS. We used to offer TV services. Still do, really, but no one takes it. They all want land line for security systems and high speed net. Every single person gets DirecTV for their television.
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BiggerBoat posted:Holy poo poo. Rush caused a de-rail. That's what he does best.
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Howard Kurtz decided to move from CNN to Fox News: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/howard-kurtz-leaves-cnn-for-fox-93109.html Honestly I'm not surprised, it seems like he's been pretty critical of non-Fox News media to begin with. And this is coming off of one embarrassing mistake after another recently. He'll fit right at home there.
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Vertical Lime posted:Howard Kurtz decided to move from CNN to Fox News: Hannity is already saying he's full of poo poo and he hates him. So, yeah, he'll fit in great alongside O'Reilly.
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I've gotten into fights with my girlfriend because my phone rang while we were hanging out and I looked at it, ignored it, and decided I'd call the person back in a few hours. She thinks it's so absurd that I can keep going about my day without immediately finding out why that person called me.
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That graph showing how SNAP has the best return on the dollar, is that in this thread? I've gone back a bunch of pages and tried Google but the one I saw here at SA was the best. Little help? Found it here at MediaMatters. Not sure my GOP pal is gonna buy it. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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My uncle countered that graph with THE GOVERNMENT NEVER DOES ANYTHING GOOD or something like that.
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Install Gentoo posted:Cell-only households is generally higher in poorer areas then richer areas, due to the fact that even cheap landline plans are still more expensive then getting a $20 Tracfone with a hundred minutes or so. At the risk of sounding  , how does telephone ownership fall within the CDC's wheelhouse? I'd expect it to be monitored by, I dunno, the FTC or some defense agency.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:At the risk of sounding Just a guess, but the CDC is responsible for all sorts of sociological monitoring, as it allows them to better model outbreaks and tailor response programs.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's easier to read about and comprehend your best friend's sandwich than it is to understand the massively complex economic issues that are wrecking the world's poo poo. Less terrifying, too. You can do both dude, having to actually tell someone this out loud is killing me. Edit: wow I should have hit refresh.
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Phone posted:My uncle countered that graph with THE GOVERNMENT NEVER DOES ANYTHING GOOD or something like that. Why does your uncle hate the troops?
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He doesn't hate the troops, he hates that drat government that won't let them glass those a-rabs in Iraqistan.
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No man, no problem - Iosef Stalin
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Cordyceps Headache posted:Hate to break it to you, mr. mephistopheles, but there was no golden age of democracy when people all informed themselves about the world around them. I never said or even implied this. I said they were more aware of the world around them as in engaged in it. That doesn't necessarily mean more informed. Grand Prize Winner posted:At the risk of sounding It looks like they asked about that detail as part of an immunization survey.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:At the risk of sounding The CDC collects data on just about everything that can be linked to health outcomes in one way or another - phones are an easy one, there's major outcome differences for someone who can't call 911 vs people who can, for example. In this one, they have statistics for people of various health statuses and the relation with what kinds of phones they have access to: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201212.pdf (page 15)
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