Devices Enforce Silence Of Cellphones

[Good Old Neon]

Treehugger - I agree with you and with the problems technology has on our development and health. Spot on.

 

Thanks Ren.

[JUDE]

I like the one with the very slightly chubby hot pale girl nude on the blanket in the woods. I think #4.

boy, that cat album cover is ugly.

[ZenLunatic]

pretend that's a middle finger.

 

It wasnt directed at the pic of your cat you posted. That one looks cute.

[Spawn's dad]

For instance, where the hell have all the children gone? I mean, I know they still exist, but where are they? Where do they play? Do they ever go outside? I'm thirty six years old, and fortunate enough to have grown up in a home where TV did not enter the picture, in any meaningful way, until I entered my mid-teens. We were the last non-cable household holdouts in the neighborhood. Which, looking back, was a huge blessing. It meant we played outdoors, explored, fished, pulled surveying posts from the ground in an attempt to preserve our little slice of unspoiled wilderness just a little bit longer, wandered till we were lost, haunted the local golf course in search of turtles, and by doing so, made the groundskeepers life hell, climbed trees, building forts in their canopies, wrecked ourselves on countless jumps in a vain attempt to emulate Evel Kneivel (sans helmet I might add.)

[EL the Famous]

I

[Good Old Neon]

The 'we used to be happier' argument is also pretty weak.

 

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009764

[yermom]

For instance, where the hell have all the children gone? I mean, I know they still exist, but where are they? Where do they play? Do they ever go outside? I

[cryptique]

It wasnt directed at the pic of your cat you posted. That one looks cute.

I know you're not talking about this cat:

[Reni]

HENRY!!

[ZenLunatic]

I know you're not talking about this cat:

 

I was just trying to annoy you cause the comment you made but the point got lost in all the posts. Your cat is not really ugly.

Forget about it, I didnt mean it.

 

But as for technology, I agree its our responsibility to respect it and use it to our advantage. All this advancement in technology is a great source of power, it doesnt get the respect it deserves from us.

[Spawn's dad]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009764

 

That societies where imminent death are a real potential have a higher level of happiness based on lesser levels of pleasure is not exactly a news flash. We don't live like that, nor are we likely to between now and the time you quit the board again.

[Good Old Neon]

That societies where imminent death are a real potential have a higher level of happiness based on lesser levels of pleasure is not exactly a news flash. We don't live like that, nor are we likely to between now and the time you quit the board again.

 

 

 

In response to any environment of extraordinary gratification and pampering (Say, The US for example.) the insatiable-infant part of our being will simply adjust its desires upward until it once again levels out at its homeostasis of terrible dissatisfaction. This is the society we

[JUDE]

Did you know most modern day pirates are from Somalia?

[bjorn_skurj]

In response to any environment of extraordinary gratification and pampering (Say, The US for example.) the insatiable-infant part of our being will simply adjust its desires upward until it once again levels out at its homeostasis of terrible dissatisfaction. This is the society we

[Spawn's dad]

you're not breaking any new ground. people have always been unhappy, despite class or culture.

 

"Now this, monks, is the Noble Truth of dissatisfaction: Birth is dissatisfaction, aging is dissatisfaction, death is dissatisfaction; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair are dissatisfaction; association with the unbeloved is dissatisfaction; separation from the loved is dissatisfaction; not getting what is wanted is dissatisfaction. In short, the five clinging-aggregates (form, sensations, perceptions, constructions, consciousness) are dissatisfaction."

 

 

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

work great anywhere. boy, that cat is ugly.

Ha. What's with the potshots at the orange pets lately? First Barney, now Tommy.

 

He was definitely the king of the castle when he had to stay at the vet for a few days. He made those vet techs swoon.

 

Edit: Or wast it Henry? I see. The point stands.

[Good Old Neon]

you're not breaking any new ground. people have always been unhappy, despite class or culture.

 

"Now this, monks, is the Noble Truth of dissatisfaction: Birth is dissatisfaction, aging is dissatisfaction, death is dissatisfaction; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair are dissatisfaction; association with the unbeloved is dissatisfaction; separation from the loved is dissatisfaction; not getting what is wanted is dissatisfaction. In short, the five clinging-aggregates (form, sensations, perceptions, constructions, consciousness) are dissatisfaction."

 

 

[Spawn's dad]

the idea that we are more dissatisfied than previous generations has no quantifiable validity.

 

it ends either when people root out craving or we extinguish our resources.

[bjorn_skurj]

I don't know where it will end. I don't think Ludditry is the answer, though. Probably a combination of technological improvement and some sort of control of the birth rate.

[Good Old Neon]

I don't know where it will end. I don't think Ludditry is the answer, though. Probably a combination of technological improvement and some sort of control of the birth rate.

 

If we continue down the path we are on, the conspicuous consumption of more and greater "improvements" upon items that already exist and work quite well, well, I

[froggie]

> How come people don't carry boom boxes down the street anymore?

 

you're living in the wrong country.. i've seen it a couple of times this year. pity it wasnt 80s music though

 

 

with the phone conversations on trains, a month or so back a not-so-respectfully-looking guy was talking loud saying things along the lines of "i just got out yesterday... yeah bazza got me out... now when i found mick, i'm gonna fuck him up like there's no tomorrow... wont know what hit him"

 

my friend suggested we switch carriages, which i agree with her

[bjorn_skurj]

If we continue down the path we are on, the conspicuous consumption of more and greater "improvements" upon items that already exist and work quite well, well, I

[Good Old Neon]

That's why I'm keeping my leather underwear.

 

There you go - good on ya mate!

[bjorn_skurj]

There you go - good on ya mate!

Wez: They kill us, we kill them! Kill them! Kill them! Kill! Kill!

The Humungus: Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way! We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge.

[Analogman]