Posted on 03/19/2015 6:34:17 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Don't ask your parents; consult your hand-held plaything.
Because he was a father?
Would a bartender limit their kid’s exposure to mixed drinks?
If you have something about Apple or Steve a Jobs, be sure to ping Swordmaker ... :-) ...
Ah, much like the king pin dealer never smokes the weeds.
The division of the family is the exact opposite of what Jobs did. I mean, what is the difference between a prostitute paying a pimp and a spouse spending more time making Wal Mart rich than taking care of children or spouse?.. and making the children pay respect to the pimp and his devices too!
I realize we cannot be “isolationists”, but lately globalism has greatly disrespected us in its witch hunt against borders and heterosexual norms.
Interesting
oh bee ess
Trying to make this narcissistic jerk a saint.
Considered as a device, television is a marvel. The way it was used after WWII—to carry mostly brainless programming interrupted by commercials, to an audience plopped for hours each day on their couches—is one of the most destructive uses of technology of all time.
“Would a bartender limit their kid’s exposure to mixed drinks?”
Best answer.
Trying to make this narcissistic jerk a saint.*
I love it! I just got my first eye phone a few months ago.....the final hold out! LOL
My point being for kids it would be good to get a break from the damn things. I find it useful but I am not addicted to it. When I am at the store around people I still acknowledge others. How rude people are to store clerks with their device attached to their head. More Jerks.... I know this sentiment is considered old fasioned but there is nothing old fashioned about Brotherhood of Man. That is our goal here, Man.
oh bee less
Trying to make him a sociopathic demon is no better.
Nobody says Steve Jobs was a saint. Just interesting that he recognized the potential for inappropriate use and guided his kids away from it - just as many of us do (I’m an iOS app developer, and indeed do keep my kids away from tablets most of the time, encouraging reading physical books an playing with physical toys, saving “screen time” for special occasions and dire need for “where’s this kid’s pause button??!?”). Not much different from a car mechanic not letting the kid drive early without direct supervision, or a winemaker not letting a kid imbibe intoxicants before due time. There’s a place for computers/tablets & apps, but hands-on and productive is generally better than virtual and distracting.
It's ridiculous what a large percentage of people in any given setting are staring hypnotized at a gizmo.
Yep. I was having a conversation w/ my brother the other day and lamenting about how few people can seem to just sit contently without some sort of electronic distraction.
People have lost the ability to simply sit still, think, and reflect because of this constant FOMA (fear of missing out) brought on by their social tech devices.
My teenage daughter is limited to 1 hour of computer time, in the family room, each day. She’s not allowed to bring her phone to school, nor to bed with her at night. It’s also a “dumb phone” that just makes calls and sends/receives texts. No data plan. Remarkably, she’s survived.
My son is not yet 10, and often laments how his friends at school all have iPhones, so why can’t he too? I say, because real life is much more interesting than what’s on a 4” screen.
But my own dear Chosen One can’t sit for more than 3 minutes without some sort of tech distraction. If heaven forbid the device is charging, then the TV or radio needs to be on. “Something, anything, just put it on!” I don’t understand it.
When I have to go out of town on business, most times I drive. 4, 6, 8 hour road trips. The majority of them I drive in total silence, no radio, nothing. Just pondering. Man gets a lot of thinking done like that.
As a free market believer I have change my stance on isolationism over the last few years. I am all for it now. Seal the border, bring all troops home, and stop all foreign aid.
More of a Steve Jobs thing than Apple. Same could be said for anybody seeking some balance in using technology.
It basically won Kennedy the election. If he hadn’t won and died, maybe we wouldn’t have to deal with LBJ’s destructive influence.
I like quiet and solitude. I have to be doing something; building models, jigsaw puzzles, reading, playing board war games but I find noise more and more irritating. I consider my tinnitus my internal white noise machine. And I am a technical illustrator by trade.
Indeed, but globalists loooove the gays. To them, we need to put a burka to sell for them.
Very much in harmony with my own experiences. I own a small IT business. My kids never had video games, computer games, Nintendo, Wii, Xbox, or any of it. They were allowed to use the Internet to research, to learn about things, but mostly they used these magic blocks called “books.” No iPods or iPads or cellphones until they were well into high school (and then, other than a basic cellphone for emergency communications, they could buy the other stuff on their own limited budgets). We didn’t even have cable when they were younger. They got 30 minutes a day of broadcast TV.
That sort of thing, combined with the fact that we homeschooled them through elementary school, did make them - and us - stick out a little bit. Our friends would kiddingly accuse us of child abuse - and some of the neighbors not so kiddingly.
But they turned out okay.
We are becoming the “Borg”.
So connected that it is difficult for outside stimuli to get our attention.
We feel uncomfortable and isolated when we are not connected.
We look upon those that resist the technology that connects us as fighting the inevitable.
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