Apple's Steve Jobs Ping!
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Posted on 03/19/2015 6:34:17 AM PDT by HomerBohn
LBJ confronted JFK with a dossier, supplied by J.E. Hoover—on his womanizing—after Kennedy had already notified Sen. Stuart Symington that he was the VP pick.
JFK and RFK were going to put LBJ in prison. TIME and LIFE were both running cover stories on the mountain of dirt supplied to them by RFK, on December 2, 1963.
LBJ had JFK whacked. And most of Washington knew all about it, just as most or all of official Washington knows Obama is an illegal alien.
“to carry mostly brainless programming interrupted by commercials,...”?
Or is it “to carry commercials interrupted by mostly brainless programming...”?
Untreated hearing problems cause dementia! Not kidding. Possibly because of the absence of incoming auditory stimuli. It’s probably a good idea to have music or talk radio playing.
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ive seen couples in restaurants transfixed for hours ..to their phones
Same approach we used w our three kids. Never had a game console in the house. Shared family computer for school work only. They all got phones and computers in early HS and a refresh for college. Result — lots of time outdoors, sports, exercise, fresh air, love of “real” things and adventures, lots of friends, great family times. They all have great careers started now. It’s not hard to do — you just have to be a parent.
1) No "synchronous" communications (like "chat" and "texting"). "Asychronous" ("take it or ignore it") Communication (like FR) only...
2) No "e-games". (The only "game" that has ever been on any of my devices is a flight simulator.)
3) When I retired, I also "retired" my cellphone and my wristwatch.
4) I now enjoy lots of classical music -- and read at least three large books a week -- in addition to the outside work involved in "taming" 65 acres of Texas Piney Woods...
Congratulations on raising your kids well! I was heavily involved in IT for decades before retiring, as a systems engineer. I never allowed my kids to use electronic gadgets. I'd take them on tours of data centers I built and worked in, showing them gadgets. But it was hands off until middle school where computers became a necessity in classes. My kids excelled at reading books and performing math. They learned and understood basics underlying technology. After graduating from universities they are doing well in high paying jobs. Technology is merely a tool for them, not a lifestyle.
No, limiting technology use and demonstrating that there’s alternatives to playing with your computer or ipad is essential, it’s life. I can respect Steve Jobs’ decisions when I see so many people get so absorbed into their devices that plenty of people hardly talk to each other. People getting obssessed with technology, is a bad imbalance in society nowadays, it’s what I like to call technology abuse.
I stare at a computer all day. When I come home, I crave a plain old book. I’ll even write (with a pen) in a journal.
The plethora of apps have made shopping, thinking, socialization, etc. a passive experience. We’ll buy whatever Google finds for us. We’ll simply click on our phones for take-out, rather than go out to eat — or plan our own meals. Creative expression depends on exposure to many things, not just electronic.
The story of the Cobbler’s Children immediately comes to mind.
When my son tried it for the first time, he said it was so hard shutting down his mind wanting input. His mind just couldn't stop asking for input, input, need input!!
He said it was so amazing once he got his mind to just relax and enjoy, the time raced by and he felt like he had just had 8 hours of the most restful sleep when the lights came on. Try it some time!
I was behind the technology curve for most of my life as a child. But it really didn’t kill me that I was recording my own custom attempts at being a DJ on magnetic casette tapes or shooting movies with my friends on analog film camcorders, actually doing stupid, cheap, monster movies outside in the process! All the while the higher tech stuff was coming out. Don’t regret doing that, in fact, doing some cheap kid movie on analog film beats the hours of online and console gaming a lot of kids do nowadays, and FWIW, it takes hours upon hours just to be anywhere close to good in the global gaming community.
Mmmmmm...that sounds delightful. I’m the only person I know who had an enjoyable experience with a closed MRI...lol
OUr children had no electronics including television exept for Friday movie on a 12 set connected to a vcr.
Once they were about 14 we introduced some computer and by 16 they all had computers.
Made a real difference in their lives. Added IQ points IMHO.
The elite never give their children the garbage they sell to the proles.
Any one with computer experience knows that the vaunted computer skills take about 2 days to learn.
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