Posted on 08/08/2015 4:05:43 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Some dummies wear head sets all the time – speak as if their brains have been fried. They can’t concentrate on anything for longer than a few seconds.
#5 is rather a stretch.
The rest of them are fair.
I would say that #4 is also a stretch.
In the photo, morons hugging in a traffic lane. Darwin Award winners earning their award. I’m glad their genes will leave the pool.
Two days ago a car jounced over the curb striking a friend on the sidewalk and breaking his leg in three places. This necessitated a hospital stay and surgery. I don’t know how it has come out, but he’s still in the hospital on morphine.
The driver, a twenty-seven year old white male, was arrested. Two lives have been changed forever so the driver could text LOL.
25 years ago I had one communications bill, a land line which cost about 30 bucks per month. That was it. I didn't need cable because the networks were better. But even cable was only 30 - 40 bucks and when it started out it was commercial free.
Fast forward to today.
$420/mo for communications!
Have salaries keep pace with technology? What are we doing here?
Agreed. EVERYONE we know has a cell phone. Everyone. And how may of those have cancer because of them? Me? Not a one.
all of human history before the 1990s existed without cell phones.
all of human history before the 1800s existed without electricity
all of human history before the 1700s existed without industrial production
So what?
Should we go back to caves?
None of the technology you listed destroyed basic human interaction.
The technologies I listed all had their detractors claiming that mankind or civilization was grievously harmed by the innovations of the day.
If it walks like a Luddite, talks like a Luddite...
2 flip phones x $20/mo = $40
Hi-speed cable modem = $50
Add in taxes & whatnot = $100/mo
No TV (tired of the jangly trash).
And I’ve re-discovered books.
Use my cars blue tooth for calls. Before that answered with speaker phone and pulled over to dial (before Siri). But texting while driving is just wrong. The guy who plowed into my new explorer that was stopped at a light was probably texting. My wife spent the night in the hospital. The cop refused to question the guy about whether he was texting once he determined he was sober. I showed up and demanded the cop check the guy for booze. I almost got arrested. Later the cop showed up at the hospital and was nice but said the guy was sober but otherwise distracted.
That’s true—so it makes it a stretch to claim some global capitalist conspiracy, rather than obvious market forces.
I see the EL in your screen name, but I think they are finding more brain cancer links.
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I think using a cell phone or i-phone in public should be consider a social tabu. Find a spot away from the public to talk or text.
Yeah, like #4.
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