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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-09-05 06:40:52 UTC
Shalua Rui wrote:
An interesting sociological experiment for sure, but it's a good thing they only plan to do that for a limited time...

...growing up in the 80'ies myself, I never would want to go back there, though ...the hair! *shivers*


You come from Austria- the hair and everything, every single day was way awesome in Austria in the eighties. Proof.

Germany however really had an issue with hair in the eighties, and not only scalp hair: Proof

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Shalua Rui
Rui Freelance Mining
#22 - 2013-09-05 07:38:27 UTC
Yea... Falco was cool... 'till a bus smashed his 4x4... so sad.

...on the other hand, he gave us much of our reputation for morbity ...I mean who would make something like that today? Blink

Still, I hated the 80'ies... I like to think of myself as a child of the 90'ies. Big smile

"ginger forum goddess, space gypsy and stone nibbler extraordinaire!" Shalua Rui - CEO and founder of Rui Freelance Mining (RFLM)
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#23 - 2013-09-05 08:45:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
Shalua Rui wrote:
Yea... Falco was cool... 'till a bus smashed his 4x4... so sad.

...on the other hand, he gave us much of our reputation for morbity ...I mean who would make something like that today? Blink

Still, I hated the 80'ies... I like to think of myself as a child of the 90'ies. Big smile


Being born in the 70's, probably I enjoyed the 80's better. Lots of great music, some great films, and the feeling of impending nuclear doom as background of childhood and youth... we're survivors! Lol

I recall being like 10 and thinking, "what if some idiot American or some idiot Russian screws up, and we're caught in the middle?" That thought used to p*ss me off a lot... Lol

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Shalua Rui
Rui Freelance Mining
#24 - 2013-09-05 08:52:27 UTC
I've been born in the 70'ies too, so yea, I do remember the 80'ies quite well... especially because I have a brother 10 years older then me, so I also experienced the live of a teenager in that decade, even though I was still a child. Blink

I agree on movies and some of the music... but other then that... I dunno. The 90'ies brought so much more innovation and interesting stuff...

"ginger forum goddess, space gypsy and stone nibbler extraordinaire!" Shalua Rui - CEO and founder of Rui Freelance Mining (RFLM)
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#25 - 2013-09-05 10:33:05 UTC
1965.

I actually remember real-live authentic Hippies. And people pointing when they would stop just to gas up the VW van and all that. I mean STARING. Like at aliens or something.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Endura Touscoday
Dark Tribunal Industries
#26 - 2013-09-06 01:29:17 UTC
wow that's going to extremes... but the one thing that worries me is more that they have stopped the use of search engines and replaced it with an encyclopedia that's almost 30 years out of date...

I have nothing exciting or fun to use as a Forum sig... eh, S**t happens...
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#27 - 2013-09-06 17:08:33 UTC
If this project had any merit in terms of parenting theory, the mullet thing completely nuked it. Poor kids, being raised by a jackass.
CCP Falcon
#28 - 2013-09-06 17:39:40 UTC
Christopher AET wrote:
His car looks decidedly modern


This was my first thought too. Clearly he's doing it wrong. P

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stoicfaux
#29 - 2013-09-07 04:59:08 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone).

I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile (Lol).

I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever.

I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Cool


Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that.

Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#30 - 2013-09-07 08:21:45 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone).

I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile (Lol).

I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever.

I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Cool


Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that.

Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto.



I said IT-luddite, not misanthropist. Cool

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
stoicfaux
#31 - 2013-09-08 18:21:24 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone).

I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile (Lol).

I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever.

I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Cool


Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that.

Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto.



I said IT-luddite, not misanthropist. Cool

Given the prevalence of social media and cell phones providing 24-7 availability that even our parents and grandparents can use, is there really a difference?

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#32 - 2013-09-08 18:48:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
stoicfaux wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone).

I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile (Lol).

I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever.

I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Cool


Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that.

Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto.



I said IT-luddite, not misanthropist. Cool

Given the prevalence of social media and cell phones providing 24-7 availability that even our parents and grandparents can use, is there really a difference?



I do use even landlines to phone my family (true story). The only smartphone in our household is my father's... and he's trying to remove FB from it as he's tired of getting updates from friends(?) he doesn't knows. Probably the day he started getting FB updates in Chinese, he figured that he was doing something wrong with FB... Lol

Anyway, no. Not being receptive to e-narcissism doesn't makes me a misanthropist, not even anti-social. My life is not worth sharing and my privacy is mine. I don't feel like bargaining with them so some company earns money selling my customs to companies who look to improve their unsolicited advertisement campaigns targeted at me.

If it is good that the Government knows the less possible about you, why should be good that a private for-profit company knew when i had a burger or who was with me at that time? Even worse, why should that company know that I was having a burger with some fool who thought that spreading the new to the whole universe made him "specialest" than the other fools?

"I had a burguer, 200 people know it, 0 care but they will send me 50 updates on the 50 burgers they had in 50 different places! I.. am... special! (And Burguer King just sent me an offer because according to Big Data, many of my friends eat there... how kind, how caring they are!)"

Not. My. Piece. Of. Cake.What?

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#33 - 2013-09-09 17:44:45 UTC
There's a sociology theory that smartphones and social media are actually making people less connected to society. The technology (especially cell phones/smart phones) allows people to stay constantly in touch with each other throughout the day. So people stay in constant touch with their personal circle (their "tribe"), rather than interacting with people outside of the tribe.
Example: Three co-workers go to lunch. As soon as they sit down, the pull out smart phones and start communicating with non-present tribe members, instead of with the people who are present.
Another true life example: Plumber shows up at the house in the middle of a cell phone call. Goes straight to the kitchen sink and starts working, still on the call. Doesn't hang up until the job is done and he's presenting the bill to the customer.

Whatever, I never want to be one of those people who haul out their smartphone every time there's the slightest pause in the action. The level of addiction is kind of pathetic.
Eiji Kusoni
Doomheim
#34 - 2013-09-09 20:17:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Eiji Kusoni
Eighties tech only wouldn't be so bad, we had multiple gaming consoles, cable and satellite television that didn't suck, audio and video cassettes, we even had cordless telephones, which people used to spend hours talking to each other on holding actual conversations and not sending annoying text messages back and forth.

Now fifties tech only, that would be the challenge.
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#35 - 2013-09-09 22:39:37 UTC
Amateurs. They should move in with an Amish group.

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#36 - 2013-09-10 06:57:08 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
There's a sociology theory that smartphones and social media are actually making people less connected to society. The technology (especially cell phones/smart phones) allows people to stay constantly in touch with each other throughout the day. So people stay in constant touch with their personal circle (their "tribe"), rather than interacting with people outside of the tribe.
Example: Three co-workers go to lunch. As soon as they sit down, the pull out smart phones and start communicating with non-present tribe members, instead of with the people who are present.
Another true life example: Plumber shows up at the house in the middle of a cell phone call. Goes straight to the kitchen sink and starts working, still on the call. Doesn't hang up until the job is done and he's presenting the bill to the customer.

Whatever, I never want to be one of those people who haul out their smartphone every time there's the slightest pause in the action. The level of addiction is kind of pathetic.


"Divide and conquer". People without high quality personal links are prone to consume more to compensate for their unsatisfaction. By allowing them to focus on 100 low-quality interactions, consumers are deprived to interact with potential high quality acquitances.

Social media favor quantity over quality (actually quality goes down the drain, we can just take so much bullshit before growing royally tired of it). They also lower the ability to think or reflexion, which also makes for good consumers and trains them with pavlovian triggers.

It's just good business, don't ask why, keep doing. We're in it for the money, and future will take care of itself. Roll

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Jena Jamson
Archangels 13
#37 - 2013-09-10 08:47:23 UTC
Wow, I suppose he'd ban the internet to keep the libraries open.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#38 - 2013-09-12 02:05:18 UTC
kids are 5 and 2... I think this says more about the parents than the kids.

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Jade III
Sebiestor Tribe
#39 - 2013-09-12 03:28:04 UTC
The article was telling you how a man banned his family from ever getting "ahead" in life.

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Eiji Kusoni
Doomheim
#40 - 2013-09-12 06:11:13 UTC
Jade III wrote:
The article was telling you how a man banned his family from ever getting "ahead" in life.

Because getting ahead in life means having the latest iCrap?
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