OT: Much of our culture is based upon ...

[frightlever]

Turn off your TV or buy a PVR. Install Firefox and Adblock Plus. That pretty much leaves magazine ads and billboards.

Unfortunately you're going to have no luck convincing the world at large that they shouldn't believe the drivel they're being fed.

A thought occured to me the other day - when I was a kid I listened to radio on LW, everything from Radio Moscow to the Voice of America. Nowadays I have a digital radio that only picks up radio from about a ten mile radius. Our culture is going to be what we're given because every scrap of it will be controlled and locked down forever through copyright and DRM.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The problem is, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern the truth from the mistakes, half-truths and lies.

Choice is good; it does not follow that all choices are good.


I abhor cell phones and to a lesser degree telephones. If cell phones were only used for emergencies they would be a good idea.

To put it simply, solitude is a necessity just as communication is. And telephones, by their nature, make it hard to ignore them - The call could always be important.

Now e-mail, that could revive communication if handled correctly. Messages can be marked urgent, I can generally take as long as I want replying and, to a certain degree, unwanted messages can be filtered. My google mail, for example, almost never gets unwanted mail.

(On the other hand, I generally communicate the longest in forums - Wonderful things, forums, for many of the same reasons. e-mail, despite its potential, still feels awkward)