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Dangerou-Dave
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I've been sipping some wino, and it's made me quite the philosopher apparrently. I may wright a tad too much, but bear with me and skim along if you're patient enough. You can probably just read the last couple of grafs and get a sense of this stupid rant I've written.
I'm curious as to whether any of you guys have thought about the internet and its impact on you as an individual...not in the sense you might think. I mean, the amount of information, news, videos, etc. you process in a single day. I'll admit at work and at home I probably read, skim, or browse through hundreds of articles a day, from Fark and Digg, to Drudge or Reddit. It's astounding the amount of information we have access to that others may have never encountered decades ago.
(You can probably skip this graf, for the impatient/rushed) I've spent hours watching video footage shot by soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, not because of some morbid curiosity, but out of curiosity for the 'real.' I want to see how real humans react when shot at, when shooting at others, when fighting a war thousands of miles away from home. I watched celebration videos of Barack Obama's victory from 20 different locations. I've watched how British, French, and Israeli citizens all reacted. I've seen inner city school kids do wretched things to their classmates in the poorest parts of America, and I've seen their parents act similarly in their own neigborhoods. I've seen similar videos in Russia, Japan, Brazil. I've seen little-noticed injustices, from stonings in Iran, to simple police brutality.
To sort of give you an example of where I'm coming from:
I've read news about Ukraine, sure, but I've also read news from Ukraine, or news from Russia regarding Ukraine. I've most likely spoken to Ukrainians, and have spent time reading about the most obscure aspects of Ukrainian culture. Was this all possible thirty years ago? Absolutely. But today, in the year 2008, I could have accomplished all of the above in the time it took me to write this forum post.
Maybe my brain is gasping for air, but thirty years ago, how could one even have any sort of grasp on the world as we see it? I'm just curious to see if thoughts like this cross anyone elses mind around here.
I'm curious as to whether any of you guys have thought about the internet and its impact on you as an individual...not in the sense you might think. I mean, the amount of information, news, videos, etc. you process in a single day. I'll admit at work and at home I probably read, skim, or browse through hundreds of articles a day, from Fark and Digg, to Drudge or Reddit. It's astounding the amount of information we have access to that others may have never encountered decades ago.
(You can probably skip this graf, for the impatient/rushed) I've spent hours watching video footage shot by soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, not because of some morbid curiosity, but out of curiosity for the 'real.' I want to see how real humans react when shot at, when shooting at others, when fighting a war thousands of miles away from home. I watched celebration videos of Barack Obama's victory from 20 different locations. I've watched how British, French, and Israeli citizens all reacted. I've seen inner city school kids do wretched things to their classmates in the poorest parts of America, and I've seen their parents act similarly in their own neigborhoods. I've seen similar videos in Russia, Japan, Brazil. I've seen little-noticed injustices, from stonings in Iran, to simple police brutality.
To sort of give you an example of where I'm coming from:
I've read news about Ukraine, sure, but I've also read news from Ukraine, or news from Russia regarding Ukraine. I've most likely spoken to Ukrainians, and have spent time reading about the most obscure aspects of Ukrainian culture. Was this all possible thirty years ago? Absolutely. But today, in the year 2008, I could have accomplished all of the above in the time it took me to write this forum post.
Maybe my brain is gasping for air, but thirty years ago, how could one even have any sort of grasp on the world as we see it? I'm just curious to see if thoughts like this cross anyone elses mind around here.
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I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Back in the day if you made that same journey across the U.S. you would go with a giant band of people, most of whom would die of gangrene and shit, and by the time the months had passed and you got to the other side you would be a changed man--a survivor of horror and loss. Now we can do it in an afternoon.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
That comedian was pretty brilliant. You have a link to the youtube? I forget his name.
I'm glad for the internet because it gives me something to read while I'm at work
We can talk about The Wire too, I've been on a big Wire kick.
Edit: Graf = paragraph. Sorry, journalism slang. I spend way too much time in the newsroom.
At least, in theory.
And they pretty much have to let it in eventually or they can't compete in our new world.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Yeah that's what I like about it. I mean, the Internet, as much as it's often just used for porn etc. still completely changes the way the world works. I mean shit picture this in medieval times, it's goddamn WITCHCRAFT to be able to see someone , speak to them and interact with the from the other side of the world.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Man, you got me all thinking about stuff now, man.
Hm? I don't know if I've ever heard a colleage not use the word "graf." ...Lede, Nutgraf, graf, kicker, kicker quote, etc. Sometimes it drips into my everyday rambling.
I'm talking mid-nineties here.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
They were more likely to die of Dypthereia or Smallpox.
That's assuming you can ford the river without losing most of your supplies.
Wait. . . am I supposed to know this?
I mean besides "lead," which you insisted on perverting.
Although I don't know why you would even argue about slang; I mean it could develop differently anywhere.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Writing it, that is. When I got bored at my old job we would write steak-house themed porn stories.
You make Dennis Leary proud.
I'm not really sore about it, just dishing on the Livingston is all. Hell, there's a case of beer out in the garage. I just like to stick to wine when I'm drinking wine, and this is the wine I gots.
Good god the wire is great. I agreed that, yeah, it's a good show back when I was making my way through the first few seasons, but the last couple of seasons were cream fo the crop.