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BarkellWH
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RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to mezzo)
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and like Bill he doesn't like Wikipedia It's not that I don't "like" Wikipedia, Mezzo; its just that I find it a poor resource for serious research because it is often wrong or misleading. Yes, it gets it right, too. But contributors are generally not serious scholars of the subject, and if I were grading a paper in which the author used Wikipedia as a source, I would give it a failing grade. Cheers, Bill
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Date Jan. 20 2012 13:45:48
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to XXX)
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...a different take on one of the ills of the internet: It is by now a cliche that communication by text alone suffers severely from the lack of non-verbal cues. This was emphasized for me by a very pleasurable experience. Last weekend Larisa and I saw the movie "The Artist". It is a modern, 21st century silent film. It has maybe a half-dozen captions where it is crucial that the audience know exactly what was said. But all the rest of the story is conveyed with body language only, using the "vocabulary" of the silent films before the 1930s. The film immediately captures the viewer and deeply engages the emotions. It is an exhilarating experience. The positive experience of seeing how much can be conveyed by body language alone, emphasizes how much is missing from attempts to communicate by text. Yes, there are plenty of 13-year old dweebs, 20-year old morons and 60-year old conspiracy theorists cluttering up the net. But I think there were just about as many back in my younger days before the internet. In those days in Texas, you would likely be asked to go outside and defend yourself if you behaved the way many do now on the net. Or you might just have been embarrassed into better manners by the reaction the net insulates the idiots from. I think there was just about as much bullsh1t in circulation in the pre-internet days. People were just more careful about what they said in public. I highly recommend the movie "The Artist". It's an uplifting story. It just won the Golden Globe awards of "best movie" and "best actor". The Jack Russell terrier "Uggie" should have gotten an award as well! As for piracy, clearly SOPA and PIPA were terribly defective bills. Unless, of course Hollywood's objective really was just to cripple the net. They would have worked well for that. Steve Jobs was right when he saw that giving people an honest, easy to use alternative to pirating music in iTunes would quickly grow into a huge business, and largely suppress piracy. RNJ
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Date Jan. 20 2012 22:01:02
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BarkellWH
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RE: The internet is in danger! (in reply to XXX)
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Even Europe, which is oh so famous for economic cooperation and piece, is falling apart just because this very fact that every nation only cares for itself. Wrong, Deniz! Europe is falling apart (at least the southern tier: Greece, Italy, Spain, and to an extent Portugal), not because "every nation only cares for itself." Rather, Europe (the southern tier) is falling apart because it promised its public too much in terms of social welfare, and it borrowed far more on the international market than it could pay for in order to finance this bloated social welfare policy. Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portuigal) is now paying the price of unsustainable public spending and borrowing.
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Date Jan. 21 2012 0:02:41
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