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Old 06-02-2015, 02:24 PM   #1
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I do NOT want Google, or anyone else for that matter, knowing the places I go. Or for what.

No.

That was just a little bit cool, though. And a little bit scary.
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Old 06-02-2015, 02:29 PM   #2
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Perfect yard for football.

It's both cool and spooky when I happen to glance at my phone in the morning before heading off to work, and Google tells me the fastest way without me even asking. It really wants me to take the bus to the metro, and I'm sure it's faster, but then I wouldn't be walkin' man.
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Old 06-03-2015, 01:26 PM   #3
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Yeah, Mr. Clod's phone sometimes alerts him ahead of time when there's traffic, even if he didn't ask. As in, at 6:10 a notification will pop up saying something to the effect of, "we know you normally head home at 6:30, but you will want to leave at 6:15 today if you don't want to be late."
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Old 06-03-2015, 04:24 PM   #4
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That's useful science right there
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Old 06-05-2015, 11:33 AM   #5
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I was trying to decide, this morning, whether or not life is actually better for everyone since the advent of computers and their resultant technologies.

Actually better, not "I like it more" better. What have we lost and what have we gained? Are the gains substantive or are they decorative?
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Old 06-05-2015, 11:37 AM   #6
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Old 06-05-2015, 12:04 PM   #7
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Computers are part of a remarkable set of steps forward that, after a century, have led to the end of hunger, the doubling of our life spans, and the end of a back-breaking lifestyle in which 50% of the people were needed to be farmers and labor 14 hours a day. Some say the advances have now led to a general pause in the amount of global warfare going on, a trend which, if it continues, ends centuries upon centuries of savagery, death, and man's inhumanity to man.

If you are not happy now, that is your choice.
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Old 06-05-2015, 12:29 PM   #8
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If you are not happy now, that is your choice.
See, that should be on a poster.
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Old 06-08-2015, 03:55 AM   #9
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See, that should be on a poster.
I read that as "plaster" [bandaid].
It worked for me.
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Old 06-08-2015, 10:19 AM   #10
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Computers are part of a remarkable set of steps forward that, after a century, have led to the end of hunger, the doubling of our life spans, and the end of a back-breaking lifestyle in which 50% of the people were needed to be farmers and labor 14 hours a day. Some say the advances have now led to a general pause in the amount of global warfare going on, a trend which, if it continues, ends centuries upon centuries of savagery, death, and man's inhumanity to man.

If you are not happy now, that is your choice.
the end of hunger? that hasn't happened, with or without computers.
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Old 06-08-2015, 10:25 AM   #11
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the end of hunger? that hasn't happened, with or without computers.
No, but we're heading in the right direction, and quickly.
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Old 06-05-2015, 01:20 PM   #12
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Old 06-05-2015, 01:28 PM   #13
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Wrong again.
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Old 06-05-2015, 01:30 PM   #14
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Old 06-05-2015, 01:36 PM   #15
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