[an0n]

Originally posted by Top Gun
I agree with you to some extent there but there are some limmited uses that Icq and IRC have.

Yeah like secure chatting (through modification), finding hackable n00bs and planning things.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Best technologies: 3D modeling programs (well, obviously), a fission system so simple you really CAN build one from home supplies, the helicopter (I dunno, I just like helicopters. So much better than cars, planes, etc. I want one. A big, ugly gray one.)\

Worst technologies: Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ. No need for an explanation there- if you don't know why these things are an abomination worse than the feared Pepsi commercial, you're likely part of the reason I hate them. The new, largely Microsoft-spawned demons of the internet such as Macros, enabling script kiddies to hit me without me even opening the email and popup ads to dance obscenely about my screen and conceal their close buttons. And the TV.

My fourth worst would be the car, and my fifth the telephone (though it made the internet possible, the Plastic Bastard jams my DSL line and enables annoying, stupid people to harass me all night long. In fact, rank the answering machine right above the phone, 'cause it means I don't have a good excuse for never returning calls except "I can't stand you, burn in hell." Which isn't too good for business deals.) After that, put genetically engineered viruses and all the other things that make us die horribly along those lines. At least they kill the stupid telephone people, too.

So many errors, so many screwed up assertions... I just don't know where to begin...

[Shrike]

Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!

Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....

[an0n]

Originally posted by wEvil
Nuclear Bombs

Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....

Soon, my pretties. Soon.

[Corsair]

Originally posted by an0n
Soon, my pretties. Soon.

I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

WHAT THE HELL??????

[CP5670]

All things considered, I would say that the HST is the best of anything.

[wEvil]

Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....

come back in a couple of years

[Top Gun]

the WIPO is very related to everyday life, trying to force a corprate funded adn unfair US copyright law on the rest of the world wherther they like it or not.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!

Yeah and when the aliens/asteriods come, will you still be complaining about nukes?

[Kellan]

Well in that case, why didn't we keep smallpox rampant so it'd be easy to infect the aliens when they arrive here? It's a stupid argument...

Nukes are an effective deterrent for rational leaders of normal nuclear nations. For people like OBL, they're just another weapon. THAT is why they're unsafe. Move past the Cold War, man!

[Kellan]

Oh, and my best/worst things are pretty much the same as wEvil's. Best:

* Computers - self-explanatory.
* Telephones - stay in touch with the people you love all the time!
* CDs - Mmmm, music.

Worst:

* Corporate culture - WIPO, erosion of rights, co-option of lifestlye as advertising etc all in the pursuit of profits at all cost.
* Free Market Economics - sure to garner a great big [laugh at Kellan] - I'm referring to one-way free trade, the aforemetioned corporate culture and the IMF, World Bank and so on.
* Cars - I know they're damn useful, and I rely on them, but I'm scared of what they can do, and how they make communities drift apart.

Commence the ripping apart, please.

[an0n]

I've condensed my list:

Good :-
Readily available weaponry (under my control)

Bad :-
Readily available weaponry (not under my control)

[Kellan]

I'm not sure if I should be:

1) Amused
2) Afraid

[Corsair]

I think I'm amused and afraid at the same time.

[Stryke 9]

Good way to be, that way you're always nice and confused...


You know, I was just watching TV for the first time in about 2 months (I should have waited longer), and I realized something- I'm in the first generation containing multiple countercultures with a really noticeable corporate sponsorship... I mean, really. Is most rap music/ ghetto culture nowadays more about being black, disenfranchised, and poor or about being white and trying to get a tan?

[Dark_4ce]

GOOD
Internet
Computers
Special FX in movies
Progress in Medicine

BAD
Teletubbies

[an0n]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
BAD
Teletubbies

*goes to find an axe*

[Stryke 9]

Telletubies rule!:mad:

Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!

[Blue Lion]

Good
Hilarious Comics about FS2
Kickass renders
Content!

Bad
Martha Stewart

[Dark_4ce]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Telletubies rule!:mad:

Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!

Hmm. You're right about Barney! Should have put that on my list too. But seriously, I had one whole summer in baby sitting my neice where she watched all day, every day the Telletubies, and I couldn't take it anymore, all that "eh oh... Bai baiiii...." or "Oooone.... Tuuuuuu.... Thweeeee!!!" *shudder*

Oh well, thats just me.