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This really says it all...

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The next agenda for a "socialist" government will be requiring everyone to have a computer and every household to have internet access. I don't think it'll be as expensive or controversial as healthcare tho.. or am I wrong?
 
netrox said:
This really says it all...

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If it weren't so sad that people are so ill informed, it would be funny. I can't believe how many people are actually so easily manipulated by this crap. Oh well, I guess it's easier than actually thinking.:cool2:
 
netrox said:
The next agenda for a "socialist" government will be requiring everyone to have a computer and every household to have internet access. I don't think it'll be as expensive or controversial as healthcare tho.. or am I wrong?
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I hope you are right. I hope they don't stop now.
 
netrox said:
The next agenda for a "socialist" government will be requiring everyone to have a computer and every household to have internet access. I don't think it'll be as expensive or controversial as healthcare tho.. or am I wrong?
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yea it is expensive because the companies have to build more infrastructure and that is extremely costly especially since there are lot of rural communities in USA.

and controversial because that means the household has to pay extra bills for internet service. so when you put "mandatory requirement" as the law... then I refer you to my post in other thread -

Before the "Mandatory Requirement" - CEOs are:
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After the "Mandatory Requirement" - CEOs are:
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Well, I just thought about it - perhaps we don't really need a law to require Americans to have computers/access to Internet. I don't know of a household with a child that doesn't have a computer and there are a lot of free wifi access and they could go there if they need internet access.
 
netrox said:
Well, I just thought about it - perhaps we don't really need a law to require Americans to have computers/access to Internet. I don't know of a household with a child that doesn't have a computer and there are a lot of free wifi access and they could go there if they need internet access.
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about 40% of Americans do not have computer and/or have access to high-speed Internet. That is a significant digital divide because other people with computers/Internet would have advantage over those who doesn't in terms of education/career success.

So why the double standard? :hmm:
 
Jiro said:
about 40% of Americans do not have computer and/or have access to high-speed Internet. That is a significant digital divide because other people with computers/Internet would have advantage over those who doesn't in terms of education/career success.

So why the double standard? :hmm:
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Simply being in possession of a computer does not create educational success. Look around you.:lol:

And, people can be very well educated without a computer, believe it or not.
 
jillio said:
Simply being in possession of a computer does not create educational success. Look around you.:lol:

And, people can be very well educated without a computer, believe it or not.
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All computers means to me is...

PASSIVE MEDIA.

Usually the general public is a sucker for passive media. Not something that I would consider as a potent tool of 'being educated.' Yes, I am aware there are resources out there, but a computer can be easily be abused as an outlet for passive media.

Kinda hard to pump out music, short clips and memes with a book.
 
souggy said:
All computers means to me is...

PASSIVE MEDIA.

Usually the general public is a sucker for passive media. Not something that I would consider as a potent tool of 'being educated.' Yes, I am aware there are resources out there, but a computer can be easily be abused as an outlet for passive media.

Kinda hard to pump out music, short clips and memes with a book.
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Couldn't agree with you more. And propoganda reaches more when spread through passive media.
 
Internet is NOT passive - you have to work to get there.
 
jillio said:
If it weren't so sad that people are so ill informed, it would be funny. I can't believe how many people are actually so easily manipulated by this crap. Oh well, I guess it's easier than actually thinking.:cool2:
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X 1000 :thumb:
 
netrox said:
Internet is NOT passive - you have to work to get there.
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YouTube sure heck is.

Napster. BitTorrent.

Flash videos. GIFs.

My latest blog entries dating up to 3-4 months ago til now have been entirely passive. i see what I like, I just click a button called 'Share on Posterous." No thinking's required.
 
I wish that people would learn the difference between communism, socialism, and facism and their historical contexts. Then again, Texas just removed Thomas Jefferson from the world history books so I'm not expecting much improvement.
 
sallylou said:
I wish that people would learn the difference between communism, socialism, and facism and their historical contexts. Then again, Texas just removed Thomas Jefferson from the world history books so I'm not expecting much improvement.
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Considering how we studied Jefferson as one of the Enlightenment thinkers in Canada... yeah. :|

Not to mention he's mentioned in the basics of modern world history in university classes too-- Canadian ones at least.
 
The conservatives hate Jefferson because he was a deist and coined the term “separation between church and state.” I have no idea why an academic panel doesn't make the curriculum decisions.

Don't even get me started on science education here. I've already taught my youngest kid about Darwin and the Scopes trial.
 
sallylou said:
The conservatives hate Jefferson because he was a deist and coined the term “separation between church and state.” I have no idea why an academic panel doesn't make the curriculum decisions.

Don't even get me started on science education here. I've already taught my youngest kid about Darwin and the Scopes trial.
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I am still trying to figure out why they added John Calvin.

Even when we talked about in him (briefly) in religion classes, people just use him as a subject of a joke rather going into in-depth to what he has contributed to Christianity and continental Europe.
 
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