[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'a')nagami = not a good advertisement for Buddhism.

[BigTex]

You know, I looked back over my posts, and I'm not sure I even made a suggestion.

All I did was make an observation that the introduction of marketing tools to developing markets has a way of creating demand for stuff that wasn't previously present.

I suppose enlightened people will use computers and the internet for enlightened purposes. Unenlightened people will probably download pop music and porn.

Perhaps the enlightened people who dug the Panama Canal used their Sears catalogs to wipe their bottoms without bothering to flip through the pages to see all of the cargo they were missing out on.

***

"BigTex, you crazy Davey Crockett zensui-annoyer. I'll get you yet!!!"

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'Y')ou know, I looked back over my posts, and I'm not sure I even made a suggestion.

All I did was make an observation that the introduction of marketing tools to developing markets has a way of creating demand for stuff that wasn't previously present.

I suppose enlightened people will use computers and the internet for enlightened purposes. Unenlightened people will probably download pop music and porn.

Perhaps the enlightened people who dug the Panama Canal used their Sears catalogs to wipe their bottoms without bothering to flip through the pages to see all of the cargo they were missing out on.
(...)

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'Y')ou know, I looked back over my posts, and I'm not sure I even made a suggestion.

All I did was make an observation that the introduction of marketing tools to developing markets has a way of creating demand for stuff that wasn't previously present.

I suppose enlightened people will use computers and the internet for enlightened purposes. Unenlightened people will probably download pop music and porn.

Perhaps the enlightened people who dug the Panama Canal used their Sears catalogs to wipe their bottoms without bothering to flip through the pages to see all of the cargo they were missing out on.
(...)

[bodigami]

BigTex, it's in my first reply in this thread. But it was mostly Twilliam.

Basically it started with questioning the value of giving computers to "undeveloped" countries, then you compared it with a catalog. This comes from a naive view of "undeveloped" countries, and is arrogant in the sense that "for them shouldn't use computers, but us can still use them".

Even if I question the OLPC project (although it's mostly because how it was politiced and became unsincere at the end), I don't question the value of computing and networking in ANY country. However, they must be used (on ALL countries) within environmental standards, not thought as disposable tools (it helps if Unix becomes standard) and used wisely.

I'm starting a topic on the general issue on Open Discussion, this is getting off-topic. And stop posting images to make a straw man out of my main point: computers and networks are useful in all countries.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'A')nd stop posting images to make a straw man out of my main point: computers and networks are useful in all countries.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'B')igTex, it's in my first reply in this thread. But it was mostly Twilliam.

etc. etc.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'A')nd stop posting images to make a straw man out of my main point: computers and networks are useful in all countries.

[vetusfirma]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'I') was surprised that you apparently didn't put much tought in your opinion... "cold water" so to speak. Computers and the Net are tools, potentialy very useful for that which matters. Your "suggestion", from my perspective (of just the country I live), sounds quite arrogant.

Think more when you make such "suggestions".

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'A')nd stop posting images to make a straw man out of my main point: computers and networks are useful in all countries.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vetusfirma', 'a')nagami: you can't attack the 'big boys' and get away with it. These people have been PO gods for a long time, at least 2 years, and are not to be trifled with. You cross the 'gods' at your own peril.

[Zeeea]

this is our last normal year according to this Nowegian Politician ...

http://www.projectcamelot.net/norway.html

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'A')nd stop posting images to make a straw man out of my main point: computers and networks are useful in all countries.

[metalflake]

As we become increasingly uncivilized using modern comments that in the past would seem as rude, we can only expect the historically proven result of conflict without adequate resolution. Countries can not live next to each other peaceably without civil rules of conversation, etiquette and behaviour.

Now, we have trained our children in sarcasm, jokes, inuendos, and in-your-face lifestyle, the result is certain. We openly enter the social miasma of being smart-asses in casual conversation, just for a joke, the inevitable nuclear exchange is not only quaranteed, but impending.

Try that the next time you enter blood or crips territory and see what happens to you.

Dissing is asking for trouble.

Years ago, to meet the Queen of England, you had to have a 13 week training course in etiquete.

Why? A mistatement could put her in the hot seat with international repercussions, making war inevitable.

nowadays, who cares, nuke them till they glow

and they soon will.

Hey its not our kids fault, they learned it and think nothing about irritating anyone.

Soon the nations will irritate themselves to the point of destruction, and you can thank the onion.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('metalflake', '
')Now, we have gone to the social miasma of being smart-asses just for a joke, the inevitable nuclear exchange is not only quaranteed, but impending.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', 'B')igTex, it's in my first reply in this thread. But it was mostly Twilliam.

etc. etc.

[metalflake]

I have three questions for you:

1. Who invented the internet?

2. Who is technologically superior?

3. Who is going to destroy the world?

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anagami', '
')(...)

[jupiters_release]

Anagami,

Arguing whether the internet should spread further couldn't be more absurd on the precipice of global die-off and TEOTWAWKI. Not to mention there's something seriously amiss when your spiritual life is dependent on computers.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pedalling_faster', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '(')...)