Boyd, Todd M. schreef:
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Xandros EEE: don't care what-so-ever, I don't believe the large numbers
of linux distro's are at all helpful
to the cause and silly little gimmick machine's aimed at Paris-Hilton-
wannabe-bloggers don't really interest me.
This "gimmick machine" (or at least the technology involved, when applied to other projects) is aimed at being an affordable, solar-rechargeable, decentralized-wireless-network-capable laptop to cost about $200 or less. Its major market target right now is developing countries where information interchange has yet to springboard like it has in "first world" nations. Anyway, I digress...
indeed, developing countries are full of people who don't have access to clean water, as long as
we, in the 'first world' continue to support *that* status quo then solar-powered doodah are gimmicks
design to make you and me feel better about ourselves.
Facebook: principly unsound. a social gimmick devoid of depth and
integrity, it's merely a new form of
the ago old mechanisms of large scale social control. really not
interested in that at all.
Uhh. "Large scale social control"? Seriously?
yes, seriously. the parameters are quite clearly defined. but your average
frat-boy is unlikely to see that obviously, it's friends-for-sale and
kegparties all round, no time to take his head out of his self-obsessed ass
and smell the roses ... make society believe they have freedom when
truly they have none, that's large scale social control ... the practice
is so well developed that they effectively have the prisoners happily
running their own prison. it does help that most people have absolute no
desire to be free ... it's much too much like hard work.
That's not to say all the variables can be accounted for, so there is
always the risk that some kind of revolution occurs within the confines BUT
the chances are small that something like facebook will be the hotbed for
anything resembling positive change in the world ... more than likely
it will serve as nothing more than a mechanism for maintaining the status quo.
put it another, simpler, way, if I pumped billions of dollars into something
I'd make damn sure it was serving *my* interests and not anyone else's.
... now if only someone would buy into my arsecomic.com concept I too could
be 'CEO, bitch' :-D
Todd Boyd
Web Programmer
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