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This harkens back to the 1800's in England when a social movement started in order to protest modernization in the textile industry. These peeps got together and marched on Parliament ...complaining bitterly about their livelihoods being replaced by machines. Sound familiar?!
Read up on them
Here is a starter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
One of the things I protest vehemently about is the 'application' of the computer. Any pet peeves to add yourselves?
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#4 thinkin'
Posted 16 May 2009 - 10:14 AM
i hate youtube comments that look like this one
1.put your hand over your mouth
2.make a wish into your hand
3.pull your hand away and put it over your heart for 5 seconds
4.put this on a comment for 3 more videos
5.if you do you will have the best day of your life tomorrow
1.put your hand over your mouth
2.make a wish into your hand
3.pull your hand away and put it over your heart for 5 seconds
4.put this on a comment for 3 more videos
5.if you do you will have the best day of your life tomorrow
#6 thinkin'
Posted 16 May 2009 - 10:32 AM
technology should only be in the hands of the very few.
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 10:49 AM
thinkin, on May 16 2009, 10:32 AM, said:
technology should only be in the hands of the very few.
who's to say the Luddites were wrong.Could they see what lay in the future. I think they could!
Look where we are today with the computer..is it a boon to us...NO! Is it a boon to science and technology not to say the least about banking and commerce!
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 05:24 PM
DocWatson, on May 16 2009, 11:49 AM, said:
who's to say the Luddites were wrong.Could they see what lay in the future. I think they could!
Look where we are today with the computer..is it a boon to us...NO! Is it a boon to science and technology not to say the least about banking and commerce!
Look where we are today with the computer..is it a boon to us...NO! Is it a boon to science and technology not to say the least about banking and commerce!
That's a very contradictory comment DocWatson howver I think it's doubtfull that you realized it. You are, as I have pointed out numerous times, not particularly intelligent so it's not likely you would or could recognize your own stupidity if it his you in the face.
You have commented on technology in general and computers in particular and made a specious remark about the supposed usefullness and posited a negative opinion. That is not in keeping with your prediliction for the posting of endless links of self-interpreted garbage, your horrific and continuing lies, your obviously nutty Chinese/Jesuit/Rothschild conspiracy theory for world domination and many other stupid comments to numerous to count. You see dummy, use of a computer (the very technology you have decried with your poorly thought out opinion) works to your advantagle. How else would you have been able to lie to so many people all at once without a computer?
You are getting dummer as the days progress Doc and it shows.
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 05:37 PM
DocWatson, on May 16 2009, 06:27 PM, said:
No I use it to fight back...ha ha ha Lol
amazing isn't it... the very tool that is going to ensalve us.speaking as a Luddite! Think before shoving boot in mouth.
amazing isn't it... the very tool that is going to ensalve us.speaking as a Luddite! Think before shoving boot in mouth.
You are an incompetant, obnoxious and repulsive lair and you know it.
#14 Hammer
Posted 16 May 2009 - 05:37 PM
DocWatson, on May 16 2009, 06:29 PM, said:
caught ya
Koo Koo alert, he's been reduced to a babbling fool, now eveybody talking to him is the same person and all the voices in his head are his backup
#17 Hammer
Posted 16 May 2009 - 05:48 PM
MJCD, on May 16 2009, 06:40 PM, said:
Heeeeerrre piggy piggy piggy suuuuweeee suuuuweeee
That's pretty funny because once upon a time, his handle here on DV was "Pork Chop" and he loved the big red letters, and saying BOY after the ridicule became too much for him :w00t:
Ain't that right Pork Chop
#18 Hammer
Posted 16 May 2009 - 05:51 PM
MJCD, on May 16 2009, 05:40 PM, said:
Heeeeerrre piggy piggy piggy suuuuweeee suuuuweeee
Hmmm and Doc disappears and instantly Truetwit appears, too good
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 07:03 PM
Hammer, on May 16 2009, 06:51 PM, said:
Hmmm and Doc disappears and instantly Truetwit appears, too good
DocWatson is evil, cunning and devious but that does not make him intelligent. Far from it in fact. Most people when involved in a debate rely upon intelligence and a well considered point of view. We see that here often and it can be stimulating and even fun. DocWatson uses neither tactic, depending on massive lies so enormous that he often gains an audience for nothing more than entertainment. His "arguments" (term used loosely) are neither compelling or persuasive. Further, I wonder if anyone besides me has ever noticed that whenever he has dug himself a hole and cannot extricate himself he tries to turn the argument on its ear by claiming the opposite of what he initially intended. Too bad for Doc, it doesn't work. Yet another indication that he is a truly dumb liar. In fact it seems the very word dumb was invented to describe DocWatson.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 08:34 AM
As a spin-off of my Luddism I have stared an enquiry into Pedestrian Cites and their possible return in todays world. Being a Luddite has an advantage in seeing the world in more simple terms..not to be confused with "simplistic"! Although some detractors would have it otherwise..he he
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 09:27 AM
MJCD, on 16 May 2009 - 05:37 PM, said:
QUOTE (DocWatson @ May 16 2009, 06:27 PM) No I use it to fight back...ha ha ha Lol
amazing isn't it... the very tool that is going to ensalve us.speaking as a Luddite! Think before shoving boot in mouth.
You are an incompetant, obnoxious and repulsive lair and you know it.
amazing isn't it... the very tool that is going to ensalve us.speaking as a Luddite! Think before shoving boot in mouth.
You are an incompetant, obnoxious and repulsive lair and you know it.
LOL
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 10:52 AM
And they were dead wrong. The use of machines resulted in massive increases in employment.
Just as people are dead wrong now.
Those that try to stand in the way of progress are almost always wrong.
Just as people are dead wrong now.
Those that try to stand in the way of progress are almost always wrong.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 02:43 PM
What you mistakenly call progress isn't advancement at all but it turns out to be enslavement. LOL So much for your idea of progress. Progress; real meaning is the inference of advancement not degeneration and stagnation.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 02:52 PM
The use of machines did increase residual wealth which in itself created a middle class. Not true wealth when it allowed for increased taxes so they were no further ahead. The real wealthy were the ones who owned the factories during the industrial revolution. It allowed some graduation in the middle classes to keep ideas flowing, keeping them securely in place to be taxed. Meanwhile the wealthy grew wealthier and wealthier. No one was to marry also into their ranks. Arranged marriages were de rigor
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 02:57 PM
the ultimate use of this machine which I am typing on is to be the instrument of enslavement. It was designe as a finacial tool. Not as a communication tool for us. To keep us happy, games were designed and other devices to hold our interest and keep us dstracted from the real purpose of it's invention. Ultimately this tool will be taken away from us with it's freedoms as we are using right now.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 07:19 PM
DocWatson, on 04 July 2009 - 03:59 PM, said:
Censorship, and pay as you go INTERNET. Just around the corner. Enjoy it while you can.
blah blah blah lie lie lie. Give it up idiot your nose is growing.
Dummy!
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