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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 279538" data-attributes="member: 633"><p><strong>Re: Re: Re: (OT) Monte Cook's most recent rant.....</strong></p><p></p><p>That's true. I recall reading about a motorized spinning fork to eat spaghetti. As an Italian, the simple idea of someone unable to pick up spaghetti with a fork and using a weird electrical fork to do it made me LMAO instantly. That however doesn't mean that every technology is useless, it doesn't mean that every person buys useless technology, and neither it means that those who do buy it are brainwashed. I know I would buy the technofork simply to stare at it and laugh, for example.Wait, wait... cellphones useless? Very wrong. You can live without them, that's sure. Does that make an object useless? I don't think so. Cellphones are extremely useful in a myriad of situations. In my country, <em>everyone</em> with enough braincells to operate it has a cellphone. I mean that almost literally. Everyone I know save the elderly and the very poor has a cellphone. 98% or so of the land is covered (the remaining 2% is mostly uninhabited). Calling is cheap, and receiving is free. I can talk to anyone whenever I want, but if I don't want to be reached I'm still perfectly free to do so. People use it for fun, but also for work and for daily life. Do you really think it is possible to sell something useless in a given country until you've sold more of it than the country's inhabitants?</p><p></p><p>As for the health hazards, nothing has been "proved" yet. I don't care if cancer rises in one school somewhere, because it can be attributed to a variety of factors. A reasonable doubt? Yes (enough to worry and to warrant a move). Proof? No. Incidentally, as I said in my country everyone has and uses a cellphone, and it has been so for a few years now, but cancer rates haven't been influenced.All true (I've traveled in poor countries too), but that doesn't make the gadgets useless. </p><p></p><p>Useless != "can live without it"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 279538, member: 633"] [b]Re: Re: Re: (OT) Monte Cook's most recent rant.....[/b] That's true. I recall reading about a motorized spinning fork to eat spaghetti. As an Italian, the simple idea of someone unable to pick up spaghetti with a fork and using a weird electrical fork to do it made me LMAO instantly. That however doesn't mean that every technology is useless, it doesn't mean that every person buys useless technology, and neither it means that those who do buy it are brainwashed. I know I would buy the technofork simply to stare at it and laugh, for example.Wait, wait... cellphones useless? Very wrong. You can live without them, that's sure. Does that make an object useless? I don't think so. Cellphones are extremely useful in a myriad of situations. In my country, [i]everyone[/i] with enough braincells to operate it has a cellphone. I mean that almost literally. Everyone I know save the elderly and the very poor has a cellphone. 98% or so of the land is covered (the remaining 2% is mostly uninhabited). Calling is cheap, and receiving is free. I can talk to anyone whenever I want, but if I don't want to be reached I'm still perfectly free to do so. People use it for fun, but also for work and for daily life. Do you really think it is possible to sell something useless in a given country until you've sold more of it than the country's inhabitants? As for the health hazards, nothing has been "proved" yet. I don't care if cancer rises in one school somewhere, because it can be attributed to a variety of factors. A reasonable doubt? Yes (enough to worry and to warrant a move). Proof? No. Incidentally, as I said in my country everyone has and uses a cellphone, and it has been so for a few years now, but cancer rates haven't been influenced.All true (I've traveled in poor countries too), but that doesn't make the gadgets useless. Useless != "can live without it" [/QUOTE]
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