Cell phones: Is a day of reckoning coming?

[dixiehack]

OK, I probably need to take a board vacation and be productive this week anyway. More to the point, I have to stand up and say this.

Given that politics has become such a forbidden fruit here, to the point where legitimate threads are not only being locked but erased altogether, why in the blue heck is a moderator allowed to make a political (although not partisan) post on this thread? I don't find his viewpoint offensive. I think he did a very nice job making his case. Further, I advocate for ending the ban. But there has to be one standard, and those with extra powers shouldn't be above the rules.

 

[Riptide]

OK, I probably need to take a board vacation and be productive this week anyway. More to the point, I have to stand up and say this.

Given that politics has become such a forbidden fruit here, to the point where legitimate threads are not only being locked but erased altogether, why in the blue heck is a moderator allowed to make a political (although not partisan) post on this thread? I don't find his viewpoint offensive. I think he did a very nice job making his case. Further, I advocate for ending the ban. But there has to be one standard, and those with extra powers shouldn't be above the rules.

Pure politics, ain't it? The leaders make the rules for others.

 

[93Devil]

Were these same things said when books were first published, radio invented, television invented, the internet invented?

Yes.

And here's the full Krugman.

www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/opinion/krugman-the-iphone-stimulus.html?hp

Gotta say, Nobel prize or not, it's "whomever."

That was nonsensical.

How did Alexander Graham Bell ever invent the telephone in the first place before John Maynard Keynes came along?

What a disingenuous hack.

And that doesn't even address the fact that John Maynard Keynes would have told Krugman to stop perverting what he wrote about. Individuals buying products because there is demand for them has zero to do with Keynesian spending, which is literally a strategy of government officials running a budget deficit and throwing money at things that aren't being demanded (because those officials have deemed the economy too slow because of lack of demand) in a misguided attempt to create economic activity.

That has zero to do with Apple Computer, which sold out via preorders of the iPhone 5 by *gasp* demand for the phone, not a massive government spending program that is buying them up.

You'd think he'd stay away from columns like that, because they undermine the things he advocates. Yet, he continuously does this. EVERYTHING is an example of why we need a Nanny State. So why shouldn't the iPhone somehow be twisted into that storyline too?

And what generation of technology is an iPhone? When I get mine it will be my third smartphone and I think my sixth cell phone overall.

And what generation of technology is an electric car? Give it a decade and see where you stand on this.

And you guys fail to answer this simple multiple choice question...

What should GM's stance be on electric cars?

1. Ignore the technology.
2. Produce a basic electric vehicle.
3. Produce a cutting edge technology electric vehicle.

What did Apple do?

 

[exmediahack]

I think the need for constant availability comes in the instability of work in 2012. For those of us in businesses where we see our colleagues getting whacked with little reason, I tend to think a "rapid response" outlook when a manager texts on a Sunday helps out cause during layoffs.

Even though I know it does not.

 

[PaperDoll]

I grew up walking on city streets while reading books, and never was struck by an automobile or even a tree. People who can't do the same with a cell phone obviously didn't practice enough as children.

 

[Lieslntx]

Went out to dinner the other night with a rather large group of people. Perhaps 20 of us or so. After the requisite check-in on Facebook, naming every one of us, the girl next to me says, "OK, everyone. We are checked in. Put your phones down. We do this once, maybe twice a year. Let's visit with each other while we are here."

I leaned over and kissed her cheek. What followed was a very enjoyable three-hour dinner and conversation.

 

[Bamadog]

Went out to dinner the other night with a rather large group of people. Perhaps 20 of us or so. After the requisite check-in on Facebook, naming every one of us, the girl next to me says, "OK, everyone. We are checked in. Put your phones down. We do this once, maybe twice a year. Let's visit with each other while we are here."

I leaned over and kissed her cheek. What followed was a very enjoyable three-hour dinner and conversation.

Nicely played, sir. The thing that's nice about the Facebook check-in is that it's a convenient way to get a group of friends together without having to call or text 20 people. It also gives an outing a spontaneity that it wouldn't otherwise have if you spent an hour calling or texting folks.

 

[Lieslntx]

Went out to dinner the other night with a rather large group of people. Perhaps 20 of us or so. After the requisite check-in on Facebook, naming every one of us, the girl next to me says, "OK, everyone. We are checked in. Put your phones down. We do this once, maybe twice a year. Let's visit with each other while we are here."

I leaned over and kissed her cheek. What followed was a very enjoyable three-hour dinner and conversation.

Nicely played, sir. The thing that's nice about the Facebook check-in is that it's a convenient way to get a group of friends together without having to call or text 20 people. It also gives an outing a spontaneity that it wouldn't otherwise have if you spent an hour calling or texting folks.

Will it upset your or excite you to know that it was a female that leaned over to kiss a female's cheek?

(friend to friend, of course)

 

[Bamadog]

Went out to dinner the other night with a rather large group of people. Perhaps 20 of us or so. After the requisite check-in on Facebook, naming every one of us, the girl next to me says, "OK, everyone. We are checked in. Put your phones down. We do this once, maybe twice a year. Let's visit with each other while we are here."

I leaned over and kissed her cheek. What followed was a very enjoyable three-hour dinner and conversation.

Nicely played, sir. The thing that's nice about the Facebook check-in is that it's a convenient way to get a group of friends together without having to call or text 20 people. It also gives an outing a spontaneity that it wouldn't otherwise have if you spent an hour calling or texting folks.

Will it upset your or excite you to know that it was a female that leaned over to kiss a female's cheek?

(friend to friend, of course)

Nyet, but I'd imagine that simple, human contact without all of the electronics in the way was warm and genuine. I think we've lost something in this technological age with all of the social media. I remember the days when everything demanded a personal touch. Now, it's the electronic equivalent of a form letter - LIKE.