On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, attila wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Declan McCullagh forwarded from TIME:
... The revolution will not be televised -- at least not in Afghanistan. The Taliban government today banned TV, and gave Afghans 15 days to get rid of all sets and VCRs. After that, if the organization's enforcers find one in your house, it will be destroyed and you will be punished. ...
sounds good to me; I've raised 5 children who know how to _read_.
I've never owned a television, never saw the need to bring cancer into the home. TV could have been one of the greatest educational tools in the existence of mankind --and, what is it? nothing more than bread and circus for the mass, a tool for social reoganization and the destruction of the family.
I suspect one day someone will be saying something similar about the net. I have a small TV and cable, which sits a few feet away from my computer. If I could, I'd just fly around the country going to Mets and Yankees games.. and of course during the "slow season" I can always go to football games. TV is what you make of it. I suppose if a kid sits in a room by himself and vegges out in front of it, it does more harm than good.. on the other hand, when you're 15 years old and can't talk to your dad about much because its just that time in life, I'd be willing to bet baseball or sports is still neutral enough territory. I don't see much wrong with crowding around the idiot box as a family or group, if it gives people something to talk about. Politics and religion can be fun now and then, but we all get weary of fighting the same battles. Sure, lots of TV is garbage.. but hell.. look around.. a whole lot of the net is too. It isn't TV's fault, and it isn't the net.. the reason why so many things suck is because we made them. More often than not, we're the garbage. hmm.. I had hoped this message might be uplifting. Guess not. Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc Be a munitions trafficker: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/rsa-keygen.html #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)