The Future of Humankind's Marriage to the Internet

Burning Down · 05-10-2011, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Ian E Coleman

Yes, isn't this same organization is responsible for the way all Canadian radio stations are required to play a certain ratio of Canadian music? I actually like that, but I don't see how limiting Canadians to Canadian content is in anyway true to the principles of good media.

Yeah, they want 25 - 30% of a radio station's daily playlist to be Canadian content.

s_k · 05-10-2011, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ian E Coleman

Scientology strikes me as not being so different from any other religion.

Ghehe, equally scary you mean?

The Batlord · 05-10-2011, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by crash_override

The main thing that scares me about the internet, and technology in general, are Scientologists. It just gives them one more way to get in your head, and those ****ers are relentless.

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Originally Posted by Ian E Coleman

Scientology strikes me as not being so different from any other religion.

Except this one we actually know where it came from. A science fiction writer who invented a science fiction cult.

Sparky · 05-11-2011, 01:10 AM

How has porn addiction not come up?

A lot of grown men can't even get hard from actual intimacy these days because they're body is so used to consuming porn and instant gratification.

The 2nd video is really interesting, i knew facebook and social media sites filtered your interests, but i didn't know google filtered their results. I wonder how much that impacted my high school essay's.

The internet is definitely making us much more closeted and anti social. All this meme humor and lolcats doesn't make sense to anybody in real life. But those ****ing weirdo's were probably going to be weird anyway so who knows.

I know im really addicted. Nothing else is as stimulating, i flip through 3000 channels on tv bored as **** because their is no multi tasking or user input involved, i love chatting and having 8 different tabs of pointless unnecessary entertainment up at the same time.

Neapolitan · 05-11-2011, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Yeah, they want 25 - 30% of a radio station's daily playlist to be Canadian content.

What stat I would like to know is what is the ratio between new and old music on the radio. In general, it used to be Radio in the US is tied in with sales and the concert circuit, charts track singles and album sales, sales are supported by touring, the more money one pulls in the more exposure they get in the media etc. In a way the internet threw a monkey wrench in the Music industry. And that's why groups like Metallica went on a tie-raid and sued their fans.

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Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	How has porn addiction not come up? A lot of grown men can't even get hard from actual intimacy these days because they're body is so used to consuming porn and instant gratification. The 2nd video is really interesting, i knew facebook and social media sites filtered your interests, but i didn't know google filtered their results. I wonder how much that impacted my high school essay's. The internet is definitely making us much more closeted and anti social. All this meme humor and lolcats doesn't make sense to anybody in real life. But those **ing weirdo's were probably going to be weird anyway so who knows. I know im really addicted. Nothing else is as stimulating, i flip through 3000 channels on tv bored as ** because their is no multi tasking or user input involved, i love chatting and having 8 different tabs of pointless unnecessary entertainment up at the same time.