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http://www.internetisshit.org/

Couldn't agree more with it ^^

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Tis true, nothing much i can really say, but it is indeed true, and i see it more everyday, the internet is shit, no, shite!
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*closes down website*

Ha... in all seriousness, it does make some good points, but I think that it overanalizes things just a little.
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LoL. But it isn't all bull****. :???:
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I was more with it's ironic humor.. It is a webpage itself after all.. and just in the same spirit of some point of MGS2's ending.

Of course it does overanalyze stuff, but it certainly is alright too and makes good points, so with a grain of salt it does help quite a bit.

And it really doesn't apply much to people with criteria.. but does say a lot of people without it... (and I've known several of them who believe all they read/see, be it the internet, the TV or the newspaper)
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I don't think the problem that needs addressing is the internet, rather the attitude and world views of the people who use the internet... (for a start, porn).
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Osiris wrote:I don't think the problem that needs addressing is the internet, rather the attitude and world views of the people who use the internet... (for a start, porn).
You are indeed right my friend... though one thing to consider is that the internet could be defined in two ways:

1) The sets of technology used to achieve this what we are using.
2) All the information and uses we give it.

Anyway, it was quite like:
Colonel: The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh.
No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Rose: Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
Colonel: And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
And like:
In the review of the book "Pericalypsis" by Joachim Fersengeld (a non-existent book review contained in "A Perfect Vacuum" by Stanislaw Lem), the main idea is that the most great works of art, knowledge and salvation have been already created, but are "lost beneath strata of trash" because the civilization has become a "mechanical milker of the Muses". The solution the supposed author proposes is quite creative. Create a fund (Save The Human Race Foundation) that would pay "inventors. scholars, engineers, painters, writers, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and designers--in the following way. He who writes nothing, designs nothing, paints nothing, neither patents nor proposes, is paid a stipend, for life, to the tune of thirty-six thousand dollars a year. He who does any of the afore-mentioned receives correspondingly less". The mechanism includes some other factors as keeping the anonymity of the creators.
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The internet isn't shit; the internet's the shit. That website's about as profound as a chimp's cock, though clearly it thinks it's some sort of messiah. Yes, there's a lot of terrible websites out there, and a great deal of ignorant, wasteful individuals who don't deserve to be alive, but the good stuff makes up for all that. I really don't know what I'd be doing right now if the internet didn't exist. I'd probably be staring at a wall.
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Yes, but thats not the meaning of the article. Its saying how most of our lives revolve around the internet now. We go to the internet for information instead of to librarys. We amuse our selves with games and videos that we say our fun, but going out with friends is deffinitly more fun. Even the most simple things as downloading videos instead of going to a rental shop and hiring. It is taking over. You could say it is ironic that it is on the internet, but if he were to put it on radio or TV, would it get further than the local area. The article is saying that the internet was a revolution at first, but its right, its not any more, its an everyday thing, and if we want to be original, the next step is not using it.
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When it comes to recreation, what's the point of being original? Surely it's just better to do what you enjoy. You can't say that "going out with friends is deffinitly more fun" when different people have different preferences. And there's nothing wrong with it "taking over" - it's just making things easier. It's another medium of finding information. It's like someone saying that libraries are taking over, when libraries first started getting big - whenever that was... I don't know - because "no one reads newspapers any more." And they are comparable, since a lot of libraries are full of shit, and indeed shits.

That website makes a few good points, but I can't see it winning any awards, and I doubt it'll still be there in six months.
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Rick Deckard wrote:That website makes a few good points, but I can't see it winning any awards, and I doubt it'll still be there in six months.
That's precisely the point.
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Well, absolutely, but that doesn't mean the internet is "shit".
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