People do of course, though newspaper sells are way down and most especially the popular papers are in threat of going out of business...who needs a newspaper when you can get all of your news online or tv.
I guess that's why they are 10 times as expensive as they used to be, and ten times as thick. I dunno the newspaper industry is still alive and well in this country, a lot of people still buy them out of habit. I don't really anymore,but if I do then it is usually just for the crossword. You get lots of free newspapers as well on buses and trains now. I'd hazard a guess that no more than 20% of what is printed each day is ever read though, which is a huge waste.
But Children playing outside has been killed because of progress. Why play outside and use your imagination when a corporation has created devices to do the imagining for you in the safety of indoors? Its sickening!
It's a Brave New World... So instead of chemically interfering with the growth of children, we are electronically interfering with their development so that they can be easily manipulated and controlled...
People said the same thing about television. Don't blame a "corporation" because parents don't encourage their children to play outdoors.
I can blame a corporation. Yes the parents have a lot to do it, but all these gadgets children have came about by the profit motive of corporations so they are just as much to blame as the parents. I'm not a 9 year old kid sitting on the internet all day shoving popsicles down my throat. I'm a 25 year old man who gets online a couple of hours here and there to express my opinions on forums like these
Ok lets do some thinking here: "The term double standard, coined in 1912,[1] refers to any set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, typically without a good reason for having said difference.[2] " (Wikipedia) The provisions for children: I say technology is keeping kids from exploring their imagination and learning about the natural world from on hands experience. I make this claim by stating that all of the new high- tech toys such as gaming consoles, are providing a surrogate for a child's imagination. For my explanation to be a double standard, I would have to also argue that technology is not providing a surrogate for my imagination, and then give no reason as to why. Have I done this? no. I use my laptop to go online to check email, occasionally post on hipforums, visit wikipedia and read my local newspaper. The rest of my day (if I'm not working or having school, and even then if there is plenty of daylight) is usually spent hiking, tending my container garden (see user pics), or playing music. How does this qualify as a double standard? Secondly, why are you so personally concerned about my opinion on corporations?? Isn't it just that, my opinion?
Nah man... tabs are to plunk out a song for the first time when you're learning an insturment and need things more visual... Like, I couldn't read to save my life on guitar, but on violin, while I'm not good, I can usually keep up. You can read a staff in real time, it's quite different, and superior. And even if you put a screen on everyones stand, having glare/glowing/etc in a concert or something wouldn't really work. Tabs are basically for people to learn guitar on. And they still usually print them off, because it's so much easier to work on paper, and be able to annotate, and shift pages or arrange how you please... you get the idea. I'll miss bookstores, I like being able to page through things, and hold a paper copy in my hand. Most bookstores hanging on only do so through the social, philosophising/coffee selling area they've added....
I did forget to mention I play guitar. Tabs are hopeless with any other medium, I just know Orison plays guitar also, so I didn't post it. I can play piano to an alright standard, and I don't use tabs. But the truth is, I can't read music. I've learned to a higher grade on guitar (theory), so I just hear something and replicate after a bit of practice. I do the same with guitar. You are right about tabs for the most part, but I do like them with guitar- maybe because they are quicker. My teacher refused to teach with the aid of anything else. I guess it is just personal preference.
technology killed games of tag where every kid in the neighborhood was playing...it also killed street hockey....skating rinks...outdoor hide-and-seek....it killed most neighborhood playgrounds...libraries...bookmobiles...it killed carburetor engines ..killed the sound of horsepower that cars used to make one thing I notice lately is how it killed the quietness of nature...you cant go anywhere here now in nature without seeing or hearing 4 wheelers or snowmachines or at least seeing the damaged they do to trails (Im guilty of this too though)
Have a lot to do with it? In other words, those parents really wanted to get their kids outside, but some big corporation didn't allow it. This is buck-passing taken to an absurd degree. I lament the fact that children spend more time playing video games than they do climbing trees just as much as you do, but to blame it on the games themselves is to badly misplace your dissatisfaction. As I mentioned earlier, people were saying exactly the same thing about television back in the 50's. As if the thing doesn't come equipped with an "off" switch!
Well, if one wants to live in "normal society" I'd say their arm is definitely being twisted. Can't get to your job or food without a car. Can't get information that's relevant to you anywhere but the internet because the local news never tells us all we need to know. You can't exist in common society without playing the game at least a little, and if you stop if you aren't in the right area you can even die
I honestly wish I lived in a time where "come find me" was the response you gave a new friend, not "text/Facebook/tweet me"