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Post by LS on May 2, 2014 4:23:46 GMT
Definitely my kind of guy Netanyahu rants against smartphonesIn a photo op, PM accuses young generation of being ‘slaves’ to gadgets and cameras Full Story Here
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Post by shiloh on May 2, 2014 4:40:08 GMT
Oh, he couldn't be more right. It IS an obsession now. Everything is hash tag, tweeting, selfies, etc. It IS boring and I don't understand why kids think their lives depend on it now...especially because they never say anything of importance. I mean, even the squirrels are photo bombing and taking selfies now....What have these little creatures come to?!
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Post by LS on May 2, 2014 5:12:45 GMT
That's so cute,Shiloh! I was in a store the other day and the young woman behind the counter asked, "Don't you have a smartphone to pull up your email?" (so I could reference a confirmation #). Admittedly, it would've come in handy at that moment, but overall, with the price of monthly service for smartphones, it's just not worth it for me. I used to have a package with Sprint about 10 or 12 years ago where I paid only $5 extra per month for web access on a small screen phone, so I could pull up my email accounts. That was perfect, but unfortunately, that's in the past. Now I just have a basic phone with basic service. But I'm not alone! I was watching a Jerry Seinfeld interview with Jay Leno (Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee) when all of a sudden Leno gets a phone call, and wouldn't you know it, he pulled out a little phone just like mine ...LOL ... and caught a lot of grief from Seinfeld for it
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Post by shiloh on May 2, 2014 5:54:12 GMT
LOL! I know exactly what you mean. Don't feel bad. We have these ones where you go and buy cards for different prices and we don't really use them accept for small things or in case of an emergency. Our kids have all the bells and whistles on theirs and pay a hefty price for it too. My son said to me one day, "Mom, you and dad are so 2000." (referring to our phones) and I was thinking, "Man, am I gettin' old. Whatever happened to Paul Revere?" lolololol. I think it's stupid for people to be texting while they're driving. You would not believe how many times I've avoided accidents (by the grace of God) because some chic was texting or on her cellphone while she was driving and not paying attention. You have to be a defensive driver. They have laws in place here now but no one pays attention to them.
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Post by Benjamin on May 2, 2014 11:14:16 GMT
I hate my phone. I would quite happily ditch it forever and live without it. I don't really even use most of the internet-related functions, which is odd, because I seem to be online a lot... I just don't like being constantly 'plugged in', and I really, really hate the fact that anybody can contact me, any time, anywhere. I don't want that!
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Post by shiloh on May 2, 2014 12:04:51 GMT
Boy! I can relate with THAT, Ben. Have you ever had people say to you, "Why haven't you answered me email?"? I'm getting there. I only have 372 unopened emails now...I don't use half the functions either. I only use the computer for my sites, which are all news and faith based sites. The NSA would be really bored with spying on me. They might find some good recipes though. You sound like my husband. He worked on computers and built them, installed software and did trouble shooting. He still uses his few that he has and knows how to do everything but it's hard to keep up. I think it burns you out after awhile.
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Post by Benjamin on May 2, 2014 12:44:05 GMT
I have three different email addresses. I have one I use for spam... One I use for actual relevant stuff, but stuff I don't need to read right away... and one for people I'm actually happy to get email from.
I've been using computers since I was about 6, and have built my own for years. It's far cheaper, and I can get whatever build I like, for whatever purpose I like. I'm a bit nerdy like that - every couple of years at tax time, I buy new PC stuff. My last purchase was a big one - an entirely new PC built from the ground up (that's the fun part).
My family always apologise if they ask me for help with their computers... in fact, most people do. They just don't get that I LOVE all that stuff. Heck, sometimes I tinker with my own PC just for the sake of it.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 13:08:05 GMT
Well, I have an iphone but I only use it for texting family, playing games, and phone calls. I do find it keeps me in better touch with my kids and that was my purpose for having one. Otherwise, my grandkids know more than I do about my phone.
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Post by shiloh on May 2, 2014 13:19:21 GMT
You guys really get into that stuff. I don't think that's nerdy at all. I'm like your family. I always feel bad asking for help.
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Post by elizabeth on May 2, 2014 16:28:49 GMT
I only have a land line phone. In the past year I graduated to a cordless, land line phone. I do not know how to set the timer on my oven, but was able to set it on my microwave. I tried a cell phone, but could not do it. I am afraid of my TV remote. I am so thankful the rapture will happen soon, because, for people who have no aptitude for technology, this world can be very daunting.
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Post by shiloh on May 2, 2014 18:06:22 GMT
Liz, that made me really laugh. That's how I am. I was lucky I was able to figure out our new microwave and finally figured out the new remote for our big screen t.v.....All I kept thinking was, "I'm frightened, auntie Em..I'm frightened.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 23:55:00 GMT
I call my son when I have trouble with the TV or remote. It was great while he still lived at home because I frequently need help.
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Post by Benjamin on May 3, 2014 0:46:09 GMT
I wonder if old people's homes have IT guys? That would be the WORST JOB EVER.
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Post by shiloh on May 3, 2014 1:32:01 GMT
HAHA! Yes, that WOULD be. That would be a nightmare and a half. This is one of my all time favorites. It's not in a senior care enter but I feel WAYYYYYY too much like this older lady.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 10:51:04 GMT
At least they would have job security Benjamin.
Love that video Shiloh, they are so cute.
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 13:21:11 GMT
I successfully resisted getting a smartphone largely because of an inherent ability for later retrieval by someone who has no business tracking me to record everywhere the phone went and precisely when. When I was a kid (before there was TV, believe it or not) there was a radio drama we used to listen to called "The Shadow." The lead-in to the program for every episode went like: "What evil lurks in the hearts and deeds of men? The Shadow knows! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha..."(a really deep and evil sounding laugh) . So, now we have a "government" fulfilling this shadow role using smart phones featured prominently as a useful dream tool for them. Beast Tech. But in moving 70 miles from the town where I work requires the ability to know about real time system alarms and to coordinate / escalate remedial activity from afar, my old e-mail-free, GPS-free and camera-free phone can't cut the mustard any more. Oh well. Jesus will probably come before it's a significant danger to be a believer roaming this neighborhood...
I will admit Siri is a cool featured capability -- press the button and say "Papa Murphy's Pizza" and bam, here are the three nearest to you at that time and place showing map locations and websites. Oh, also I can do much of my work from home the same as if I were at the office.
Can't wait to experience the kinds of iPhones our angel friends may have been using for centuries, millennia, or even aeons... They probably haven't needed to worry about entering the right security codes and / or passwords either... I wonder if they employ radio frequency signals, networks of any kind, or light guides like optical fiber. Ooooooo! Can't wait!!!
Back on topic: I don't text at the restaurant unless I'm there at the table by myself. It's rude! And I have no interest or skills at online games... We all need to get a life! Right?
Yesssss!!!! C'mon Ascension! C'mon Pentecost! Shove out on Shavuot! A life indeed!
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Post by Benjamin on May 10, 2014 13:28:18 GMT
The Shadow! I never heard the radio show, being slightly younger than you are, but they did make a movie out of it a few years back. I quite liked it. The idea that people could 'disguise' things that should have been in plain sight was pretty clever. There was a scene in that movie where The Shadow helped a woman to 'see' what was in a supposedly vacant lot. It was a massive, retro hotel complex. www.metacafe.com/watch/an-9mvY4nb72hnJb/the_shadow_1994_about_the_vacant_lot/
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 13:31:48 GMT
G'day, Benjamin!!!
I'm certain our age difference is far from slight. (At least in our current context.)
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Post by Benjamin on May 10, 2014 13:35:32 GMT
While that's true, I *feel* older than I am sometimes, so that has to count for something.
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Post by shiloh on May 10, 2014 13:42:42 GMT
LOL...yeah. I would never want to end up like this:
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Post by shiloh on May 10, 2014 13:47:30 GMT
That's from all those kids at school.
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 13:53:45 GMT
I hope, Benjamin, to miss my own lovely Bride's and my 50th high school reunion this coming August 22 because of our departure in the next few weeks. Can I have an "Amen?" Your age decade starts with a 4, right? Well, what's thirty or forty years among friends? Jesus is absolutely ancient!
Shiloh, that's a scream! So sad. So embarrassing! So oddly funny. What's wrong with me? Do you suppose we will retain this aspect of our sense of humor?
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Post by Benjamin on May 10, 2014 13:55:22 GMT
Not quite. I'm 33.
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Post by shiloh on May 10, 2014 14:09:07 GMT
LOL, I think we will retain our sense of humour, SG. It's part of how God made us. I think that video is so cute. Ahem, Benjamin is 2 years older than my son. Man, do I feel old!
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 14:10:50 GMT
The Shadow knows! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha...
That's not old, Benjamin. Must be your wisdom showing through.
Half my six kids, Shiloh, are older than Benjamin and half younger. Oddly, except for that hitch in my get-along and my failing hearing, I feel pretty young. Go figure...
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Post by shiloh on May 10, 2014 14:24:16 GMT
Is your hearing REALLY failing, or are you just to the point where you're tuning everybody out?! hahahahahahahahaa...you're probably faking it. My father- in-law was like that. I told him he had 'selective hearing loss'. He heard that and at least it made him laugh.
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 16:25:29 GMT
It's hereditary, Shiloh, on my Mother's side. Not hearing normal voice levels strains things around home sometimes, because particularly my Bride occasionally suspects the same social sandbagging as you seem to. If I also have a laptop intently within my grasp / in front of my face / when I don't hear, it's double trouble. Oh well. I stand unjustly accused, yet God is my witness... I guess I'm in good company, though. Consider Thomas Edison; and was it Bach who lost his hearing yet maintained his composure?
How could folks I know and love suspect I don't care? Inconceivable. My kids are much more patient... :-)
C'mon Rapture, ya' hear...?!!
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Post by nana on May 10, 2014 16:34:48 GMT
*Gulp* Both of my kids are older than Benjamin. I really am ancient (I thought my kids were kidding me when they said that. LOL)
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Post by MyWhiteStone on May 10, 2014 16:39:07 GMT
Benjamin, Nana, is simply a prodigy. We're not really so old...
Besides which,by contrast the Rapture will likely give us a far more beneficial makeover than Benjamin experiences. He may lose three years or so, we maybe twenty or thirty.
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Post by shiloh on May 10, 2014 16:40:46 GMT
LOL! I was just teasing you, SG. I think that is so sweet and romantic how you call your wife your bride. That's lovely.
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