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Post by Celera on Mar 8, 2007 20:26:40 GMT -5
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Post by Robbyn Jonathan on Mar 13, 2007 12:51:32 GMT -5
lol cel
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Post by Fechak on Mar 14, 2007 22:06:10 GMT -5
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Post by Fechak on Mar 18, 2007 0:27:15 GMT -5
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Post by Celera on Mar 18, 2007 11:39:38 GMT -5
See -- leaving to water the dogs just doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
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Post by Fechak on Mar 19, 2007 0:32:44 GMT -5
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Post by Annalira Delshannon on Mar 20, 2007 10:37:41 GMT -5
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Post by Fechak on Mar 21, 2007 0:25:32 GMT -5
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Post by Annalira Delshannon on Mar 21, 2007 9:34:04 GMT -5
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Post by Fechak on Mar 24, 2007 21:05:24 GMT -5
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Post by Celera on Mar 25, 2007 2:35:24 GMT -5
Wow.
Was there ever a time when someone would sit through 7 minutes and 46 seconds of a PSA? That was endless. Although it may be the only time the word "programmer" has been used in a rap.
However, I thought the introduction was even funnier:
I about fell out of my chair laughing when I saw this PSA direct from 1992, not only because it reminded me about how cheesy we used to dress, but also how funny it is that the argument is the same now as it was back then.
What's strange is to think of how much different things were back then, a time before the internet, if you can imagine it, and before P2P and file-sharing services like BitTorrent.
Even without P2P apparently illegal "file-copying" was a big concern, which makes me wonder what they would've thought if you told them about how the world would be in the year 2007.
Of course, in the vast expanse of my life, 1992 is like, 15 minutes ago. I don't have to imagine a time before the internet. I can remember a time before the internet. I remember when nobody had a computer in their house, or even in their office unless you worked at NASA or IBM. I remember when TV had six channels and four of them were kinda fuzzy and if you had an old TV you needed to keep a pliers right next to it because the channel-changing dial was missing. I remember when there were no photocopiers, and worksheets in school were run on mimeographs and you got kind of a headache from the smell.
And in all this vast history of my life, the argument against stealing other people's ideas and work has been the same. And the argument is that it's wrong!
There are scholars still debating whether some of Shakespeare's plays were really written by Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, or some other fellow I can't remember (I can't remember everything! It's enough that I remember a world without microwave ovens! We made popcorn on the stove! In tinfoil!)
Human nature doesn't change as fast as technology,and the definition of stealing just doesn't change at all. sheesh.
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Post by Fechak on Mar 25, 2007 10:24:57 GMT -5
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Post by Fechak on Mar 27, 2007 15:27:43 GMT -5
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Post by Fechak on Mar 27, 2007 15:37:58 GMT -5
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Post by Celera on Mar 28, 2007 15:00:37 GMT -5
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