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Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era

Seriously speaking, if this guy can't operate an X-Box or Ipod we are all agreeably (I would think) in serious trouble. :doh

Not criticizing you in a bad way. I just think your standards for what would be troublesome about an individual in the 21st century are quite troubling in themselves. The ability to operate XBOX and iPod are not indicators of intelligence or capability.
 
Not criticizing you in a bad way. I just think your standards for what would be troublesome about an individual in the 21st century are quite troubling in themselves. The ability to operate XBOX and iPod are not indicators of intelligence or capability.
Sorry, the idea a person of Obama's age and intelligence can't turn on either devise is absurd on the face of things. Hence my joke, not criticizing you in a bad way. But the idea that a male of Obama's age in the 21st century can't turn on an Xbox or Ipod would be cause for concern with most people. If you want to call being able to flick on an on switch a "standard" then freely become as troubled by my "standard" as you wish.;)
 
Sorry, the idea a person of Obama's age and intelligence can't turn on either devise is absurd on the face of things. Hence my joke, not criticizing you in a bad way. But the idea that a male of Obama's age in the 21st century can't turn on an Xbox or Ipod would be cause for concern with most people. If you want to call being able to flick on an on switch a "standard" then freely become as troubled by my "standard" as you wish.;)

But that's not what Obama said. He said 'work'. Tons of people can turn on a car - so many can't use it properly.
 
But that's not what Obama said. He said 'work'. Tons of people can turn on a car - so many can't use it properly.
Chuckle. It means approximately the same thing. Since you seem to require this, let me rephrase!

Sorry, the idea a person of Obama's age and intelligence can't "work" either devise is absurd on the face of things. Hence my joke, not criticizing you in a bad way. But the idea that a male of Obama's age in the 21st century can't "work" an Xbox or Ipod would be cause for concern with most people. If you want to call being able to work a game console a "standard" then freely become as troubled by my "standard" as you wish.:roll:
 
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Well there certainly is spin, that's for sure. But Obama is right on this one. Well it's not the XBox's fault or anything, but the aggregated effect of our technology and the speed at which we can get information. And because our appetite for entertainment seems never ending, we have leeched that desire into the dissemination of our information as well. To such a point that we cannot seemingly tell fact from fiction.
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Don't think, just react. Ignorance is strength.

"And the assimilation is still proceeding. All the political changes of the age promote it...Improvements in the means of communication promote it, by bringing the inhabitants of distant places into personal contact, and keeping up a rapid flow of changes of residence between one place and another... bringing about a general similarity among mankind, is the complete establishment, in this and other free countries, of the ascendancy of public opinion in the State. As the various social eminences which enabled persons entrenched on them to disregard the opinion of the multitude, gradually became levelled; as the very idea of resisting the will of the public, when it is positively known that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non-conformity -- any substantive power in society, which, itself opposed to the ascendancy of numbers, is interested in taking under its protection opinions and tendencies at variance with those of the public." -J S Mill, On Liberty
 
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