On 03/01/2017 06:54 PM, Garth wrote:
Just food for thought..... what is the purpose of say the electric typewriter, and computers, and smartphones, and digitizing pictures and music and ideas ? After all, a ribbon typewriter worked just fine, so does a pencil and paper and books and vinyl records and magnetic tape.
Fine when it came to making marks on paper. Not so fine when it came to searching the information or disseminating it widely.
Wired phones work great and sound great, highly compressed cell service sounds like crap on the best of phones. Why are autos controlled by computers too? Carbs work just fine
Actually, no they don't. You cannot meet today's emissions standards with carburetors and old-style ignition. Have you stood next to a running car from even as late as the 1970s and 1980s lately? Notice the reek of fuel vapor? This is a clear case of genuine benefit from more complex modern technology.,
and so does manual shifting. Big ass V8 motors rock, 3,4,6 cylinder do not. Cars used to have style, now they all look alike and designed on a computer and look like computer drawings.... no style at all. And TV's , analog film, and tubes have a quality about them even the best of digital tv can only hope to mimic but never meet. Don't let all the techno jargon fool you into believing "new" is any better, it's just another way to accomplish things.
New isn't better; better is better. And better can take many forms: cheaper; faster; cleaner, to name a few. But you can't just assert that "newer" is "better" simply because it's newer -- or to say, as was implied between the lines in one of Brewster's posts about electronic shifting, that now that electronic shifting is finally equally as reliable as cable operated (i.e., no longer fails in the rain!) that makes it "better." No, it's not "better" if it's more expensive and "just as good." "Better" means superior by some stated objective criteria.
Do people need 500 tv channels when they cann only actually watch a handful?
Ah, but when there were only 13, you didn't have 500 different ones to choose from. Assuming, of course, that at least more than 13 of those 500 are actually different, and not just more of the same. And certainly, what I watch is different -- never available back in the days of only 13 channels.
What's the point in paying for stuff you don't need or even want ? Oh yeah, back to the bike world.... do we need crab-on bike frames, what is the point? They too have no style, look like computer generated images.
I would argue that they do in fact have a style, it's just not one that I like.
They are light-er?
Yes, beyond dispute, they can be.
When is light light enough? Oh, when the UCI says bikes have to weigh so amny pounds minimum?
I think everyone can agree, when they have to add lead shot to weigh a bike down so that it meets minimum weight standards there's something seriously wrong!
Uhhhh, okay. Heck, I have been asked why ride a bike, what is the point ? Good question, and like everything else of my life, I exist to exist and riding a bike is included in existence so needs no point beyond that, nor is there one. Why do I walk, why stand, why breathe , heck why exist at all ? Well, I exist and there is nothing that can change this fact,
You're dead wrong here, my friend. Let me just quote you an argument you most certainly will recognize that's absolutely on point here:
/To be, or not to be--that is the question:// //Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer// //The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune// //Or to take arms against a sea of troubles// //And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--// //No more--and by a sleep to say we end// //The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks// //That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation// //Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--// //To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,// //For in that sleep of death what dreams may come// //When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,// //Must give us pause. There's the respect// //That makes calamity of so long life.// //For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,// //Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely// //The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,// //The insolence of office, and the spurns// //That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,// //When he himself might his quietus make// //With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,// //To grunt and sweat under a weary life,// //But that the dread of something after death,// //The undiscovered country, from whose bourn// //No traveller returns, puzzles the will,// //And makes us rather bear those ills we have// //Than fly to others that we know not of?// //Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,// //And thus the native hue of resolution// //Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,// //And enterprise of great pitch and moment// //With this regard their currents turn awry// //And lose the name of action.///
so any reasoning as to how or why could never be as glorious as the fact that I do.
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