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Onion article sums it up (again)

Ha! The satire and social commentary here is incredible. "Its attractiveness and considerable value are, by extension, my attractiveness and considerable value." lol!!
 
(groan) oh, too good! lol. Wait, we're not talking about cameras are we??? ;-)
 
After reading the article and much soul seaching, I thought I was better than that..... I now know that I am not....give me one of each color!!! :emote_happyhappy:
 
Hahaha I love it. The only thing keeping me from being hopelessly lost into new gadget syndrome is my equal and opposite degree of indecisiveness. ;D


"True, it appeals to my most basic insecurities, but this new device will ultimately be replaced by a newer device, rendering it completely undesirable and utterly repellent to my personal tastes," device-enthusiast Ryan Janosch said. "Also, I should start saving my money for the next latest device, which will replace the newer new device a couple months after that."
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Damn,

I couldn't afford last new device (now old device) and can't afford new, new device.

Old device still desirable to me, as currently struggling with obsolete device.

Anyone interested in selling old device for reasonable price PM me.

:biggrin5:
 
Always fresh...

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This is a classic from 1997:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29815

High-Definition Television Promises Sharper Crap

"By the year 2005," said Bob Rowell, president of the American Association of Broadcasters, "90 percent of American homes will watch their favorite mind-numbing swill on a high-definition TV."

"Soon, your children will be able to watch shrill, grating Hanna-Barbera re-runs on the Cartoon Network with a degree of crispness unheard of when you first watched that crap in the '70s," Rowell said. "And those whose lives are so empty that each Thursday night they actually watch all of NBC's so-called 'Must-See-TV' lineup will be amazed at the clarity and resolution with which all those stupid people's apartments come through."

Promised Rowell: "When you see the episode of Martin in which the computer dating service matches Martin up with his neighbor Sheneneh, his grotesque and profoundly unfunny mugging will come through with a resolution unimagined on traditional TVs."

Stupid, inane commericals will also look amazingly deep and dimensional when viewed in the new format. The digital sound system will also greatly enhance their intrusive, overloud quality.

"That kid with the Southern accent on the grape-juice ad will look like you can almost reach out and strangle him," Rowell said.

In addition, recent big-budget movies like Independence Day and Eraser will soon be available in HDTV digital-cassette format, which manufacturers promise will offer an experience comparable to shaking your head and thinking, "This sucks," in an actual movie theater.

Top videogame manufacturers, including Nintendo and Sega, are already developing new systems on which consumers will be able to play astonishingly crisp, ultra-realistic versions of the same old stupid videogame in which two guys pound the shit out of each other.

Designed with an eye to the future, HDTVs will be also able to accomodate yet-to-be-unveiled cable-TV systems, which promise to bring more than 1,000 channels of unwatchable tripe into the home.

"We have seen the future," FCC chair Reed Hundt said, "and it is sharp. And it is crap."
 
Noah Kadner said:
ha- was that meant to be ironic or did you not read the article?

Noah
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It was just a guess and could be also transparent like an onion skin...
 
The Onion said:
Top videogame manufacturers, including Nintendo and Sega, are already developing new systems on which consumers will be able to play astonishingly crisp, ultra-realistic versions of the same old stupid videogame in which two guys pound the shit out of each other.
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What's actually interesting is that Nintendo must have taken this onion article to heart and still hasn't released an HD console 12 years later.
 
I recently saw an exhibition of Chris Jordan's work called
Running the Numbers- "it explores the complex phenomenon
of American mass consumption". The pieces are very large
and many abstract from consumer items like cell phones and
plastic bottles. Jordan occasionally supplants the raw subject
with near subliminal images, such as female torso, or sharks... .
Check out this image of thousands of Barbie Dolls : http://www.winsorgallery.com/artists.php?artwork=jordan_30

Edit : Check out the previous image, showing a detail: " 32,000 Barbies,
equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US... ".
 
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