Comments on: Black boxes in cars raise privacy issues https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SDAI-Tech https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/#comment-21630 SDAI-Tech Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:42:28 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=27738#comment-21630 Out here the real freon used pre 1992 makes air conditioning outlet temperature much colder. When it's 115 outside those extra degrees are the total difference between a 70 degree ride or an 85 degree ride. In some ways, American civilization peaked around 1989. The internet, the mass porn and the "dumbing down" of every generation since then has taken its toll. Now kids can't read clocks, can't write with cursive and speak in bite sized sentences. Just go on to Facebook and look at the comments section of any company page. The ratio is now about 15:1 "tweet" sized comments to ones with any meat. Society has been retarded and the internet has not really helped literacy, rather it has generated a new breed of minimalist communication that requires less thought. The lowest common denominator always prevails. In this case the worst music, the worst porn and the dumbest ideas are propagated. More people are self-harming - an idea that the internet has widely popularized. The internet has turned out to be the destroyer of western civilization. Instead of liberating time, it consumes it. Instead of educating it serves as to prevent education. Part of me hopes it's usage gets taxed and becomes a toy only affordable for the high producers. This isn't isn't very egalitarian of me, but it would be a simple and practical solution to the decay and rot the internet has created over the past twenty years. Out here the real freon used pre 1992 makes air conditioning outlet temperature much colder. When it’s 115 outside those extra degrees are the total difference between a 70 degree ride or an 85 degree ride.

In some ways, American civilization peaked around 1989. The internet, the mass porn and the “dumbing down” of every generation since then has taken its toll. Now kids can’t read clocks, can’t write with cursive and speak in bite sized sentences. Just go on to Facebook and look at the comments section of any company page. The ratio is now about 15:1 “tweet” sized comments to ones with any meat.

Society has been retarded and the internet has not really helped literacy, rather it has generated a new breed of minimalist communication that requires less thought. The lowest common denominator always prevails. In this case the worst music, the worst porn and the dumbest ideas are propagated. More people are self-harming – an idea that the internet has widely popularized.

The internet has turned out to be the destroyer of western civilization. Instead of liberating time, it consumes it. Instead of educating it serves as to prevent education.

Part of me hopes it’s usage gets taxed and becomes a toy only affordable for the high producers. This isn’t isn’t very egalitarian of me, but it would be a simple and practical solution to the decay and rot the internet has created over the past twenty years.

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/#comment-21575 RobVG Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:04:28 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=27738#comment-21575 It's more narrow than you think. It’s more narrow than you think.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/#comment-21563 bowser Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:09:45 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=27738#comment-21563 I can't see the difference. They collect ALL calls, ALL emails. I can’t see the difference. They collect ALL calls, ALL emails.

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/#comment-21556 RobVG Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:49:11 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=27738#comment-21556 Blanket and indiscriminate. Just like DUI roadblocks. You can't see a difference? Blanket and indiscriminate. Just like DUI roadblocks.

You can’t see a difference?

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/08/black-boxes-in-cars-raise-privacy-issues/#comment-21554 bowser Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:30:10 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=27738#comment-21554 Why is it some forms of intrusion are just dandy and others "raise privacy issues"? Why is it some forms of intrusion are just dandy and others “raise privacy issues”?

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