Bush's strange remarks to OK Grads

[DaveJ]

Apparently * told graduates to "use technology but not to become enslaved by it." That sounds peculiar. What is he talking about?

I'd like to see a transcript of that speech. I guess the main point is "leave the enslaving to us."

[bahrbearian]

1. Learn to use an Abacus

[onehandle]

2. Bush is not allowed to have a computer at the White House.

For two reasons:

1) No digital "paper trail" to his crimes.

2) He's an idiot.

He was just frustrated when he said that.

[VolcanoJen]

3. Has Guttenberg invented the printing press yet, in BushWorld?

[DaveJ]

4. Funny

It is as if The Matrix movie is the extent of his knowledge of technology, and he's just now starting to grasp it, seriously. Really, what the heck... is he preparing for android invasion? If so why doesn't he come out and say it?

[earthboundmisfit]

5. Probably trying to soften the blow

of his hoped-for constriction of the internets -
He also made a negative allusion to stem cell research...
All in all, a predictably idiotic speech.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Holy crap! He's quoting CHAPLIN (The Great Dictator) now???

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

(From: http://www.clown-ministry.com/Articles/Poetry/chaplin-great-dictator.html )

[DaveJ]

10. Well, there it is then...

There had to be some evil motive involved; he is a dictator after all.

[crikkett]

39. naw, his speechwriter is. n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. He means, "look, we're sorry that we have allowed the oil

industry to enslave you, just don't get enslaved by anything else if you can stop us".

[BR_Parkway]

8. In other words, get all news from FAUX, not the internets

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. He has admitted not using email

What a hypocritical ass.

[electron_blue]

19. Actually, I highly approve of Bush not using email

I can't bear to think of the flaming emails he'd send other world leaders and what further trouble we'd be in. The less we see/hear of Bush the better.

[Jade Fox]

11. Remember that lump on his back during the debates?

Apparently, he has some regrets. ;)

[cliss]

25. LOL!

Remember all the speculation about that? It kept us busy for weeks.

[Champion Jack]

12. What he means is

Don't rely on the Internet so much because real soon big corporate telcos are going to control everything about it. Go back to using phones they're easier for us to tap.

[spuddonna]

13. It means he's addicted to his VibraTron3000 Gannon lookalike sexbot...

Ever since Gannon was shuffled off he's had to use it as a replacement...
Apparently, he's telling us he's into bondage...
:evilgrin:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

20. BWAHAHAhahaha!

"She said VibraTron 3000 Gannon sexbot."

"Heh-heh, sexbot."

[spuddonna]

22. I'm looking for the Jon Stewart model, the VibraTron 6900 for myself...

Let me know if you see any ads for it... I need to buy some extra attachments! :9

[CrazyOrangeCat]

32. My dear . . .

. . . you know as well as I that the #6900 isn't due for another six weeks.

}(

[spuddonna]

34. Rats, that's right!

(Le sigh!) And I've just worn out my old 1500 Pierce Brosnan/Remington Steele model... What will I do!?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

35. So Pierce has gone the way . . .

. . . of my Holly Hunter model. Such a pity . . .

[spuddonna]

37. LOL Yeah, damn warantee! They say they last for a lifetime...

What liars... :)

[DaveJ]

14. I'd just like to see an example of...

...someone being "controlled by technology"? Without reading a transcript it's hard to tell if what he said made any sense or if he was just vomiting basic dictator rhetoric as usual. It upsets me because I think this might promote social discrimination against scientists and other professionals who are passionate about technology.

[carthagestar]

15. One of theose 'that's not all there is to life' statements....

[DaveJ]

17. I see.

You're probably right. He does have no appreciation for anyone's work so I suppose that's right but it pisses me off that he had to target technology in the process.

[immoderate]

16. dont relie on the spel chekker

--IMM

[many a good man]

18. "don't be enslaved to truth-seeking"

Just sit back and let the pros explain reality to you. Then go shopping.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

21. Total. Dipshit. n/t

[Recursion]

23. There's a Ray Bradbury story

...about a future civilization where people are so dependent on computers that they have forgotten how to do even basic arithmetic. There's this one really old guy who remembers how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide by hand and he becomes a big celebrity when the government finds him. They get him to teach soldiers how to do it so they can calculate the trajectory of manned missiles they are in. The guy gets despondant and offs himself.

Anyways, I think the point was to remember that technology exists to improve human life, not as an end in itself. Science was a servant of humankind at one point, rather than the other way around...

EDIT:
My bad, it's Asimov. I'm not an Asimov fan so I mistakenly attributed it to Bradbury because I liked it. Flogging will commence at 8 bells.

[DaveJ]

24. That's fiction, what about reality?

Are we in danger of being taken over by robots? Tell us GWB tell us if that's so!

[Recursion]

27. Bradbury

Bradbuy has a way of writing fiction that cuts a little too close to truth for comfort. Does Farenheit 451 seem absolutely impossible now? Science and math literacy are woefully low. Something gets called "science" by a person in a lab coat and it's believed. People don't learn to be critical or skeptical. I'm not saying we're being taken over by robots, but people have definitely lost their sense of being active participants in technology and science, rather than just consumers.

[bobbieinok]

29. do you know title??? my bro + I have tried to find it.....thot it was Asim

Asimov story

[Recursion]

30. Oops! You're right!

It's Asimov. I guess I assumed it was Bradbury because I remember liking it and I usually don't like Asimov. It's called "The Feeling of Power"

[Johonny]

26. Do as I say, not as I do

This is the oppositeof how he runs the military. Rummy and gang are convinced that superior technology can overcome simply troop numbers.

[ContraBass Black]

28. "You can no trust the computer!"

:P

[VTMechEngr]

31. The slide rule is coming back!

Bush progress...

[alfredo]

33. He's using technology to enslave us.

[0007]

40. junior spends more time on games than Rove

[alfredo]

41. Here's one he hasn't mastered yet.

He keeps losing count.

[0007]

42. ........and Laura always beats junior at this game, because he's

not a steady dude.

[alfredo]

43. He gets fascinated by the bouncing ball and

forgets to pick up the jacks.

[RedG1]

36. "use technology but not to become enslaved by it." ?

to that 'shit-for-brains' a pencil is high tech...

and they knew he tried a computer once...they saw 'White Out' correction fluid all over the monitor and food was left for the mouse

[CrazyOrangeCat]

38. !

:spray: