What The Net is Doing to You

Bart writes "The BBC reports One of the world's first research centres dedicated to studying the social, political and economic effects of the net has opened in Oxford" I've offered to trade CowboyNeal to them as a research subject for a case of beer. I think studying the effects of the internet on him will save lives. See? Someone is thinking of the children.

Effects of the Net

[deadhammer]

The Net has great and ponderous effects, such as creating studies to show the great and ponderous effects of the net.

Research on the geek creature should be next....

[acehole]

Perhaps science could explain why direct sunlight and fresh air kills us so quickly?

well...

[chegosaurus]

It broadens the mind by introducing you to subgenres of pr0n that you never knew existed.

Re:Research on the geek creature should be next...

[Theodore Logan]

Sunlight and fresh air is good for you! I can't believe you didn't know that. Christ, some people...

Now, with that out of the way, let's discuss what it may be about eating other things than pizza that causes all these heart problems.

Re:Political Debate Indeed

[October_30th]

Swinging a punch to a policeman or a politician is a common form of political debate in the UK. You see, the politicians will punch you back [bbc.co.uk].

Re:Social Engineering

[Anonymous Coward]

Leftists like to sit around in cubicles and think about how other people should think:-)

Me and the Net

[X!0mbarg]

Well, I got so see more Pr0n than I ever imagined. Saw stuff that made me want to wash my eyes with liquid drano. Downloaded a Lot of useless crap. Became addicted to Online Comics. Made a handful of new friends. Got myself an e-mail account through a friend in Oslo. Learned that there are a Lot of ways to cheat...

Search engines are my friends!

So much data. So little HD space...

Re:Interesting, but how much will it proove?

[Anonymous Coward]

if the internet changed fundamentally every six months, the average person wouldn't be able to understand it enough to use it.

The average person doesn't understand the Internet enough to actually use it! Hell, most people have trouble with the difference between "Preview" and "Subm

Re:Social Engineering

[October_30th]

In contrast, the rightwingers like to go out and make people think their way.

Re:Social Engineering

[Anonymous Coward]

...whereas rightists like to break people's doors down and tell them what to think.

Am I the only one...

[Green Light]

Am I the only one that first read this as "What the dot-Net is doing to you"?

Yeah, right!

[Mac Degger]

Who else thinks these guys just want to view pr0n, visit chatrooms and play games all day?

Sounds like a research grant I would think up :)

What the Net Did To Me

[Skirwan]

Mostly The Net just bored me. Sandra Bullock did the best she could with the script, but the entire thing was exactly the sort of paranoid FUD that makes people think they can get sick by using a computer with a virus.

Now, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Classic!

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Damn the Emperor!

Gold Member

[Tibe]

Foxy Cleopatra: "So, what does this thing do?"
Austin Powers: "Well it's called the internet, and it's completely revolutionized the way we live and access vital information. For example have a look at this...
monkey.mpg [methodshop.com]
Foxy: "Wow... now that's vital information."
Austin: "I know, it's amazing!"

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ObQuestion

[extra88]

What kind of beer?

Re:Normalization of Sexual 'Deviancy'

[PygmyTrojan]

Ahhh yes, thanks internet, for letting me now that it's okay to take a crap in my girlfriend's mouth.

Re:Why the Brits didnt invent the net

[Anonymous Coward]

> Any 15 year old kid could could have told this
> five years ago.

15 year old kids will tell you lots of things. The trick is simply this - knowing what nugget of truth lies in the 10,000 other completely irrelevant things they'll tell you about fashion trends and who's going to be with whom like for-ever. :)

> Adults, especially academics, are clueless.

As one of my former teachers would say: "Hey you! Quick! Move out, get a job, and raise a family while you still know everything!"

The net.

[Anonymous Coward]

The net taught me enough shocking things about rocking the casbah, that there would be small challenge in making a sailor blush.

It taught me that humanity itself is plagued with idiots; not just the populace of the United States.

On the plus side, because of the net, I learned what real music sounds like. On the down side, the RIAA is now more determined than ever before to shove crap into my ears, all because of the net.

I think, however, that the most important thing that has happened to me because of the net is this: Because of the internet, I've been able to 'own' camping bitches all the way over in France.

Cheese eating quad-camping surrender monkeys.

It's the economy, stupid

[RealBeanDip]

The 'net has allowed us to capatilize on our synergy while moving to a B2B model and later B2C. During this time we leveraged our user community and capatilized through eCommerce.

Then we ran out of funding and went broke. But it was a fun couple-a-few years.

Re:It's the economy, stupid

[ianscot]

If only, if only we could have thought outside the box in order to leverage our core competencies... Moving forward, we'll just have to grow something-or-other.

(I cashed out my synergy when the market on that was high.)