The Internet is dangerous

Oookay, so why didn't he just take the gun and do it himself?

An elderly man has killed himself

so the robot would have us believe...

He built the machine to do it because one bullet from a .22, while sure to stop him from firing any more shots, would not have been sure to kill him. As a practical consideration it makes sense -- to the extent that suicide ever makes sense.

McGehee, Newnan, Georgia, USA

sweet

Chuck, Boston,

I am led to believe that the internet will turn us all into raving mad psychopathic idiots who fuck on the streets and masturbate while watching young children.
I didn't realize that people younger than 40 yo can have such a worldview.

*sigh*

Outspoken musician John Mellencamp, a fierce critic of the music industry, condemned the Internet at the Grammy Museum on Tuesday, saying, "I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. [...] It's destroyed the music business. It's going to destroy the movie business."

Reuters writes that Mellencamp added that "some smart people, the China-Russians or something" stand to conquer the US by hacking the nation's infrastructure.

Mellencamp went on to blame MP3 players for ruining the audio quality of music.

He said, in reference to the audio of a remastered track by The Beatles, "[Y]ou could barely even recognize it as the same song. You could tell it was those guys singing, but the warmth and quality of what the artist intended for us to hear was so vastly different."

He also spoke of the difficulty of establishing a legacy through music, Reuters reports:

After a few generations, it's gone [...] Rock 'n' roll -- as important as we think it is, and as big as it was, and as much money as people made on it, and as proud as I am to say that I was part of it -- at the end of the day, they're gonna say: 'Yeah, there was this band called the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and this guy named Bob Dylan...'

And the rest of us? We're just gonna be footnotes.

RIP

No one commented on the fact the robot-suicide guy in the OP is FRANK TOVEY?!

um, no

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/arts/frank-tovey-46-industrial-music-innovator.html

although in the bonkers chain-reaction way that the DANGEROUS INTERNET has about it, I've just noticed who wrote that NYT article I just linked... :D

lol @ john mellencamp

"After a few generations, it's gone [...] Rock 'n' roll -- as important as we think it is, and as big as it was, and as much money as people made on it, and as proud as I am to say that I was part of it -- at the end of the day, they're gonna say: 'Yeah, there was this band called the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and this guy named Bob Dylan...'"

OTM

that kind of reminds me of classical music and beethoven, mozart, and this guy named j.s. bach..."

(just being facetious, but yeah, that's pretty much the extent of most people's knowledge of classical

the internet is super dangerous though, it's the truth, that's why I always wear a helmet when surfing the web

you cannot change the inevitable.

progress demands hecatombs. rock and roll must die.

mellencamp knows whats up, dont hate

miss the daze b4 mp3s ruined everything ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNMERRPuHw

mellancamp does not see the inevitable. mellancamp only sees the past.

http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/flipbooks/img/artists/john_mellencamp/01_53224716.jpg

^^^ footnote

Uh, LJ I'm well aware who Fad Gadget is, I was lolling at the name's coincidence... sigh.

It's destroyed the music business. It's going to destroy the movie business.

So stoked.

Thought someone would've linked to this by now:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/20/internet-altering-your-mind

Thoughts? The internet has definitely played havoc with my attention span.

John Harris obviously the right choice to write about brain damage.

some smart people, the China-Russians or something

Uh