Surely photos on shelves will just be replaced by lcd (or similar) devices scrolling through a slideshow on the same shelf. These things are already around and as soon as they become cheap enough they'll be everywhere. Backing up to the net is also getting easier so the only people that will be adversely affected will be those stupid enough not to back them up, it analogous to people that don't store their negatives properly. Apart from that; how many people lose all their treasured memories in house fires - negatives and all? If they back them up off site then that problem disappears too.

Bottom line - it doesn't matter if it's on paper/film or on a disk somewhere - same shit different day

I agree with this too. Obviously modded into oblivion by Republicans that don't want to face the facts - they lost because their party were a pack of assholes that turned the US into the most hated country on earth and not all the other excuses they use like media bias.

I notice that you used a capital F there. That makes your comment insightful, not a troll. Fascism with a capital F (ie as stated in Mussolini's manifesto) is exactly what they were doing, to the letter as far as I can tell.

I guess I'll get modded down to hell now too.

This is actually the Q&A episode with Conroy: http://abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2521164.htm

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