Sentences with phrase «luddites who»

Clearly, the innovative effort of Lakehead and the LSUC have reduced practical training and legal education by a full year compared to the rest of us luddites who attended and who still may attend «traditional» legal education and articling programs that took four years.

«I think 2016 might finally be the year that lawyers who take tech competence seriously overtake the Luddites who are holding back the profession.»

Ironically, the Luddites who refuse to even consider putting client data in the cloud would be better off if they did.

That first one operated for 24 years and its rated power was increased by a factor of nine during those years — a fantastic testament to the mechanical engineers who designed and built the first one... and a severe criticism of the Luddites who have been blocking progress ever since.

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter says physical bookstores are good places to win Kindle converts, as «the only people who don't have Kindles who should have Kindles are luddites who also read.»

For luddites who get a car with adaptive cruise control and think they're more alert than the car, there's an option to downgrade ACC to work as vanilla cruise control.

Of course there will be Luddites who will be against it... perhaps just until their own brains require artificial assistance of some type.

Herzog's USP here is that, as a luddite who doesn't even carry a mobile phone, he is essentially a technological tourist, an outsider looking into the digital world.

Not exact matches

(Here's a college kid who went Luddite for three months, deactivating his cell phone, e-mail, and social networks.

In some ways, they resemble the 19th century Luddites — the English textile workers who destroyed labor saving machinery in textile mills.

Apparently, they assumed religious people would be technology - afraid Luddites — or perhaps that those who use technology become less religious.

[1] Luddite is a term with a vague origin that has come to be the label of those who are strictly opposed to technological development.

Arsenals problem isnt wenger, its an owner who uses the club solely for collateral for other projects, demanding a huge cash mountain to be kept in the process, as well as a stale luddite control freak manager who is allowed to stay indefinitely, unchallenged, as he keeps silent and goes along with the ebbs and flows of the owners cash needs.

Two years ago, United were thwarted by the Luddites over at Real Madrid who supposedly couldn't figure out how to work a fax machine in time to complete the deadline - day transfer of keeper David De Gea.

It also creates issues with Luddite citizenry such as the Amish, who on matters of religion do not use certain technologies, including cell phones and the internet, so an alternate way of re-deligation would need to be established for them (perhaps a service that will hold their votes in a way that can be trusted to vote in their interests).

For someone who is singularly focused on expanding industry and technological innovation, Kravtsov is a bit of a Luddite, shunning email and social media.

The term «Luddites» comes from the early 19th - century English textile workers who smashed newly introduced automated weaving machinery that signaled the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

The Luddite spirit lives on in people like Kirkpatrick Sale, who thinks we are on a collision course with technology — although he now uses a computer

They label those who question whether we are advancing in the best direction as Luddites, extremists or pressure groups, thereby deflecting attention from their own alliance with the most successful pressure groups, such as doctors and medical scientists.

Although Jennifer Tilly is trapped in the middle of the plot as our delusional Norma Desmond, it's Mancini himself who plays that part: a cinematic Luddite, he's latching on to long - obsolete concepts with all his might, minus any perspective on the reality of the situation.

What's not to like must be left for the Luddites and flat - earth disciples — the sort who curse the day Porsche water - cooled the 911 or built the first Cayenne.

Anyone who doesn't recognize or acknowledge that is likely a luddite with no desire to see things change.

The Luddites: The History and Legacy of the English Rebels Who Protested against Advanced Machinery during the Industrial Revolution

Say hi to Sarah (Luddite Luddington) everyone, she's one of those people who's great to know, full of publishing market knowledge as well as fascinating and fun books.

I know the people who are raising questions about the validity of the study are being hammered as Luddites, but I tend to think this needs a bit more study before it's declared as gospel.

As far as it goes, this is one of the things I say to people generally, and specifically in response to things like being called a Luddite (by people who do not understand the term), having people throw the loin cloths and H - G Red Herring / Straw Man about, etc..

The real CAGW warmistas and their grant - sucking comrades in government and academia use the implication of catastrophe to hide their silly belief in a Marxian / Luddite Utopia have driven the climate debate into the ditch by labeling everyone who does not wish to don a hair - shirt as a WUWT denier.

Except the poor lonely warmist at # 37, who starts «Dear Luddites...».

«Those people — the hackers, the sceptics, the luddite bloggers — who are hindering and slowing down the process of response will, I hope, eventually be held accountable.

You [and many more] really think you've found the holy grail with this one don't you BilB, the rational to tax and command every human for the original sin of living on the planet, especially all those neo fascist luddite racist sexist misogynist bodgy capitalists who do all those things and give you all that stuff only to expect payment for it when the government should take it and give them to you free; you can finally bring the commanding heights of the world's industry and agriculture and lifestyle under the infallible control of an inter government body and everyone who is permitted will be in his permitted place doing his permitted thing and all will be as it should be and the planet will be safe for the polar bears and the spirogyra.

It is true that there may be the moralistic environmentalist luddite types who have a rather apocalyptic view of the future and thus they are attracted to AGW the way that Christian evangelicals are attracted to the idea of war between Israel and the Arab world as the hopeful harbinger of Armageddon.

That statement is not coming from a luddite lawyer who hates technology, but from the CTO of a startup / vc law practice that I am 100 % certain is on the cutting edge of legal technology (the kind that actually works) adoption.

Whether he did it or not, he gave his surname to a movement — the Luddites — whose anti-automation influence persists to this day and whose name has come to mean anyone who actively or passively resists technological progress.

Richard Conniff has written a piece, «What the Luddites Really Fought Against,» that's available on Smithsonian.com, correcting the misunderstandings that most of us have about who these followers of Ludd actually were and why they took to breaking machines.

Luddites, technological «refuseniks,» and violence: Most respondents agreed that there will people who will remain unconnected to the network because of their economic circumstances and others who think a class of technology refuseniks will emerge by 2020.

Given the popularity and influence of blogging, I continue to be surprised by the number of luddites lawyers who continue to debate whether it will catch on among the mainstream of the profession.

Soon — but probably not in 2016 — lawyers who take tech competence seriously will finally wind up outnumbering the Luddites.