Sentences with phrase «with luddite»

I have some sympathy with this Luddite shadow cabinet member.

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).

As you know, there have been many times in the past where people panicked over technology displacing workers, starting with the Luddites in the 19th century.

The more likely outcome is that we will increasingly see the supplier partner with the better lawyers to compete with the luddites.

Not exact matches

However, it has little to do with Kaczynski's luddite philosophy, which is presented as the spiritual heart of the show.

[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.

However, we must also notice the obvious Luddite [1] bent in these positions that places technology at the center and at the periphery of society filling it at all points in between with itself.

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.

While I'm very far from a Luddite, one of the reasons that we specifically chose a Waldorf education for our three children was the limitations on technology and media exposure at a young age, which allows them to develop a better sense of «self» so that when they interact with media and technology they are coming from a position of strength and not one of being manipulated by the media / technology.

While I'm very far from a Luddite, one of the reasons that we specifically chose a Waldorf education for our three children was the limitations on technology and media exposure at a young age, which allows them to develop a better sense of «self» so that when they interact with media and technology they are...

Romney is a Luddite and we are in the 21st Century we need a President with «Big Ideas» and not someone routed in the past.

«Andrew Cuomo has given into the radical environmental Luddites in his own party to leave New York as the only one of 35 states with extractable natural gas to be missing out on the hydro - boom,» said Cox.

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.

Conversation, too, tends to be maddeningly circuitous, with points made about the picture's Luddite slant and made again for good measure and made a third time because both men have evidently arrived at the same unspoken conclusion: that Seabiscuit is no enigma.

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.

In the early 19th century, British textile artisans protested the Industrial Revolution with the anti-technology «Luddite movement.»

Call me a Luddite, but what's wrong with turning the key?

And you can call us techno - phobic Luddites if you like, but we also pile praise on the knobs and buttons used to control the Accord's audio system, which are such a relief after a spell in the 2013 Ford Fusion with its MyFord Touch electronic interface.

And unlike the Renegade, the six - speed manual will be available with all - wheel - drive as well as front - wheel - drive models, just for automotive luddites like me.

Before I'm accused of being a Luddite, I have no problem with technology but I do with the prospect of being told what to do by a machine and the fear that one day a non-driving legislator might view the «drivers» viewpoint as irrelevant in the wider sense of transport for the masses.

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.

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Now, except for a few holdouts in the basements of the Church of Luddite, writers are taking the new technologies and running with them.

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

I was willfully ignorant of the changes and proud of my luddite status, up until two friends two years ago smacked me with a salted - in - the - shell peanut over a meal one night and got me paying attention.

As a Luddite, she helped me to see where authors with little experience in social media needed more explanation.

Oh, you poor Luddite, with your keyboard, battery dock and mouse.

A terrific co-operative cellar door with a mix of wisehead and young turk winemakers, great valley views and the regionally focused food from the food luddite himself, Mark McNamara.

with how much of a stubborn, backwards - thinking luddite Einhander138 has shown himself to be on [sigh] EVERY.SINGLE.THREAD on here, I think it would be fair to hypothesize that he's also the exact type of stubborn, backwards - thinking luddite that games like this clearly aren't designed for.

Mindless repetitive activities and Luddite prejudices align with his goals.

Luke is currently completing his new work The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott which will enter the collections of the Hepworth Wakefield and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, in association with Film and Video Umbrella, funded by our Award.

The new work he is showing at the Hepworth, The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcote is the result of his winning the Contemporary Art Society's «Commission to Collect» award, which the Hepworth won jointly with the Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

To - Get - Her, Naked Under Her Clothes, Luddite, and Their Space open on July 27 with a reception from 6 pm until 9 pm at LAAA's Gallery 825, located at 825 North La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Stephen Maine's paintings utilize a Luddite methodology that mimics and critiques the patterns of higher - tech dot printing processes while Amalia Piccinini coats her canvases in skeins of dark stains with accretions of paint, forming a self - consciously imperfect and mottled texture.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, The Hepworth, Wakefield (made in association with Contemporary Art Society, Film and Video Umbrella and Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and Luke Fowler with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2012) for which he has been nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize.

According to many of my friends here at Climate etc., the IPCC is nothing other than a collection of frauds working in cohoots with eco-Nazis in a plot to make the world a socialist, Luddite, paradise.

Don't know what it is with these neo luddites hanging on by the skin of their teeth to what essentially amounts to 19th century technology.

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.

We'd all signed up for Denial101x, a new, six - week MOOC (that's «massive open online course,» for all you education luddites) aimed at making sense of this whole phenomenon — and at giving us the tools to fight deniers, so that we can all get on with fighting climate change itself.

Given that the environmentalists oscillate so easily between the rhetoric of the White House and cave - dwelling Luddites, perhaps they should go off and have a war with themselves and leave the rest of us to work out how best to proceed toward an uncertain future.

That's what the denialist & luddite view is dedicated to make you think — when you see charts with the up - to - 10 % of the U.S. grid that is renewables.

The comments were, shall we say, spirited, with some folks asserting that good tech is good tech and you do not necessarily need the assistance of some Luddite lawyers.

As part of the tour, my Luddite tendencies were lessened somewhat by learning that Mies also designed Barcelona chairs, thereby establishing another minor law - related connection with Mies and the Farnsworth House: my firm has Barcelona chairs in the reception of our Toronto office:

If my attitudes condemn me as a technological luddite then I shall have to bear that characterization with such fortitude as I can command.

Over the last couple of decades as the rate of change in information technology has accelerated, it's become fashionable for some to claim with pride and others to award with scorn the title of Luddite.

And where so many are comfortable with and are using technology in their daily life's, bragging about being a Luddite and not using technology, may not be the best strategy.

With all of that confusing (and sometimes downright Luddite) thinking about the virtual world, it is gratifying when there are decisions that reflect that a judge understands how the internet works.

Turns out that his motivation was to re-assure himself that his colleagues were still luddites when it came to IT, and that he had nothing to fear with respect to their catching up to him.

A «Luddite» with a good reputation beats the heck out of a hack with the first generation of every new gadget and 17 different ways to contact him or her on social media.