[John Q. Smith]

Do you think the 00s are turning out to be better than the 90s? I certainly think so. Liberals are happy because they finally have something to complain about (Bush, AIDS conspiracies), and conservatives are happy because they can finally turn back the clock on everything and re-colonize the crappy 3rd world. It may be too early to tell, but I would say that this decade is definitely more exciting than the 90s.

What do you think?

[malvolio]

The main factor that makes the 00s better than the 90s is OS X.

[Millennium]

It all depends on what you use to measure. In some ways the OOs are better, and in some ways they're not.

If we were to measure by means of music, for example, no decade could possibly beat the 80s: they'd done just enough experimentation with new instruments and forms of music to be good, but they hadn't yet discovered the pop formulas for those techniques which would plague us for the next fifteen years.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Millennium:
It all depends on what you use to measure. In some ways the OOs are better, and in some ways they're not.

If we were to measure by means of music, for example, no decade could possibly beat the 80s: they'd done just enough experimentation with new instruments and forms of music to be good, but they hadn't yet discovered the pop formulas for those techniques which would plague us for the next fifteen years.

The 90's were cool because America was riding a economic high with complete blinders on to what was going on in the rest of the world. It was the era of "the computer will fix everything", the birth of the internet and the .com bombs...

[Agent69]

No, the 90s were better.

[voodoo]

Originally posted by Millennium:
It all depends on what you use to measure. In some ways the OOs are better, and in some ways they're not.

If we were to measure by means of music, for example, no decade could possibly beat the 80s

Quoted for the record.

I agree 100%!! That was very well put Millennium.

[Athens]

the 90's where better, everything changed to bad in 2001

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Millennium:
It all depends on what you use to measure. In some ways the OOs are better, and in some ways they're not.

If we were to measure by means of music, for example, no decade could possibly beat the 80s:

Sorry, but musically the 60s beat the 80s hands down. To claim otherwise is announce your lack of taste.

[Athens]

Originally posted by malvolio:
Sorry, but musically the 60s beat the 80s hands down. To claim otherwise is announce your lack of taste.

You gotta be joking

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Athens:
You gotta be joking

Nope. All the "innovations" of the 80s had their roots in the 60s.
Don't blame me if your knowledge of 60s music is second-hand and incomplete.

[Athens]

Originally posted by malvolio:
Nope. All the "innovations" of the 80s had their roots in the 60s.
Don't blame me if your knowledge of 60s music is second-hand and incomplete.

The best planes of today had there roots in the first junky flying machines in the 1900's, but we wouldnt call those first planes the best just because they where the first. The same goes with music LOL. 80's and early 90's ROCKED reguardless of the roots.

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Athens:
The best planes of today had there roots in the first junky flying machines in the 1900's, but we wouldnt call those first planes the best just because they where the first. The same goes with music LOL.

Give me a fscking break! We are discussing art here, not technology.
With technology, the value comes from its usefulness. So if you tweak/build on/rip off earlier technology, your product can be judged by its usefulness.
However, the main value of art comes from its emotional impact. And when people tweak/build on/rip off a work of art, what they produce usually has less emotional impact than the original.
Athens, I'm betting you were a teen in the 80s and early 90s. Fair enough, I was a teen in the 60s (official Old Fart® here ).
I'm not dissing all the music of the 80s. Some of it I really enjoy. But I'll make you a deal. List for me your favs of that era, and I will list for you the artists and bands that they were tweaking/building on/ripping off. Then go and listen to the artists I list for you, and see if your opinion of the 60s changes.

[Spliff]

Originally posted by Agent69:
No, the 90s were better.

I f**king loved the the 90s. It was a great decade for me. I was in my 20s for the '90s.

So far, the '00s . . . not so good. Not good at all. Except for OS X.