> It makes sense for an obese person to stop stocking the pantry and refrigerator with ice cream, cookies, chips, and soda.
I would call this "self control", which is exactly what the GP was advocating.
I would call this "self control", which is exactly what the GP was advocating.
Of course, you'd be risking dying of hunger to do so, just as you'd be risking intellectual death by cutting off the internet.
Give me a fucking break. I know many people (even several programmers) without an internet connection at home, and none of them are at any sort of risk of “intellectual death”.
It's the people that get their "information" from daily doses of "I saw it on the internet" that worry me, to be honest. Some people I know that spend the most time on the internet seem able to tell you a lot of stuff they read and saw, but are not able to apply much intellect to it.