Lets make this thread fun and informative, and try not to let it slip into Across the Pond Ping Pong.... :o

We are rapidly coming to an end of yet another decade, and we are about to enter into the teens of this century..

The last ten years have seen quite a few events, some good some extraordinary and a lot bad..

Good...

England winning the Ashes (twice)
First Black president for America

Bad...

Destruction of the Twin Towers
Asian Tsunami
World Recession

The last ten years have also seen some technological advancements...
So lets imagine that it is New Years Eve 2019,

What advancements have we made in the last 10 years, what memorable events have occured...

Food for thought eh..

On New Years Eve 2020 I can imagine someone on the forum will be answering a post about compatibility troubles they are having between their OS Open source Windows Snow Leopard with a Red Hat 2020.987654.001.09.999 SP 742 and Access 2015 Work from Home Edition.

On New Years Eve 2020 I can imagine someone on the forum will be answering a post about compatibility troubles they are having between their OS Open source Windows Snow Leopard with a Red Hat 2020.987654.001.09.999 SP 742 and Access 2015 Work from Home Edition.

They need to read Microsoft Techinical article K1112341678564 viii

Brian

The Good
Liverpool won the Champions League
The Bad
Manchester United won the Champions League

The Good
I retired

The Bad
My Wife got 10 years older

Can't think of any more serious stuff off hand.

Brian

Dont let her read that or you will have to change it to read your CURRENT wife got 10 years older and 50% richer ;)


The Bad
My Wife got 10 years older

150% of very little is still very little.

Actually being serious it was a good thing, her getting 10 years older, as in '92 she was diagnosed with a cancer and given 3 - 10 with a probable 5 years.

But back to the thread.
All this rampant change in technology is not good for the older grey matter or wallet as i no sooner get uptodate and find myself out of date again, the kids used to look up to me and now the patiently explain all of the new stuff to the old duffer, mind you I thrashed them at table tennis and sword fencing on the Wii, ok they had had more to drink than me. ;)

Brian

Just need to surround youself with the best and most qualified 'staff' such as a 20 year old to set up your PDA, a teenager to program your telephone, a 10 year old to fix the television remote, etc...

150% of very little is still very little.

Actually being serious it was a good thing, her getting 10 years older, as in '92 she was diagnosed with a cancer and given 3 - 10 with a probable 5 years.

But back to the thread.
All this rampant change in technology is not good for the older grey matter or wallet as i no sooner get uptodate and find myself out of date again, the kids used to look up to me and now the patiently explain all of the new stuff to the old duffer, mind you I thrashed them at table tennis and sword fencing on the Wii, ok they had had more to drink than me. ;)

Brian

The last ten years have also seen some technological advancements...
So lets imagine that it is New Years Eve 2019,

What advancements have we made in the last 10 years, what memorable events have occured...GOOD

I just stepped into a machine at the hospital, and my lung cancer was eliminated with a shining bright light.


BAD

The rest of the world is suffering from Nuclear Winter.

They need to read Microsoft Techinical article K1112341678564 viii

Brian

would that start with MTA, instead of KB? I would prefer that it start with TNA. ha ha

Hopefully, recoverying from the hyper-inflation caused by certain countries that should have known better, that solved their current problems by printing money, rather than earning it !!

Yanks, Poms - for all the 'across the pond' banter, you BOTH got this wrong !!

GOOD

The rest of the world is suffering from Nuclear Winter.

I wonder who will have started that.

Col

I wonder who will have started that.

Col

I think you misquoted me there old man.

I wonder who will have started that.

Col
The ones that claim to have the love of god in their hearts:rolleyes:

The ones that claim to have the love of god in their hearts:rolleyes:

A simpleton clings to his words and ten years later, he is still muttering his nonsense.
Only now it is with considerably more dribble, down the side of his mouth.

The first positive energy producing fusion reactor will go into test mode.

25% of the people will die from avian flu.

It will be discovered that natural gas is being continuously produced by the subterranean biomass, and the carbon reaction between the crust and the mantle.

The reliance on oil from the Middle East will subside and once again the camel will become the sign of wealth.

Saudi Arabia will be in a civil war.

A great mind will immerge from Africa.

Man will have returned to the moon, and planning a large scale robotic trip to Mars.

The divorce rate will remain at least 50%.

Quantum entanglement will be at the heart of the next generation of communications devices.

The fastest computers will achieve 100 quadrillion operations per second (10 to the 17th).

I will be turning 60, so they’ll need to invent a pill to make younger women fall for old guys.

Russia will be a world power again.

And most important the US congress will finally pass laws repealing giving companies tax breaks for moving their operations overseas.

I wonder who will have started that.

Col

You should be ashamed.

A simpleton clings to his words and ten years later, he is still muttering his nonsense.
Only now it is with considerably more dribble, down the side of his mouth.
Americans still trying to rule the World by putting the fear of god into their agenda

Real people using their love of their family and mankind

You should be ashamed.

? Why?

Col

? Why?

Col

Don't follow in your simpleton friend’s footsteps. In the balance, the good ole US may be your last partners on earth.

Don't follow in your simpleton friend’s footsteps. In the balance, the good ole US may be your last partners on earth.

Josephine, it seems paranoia is besetting you.

Ajtrumpet said about a nuclear winter setting in - I said, I wonder who started that?

I perhaps should have added Iran?, North Korea? Chinese? Russia? Israel? I didn't because I thought it was obvious.

However, as usual, your American paranoia with everyone always makes you think the worst.

Never mind, go and lie down, you must be tired.

Col

GOOD:

A cheap and efficient solar/electric vehicle has become the mainstay on the market. It is much better for the world, and many gas stations have been converted into electrical charge stations.

BAD:

The USA embraces Soccer and it becomes a national sport.

NEUTRAL:

A huge controversy hits as it is determined that some celebrity or politician actually is a clone, even though humans were never supposed to have been cloned.

Josephine, it seems paranoia is besetting you.

Ajtrumpet said about a nuclear winter setting in - I said, I wonder who started that?

I perhaps should have added Iran?, North Korea? Chinese? Russia? Israel? I didn't because I thought it was obvious.

However, as usual, your American paranoia with everyone always makes you think the worst.

Never mind, go and lie down, you must be tired.

Col

Yes I was, and still, I am without coffee.

Don't follow in your simpleton friend’s footsteps.
He doesn't have any simpletons as friends, they're all well educated

I will be turning 60, so they’ll need to invent a pill to make younger women fall for old guys.[/FONT]



I've not found that a problem. ;)

Brian

PS trying to quote your posts is hard work with all these weird fonts etc

A huge controversy hits as it is determined that some celebrity or politician actually is a clone, even though humans were never supposed to have been cloned.
I like this one, as it's a biut more thought provoking.

It reminds me of something I heard a while back, where an 'expert' predicted that eventually someone will devise a revolutionary cure for, let's say, cancer. 100% successful, cheap, easy to produce, but based on research done in concentration camps, during WWII. Should it be made available or would that encourage more of the same atrocities to be carried out?

He doesn't have any simpletons as friends, they're all well educated

Mutualy exclusive.

Good:

A pill has been invented that not only gets rid of fat in problem areas, but builds muscle, and all HEALTHILY!!!! And without excerise. And just as a bonus, it works better if you eat big macs from Mickey D's and Cookies and Cream milk shakes from Chik-fil-A

Bad:

America has no fuel, so we all have to get jobs closer to home so we can walk to work, and this because we refuse to drill in Alaska.... Oh and btw, research on alternative fuels have given no viable options...

Good:



Bad:

America has no fuel, and this because we refuse to drill in Alaska.......

Are you advocating using up your savings to pay the rent. Or as the farmers would say, you don't your seed corn, darlin'.

so we all have to get jobs closer to home so we can walk to work, and this because we refuse to drill in Alaska....

Erm how is this bad?

Are you advocating using up your savings to pay the rent. Or as the farmers would say, you don't your seed corn, darlin'.

:confused:
Translation please.

Brian

Bad:

America has no fuel, so we all have to get jobs closer to home so we can walk to work, and this because we refuse to drill in Alaska......

I have this as a Good

Brian

Actually there is A LOT of fuel in North America and currently has one of the largest collective oil reserves and stockpiles in the world. USA is not over tapping the oil within their own political borders until the price on the world market becomes too much to bare or the available supplies have all but been depleated. That might have been good strategy last century but it has now started to put the squeeze on itself as China, India and other emerging economies now have the resource and capital to outbid the USA for energy.

Bad:

America has no fuel, so we all have to get jobs closer to home so we can walk to work, and this because we refuse to drill in Alaska.... Oh and btw, research on alternative fuels have given no viable options...

Actually there is A LOT of fuel in North America and currently has one of the largest collective oil reserves and stockpiles in the world. USA is not over tapping the oil within their own political borders until the price on the world market becomes too much to bare or the available supplies have all but been depleated. That might have been good strategy last century but it has now started to put the squeeze on itself as China, India and other emerging economies now have the resource and capital to outbid the USA for energy.

You are so correct. Long term we (and Canada) will be the big winners.

At the end of 2019, I hope to be retired from my job with the USA Dept. of Defense, where logic never held much sway.

Good developments: Someone invents a micro-organism that eats poop and pees oil.

Bad developments: When the micro-organism visits the U.S. Congress (or the U.K. Parliament if you prefer), it becomes so engorged on all the poo that the nation capitol becomes a tar pit.

On second thought... if the tar pit drowns all of the poop over-producers, is this bad or good? What a moral dilemma!

Are you advocating using up your savings to pay the rent. Or as the farmers would say, you don't your seed corn, darlin'.

When it get to the point that I can't afford to gas up my car, so I can't work, so I loose my steady income, what good does a savings do me? I wish there were more affordable, available methods, but there aren't.... Just sayin'

Erm how is this bad?

Well, I guess it wouldn't be bad for me, but a lot of people like there jobs very much, and I am sure wouldn't want to lose it due to distance, and probably don't want to live in the city. (for city folk that is).

I have this as a Good

Brian

The idea of it is ok, I was more thinking about the effect it would have on everything. For instance, I work about 1 hour away from home, my grandparents live 45 mins in a different direction, and my parents and siblings live in CT, it would be very hard to see anybody if fuel were super high... I would love to be able to walk to work, but here in Texas, even a job in the same town could be an hour away, everything is so spread out.

Actually there is A LOT of fuel in North America and currently has one of the largest collective oil reserves and stockpiles in the world. USA is not over tapping the oil within their own political borders until the price on the world market becomes too much to bare or the available supplies have all but been depleated. That might have been good strategy last century but it has now started to put the squeeze on itself as China, India and other emerging economies now have the resource and capital to outbid the USA for energy.

I agree here, if we would use our own resources we won't have to rely on other countries. Also, given global warming, the world isn't going to last long enough for us to use our stockpile up anyway. :rolleyes:

Why a car? Motorbike, scooter, moped, bicycle, public transport, move closer to your employment, work out of your home... there are a lot of options. I use a moped in the summer for all the little putzing around and to get to work and back. We also have a pair of electric bikes for riding around the fields, put a solar panel on the battery pack to keep them topped up while parked and have an old Siemens panel to charge them.

When it get to the point that I can't afford to gas up my car, so I can't work, so I loose my steady income, what good does a savings do me? I wish there were more affordable, available methods, but there aren't.... Just sayin'

Why a car? Motorbike, scooter, moped, bicycle, public transport, move closer to your employment, work out of your home... there are a lot of options. I use a moped in the summer for all the little putzing around and to get to work and back. We also have a pair of electric bikes for riding around the fields, put a solar panel on the battery pack to keep them topped up while parked and have an old Siemens panel to charge them.

Well, given the rain in Houston, the uncovered transportation modes aren't very sufficient. And I already said the part about having to work closer to home if that were the case. Also see my other posts, everything is so spread out in Texas that it would be difficult. IF I worked closer to home then I could use the modes you give as examples except going to see my family. Besides, my point about what I originally posted was more about our lack of using our own resources. I hope that by the end of 2020 we really do have more optimal fuel sources. And maybe by then there will be suitable jobs closer to home, as it stands anything I am qualified for is 30 mins or more away from my home, to move closer to a job would mean moving farther from my grandparents which is the greatest reason I remain in Texas and my church. I am working to live, not living to work. So I refuse to center my life around the location of my work.

course the advantage of living closer to work is less time to travel, saving 45 minutes single trip 2 times a day, 5 days a week 45 weeks per year adds up for a lot of extra time to life :)

course the advantage of living closer to work is less time to travel, saving 45 minutes single trip 2 times a day, 5 days a week 45 weeks per year adds up for a lot of extra time to life :)

True, but when you hang out with friends until 12 or 1 in the morning.... you'd rather a shorter distance home.... Also, I dont want to drive an hour to church on SUndays, and I like my church a lot, I don't want to switch. Fortunately for me, this is all hypothetical... :D

Looking back at old technology Television programmes makes me laugh, they were predicting by 2010 we would have a Base on Mars, have Hover Cars and all be wearing Silver Spandex suits, as we would all be slim as we only had pills to eat to get our proteins and vitamins that the body required..

Now where did I put my Silver Cat suit... ;)

Looking back at old technology Television programmes makes me laugh, they were predicting by 2010 we would have a Base on Mars, have Hover Cars and all be wearing Silver Spandex suits, as we would all be slim as we only had pills to eat to get our proteins and vitamins that the body required..

Now where did I put my Silver Cat suit... ;)

I like the pill I came up with better.....

I just LOVE my work-home travel, yesterday traffic was a NIGHTMARE, people stuck in traffic for over 4 to 5 hours on a 30 minute ride. I just leasured on home no problem.

Because of this when I "hang out with friends" I might have a bit longer to get home, but also have 30+ mins of extra sleep to catch up :)

RETIRED! :cool:

Good

Like colleges today, high school classes available on-line.

Bad

Earth's resources plummeting as population continues to grow and more people expect a standard of living closer to what those of us posting on this forum have.