Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle
If all my friends were whiners I would seek some new friends.
#2: it costs even more to process the card transactions than it does to process checks, at least, judging by atm and credit card fees.
#4: electronic gadgets can never offer the ability to quickly thumb through a book to read bits and pieces here and there. When I read a book, it is rare for me to read it from front to back. Instead, I thumb through it, looking for the fate of a particular character or finding out how a particular plot element develops, or rereading a part to get a better idea of the groundwork for a particular thread. Electronically, it is very hard to thumb through the pages. And if I find a part that I want to examine, it is difficult to go back to where I was. Until electronic books have that ease of looking forwards and backwards and accurately returning to the page the reader was last reading, print books have the advantage.
#5: until the sound quality on cell phones is at the quality of land line phones, I am not giving up the land line. I tell people not to call the cell, text me instead. If a call is important, I use the land line.
I put these objections in terms of my experience, but I think they apply to a lot of people. I can’t be the only person who does not read a book in sequential page order, or who finds cell phone sound quality almost impossible to understand.
Other things on the list... well, print news is largely a victim of its own arrogance, so good riddance to it. I hope that it cannot survive in electronic format, either; in a perfect world, fake news would be unsellable in any format. (Pulitzer prize to NYT for blatant fake news, seriously?)
That’s way in the future, as recent evidence shows that self-driving cars are still far from being ready for prime time, as they say.
Besides, there are still many people who love cars.
That’s way in the future, as recent evidence shows that self-driving cars are still far from being ready for prime time, as they say.
Besides, there are still many people who love cars.
Obviously you are not a user of new technology or you would not have posted that fake news.
I will fight to keep the “landline” until my cold hands are incinerated (due to lack of burial space, right?). Malthus carries on forward to doom because we humans are so ignorantly unbelieving.
Let me tell you why: Here in the BIG EMPTY as I call this area of PA without any major roads south of I-80, NE of Pittsburgh, W of Harrisburg, and N of Cumberland (excluding the interstate corridors) there is little to NO cell phone service for the poor, including me, who cannot afford the 4 and 5G phones. No Verizon service internet that is reliable...up and download speeds of 0.79 MBPS and 0.22 MBPS, for example, on 4/15/18. .
I am physically impaired and when the day comes I need an ambulance, I must have telephone service to call one. I have a land line and it costs almost $95/mos. Tat is almost 10% of my income. Geez.
Schumpeter's creative destruction (while originally borne out of a review of Marx's writings) has given us so much. Personally I am pretty happy that we have automobiles vs horses, washing machines vs rocks by the river, ATMs vs no cash on the weekends, central air conditioning vs heat stroke, cell phones vs land lines, Breitbart.com and FR vs The New York Times, Navigation systems vs being lost, and NICUs vs preemie funerals.
Furthermore, with every advance in snooping comes advances in cloaking and ways to avoid Big Brother. How many people worry about Google and Facebook yet eschew TOR or DuckDuckGo? Yea it requires a little work and maybe inconvenience but at least you won't be like the whiners on MSNBC.
As for music...well..when was the last time anyone got off their arse and went to a bar or club and caught 5 acts for $10? Sure a few of the bands will suck but you may find that the Death of Music is not here yet. Maybe you'll pay $10 for a CD or shirt and keep things moving. On a larger scale, go to a show of 1000-1500 people and catch some new acts. There is no shortage of new, interesting, music that is very good...there is equally no shortage of boring old people blogging that Rock is Dead while listening to The Stranger and The Last Waltz (yet again) on their iPad.
The future is what you make of it. I choose freewill, a little ingenuity, and to advance via peering through the windshield vs wistfully staring at the rear-view mirror.
My understanding is that operations make money, but congressional requirements to put away pension money beyond real necessity shoots off too much money. Anyway The “Post Office” can move in many directions. Reduce regular delivery to once a week. If you want to send that DVD slow, send it by media mail. Otherwise overnight it with FedEx or UPS. Eliminate the postal system as we know it, and contract all services to private businesses with a Postal Board overseeing contracts etc.
The post office does fine on an operational basis. The reason it can’t make money is that it is not allowed to accrue unfunded pension liabilities. If local governments were forced to operate on the same model, most of them would be bankrupt overnight.
Let me know when cell phones achieve the clear sound quality of land or even voip phones, okay?
I have a cell phone, but I don’t want or need a smart phone costing hundreds of dollars, and cell phone service is still more expensive than land lines.
Very easy to make that prediction - most of those things are already fading into oblivion.
I hope the book is the very last one to go. I want cursive to go away - it leads to meaningless scribbles that I can’t understand. Privacy is already gone. Dead and buried.
i don’t have a cellphone either. The people that push me to get one just want the convenience of reaching me whenever- and sometimes i want to be left alone.
Unless broadband exists throughout the country, the article is BS. None of the coverage maps I’ve seen are accurate. Landlines will continue to be the sole source for rural areas unless a cable supplier exists.
11. John McCain...tick tock
It’s called “Airplane Mode”. Totally under my control, whenever I want it. “Silent Mode” is my usual preference.
That’s way in the future, as recent evidence shows that self-driving cars are still far from being ready for prime time, as they say.
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In some locations they are being used already without safety drivers.
I haven't had a land-line phone since 1998 and I often don't take calls if I don't feel like talking. Prior to that, I let my caller ID "screen" my calls. And before caller ID, it was my answering machine. Remember those days?
Hmmm...I do without 3 of the 4 things you mention. Can’t imagine wanting them.
And since I prefer hardbacks to paperbacks, I doubt I’ll start reading books on a phone/tablet thingie any time soon.
Agree with a lot of this - books for instance. It’s hard to find a brick-and-mortar bookstore these days. But I still prefer ‘real’ books and have not purchased a Kindle or Nook yet. As for the post office, it’s not going away any time soon. Every time I go to mail
A package it’s jammed with customers. And it has always been losing money....
You talking about cankles? Her days are numbered and even if she never gets indicted, I don’t see her living more that 5 years tops.
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