Because 20 somethings today have less than no interest in someone who's older with a lab coat. The current culture has no respect or appreciation for science, engineering, technology (short of delivering a better pizza, hotter, faster), authority, logic, rationality or the limits of physical reality. One reason why young people keep pushing the envelope of what is humanly possible, because they can't tell CGI in the silly action adventure movies from physical reality any more, and they believe a person can experience 50 Gs, for a 100 feet and land standing like some kind of super hero. The emergency rooms are choked with young men Darwining themselves out of the population.
So its no surprise that movies no longer reflect any sane representation of a functional society because they are no longer being made by a functional society.
Oh you mean show on channel owned by guy who news nazis hacked a dead girls phone to get inside information on her kidnapping? FOX is just one more franchise of corporation composed of excrement.
Sell everything to everyone, make certain there are abundant back doors to allow American defense systems to disarm weapons using American Technology so they can't be used against us and let the good times roll.
So first of all, from your response, it is absolutely clear you don't know who your leaders are. Get a clue, those clowns that jibber jabber on CSPAN are not your leaders. Here's how you can tell... do they actually accomplish anything? No! They rant and publicly piss all over each other so the unwashed masses don't notice that they're being violated by men in $10,000 Italian suits. They're thinning herd precisely because there are now 7,000,000,000 us, I'm guessing by 2050 there will be 5,000,000,000 and by 2100 under 1,000,000,000. WEALTH DISPARITY IS LOWER? Are you on psychedelics? The top 400 people in the United States have the same wealth as the bottom 175,000,000, the wealth has be concentrated to such a vanishingly small minority that is causing the global economic system to implode. Where did you come up with these delusions? Violence is lower than any time in history... what's that even mean? 1 in 3 women will be raped? Radical Muslim states all over the world have seen fit to slaughter everyone who doesn't believe as they do. China and Japan are squaring off over islands in the south pacific that are rich in mineral resources and Israel is attempting to steal the West Bank so they can confiscate the oil there from the Palestinians, so they respond to 10 year olds throwing rocks with automatic weapon fire. There are violent protests in half a dozen countries today and your comment is such a vapid brain fart that its attempt to address anything having to do with reality is sad.Stop for a second. Just stop. You're going to tell me that you think political systems have anything to do with how the world works? Sorry, you lost me. Obama passes a law that says the Bill of Rights might as well be printed on Charmin toilet paper, The Russians pass a law today that says if you mention in public that you belong to a sexual minority you can be fined and ultimately imprisoned, and China's internet is designed to shape reality and trap anyone who doesn't agree with its government. Oh, yeah, we got that Totalitarian thing licked.
I'm sorry darling, I hate to be the purveyor of bad news, but that sewage they teach you in school is designed to make you stupid and compliant. That swill that is pumped out of broadcast television, owned lock, stock and barrel by the same wealthy men who have you by the short and curlies, have clearly done a fine job of emptying your head of any useful information.
I completely agree with you after the first paragraph. However, we have to get to a place where we can implement a doable future, and that first demands that we address this shackles that bind us. We are prisoners of ideas forged at the birth of the industrial revolution, and men without moral or spiritual consideration have bent the future to their benefit at the cost of all humanity. It is time for the peoples of the world to say enough, and begin taking the future into their own hands. It is time for humanity to address what is best for all people, not just a vanishing few.
Yeah right... it couldn't possibly get worse, like there couldn't be a moment of graphic interspecies sex between a wookie and an ewok that's so mind numbingly terrible it causes a rift in the space time continuum and Westley Crusher falls out, and he and Jar Jar go on to have a gay marriage... no nothing like that could possibly happen. Go to sleep little children, you're perfectly safe...
This is a banking decision. We have arrived at the really for real future and every time someone passes gas these days, there's a bank and two lawyers to tally it and assign charges and penalties accordingly. We don't make movies any more. We crap out little steaming piles of projected IP. While everyone enjoys their carbonated beverage and popcorn with the 250,000,000,000,000,000% markup and if they make the screen big enough, the sound system loud enough, and everything 3D, we won't even notice we just spent 120 precious moments of our lives watching the end products of monkeys masturbating to John Williams wonderful score. In the end, we've been reduced to a society that makes shit to make money, and this movie will succeed on both counts.
We trade our labor for coin of the ream. No labor... no coin. Those lines of folks wrapping around the block at food banks all over the nation, are not there because they wanted out of the rat race. I agree, mindless, soul sucking jobs are bad. Its just that the industrial masters has up to the last generation seen fit to have the masses fed, clothed and able to find suitable shelter. This generation, seems more inclined to play musical chairs with humanity to thin the herd.
So there are all kinds of ways for human beings to continue functioning in this brave new world. Set up a meritocracy where people get what they earn, but the basic essentials of life, food, clothing, and a warm place to sleep are provided. Education is free. Basic mass transit is free. Now you want to create something, invent something, discover something, that will take funding and you have to earn the right through a process of proving yourself as a reliable artisan, engineer, scientist, whatever. To make babies you have to prove that your contribution to society merits your adding to the gene pool. This isn't bad though because human lifespans are over a century and growing quickly. We create colonies on other worlds, so if you want the wild west, no holds barred... move to mars.
All of this aside, we can build a world predicated on human abundance and satisfaction, we just can't do that and manage a quarterly profit as well. So its time to look long and hard at what humanity needs vs a few greedy and powerful humans. We need to ensure a future in which human beings will have both the right and the opportunity to live a life that is worth living.
Friend, it must be really hard with your head down there in the sand. Have you not read a single article rolling out of CES this year. Computers are here that can see you, analyze your facial expression, and determine your emotional state, the better to serve you. They can see your gestures. A robot can now be trained by physically showing it what to do once. They don't sleep, don't stop to pee, don't strike, perform precisely and repeatable with perfect regularity and precision. There goes all the assembly jobs including soon the assembly of burgers and sandwiches. Those jobs going and going soon.
You're right that stuff will get cheaper but only for the folks with jobs. Things will simply get harder and harder for the growing mass without work. We've just done 4 years of fewer jobs than there are people to work and the problem is about to become the common middle class state. Our unemployment hovers around 9%, but that's a bald faced lie. In fact nearly 20% of the American population is unemployed and even more are underemployed, and after the next crash, the really big one that's coming any time now, you can be assured that the unemployment rate is going to be a majority of the American middle class, but middle class no longer. All the training in the world won't get you a job if nobody is hiring.. The fan and the shit are quick approaching proximity!
Subtle my fat rosy derriere! The nation stopped printing the number of dollar in circulation, because you'd begin to see something interesting. When there is a lot of dollars in circulation, the economy is vibrant and when the number of dollars in circulation shrinks things get tough. The Fed has to borrow money from the Federal Reserve Bank, so it borrowed trillions, then turned around and gave that money back to the banks who were supposed to loan it out to you and me to keep the economy rolling and instead gave one another huge bonuses and buried it in the Caymans. We've been boned brothers and sisters. The global banking system is intent on fixing the global population problem by making it impossible for more than about a billion of us to be walking on the planet, so it can't be any surprise that things are the way they are. They make low interest loan available, people grab the cheap money by the fist full, then the bankers call in the cards and take the stuff you financed and the jobs go away and the economy sails into the toilet. Who owns all the houses in America today... the banks! This is about fleecing the rubes, and my friend if you aren't you are the person with the shears then you must be one of the sheep getting cut. Wake up people, that smell is your ass being roasted over and open flame. You might want to do something about that before your butt is fully roasted.
Oh yeah, machine will never take your "Highly Skilled" job. IBM Watson's next gig is going to be providing doctors with a powerful new medical diagnostic service. So let me get this straight, your job is harder to do that the job of a medical diagnostician. My friend, the time left for human laborers is so limited, you can probably start using your watch to measure the count down, and at this very moment Ray Kurzweil is over at google trying to invent the AI.
We meat and bone folks are going to be eliminated from the work force in this century. The only question is will business run by machines serve humanity, or just a vanishingly small ultra wealthy while the rest of humanity sinks into a technological abyss.
OMG!!!! Reminds me of the "Eat, Drink and be Mary Syndrome." Apparently, guys going to the Caribbean, drink too much booze (a natural testosterone killer), chowed down on exorbitant amounts of Jerk Chicken (fattened on shocking amounts of estrogen), and smoked a whole lotta Ganja man (known to cause gynecomastia... breast swellng in some men.) The results of a 2-4 week trip was coming back with a shocking development and serious need for a little plastic surgery!
In fact since due to time dilation, everything that drops into a blackhole seems to freeze at the event horizon, the energy radiating from the black hole must equal the energy that will be lost as a function of the matter that falls in.
Okay, let me put the dots a wee bit closer so you can follow the line. Women aren't meat. Women aren't things. They are fully functional, distinct human beings complete with rights. If the law allows a woman to legally walk done the street buck naked, she has the right to do so without you attacking her because you refuse to put your libido on a short leash. A woman's choice of social presentation is not a pass on your ability to function in a social manner. Sorry. I know its not fair, but you're the one with the outtie and keeping in check is YOUR responsibility, not the lady's. Is that clearer, do you understand now.
The Vagina Lobby! you just made me blow peanuts out my nose... owww! So what exactly is a Vagina Lobby??? A place for Vaginas to go and wait while a Penis movie is playing? The all powerful vagina lobby... oh yeah baby! Like if that existed there'd be insured women's reproductive rights insurance before a man's right to fixing erectile dysfunction. But I don't see that, damn Vagina Lobby must be sleeping on the job! Friend, I don't know what planet you're from but women in the United States (at least) have about seven strikes against them, and to suggest for a second, that men have it worse in this society shows both a clear lack of empathy and a relationship to physical reality.
Whats really happening is that women are actually JUST beginning to equalize things and men are complaining that they've lost a 10% slice from their 100% Control pie. I can see where that would be upsetting and completely unfair. Guys should have that 100% control. Only they don't, and eventually its gonna be 50/50. So rather than bemoaning a mythical lobby comprised of female sex organs (that is just so wrong on so many levels), perhaps you might consider working to ensure that the transfer of power serves everyone equally and that the men and women of the future actually get a fair shot at having a great life. Or you can piss and moan that its not 1950 any more. Good luck with that.
You've made a large number of presumptions here, most of which don't hold water. The first is that life sciences have been dominated by men for many decades and only now are beginning to get access from women. I personally had three girl friends who went to prestigious schools (Cal Tech, Stanford and Carnegie Melon) in the 70s and did very well in Biological Studies receiving Masters and PhDs degrees. Each woman was sat down and told that nobody would hire them. Nobody would fund them. That they exactly 0 future in life science and that their only avenue of expression in the field was to go into medicine. All three women became doctors.
Even today, women only account for less than 38% of the life science researchers. So the fraud finding among female scientists being 12% suggests a 3X lower fraud rate than their male counterparts. They do have to work harder in life science which is still male dominated. The people who will review your work are men. The people who set the directions for rewarding researchers are men. Pretty much all the rule in life science are made by men. The competition is fierce, funding is a winner take all proposition and they only fund publishers of successful research. Men get the lion's share of research dollars. So pretty much everything you said is simply refuted by the facts.
Things may change in the future, but this is the current state of affairs.
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Because 20 somethings today have less than no interest in someone who's older with a lab coat. The current culture has no respect or appreciation for science, engineering, technology (short of delivering a better pizza, hotter, faster), authority, logic, rationality or the limits of physical reality. One reason why young people keep pushing the envelope of what is humanly possible, because they can't tell CGI in the silly action adventure movies from physical reality any more, and they believe a person can experience 50 Gs, for a 100 feet and land standing like some kind of super hero. The emergency rooms are choked with young men Darwining themselves out of the population.
So its no surprise that movies no longer reflect any sane representation of a functional society because they are no longer being made by a functional society.
Oh you mean show on channel owned by guy who news nazis hacked a dead girls phone to get inside information on her kidnapping? FOX is just one more franchise of corporation composed of excrement.
I sentence you to death by cipher at dawn!
One is a viscous, horrible dispenser of death, and the other is a piece of prison furniture?
Sell everything to everyone, make certain there are abundant back doors to allow American defense systems to disarm weapons using American Technology so they can't be used against us and let the good times roll.
So first of all, from your response, it is absolutely clear you don't know who your leaders are. Get a clue, those clowns that jibber jabber on CSPAN are not your leaders. Here's how you can tell... do they actually accomplish anything? No! They rant and publicly piss all over each other so the unwashed masses don't notice that they're being violated by men in $10,000 Italian suits. They're thinning herd precisely because there are now 7,000,000,000 us, I'm guessing by 2050 there will be 5,000,000,000 and by 2100 under 1,000,000,000. WEALTH DISPARITY IS LOWER? Are you on psychedelics? The top 400 people in the United States have the same wealth as the bottom 175,000,000, the wealth has be concentrated to such a vanishingly small minority that is causing the global economic system to implode. Where did you come up with these delusions? Violence is lower than any time in history... what's that even mean? 1 in 3 women will be raped? Radical Muslim states all over the world have seen fit to slaughter everyone who doesn't believe as they do. China and Japan are squaring off over islands in the south pacific that are rich in mineral resources and Israel is attempting to steal the West Bank so they can confiscate the oil there from the Palestinians, so they respond to 10 year olds throwing rocks with automatic weapon fire. There are violent protests in half a dozen countries today and your comment is such a vapid brain fart that its attempt to address anything having to do with reality is sad.Stop for a second. Just stop. You're going to tell me that you think political systems have anything to do with how the world works? Sorry, you lost me. Obama passes a law that says the Bill of Rights might as well be printed on Charmin toilet paper, The Russians pass a law today that says if you mention in public that you belong to a sexual minority you can be fined and ultimately imprisoned, and China's internet is designed to shape reality and trap anyone who doesn't agree with its government. Oh, yeah, we got that Totalitarian thing licked.
I'm sorry darling, I hate to be the purveyor of bad news, but that sewage they teach you in school is designed to make you stupid and compliant. That swill that is pumped out of broadcast television, owned lock, stock and barrel by the same wealthy men who have you by the short and curlies, have clearly done a fine job of emptying your head of any useful information.
I completely agree with you after the first paragraph. However, we have to get to a place where we can implement a doable future, and that first demands that we address this shackles that bind us. We are prisoners of ideas forged at the birth of the industrial revolution, and men without moral or spiritual consideration have bent the future to their benefit at the cost of all humanity. It is time for the peoples of the world to say enough, and begin taking the future into their own hands. It is time for humanity to address what is best for all people, not just a vanishing few.
So your Klingon?...
Yeah right... it couldn't possibly get worse, like there couldn't be a moment of graphic interspecies sex between a wookie and an ewok that's so mind numbingly terrible it causes a rift in the space time continuum and Westley Crusher falls out, and he and Jar Jar go on to have a gay marriage... no nothing like that could possibly happen. Go to sleep little children, you're perfectly safe...
This is a banking decision. We have arrived at the really for real future and every time someone passes gas these days, there's a bank and two lawyers to tally it and assign charges and penalties accordingly. We don't make movies any more. We crap out little steaming piles of projected IP. While everyone enjoys their carbonated beverage and popcorn with the 250,000,000,000,000,000% markup and if they make the screen big enough, the sound system loud enough, and everything 3D, we won't even notice we just spent 120 precious moments of our lives watching the end products of monkeys masturbating to John Williams wonderful score. In the end, we've been reduced to a society that makes shit to make money, and this movie will succeed on both counts.
Bad Robot!!!
We trade our labor for coin of the ream. No labor... no coin. Those lines of folks wrapping around the block at food banks all over the nation, are not there because they wanted out of the rat race. I agree, mindless, soul sucking jobs are bad. Its just that the industrial masters has up to the last generation seen fit to have the masses fed, clothed and able to find suitable shelter. This generation, seems more inclined to play musical chairs with humanity to thin the herd.
So there are all kinds of ways for human beings to continue functioning in this brave new world. Set up a meritocracy where people get what they earn, but the basic essentials of life, food, clothing, and a warm place to sleep are provided. Education is free. Basic mass transit is free. Now you want to create something, invent something, discover something, that will take funding and you have to earn the right through a process of proving yourself as a reliable artisan, engineer, scientist, whatever. To make babies you have to prove that your contribution to society merits your adding to the gene pool. This isn't bad though because human lifespans are over a century and growing quickly. We create colonies on other worlds, so if you want the wild west, no holds barred... move to mars.
All of this aside, we can build a world predicated on human abundance and satisfaction, we just can't do that and manage a quarterly profit as well. So its time to look long and hard at what humanity needs vs a few greedy and powerful humans. We need to ensure a future in which human beings will have both the right and the opportunity to live a life that is worth living.
Friend, it must be really hard with your head down there in the sand. Have you not read a single article rolling out of CES this year. Computers are here that can see you, analyze your facial expression, and determine your emotional state, the better to serve you. They can see your gestures. A robot can now be trained by physically showing it what to do once. They don't sleep, don't stop to pee, don't strike, perform precisely and repeatable with perfect regularity and precision. There goes all the assembly jobs including soon the assembly of burgers and sandwiches. Those jobs going and going soon.
You're right that stuff will get cheaper but only for the folks with jobs. Things will simply get harder and harder for the growing mass without work. We've just done 4 years of fewer jobs than there are people to work and the problem is about to become the common middle class state. Our unemployment hovers around 9%, but that's a bald faced lie. In fact nearly 20% of the American population is unemployed and even more are underemployed, and after the next crash, the really big one that's coming any time now, you can be assured that the unemployment rate is going to be a majority of the American middle class, but middle class no longer. All the training in the world won't get you a job if nobody is hiring.. The fan and the shit are quick approaching proximity!
Subtle my fat rosy derriere! The nation stopped printing the number of dollar in circulation, because you'd begin to see something interesting. When there is a lot of dollars in circulation, the economy is vibrant and when the number of dollars in circulation shrinks things get tough. The Fed has to borrow money from the Federal Reserve Bank, so it borrowed trillions, then turned around and gave that money back to the banks who were supposed to loan it out to you and me to keep the economy rolling and instead gave one another huge bonuses and buried it in the Caymans. We've been boned brothers and sisters. The global banking system is intent on fixing the global population problem by making it impossible for more than about a billion of us to be walking on the planet, so it can't be any surprise that things are the way they are. They make low interest loan available, people grab the cheap money by the fist full, then the bankers call in the cards and take the stuff you financed and the jobs go away and the economy sails into the toilet. Who owns all the houses in America today... the banks! This is about fleecing the rubes, and my friend if you aren't you are the person with the shears then you must be one of the sheep getting cut. Wake up people, that smell is your ass being roasted over and open flame. You might want to do something about that before your butt is fully roasted.
You have to make it past the drones and robocops... good luck with that.
Oh yeah, machine will never take your "Highly Skilled" job. IBM Watson's next gig is going to be providing doctors with a powerful new medical diagnostic service. So let me get this straight, your job is harder to do that the job of a medical diagnostician. My friend, the time left for human laborers is so limited, you can probably start using your watch to measure the count down, and at this very moment Ray Kurzweil is over at google trying to invent the AI.
We meat and bone folks are going to be eliminated from the work force in this century. The only question is will business run by machines serve humanity, or just a vanishingly small ultra wealthy while the rest of humanity sinks into a technological abyss.
The early universe was warm, almost balmy... a popular place for ancient New Yorkers to go in the winter.
There will be no escaping Exxon-Mobil!!!
It happens, and the answer is flat line on he EEG brain dead.
OMG!!!! Reminds me of the "Eat, Drink and be Mary Syndrome." Apparently, guys going to the Caribbean, drink too much booze (a natural testosterone killer), chowed down on exorbitant amounts of Jerk Chicken (fattened on shocking amounts of estrogen), and smoked a whole lotta Ganja man (known to cause gynecomastia... breast swellng in some men.) The results of a 2-4 week trip was coming back with a shocking development and serious need for a little plastic surgery!
Or applying for work in a titty bar...
In fact since due to time dilation, everything that drops into a blackhole seems to freeze at the event horizon, the energy radiating from the black hole must equal the energy that will be lost as a function of the matter that falls in.
Okay, let me put the dots a wee bit closer so you can follow the line. Women aren't meat. Women aren't things. They are fully functional, distinct human beings complete with rights. If the law allows a woman to legally walk done the street buck naked, she has the right to do so without you attacking her because you refuse to put your libido on a short leash. A woman's choice of social presentation is not a pass on your ability to function in a social manner. Sorry. I know its not fair, but you're the one with the outtie and keeping in check is YOUR responsibility, not the lady's. Is that clearer, do you understand now.
Depends on how pretty the man or woman, and whether the hittee is straight or gay... but yeah, pretty much.
Show me a statistic, or you're just making crap up...
The Vagina Lobby! you just made me blow peanuts out my nose... owww! So what exactly is a Vagina Lobby??? A place for Vaginas to go and wait while a Penis movie is playing? The all powerful vagina lobby... oh yeah baby! Like if that existed there'd be insured women's reproductive rights insurance before a man's right to fixing erectile dysfunction. But I don't see that, damn Vagina Lobby must be sleeping on the job! Friend, I don't know what planet you're from but women in the United States (at least) have about seven strikes against them, and to suggest for a second, that men have it worse in this society shows both a clear lack of empathy and a relationship to physical reality.
Whats really happening is that women are actually JUST beginning to equalize things and men are complaining that they've lost a 10% slice from their 100% Control pie. I can see where that would be upsetting and completely unfair. Guys should have that 100% control. Only they don't, and eventually its gonna be 50/50. So rather than bemoaning a mythical lobby comprised of female sex organs (that is just so wrong on so many levels), perhaps you might consider working to ensure that the transfer of power serves everyone equally and that the men and women of the future actually get a fair shot at having a great life. Or you can piss and moan that its not 1950 any more. Good luck with that.
You've made a large number of presumptions here, most of which don't hold water. The first is that life sciences have been dominated by men for many decades and only now are beginning to get access from women. I personally had three girl friends who went to prestigious schools (Cal Tech, Stanford and Carnegie Melon) in the 70s and did very well in Biological Studies receiving Masters and PhDs degrees. Each woman was sat down and told that nobody would hire them. Nobody would fund them. That they exactly 0 future in life science and that their only avenue of expression in the field was to go into medicine. All three women became doctors.
Even today, women only account for less than 38% of the life science researchers. So the fraud finding among female scientists being 12% suggests a 3X lower fraud rate than their male counterparts. They do have to work harder in life science which is still male dominated. The people who will review your work are men. The people who set the directions for rewarding researchers are men. Pretty much all the rule in life science are made by men. The competition is fierce, funding is a winner take all proposition and they only fund publishers of successful research. Men get the lion's share of research dollars. So pretty much everything you said is simply refuted by the facts.
Things may change in the future, but this is the current state of affairs.