But assuming I could live until the age of a thousand, what's the worst case scenario assuming things continue as they are?
The global ecosystem getting out of balance, causing mass extinction of species (which probably would include the humans). Mass extinctions have occured naturally in the past, and usually there's no known external event (the end of the dinosaurs is an exception), so it's certainly something which in the worst case would happen.
Now this certainly wouldn't mean the end of life on earth. But it might be the end of humans on earth.
How come the world temprature has dropped half a degree since 2000? Even the Climate Change Congress now acknowledges this (quote: "temperature has plateaud"). Why? More pirates.
According to a documentary I've once seen on TV, the oil has formed in a time where exactly this happened. There was too much CO2 in the air, due to increased vulcanism at that time, causing a major disruption of sea life. That caused the organic material sinking to the ground not be normally destroyed, so it could accumulate and form oil. Since this process also removed carbon from the atmosphere, the conditions eventually normalized (but a lot of species had died up to then), the ocean's ecosystems recovered, and the oil production stopped.
Or maybe the friends of the women think that if she isn't at home, she's probably in trouble, in which case it would be not only unhelpful, but counterproductive to claim she's there. However the friends of the men assume that if he is not at home, he's probably betraying his wive, so they cover his ass.
Well, there are situations where you don't really care of the quality of the picture. Think for example of a car accident, where you might want to make a photo of the situation. You don't care much about the quality; you only care that the important details are there. In such a situation, it's quite likely you don't have a separate camera with you; however there's a good chance you've got your phone with you.
Don't forget hard disks, CD/DVD/BluRay drives, printers and scanners. I'm pretty sure if all precise mechanics would suddenly fail, about 99% of all existing non-embedded computers would stop working.
As long as it doesn't double the price to have it also serve as a time-keeping device, there's NO PRACTICAL REASON not to use it. You can wear your cell phone on your wrist, ready to be read off? I'd hate it to have to pull my clock from whereever I've stuffed it. Also, it's far more likely that I forget my cell phone than that I forget my wrist watch.
Phone boxes. While it is true that I use them quite rarely, it does happen that I forget my cell phone, and then I'm very glad that the traditional phone boxes still exist. What probably will die, however, is the variant using phone cards. I generally have coins with me, but I don't have a phone card. It would probably get invalid before I've used up the money on it.
Landline home phones. Note however that I consider VoIP over a landline DSL still as landline home phone (it goes over a cable to your home, and you cannot use it elsewhere). I don't think that will go away.
Netbooks. A cell phone cannot be made as large as a netbook, because then it would be too large to be a cell phone. However, it may be that the netbook market is eaten by more powerful netbook-size, but full-featured notebooks if those get cheaper.
Paper. The paperless office has been predicted for how long?
Thinking. While some people indeed rely on electronics to replace their thinking whereever possible (some people aren't even able to do a simple addition without their calculator), there will always be those people who continue to use their brain even in situations where they could have relied on their gadgets.
Can I ask you why you think the parent thought that there was anything wrong with the spelling or grammar in the grandparent? The parent clearly and obviously wanted to imply that the city already is dumb, so it's too late to dumb it down. I don't see how this relates in any way to the correctness of the English in the grandparent.
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Perhaps they will use this to argue that oil is, in fact, a renewable resource.
Well, it is. Just not at the rate we are using it up.
The global ecosystem getting out of balance, causing mass extinction of species (which probably would include the humans). Mass extinctions have occured naturally in the past, and usually there's no known external event (the end of the dinosaurs is an exception), so it's certainly something which in the worst case would happen.
Now this certainly wouldn't mean the end of life on earth. But it might be the end of humans on earth.
Depends how you define the decade. If you define the decade as 2000 to 2009, some of it has happened in 2009 instead of after 2009.
How come the world temprature has dropped half a degree since 2000? Even the Climate Change Congress now acknowledges this (quote: "temperature has plateaud"). Why?
More pirates.
According to a documentary I've once seen on TV, the oil has formed in a time where exactly this happened. There was too much CO2 in the air, due to increased vulcanism at that time, causing a major disruption of sea life. That caused the organic material sinking to the ground not be normally destroyed, so it could accumulate and form oil. Since this process also removed carbon from the atmosphere, the conditions eventually normalized (but a lot of species had died up to then), the ocean's ecosystems recovered, and the oil production stopped.
Or maybe the friends of the women think that if she isn't at home, she's probably in trouble, in which case it would be not only unhelpful, but counterproductive to claim she's there. However the friends of the men assume that if he is not at home, he's probably betraying his wive, so they cover his ass.
Well, there are situations where you don't really care of the quality of the picture. Think for example of a car accident, where you might want to make a photo of the situation. You don't care much about the quality; you only care that the important details are there. In such a situation, it's quite likely you don't have a separate camera with you; however there's a good chance you've got your phone with you.
Also, how would you leave the Matrix without public phones?
Ah, now I understand why they want to get rid of them!
Don't forget hard disks, CD/DVD/BluRay drives, printers and scanners.
I'm pretty sure if all precise mechanics would suddenly fail, about 99% of all existing non-embedded computers would stop working.
A quartz watch is typically accurate to a few seconds per year.
I also disagree with most other points.
Phone boxes. While it is true that I use them quite rarely, it does happen that I forget my cell phone, and then I'm very glad that the traditional phone boxes still exist. What probably will die, however, is the variant using phone cards. I generally have coins with me, but I don't have a phone card. It would probably get invalid before I've used up the money on it.
Landline home phones. Note however that I consider VoIP over a landline DSL still as landline home phone (it goes over a cable to your home, and you cannot use it elsewhere). I don't think that will go away.
Netbooks. A cell phone cannot be made as large as a netbook, because then it would be too large to be a cell phone. However, it may be that the netbook market is eaten by more powerful netbook-size, but full-featured notebooks if those get cheaper.
Paper. The paperless office has been predicted for how long?
Thinking. While some people indeed rely on electronics to replace their thinking whereever possible (some people aren't even able to do a simple addition without their calculator), there will always be those people who continue to use their brain even in situations where they could have relied on their gadgets.
So what country do we have to invade to fight against the pandemists?
It tells you for how long the swine flu excuse will work.
OK, peak oil is bad enough. But now also peak swine flu? Imagine the effects on the vaccine producers!
Can I ask you why you think the parent thought that there was anything wrong with the spelling or grammar in the grandparent?
The parent clearly and obviously wanted to imply that the city already is dumb, so it's too late to dumb it down. I don't see how this relates in any way to the correctness of the English in the grandparent.
Moreover, doesn't the university pay taxes? And where exactly does the taxed income of the university come from? I'd guess it's paid by the students.
If the partner consents, it's not rape.
Indeed. And it's a security hole. It allows to send data over the network without you even noticing.
He'd refuse it because the price is closely controlled by the Nobel committee, and ordinary people cannot give it to anyone.
Can you compile a Linux kernel without gcc?
Scientists think that the God particle creates mass. But actually it's the priest particles who are responsible for the mass.
Don't forget to reverse the polarity of the tachyon beam.
So they included a back window?
She's right: Microsoft didn't put backdoors into Windows. After all, one backdoor is more than sufficient. :-)