The thing is, those extended lifespans have been due to improved sanitation and health care. Think about it, what do we have that they didn't have about 100 years ago. I'll tell you, widespread electricity and refrigeration as well as gas and oil services, though electricity is the best of all.
Plus medical science is learning how to put the human body back together again. In fact regenerative medicine could prove to be our salvation. And again, life extension gets more than passing mention in a lot of science fiction, and it's looking remarkably like it's all starting to come true now.
That's right - thanks for jogging the memory. Haven't had the TH-28 for almost twenty years now. I also had a Yaesu FT-2500 - the one built like a tank. Then I had a Yaesu FT-5100 but it got stolen.
It's funny how Sci-Fi becomes reality on a relatively short time scale. Think about the stuff on Star Trek that is reality today, granted not exactly like ST, but damnably close. The MRI is in my opinion the preeminent scanning technology now. And cell phones and hand held radios - they're all essentially SDR's now. My little Yaesu VX-7r is a quad band radio, and I remember back in 1992 my Kenwood TH-28 was only a dual band and didn't have a general coverage receiver on it like my little Yaesu.
If you have the knack for it, whenever you encounter and IVR is to repeatedly scream a phrase at it, something like 'agent'. Good systems recognize the word and put you through to a human post haste. Shit systems, which are the predominant type, have something like a 30 or 60 second timeout before requiring human help.
At 1,500W a 2.4GHz microwave driven by a high capacitance array, steered into place with say a dish antenna will fry electronics. I mean fry! It's just about the right wavelength to do so. Of course anyone standing in the way will get that section within the beam cooked almost immediately but that's just a collateral problem.
If I cast a net 10 feet around me I have 9 devices with CPU's in them. Only two of them are full up computers. Another two are smartphone. So the other five are my amateur radio gear, cable box, Wii, Xbox and TV.
Interestingly the kitchen and dining room are the only areas with the fewest CPU's in it. The office has a half dozen ATMega's as Arduino platforms, a TI Chronos Watch, Stellaris Robot, MPS430, and the oddest of all the CPU in the Western Electric 1D2 pay phone I own.
And it works ok, but it has some annoy-o-glitches in it. I'm glad they addressed the memory leaks though. There were times I could watch memory just get eaten up by Firefox just going to Google. And the silent upgrade/update - no thank you!
But imagine the sheer number of sexual partners you could have. Those kind of lifespans change things immensely. Not to mention, you could say be heterosexual for so many years, homosexual for so many years, bisexual for so many years and even buy-sexual for a few years.
150 years would be fine. It would mean I'm only 1/3 through my lifespan right now. And honestly if you could go to 200 or 300 years I'd go for that too.
Sure, there'd be a LOT of boredom in that span but I know how to deal with boredom.
The idiots will kill all of us at some point. They've never heard of the herd immunity? What could happen is that the unvaccinated kids just die off while those who got the vaccination will thrive. I think the world could do without a lot of idiots.
The point though is that the whole system deserves to be repeatedly poked. The policies of TSA are just the other side of ridiculous. So much so that I decided that the security theater just isn't worth it anymore.
Now if you had a mass of people wearing the same shirt and poking en masse - that would be funny!
Part of it is that approximately 70% of the ads are irrelevant to me. I don't own a car, have kids, live in the burbs, etc. There are some ads that would probably apply to me but only about 30% of the time.
My theory also says I will not patronize vendors who get past my adblocks. My connection - I pay for it. They don't. They're parasitic scum if you ask me.
That Mexico can figure out universal care but the U.S. is predominated by the insurance industry. That insurance industry is the one primarily responsible for the run up in health care costs in the U.S. And of course in the U.S. we have the billing companies too. We need to neutralize both.
Because they did buy Motorola Mobility. I'm sure that there are a number of useful patents in that portfolio that they could use to stamp Apple out of existence in the smartphone market.
And I can't wait for Google to build their own Android phone. You know they're going to do it. I say this because I'm tired of the tampering with Android by OEM's, carriers, etc. In this house we have a Samsung Indulge and LG Optimus - both Android phones but almost completely different. My Samsung is a little more open than the LG. And it drives me nuts.
And then there's the freeze out on Android versioning. Makes developing for Andorid an adventure to say the least.
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Either Pandora One or on TuneIn Fullasoul radio. I'm not sure what Pandora One uses but the quality sounds like what Fullasoul uses wihich is AAC.
The thing is, those extended lifespans have been due to improved sanitation and health care. Think about it, what do we have that they didn't have about 100 years ago. I'll tell you, widespread electricity and refrigeration as well as gas and oil services, though electricity is the best of all.
Plus medical science is learning how to put the human body back together again. In fact regenerative medicine could prove to be our salvation. And again, life extension gets more than passing mention in a lot of science fiction, and it's looking remarkably like it's all starting to come true now.
Actually it takes less than 2/3's of a human lifespan for sci-fi to become reality.
That's right - thanks for jogging the memory. Haven't had the TH-28 for almost twenty years now. I also had a Yaesu FT-2500 - the one built like a tank. Then I had a Yaesu FT-5100 but it got stolen.
It's funny how Sci-Fi becomes reality on a relatively short time scale. Think about the stuff on Star Trek that is reality today, granted not exactly like ST, but damnably close. The MRI is in my opinion the preeminent scanning technology now. And cell phones and hand held radios - they're all essentially SDR's now. My little Yaesu VX-7r is a quad band radio, and I remember back in 1992 my Kenwood TH-28 was only a dual band and didn't have a general coverage receiver on it like my little Yaesu.
Never shit where you eat. It's served the animal kingdom well enough for eons and by god, it should be the same in any I.T. shop.
Well yeah - that does change it a bit. And Beryllium in general is some fairly toxic stuff.
Am-241 is an alpha emitter. It barely penetrates a sheet of paper. And it's used in virtually every smoke detector out there.
Now a seven inch rod of the stuff - yeah I can see why they'd want that one back.
If you have the knack for it, whenever you encounter and IVR is to repeatedly scream a phrase at it, something like 'agent'. Good systems recognize the word and put you through to a human post haste. Shit systems, which are the predominant type, have something like a 30 or 60 second timeout before requiring human help.
At 1,500W a 2.4GHz microwave driven by a high capacitance array, steered into place with say a dish antenna will fry electronics. I mean fry! It's just about the right wavelength to do so. Of course anyone standing in the way will get that section within the beam cooked almost immediately but that's just a collateral problem.
If I cast a net 10 feet around me I have 9 devices with CPU's in them. Only two of them are full up computers. Another two are smartphone. So the other five are my amateur radio gear, cable box, Wii, Xbox and TV.
Interestingly the kitchen and dining room are the only areas with the fewest CPU's in it. The office has a half dozen ATMega's as Arduino platforms, a TI Chronos Watch, Stellaris Robot, MPS430, and the oddest of all the CPU in the Western Electric 1D2 pay phone I own.
And it works ok, but it has some annoy-o-glitches in it. I'm glad they addressed the memory leaks though. There were times I could watch memory just get eaten up by Firefox just going to Google. And the silent upgrade/update - no thank you!
But imagine the sheer number of sexual partners you could have. Those kind of lifespans change things immensely. Not to mention, you could say be heterosexual for so many years, homosexual for so many years, bisexual for so many years and even buy-sexual for a few years.
Agreed - I tend to read a hell of a lot but there's no way in hell I could read everything I really want to read even in 300 years.
Android and IOS are the killers. In the case of Android it runs on a ton of different platforms and I must say I'm rather impressed by the Asus pads.
150 years would be fine. It would mean I'm only 1/3 through my lifespan right now. And honestly if you could go to 200 or 300 years I'd go for that too.
Sure, there'd be a LOT of boredom in that span but I know how to deal with boredom.
The idiots will kill all of us at some point. They've never heard of the herd immunity? What could happen is that the unvaccinated kids just die off while those who got the vaccination will thrive. I think the world could do without a lot of idiots.
The point though is that the whole system deserves to be repeatedly poked. The policies of TSA are just the other side of ridiculous. So much so that I decided that the security theater just isn't worth it anymore.
Now if you had a mass of people wearing the same shirt and poking en masse - that would be funny!
Part of it is that approximately 70% of the ads are irrelevant to me. I don't own a car, have kids, live in the burbs, etc. There are some ads that would probably apply to me but only about 30% of the time.
My theory also says I will not patronize vendors who get past my adblocks. My connection - I pay for it. They don't. They're parasitic scum if you ask me.
That I pay for the bandwidth, so how dare they usurp and use it to serve ads. So I aggressively adblock.
I've almost got all of hulu's ad servers blotted out. And then for standard web browsing I use AdBlock Plus.
That Mexico can figure out universal care but the U.S. is predominated by the insurance industry. That insurance industry is the one primarily responsible for the run up in health care costs in the U.S. And of course in the U.S. we have the billing companies too. We need to neutralize both.
They could cull out conservatism. To me that's one of the bigger mental disorders out there.
Because they did buy Motorola Mobility. I'm sure that there are a number of useful patents in that portfolio that they could use to stamp Apple out of existence in the smartphone market.
And I can't wait for Google to build their own Android phone. You know they're going to do it. I say this because I'm tired of the tampering with Android by OEM's, carriers, etc. In this house we have a Samsung Indulge and LG Optimus - both Android phones but almost completely different. My Samsung is a little more open than the LG. And it drives me nuts.
And then there's the freeze out on Android versioning. Makes developing for Andorid an adventure to say the least.
That's just obscene!