Posted on 08/25/2021 10:22:06 AM PDT by sodpoodle
>> Can’t hack a fax machine.<<
As someone who sent millions of faxes on behalf of others so it looked like it was coming from their phone numbers, I’m not sure what you mean by this. Because what I did was authorized by the sender and therefore legal, it’s not hacking, but the distinction wasn’t in the technology.
Poor health?
Michael Moore 😁
Kathy Griffith 😁
Joy Bahar 😁
Dignity is certainly on the decline.
Yep.
Although I didn’t see cash on the list.
5.56mm
12. Free and fair elections
12) united states of america...
Books won’t disappear at my house.
The Bill of Rights (Freedom of religion, privacy, expression and association)
Poor health
Keith Richards and Willie Nelson will still be with us.
Must you be so bulgar?
“Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. <<
What about the Slovaks?...............”
I see what you did there. :)
The newspaper is rapidly disappearing. They’re being replaced by electronic editions. There will still be “land line” phones, but they will be connected to the same connection used for Internet service to the home, namely cable TV lines and fiber optic lines.
That's not the only thing that can be ruined by excessive taxation. The population of NY is being eliminated due to high taxes, another thing to disappear, people in NY.
“7. Network Television
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they’re playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV”
I prefer the nostalgia stuff (TV shows and movies) to the woke nonsense of today. And what would one give to be able to travel back in time to when the networks trashed or reused the videotapes of a lot of their programming from the 1950s to the very early 1970s as that would give the nostalgia networks even more material.
2. Post Office - tremendous infrastructure in semirural and rural America. Could be privatized.
3. Newspaper - nearly already gone. Free papers have taken over local ads.
4. Book - nope. What Amazon giveth, Amazon can taketh away, and already have in the 1984 incident. If you're not backing their stuff up offline you're at risk of a purge.
5. Land line - probably gone, but land lines work when towers go down, which they do.
6. Corporate music - similar to books, if you don't have local backup you won't have music if somebody at streaming corporate decides not.
7. Network television - if only. When, Lord, oh, when?
8. Personal files - these will still be out there in another location, and the same caution applies - if you don't have it backed up locally somebody (coughcoughAmazonWebServices) can simply decide you're not worthy anymore.
9. Privacy - gone.
10. Fax machines - that functionality is easily and cheaply added to popular consumer printers. It won't be going out via land line anymore (see above) but there's a place for scanned images.
There's a theme here: is the new corporation any more trustworthy than the old ones? The answer is almost certainly not. Lord Acton said "power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Big companies would rather “pay the vig” to credit card companies than have their employees steal cash. Sad.
If they manage to illuminate cash in America be prepared for people to start paying for things with foreign currency and metal ingots.
Jane Fonda, Hilary Clinton, JOe Biden and a list
of others a mile long.
Common sense is the first one. No wait. It already has.
They left out scheduled entertainment - that is shows that are on the same time every week, night, etc.
Except for live events all shows will be on demand.
Chances are good, you can include satellite and cable video services although those media may continue to exist to carry the internet.
ALSO:
Manual stick shifts in the USA and Canada. I don’t think they will disappear in Mexico and developing countries in the next 40 years.
>>Actors will eventually be replaced with CGI artificial characters that you cannot tell from the real thing. Even reanimate the great dead actors from long ago..............<<
It is coming damn close. Even the last and awful SW movies had a LOT of humans portrayed as CGI.
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