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jlf1961 -> Since I have some time... (1/2/2017 11:18:23 AM)
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Due to the fact that I am paying for 1gbs internet service and only getting 249.4 mbs service and waiting on a tech to show up to fix the problem...
I find that once more, I see various things that can be done by humans to improve conditions on this rock....
1) In ALL the cultural stories about the great flood which involves some deity telling some poor sucker to build a boat and collect 2 of every animal there is one thing missing.
An engine of some kind.
Ah, but you say this all happened pre industrial age.
That may be true, but, it did happen after humanity had discovered metal working.
It is therefore my contention that the deity could have instructed said servant in what would have been needed to build even a simple steam engine.
Since no instructions were given, then the deity never intended for sea going vessels to have engines, thus vessel constructed with an engine is a blasphemous act, and we (humanity) have been punished with Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump, the Kardashians, and tv shows such as "Here comes honey boo boo."
Thus to end our collective suffering, humanity needs to return to the sail as a means to power sea going vessels.
This would of course eliminate such things as ballistic missile submarines (which brings up the question, who in the hell wants to get on a boat designed to sink?)
2) Humanity needs to eliminate 80% of the high tech devices in our lives.
Seriously, over the holidays I attended two family gatherings, and in both cases, people sitting at the table used smart phones to communicate with each other rather than actually talking.
Which also brings up the fact that smart phones, and any text device seems to be systematically eliminating vowels from spelling.
3) Books are something to be cherished, bound volumes consisting of pages made of either paper (in some older cases, lambskin) and have some heft and mass to them.
Not a bunch of data bits downloaded to some device.
Look, a professor flinging an ereader loaded with Plato's Republic does not have the same effect when connecting to a student's skull as an actual hard cover book does. (yes I was a recipient of such an act after stating rather strongly that Plato's ideas were as practical as putting a milk bucket under a bull.)
4) Computers in cars.
No, I am not talking about laptops, I am talking about all that computerized bullshit that is in motorized vehicles. Seriously, a properly tuned pre electronic vehicle can actually get better emission quality than most of the computerized crap on the roads today, and you dont need a degree in electronic engineering to fix the damn thing!
When it costs $1000.00 in parts and labor to fix an ignition problem, things have gone too far.
Not to mention that in the good old days, one could do a tune up in 45 minutes or less (depending on the number of beers drank) with a $10 timing light, a basic set of tools and a match book to set plug and point gap.
Hell, if the car cranked and was not getting spark, it was either points, condenser, distributor cap, or coil, or coil wire to the distributor cap, and the fix was less than $50 bucks if you did it yourself.
People, we need to get simpler in living!
oh, and Bill Gates and every microsoft employee needs to be drug through a cactus patch then staked out over fire ant hills.
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