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talltexan

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2017, 09:45:43 AM »
Suppose we put colonies on the moon. That sounds like progress, but that graph would have more people back in the "colony" category, which would definitely look bad.

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2017, 10:17:52 AM »
Suppose we put colonies on the moon. That sounds like progress, but that graph would have more people back in the "colony" category, which would definitely look bad.

Right, and what if we end up with Belters on the moon that declare war on Earth, then they death from war will go up too!

This is fun!  Hell, lets make up some more stuff that might happen in the future.

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2017, 11:57:27 AM »
Suppose we put colonies on the moon. That sounds like progress, but that graph would have more people back in the "colony" category, which would definitely look bad.

Right, and what if we end up with Belters on the moon that declare war on Earth, then they death from war will go up too!

This is fun!  Hell, lets make up some more stuff that might happen in the future.
Mars will be whoopin' some Belter ass pretty soon!  Even Fred Johnson will be running scared.  :P

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #53 on: March 22, 2017, 07:47:16 PM »
Consider yourselves boosted:

The number of millionaire households in America increased by 400,000 in 2016, reaching a record of 10.8 million, according to a new study.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the number of millionaire households has grown every year, adding a total of 4 million millionaire households, according to Spectrem Group, the wealth research firm. The stats mean that more than one out of every 10 households in America is worth $1 million or more.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-adds-400000-millionaire-households-setting-record/ar-BByBuHM?li=BBnbfcN

We Americans today are quite possibly the very luckiest bipeds this planet has ever seen.

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #54 on: April 07, 2017, 08:03:31 AM »
I'm not seeing how 10.8 million today is more than 10% of 140,000,000 households. Is one of my numbers not correct?

(Congrats to all you Millionaires, I'll be joining you one day)

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #55 on: April 07, 2017, 01:01:34 PM »
Apparently Census Bureau measures about 125 million households:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/

So 10.8 million would be a little under 9%.  If the 10.8 million is accurate.

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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #56 on: April 07, 2017, 02:53:15 PM »
in my lifetime mobile phones came about , they got smaller and cheaper , more powerful , eventually holding a tv screen and a computer with an internet . The market for apps appeared from nowhere , blogs like MMM happened .

self driving trucks and cars might be commonplace soon , i could watch a film and get driven to london and probably get cheaper insurance because the hairless ape behind the wheel is the most common cause of accidents, all vehicles will record whats going on around them when on , most traffic police will become redundant and can be freed up to help to make neighbourhoods safe or lower taxes, emergency vehicles can be high speed and have roads cleared in advance. cycling will become easier because automatic cars will drive with proper space and speed limits . i can check work e-mail as i commute , maybe have video conferences with my team and chat about the jobs of the day .

single man drones might airlift people in mountain rescue or a&e situations . 

drone technology means i can get parts for machines or PLC's delivered within a few hours to remote customer sites or a hot starbucks coffee at 6:30am to the patio. 

Netflix and iTunes means i don't have cd's, vynal , tape or dvd's to get broken, go to land fill or waste resources in manufacture.   

low resource business like blogs , U-tube , apps , games , music , all types of entertainment is still a growing market , getting better and broader and at small cost to the environment .
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Re: Need a optimism boost
« Reply #57 on: May 11, 2017, 08:20:51 AM »
Turn it off. This is why I pay zero attention to politics.  Politics can only get you down as more and more people are so convinced only they are right and everyone else is wrong.  it's a shame.

Yes!  Turn off the news all together if you ask me.  A while back there was a shooting in San Bernidino.  I didn't know about it until 2-3 weeks after it happened.  I realized I didn't need to know about it because it didn't effect me - and was just promoting hate and fear across the country.  That's when I realized my decision to turn off the TV was awesome.

I have found the local township paper (as opposed to the big named regional paper) to be very informative, upbeat, and nearly every article effects me on some level.  I read it occasionally - but not daily - probably weekly.  There's some national news in it that I usually ignore.

I get the 5-day forcast from my cellphone in about 30 seconds instead of half of the weather with a cliff-hanger ever 5 minutes.  Google maps has real time traffic these days (Wayz is still better though).  If I was into sports I could get score and stat data on my phone in a short amount of time also.  I'm surprised the TV news is still in business.