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QOTD Thread #332- Do you think that people should keep cats outdoors?
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ElhonnaDS
#230- What modern items will not be in use in 20 years? What current everyday, or at least fairly common, devices and products do you think will be rendered so out dated that they'll cease to be used (outside of a few collectors or old people who refuse to give them up) in 20 years?
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Adamsm
Probably physical copies of movies, IE DVD's or Blu-Ray will eventually be phased out by a new digital media thing, similar to how CD's are now being replaced by MP3 files.
Post by
HiVolt
Dedicated MP3 players. Dedicated cell phones. Dedicated meaning that it has essentially only one real function. I also have a feeling that alarm clocks are going to be going the way of the dodo eventually. I've been using my phone as my alarm clock for the past few years.
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OverZealous
Do books count? If not, CDs and DVDs. They just won't be necessary.
Post by
Adamsm
Do books count?I don't think we'll ever get rid of books in all honesty.
Post by
HiVolt
Do books count?I don't think we'll ever get rid of books in all honesty.
Not in the next 20 years, but I could see actual books being phased out eventually. There are already a large number of schools giving students tablets and I see that eventually phasing out textbooks, which is mostly what keeps the publishing industry going nowadays. After that, it's only a matter of time before print media is completely gone. It's kind of unfortunate, but I think it's inevitable.
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Haxzor
Do books count?I don't think we'll ever get rid of books in all honesty.
Not in the next 20 years, but I could see actual books being phased out eventually. There are already a large number of schools giving students tablets and I see that eventually phasing out textbooks, which is mostly what keeps the publishing industry going nowadays. After that, it's only a matter of time before print media is completely gone. It's kind of unfortunate, but I think it's inevitable.
I'm still going to love reading a nice paperback
Post by
gamerunknown
229. I've been dead set against getting married for a while, but when I was younger I always wanted to invite people from the internet, because it'd be cool to meet them for the first time (went to an internet meetup in London once, but only people I'd met IRL before turned up). It'd probably also involve alcohol before I was confident enough to get up in front of lots of people and speak.
230. TV racks. I don't know why, but they take up lots of room and annoy me.
My phone always dies and my normal alarm is super loud, so unless it dies I'll probably be using it forever.
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HiVolt
I'm still going to love reading a nice paperback
Me too. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the death of print media, I'm just saying it's pretty much a guarantee at this point. If I were to choose, we'd still have paper books for at least the next 50 years. Hell, my chosen career field relies on paper books. Now that anyone with a blog can self-publish a novel, hiring an editor almost seems like an archaic practice. In the future, it's only going to get worse.
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Interest
I'd probably go with CDs, DVDs, and all that portable media that is easily stored and played back in other ways. I also foresee some upgrading in terms of external computer storage (i.e. the current generation of USB storage will be rendered obsolete).
Post by
gamerunknown
Oh HiVolt, one of my lecturers told the class her friend wrote letters to patients for a doctor in New Zealand as a job (I guess she might have other writing/editing duties too). The doctor doesn't like writing, so he emails the woman patient details, she writes up a personally tailored letter and emails it back, which the doctor then prints off and sends. So maybe things like that would survive in a post-print era.
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ElhonnaDS
#231- What's the worst behavior you've ever seen in public by an adult?
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Monday
Soccer dad screaming at the opposite team during a game of 10-12 year olds.
Needless to say, he was kicked out.
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gamerunknown
I once said "that guy's my dad", pointing at a random guy, to my friends at around age 16. We were joking around because they said they'd never met my dad, but had met my mum (they live together, but my dad typically works late shifts). The man turned around, very offended, spat in my eye, then pushed me to the floor.
That's not the worst behaviour I see from adults though. I really, really hate seeing parents hit their kids in public. More often than not it comes from their own distractedness and lack of attention towards their kid, which results in their embarrassment. However, I think it's far more embarrassing hitting kids than having an out of control child (saw this recently with a kid flipping through a magazine in a store and singing the Power Rangers theme - not particularly loudly - while their parent was trying to order something - they received several smacks and started crying). I've also been sworn at and followed for a brief distance for refusing to give some guy money. I've witnessed guys harassing women, one violently pulling a woman (I confronted him in order to get him to stop). I've seen a fist fight where some apparently stoned guy just walked up to a guy sitting down and punched him, then started fighting with a pensioner (the pensioner actually was winning, though I tried to intervene to get them to stop fighting until the police arrived). Oh, also, some guy at a pub thought I was Protestant, so he started singing some song about how he'd rather be a Pakistani (not in polite form) than a "Hun".
The most appalling behaviour I can remember was the Thursday before last though. I sat down to read through a study for an essay in the library and the guy opposite me was freestyling about deflowering girls and his non-homosexuality to the girl next to him. Then someone joined him and talked about a terrible event which happened after going to a club the past night. Over the course of an hour (35 page study which I was taking notes on), I learnt that this new guy had convinced a girl to return to his domicile the last night and attempted anal intercourse, only to be defecated on. New guy then described falling over in the shower several times due to how inebriated he was. Between the triad, every important reproductive topic was covered in some detail. For some reason, my ire was compounded when a new individual arrived and the guy code switched ("yo" and "safe" - two conversation artefacts he hadn't used in conversing with his white peers).
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Sagramor
Do vagrants count?
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