IN 20 years

[indolikaa]

I wasn't as lucky.


My parents totally supported my right to defend myself. They even supported my right to throw the first punch, if the situation called for such measures. And after several years of being bullied by some Big Jock Dickhead, I finally snapped. In front of all the 'cool' people who were far too 'important' to be seen in my presence.

I won't say it was a total success, but I was still standing after the fight. And we had both shed enough blood to keep the local blood bank happy for a few weeks. It didn't make me 'cool' or 'important' but I gained something that means more to a high school kid than anything: respect.

Respect can be your friend. A couple of years later, I was at a post-game celebration for our football team, minding my own business and working on getting my hands up my girlfriend's shirt. A kid from the rival school comes from out of nowhere and smacks me in the back of the head with a 2x4 with such force that the 2x4 shattered.

All those Big Jock Dickheads that used to pick on me swarmed. My girlfriend later told me that the same jock I had finally confronted months ago took it upon himself to administer the justice personally. After beating the living shit out of him and leaving him for the vultures, he urinated in the guy's mouth.

Several weeks later, when I was finally able to form complete sentences again, I went and found the guy who did what he did. Confronted him right on the grounds of his own high school. He apologized for what he did, but complained that his injuries were such that he might not be able to play basketball that year.

I asked him, "Will your injuries heal permanently?

He said, "Yes. They're only broken bones, and none of them were open fractures or anything like that."

I said, "Good for you. Mine will not."

And with that, just like the my former Big Jock Dickhead bully taught me to do, I squared up, wound up and punched him in the face as hard as I could. And while he was on the ground, I spit in his face. And I turned around and walked away. And nobody did anything to stop me.


And that is why I am the way that I am. I carry a permanent reminder inside my skull that few men are honorable enough to solve problems with their fists.

[Capmaster]

That was a cheap shot he took. Did you consider swearing out a complaint? I think I would have. At least that would keep him out of the better colleges.

Cowardly bastard

[indolikaa]

That was a cheap shot he took. Did you consider swearing out a complaint? I think I would have. At least that would keep him out of the better colleges.

Never gave it a thought. What those who came to my aid did to him was punishment enough. I just wanted to make sure he knew my personal feelings in the matter.

[Capmaster]

That was a cheap shot he took. Did you consider swearing out a complaint? I think I would have. At least that would keep him out of the better colleges.

Never gave it a thought. What those who came to my aid did to him was punishment enough. I just wanted to make sure he knew my personal feelings in the matter.

I just think he got off too easy. He could have killed you with that 2x4

[DVD_Ripper]

Indo,

Why You? .... were you the intended target or the first one encountered?

[indolikaa]

Indo,

Why You? .... were you the intended target or the first one encountered?

First one encountered. I was the closest one wearing a letter jacket deemed to be offensive.

[Doramius]

In 20 years I want to be retired, on my sail boat, watching Simpson's and StarWars DVDs.

[SaSi]

Save your breaths. Nothing much will happen in 20 years except the changes we go through.

The youngs will grow up and the olders will will get elder.

If you talk about computers, well, mine isn't any smaller or bigger than my PC of '84. Just more powerfull. It's also not cheaper as well. I spent ~$700 for an XT Clone (10MHz - Turbo version). In 20 years, I have 2800MHz. In 88 I got my first HD (40Mb). I now have 1.100.000Mb. That's 530.000 times what I had.
Back in 84, my PC couldn't play music of video and was only able to display 4 color badly dithered images at 320x200. Now, it's playing all that and resolution increased to 1600x1200.

If I try to make an extrapolation for the year 2024, well, let's see:
MS-Intel Pentium 24 @ 766GHz with
1.6Tb RAM, 580.000TB HD, and a flat monitor resolution of 8000x6000 Natural Colour - 128bit.

The PC will be used mainly to record several digital stations at a time for later viewing.

We may be using Microsoft Winux. The OS will be shipped withing the CPU's cache to avoid corruption by viruses - another plus of the Microsoft - Intel alliance. AMD systems will be running hard-core Linux.

And we will still be thinking how long it will take for things to improve a little. Perhaps another 20 years?

[DVD_Ripper]

Sasi, Very nice ... .love the extrapolation

[Doramius]

Save your breaths. Nothing much will happen in 20 years except the changes we go through.

The youngs will grow up and the olders will will get elder.

If you talk about computers, well, mine isn't any smaller or bigger than my PC of '84. Just more powerfull. It's also not cheaper as well. I spent ~$700 for an XT Clone (10MHz - Turbo version). In 20 years, I have 2800MHz. In 88 I got my first HD (40Mb). I now have 1.100.000Mb. That's 530.000 times what I had.
Back in 84, my PC couldn't play music of video and was only able to display 4 color badly dithered images at 320x200. Now, it's playing all that and resolution increased to 1600x1200.

If I try to make an extrapolation for the year 2024, well, let's see:
MS-Intel Pentium 24 @ 766GHz with
1.6Tb RAM, 580.000TB HD, and a flat monitor resolution of 8000x6000 Natural Colour - 128bit.

The PC will be used mainly to record several digital stations at a time for later viewing.

We may be using Microsoft Winux. The OS will be shipped withing the CPU's cache to avoid corruption by viruses - another plus of the Microsoft - Intel alliance. AMD systems will be running hard-core Linux.

And we will still be thinking how long it will take for things to improve a little. Perhaps another 20 years?

very good future look. However, I think the capability of recording several stations at once will be available though it may not be necessary. I'm thinking, more of the program viewing will be web based and streaming along with allowing demand viewing of shows. You'd basically be able to select your own viewings of episodes, let alone the lineup and cannels. Right now Simpsons is on FOx weekdays at 6:30pm (locally). I'm thinking at six I'll watch the newest episode of the Simpson's that came out sunday, and maybe a halloween special after that. Then do something for 15 min. and come back and start watching A-Team, and not catch the shows in the middle but have the capability of pausing it whenever. All this can be done over a regular TV without having it stored to a local HDD. All done on the Web.

[ChrisX]

I just saw in a local newspaper column on what happened “On this Day”, 17th September 1997 that Red Skelton died.

I remember the comedian very well when I was a kid seeing him on TV as so funny and so enjoyable to watch. Must be well over 20 years ago.

20 years from now, I don’t want to think about it. I’ll be 71 by then.

[Doramius]

I just saw in a local newspaper column on what happened “On this Day”, 17th September 1997 that Red Skelton died.

I remember the comedian very well when I was a kid seeing him on TV as so funny and so enjoyable to watch. Must be well over 20 years ago.

20 years from now, I don’t want to think about it. I’ll be 71 by then.

Red Skelton was awesome. I have a few videos of him. A lot of sketch comedy shows are based off of his series. He was the first person to introduce "Pedestrian Polo" during the years he was sponsored by Tide.

[gooberguy]

i wonder when well get flying cars, like in all future shows and movies.....

[Doramius]

That'll probably happen once they figure out how to handle the mass traffic of them in the air. It would have to all be automated. Do you really want to have a drunk driver behind the wheel of a flying car?

[gooberguy]

Do you really want to have a drunk driver behind the wheel of a flying car?

thats great

If they make flying cars the probally have an built in dui test, so that if your drunk the car wont turn on.

[Cobra]

I'd try to overclock my car.

[indolikaa]

I'd try to overclock my car.

Why does this not surprise me...

[Doramius]

There are also some idiots that wait until the tank is on a half gallon of fumes to drive on the busy interstate and think a 24MPG car will make it the 40 miles to their next destination(I've only had that happen once because of a broken fuel gauge ). What happens when flying cars run out of fuel? I'll be reinforcing my home's roof with concrete when this happens. Maybe a bunker style home in the ground like a Hobbit's home.

[yoda313]

There are also some idiots that wait until the tank is on a half gallon of fumes to drive on the busy interstate and think a 24MPG car will make it the 40 miles to their next destination(I've only had that happen once because of a broken fuel gauge ). What happens when flying cars run out of fuel? I'll be reinforcing my home's roof with concrete when this happens. Maybe a bunker style home in the ground like a Hobbit's home.

Hello,



Let's see... If airplane parts fall off and hit the ground ALREADY could you imagine the damage of a million mufflers crashing every day????

Kevin

[Doramius]

At least they won't be dragging and you won't wave to worry about swerving to the side to avoid one. We're not far away from hover cars. Sad problem is the EMP force to hold it up distroys any unshielded electric item within a large distance. Start your car up and your and the neighbor's houses shut down.

[yoda313]

At least they won't be dragging and you won't wave to worry about swerving to the side to avoid one. We're not far away from hover cars. Sad problem is the EMP force to hold it up distroys any unshielded electric item within a large distance. Start your car up and your and the neighbor's houses shut down.

Hello,

Yeah right in the middle of Empire Strikes Back!

Kevin

[Doramius]

and probably at the Vader Vs. Skywalker fight Just after Vader says, "Obi-Wan never told you about your father." Damn, that would suck if you were seeing it for the first time.