This is what I said. People watch too much TV. Blood, guts, fighting, greed, stupid in the extreme. Not birds singing or bees on flowers. So on the Linux topic was "mechanization and computer automation." Very worth learning these days. Izzy argues the RS232 serial port is dead. So much for discussion. Also related to discussion a particular TV show I want to find; "Forces of Nature," with physicist Brian Cox, preferably BBC version. And how that relates to climate friendly fuels now smoking up the stratosphere. As for lazy young people, I'm delighted I found one with a cell phone who will hang around for pay tomorrow while a concrete truck pours cement. I honestly worry doing cement out here after the truck leaves. If I have a heart attack, would anybody, could anybody chip me out of hardened concrete?? I have junk from both U of M Chemistry and Otto Schmitt's lab on the biofuels frontier. A scientist hopes for some dignity. Socialism is of .. by .. and for spud heads who watch too much TV. Rick Engebretson wrote: > That explains a lot!! > > When we first moved out here with 3 kids in early 1980s I outsmarted TV > by having a small screen black and white with fuzzy picture. Our > children learned to read, and all now have advanced degrees and good > jobs and good relationships. > > It's now accepted that young people won't work or learn anything. They > want socialism. That's why mechanization and computer automation is so > vital to their survival. Shovel manure? Milk cows? Weed a garden? No, > get out the pesticide, herbicide, and 8 wheel John Deere!! Then they see > on TV how birds once sang beautifully, bees once pollinated wildflowers, > and water was once clean and they find someone to blame. > > I did catch part of a PBS TV show about 2AM this Monday morning that I > tried to later find. It was called "Forces of Nature," by physicist > Brian Cox. This episode was about "Color" and I was amazed how my old > Biophysics theories are now TV science. Apparently the BBC version is > much better than the PBS. Trying to inform the bogus "renewable energy" > non-scientists about solar photochemical conversion of biomass to carbon > neutral fuel is impossible, so education is vital. Forest fire is the > new solution for a lazy generation. > > Mike Miller wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Iznogoud wrote: >> >>> Wow! I did not know people have that much time to watch TV. >> >> Maybe you should read newspaper or magazine articles about American TV >> viewing -- average numbers of hours per week, etc. The truth is out >> there! >> >> That says the average household is watching about 8 hours of TV per day, >> but that's been cut down a little from the peak at 9 hours per day >> because they are now watching so much more Netflix and other non-TV >> video. >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >