As film production declines

[RalphLambrecht]

The point is we lose very basic knowledge and one day it will bite us all in the behind with razor-sharp teeth.

and we cn't even take a picture of it.especially sad as we should have a pretty dramatic sky on doomsday

 

[madgardener]

Not that I don't have issues with technology and the ways we are using it today, but for some reason I can't help but think that the same arguments were being made when the printing press came about, and how the Erie Canal would make life unbearably fast, the telegraph had it's naysayers as well, saying that instant communication would cause the downfall of morals because it would make it easier to have affairs and hide them, the telephone, computers, Internet, GPS, etc,etc,etc.....

Remember that Socrates complained about how kids were unruly in his day and how society will fall because of it. Last time I checked, society hasn't been paralyzed yet.

 

[benjiboy]

"A Kodak moment" has now changed meaning, and become in business to mean a company's inability to anticipate the the speed and effect of technological change.

 

[Alan Klein]

We're all in God's hands. Now go out and take a nice picture and gift it to someone you love.

 

[bsdunek]

We're all in God's hands. Now go out and take a nice picture and gift it to someone you love.

Amen!

 

[pbromaghin]

wow that's a well-balanced article ...

Who says every opinion needs to be balanced?

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

And, as there are fewer and fewer products, I thought this article, as an "analog" to film production might help those who think restarting film production would be easy.

We lose technology. It vanishes people! It goes away! We can't do it anymore! These are true statements within the limitations that we can do it if it is worth it monetarily, and if we have enough time and people.

Try reading this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora...olog_b_5658701.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

I've seen more than my share of technology vanish.

You might like this too: http://news.yahoo.com/us-navy-practices-retrieving-orion-spacecraft-230717439.html

PE

Its not about technology loss or other thing. Its politics. No more Soviets , no more propaganda to make young east germans , cia agent. Ron , you growed and lived in the middle of cold war , you believe rockets - big ones - , big cars , nuclear missiles , lots of submarines etc.

Thats all went from the sink but still smells funny. In 20 years , someone will flush it again and nothing exist.

Now it is biology , someone will produce a pill , you drink it and suddenly memorize all harvard law school lessons. What can a space craft , kodak, iphone ,nuclear energy , war , army compares to it ?

Think 1500000000 chinese people drinked it ! It would be easy to teach everything in space technology with single pill , genetics will produce 20 times more intelligent children , people will live 200 years.

Forget film technology , it is death and useless , not necessary , not important.

Umut

 

[Curt]

Its not about technology loss or other thing. Its politics. No more Soviets , no more propaganda to make young east germans , cia agent. Ron , you growed and lived in the middle of cold war , you believe rockets - big ones - , big cars , nuclear missiles , lots of submarines etc.

Thats all went from the sink but still smells funny. In 20 years , someone will flush it again and nothing exist.

Now it is biology , someone will produce a pill , you drink it and suddenly memorize all harvard law school lessons. What can a space craft , kodak, iphone ,nuclear energy , war , army compares to it ?

Think 1500000000 chinese people drinked it ! It would be easy to teach everything in space technology with single pill , genetics will produce 20 times more intelligent children , people will live 200 years.

Forget film technology , it is death and useless , not necessary , not important.

Umut

Wow!!! Have you been drinking the water lately or taken the pill?

A CNN "guest" came out and said that if the Middle East isn't taken care of we can expect it to end in another world war. It's getting ugly out there.

 

[images39]

I guess Thomas Sowell is right - we have entered a 'post-thinking' era. From my view as an old man, I see everything politically correct, fads, fear of people, etc. Oh, well;

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/05/is-thinking-obsolete-n1874599

No surprise there... Thomas Sowell is usually right.

Dale

 

[Xmas]

And a general remark!

What are we having wrt weather nowdays? I watched shelves go bare in HI as the two storms approach. I'm watching the SW of the US and the NW of the US burn. As we turn into a desert with temps in the 120F range, what are our crops going to do?

Oh well, we did it to ourselves, albeit rather unwittingly I think.

PE

Not necessarily linked to CO2 see wiki for 300 year drought.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_peoples
but you did plant fruit trees in the desert
The UK built houses on flood plains.

 

[Xmas]

Wow!!! Have you been drinking the water lately or taken the pill?

A CNN "guest" came out and said that if the Middle East isn't taken care of we can expect it to end in another world war. It's getting ugly out there.

Umut is correct about amnesia...
the whole area is termed cradle of civilisation
my dyslexia allows me to read this as warfare
is it my dyslexia or your memory fault

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Wow!!! Have you been drinking the water lately or taken the pill?

A CNN "guest" came out and said that if the Middle East isn't taken care of we can expect it to end in another world war. It's getting ugly out there.

Its getting ugly here but I think it was always ugly at northwest pasific , you are eating coconut and when chief wants , eat a virgin or attack with your canoes to neighbor islands for head hunting. I always prefered here and will ever be Kürt .

 

[removed account4]

same old same old

 

[Xmas]

same old same old

more complete for non USA people

same old horses same old glue

note not used much in UK

 

[removed account4]

more complete for non USA people

same old horses same old glue

note not used much in UK

thanks

 

[Photo Engineer]

Not necessarily linked to CO2 see wiki for 300 year drought.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_peoples
but you did plant fruit trees in the desert
The UK built houses on flood plains.

It is also linked to the sunspot cycle and a number of other changes such as dust clouds in the galactic plane. Many factors, but CO2 is indeed a big one.

And yes, avocado trees and peach trees sit in desert areas with irrigation ditches. Farmers are losing trees right and left there. The CA avocado may vanish to be replaced by the FL avocado.

PE

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

It is also linked to the sunspot cycle and a number of other changes such as dust clouds in the galactic plane. Many factors, but CO2 is indeed a big one.

And yes, avocado trees and peach trees sit in desert areas with irrigation ditches. Farmers are losing trees right and left there. The CA avocado may vanish to be replaced by the FL avocado.

PE

Unless hurricanes wipe them out.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Yeah, that too!

If you look at the "cookies" in the book or on the DVDs, you will see ample proof of our love of the avocado! We have several small avocado trees growing in our indoor garden! They are all FL avocados.

PE

 

[pentaxuser]

Its getting ugly here but I think it was always ugly at northwest pasific , you are eating coconut and when chief wants , eat a virgin or attack with your canoes to neighbor islands for head hunting. I always prefered here and will ever be Kürt .

Is this the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.? It might explain why the population density in Oregon and Washington is so low. They are being eaten. McDonalds struggle to sell hamburgers there as well. It all adds up

The Scottish Northwest is similar. The Outer Hebrides has been losing people for ages and they are only slowly being replaced by English migrants who are considered exempt from cannibalism as they are considered to be non-combatants by the natives.

To be fair to the Scottish Northwest people, coconuts were never available as a substitute for human flesh. They do have very good whisky( without an "e" you will note) but that tends to make things worse rather than better.

Anthropology is a fascinating subject but has to be approached scientifically

pentaxuser

 

[Jaf-Photo]

A few weeks ago I read an article about the Earth narrowly escaping a solar burst that would have destroyed all electric and electronic technology.

Since then I've been trying to imagine what would have happened to us if we had been hit. Once you start exploring all the chain effects on human life, it takes the shape of a nightmare beyond nightmares.

In addition to that, the Middle East is more dangerous now than ever. The West is capitulating to murderous extremists and nuclear maniacs, while betraying the only humane, democratic country in the region. Eastern Europe is now a powder keg with a lit fuse.

Perhaps we're not approaching the end of days quite yet. But it may well be the end of Peace.

So, yeah, let's drink some whisky and take some photos.

Cheers!

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Is this the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.? It might explain why the population density in Oregon and Washington is so low. They are being eaten. McDonalds struggle to sell hamburgers there as well. It all adds up.

I killed and ate a stranger on the streets of Seattle only yesterday. Tasted like chicken.

Ken

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

Is this the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.? It might explain why the population density in Oregon and Washington is so low. They are being eaten. McDonalds struggle to sell hamburgers there as well. It all adds up

The Scottish Northwest is similar. The Outer Hebrides has been losing people for ages and they are only slowly being replaced by English migrants who are considered exempt from cannibalism as they are considered to be non-combatants by the natives.

To be fair to the Scottish Northwest people, coconuts were never available as a substitute for human flesh. They do have very good whisky( without an "e" you will note) but that tends to make things worse rather than better.

Anthropology is a fascinating subject but has to be approached scientifically

pentaxuser

Nah... he said they eat "virgins". There are no virgins in the far western USA. They're all midwestern farm girls... Illimois, Iowa, Minnesota, etc.

 

[Curt]

Who or what is the hand that rocks the cradle of civilization? (My spell completer will not let me type civilisation.)
As far as I can see most countries are friend and foe. It just depends upon which chapter of the history book you turn to.
Right now the world is doing the Texas Two Step.

 

[Curt]

A few weeks ago I read an article about the Earth narrowly escaping a solar burst that would have destroyed all electric and electronic technology.

Since then I've been trying to imagine what would have happened to us if we had been hit. Once you start exploring all the chain effects on human life, it takes the shape of a nightmare beyond nightmares.

In addition to that, the Middle East is more dangerous now than ever. The West is capitulating to murderous extremists and nuclear maniacs, while betraying the only humane, democratic country in the region. Eastern Europe is now a powder keg with a lit fuse.

Perhaps we're not approaching the end of days quite yet. But it may well be the end of Peace.

So, yeah, let's drink some whisky and take some photos.

Cheers!

That sums it up very well. I think we are heading for a major period of unrest and danger. The announcement that the Pentagon dispersed war supplies and equipment to police departments throughout the United States from the Middle East war surplus stockpiles is not a good sign. Equipment designed for wars to be used to protect us, against up, or against invaders? Welcome to our sorry world. Who or what will be the trigger that starts WWIII or are we condemned to a slow dissolution?

 

[Dr Croubie]

Perhaps we're not approaching the end of days quite yet. But it may well be the end of Peace.

I think you must be labouring under the misapprehention that we're at peace?
I've been reading a lot about the years leading up to WW1 recently (given that it's the centenary), I'm sure everyone in europe is feeling a lot better now than they were 100 years ago...