The older segments of society generally are the major customers of most tourism industries in their "non-productive" years, so invest your money in those industries if people start living longer.

My boss 18 years ago:

"All of our projects are behind! We will have 3 status meetings every day with all people involved until we catch up!"

So literally at least 4 to 5 hours a day were preparing and presenting status reports for the boss. Gave us 3 or 4 hours to work on the projects.
Eventually I stopped going to all but one meeting and finished my projects. He tried to fire me for that. Fortunately his boss had more sense.

Well, you know only the BIG ISPs are able to afford things like computers, which can automatically calculate things like fees and bandwidth usage.

It's these poor "Mom and Pop" providers that are still keeping all their records on paper, and have to manually copy every packet from one internet tube to the next. It's REALLY exhausting. Can you imagine if they had to add up all the numbers and write a report for each and every subscriber every month? That would truly be burdensome. Someone needs to help these poor overworked people.

Shoot, we have to account for die loss due to cosmic rays every time we ship a bunch of wafers by air. We've been doing that as long as I've been working here.

semiconductor fab, 22 years.

Because there wasn't anything else.

In the US.

In Japan, they had smart phones in the 1990s. I remember playing with them in 1997 (we used to buy competitors products from all over the world and tear them apart) and asking "when will we get that here in the US?" And the marketers at my company were saying "US consumers don't want all that frippery on a phone!"

So one thing I thank Steve Jobs for is not listening to people like that.

Fairly accurate.

When I have some seriously repetitive or physically difficult task that I am avoiding (washing dishes, cleaning house, putting in fence posts, shoveling rocks or dirt, mixing concrete, etc.) weed gives me the motivation to do it and the stamina to finish it. (I live on a farm)

Anything involving dangerous equipment or serious thinking (chainsawing, taxes, writing reports, etc.) and I definitely do NOT hit the pipe first.

YMMV.

I'm glad the young folks of today will get to act like us old-timers in the future.

"Why, I remember when Quantum Computers used to take up WHOLE BUILDINGS! Now you kids wear them around your wrists! You don't know how good you've got it."

I have had a G4 for well over a year now. No problems at all.
All my Iphone and Galaxy S6 friends have had issues.

Hey, I'm just glad I'll finally have a plausible story to tell the cops about the human-skin drum in my living room.
And the curtains. They always ask about those.

Free work coffee is the only way we do our jobs here.

That and cheap breakfast tacos in the cafeteria are the only reasons I show up at a reasonable hour.

Funny, "Nuclear Death Mice" is the name of my Canadian Oom-pah punk cover band.

I don't like Amazon and I have Netflix, but I am glad Amazon is there. Competition is always good for the consumer.

Yeah, drugs need to be legal before I can be down with that...

A lot of companies are afraid of taking TOO big of a contract from Apple.

Apple has a habit of deciding to change and/or cancel contracts suddenly (and I'm sure they have an awesome team of lawyers to make it stick) after a manufacturer has dedicated an entire manufacturing line to making the (very specific) part for Apple.

I worked for a company that made parts for Apple about 5 years ago. Apple kept telling us to knock down the price or they'd cancel the contract. Eventually we were selling to them at a loss. For some reason our spineless management kept kowtowing to Apple and we went bankrupt. First thing the new management did after bankruptcy was to tell Apple we would never manufacture for them again.

Unfortunately we got sold to another company...who just signed a contract with Apple. But the parts we are making are not Apple exclusive, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.

I lived before the EPA and the clean air and water acts. I lived near many refineries and factories back in the 60's and 70's. The toxic crap that poured from the smokestacks and drain pipes of these places was horrible. Have you ever seen bright yellow toxic sludge draining directly into a bay? It is not pretty, especially with all the dead sea life floating in it. Cancer rates were astounding, respiratory illnesses were through the roof back in those days.

So you want to kill the EPA. Go ahead. I no longer live near those places, but you should move there and enjoy what you want. Raise your kids there! It's what your heroes want.

Idiot.