"24" circa 1994

>Pagers. I'd forgotten all about pagers. And dot matrix printers....hysterical.

And the fact the paper was pulled throuhg the printer by a spindle. And after Printing, you had to ever so carefully take the "holely" section of the paper off. And half the time you tore the printed part so you needed to reprint.

Colin,

Sir, prescription for migraine headache is

"Ask a leftist to explain anything."

No sir, please let's let vegatating idiots sleep.

There is something about leftists that always puzzles me. They will complain relentlessly about how "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" or that "wages have stagnated for the average worker since 1973" or that "women make less money than men for for the exact same jobs" or that "we need to raise minimum wage to a 'living wage' level."

At the same time and especially when they are confronted with the statistics that show that how even low income Americans own more thing than most people in the World and that they own more than Americans from several decades ago, whose incomes were in a much higher percentile, they dismiss the ever increasing ease at acquiring more and/or better cars, homes, apparel, electronics and home amenities by dismissing it as "crap that people don't need, have too much of and won't make them happy."

It no longer surprises me that many on the left are presumptuous enough to believe that they are the better judges of what other people should buy, what other people need and how happy it makes those than the people ,who are actually making these purchasing decisions.

What I really find strange is that if buying anything other then basic items of subsistence is a bad thing, why should it matter if most Americans are getting poorer in real terms, as the narrative of so many leftists (and right wing populists) claim?

These doom and gloom happenings in our economy should be welcomed by leftists because they eliminate disposable income that would be spent on stuff they deem unnecessary, redundant and non utility enhancing. If Americans are having their pockets picked by "big oil," "drug company profiteering," "well street tycoons" and " we are 'losing' the trade 'war' with China," then we should be better off because Americans will not be able to buy "crap that they don't need and won't make them happy." If women really do make less than men for the same job they should be happier because they will not buy are much "crap they don't need." The same should be true for minorities and laid off American workers and the happiest of all people should be the "exploited, slave wage earning undocumented citizens."

I can only conclude that lift wingers want every one to make the same, that we need protectionism so that manufacturers make high wages, we need very high minimum wages so that the poor make more money, we need to tax those who make millions at close to 100%, we should make sure that every one goes to college so they can earn a bigger pay check and at the end of the day they are supposed to frame their decently sized paychecks, which are not much bigger or smaller than anyone else's, and frame them or use them as wall paper in their small candle lit huts or do anything with them other then buying things or investing so they can buy more totally needless things in the future.

We have some leftists who comment here, can you explain all of the hand wringing about income inequality when, according to many lefties, we "spend our money on things we don't need and that won't make us happy."

I loved the first season of "24." But many libertarians might have a difficult time with it knowing that "what would Jack Bauer need?" became justification for most of the excesses of the Bush administration in the domestic "war on terror." For those of you without the background, Jack Bauer was the government agent hero who continually had to ignore the limitation of rules of almost any kind in order to get the bad guys. An ACLU lawyer in season 2, I think, was actually used by the terrorists to slow Jack down.

For those of us capable of separating fiction from reality, though, it was a great show.

Let's not forget that the terrorists didn't have the high tech toys either. But, what a fun parody! Thanks for sharing.

The clip didn't come up for me, but I get the joke.

Although modern, the original "24" show was terrible, and you will miss nothing by skipping it.

michael...even today's 40 year olds could say that of their situation vs. their 24 year old selves.

Along the lines of what Jason said, I'm intrigued by what might happen in the next couple of decades, and that it will have some profound effects on society, I'm sure, both good as well as bad. But such is progress.

I am convinced that, by the time I am 40 (I am 24 at present), I will have a standard of living that my parents could have only dreamed of for me. I will be free to work in a field of my choosing and have the ability to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I will be able to get the medical care I need without bankrupting myself. My eventual wife and children will be well provided for and have a better life than I ever had as a small child.

In short, there is much to be hopeful for with the coming of progress that is yet to be realized.

Pagers. I'd forgotten all about pagers. And dot matrix printers....hysterical.

I can't wait to hear what the grievances will be ten and twenty years from now. I'm optimistic so I'm guessing:

- High cost of pet health insurance


- Saving for retirement beyond 100


- The plight of the "working families" whose lifestyles will make the Jetsons look like the Flinstones.


- And of course, immigration, high price of gasoline and education namely pre-K and graduate school.

I've never seen 24, but I have friends that are absolute addicts, so I hear all about it. This clip is great! I still remember the first time I pulled down a tiny JPEG file in 1992. It took something like 18 minutes. I can't even remember the name of the service we used (an AOL competitor). Yes, technology has improved a lot since the dark ages 14 years ago.

DON'T give '24' a shot, unless you want to lose 20 hours of your life, likely in a continuous sitting, because the show is that damn addictive.

An absolutely hilarious parody...any '24' fan should laugh a lot. Thanks for the link & give Season 1 of '24' a shot...highly recommended.