Raise the Retirement Age to 67?

[mistermack]

What a lot of people miss is that firstly, work ain't what it used to be. It's a doddle, compared to years ago.
And secondly, on average people start paid work ten years later than they did years ago.

So 67 is perfectly fair.

[Svartalf]

ain't there less bothersome ways to get semilegal pot?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

ain't there less bothersome ways to get semilegal pot?

No.

[Svartalf]

Dunno, the only people I wish eye related ailments on are those I would not mind having a good game of "Spanish Inquisition" with, myself being the inquisitor, of course.

[Ian]

I don't plan on retiring and living off Social Security. By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.




Maybe.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dunno, the only people I wish eye related ailments on are those I would not mind having a good game of "Spanish Inquisition" with, myself being the inquisitor, of course.

Oh, it would be "suspected glaucoma, early" of course. Very little bother and the smoke helps so much with that.

[kiki5711]

I just wanna move to California and get glaucoma.

[Blind groper]

before you start accusing us oldies of being vampires you need to differentiate between the state pension and an occupational one. The pension I get is paid for by me. I have put almost a third of my salary aside since 1976 into a pension fund. That fund belongs to the people who have built it up through their own endeavours.

Actually, I am also a vampire.
I am 63, and I am not working. I am currently living off assorted investments I made over the years I was in employment. I will not gain access to the taxpayer's jugular for another couple of years, which i look forward to. However, I also realise that 65 is stupidly young these days. I support the idea of the age being raised, even though it is to my own personal detriment.

[Blind groper]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

[Ian]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

Fine by me. My thought processes will merely transfer from one medium to another.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

Fine by me. My thought processes will merely transfer from one medium to another.

Which means there will be a machine that thinks like you. Nothing more.

[Ian]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

Fine by me. My thought processes will merely transfer from one medium to another.

Which means there will be a machine that thinks like you. Nothing more.

Right now I'm just a machine that thinks like me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

Fine by me. My thought processes will merely transfer from one medium to another.

Which means there will be a machine that thinks like you. Nothing more.

Right now I'm just a machine that thinks like me.

Yeah, but if they made another machine and told it it was you, the same thing would happen. But you'd still be in the original, no way around that.

[hadespussercats]

By the time I'm 67, I should be able to upload my brain into cyberspace and spend a few centuries enjoying my time in a virtual paradise.

I trust you do realise that it would be a copy of your brain uploaded. It is impossible, even in theory, to actually upload your brain. The upload process will require your death, while your electronic twin sibling lives on.

Fine by me. My thought processes will merely transfer from one medium to another.

Which means there will be a machine that thinks like you. Nothing more.

Right now I'm just a machine that thinks like me.

Wouldn't you miss taste and touch and scent and all that, though? I don't think I'd want to be the electronic version of a brain in a jar-- even if I could still talk to people.

[amused]

There's a character in Neuromancer who is an electronic construct of a person. He says he wants to be erased.