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Baywatch
1989 · TV series · 42 min episodes · 11 seasons
Created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, Gregory J. Bonann
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
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From my memory from the 90s: Baywatch, X-Files, that speaking car one, Beverly Hills 90210, Ninja Turtles. Some dumb sitcom named Step by Step? edit: oh and ALF
Oh and Married with Children, but it was always very late night and I was not allowed to watch it.
And our teacher always played us ET on VHS. (and that dog playing basketball.)
that's america for me when I was a kid
I avoided firmware updates on my Samsung TV and removed as many built-in apps as possible. It used to start in quiet mode looking for a source. Then my renter updated the firmware because of a popup. Now I’m forced to start one of the commercial flow tv channels. Somehow I’m allowed to play the same episode of Baywatch, progressing 10-15 seconds before I start whatever app I actually want to use. David Hasselhoff hasn’t left the beach yet.
This is because some idiot introduced KPIs like “minutes streamed”. Can’t you just be a dumb device?
I imagine that in ten years, every electric appliance is infested with chatbot-level sentience and constantly wants to engage in conversation. EU will introduce laws that force electronics to STFU.
/? underwater infrared camera: https://www.google.com/search?q=underwater+infrared+camera
r/rov: https://www.reddit.com/r/rov/
Bioradiolocation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioradiolocation
FMCW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-wave_radar
mmWave (60 Ghz) can do heartbeat detection above water FWIU. As can WiFi.
mmwave (millimeter wave), UWA (Underwater Acoustic)
Citations of "Analysis and estimation of the underwater acoustic millimeter-wave communication channel" (2016) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8297460493079369585&as_sdt=5,43&sciodt=0,43&hl=en
Citations of "Wi-Fi signal analysis for heartbeat and metal detection: a comparative study of reliable contactless systems" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3926358377223165726&as_sdt=5,43&sciodt=0,43&hl=en
/? does WiFi work underwater? https://www.google.com/search?q=does+wifi+work+underwater
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13087602574164936719&as_sdt=5,43&sciodt=0,43&hl=en ... "Environment-independent textile fiber identification using Wi-Fi channel state information", "Measurement of construction materials properties using Wi-Fi and convolutional neural networks"
"Underwater target detection by measuring water-surface vibration with millimeter-wave radar" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=17107681556243877942&as_sdt=5,43&sciodt=0,43&hl=en :
> UWSN (Underwater Sensor Network)
I'm reminded of Baywatch S09E01; but those aren't actual trained lifeguards. The film Armageddon works as a training film because of all of the [safety,] mistakes: https://www.google.com/search?q=baywatch+s09e01
FWIW most of the top charting music of the 90s, 80s and so on were also "worse" and have mostly been forgotten. Few songs remain popular or regain popularity. A lot of chart hits are really just springboarding off "you had to be there" cultural moments or experiences or simply a general "vibe" that are fleeting and trivial enough not to stick around even in nostalgia.
As an extreme example, I'd argue the popularity of David Hasselhoff's I've been looking for freedom in Germany is almost entirely a result of "retconning" (if not fabricating) its supposed popularity at the time of its original release. It would have probably been forgotten entirely if it hadn't been rediscovered "ironically" in the context of ridiculous claims about its influence on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Heck, I remember owning a casette of the album as a kid only because "it's the guy from Knight Rider". For adult women his claim to fame was co-starring alongside Pamela Anderson in Baywatch as one of the few men regularly appearing bare-chested on daytime television - I'd say his musical talents played a very small role in his original popularity and it's telling nobody remembers any other songs than the one he performed on a TV show. He was never considered good, he was just a familiar face (and body) and made a catchy tune.
To be fair, he used to be huge in the 80s, 90s, with Knight Rider and Baywatch being essential TV shows for every kid.
Now I guess he's just a washed out actor, I didn't even realize he's still touring
Not sure I buy the whole "pornography is harmful to women." thing - I can imagine there are several angles to try to make a case for it, and I know it won't matter how much people argue about it, some people will say that baywatch is harmful to women, 50 shades of grey, and perhaps harry potter.
It's fine to have concerns, and I am all for teaching the next generation not to treat people how they see them treated in movies and to care for others even if they aren't as awesome as the 'celebrities' we are sold, or what have you.
I think when it comes to polls we should all know that people taking polls are very likely (or is it mostly likely or slightly likely?) to not be honest about porn. Surely when speaking to someone who is recording what you say and has your phone number, telling them every truth about your views on porn is well skewed.
I also think if you really want to delve into this, it's not right to paint with a broad brush, it would be better to classify dozens of different types of 'porn' and have discussions about the various kinds instead of all porn is X or Y.
I also do not think that ohnlyfans / camming is worse than porn from a decade ago - not sure why you are considering that - perhaps because it is more accessible to the average girl/person you feel that it's more dangerous?
I believe that it's less 'dangerous' for many reasons, and mainly because that kind of work allows you to control what you want in your performing script - as opposed to having to do what others have written, or (what happens sometimes, but not as a general thing) some group trying to get you to do more things once it's started filming, that weren't in the original plan.
I do believe we need more education about not living your real life like you see in the movies, so called 'reality tv', and other media.. how to separate your expectations and not get caught up in binges with pleasurable things that make it so you 'have a problem' - but I don't put it on 'porn' is the mind-control/body-possesion thing if the universe.
Also I'd consider that some porn may be helpful in having conversations with people to get to know more about how things may work, and lead to some good - as we have not gotten better about teaching basic human touch or communication much less sexual touch and intimate talks since the days VHS beat betamax, and without porn, you'd have even less.
Baywatch was a great TV show. Maybe you don't like it. Millions all over the world do.
By this reasoning "Baywatch" was a great TV show because lots of people saw it.
Tell that to Mila Kunis (Baywatch at age 11) the Olsen twins (Full House as literal babies) Kaley Cuoco (first film appearance at 11yo) and thousands of other sucessful people who got thier big breaks as children. Children are part of the entertainment industry and always have been. An industry without them would look very strange.
Harry Potter, but Harry is 18yo on his first day at Hogwarts. Every family sitcom disappears. And what about work entirely created by kids? I guess highschool drama clubs are out too. This gets very strange very quickly.
Is it a good thing for US? In 90ties we only knew American culture from sitcoms like Baywatch and Friends. Now your political culture turned into Southpark and US is a joke.
The overall story was written by humans. The just-barely-not-quite-nonsense that the actors speak when they get "turned on" are the lines the algorithm wrote.
If you view the credits, it shows all the corpuses the various bot-generated lines were trained on. Hasselhoff's lines were trained on a whole bunch of baywatch episodes.
On the street I grew up in, the houses all had maid quarters. These were suburban houses built in the 20's and are smaller than the typical McMansion from the 80's. Also there was that one episode of Baywatch where Mitch hired a cook...
i read the article twice. something in it really hit home with me. i have an offer from a prof at the local univ to pursue a math phd, and i might do so in the fall. my employer is ok with it, so i get to keep my job as well. however, its a fairly useless part of math ( useless in the GH Hardy sense ) in commutative algebra, specifically prufer groups ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCfer_group ) Now, I could do something "useful" and closer to finance, like stochastic calculus and stats and applied pdes & so forth...but my heart's not in those things. it feels like what i do anyway at work, so why would i do more of the same out of choice ? some of the comments below make me quite queasy. see, supply-demand is not a normative ideal. "One of the things you are are supposed to learn in economics is to avoid extremes. It is never all or nothing. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. And any way you jump has an opportunity cost because there are lots of things you would like to do with your limited means. So life is about trade-offs between rival objectives and you should optimise rather than maximise. " - so said Ross Gittins, and there's much more where that came from.
so this supply-demand thingy - its just something that happens to accurately describe the current state of the world, or more particularly the usa, especially in a bubble where it is infinitely more preferable to drop out of college and pursue ruby on rails than stick it out for a lousy diploma with your name on it. but if an athlete wanting to compete in the olympics mistakenly walked into a circus and started jumping through hoops, the crowd would throw coin at him. he can then collect that coin & settle down, get married, raise a family, get a drivers license, buy an automobile, pay municipal state and federal taxes & so on. but that just means he's become a clown, not an athlete. it is unfortunate that athletics is non sexy and training to be one involves grueling practice for years and years in isolation with no attention, no fame, no coin. but to dodge that work and passion because of what society chooses to value at a particular point in time is quite defeatist. none of what we do in cs today would have been considered useful in the 20s and 30s. church and turing would have clearly been better off working in the railroads or digging an oil well. yet they did what they did, and here we are... so, respect. you never know what the future holds for medieval history or english literature. i spent 3 semesters as a film major before i dropped out, and i must say it was a royal blast. repeatedly watching blondes strip and run towards the beach in their red bikinis while their breasts bobbed up and down, and the professor of film studies pausing the remote at the critical instant when a tad bit of cleavage was visible and saying "hey, this is why baywatch was a hit" and all of us students scribbling down "must place camera on sand level and tile up to show cleavage in beach shots" - i mean, nothing beats that. no amount of fancy research in STEM will match the pure adrenaline that passes for film studies. so there's a reason people in their youth pursue these non-lucrative fields, so lets not rain on their parade.
Yes, one of America's biggest exports is their pop culture. The whole Baywatch being the most watched TV show of all time. The fact that washed-up American C-list celebrities can have a second life in Asian markets (alluded to in Lost in Translation).
It's hard to prove that Chinese culture places a greater value on education than Americans. And you can argue that Chinese education is slanted towards perfection of memorization (tangent: is that why they can copy anything?) But consider that the elite Politburo is ruled by engineers - how many people on Bush's cabinet have engineering pedigree?
"For the first time ever, all the members of China's elite Politburo Standing Committee, the highest tier within the Communist Party, are card-carrying engineers."
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/1231 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China