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Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA
An anonymous reader writes "The California Air Resources Board (CARB) just passed a new regulation that requires glazed glass in automobiles that is supposed to reduce the need to use air conditioning. The catch is that the same properties that block electromagnetic sunlight radiation also block lower frequency electromagnetic radio waves. That means radios, satellite radios, GPS, garage door openers, and cell phones will be severely degraded. Even more surprising is that it requires this glass even for jeeps that have soft covers, plastic windows, and no air conditioning.'"
GPS, AM, FM are on different frequencies. You must live a sheltered life and not have had the opportunity to see many antennas and compare them.
Many many passengers talk on cell phones to get directions. Some even answer the driver's cell phone. You must live a sheltered exist with few friends who would do that for you.
There is a general trend away from purpose built GPS navigators and toward GPS applications on smart phones. You must live a sheltered life with little contact with the technical world.
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there's more Chinese pollution in LA now than the local stuff. Which highlights the NEXT phase of the problem... but we're not done here, yet.
Perhaps John Holdren is right, and we just need to sterilize the drinking water. Lets start with California, because obviously people = pollution, therefore we should just get rid of people.
-- If we don't stand up for our rights, now, there will be no right to stand up for them later.
Man you are stupid. You are definitely on the "B Ark".
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The "stupid" banks were being forced to make low-quality loans due to the CRA, which was supposed to prevent something called "redlining". Preventing redlining was good; the way it was enforced was stupid. So, it all falls back into government saying "we want everyone to be able to own a home" (Barney Frank) even if they couldn't really afford it. It was the consolidation of these loans that passed the problem around until there was no place left to pass it. If the banks had been able to make people show they could actually afford to buy a $150,000 home on $10,000 a year income before making the loan, we wouldn't have had the problem. We'd have a lot more people renting, or owning smaller houses, but the rest of us who actually pay off their loans wouldn't be stuck paying off their's, too.
CARB is the *ONLY* reason I keep my old diesel truck. The only other reason other than CARB is the fact that my truck simply will not die. It smokes (just legally), lacks expensive pollution control, is exempt from regulations restricting performance parts, and can easily be converted from 'polluting' (Ringelmann #2 or greater. I crank it up to #5 if I'm feeling especially vindictive) to 'legal' (Ringelmann #1 or less) whenever someone reports me to CARB for an "Excessively Smoking Vehicle". And yes, that is legal, just in case you were wondering. For all you Liberals out there screaming "Bloody murder!", think of this as a PROTEST in the form of civil disobedience against an unjust authority. Your types seem to be familiar with that, yet you can't seem to recognize one whenever they pop up and rear their ugly heads.
CARB has the authority to impose regulation at will. This coupled with the fact that despite the lead "scientist" for one of its new diesel regulations FAKED HIS CREDENTIALS yet they still voted for the new rules, shows that they are so corrupt and inept that even open fraud among their own is not enough to stop them. The fact that CARB will not allow fraud among one of its own to impede their decisions is reason enough to strip them of their authority to impose rules without a vote among those that they are regulating. This is akin to Congress acting without public votes or support, but with Congress Critters being appointed by the President for indefinite terms, and not voted into office by the people. Imagine how well *that* would go over.....
CARB's at-will regulation, willful disregard of internal corruption, and unchecked power over the citizenry is reason enough to strip them of their regulatory powers. However, CARB *should* be reduced to an advisory body, composed of TRUE SCIENTISTS that study proposed regulatory ideas for their effect, and advise voters to approve or disapprove proposed regulations. CARB is currently an Oligarchy; They propose and impose whatever regulations that they see fit at will, and the citizenry is required by law to follow those regulations under threat of penalty, be it a massive fine or imprisonment or BOTH.
Oh, and if any CARB sympathizers are reading this: NEENER NEENER NEE-NER! YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME! I'M POLLUTING AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME! SMOG CHECK? MAKE ME! GO AHEAD AND TRY!
Ahhhhh, juvenile moments are so refreshing.....
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....