The fact is, having a system informing you of the spped limits and have some alert when you are over them is an useful feaute, like the cab sigalling on trains. There was an experimental system, working with UHF signals that was tried in the '90, but ultimately falied due the costs and the necessity to have a receiver in the car.
With spatphones and GPS is a lot more cheap to make a system like this, warning also of accidents, slippy roads or other dangerous situations.
On the other hand there are a lot of CYA really low speed limits that are put instead to fix holes in the road or the like, or worse putting confusig traffic signs.
It happened in reverse for instance for beer where the czech original http://www.budejovickybudvar.cz/en/index.html was copied in the US http://www.budweiser.com/ The end result is that in EU the USA one is sold as "Bud" Brand.
I think the end result will be that the italian brand will change its name with "Sup".
In the older time to place a microphone somewhere hou have had to be really clever, like one that invents elecronic musical instruments:
Theremin's bug now ir way way easier to russians to spy, because we have tons of micophones in appliance connected to a communication network...
If you need a smart thermostat or whatewer there are a lot of smart solutions without microphone or cloud systems.
Like BTicino MyHome or Vimar or CSISPA they can work disconnected and without using TCP/IP. These cloud systems look easier to setup of course and you have to buy them in a professional warehouse and follow the elecrical code guidelines to install them.
It's the laziness factor that wins.
They made a movie of that happening in Turin, Italy in 1969.
Being in Turin now, i could assure you that I hope that Benny Hill uploaded a 9 track tape on the mainframe controlling the traffic light, because the traffic here is becoming crazy....
I remember livin in a pre-cellphone era too. Before that there were the VHF carphones and then the UHF carphones. Eventually ETACS analogue carphones and then portable phones arrived. They wese easier to operate and cheaper than the older carphones.
In the good old days there were a lot of people with a CB radio on the car or on the lorry, because was a cheap alternative. I remember also that some people bought 45 MHz cordless phones that could be modified to have a longer range.
I also remember that almost all people that had a sailboat or a sailbot license used the VHF marine HTs even when firmly on the land.
And of course there were more payphones and people were more precise in planning meetings.
Nowadays it's expected one has a cell phone, and all the uses and facilities are geared to make the use of it, I couls see that also it's expected that people have smartphones running apps like telegram or whatsapp and it's considered weird to have a landline especially for younger people. What I see happening now it's that people aren't even cosidering to make or answering phone calls on their smartphone: whe are in a new stage of mobile connectivity.
About bike paths I have noticed that when they're built aren't well planned and cyclist aren't using them anyway. Especially the ones with a racing bike or those that are delivering foods, because I suppose they have to go slower in the bike paths than on pedestrian sidewalk or the road.
I agree that changing place to work means that it's normally difficult to have a job at a walking or biking distance.
Italy and UK are pure "single payer systems", but for instance Germany uses the Bismark system, where most citizens must have a mandatory insurance, but one can choose either a private one or a public-owned one in most cases.
Before 1977 in Italy there was a system with multiple national health funds, like the lawyers one, the travelling salesmen one and so on, all with different coverages so GP and hospitals had to follow long bureaucracies. Worst of all an unemploed person was covered very poorly or not at all there wad a comedy film on this subject: Be sick... it's free So the system was changed.to a centralized one. It has problems espacially due underfunding.
I think that after all the best option for USA is to have a public insurer like in Germany, and people over a certain income could opt-out fully or have a private insurer.
That depends on personal preference, I don't like to go to the grocery store at all, I'm happy to let someone else pick out my produce if it means that I don't need to set foot in the store.
I don't use Amazon for shopping though, I use my local supermarket's pickup service, I place my order online, then stop on my way home from work and they bring it out to the car for me.
I like to go to the grocery store. I have a small supermarket across the street, and If i like home delivery I could go 0.1 and phone them and get food delivered at home for a small fee. There's also a bigger supermaket chain that has a site for delivery the groceries at home or to prepare a box to get at the shop at walking distance.
The fact is CD and books are quite different from ham and oranges, for groceries there isn't a tail effect: even with specialities, like Parmigiano Reggiano or Castelmagno cheese, having a couple of different brands will suffice. Next the store life of a book is indefinite, a mozzarella is spoiled in two weeks
Actually for mozzarella what wins is freshness, so for a good pizza it's alway better to buy one from a local cheese maker that to buy one from a better cheese factory 1500 miles away.
I had a Philips outlet near my home. They sometimes had refurbished Philips products on sale with a 25% discount. They were good deals.
I bought a refurbished CRT TV set that is still perfectly working after 15 years. They were clearly labelled with a yellow sticker, so you knew what you were buying.
ZED was a "robot" that made stand-up comey and singed italo disco song in the Italian thelevision during the '80s.
Mr.ZED is still making stand-up comedy, in USA and Europe by the way.
If you want to see a show with real robots... COMRESSORHEAD ROCKS
I don't know where you are, but I have found on public television channells a lot of very interesting content, unfortunately it's normally on specialized channels or in late hours or in the morning. Granted having a piano master explaining the harmonic progression of a sonata and then interviweving a soprano it's a niche show, not to mention live opera.
Or this program: I miei vinili" a talk show where a famous peron tals about its favourite records while they'te played on a turntable in the studio.
How in Italy have solved the problem. Every recipe, except those for OTC drugs, have a barcode, and when you go to a pharmacy they scan the barcode and the software checks if that is valid. This works both with handwritten recipes, that you normally get on an home visit, or a printed or PDF recipe. If you need opiates or other controlled drugs you have to ask the pharmacy in advance, and they normally phone the doctor for confirmation. This is a recipe that could be handwritten You can clearly se on the right the barcodes, because, you know, with a colour laser printer it's easy to print a fake one, and if someone steals a recipe block, it could be trace.
Actually it could be tricky even for a Gen X or a baby boomer. You can flood the engine. And sometimes you have to find it.
like in the Fiat 126 and figure how to engage the starter.
On the other hand a thief will start the car using a piece of brass sheet and a flat screwdriver.
The fact is, once you have a dish, using the service is free. A lot of people are using pay tv services with proprietary receivers, but nowadays tv sets with a terriestrial and a satellite tuner are available and not too expensive. Don't know in the US side, but in Europe with Astra and Eutelsat satellites there a re a lot of interesting channels, normally in lots of different languages, but is reasonable to find some sports events, news, cartoons and serials to watch. Actually I startet to watch satellite TV while learning English and French.
For pay TV cable television is not very different from satellite, and what happens is that people is leaving pay tv service, because they are not very interesting anymore and bad commercial practices make it worse.
A few years back, I read an interview with the CEO of Ford at the time who said they need to learn to adapt to a market where instead of their biggest competition being other car companies, it was actually Apple. 18 year old American kids don't have the credit ratings needed to buy their own cars, after school jobs don't pay enough to buy one either. Kids these days would rather have an iPhone and either make their moms drive them or use Uber. They don't want to buy a brand new planet killing Mustang.
I think it's also because small compact cars that are cheap aren't made anymore. Citroen 2CV, Renault 4, WV Beetle, Fiat 500 were cheap cars. Also used car market is a problem because older cars are now limited by anti pollution laws.
These car are totally spartan compared to cars sold nowadays, because people like car navigators, automatic airr control and so on. Having a manual gear without syncromesh is a deal breaker...
Car makers are putting perfumes in the mnes seats, to make new cars and seat smell 'new'. Besisdes some old cars have a particular smell, especially air-cooled city cars like the old Fiat 500, 126 and Panda or the WV Beetle, even id they were made 60 years ago...
I have never driven an automatic, always stick, so i an accustomed to use a friction clutch. Where is the problem? I know that those lazy Americans have some problems to drive a five-speed manual, but we in Europe are accustomed.
I once have driven a car with a broken clutch for 20 km to reack the nearest car mechanic and was a bit tricky to drive witout friction, especially stating
From what I recall some explosives are toxic and could cause abdominal pain, vomiting and seizures. Potassium nitrate causes abdominal pain, so if one has old fashioned gunpowder and mishandles it could get abdominal pain and diahrrea. I know it because I like to watch police procedurals.
Because, everybody in Italy likes espresso, or lungo. You better stop asking for a cappuccino after noon and if you ask a latte you'll get a glass of frothed milk.
THe same thing was in the '80 for the television. The fact the most interaction people and youngstes have with computer and internet is going in advertising delivery platform that give hour ov audiovisual content for free is because, especiaaly with locked-down appliance like smartphones and tablet is that the internet is now a big crappy tv substitute, but instead of three channels you have millions of channels to watch.
Internet is a poor substitute for parenting like the TV: It's a bit worse only because When I was a kid, adter Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry and Hukleberry thre was the weather info and the news....
There are books on using the benedectine rule
in the business. Byt he way in Italy there are a lot of businesses managed by catholic priests, like Edizioni Paoline, Opera Diocesana Viaggi and so on....
There are actually in service light rail veichels without drivers, like the VAL system, that was designe and put in operation in the '80s ol the line #14 of the MEtro Paris where the trains don't have a driver cabin, and the train are derived from a normal one with a driver cabin.
And we're in France where when people got angry head literally rolled
So it's not an union problem. Of yourese you need to have guard to control sthe stations, enginners to verifiy the correct operation, maintenance personnel, and so on.
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The fact is, having a system informing you of the spped limits and have some alert when you are over them is an useful feaute, like the cab sigalling on trains. There was an experimental system, working with UHF signals that was tried in the '90, but ultimately falied due the costs and the necessity to have a receiver in the car. With spatphones and GPS is a lot more cheap to make a system like this, warning also of accidents, slippy roads or other dangerous situations. On the other hand there are a lot of CYA really low speed limits that are put instead to fix holes in the road or the like, or worse putting confusig traffic signs.
It happened in reverse for instance for beer where the czech original http://www.budejovickybudvar.cz/en/index.html was copied in the US http://www.budweiser.com/ The end result is that in EU the USA one is sold as "Bud" Brand.
I think the end result will be that the italian brand will change its name with "Sup".
In the older time to place a microphone somewhere hou have had to be really clever, like one that invents elecronic musical instruments: Theremin's bug now ir way way easier to russians to spy, because we have tons of micophones in appliance connected to a communication network...
If you need a smart thermostat or whatewer there are a lot of smart solutions without microphone or cloud systems. Like BTicino MyHome or Vimar or CSISPA they can work disconnected and without using TCP/IP. These cloud systems look easier to setup of course and you have to buy them in a professional warehouse and follow the elecrical code guidelines to install them. It's the laziness factor that wins.
They made a movie of that happening in Turin, Italy in 1969.
Being in Turin now, i could assure you that I hope that Benny Hill uploaded a 9 track tape on the mainframe controlling the traffic light, because the traffic here is becoming crazy....
Wrong time-travel device. I suppose, you are confusing Michael J Fox with Scott Bakula
It could be a description of some industrial noise group. Some Thobbing Gristle cover group or something like this.
I remember livin in a pre-cellphone era too. Before that there were the VHF carphones and then the UHF carphones. Eventually ETACS analogue carphones and then portable phones arrived. They wese easier to operate and cheaper than the older carphones.
In the good old days there were a lot of people with a CB radio on the car or on the lorry, because was a cheap alternative. I remember also that some people bought 45 MHz cordless phones that could be modified to have a longer range.
I also remember that almost all people that had a sailboat or a sailbot license used the VHF marine HTs even when firmly on the land.
And of course there were more payphones and people were more precise in planning meetings.
Nowadays it's expected one has a cell phone, and all the uses and facilities are geared to make the use of it, I couls see that also it's expected that people have smartphones running apps like telegram or whatsapp and it's considered weird to have a landline especially for younger people. What I see happening now it's that people aren't even cosidering to make or answering phone calls on their smartphone: whe are in a new stage of mobile connectivity.
About bike paths I have noticed that when they're built aren't well planned and cyclist aren't using them anyway. Especially the ones with a racing bike or those that are delivering foods, because I suppose they have to go slower in the bike paths than on pedestrian sidewalk or the road. I agree that changing place to work means that it's normally difficult to have a job at a walking or biking distance.
Italy and UK are pure "single payer systems", but for instance Germany uses the Bismark system, where most citizens must have a mandatory insurance, but one can choose either a private one or a public-owned one in most cases. Before 1977 in Italy there was a system with multiple national health funds, like the lawyers one, the travelling salesmen one and so on, all with different coverages so GP and hospitals had to follow long bureaucracies. Worst of all an unemploed person was covered very poorly or not at all there wad a comedy film on this subject: Be sick... it's free So the system was changed.to a centralized one. It has problems espacially due underfunding.
I think that after all the best option for USA is to have a public insurer like in Germany, and people over a certain income could opt-out fully or have a private insurer.
That depends on personal preference, I don't like to go to the grocery store at all, I'm happy to let someone else pick out my produce if it means that I don't need to set foot in the store.
I don't use Amazon for shopping though, I use my local supermarket's pickup service, I place my order online, then stop on my way home from work and they bring it out to the car for me.
I like to go to the grocery store. I have a small supermarket across the street, and If i like home delivery I could go 0.1 and phone them and get food delivered at home for a small fee. There's also a bigger supermaket chain that has a site for delivery the groceries at home or to prepare a box to get at the shop at walking distance.
The fact is CD and books are quite different from ham and oranges, for groceries there isn't a tail effect: even with specialities, like Parmigiano Reggiano or Castelmagno cheese, having a couple of different brands will suffice. Next the store life of a book is indefinite, a mozzarella is spoiled in two weeks
Actually for mozzarella what wins is freshness, so for a good pizza it's alway better to buy one from a local cheese maker that to buy one from a better cheese factory 1500 miles away.
I had a Philips outlet near my home. They sometimes had refurbished Philips products on sale with a 25% discount. They were good deals. I bought a refurbished CRT TV set that is still perfectly working after 15 years. They were clearly labelled with a yellow sticker, so you knew what you were buying.
ZED was a "robot" that made stand-up comey and singed italo disco song in the Italian thelevision during the '80s. Mr.ZED is still making stand-up comedy, in USA and Europe by the way. If you want to see a show with real robots... COMRESSORHEAD ROCKS
I don't know where you are, but I have found on public television channells a lot of very interesting content, unfortunately it's normally on specialized channels or in late hours or in the morning. Granted having a piano master explaining the harmonic progression of a sonata and then interviweving a soprano it's a niche show, not to mention live opera.
Or this program: I miei vinili" a talk show where a famous peron tals about its favourite records while they'te played on a turntable in the studio.
How in Italy have solved the problem. Every recipe, except those for OTC drugs, have a barcode, and when you go to a pharmacy they scan the barcode and the software checks if that is valid. This works both with handwritten recipes, that you normally get on an home visit, or a printed or PDF recipe. If you need opiates or other controlled drugs you have to ask the pharmacy in advance, and they normally phone the doctor for confirmation.
This is a recipe that could be handwritten You can clearly se on the right the barcodes, because, you know, with a colour laser printer it's easy to print a fake one, and if someone steals a recipe block, it could be trace.
Actually it could be tricky even for a Gen X or a baby boomer. You can flood the engine. And sometimes you have to find it. like in the Fiat 126 and figure how to engage the starter.
On the other hand a thief will start the car using a piece of brass sheet and a flat screwdriver.
The fact is, once you have a dish, using the service is free. A lot of people are using pay tv services with proprietary receivers, but nowadays tv sets with a terriestrial and a satellite tuner are available and not too expensive. Don't know in the US side, but in Europe with Astra and Eutelsat satellites there a re a lot of interesting channels, normally in lots of different languages, but is reasonable to find some sports events, news, cartoons and serials to watch. Actually I startet to watch satellite TV while learning English and French. For pay TV cable television is not very different from satellite, and what happens is that people is leaving pay tv service, because they are not very interesting anymore and bad commercial practices make it worse.
A few years back, I read an interview with the CEO of Ford at the time who said they need to learn to adapt to a market where instead of their biggest competition being other car companies, it was actually Apple. 18 year old American kids don't have the credit ratings needed to buy their own cars, after school jobs don't pay enough to buy one either. Kids these days would rather have an iPhone and either make their moms drive them or use Uber. They don't want to buy a brand new planet killing Mustang.
I think it's also because small compact cars that are cheap aren't made anymore. Citroen 2CV, Renault 4, WV Beetle, Fiat 500 were cheap cars. Also used car market is a problem because older cars are now limited by anti pollution laws. These car are totally spartan compared to cars sold nowadays, because people like car navigators, automatic airr control and so on. Having a manual gear without syncromesh is a deal breaker...
Car makers are putting perfumes in the mnes seats, to make new cars and seat smell 'new'. Besisdes some old cars have a particular smell, especially air-cooled city cars like the old Fiat 500, 126 and Panda or the WV Beetle, even id they were made 60 years ago...
I have never driven an automatic, always stick, so i an accustomed to use a friction clutch. Where is the problem? I know that those lazy Americans have some problems to drive a five-speed manual, but we in Europe are accustomed.
I once have driven a car with a broken clutch for 20 km to reack the nearest car mechanic and was a bit tricky to drive witout friction, especially stating
From what I recall some explosives are toxic and could cause abdominal pain, vomiting and seizures. Potassium nitrate causes abdominal pain, so if one has old fashioned gunpowder and mishandles it could get abdominal pain and diahrrea. I know it because I like to watch police procedurals.
Because, everybody in Italy likes espresso, or lungo. You better stop asking for a cappuccino after noon and if you ask a latte you'll get a glass of frothed milk.
THe same thing was in the '80 for the television. The fact the most interaction people and youngstes have with computer and internet is going in advertising delivery platform that give hour ov audiovisual content for free is because, especiaaly with locked-down appliance like smartphones and tablet is that the internet is now a big crappy tv substitute, but instead of three channels you have millions of channels to watch.
Internet is a poor substitute for parenting like the TV: It's a bit worse only because When I was a kid, adter Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry and Hukleberry thre was the weather info and the news....
There are books on using the benedectine rule in the business. Byt he way in Italy there are a lot of businesses managed by catholic priests, like Edizioni Paoline, Opera Diocesana Viaggi and so on....
There are actually in service light rail veichels without drivers, like the VAL system, that was designe and put in operation in the '80s ol the line #14 of the MEtro Paris where the trains don't have a driver cabin, and the train are derived from a normal one with a driver cabin.
And we're in France where when people got angry head literally rolled
So it's not an union problem. Of yourese you need to have guard to control sthe stations, enginners to verifiy the correct operation, maintenance personnel, and so on.