More likely, Microsoft will move to India. Wanna keep your job? Move with us, and we'll pay you $29K a year.
These are the end times, folks. Eventually all the corporations that can move out of the country will have done so, and there will be nowhere near enough good-paying jobs left in the country to tax those workers in order to balance the budget. The country will go bankrupt, the dollar will plummet, the oil will rise to 100's of dollars a barrel and maybe $7 - $10 a gallon, and our goose will be cooked.
We absolutely have to quit killing our industry, or we're toast. That's the long and short of it.
As another poster said already, tie taxes to consumption. Doesn't matter where they sell the plane, what state the bill software thru, etc, when they finally get the money, they're going to spend it. Or, they're going to use it to pay the salaries and wages of other people who will spend it. Their software geniuses at Redmond, when they go out and buy the 119" rear-projection Mitsubishi Laserview for $40,000, a built-in tax on that consumption can run the state and/or run the whole country. See www.fairtax.org for the answer to our economic problems.
In 80 cities? I mean CITIES? Hey, F the cities, pal, there's all kindza options in the cities. Don't ask me to cry the crocadile tears for those poor schmucks in the cities, get all this crap working out here in the middle of f'n nowhere - then you've got some progress. But having to wait for a connection when traveling between DC and Richmond, or Columbus and Toledo or Findlay? Fergeddaboudit. Cities are easy. Do something significant, and blanket the countryside... then you know you've done something...
You better be able to control any sunshade to be able to remove it at a moment's notice, because we don't know enough about what we're doing to be sure that we aren't starting an ice age.
With respect to cars never covering much of the panel surfaces, this is not true in high congestion areas such as around Washington, DC. Additionally, we are, supposedly, if you listen to science pundits, about 10 years away from the self-driving car that just has 4 passenger seats. Those cars will not be limited by human reaction time, and so will be able to travel virtuall touching each other with respect to following distance. Then most of the pavement _will_ be covered by traffic.
Much better to put the panels _over_ the roadway, sheltering it from rain and snow, and free them to gather energy directly from the sun with nothing in the way except a few birds.
>>by node 3 (115640) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 22, @05:50PM (#29157899) >>Instead of blaming them for leaving, why don't we stop chasing them away?
>How about instead of letting them run off, we impose heavy import tariffs >that negate (and then some) any savings? That's what other countries to to >keep jobs and wealth in their nation (and it's what we used to do until >Ronald Reagan came along).
Tariffs? You got it - just pass the fair tax.
With the fair tax, everything built here has its price reduced by about 22%, the built-in cost of the income taxes on built-here products. With the Fair Tax, the price of those things would be taxed about 30% on their new, lower prices, bringing them back up to approx 1% more than what they were originally, but... imported stuff would NOT experience the initial price reduction.
Soo, the $25,000 built-in-Toledo, Ohio, Jeep Liberty would fall to $19,500, and then get taxed back to $25,350. But a competitive item from overseas, also selling at $25,000, gets that fair tax applied and afterward costs $32,500. Howzat for a "tariff", without actually passing a tariff law, and running afoul of the WTO agreements? Slick, eh?
But we're gonna have to pass the fair tax to get to the promised land, that's all.
Corporate income taxes build in taxes on our EXPORTS. Taxing exports is about the most boneheaded thing we could do. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. Its that bad. That's what we're doing. Stop, already. Nuke the income tax concept entirely. Run the country on a consumption tax. Do it now. We're headed for a 3rd world economy, otherwise, and that's no exaggeration.
You are wrong. We CAN do something about this. What we need to do is to make doing business here profitable again. We can do that by nuking the source of the problem, which is the income tax. Get rid of it - all of it - corporate income taxes which are the most corrosive financial thing in our country, and personal income taxes and social security taxes and medicare taxes and capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes and absolutely everything that taxes income. Nuke the IRS, too.
Replace it with consumption taxes. See www.fairtax.org. Studies you can find there estimate a $10 - $15 trillion influx of foreign money to our country to take advantage of the now-best tax haven on the planet. Embedded taxes in everything we produce amount to about 22% of the selling price, and that could all go away if that tax went away. A $25,000 Jeep Liberty, built in Toledo, Ohio, could be exported for $19,500. Watch and see what the Euros would do with that! Crap their diapers, is what, 'cuz there's nothing there that could compete. Land Rovers are mega-expensive and not as reliable as Jeeps. We have lots of stuff like that, but instead, we're taxing corporations. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. That's what we're doing. Stop it already. We rose to greatness with consumption taxes before the travesty of the income tax was passed in 1913, and we can do it again without an income tax.
The government is driving wages down to poverty levels so it can maintain the hideous taxes that it has put on corporations which are the real culprit. Get rid of those taxes, completely, and watch the USA return to a status of world domination. Don't do it, and we're headed for a 3rd world economy, with all the wealth "somewhere else." If it doesn't make you mad, why?
We ARE chasing them away. The business taxes make doing business here uncompetitive. Not only do American-made products cost far more than overseas made products, but by taxing corporations (at all), we build in a tax on our EXPORTS. Taxing exports is probably one of the most bone-headed things that a country can do. We tax ours, others subsidize theirs. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. That's what we're doing. We're idiots. Stop it, already.
Folks, this is just the incremental dismantling of what was once the greatest nation on the face of this planet. Our tax structure pauperizes corporations (GM, Chrysler, soon-to-be Boeing if the Dreamliner has one or 2 more delays) and these corporation are our wellspring of prosperity. Prosperity itself is going overseas.
We can turn it around by doing one thing, and this is the only thing that will work. That is, pass the "Fair Tax." Read all about it at www.fairtax.com. Nuking all income-based taxes, nuking the IRS, and running the country on consumption taxes where we can finally tax EVERYBODY, and not let the rich people that are sitting on a big pile get off free, and the criminals that are running drugs and making billions get off free, and we can even tap the tourist industry, too.
That is the ONLY way to do it. Tax cuts won't do it - we're in too deep. We've lost too much, there's not enough money in the country left to tax. But the fair tax would bring an inrush of $10 - $15 trillion of foreign money into the USA to build factories (again, read the study at www.fairtax.org), and our biggest problem in a few years might actually be a labor shortage.
This is do or die. The CBO says our current course is "unsustainable" and they are right. Do it - or we get a 3rd world economy. Its that simple.
If the landline would just compete with the cell network, not as many people would be turning it off.
I mean, if I could make my landline phone ring different tones for different callers, block calls from whoever I don't want to talk to (I'd be downloading the whole range of "Who called me" perpetrators from the internet), forward the phone to another phone remotely, either over the internet or over another phone, have voicemailboxes that would decode the voice, create text, and e-mail it to me at work or text it to me on a cell, and all the other features anyone can think of, then... maybe it'd be useful enough to actually want to hang onto.
I keep it because its WAAAAAY more reliable than my cell, but it could stand a lot of 21st century upgrading.
Yeah - I'm 62, love to play, but am totally uncompetitive now because my reaction times are so slow now. But I still love to play.
As for overweight, yeppir - I'm not depressive, tho. I have to be a gym rat to lose any weight, and right now, I'm not into a 2 1/2 hr per night gym session 4 - 5 nights per week, each with a 1 hour round-trip drive, in order to get there, but that's about what it takes for me to lose weight. Maybe, eventually, I'll get back to it... meanwhile, these games have single-player mode, and if I set the difficulty low enough, I can still have fun.
Hey, if you didn't work for it, and there's nobody gifting it to you, then you don't deserve it. End of story. Obtaining it without the owner's permission is theft, plain and simple. This'll get rated "troll", but I don't care, it's exactly the way I feel. I've never downloaded a single song or anything that wasn't offered for free without paying for it. I just believe when people spend months or years working in a studio and practically every waking minute to get this sound just right, or that lyric just right, so that it entertains us and gives us another "timetag of our lives" that marks an era or a generation, they deserve to be well compensated for it. That happens by BUYING the song. Its capitalism, get used to it or move to Cuba or N. Korea.
Kill the income tax, institute the "Fair Tax", and we can say goodbye to manufacturers doing everything in their power NOT to build anything in the USA, or going broke when they try. To paraphrase Bill Clinton's 1990 campaign for President, "It's the income tax, stupid!"
Eliminate the taxes on corporations and individual and run the country on a sales tax. Its called the "Fair Tax". There's mountains of data at www.fairtax.org detailing why it is the way to bring our country back to prosperity.
I will second that, as it is awesome, it is huge, and it is free. The Smithsonian at Dulles Airport isn't as extensive, and isn't free if you park your car, for which they charge some exorbitant amount > $10 (I forget what it is.)
BTW, if you want pictures of the exhibits, in most museums you can't do that with a flash because the exhibits are typically huge and you only get the closest part overexposed and the medium-far-away parts properly exposed and the tail-end too dark to see. I use a monopod, but if you're like me, it's a waste to go to any of the museums on the Mall in DC, as they prohibit tripods and monopods, without mentioning the monopods in the website.
Also an excellent museum is the Henry Ford museum in Geenfield village in Detroit. They have lots of old tech there, not just cars, with a steam engine so big you climb up into it. I think it is about 1:30 PM on weekends they start a medium sized one on compressed air and run it at about 10% of it's design speed, and it's still scary to think of what would happen if you got wrapped up with it. The flywheel is about 15 feet in diameter, and the drive belt for it weighed a ton when it was in operation. No drive belt is installed on that one in the museum, however.
It's 14 miles to work for me. If I drive it to work each day, my mpg is going to be infinite.
Town is 20 miles 1 way, so 40 miles round-trip. If I can charge it back up before going to the gym, my mpg will again be infinite. If not, it will likely be very, very high.
I do go on long trips during the weekend, about 500 miles last weekend. OK, if it's getting 49 mpg on the open road, which isn't all that much of a stretch considering the aerodynamics, hybrid mode with the regenerative braking and all, I've still got a winner with 460 miles at about 49 mpg = 9.38 gallons. That's going to look real good at $4 a gallon, and... how about $7 a gallon? In case anyone was wondering, an economic "recovery" is impossible because as soon as there is prosperity, the ragheads will jack up the price again, and the more prosperity, the higher the price. They'll make as much money as they can while once again ruining our economy. And, they'll be able to do it, until we all buy cars like this one, and can tell them to stick it.
As for the battery in 10 years, how do you know what a battery is going to cost in 10 years, or whether this one will need one? There are hordes of science people working on battery breakthroughs, and someone is likely to be lucky or good in that amount of time, and this car will then go 300 miles on a charge, charge in 3 minutes flat, and cost $200 for a new battery. Well, it could happen... But we have to start thinking seriously about these sorts of vehicles, or we're going to continue to be toast, and easily defeated by those with the oil.
There's probably a lot of ways to deal with this technologically.
We'll likely have the ability to gently accelerate earth into an orbit farther from the sun over hundreds of years. We might grab the moon from its orbit and stick it in the L1 Lagrange point and shade ourselves. I read of a group of physicists a couple years ago that believe that by using powerful magnetic fields, they can slip into different dimensions where the laws of physics are different and the speed of light is much faster, and thus enable the building of a warp drive. Eventually, something is going to answer this problem, if we persist, and don't blow each other up first.
Of course, if N. Korea develops the bomb and orbital capability, and manages to explode it abt. 250 miles over the center of the USA, it'll kill 90% of us in less than a year, and the US Air Force and the US Navy will in the meantime turn North Korea into a border-to-border, glass-paved, self-lighting parking lot. Will that trigger further thermonuclear activity, nuclear winter, worldwide radiation sickness, etc? As one of the probable dead, I won't care, but getting to the 500,000,000 year mark where the sun becomes a problem is problematic itself, at best.
Sure, everyone's always ready to jump on kids and deprive them of 1 more thing that makes their lives more pleasant, but does anyone remember Columbine, where cell phones gave authorities better insight into what was going on?
Any serious attacker now will, if the can, attempt to take out the phones, and if successful, they can chain the doors and just keep going until the kill absolutely everybody, without a single alarm getting outside the building.
When I was a kid, I once caught H from my mother for referring to the school as a prison, but it's really not a coincidence, I think, that this school, and a lot of prisons, are both trying to jam cell phones.
Hopefully, the FCC will continue to vigorously enforce the law, and fine the socks off anyone they catch with a cell phone jammer.
Never buy anything with any sort of DRM. Never have, never will. Get CD's across the counter, and make sure they don't have DRM, either. Back 'em up to disk or another CD.
They keep this nonsense up, LP's really will come back. All my old stuff from 40 years ago plays great. LPs actually sound _better_ than CD's anyway. Nothing digital is required to play 'em, either, so inserting DRM is a real chore...
The whole CD / digital thing is the worst thing to ever happen to commercial music, all things considered.
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More likely, Microsoft will move to India. Wanna keep your job? Move with us, and we'll pay you $29K a year.
These are the end times, folks. Eventually all the corporations that can move out of the country will have done so, and there will be nowhere near enough good-paying jobs left in the country to tax those workers in order to balance the budget. The country will go bankrupt, the dollar will plummet, the oil will rise to 100's of dollars a barrel and maybe $7 - $10 a gallon, and our goose will be cooked.
We absolutely have to quit killing our industry, or we're toast. That's the long and short of it.
As another poster said already, tie taxes to consumption. Doesn't matter where they sell the plane, what state the bill software thru, etc, when they finally get the money, they're going to spend it. Or, they're going to use it to pay the salaries and wages of other people who will spend it. Their software geniuses at Redmond, when they go out and buy the 119" rear-projection Mitsubishi Laserview for $40,000, a built-in tax on that consumption can run the state and/or run the whole country. See www.fairtax.org for the answer to our economic problems.
In 80 cities? I mean CITIES? Hey, F the cities, pal, there's all kindza options in the cities. Don't ask me to cry the crocadile tears for those poor schmucks in the cities, get all this crap working out here in the middle of f'n nowhere - then you've got some progress. But having to wait for a connection when traveling between DC and Richmond, or Columbus and Toledo or Findlay? Fergeddaboudit. Cities are easy. Do something significant, and blanket the countryside... then you know you've done something...
You better be able to control any sunshade to be able to remove it at a moment's notice, because we don't know enough about what we're doing to be sure that we aren't starting an ice age.
I think everyone involved would be charged with murder.
With respect to cars never covering much of the panel surfaces, this is not true in high congestion areas such as around Washington, DC. Additionally, we are, supposedly, if you listen to science pundits, about 10 years away from the self-driving car that just has 4 passenger seats. Those cars will not be limited by human reaction time, and so will be able to travel virtuall touching each other with respect to following distance. Then most of the pavement _will_ be covered by traffic.
Much better to put the panels _over_ the roadway, sheltering it from rain and snow, and free them to gather energy directly from the sun with nothing in the way except a few birds.
>>by node 3 (115640) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 22, @05:50PM (#29157899)
>>Instead of blaming them for leaving, why don't we stop chasing them away?
>How about instead of letting them run off, we impose heavy import tariffs
>that negate (and then some) any savings? That's what other countries to to
>keep jobs and wealth in their nation (and it's what we used to do until
>Ronald Reagan came along).
Tariffs? You got it - just pass the fair tax.
With the fair tax, everything built here has its price reduced by about 22%, the built-in cost of the income taxes on built-here products. With the Fair Tax, the price of those things would be taxed about 30% on their new, lower prices, bringing them back up to approx 1% more than what they were originally, but... imported stuff would NOT experience the initial price reduction.
Soo, the $25,000 built-in-Toledo, Ohio, Jeep Liberty would fall to $19,500, and then get taxed back to $25,350. But a competitive item from overseas, also selling at $25,000, gets that fair tax applied and afterward costs $32,500. Howzat for a "tariff", without actually passing a tariff law, and running afoul of the WTO agreements? Slick, eh?
But we're gonna have to pass the fair tax to get to the promised land, that's all.
Corporate income taxes build in taxes on our EXPORTS. Taxing exports is about the most boneheaded thing we could do. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. Its that bad. That's what we're doing. Stop, already. Nuke the income tax concept entirely. Run the country on a consumption tax. Do it now. We're headed for a 3rd world economy, otherwise, and that's no exaggeration.
You are wrong. We CAN do something about this. What we need to do is to make doing business here profitable again. We can do that by nuking the source of the problem, which is the income tax. Get rid of it - all of it - corporate income taxes which are the most corrosive financial thing in our country, and personal income taxes and social security taxes and medicare taxes and capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes and absolutely everything that taxes income. Nuke the IRS, too.
Replace it with consumption taxes. See www.fairtax.org. Studies you can find there estimate a $10 - $15 trillion influx of foreign money to our country to take advantage of the now-best tax haven on the planet. Embedded taxes in everything we produce amount to about 22% of the selling price, and that could all go away if that tax went away. A $25,000 Jeep Liberty, built in Toledo, Ohio, could be exported for $19,500. Watch and see what the Euros would do with that! Crap their diapers, is what, 'cuz there's nothing there that could compete. Land Rovers are mega-expensive and not as reliable as Jeeps. We have lots of stuff like that, but instead, we're taxing corporations. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. That's what we're doing. Stop it already. We rose to greatness with consumption taxes before the travesty of the income tax was passed in 1913, and we can do it again without an income tax.
One word for you: Africa. That's what our country would look like if we tried that.
The government is driving wages down to poverty levels so it can maintain the hideous taxes that it has put on corporations which are the real culprit. Get rid of those taxes, completely, and watch the USA return to a status of world domination. Don't do it, and we're headed for a 3rd world economy, with all the wealth "somewhere else." If it doesn't make you mad, why?
We ARE chasing them away. The business taxes make doing business here uncompetitive. Not only do American-made products cost far more than overseas made products, but by taxing corporations (at all), we build in a tax on our EXPORTS. Taxing exports is probably one of the most bone-headed things that a country can do. We tax ours, others subsidize theirs. Ready, aim (at foot), fire. That's what we're doing. We're idiots. Stop it, already.
Folks, this is just the incremental dismantling of what was once the greatest nation on the face of this planet. Our tax structure pauperizes corporations (GM, Chrysler, soon-to-be Boeing if the Dreamliner has one or 2 more delays) and these corporation are our wellspring of prosperity. Prosperity itself is going overseas.
We can turn it around by doing one thing, and this is the only thing that will work. That is, pass the "Fair Tax." Read all about it at www.fairtax.com. Nuking all income-based taxes, nuking the IRS, and running the country on consumption taxes where we can finally tax EVERYBODY, and not let the rich people that are sitting on a big pile get off free, and the criminals that are running drugs and making billions get off free, and we can even tap the tourist industry, too.
That is the ONLY way to do it. Tax cuts won't do it - we're in too deep. We've lost too much, there's not enough money in the country left to tax. But the fair tax would bring an inrush of $10 - $15 trillion of foreign money into the USA to build factories (again, read the study at www.fairtax.org), and our biggest problem in a few years might actually be a labor shortage.
This is do or die. The CBO says our current course is "unsustainable" and they are right. Do it - or we get a 3rd world economy. Its that simple.
If the landline would just compete with the cell network, not as many people would be turning it off.
I mean, if I could make my landline phone ring different tones for different callers, block calls from whoever I don't want to talk to (I'd be downloading the whole range of "Who called me" perpetrators from the internet), forward the phone to another phone remotely, either over the internet or over another phone, have voicemailboxes that would decode the voice, create text, and e-mail it to me at work or text it to me on a cell, and all the other features anyone can think of, then... maybe it'd be useful enough to actually want to hang onto.
I keep it because its WAAAAAY more reliable than my cell, but it could stand a lot of 21st century upgrading.
Yeah - I'm 62, love to play, but am totally uncompetitive now because my reaction times are so slow now. But I still love to play. As for overweight, yeppir - I'm not depressive, tho. I have to be a gym rat to lose any weight, and right now, I'm not into a 2 1/2 hr per night gym session 4 - 5 nights per week, each with a 1 hour round-trip drive, in order to get there, but that's about what it takes for me to lose weight. Maybe, eventually, I'll get back to it... meanwhile, these games have single-player mode, and if I set the difficulty low enough, I can still have fun.
We have lotsa concrete and an iron mine that extends to the horizon when you view it. Not a problem...
Hey, if you didn't work for it, and there's nobody gifting it to you, then you don't deserve it. End of story. Obtaining it without the owner's permission is theft, plain and simple. This'll get rated "troll", but I don't care, it's exactly the way I feel. I've never downloaded a single song or anything that wasn't offered for free without paying for it. I just believe when people spend months or years working in a studio and practically every waking minute to get this sound just right, or that lyric just right, so that it entertains us and gives us another "timetag of our lives" that marks an era or a generation, they deserve to be well compensated for it. That happens by BUYING the song. Its capitalism, get used to it or move to Cuba or N. Korea.
Kill the income tax, institute the "Fair Tax", and we can say goodbye to manufacturers doing everything in their power NOT to build anything in the USA, or going broke when they try. To paraphrase Bill Clinton's 1990 campaign for President, "It's the income tax, stupid!"
Eliminate the taxes on corporations and individual and run the country on a sales tax. Its called the "Fair Tax". There's mountains of data at www.fairtax.org detailing why it is the way to bring our country back to prosperity.
I will second that, as it is awesome, it is huge, and it is free. The Smithsonian at Dulles Airport isn't as extensive, and isn't free if you park your car, for which they charge some exorbitant amount > $10 (I forget what it is.)
BTW, if you want pictures of the exhibits, in most museums you can't do that with a flash because the exhibits are typically huge and you only get the closest part overexposed and the medium-far-away parts properly exposed and the tail-end too dark to see. I use a monopod, but if you're like me, it's a waste to go to any of the museums on the Mall in DC, as they prohibit tripods and monopods, without mentioning the monopods in the website.
Also an excellent museum is the Henry Ford museum in Geenfield village in Detroit. They have lots of old tech there, not just cars, with a steam engine so big you climb up into it. I think it is about 1:30 PM on weekends they start a medium sized one on compressed air and run it at about 10% of it's design speed, and it's still scary to think of what would happen if you got wrapped up with it. The flywheel is about 15 feet in diameter, and the drive belt for it weighed a ton when it was in operation. No drive belt is installed on that one in the museum, however.
You need one of those superinsulated homes, or maybe an underground home, so you can turn off the AC more often.
Lets do a little real-world figuring.
It's 14 miles to work for me. If I drive it to work each day, my mpg is going to be infinite.
Town is 20 miles 1 way, so 40 miles round-trip. If I can charge it back up before going to the gym, my mpg will again be infinite. If not, it will likely be very, very high.
I do go on long trips during the weekend, about 500 miles last weekend. OK, if it's getting 49 mpg on the open road, which isn't all that much of a stretch considering the aerodynamics, hybrid mode with the regenerative braking and all, I've still got a winner with 460 miles at about 49 mpg = 9.38 gallons. That's going to look real good at $4 a gallon, and... how about $7 a gallon? In case anyone was wondering, an economic "recovery" is impossible because as soon as there is prosperity, the ragheads will jack up the price again, and the more prosperity, the higher the price. They'll make as much money as they can while once again ruining our economy. And, they'll be able to do it, until we all buy cars like this one, and can tell them to stick it.
As for the battery in 10 years, how do you know what a battery is going to cost in 10 years, or whether this one will need one? There are hordes of science people working on battery breakthroughs, and someone is likely to be lucky or good in that amount of time, and this car will then go 300 miles on a charge, charge in 3 minutes flat, and cost $200 for a new battery. Well, it could happen... But we have to start thinking seriously about these sorts of vehicles, or we're going to continue to be toast, and easily defeated by those with the oil.
There's probably a lot of ways to deal with this technologically.
We'll likely have the ability to gently accelerate earth into an orbit farther from the sun over hundreds of years. We might grab the moon from its orbit and stick it in the L1 Lagrange point and shade ourselves. I read of a group of physicists a couple years ago that believe that by using powerful magnetic fields, they can slip into different dimensions where the laws of physics are different and the speed of light is much faster, and thus enable the building of a warp drive. Eventually, something is going to answer this problem, if we persist, and don't blow each other up first.
Of course, if N. Korea develops the bomb and orbital capability, and manages to explode it abt. 250 miles over the center of the USA, it'll kill 90% of us in less than a year, and the US Air Force and the US Navy will in the meantime turn North Korea into a border-to-border, glass-paved, self-lighting parking lot. Will that trigger further thermonuclear activity, nuclear winter, worldwide radiation sickness, etc? As one of the probable dead, I won't care, but getting to the 500,000,000 year mark where the sun becomes a problem is problematic itself, at best.
Sure, everyone's always ready to jump on kids and deprive them of 1 more thing that makes their lives more pleasant, but does anyone remember Columbine, where cell phones gave authorities better insight into what was going on?
Any serious attacker now will, if the can, attempt to take out the phones, and if successful, they can chain the doors and just keep going until the kill absolutely everybody, without a single alarm getting outside the building.
When I was a kid, I once caught H from my mother for referring to the school as a prison, but it's really not a coincidence, I think, that this school, and a lot of prisons, are both trying to jam cell phones.
Hopefully, the FCC will continue to vigorously enforce the law, and fine the socks off anyone they catch with a cell phone jammer.
Never buy anything with any sort of DRM. Never have, never will. Get CD's across the counter, and make sure they don't have DRM, either. Back 'em up to disk or another CD. They keep this nonsense up, LP's really will come back. All my old stuff from 40 years ago plays great. LPs actually sound _better_ than CD's anyway. Nothing digital is required to play 'em, either, so inserting DRM is a real chore... The whole CD / digital thing is the worst thing to ever happen to commercial music, all things considered.