Try pissing off the wrong cop or IRS agent, perhaps just by being there when he's having a bad day. Or perhaps they're just underfunded and figure a little civil forfeiture will fix that right up. It happens in the U.S. every day.
We do need to have classes of drones. For example, there is no reason at all to make a 9 year old receive formal training before operating a toy in the back yard. Simple camera carrying drones don't need much more, though it might be possible to justify minimal training for commercial use. That, by the way, would cover the currently known near misses with people on the ground (sporting events and professional coverage). The most likely dangers to aircraft would be police and military drones. Those should very much require training and qualification. They are, after all, bigger and heavier.
As far as hobby/sport/toy flying, we have no incidents worth reporting out there. We should eliminate the various silly regulations that apply to them immediately, including registration.
Actually, they did make and own the boat. Then they bizarrely decided not to be on it when it sailed. Perhaps some form of corporate dementia. They didn't even watch it sail away. They just took a nap until they woke up under water a few years later.
Actually, at one point Kodak did decide to be a digital photography company, but quickly failed do to a half hearted effort. It kind of faded away after their initial investment due to lack of effort.
We seem to be having different conversations here. What extreme position are you referring to? My belief that large scale management structures suck in general?
You seem to have yourself created an imaginary extra authoritarian version of extreme socialism to act as a straw man.
But just to play along, if they get crushed by a socialist bureaucracy, they fall back on their government mandated pay. If they get crushed by Wallyworld, they're just screwed.
The problem is more in the frequency than in the modulation. A regular AM Rx tuned off center can decode a basic FM signal to a usable quality. Naturally, you won't get stereo or any of the extra data channels stuffed in to a modern FM signal that way, but you will hear it.
So dead simple that in a pinch, a pair of headphones (even broken), a safety pin, a bit of rusted metal (traditionally, an old safety razor blade) and a pencil stub can be used to receive a strong analog signal.
As opposed to the nimble sole proprietorship like way that megacorps carefully manage? Where salaries are set by merit alone based on the manager's manager's manager personally knowing each and every worker and being intimately familiar with the quality of their output?
Most of the problems you see in socialism are better attributed to the fact that management structures as we understand them do not work well on a large scale. Socialism has in the past tended to build larger organizations with all of the management failures that entails. These days though, the free market capitalist approach has caught up in the scale and failings, only it isn't even nominally for the public good (in direct contravention of the purpose of corporate charters).
When the economy (Main Street's economy, not Wall Street's) is good, you can avoid some of those pitfalls by changing jobs, but with the economy ossified (or sclerosed if you prefer), that option is a bit threadbare as well.
Too bad we let the cell companies snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their outrageous prices for that sata. They talk about gigabit speeds and paper over the fact that if you ever actually used that speed you'd blow your entire month's allotment in 30 seconds.
The problem is that they hit the wrong target. I don't blame them for wanting to block counterfeits, but they attacked people who had no way to know they were using a counterfeit. Basically, they mis-managed their channels to the point that a legit customer could make a good faith effort to buy the real thing at market price and still end up with fakes and no way to tell. FTDI had a way to tell but they wouldn't disclose it. Rather than fix their channels and help their direct customers to get the real thing, they punished people who had no idea what an FTDI was.
Nobody really wanted it. It just wasn't worth anything to people except as a novelty experience. Meanwhile, it required a complete tech refresh and wearing glasses, so it was a damned expensive novelty.
It was a desperate move to try to sell more stuff. 3D has come and gone countless times since the '50s. In the '70s they even tried broadcasting a few 3D movies with free glasses available everywhere for a couple weeks before. No special TV required. The rest was all hype. It never sold big except when they cooked the sales figures. Most of the big sales were people buying a marked down TV never intending to use the 3D capability.
Avatar was the novelty's one big hit this time around and even that was nearly as popular in 2D.
Put another way:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.
Let me guess, you'll make that very same claim about anyone or anything that contradicts your personal preference that there is nothing to it. You're going to shit where you eat till you die, just like your pappy and his pappy before him...
So they wouldn't actually be fine with someone they don't know pausing the movie in the middle of a tense scene so they can spend 20 minutes in the bathroom and not miss something.
Ask for a raise too often (whether you get it or not) and you go to the top of the layoff list.
Meanwhile, you'll have more luck asking for a raise if you can show how you have improved in the interim. Switching to rainbow colored binding clips on the TPS report isn't likely to get much traction.
There is no federal sales tax, so it's not an IRS matter. It's between the buyers and their respective state governments (only some of which have an applicable tax).
It is clear that your reading comprehension sucks. Perhaps lay off the sauce in the new year?
There is a marked difference between the weak and toothless consumer laws in the U.S. and doing the right thing most of us learned about in kindergarten. When you make a mistake, fix it. I made it quite clear that I was speaking of the moral and ethical thing to do rather than the legal requirement. If you can't comprehend that, go away.
For that matter, just go away anyway. You are clearly one of those people who when they lose an argument, whine and moan until the other person just quits answering. For example, by demanding that I prove assertions I never made. Whatever gets you through the night I suppose.
No, firstly a luddite wants to just stop the clock. There are other potential solutions.
Next, when your income is ZERO, it hardly matters if things cost one tenth what they do now because you still don't have it. And that's assuming the savings actually get passed on to the consumer. Sure, some will but there's a reason corporate profits are at an all time high.
It's not an insoluble problem, but our current political forces aren't even vaguely interested in solving it.
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Try pissing off the wrong cop or IRS agent, perhaps just by being there when he's having a bad day. Or perhaps they're just underfunded and figure a little civil forfeiture will fix that right up. It happens in the U.S. every day.
We do need to have classes of drones. For example, there is no reason at all to make a 9 year old receive formal training before operating a toy in the back yard. Simple camera carrying drones don't need much more, though it might be possible to justify minimal training for commercial use. That, by the way, would cover the currently known near misses with people on the ground (sporting events and professional coverage). The most likely dangers to aircraft would be police and military drones. Those should very much require training and qualification. They are, after all, bigger and heavier.
As far as hobby/sport/toy flying, we have no incidents worth reporting out there. We should eliminate the various silly regulations that apply to them immediately, including registration.
Actually, they did make and own the boat. Then they bizarrely decided not to be on it when it sailed. Perhaps some form of corporate dementia. They didn't even watch it sail away. They just took a nap until they woke up under water a few years later.
Actually, at one point Kodak did decide to be a digital photography company, but quickly failed do to a half hearted effort. It kind of faded away after their initial investment due to lack of effort.
We seem to be having different conversations here. What extreme position are you referring to? My belief that large scale management structures suck in general?
You seem to have yourself created an imaginary extra authoritarian version of extreme socialism to act as a straw man.
But just to play along, if they get crushed by a socialist bureaucracy, they fall back on their government mandated pay. If they get crushed by Wallyworld, they're just screwed.
The problem is more in the frequency than in the modulation. A regular AM Rx tuned off center can decode a basic FM signal to a usable quality. Naturally, you won't get stereo or any of the extra data channels stuffed in to a modern FM signal that way, but you will hear it.
More spectrum won't help the no bars situation. A capital investment in more cell towers would, but that ain't happening.
So dead simple that in a pinch, a pair of headphones (even broken), a safety pin, a bit of rusted metal (traditionally, an old safety razor blade) and a pencil stub can be used to receive a strong analog signal.
As opposed to the nimble sole proprietorship like way that megacorps carefully manage? Where salaries are set by merit alone based on the manager's manager's manager personally knowing each and every worker and being intimately familiar with the quality of their output?
Most of the problems you see in socialism are better attributed to the fact that management structures as we understand them do not work well on a large scale. Socialism has in the past tended to build larger organizations with all of the management failures that entails. These days though, the free market capitalist approach has caught up in the scale and failings, only it isn't even nominally for the public good (in direct contravention of the purpose of corporate charters).
When the economy (Main Street's economy, not Wall Street's) is good, you can avoid some of those pitfalls by changing jobs, but with the economy ossified (or sclerosed if you prefer), that option is a bit threadbare as well.
Too bad we let the cell companies snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their outrageous prices for that sata. They talk about gigabit speeds and paper over the fact that if you ever actually used that speed you'd blow your entire month's allotment in 30 seconds.
The problem is that they hit the wrong target. I don't blame them for wanting to block counterfeits, but they attacked people who had no way to know they were using a counterfeit. Basically, they mis-managed their channels to the point that a legit customer could make a good faith effort to buy the real thing at market price and still end up with fakes and no way to tell. FTDI had a way to tell but they wouldn't disclose it. Rather than fix their channels and help their direct customers to get the real thing, they punished people who had no idea what an FTDI was.
Nobody really wanted it. It just wasn't worth anything to people except as a novelty experience. Meanwhile, it required a complete tech refresh and wearing glasses, so it was a damned expensive novelty.
It was a desperate move to try to sell more stuff. 3D has come and gone countless times since the '50s. In the '70s they even tried broadcasting a few 3D movies with free glasses available everywhere for a couple weeks before. No special TV required. The rest was all hype. It never sold big except when they cooked the sales figures. Most of the big sales were people buying a marked down TV never intending to use the 3D capability.
Avatar was the novelty's one big hit this time around and even that was nearly as popular in 2D.
Put another way:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
For the same reason that the harder I look at the data, the closer the number of released hammers on earth hitting the ground approaches 100%
Let me guess, you'll make that very same claim about anyone or anything that contradicts your personal preference that there is nothing to it. You're going to shit where you eat till you die, just like your pappy and his pappy before him...
People just don't like being dictated to.
So they wouldn't actually be fine with someone they don't know pausing the movie in the middle of a tense scene so they can spend 20 minutes in the bathroom and not miss something.
And further, while you're watching the next ad, you know those lawless teens are actually watching the movie.
I don't arbitrarily decide I'm entitled to pirate the e-book.
And if there were no paperbacks? How about if your approved choices were ebook, pay more to have someone recite it to you, or do without?
Or they'll wait till it comes on a cable channel they get.
Ask for a raise too often (whether you get it or not) and you go to the top of the layoff list.
Meanwhile, you'll have more luck asking for a raise if you can show how you have improved in the interim. Switching to rainbow colored binding clips on the TPS report isn't likely to get much traction.
There is no federal sales tax, so it's not an IRS matter. It's between the buyers and their respective state governments (only some of which have an applicable tax).
It is clear that your reading comprehension sucks. Perhaps lay off the sauce in the new year?
There is a marked difference between the weak and toothless consumer laws in the U.S. and doing the right thing most of us learned about in kindergarten. When you make a mistake, fix it. I made it quite clear that I was speaking of the moral and ethical thing to do rather than the legal requirement. If you can't comprehend that, go away.
For that matter, just go away anyway. You are clearly one of those people who when they lose an argument, whine and moan until the other person just quits answering. For example, by demanding that I prove assertions I never made. Whatever gets you through the night I suppose.
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Chopping 80% of the workforce is still a significant problem, don't you think?
No, firstly a luddite wants to just stop the clock. There are other potential solutions.
Next, when your income is ZERO, it hardly matters if things cost one tenth what they do now because you still don't have it. And that's assuming the savings actually get passed on to the consumer. Sure, some will but there's a reason corporate profits are at an all time high.
It's not an insoluble problem, but our current political forces aren't even vaguely interested in solving it.
Healthy people don't need their health restored!
Unhealthy isn't an accusation or a value judgement, it's a state of being.
When a healthy person gets shot and the injury is so bad that they need an organ, they become unhealthy, naturally.
It's not a value judgement, it's just a description of their physical condition.