Funny thing about that. They blame the increased minimum wage for that, but they're also putting in the kiosks in in areas that didn't raise the minimum wage at all.
The correct measure in the U.S. is taxes plus health insurance premiums plus healthcare copays. (don't forget that employers paying the insurance premiums counts too since they count that as part of the cost of employing you).
If you add all that up, Americans are paying more.
The healthcare industry is laughing at you behind your back for demanding to pay double. No rational economic actor would do that.
Do you really think the device and pharmaceutical companies sell at a loss around the world? If they weren't turning a profit in Europe, they'd just stop selling there.
They're soaking Americans exactly because they can.
But even if we accept your premise, the economically rational thing for the U.S. to do is to implement universal single payer healthcare as well so that we would only be paying our own share of the cost rather than paying everyone else's as well.
Note that they're replacing human labor in China with robots too, and they're only making $15/DAY. Do you REALLY think someone in the U.S. can afford to live on less than $15 a DAY?
The sad part is that we should be celebrating the day when robots take over all the work. Especially unpleasant work. But because of the screwed up way we run the economy, we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and turn it into a fearful threat to survival instead.
They use a synchroscope to get the generator as close as possible to the grid before switching it in to keep stress low. Once it's switched in, it's effectively locked to the grid frequency and phase.
In "the old days", farmers would use two incandescent bulbs in series connected across the hot lines of 2 generators. They would adjust the speed and phase until the lights went out, then throw a switch to connect them.
For most of the grid's existence they did it because it costs practically nothing and it was the right thing to do. In the U.S. it has been a regulatory requirement since 2009 since corporations no longer understand the right thing to do unless coerced to do it.
But it's not at all undocumented. It is supposed to be a feature of the mains power. In fact, effort is generally made to assure it. During off-peak hours, the power grid is supposed to compensate for any deviation during the day to provide exactly enough cycles to keep a mains synchronized clock accurate. What is happening in Europe is a screw-up.
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Strong consumer protection laws could correct that, but at least the U.S. seems to be completely disinterested in that. Make retailers replace the $5 widget that breaks in a month and they'll stop selling them QUICK. They'll also stop selling the $25 widget that is just the $5 widget with an expensive name on it.
It can happen the easy way or the hard way. Many on the right don't understand that the New Deal isn't just because FDR felt like playing Santa Claus, it's because he knew the alternative would be really ugly. As in heads being chopped off.
Many used induction motors and had a neon lamp illuminating markings on the side of the platter, providing a reliable 60 Hz strobe. Just tune the speed until the markings stand still.
And there's part of the problem. Supposedly, the chronic underemployment is to be solved by super cheap consumer goods. But the goods keep not getting cheaper and salaries keep not going up. The work week keeps not getting shorter.
Note how the parts you call interesting (and they are) are not the parts that went away when spies "give you that whole atomic bomb thing on a silver platter". Only the practical engineering aspects of making a particular device work.
Those much more interesting theoretical physics aspects were still all there.
That's the difference between outside information being a couple years ahead of your state of the art and outside information being a thousand years ahead of your state of the art.
Some claim that the world of Logan's Run has become reality today. I disagree. In the movie, there was the (false) hope of renewal at Carrousel. In the book, the end was pleasant even if it came early. We don't even offer that much.
For a physicist, the atomic bomb was just a bit of a practical diversion from the much more interesting problem of theoretical physics. By the end, it was an engineering problem, not a science problem.
The level of disruption talked about here is much greater. Such disruptions have been documented when previously isolated tribes make significant contact with the modern world, so it's not just theoretical.
Imagine if your job gets replaced overnight with a magic machine. Not just your employment, your job. Overnight, there is literally no reason for anyone to care that you are skilled at X. All of your skills are now categorically irrelevant to the world.
That has to be the worst excuse I have ever heard. I sincerely hope someone superglues their ass cheeks together in their sleep so they will stop spewing so much shit.
Actually, a lot of people could do a lot better giving and acting on step by step instructions. Perhaps a little experience with computer programming might help. Binary decision trees and searches would be good experience as well.
I know how layer 2 works. But since the cable company controls the entire last mile, and the other endpoint of the first hop is the cable co.'s head end, they know the MAC address (that's how they avoid servicing unregistered modems and track usage). Further upstream, they know the IP address to MAC association (they own the DHCP server)
Exact location is difficult unless the phone itself provides GPS for the 911 call (and really, when a cell phone calls 911, it should even if the user turns GPS off in general), but it shouldn't be that difficult technically to provide at least some locality information, such as which tower handled the call to sanity check emergency calls. In the case of cable VOIP services, the modem's MAC can be used to somewhat localize the call.
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Funny thing about that. They blame the increased minimum wage for that, but they're also putting in the kiosks in in areas that didn't raise the minimum wage at all.
Don't let them fool you.
The correct measure in the U.S. is taxes plus health insurance premiums plus healthcare copays. (don't forget that employers paying the insurance premiums counts too since they count that as part of the cost of employing you).
If you add all that up, Americans are paying more.
The healthcare industry is laughing at you behind your back for demanding to pay double. No rational economic actor would do that.
Do you really think the device and pharmaceutical companies sell at a loss around the world? If they weren't turning a profit in Europe, they'd just stop selling there.
They're soaking Americans exactly because they can.
But even if we accept your premise, the economically rational thing for the U.S. to do is to implement universal single payer healthcare as well so that we would only be paying our own share of the cost rather than paying everyone else's as well.
Note that they're replacing human labor in China with robots too, and they're only making $15/DAY. Do you REALLY think someone in the U.S. can afford to live on less than $15 a DAY?
The sad part is that we should be celebrating the day when robots take over all the work. Especially unpleasant work. But because of the screwed up way we run the economy, we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and turn it into a fearful threat to survival instead.
FAIL!
It is the case in the U.S. They've been doing it since the early 20th century. In 2009 it became a regulatory requirement,
They use a synchroscope to get the generator as close as possible to the grid before switching it in to keep stress low. Once it's switched in, it's effectively locked to the grid frequency and phase.
In "the old days", farmers would use two incandescent bulbs in series connected across the hot lines of 2 generators. They would adjust the speed and phase until the lights went out, then throw a switch to connect them.
For most of the grid's existence they did it because it costs practically nothing and it was the right thing to do. In the U.S. it has been a regulatory requirement since 2009 since corporations no longer understand the right thing to do unless coerced to do it.
But it's not at all undocumented. It is supposed to be a feature of the mains power. In fact, effort is generally made to assure it. During off-peak hours, the power grid is supposed to compensate for any deviation during the day to provide exactly enough cycles to keep a mains synchronized clock accurate. What is happening in Europe is a screw-up.
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Strong consumer protection laws could correct that, but at least the U.S. seems to be completely disinterested in that. Make retailers replace the $5 widget that breaks in a month and they'll stop selling them QUICK. They'll also stop selling the $25 widget that is just the $5 widget with an expensive name on it.
It can happen the easy way or the hard way. Many on the right don't understand that the New Deal isn't just because FDR felt like playing Santa Claus, it's because he knew the alternative would be really ugly. As in heads being chopped off.
Many used induction motors and had a neon lamp illuminating markings on the side of the platter, providing a reliable 60 Hz strobe. Just tune the speed until the markings stand still.
And there's part of the problem. Supposedly, the chronic underemployment is to be solved by super cheap consumer goods. But the goods keep not getting cheaper and salaries keep not going up. The work week keeps not getting shorter.
Are you trying to start gate-gate or something?
That's not how it works when your job gets replaced before you're ready to retire or when you are unable to prepart to retire.
Note how the parts you call interesting (and they are) are not the parts that went away when spies "give you that whole atomic bomb thing on a silver platter". Only the practical engineering aspects of making a particular device work.
Those much more interesting theoretical physics aspects were still all there.
That's the difference between outside information being a couple years ahead of your state of the art and outside information being a thousand years ahead of your state of the art.
Some claim that the world of Logan's Run has become reality today. I disagree. In the movie, there was the (false) hope of renewal at Carrousel. In the book, the end was pleasant even if it came early. We don't even offer that much.
For a physicist, the atomic bomb was just a bit of a practical diversion from the much more interesting problem of theoretical physics. By the end, it was an engineering problem, not a science problem.
The level of disruption talked about here is much greater. Such disruptions have been documented when previously isolated tribes make significant contact with the modern world, so it's not just theoretical.
Imagine if your job gets replaced overnight with a magic machine. Not just your employment, your job. Overnight, there is literally no reason for anyone to care that you are skilled at X. All of your skills are now categorically irrelevant to the world.
Consider, fuel for generators comes from the mainland. Grid electricity is expensive in Hawaii.
Meanwhile, solar is highly effective in Hawaii.
That has to be the worst excuse I have ever heard. I sincerely hope someone superglues their ass cheeks together in their sleep so they will stop spewing so much shit.
Actually, a lot of people could do a lot better giving and acting on step by step instructions. Perhaps a little experience with computer programming might help. Binary decision trees and searches would be good experience as well.
That's why I said cable VoIP services rather than VoIP services in general.
I know how layer 2 works. But since the cable company controls the entire last mile, and the other endpoint of the first hop is the cable co.'s head end, they know the MAC address (that's how they avoid servicing unregistered modems and track usage). Further upstream, they know the IP address to MAC association (they own the DHCP server)
In other words, they know the MAC address.
Exact location is difficult unless the phone itself provides GPS for the 911 call (and really, when a cell phone calls 911, it should even if the user turns GPS off in general), but it shouldn't be that difficult technically to provide at least some locality information, such as which tower handled the call to sanity check emergency calls. In the case of cable VOIP services, the modem's MAC can be used to somewhat localize the call.
The peering would have saved Comcast money.