Maybe if you vote R's into office long enough you can have some kind of migrant slaves to mine your coal, but "good paying mining jobs" are not coming back.
True, because the extraction process will be automated as much as possible.
Why this is difficult for people in these areas to comprehend is something I have a little trouble comprehending. This is a lot like the fracking that went on around here.
We heard herbs, Jerbs JERBS! People were seeing new careers for themselves, restaurants were expanding, Hotels were seeing dollar signs. Even banks managed to be taken in.
And I was a damned Cassandra - a gloomy gus, telling people that those jobs were only temporary. Buster Killbuzz, that's me.
Including some folks that lived beside us years ago. Wife had a decent job, the husband worked mostly menial jobs.He got a fracking job, pulling a decent paycheck. They decided to buy a house, and in true American fashion, mortgaged themselves to the hilt. Despite my warnings that the job was only for a few years.
Yup, he's driving taxi now, and they are bankrupt. The restaurant owners lost their asses, others who catered to the frackers are finished.
The whole state is serviced by just a handful of people now, just as it was in the early 1970's after the last gas field jerbs boom.
The point is, all you have to do is say jerbs, Jerbs, JERBS!, and for some bizzare reason, people will believe you even if the answer is plainly obvious that they are at best temporary in the case of fracking, and a cynical bold face lie in the matter of coal jobs.
I certainly don't care if the jobs are temporary, as long as that is known to all. The gas companies didn't lie, they just allowed people to believe a falsehood. But the coalfield jobs were never coming back ever, and that was known. Except to the people who bought the big lie.
The aerosol emissions can include formaldehyde, cadmium found in batteries, benzene found in gasoline and the industrial solvent toluene. If that doesn't give you a buzz, then nothing will. Better than Testers glue. What's the problem?
We need to shoot those vaping motherfuckers before they hurt themselves.
You aren't making sense. Those are not complicated conspiracies.
Those are people who were enriched or bribed by Russians, not the convoluted moon landing type conspiracies you seem to be claiming they are.
Certainly no more complicated than an Israeli agency discovering an AV software manufacturer scanning and stealing information it had access to and passing it up the line to people who would be interested in it. And said intelligence agency who after discovering it, passed that information along to the ally whose information was stolen. That's pretty simple
As well, all of those people in your attempt to present as a great and complicated conspiracy were obviously caught. Good conspiracies are seldom discovered until way long after they happen.
You need to produce actual complicated conspiracy as claimed.
Maybe it has something to do with the 40% of efficiency of large coal plants and 20-30% of efficiency of your regular car combustion engine? Not to mention the possibility of waste heat recovery for municipal heating in case of coal plants... And regenerative braking of electric vehicles in city traffic.
I took a tour of a combination power generation/heating plant in my city recently. It used a turbine generator to generate electricity from the hot gas, then since there was still a lot of energy left in the exhaust gas, they produced steam for residential industrial heating. The efficiency numbers doing this were pretty impressive, around 80 percent and up in practice. Note that is station efficiency, not end of the line efficiency.
They had converted to natgas from coal a couple years ago. And everyone there is damn happy about it. Much cleaner both on the handling and burning line, you don't leave work covered with coal dust, you don't breathe coal dust, and operation is mechanically much simpler.
Coal is dying and Trump's pulling the clean power initiative won't save it and will actually make things worse for those who live in coal country. The CPI had a program in place to help train people for other lines of work. Now coal use will decline but without the program to help the workers displaced by this. Coal has no future. All of the cheap coal is gone and fracking has made natural gas far cheaper (despite the problems like earthquakes due to fracking).
You need modded up. I have long promoted the idea of having displaced miners offered positions and education/training in the now mainstream energy production industries of wind and solar. Right here in coal country, we have a few folks still agitating for it, but really, it's finished. We have cool looking wind power fields that are now producing enough power to bypass need for coal powered generation, and we have natural gas moving in to directly replace coal powered generation.
And if a locally produced energy source can't compete in it's own backyard, it can't compete at all.
I can't run Linux because it is not capable of running the majority of software I need for my business. I can't afford to fiddle-fuck around with my computer trying to get things done; there's 100 more urgent things I need to spend my time on and the ROI on using an accepted, industry-standard OS like Windows is worth it 1,000x over.
I can't figure out if this is bragging or whining.
This is what I've been saying for a while. The Repulican party hasn't been "Republican" for quite some time. It's now become some sort of far right wing corporatists/neo-fascist group hell bent and bending the nation over for their own profit.
The pump was primed during the 8 years that O'Blama was in office, when a segment of the country went totally batshit insane at the concept of a president they were told was a muslim, and not even an American citizen. And they bought it. And egged on by Fox, they assembled, and in record numbers voted for teh very symbol of what they claimed to be against. I mean seriously, I have zero sympathy for anyone who voted for Republicans if they lose their healthcare. I think it's a shame if they die because of it, but can only assume that they die for their ideology, die for MAGA, and are at peace with their demise. I really laugh though at a trump voter who becomes stuck in a job they hate because no one will insure them if they leave because of a pre-existing condition. Tough titty cupcake, you got what you voted for. Now bask in your victory.
I'd argue that longwave, medium wave and shortwave bands can benefit from going digital. Digital Radio Mondiale was developed specifically for these lower frequencies, to cut through a lot of the noise and make the radio experience on LF, MF and HF more like listening on VHF. Of course there will be propagation issues but digitalization is an answer to some but not all of the problems.
The problem is that propagation. I have communicated around the world on a watt of power when propagation is right. In to New Zealand and Australia - so far away, I wasn't sure exactly which diection the signal took. And on the other end, when geomagnetic storms hit, the band goes dead silent. DRM is subject to the same effects. And then there is the matter of error correction at HF. I am working at present on these issues, and there aren't any good answers yet.
You still have to prove the most-likely hypothesis is correct. And a less-likely (more complicated) hypothesis can still turn out to be the correct one.
Rational people assume the most-likely until reasonable evidence proves otherwise.
The problem with all conspiracy theories, which to me is when the people employing them work their way backwards, picking and choosing what they accept, and miraculously, it just so happens to align with their world view. They will even manage to deny it when Kaspersky admits they accessed the idiot's computer.
So this is what happened, So this is how it was found, This is who did it, this is how it happened, and the people who did it admitted they did it.
The only thing left is that somehow the person heading up the company didn't do what his training instructed him to do, which is pass it up the line. And that makes so little sense as to be completely dismissible.
Nobody has ever said the Russians had the malware. Russian government involvement is a red herring spun to distract you from the Russia-Clinton-Obama inconvenience.
That's the problem with you conspiracy kooks. Occams razor tells us otherwise.
>Not that I care if the NSA figures out my porn preferences
You should, so long as there are people out there who would punish you for them. There's a seemingly unending supply of sanctimonious people out there who will outright ruin your life if they find something about you personally distasteful.
In a twist of irony, those selfsame people will as likely as not have much more interesting porn records than anything a normal person has. Its projection, and we see it time and time again, from Jimmy Swaggert's television set top wanking while a hooker does God knows what, to that creep preacher in Colorado who railed on about them thar homos, but enjoyed screwing his male masseuse, to better than the rest of us Josh Duggar who has some very interesting and illegal preferences. Brings new meaning to family values.
I just say something about Shemale midget scat porn and watch their eyes light up.......
I believe the USA has been at peace for about 17 years in its ENTIRE history...
It is a warmongering nation.
As compared to the rest of the world, lounging in peaceful bliss except for the only warmongering country?
You are hopping on the wrong point anyhow. The point is that war is expensive, and even though some politicians here use it as a economic stimulus package, a country cannot fight endless warfare. It is a drag on the economy, and the public grows weary of the fighting.
It's refreshing to think that part of the spectrum will always only be useful for AM broadcast. There's really nothing wrong with plain old AM broadcast. Even if not continued in use for audio programming, it could be used for local, or even regional distribution of broadsheets of general content. Everything does NOT need to be converted to peer-to-peer form and then asyncronously shuttled off every which way to individual nodes. Fuck your packets. Really, just fuck them.
I came to the RF world after spending a career in mostly digital (and art, weirdly enough). After a lot of study of RF propagation, it is really clear that the digital people - myself included - were lacking a clue about using wireless for digital. We have used the right band for most wifi systems. The 2 GHz neighborhood is the right combination of not sending a signal too far, but not suffering too much path loss. 5GHz is nice if you are in the room, but falls off rapidly. There are Hams who experiment with frequencies even above that, and have managed some impressive results, but the equipment is exotic, expensive, and achieved under good conditions, and in places like mountaintop to mountaintop.
The best example of money trying to refute physics is Broadband over power line, or BPL. This was supposed to provide DSL level service to people that would come right into their house with the mains power, none of that messy crap of installs. When initially proposed, the knowledgeable RF community went nuts. This isn't going to work. The Power lines will act like antennas, and spew interference all over the neighborhoods they are in. Amateurs and others protested. One of the uses of HF is for passenger planes traversing the poles, it is pretty much the only reliable communications source for them.
But the money trumps physics crowd would have none of this. Every problem was met with guffaws, and "solutions" were enabled. The digital signals couldn't survive going through the transformer outside the house, so they were piggybacked onto the highest voltage line available, and a device was added to pass the digital signals, but not the power, then attached to the downside of the transformer. My questions as to how failsafe this was were unanswered, imagine getting your household wiring and appliances getting hit with a couple thousand volts!
And filters were added, but it still interfered with Amateurs and the airlines. The areas where this was deployed were RF noisy.
In a last ditch effort, that tried to have the rules reversed. In normal world, unlicensed devices are not allowed to interfere with licensed devices. They tried to change it so that Amateurs, airlines and any other users of the HF spectrum were not allowed to interfer with unlicensed devices, covered under "Part 15". At the time, our legislatures and the FCC still had some sense of physics, and vetoed that.
The final nail was that the signal was comically easy to wipe out. Some dude with his CB radio running 5 watts could knock the signal off the air for blocks. Kids with 1 watt Walkie talkies could. Hams with high power equipment could knock out a small city.
I fully concur that the AM broadcast band should be left alone. It is unstable in terms of propagation, and it's properties don't lend themselves to anything much other than what it is doing now.
But knowing that at the present time, Money and ideology believes that it can violate the laws of physics and win, so I can hardly wait until they try to use Broadcast band RF for local wifi.
Anyhow, the topic of RF propagation is fascinating, and I could bore people for hours with how different frequencies bounce around, but I've typed too much already.
As a conservative, I think this decision is a horrid one that is made more out of ideology rather than good government.
Well, that's what passes for conservatism these days, Corporatism. There is money to be made on the way down.
With republicans who don't understand the dangers, or with the Democrats who are so impotent because they are burdened down with social agendas to the point everybody who does not live on the east/west coast won't vote for them.
Well then, we get corporatism, and let me know how that works out for the people who live in the middle. And you are wrong about Republicans in office not knowing the dangers. They do not give a flying fsck about the dangers. There's a lot of money to be made, so get out of the way.
As long as they can get some poor sod to vote for them, they line their pockets with money from the corporations that they actually work for. They do not even hide that any more. If Joe six Pack will vote for people who are going to give themselves big tax breaks, and throw millions of them off of a admittedly flawed healthcare system with no replacement, and can do it by reusing the same old tropes, then those people do deserve to lose their money, and go bankrupt if they have a big healthcare bill. Good for them. Because that's what they voted for, and must be exactly what they want to happen to them.
But seriously, Modern Republicans aren't conservatives, they are corporatists. There is a huge difference. I wish Barry Goldwater would ressurect from the grave and drive the corrupt out of the temple.
"NBC and CNN have repeatedly been caught peddling fake news..."
Have they really? Can you cite some, or indeed any, examples? Please be aware, news is not "fake" just because someone who doesn't like it says so.
Every outfit accidentally gives incorrect news from time to time. Almost always with an admission and correction But today's crypto-conservatives claim anything that they disagree with is fake news.
But we must remember, the with noting that the fellow didn't add th incredibly fair and balanced Fox News, so he believes that Germany is sunnier than the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... With no retraction, this is apparently the real deal.
The Fake News bullshit is merely projection upon the part of Boris and his fifth column in the US.
Free-ish (and much fragmented) news outlets meddling with your belief set is still preferable than a mere handful of sources.
On the fence? Consider, then, US; your two-party democracy.
In my area, there are only two corporations and a third group running every station. The third group is pseudo-non-profit religion outfits. You can tune across the band, and many of the stations are playing the exact same thing - pre recorded pop country, or pre recorded Pop Pop. On AM, it's crypto-conservatives and their conspiracy theories and fomenting revolution or just whining. I still listen to sports new, but that is becoming more advertisement than content.
"He's dead Jim." Making it possible for one corporation in Brazil or Moscow to own 'em all ain't bringin' this corpse back to life.
When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
The kids?
Broadcast is already dead, it's just zombie media for now, same as dead tree.
The RF spectrum still has value.
Medium wave is virtually useless for anything we would think about using it for today. Short propagation during the day, and worldwide at night. Noisy as hell during the spring summer and fall as lightning strikes throw spikes all over the band.
In the United States, children of poor people or criminals were sterilized at birth.
You are seriously challenged to prove that the children of the poor were all sterilized at birth. Because you just spouted utter shit. Bullshit, and Jellomizer, you sir, are a fucking liar.
You hate the alloies? It's too bad we didn't allow those others to take over your country, Since you appear to believe that the Allies were the equal in evilness between Adolf Tojo and old Josef.
Then there is the matter of precedent. Despite what some might think, the world has a lot of these little cuties. If we decide that turning NK into glass and irradiating a lot of countries nearby is just a great thing to do, well, we've opened Pandora's box, and we ourselves are now a justifiable target.
Is August 6th, 1945 not precedent?
Indeed. While I fully understand the reasons why they were used, The experience showed us that the game had changed. Whereas saturation bombing could achieve the same killing minus the radiation effects, the ability to kill civilians with one device made it easy to do so.
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Alway making their filthy tainted millions off the back of poor almost bankrupt Monsanto.
I dunno about American coal, but apparently Australian coal is too expensive for those markets: http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Maybe if you vote R's into office long enough you can have some kind of migrant slaves to mine your coal, but "good paying mining jobs" are not coming back.
True, because the extraction process will be automated as much as possible.
Why this is difficult for people in these areas to comprehend is something I have a little trouble comprehending. This is a lot like the fracking that went on around here.
We heard herbs, Jerbs JERBS! People were seeing new careers for themselves, restaurants were expanding, Hotels were seeing dollar signs. Even banks managed to be taken in.
And I was a damned Cassandra - a gloomy gus, telling people that those jobs were only temporary. Buster Killbuzz, that's me.
Including some folks that lived beside us years ago. Wife had a decent job, the husband worked mostly menial jobs.He got a fracking job, pulling a decent paycheck. They decided to buy a house, and in true American fashion, mortgaged themselves to the hilt. Despite my warnings that the job was only for a few years.
Yup, he's driving taxi now, and they are bankrupt. The restaurant owners lost their asses, others who catered to the frackers are finished.
The whole state is serviced by just a handful of people now, just as it was in the early 1970's after the last gas field jerbs boom.
The point is, all you have to do is say jerbs, Jerbs, JERBS!, and for some bizzare reason, people will believe you even if the answer is plainly obvious that they are at best temporary in the case of fracking, and a cynical bold face lie in the matter of coal jobs.
I certainly don't care if the jobs are temporary, as long as that is known to all. The gas companies didn't lie, they just allowed people to believe a falsehood. But the coalfield jobs were never coming back ever, and that was known. Except to the people who bought the big lie.
Even if Americans stop burning coal, it is still a valuable export commodity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
For many in the world, where billions of people still live without any electricity, it is the only realistic solution.
True, the USA is the only place in the world with sun and wind.
The aerosol emissions can include formaldehyde, cadmium found in batteries, benzene found in gasoline and the industrial solvent toluene. If that doesn't give you a buzz, then nothing will. Better than Testers glue. What's the problem?
We need to shoot those vaping motherfuckers before they hurt themselves.
I pity your failed public school education...
Here are a few:
You aren't making sense. Those are not complicated conspiracies.
Those are people who were enriched or bribed by Russians, not the convoluted moon landing type conspiracies you seem to be claiming they are.
Certainly no more complicated than an Israeli agency discovering an AV software manufacturer scanning and stealing information it had access to and passing it up the line to people who would be interested in it. And said intelligence agency who after discovering it, passed that information along to the ally whose information was stolen. That's pretty simple As well, all of those people in your attempt to present as a great and complicated conspiracy were obviously caught. Good conspiracies are seldom discovered until way long after they happen.
You need to produce actual complicated conspiracy as claimed.
In a fist fight, your best bet is Captain Benjamin Sisko. Hell, he punched Q right in the freakin' face.
At risk of taking this even further off topic, Sisko had a freaking awesome voice. Picard's was right up there as well.
Maybe it has something to do with the 40% of efficiency of large coal plants and 20-30% of efficiency of your regular car combustion engine? Not to mention the possibility of waste heat recovery for municipal heating in case of coal plants... And regenerative braking of electric vehicles in city traffic.
I took a tour of a combination power generation/heating plant in my city recently. It used a turbine generator to generate electricity from the hot gas, then since there was still a lot of energy left in the exhaust gas, they produced steam for residential industrial heating. The efficiency numbers doing this were pretty impressive, around 80 percent and up in practice. Note that is station efficiency, not end of the line efficiency.
They had converted to natgas from coal a couple years ago. And everyone there is damn happy about it. Much cleaner both on the handling and burning line, you don't leave work covered with coal dust, you don't breathe coal dust, and operation is mechanically much simpler.
Coal is dying and Trump's pulling the clean power initiative won't save it and will actually make things worse for those who live in coal country. The CPI had a program in place to help train people for other lines of work. Now coal use will decline but without the program to help the workers displaced by this. Coal has no future. All of the cheap coal is gone and fracking has made natural gas far cheaper (despite the problems like earthquakes due to fracking).
You need modded up. I have long promoted the idea of having displaced miners offered positions and education/training in the now mainstream energy production industries of wind and solar. Right here in coal country, we have a few folks still agitating for it, but really, it's finished. We have cool looking wind power fields that are now producing enough power to bypass need for coal powered generation, and we have natural gas moving in to directly replace coal powered generation.
And if a locally produced energy source can't compete in it's own backyard, it can't compete at all.
Old King Coal? "He's dead, Jim!"
No way that generating electricity from coal to power an EV is less CO2 intensive than an IC.
Well, that settles the whole matter. Thanks AC, for setting us straight!
I can't run Linux because it is not capable of running the majority of software I need for my business. I can't afford to fiddle-fuck around with my computer trying to get things done; there's 100 more urgent things I need to spend my time on and the ROI on using an accepted, industry-standard OS like Windows is worth it 1,000x over.
I can't figure out if this is bragging or whining.
It's amazing how much some of the community still can't get over how KDE is a better, healthier project than any of their GNOME babies.
And Captain Picard would totally kick Captain Kirk's ass.....
This is what I've been saying for a while. The Repulican party hasn't been "Republican" for quite some time. It's now become some sort of far right wing corporatists/neo-fascist group hell bent and bending the nation over for their own profit.
The pump was primed during the 8 years that O'Blama was in office, when a segment of the country went totally batshit insane at the concept of a president they were told was a muslim, and not even an American citizen. And they bought it. And egged on by Fox, they assembled, and in record numbers voted for teh very symbol of what they claimed to be against. I mean seriously, I have zero sympathy for anyone who voted for Republicans if they lose their healthcare. I think it's a shame if they die because of it, but can only assume that they die for their ideology, die for MAGA, and are at peace with their demise. I really laugh though at a trump voter who becomes stuck in a job they hate because no one will insure them if they leave because of a pre-existing condition. Tough titty cupcake, you got what you voted for. Now bask in your victory.
I'd argue that longwave, medium wave and shortwave bands can benefit from going digital. Digital Radio Mondiale was developed specifically for these lower frequencies, to cut through a lot of the noise and make the radio experience on LF, MF and HF more like listening on VHF. Of course there will be propagation issues but digitalization is an answer to some but not all of the problems.
The problem is that propagation. I have communicated around the world on a watt of power when propagation is right. In to New Zealand and Australia - so far away, I wasn't sure exactly which diection the signal took. And on the other end, when geomagnetic storms hit, the band goes dead silent. DRM is subject to the same effects. And then there is the matter of error correction at HF. I am working at present on these issues, and there aren't any good answers yet.
You still have to prove the most-likely hypothesis is correct. And a less-likely (more complicated) hypothesis can still turn out to be the correct one.
Rational people assume the most-likely until reasonable evidence proves otherwise.
The problem with all conspiracy theories, which to me is when the people employing them work their way backwards, picking and choosing what they accept, and miraculously, it just so happens to align with their world view. They will even manage to deny it when Kaspersky admits they accessed the idiot's computer.
So this is what happened, So this is how it was found, This is who did it, this is how it happened, and the people who did it admitted they did it.
The only thing left is that somehow the person heading up the company didn't do what his training instructed him to do, which is pass it up the line. And that makes so little sense as to be completely dismissible.
"And a less-likely (more complicated) hypothesis can still turn out to be the correct one."
And often it is the correct one when you are dealing with espionage, hostile foreign governments and treason.
Give us the citations to support your thesis. Surely you have an example or two in support of that.
Nobody has ever said the Russians had the malware. Russian government involvement is a red herring spun to distract you from the Russia-Clinton-Obama inconvenience.
That's the problem with you conspiracy kooks. Occams razor tells us otherwise.
You'll always have Pizzagate, Boris.
>Not that I care if the NSA figures out my porn preferences
You should, so long as there are people out there who would punish you for them. There's a seemingly unending supply of sanctimonious people out there who will outright ruin your life if they find something about you personally distasteful.
In a twist of irony, those selfsame people will as likely as not have much more interesting porn records than anything a normal person has. Its projection, and we see it time and time again, from Jimmy Swaggert's television set top wanking while a hooker does God knows what, to that creep preacher in Colorado who railed on about them thar homos, but enjoyed screwing his male masseuse, to better than the rest of us Josh Duggar who has some very interesting and illegal preferences. Brings new meaning to family values.
I just say something about Shemale midget scat porn and watch their eyes light up.......
"the US has been waging war for 16 years now"
Uh, what?
I believe the USA has been at peace for about 17 years in its ENTIRE history...
It is a warmongering nation.
As compared to the rest of the world, lounging in peaceful bliss except for the only warmongering country?
You are hopping on the wrong point anyhow. The point is that war is expensive, and even though some politicians here use it as a economic stimulus package, a country cannot fight endless warfare. It is a drag on the economy, and the public grows weary of the fighting.
It's refreshing to think that part of the spectrum will always only be useful for AM broadcast. There's really nothing wrong with plain old AM broadcast. Even if not continued in use for audio programming, it could be used for local, or even regional distribution of broadsheets of general content. Everything does NOT need to be converted to peer-to-peer form and then asyncronously shuttled off every which way to individual nodes. Fuck your packets. Really, just fuck them.
I came to the RF world after spending a career in mostly digital (and art, weirdly enough). After a lot of study of RF propagation, it is really clear that the digital people - myself included - were lacking a clue about using wireless for digital. We have used the right band for most wifi systems. The 2 GHz neighborhood is the right combination of not sending a signal too far, but not suffering too much path loss. 5GHz is nice if you are in the room, but falls off rapidly. There are Hams who experiment with frequencies even above that, and have managed some impressive results, but the equipment is exotic, expensive, and achieved under good conditions, and in places like mountaintop to mountaintop.
The best example of money trying to refute physics is Broadband over power line, or BPL. This was supposed to provide DSL level service to people that would come right into their house with the mains power, none of that messy crap of installs. When initially proposed, the knowledgeable RF community went nuts. This isn't going to work. The Power lines will act like antennas, and spew interference all over the neighborhoods they are in. Amateurs and others protested. One of the uses of HF is for passenger planes traversing the poles, it is pretty much the only reliable communications source for them.
But the money trumps physics crowd would have none of this. Every problem was met with guffaws, and "solutions" were enabled. The digital signals couldn't survive going through the transformer outside the house, so they were piggybacked onto the highest voltage line available, and a device was added to pass the digital signals, but not the power, then attached to the downside of the transformer. My questions as to how failsafe this was were unanswered, imagine getting your household wiring and appliances getting hit with a couple thousand volts!
And filters were added, but it still interfered with Amateurs and the airlines. The areas where this was deployed were RF noisy.
In a last ditch effort, that tried to have the rules reversed. In normal world, unlicensed devices are not allowed to interfere with licensed devices. They tried to change it so that Amateurs, airlines and any other users of the HF spectrum were not allowed to interfer with unlicensed devices, covered under "Part 15". At the time, our legislatures and the FCC still had some sense of physics, and vetoed that.
The final nail was that the signal was comically easy to wipe out. Some dude with his CB radio running 5 watts could knock the signal off the air for blocks. Kids with 1 watt Walkie talkies could. Hams with high power equipment could knock out a small city.
I fully concur that the AM broadcast band should be left alone. It is unstable in terms of propagation, and it's properties don't lend themselves to anything much other than what it is doing now.
But knowing that at the present time, Money and ideology believes that it can violate the laws of physics and win, so I can hardly wait until they try to use Broadcast band RF for local wifi.
Anyhow, the topic of RF propagation is fascinating, and I could bore people for hours with how different frequencies bounce around, but I've typed too much already.
As a conservative, I think this decision is a horrid one that is made more out of ideology rather than good government.
Well, that's what passes for conservatism these days, Corporatism. There is money to be made on the way down.
With republicans who don't understand the dangers, or with the Democrats who are so impotent because they are burdened down with social agendas to the point everybody who does not live on the east/west coast won't vote for them.
Well then, we get corporatism, and let me know how that works out for the people who live in the middle. And you are wrong about Republicans in office not knowing the dangers. They do not give a flying fsck about the dangers. There's a lot of money to be made, so get out of the way.
As long as they can get some poor sod to vote for them, they line their pockets with money from the corporations that they actually work for. They do not even hide that any more. If Joe six Pack will vote for people who are going to give themselves big tax breaks, and throw millions of them off of a admittedly flawed healthcare system with no replacement, and can do it by reusing the same old tropes, then those people do deserve to lose their money, and go bankrupt if they have a big healthcare bill. Good for them. Because that's what they voted for, and must be exactly what they want to happen to them.
But seriously, Modern Republicans aren't conservatives, they are corporatists. There is a huge difference. I wish Barry Goldwater would ressurect from the grave and drive the corrupt out of the temple.
"NBC and CNN have repeatedly been caught peddling fake news..."
Have they really? Can you cite some, or indeed any, examples? Please be aware, news is not "fake" just because someone who doesn't like it says so.
Every outfit accidentally gives incorrect news from time to time. Almost always with an admission and correction But today's crypto-conservatives claim anything that they disagree with is fake news.
But we must remember, the with noting that the fellow didn't add th incredibly fair and balanced Fox News, so he believes that Germany is sunnier than the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... With no retraction, this is apparently the real deal.
The Fake News bullshit is merely projection upon the part of Boris and his fifth column in the US.
Yes.
Free-ish (and much fragmented) news outlets meddling with your belief set is still preferable than a mere handful of sources.
On the fence? Consider, then, US; your two-party democracy.
In my area, there are only two corporations and a third group running every station. The third group is pseudo-non-profit religion outfits. You can tune across the band, and many of the stations are playing the exact same thing - pre recorded pop country, or pre recorded Pop Pop. On AM, it's crypto-conservatives and their conspiracy theories and fomenting revolution or just whining. I still listen to sports new, but that is becoming more advertisement than content.
"He's dead Jim." Making it possible for one corporation in Brazil or Moscow to own 'em all ain't bringin' this corpse back to life.
When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
The kids?
Broadcast is already dead, it's just zombie media for now, same as dead tree.
The RF spectrum still has value.
Medium wave is virtually useless for anything we would think about using it for today. Short propagation during the day, and worldwide at night. Noisy as hell during the spring summer and fall as lightning strikes throw spikes all over the band.
In the United States, children of poor people or criminals were sterilized at birth.
You are seriously challenged to prove that the children of the poor were all sterilized at birth. Because you just spouted utter shit. Bullshit, and Jellomizer, you sir, are a fucking liar. You hate the alloies? It's too bad we didn't allow those others to take over your country, Since you appear to believe that the Allies were the equal in evilness between Adolf Tojo and old Josef.
Anyhow, thanks for playing, Boris.
Then there is the matter of precedent. Despite what some might think, the world has a lot of these little cuties. If we decide that turning NK into glass and irradiating a lot of countries nearby is just a great thing to do, well, we've opened Pandora's box, and we ourselves are now a justifiable target.
Is August 6th, 1945 not precedent?
Indeed. While I fully understand the reasons why they were used, The experience showed us that the game had changed. Whereas saturation bombing could achieve the same killing minus the radiation effects, the ability to kill civilians with one device made it easy to do so.