Yes, I think that your replies show the small-minded lack of vision and smugness from those who have never moved. Never experienced life in different cultures.
My my, "Small minded", "smug", "fucking stupid" All these labels y'all are throwing at me. Why does suggesting that people either put up with it, or do something about it elicit such vitriolic responses?
Perhaps you see it as a noble sacrifice.
Umm, no. Just an exercise of priorities. What's more, an interesting one in comparison to some others. Your family is so important to you that you put up with whatever the TSA demands you put up with so that you can visit them once in a while - apparently a very important thing.
Whereas my family was important enough to me that I visit, interact with, and see in person every day of the week. You made your choice. I made mine. For which of us was it more important to be around family?
This was no sacrifice for me. I did very well in career - in fact, a hellava lot better than my siblings who moved away. So we can strike that part of th sacrifice. I did very well even in inheritance as well. Ironically, my insistence that I didn't give a damn - nor wanted - their money - which I truly didn't - seemed to make all the parents want to give my wife and I most of their estates. That was a little embarrassing, but sort of instructive.
But you see, don't try to hand me the BS about loving your family so much that you just have to go back to see them, then act like I was an asshole for living near my family.
My parents accepted that I moved to a different continent. They welcomed the fact that I could move thousands of miles away for what I hoped would be a better life. I wasn't the first in my family to move away.
Good! It owuld be disheartening if you moved away under a family strain.
You know that the USA was founded by people (presumably your ancestors) who moved away from their family, with the expectation that they would probably never see them again, don't you?
My Paternal Grandparents came from Yugoslavia/Poland/Austria - whichever it was at the time. They fled for their lives around World War 1. My maternal Grandparents came from Sicily, and there was a bit of English in the mix as well.
Now, I live in the situation that, due the to vagaries of US immigration law, I have children in two continents. So, to see one of my children, I accept that I need to suck it up when I fly and accept (but don't like) the abuse that the TSA hands out.
Not everyone has the liberty of living close to their parents.
Not everyone makes the choice of living far away from their parents.
I would have thought that, as someone who has given up many opportunities in life to live close to parents, you would understand that I would go through a little inconvenience in order to meet face-to-face with family.
Well, even though I turned down opportunities to move away, it turned out to be wise to do that. I had a well paid and exceptionally interesting career in my area. So I definitely don't see it as a sacrifice at all. Given your experience, I would view your situation as a many magnitudes bigger sacrifice - and not the air travel part.
So what happens when your family is one country and your wife's family is in another country on the other side of the planet? And neither can desires to move and governments wouldn't let them immigrate if they wanted to anyway.
Your prior comments are enraging because you make it seem as though partaking in air travel makes one okay with its injustices. Accepting that the injustices carry a lower cost than not flying is NOT the same as approving of them.
And the difference between approving of them and not approving of them but continuing to use them is what?
At the risk of defusing my inadvertant shitstorm, is there some sort of cultural issue going on?
You mean a cultural issue like wanting to see your family occasionally?
Okay, so it looks like the olive branch has been rebuffed. No problemo, oldguy.
I lived close to my immediate family. Worked out okay.
Well that's nice, I'm glad it worked out for you. But there are reasons I can't live close to my family, including work, friends, children, and other minor social things like my life being based in this country for 50 years.
All based on choices that you made. Unless you were kidnapped as a child and brought to America.
It's not a realistic option for me to be able to just pack up my shit and move 6000 miles just to be near them. But that doesn't mean I don't want to go visit them from time to time, and the only practical way to do that is to fly. I mean, that's why airplanes were invented, so people could use them to go places.
We're starting to go around in circles here. It is obvious by you using the service, and continuing to use the service, that it is not enough of a problem for you to avoid using the service. So no need for the US system to change it's behavior based on your simple but not bothered enough to do anything about it dislike.
You are confusing a private corporation and the government.
This is 21st Century America. Corporations are the government. Or as close to it as practicality allows. You think that money isn't going to pass to politicians who will then do what the source of that money wants? Airlines and the tourist industry will make certain that legislation that they desire get passed.
Know economic history: every time a disruptive technology has reduced employment in one category of jobs, other categories of jobs have been created and/or expanded, for a net increase in overall employment.
That is true. But for all of that, I don't know that it will always hold true.
When farming began to be automated, and when the textile industry was threatend by the automated loom in the early 1800's, it was not beyond imaginatino that the industrial revolution was going to provide jobs for people displaced by the lost industries.
But here is where people go off the rails. I've been trying to engage people in some discussion about this, but the discussion simply ends up with me being called a luddite, or some pejoriative related to the socialistic minimum wage laws. People exist, and people need to provide.
I'm not so certain that this particular disruptive technology might end up creating a whole new world, with only a minority of humanity working.
What will that work be? Under present conditions, after the lowest paying jobs are eliminated, there will be a new set of lowest paying jobs to be eliminated. Eliminated for all the same reasons we're trying to eliminate restaurant jobs.
This could actualy be cool, where people might be freed to pursue art, or something else not directly related to survival, not constrained by a paycheck. Humanity might be onto the best thing that ever happened to it.
And so far, Instead of discussion, I've gotten a lot of platitudes.
What do you think the next revolution in employment is going to be? I've been scratching my head, keeping in mind that this is not going to be top down, but bottom of the market up employment needs. We're not going to be saying that everyone is going to code, or that everyone is going to be a boss.
Did it ever occur to you that I moved 6000 miles away from my family before the insult that is today's airport "security"?
Yes, I do accept it..
That's really all you have to say. You accept it. I don't hold that against you, although it seems my comments enrage you and a few others. Now - I may have my opinions on people who move away form their families. Certainly all of my wife's and my siblings did. Really, none of them had to, but they did. My wife and I stuck around and took care of our parents. That is what we chose to do.
I certainly had job offers out of state - none out of country due to my profession. But my family was more important. And when in later years as the parents were heading downhill, we took care of them.
Perhaps you are one of the 55% of Americans who don't have passports and live a parochial life, missing out on the many interesting things the world has to offer that are more than driving distance from your house. Perhaps you should open your eyes to the world.
Nope - I have a passport. For when I drive to Canada. Nice place, friendly people and some awesome scenery. Even Quebec where they laugh at me because I mix Spanish and French together. But I guess they figured the dumb Yankee was trying .
If they were that important, why did you move 6000 miles away?
Are you really that naive? You must've lived a very privileged life to not understand that tough choices have to be made frequently, including moving away from family that you love dearly.
Privileged? Naive? Fuck . My family members that I loved dearly, I stayed near. Took care of them as they ran down to expire. Don't even preach to me about how much you love someone, but you cannot stay around them.
Because you left them. You made your priority, and I made mine. Don't dare call me priveliged or naive, I am neither.
Also, if you want to go across the country for business or vacation, driving simply isn't practical.
Is someone making you drive across the country? If yes, then by all means fly. Besides, I didn't say you weren't allowed to fly. Just a solution if the rules don't suit you. The rules do suit some people, and apparently you are one of them.
There are worse ways to spend your time than in a car, seeing the vast expanses of America.
It's a magnificently beautiful country, I get to spend some time with the wife without so many distractions, since we both have very different schedules, and you get to meet interesting people along the way.
My family lives 1,100 miles away. My wife's family lives 2,500 miles away. Not flying cuts, on average, two days off any visit to my own family. For my wife's family, it's completely impractical to drive.
For me (and others with distant family,) that's well worth the (generally overblown) drawbacks of air travel and security theater.
Good. This sort of thing doesn't bother some people as much as it does others.
Flying has become miserable on so many fronts. I minimize it, and dread it when it cannot be avoided.
Exactly. Let's go back in time to 1991. I was on a cross country flight from SeaTac to Pittsburgh. SeaTac often gets fogged in, and this one lasted a few hours longer than usual.
The stewardesses were led by a woman who was an absolute sweetheart. She managed to keep things pretty light, no one was pissed off, and when we finally got in the air, they opened the bar. Free drinks for everyone. No one got drunk, but everyone was relaxed and pretty happy. During the flight I had to use the restroom, and the stewardesses told me to hang out and chat with them a bit. So I hung out with the ladies for a while. Never had such an interactive and enjoyable flight, including big hugs from the stewardesses when we disembarked.
Does that or does that not sound batshit crazy as compared to today? Oops - sorry - it is today that is batshit crazy, when a mathematics professor was turned in to security when a woman saw him writing formulas in a notebook.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
Exactly. I have family in SE Asia. Driving there isn't an option.
To visit or not is an option, however . At the risk of defusing my inadvertant shitstorm, is there some sort of cultural issue going on? I lived close to my immediate family. Worked out okay. My relatives that moved away were just people I spoke with on the phone occasionally.
Is it necessary to live 6,000 miles away? Or do you live 6,000 miles away because it has been so easy to visit them? Would you move closer if it were no longer so easy to visit?
1) Yes, it is necessary.
2) Don't be a fucking idiot, this is why they invented airplanes.
No one is saying that you aren't allowed to fly, or to visit your family. I am indeed saying that if you continue, you do not have a problem with whatever the airlines choose to do to you. I do have a problem with that myself in accepting their treatment, you are okay with it, as evidenced by your continuing to fly. I don't any more, but I would if the treatment were better.
Did your country kick you out or are you on the lam that you had no choice but to live in the USA?
I have a relative who lives 1,700 miles away and I'm driving to see them this week.
Great, I'll just tell all my relatives in SE Asia to move here so I don't have to fly. That's totally practical, I'll call them right now and tell them to start packing.
Oh wait, that would make them immigrants and President Trump won't like that, will he?
Why did you move to a country that you appear to hate, away form family that is important to you?
I have a relative who lives 1,700 miles away and I'm driving to see them this week.
While not the same situation as you, I have made adjustments so I don't have to fly.
It's not too difficult on trips of that length. drive a similar distance a few times a year. I just get up really early, drive through the night and arrive not exactly fresh, but I have my own vehicle, not a rental, and can enjoy music on the way down. I don't miss the couple hour wait at each stop, the groping, waiting on the tarmac before and after the flight, the wait at the luggage merry go round, the wait at the rental car place.
And if I missed my flight because of the delay I really don't miss the hassle of cancelling the hotel.
All in all, on trips from say the northeast to the south, you don't save a huge amount of time by flying. Yes, the in-air part is relatively short, but the rest of it makes for a huge delay.
If you still fly when you don't absolutely have to - you are okay with all of this.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
If they were that important, why did you move 6000 miles away?
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
I also said that you are willing to put up with exatly whatever they wish to do. You might bitvh about it, but everyone bitches. You at base level accept it.
This isn't trolling - it's truth. If enough people simply stop flying, it will change. Not only the airlines but mega corporations like Disney will have their way.
Last time I flew was - holy cannoli - 2002. I'm a little shocked at that because I really didn't think about it until I typed it. I still go on vacations, and even though I love the act of flying, Idon't miss the modern flying experience very much.
And it's pretty simple. If you still fly when you don't absolutely have to - you are okay with all of this.
Of course. Just why in the living shit are you worried about it Coward? If you are someone that has a bone to pick with me, use your real pseudonym.
Then again, you think ultrasound will generate harmonics in a linear medium... quite a trick in itself...
There's a thing though. There will be people in the room. And unless ultrasonic imaging doesn't work, there will be lots of interesting reflections and harmonics as watts of power are bouncing into and out of people, and other objects.
http://www.physicsclassroom.co...
If their research makes for inexpensive, large ultrasonic cleaners, count me in for one. Otherwise, meh. I'm not much of a fan of cavitation in my blood vessels.
The real puzzle to me is how easily VCs part with scads of money without, apparently, bothering to hire a couple of decent physicists (or mathematicians or security experts, as appropriate, in the case of security snake oil) beforehand.
I think it is a case of "I am successful, therefore I am smart, therefore any decision I make is smart." It isn't trying to be sarcastic on my prt. I've just seen too many people who had some measure of success in their lives, start making stupid decisions based on not much more than thinking they were right a few times, so they'll always be right.
Coupled with this weird idea going around today that all you have to do is want something hard enough, and you can make it happen.
But didn't these people stop for a minute to think that any device that could spray out enough power to charge a phone that is in your pocket or purse isn't going to be spraying out a serious load of power onto everyone in the room? Especially considering that we live in a worl where there are people who fear leaving near microwave towers, with minuscule irradiation of people, so everyone is going to be fine with constant immersion in the near field of a low frequency charger?
I mean I'm not terribly smart, yet I could figure out that this is a non-starter.
"Life is too short to spend all your time trying to lengthen it."
It's a good thing no one listened to you back when they started finding out about bacteria, vaccines and washing hands before surgery...
The things you take for granted like indoor plumbing and refrigerators that make your life longer also wouldn't exist, I guess.
Whoosh. If you didn't get it, I'm talking about the pointless life extension of demented or terminally ill people. Like my mother in law, who was still on blood pressure medicine, cholesterol meds and other maintenance drugs long after she no longer had a mind. I'm more than happy to take care of normal things.
Although you should check - you might be in the same shape she was gauging from your response to my sigline.
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Nothing, as in you just "fuck you" to one half? Or nothing, as in you put up with the TSA shit and occasionally catch a plane?
WAT? Nothing as in I'm not going. No "fuck you"s needed.
Yes, I think that your replies show the small-minded lack of vision and smugness from those who have never moved. Never experienced life in different cultures.
My my, "Small minded", "smug", "fucking stupid" All these labels y'all are throwing at me. Why does suggesting that people either put up with it, or do something about it elicit such vitriolic responses?
Perhaps you see it as a noble sacrifice.
Umm, no. Just an exercise of priorities. What's more, an interesting one in comparison to some others. Your family is so important to you that you put up with whatever the TSA demands you put up with so that you can visit them once in a while - apparently a very important thing.
Whereas my family was important enough to me that I visit, interact with, and see in person every day of the week. You made your choice. I made mine. For which of us was it more important to be around family?
This was no sacrifice for me. I did very well in career - in fact, a hellava lot better than my siblings who moved away. So we can strike that part of th sacrifice. I did very well even in inheritance as well. Ironically, my insistence that I didn't give a damn - nor wanted - their money - which I truly didn't - seemed to make all the parents want to give my wife and I most of their estates. That was a little embarrassing, but sort of instructive.
But you see, don't try to hand me the BS about loving your family so much that you just have to go back to see them, then act like I was an asshole for living near my family.
My parents accepted that I moved to a different continent. They welcomed the fact that I could move thousands of miles away for what I hoped would be a better life. I wasn't the first in my family to move away.
Good! It owuld be disheartening if you moved away under a family strain.
You know that the USA was founded by people (presumably your ancestors) who moved away from their family, with the expectation that they would probably never see them again, don't you?
My Paternal Grandparents came from Yugoslavia/Poland/Austria - whichever it was at the time. They fled for their lives around World War 1. My maternal Grandparents came from Sicily, and there was a bit of English in the mix as well.
Now, I live in the situation that, due the to vagaries of US immigration law, I have children in two continents. So, to see one of my children, I accept that I need to suck it up when I fly and accept (but don't like) the abuse that the TSA hands out.
Not everyone has the liberty of living close to their parents.
Not everyone makes the choice of living far away from their parents.
I would have thought that, as someone who has given up many opportunities in life to live close to parents, you would understand that I would go through a little inconvenience in order to meet face-to-face with family.
Well, even though I turned down opportunities to move away, it turned out to be wise to do that. I had a well paid and exceptionally interesting career in my area. So I definitely don't see it as a sacrifice at all. Given your experience, I would view your situation as a many magnitudes bigger sacrifice - and not the air travel part.
So what happens when your family is one country and your wife's family is in another country on the other side of the planet? And neither can desires to move and governments wouldn't let them immigrate if they wanted to anyway.
Nothing.
Your prior comments are enraging because you make it seem as though partaking in air travel makes one okay with its injustices. Accepting that the injustices carry a lower cost than not flying is NOT the same as approving of them.
And the difference between approving of them and not approving of them but continuing to use them is what?
At the risk of defusing my inadvertant shitstorm, is there some sort of cultural issue going on?
You mean a cultural issue like wanting to see your family occasionally?
Okay, so it looks like the olive branch has been rebuffed. No problemo, oldguy.
I lived close to my immediate family. Worked out okay.
Well that's nice, I'm glad it worked out for you. But there are reasons I can't live close to my family, including work, friends, children, and other minor social things like my life being based in this country for 50 years.
All based on choices that you made. Unless you were kidnapped as a child and brought to America.
It's not a realistic option for me to be able to just pack up my shit and move 6000 miles just to be near them. But that doesn't mean I don't want to go visit them from time to time, and the only practical way to do that is to fly. I mean, that's why airplanes were invented, so people could use them to go places.
We're starting to go around in circles here. It is obvious by you using the service, and continuing to use the service, that it is not enough of a problem for you to avoid using the service. So no need for the US system to change it's behavior based on your simple but not bothered enough to do anything about it dislike.
You really are an ass, aren't you?
Most certainly I am. I have teh advantadge of understanding that, while everyone else thnks they are geniuses.
Y'all ain't
You are confusing a private corporation and the government.
This is 21st Century America. Corporations are the government. Or as close to it as practicality allows. You think that money isn't going to pass to politicians who will then do what the source of that money wants? Airlines and the tourist industry will make certain that legislation that they desire get passed.
Know economic history: every time a disruptive technology has reduced employment in one category of jobs, other categories of jobs have been created and/or expanded, for a net increase in overall employment.
That is true. But for all of that, I don't know that it will always hold true.
When farming began to be automated, and when the textile industry was threatend by the automated loom in the early 1800's, it was not beyond imaginatino that the industrial revolution was going to provide jobs for people displaced by the lost industries.
But here is where people go off the rails. I've been trying to engage people in some discussion about this, but the discussion simply ends up with me being called a luddite, or some pejoriative related to the socialistic minimum wage laws. People exist, and people need to provide.
I'm not so certain that this particular disruptive technology might end up creating a whole new world, with only a minority of humanity working.
What will that work be? Under present conditions, after the lowest paying jobs are eliminated, there will be a new set of lowest paying jobs to be eliminated. Eliminated for all the same reasons we're trying to eliminate restaurant jobs.
This could actualy be cool, where people might be freed to pursue art, or something else not directly related to survival, not constrained by a paycheck. Humanity might be onto the best thing that ever happened to it.
And so far, Instead of discussion, I've gotten a lot of platitudes.
What do you think the next revolution in employment is going to be? I've been scratching my head, keeping in mind that this is not going to be top down, but bottom of the market up employment needs. We're not going to be saying that everyone is going to code, or that everyone is going to be a boss.
Did it ever occur to you that I moved 6000 miles away from my family before the insult that is today's airport "security"?
Yes, I do accept it. .
That's really all you have to say. You accept it. I don't hold that against you, although it seems my comments enrage you and a few others. Now - I may have my opinions on people who move away form their families. Certainly all of my wife's and my siblings did. Really, none of them had to, but they did. My wife and I stuck around and took care of our parents. That is what we chose to do.
I certainly had job offers out of state - none out of country due to my profession. But my family was more important. And when in later years as the parents were heading downhill, we took care of them.
Perhaps you are one of the 55% of Americans who don't have passports and live a parochial life, missing out on the many interesting things the world has to offer that are more than driving distance from your house. Perhaps you should open your eyes to the world.
Nope - I have a passport. For when I drive to Canada. Nice place, friendly people and some awesome scenery. Even Quebec where they laugh at me because I mix Spanish and French together. But I guess they figured the dumb Yankee was trying .
Are you really that naive? You must've lived a very privileged life to not understand that tough choices have to be made frequently, including moving away from family that you love dearly.
Privileged? Naive? Fuck . My family members that I loved dearly, I stayed near. Took care of them as they ran down to expire. Don't even preach to me about how much you love someone, but you cannot stay around them. Because you left them. You made your priority, and I made mine. Don't dare call me priveliged or naive, I am neither.
Also, if you want to go across the country for business or vacation, driving simply isn't practical.
Is someone making you drive across the country? If yes, then by all means fly. Besides, I didn't say you weren't allowed to fly. Just a solution if the rules don't suit you. The rules do suit some people, and apparently you are one of them.
I stopped flying 2007. All trips since then have been by car, though I am planning a train trip this summer.
I plan to at some point take the Trans-Canada Train for a long vacation.
There are worse ways to spend your time than in a car, seeing the vast expanses of America.
It's a magnificently beautiful country, I get to spend some time with the wife without so many distractions, since we both have very different schedules, and you get to meet interesting people along the way.
My family lives 1,100 miles away. My wife's family lives 2,500 miles away. Not flying cuts, on average, two days off any visit to my own family. For my wife's family, it's completely impractical to drive. For me (and others with distant family,) that's well worth the (generally overblown) drawbacks of air travel and security theater.
Good. This sort of thing doesn't bother some people as much as it does others.
Flying has become miserable on so many fronts. I minimize it, and dread it when it cannot be avoided.
Exactly. Let's go back in time to 1991. I was on a cross country flight from SeaTac to Pittsburgh. SeaTac often gets fogged in, and this one lasted a few hours longer than usual.
The stewardesses were led by a woman who was an absolute sweetheart. She managed to keep things pretty light, no one was pissed off, and when we finally got in the air, they opened the bar. Free drinks for everyone. No one got drunk, but everyone was relaxed and pretty happy. During the flight I had to use the restroom, and the stewardesses told me to hang out and chat with them a bit. So I hung out with the ladies for a while. Never had such an interactive and enjoyable flight, including big hugs from the stewardesses when we disembarked.
Does that or does that not sound batshit crazy as compared to today? Oops - sorry - it is today that is batshit crazy, when a mathematics professor was turned in to security when a woman saw him writing formulas in a notebook.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
Exactly. I have family in SE Asia. Driving there isn't an option.
To visit or not is an option, however . At the risk of defusing my inadvertant shitstorm, is there some sort of cultural issue going on? I lived close to my immediate family. Worked out okay. My relatives that moved away were just people I spoke with on the phone occasionally.
Is it necessary to live 6,000 miles away? Or do you live 6,000 miles away because it has been so easy to visit them? Would you move closer if it were no longer so easy to visit?
1) Yes, it is necessary.
2) Don't be a fucking idiot, this is why they invented airplanes.
No one is saying that you aren't allowed to fly, or to visit your family. I am indeed saying that if you continue, you do not have a problem with whatever the airlines choose to do to you. I do have a problem with that myself in accepting their treatment, you are okay with it, as evidenced by your continuing to fly. I don't any more, but I would if the treatment were better.
Did your country kick you out or are you on the lam that you had no choice but to live in the USA?
I have a relative who lives 1,700 miles away and I'm driving to see them this week.
Great, I'll just tell all my relatives in SE Asia to move here so I don't have to fly. That's totally practical, I'll call them right now and tell them to start packing.
Oh wait, that would make them immigrants and President Trump won't like that, will he?
Why did you move to a country that you appear to hate, away form family that is important to you?
I have a relative who lives 1,700 miles away and I'm driving to see them this week.
While not the same situation as you, I have made adjustments so I don't have to fly.
It's not too difficult on trips of that length. drive a similar distance a few times a year. I just get up really early, drive through the night and arrive not exactly fresh, but I have my own vehicle, not a rental, and can enjoy music on the way down. I don't miss the couple hour wait at each stop, the groping, waiting on the tarmac before and after the flight, the wait at the luggage merry go round, the wait at the rental car place.
And if I missed my flight because of the delay I really don't miss the hassle of cancelling the hotel.
All in all, on trips from say the northeast to the south, you don't save a huge amount of time by flying. Yes, the in-air part is relatively short, but the rest of it makes for a huge delay.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
If they were that important, why did you move 6000 miles away?
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
I also said that you are willing to put up with exatly whatever they wish to do. You might bitvh about it, but everyone bitches. You at base level accept it.
This isn't trolling - it's truth. If enough people simply stop flying, it will change. Not only the airlines but mega corporations like Disney will have their way.
Last time I flew was - holy cannoli - 2002. I'm a little shocked at that because I really didn't think about it until I typed it. I still go on vacations, and even though I love the act of flying, Idon't miss the modern flying experience very much.
And it's pretty simple. If you still fly when you don't absolutely have to - you are okay with all of this.
Are you an idiot?
Of course. Just why in the living shit are you worried about it Coward? If you are someone that has a bone to pick with me, use your real pseudonym. Then again, you think ultrasound will generate harmonics in a linear medium... quite a trick in itself...
There's a thing though. There will be people in the room. And unless ultrasonic imaging doesn't work, there will be lots of interesting reflections and harmonics as watts of power are bouncing into and out of people, and other objects. http://www.physicsclassroom.co...
http://www.asecho.org/files/EF...
If their research makes for inexpensive, large ultrasonic cleaners, count me in for one. Otherwise, meh. I'm not much of a fan of cavitation in my blood vessels.
Good point.
The real puzzle to me is how easily VCs part with scads of money without, apparently, bothering to hire a couple of decent physicists (or mathematicians or security experts, as appropriate, in the case of security snake oil) beforehand.
I think it is a case of "I am successful, therefore I am smart, therefore any decision I make is smart." It isn't trying to be sarcastic on my prt. I've just seen too many people who had some measure of success in their lives, start making stupid decisions based on not much more than thinking they were right a few times, so they'll always be right.
Coupled with this weird idea going around today that all you have to do is want something hard enough, and you can make it happen.
But didn't these people stop for a minute to think that any device that could spray out enough power to charge a phone that is in your pocket or purse isn't going to be spraying out a serious load of power onto everyone in the room? Especially considering that we live in a worl where there are people who fear leaving near microwave towers, with minuscule irradiation of people, so everyone is going to be fine with constant immersion in the near field of a low frequency charger?
I mean I'm not terribly smart, yet I could figure out that this is a non-starter.
"Life is too short to spend all your time trying to lengthen it."
It's a good thing no one listened to you back when they started finding out about bacteria, vaccines and washing hands before surgery...
The things you take for granted like indoor plumbing and refrigerators that make your life longer also wouldn't exist, I guess.
Whoosh. If you didn't get it, I'm talking about the pointless life extension of demented or terminally ill people. Like my mother in law, who was still on blood pressure medicine, cholesterol meds and other maintenance drugs long after she no longer had a mind. I'm more than happy to take care of normal things.
Although you should check - you might be in the same shape she was gauging from your response to my sigline.