Now, you can argue that my wages will start climbing as a result of this
No, you can't argue that. As Americans replace jobs designing smartphones with jobs sewing t-shirts, wages will go down, not up.
High tariffs mean higher prices and lower wages.
Every complex problem has a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong. Protectionism is one of those solutions.
As Trump has turned the Republican partyy into the party of tariffs and protectionism, next up is a Nixonian re-implementation of wage and price controls. The freeze on Federal employee wages at a time when unemployment is low is merely testing the waters for the next phase. As the Republican party shifts it position to whatever it is that Trump wishes, and obeys his every move, ordinary citizens do not understand that any money coming in from tariffs is not for them.
Am I wrong? Perhaps. But we shall see shortly. Trump is reinventing the Republican party as we speak, and they lack the intestinal fortitude to oppose him. I would not be terribly surprised if we nationalize industry soon, and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan will smile as they sign the law.
Not knowing who it is, all we know about him or her is that the editorial board of the New York Times likes what he or she has to say. For all we know, it's some random blogger, or someone entirely made up, like the Jayson Blair thing.
Silly boy, It's Hillary, writing from her Pizzagate Bunker.
Vetted out by the Bwana Devil himself - O'Blama, writing from his bunker in the Kenyan embassy at the secret film stage in Area 51 where Stanly Kubrick filmed the faked moon landings.
We'll find out soon enough, but the Smart money is on John McCain's buddy, Dan Coats.
I was just curious though. As you and the other Trumpites join along with your leader Trump, in the castigation and making enemies of nearly all Americans, do you have a final solution? The circle of those appointed by God to join Trump in MAGA is getting smaller and smaller, so while you have allies, you better start culling your enemies soon
When I've had people write disparging things about me that were untrue, I either ignored them or made fun of them.
The mean girl hissyfit that Emperor BoneSpurs has embarked upon simply verifies the article is spot on true.
Apparently the McCain death and funeral was the final straw for someone.
This is not a true anonymous story, the "Failing New York Times" knows exactly who it is, and it will come out soon enough. It correlates with the new book "Fear" by Robert Woodward, who even the cowardly Republicans agree is as straight a shooter as you'll find.
Meanwhile, I would offer the Emperor a protip. When completely innocent, the best tactic is to act innocent. Just sayin'.
Ah yes, the last resort of the desperate. If you can't argue on facts and can't win on emotion, try blaming the other person's sense of humor. I guess that means you have conceded that the imperial system is objectively more arbitrary, though in the last gracious way possible..
Unlike yours, my sense of humor actually works properly. Not only do I laugh when things are actually funny, I'm capable of telling when things aren't funny too.
I feel quite sorry for you. You not only have a real problem with humor, you appear to have some deep seated anger issues. Don''t find it funny? Argue with the moderators. The individual does not need to find the humor in any given piece. But they do need to understand that is what is intended. Even the post you are replying to is a metric joke. Chillaxe me hearty - life is a lot more fun when you see the humor in it.
tl;dr: if everyone thinks it is funny but you, the problem is you.
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a different system use your inability to strut like you are somehow superior.
You know I did hear that. From a man. Made of straw.
And yet, here we are, with everything that you post seemingly proving my point.
Brittle and maladaptive.
Imperial measurements? Sure. I'll raise my 568ml (or is it 473) glass to that.
In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
You're confusing "can" and "should". I can work in imperial and have done so many times. But it's full of the most inane conversion factors. So, it's basically more of a pain in the arse.
You are validating what I write as you try to refute it. You appear to find it an insufferable pain. Me? Just a different size. In an ideal world there would be 1 measurement system. But it would definitely not be based on one ten-millionth of the distance between the north pole and the equator on the meridian passing through Paris, a terribly inaccurate and hopelessly non repeatable measurement. A measurement that is so awkward that it is now measured by an absurd fraction of the arbitrary length of time based on oscillations of a cesium isotope atom, that fraction measuring the distance light travels in a vacuum over the fraction of a second.
But that isn't what we have, is it? We have multiple measurements. It's a safe assumption that you are from somewhere in the British Isles. Do all of your citizens walk into pubs and order 0.4731765 litres of ale?
While researching the metric version of the acre, lookie what I found. Real Estate in Great Plumstead with Imperial measurements first, followed by metric in Paren. Yikes! https://www.onthemarket.com/de...
But I answered the question of acres, and it is even yummier than I thought https://www.onthemarket.com/de... It is hectares, followed by acres in paren.
Seriously, I absolutely despise howaboutism, so I'll tread gently here. For all of the whining and moaning and gnashing of teeth of the metric supremacists, it is nothing short of hilarious that y'all do what you do, while just a little research shows that you are guilty of what you rail against.
I'll drink a pint with ya any day friend, while you partake of 0.4731765 litres, but you might find out that I'm no nutjob as you claim, but more of an adaptive adroit who's major vice is enjoying the trolling of fussy people. Since you seem to find it necessary to lace your posts with insults, I might take a little umbrage at your rudeness, but I am rather adaptive and all. I can tolerate rude people.
My only beef with the metric system is that there appears to be some alternative universe that 10 MM sockets seem to transport to. Perhaps the universe that one of each pair of socks ends up in when washing them. Socks and sockets. A coincidence?
Clearly we should stop trying because we have already invented the best of everything that can be invented.
Clearly you have slippery sloped this to the max.
Pointing out issues is how science works. The science of this is fascinating. But your approach is the exact opposite of what is needed. Skepticism is the rule to progress.
This is how people who are denialisms of AGW and Creationists accidentally help undermine their own faith. Pointing out anything that remotely looks anomalous, and the scientists scurry to address that issue.
Anyone who simply says "Oh this is freaking awesome and the way of the future!" is worthless from a scientific or research perspective. Me pointing out problems because I would like to see something succeed is very worthwhile. Would I like this to succeed? Sure. I would love a teeny tiny antenna for the Medium frequencies. Do I think it will work? No. But my criticisms are valuable nonetheless. Your slippery slope analysis is less than worthless, it's asking for no input.
You should try the "shivery feeling of superiority" from demanding all non-metric weights declare Avoirdupois or Imperial.
I sure as hell wouldn't demand that. I wonder, who is? Everyone I've worked with has pretty seamlessly worked in both methods since the 1970's. Just say metric, and it's metric, standard, and it's standard
Perhaps y'all might think about being less intransigent. Perhaps any "shivery feeling of superiority" should be reserved for those who aren't constrained by one system of measurement.
But that would be a really silly thing to feel superior about, donchya think?
Huh? No one claimed ever that the overall scale of the metric system isn't arbitrary.
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a differnt system use your inability to strut like you asre somehow superior. Stiffness and inability and whining about it are not superior. Not even close.
The point is there's only a single scale up to integer powers of 10. There's no sillyness like having to convert gallons to cubic feet.
Brittle and maladaptive. I use metric all the time. In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
And BTUs! We've abandoned them so you should probably rename them to ATUs.
Once again, give me units, and I'll work in them.
Oh and tools don't get me started with tools. So er ok measure in thou except when you don't and it's multiples of 1/32 of an inch except when neither is good enough and you need a #7 bit because what the fuck?
Do not disrepect fractions - they are the very base of your unit of measure.
Anyhow, what a first world problem. I have calipers that will measure in multiple units, including fractions of inches, inches and metric. I suppose it is pretty difficult to press a button and instantly measure and convert. I have a metric mill and lathe that alomst without thinking, I can make either metric or standard parts. With less thinking than what has gone into these postings.
I went for metric. It's a nice simple 5.1mm which sits between 5.0mm and 5.2mm in the online store.
That's nice. I have metric, Standard, and a few Whitworth even. The last was used on some British motorcycles. Not very adaptable are ya?
But I'n not fitting your narrative, am I? I'm supposed to be the stupid 'Murrican, insisting on that stupid standard system because of stupid.
And yet, I work largely in Metric, and save the standard works for things that are already standard. I know the advantages and disadvantages of each, but at base, understand that the metric system is just as arbitrary as anything else. If it was somehow more accurate, that might be a different thing. But it's just one more standard. I just take it as it comes, and save the brain cells for more important things, not simple mindless things.
In the end, what you are doing is arguing that ignorance and intransigence is superior to knowledge, ability and flexibility.
The fun is in tweaking the noses of those people who are too rigid, or perhaps not clever enough to do the simple conversions needed. Otherwise I wouldn't waste my time.
Or, you know, a news source that writes in the popular style could just use the units that its readers use every day.
But that wouldn't give us that little shivery feeling of superiority, would it now?
Which groups are getting that shivery feeling of superiority - the Euro-entities or the dumb 'Murricans.
Mention a non-metric measurement, and the metric crowd goes nuts about their arbitrary measurement system, while the dumb 'Murricans just shrug their shoulders and go on working with both systems.
Going crazy is more a symptom of insecurity. Meanwhile my metric bois, the meter is defined using a fraction, and approximately 9 billion oscillations of a cesium atom.
This is no more "dumbing down" reporting than adjusting reported times for the current timezone. Insisting on times in UTC has some merit, but isn't necessary, and is just as arbitrary as demanding SI units.
This!
As l like to point out to our friends who pop a gasket every time someone dares to mention a non-metric unit of measure, The official metre id defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second
A freaking fraction! And tied to the freaking second!
The second, by the way, is defined as The duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. Most people shorten it to nine billion oscillations, but our Metric friends pride themselves on their accuracy and the universal logic of their system
Rather arbitrary one might think, and a rather odd thing that it's adherents find it necessary to thump their chests like Gorillas in heat.
When in fact, anyone with a bit of intelligence can seamlessly move between the two systems. I have a metric lathe and mill in my home shop, but I regularly make standard parts on it. And I can make metric parts on a standard device.
So Chill, my homies, and we can get back to much more important issues, like who would win in a fight between Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.
As a Russian myself I see this as extremely hypocritical for Americans to be dismayed at this "election interference" considering that US never shied to meddle in politics of other countries, including Russia itself.
Whataboutism, the concept of trying to make your adversary out as a hypocrite, is 100 percent beside the point. One wrong does not make another wrong right. If US interference in other countries elections is found, document and report it.
All of which is to say Russia got caught. Rather than say America does it so it is a good thing when we do it, perhaps exposing the wrong is better than expressing desire for allowing it.
In fact I don't even believe that it was Russian government agents who are responsible for events on those American elections, due to the fact that Russian gov has nothing to accomplish by this, they're more in bed with Clintons than with Trumps.
Whataboutism number 2. Your mortal enemy, the Clintons are in no political power now. And after all, you just justified the Clintons by bringing them into the conversation. Trump is justified because Clintons justifies the Clintons. Whataboutism is a logical fallacy custom made for the soundbite era.
And for sure Russian intelligence agencies would do something more effective than just making some flamewars using bot spewing nonsense that nobody with brains would take seriously.
Depends on how smart the people are.
Now - there was a bit of a perfect storm going on here that allowed your guy to get elected.
Biggie - complacent voters. My personal blame book goes mostly to the 50 percent turnout rate.
Pretty Biggie - Comey's announcement regarding re-opening the Clinton investigation while simultaneously not announcing the ongoing investigation of Trump.
Electoral College - Yeah, we get it trolls, it's the law, but so far it has been helping one group, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be from that group if they lost. But given this isn't the first time that the minority candidate has won, we should look into the exact why that is a recurrent theme.
Highly targeted social media postings. The Cambridge Analytica and their weaponization of stupid people's personal data for localized and personalized notifications
Russian trolls and bots - really a minor player, and completely ineffective ploy at this time. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be acknowledged
More to Russian work in the US are matters like the NRA dark money fund, which has given as much as 70 million dollars to elect Trump. Much of the dark money has come from one Alexander Torshin. Not legal.
More to Russian work is the guilty plea of Lobbyist Sam Patten, a Paul Manafort associate who laundered Russian money to donate to Trump's inauguration.
Mike Flynn, who illegally took money from RT, and had a number of other improper contacts with others, including a lot of communications with one Sergey Kislyak. Flynn is a particularly interesting person, having pled guilty to a simple misdemeanor in return for cooperation in the Mueller investigation. I for one can hardly wait to hear what he has to say.
There are more but I'm tired of typing.
In the end, Facebook trolls and howaboutism don't mean a whole lot - there is plenty of evidence that Russia had a whole lot to do with the 2016 election, was involved in illegal activities, and that the dominos are falling as we write.
Oh yes russian interference is worst issue in the world because we support this vaguely anti-trump narrative... but let's not talk about how we shit on our user's privacy for profit because we are modest!
So anyhow - you support Russian interference in US elections? I keep hearing people whine about how they don't want to hear about it any more.
That is either acceptance or approval. Which are you tovarish?
the next fallout will perhaps include even more atomic radio
If we do ever decide it's time to play with our nucs, radio communications will be pretty dicey for quite a while. Those EMP pulses are going to shut down a lot of communications. Might be some Ionosphere disruptions as well.
A lot of Emergency communicators store their equipment in Faraday cages for just that reason. I have some radios stored in ammo boxes to protect against EMP. A direct strike obviously won't matter as we turning into overcooked toast or die of radiation poisoning.
Lasers aren't that clunky, they are nice & small these days. Every blu-ray player has 3 or so - small compared to the clunky rotating medium.
Radio to optic signal instead of electric is interesting. Even more interesting if it picks up weaker signals than the ordinary approach.
Even more interesting is it it will brew me a cup of coffee in the morning.
Look, if this will allow below the noise floor instantaneous communications with zero noise and always perfect reception, it will be a lot more than a use of a known concept. It will require a total re-write of the laws of physics. And I'll be happy to be wrong.
If you are so certain, hold your breath until this optical antenna eliminates all other towers - they won't be needed any more because of the elimination of the signal to noise ratio problem, and allows instantaneous global communications on all frequencies because there is no longer any signal restraints because optics.
I've seen this all before with these miracle antennas, both the concept, and the luddite shaming of any one who dares to question the breakthrough. It's all great breakthroughs until it isn't.
You don't need a high-gain antenna, if instead you can amplify a weak signal and not introduce noise.
That certainly would be nice. The problem with weak signals is that they come with the noise attached. We do have innovative ways of receiving data that is actually at or below the noise floor. It is very slow, however. But this is a miraculous antenna indeed if it discards all of the noise, and amplies only the signal that you want.
An ordinary antenna senses EM waves by turning them into electricity directly. Well understood, and with well-known limitations like antenna sizes.
This thing has a medium whose transparency varies with the EM waves passing through it. Transparency is then measured by passing light through it. The signal is then available as variable light, instead of electricity.
You do understand that light is still electromagnetic energy don't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... This is along the same path as the visible light transmitters and receivers I made as a kid. The only possible advantage is if the signal picked up by the sensor is somehow noiseless.
Today's high end radios are miracles of quiet. The background noise in even the most quiet RF free location is well above the noise floor of the radio itself. If you disconnect the antenna from the radio and the noise doesn't go down, there is something wrong with the radio.
A very different form of detection, which is interesting by itself.
Oh yes - it is very interesting.
A key question is how the signal to noise ratio compares to an ordinary antenna. If it turns out to be better, it might be useful for receive-only situations.
If the antenna is adding noise other than the inherent vertical versus horizontal polarization noise (most local noise sources tend toward vertical polarization, and using vertical polarization is therefore the antenna picking up more ambient noise) there is something wrong with the antenna or connections.
Why does this have a score of 2? People must be self modifying. Any extreme reception problem now may have a better solution, such as: Submarine to surface communications, satellite to surface, radio space exploration, etc.. Not all radio communications are consumer. I can't believe that the military hasn't classified this and started creating better communications equipment, etc.
Because it isn't better. Just because people do experiments and get all excited about them does not ipso facto make the thing they are all excited about the ultimate. It is merely a receive antenna that is made by utilizing a pretty standard physics application. It isn't really anything new, and not having the ability to transmit, and with the basic physics not showing any practical way to get any gain out of the antennas, then it is relegated to interesting footnote status. A interesting solution that is looking for a problem. Especially at the frequencies involved. My Jello antenna is also an application of physics, but I'm not going to suggest that all other antennas be abandoned for it.
yeah, let's all judge the potential of new tech by its first clunky prototype.
Every few years, there is some "major breakthrough" in antennas. Almost all turn out to be major fails. I remember the Rutgers antenna that they claimed the prototype was so efficient that it melted when they pumped 100 watts through it! They actually said that, despite the fct that converting RF energy into heat was the exact opposite of efficiency. Then there was the Italian circularly polarized dish antenna that supposedly did it's polarization by virtue of putting a spiral shape on the dish. Then there are the EH antennas, which are a tuned circuit on top of a stick. Any RF getting out of those are from the coax going to the antenna.
Make no mistake, this is interesting. And being reminiscent of the already existing plasma antenna, will probably have the same limitations.
We can make antennas out of so many things. As a demonstration, I made an antenna out of Jello. It worked. I also made an antenna out of a toilet seat. It worked also. But an antenna that will require lasers to excite cesium atoms in a tube that only works as a receive antenna is more than just clunky.
Good point. However, receive and transmit antennae are normally separate anyway. You use a multi-element receive antenna, but a single element transmit antenna. If you can replace all of your multi-element receive antennae with a single, smaller one, that's still a big win in terms of tower real-estate.
Could you show me an implementation of what you consider a normal antenna array?
I'll bounce that off of a friend who owns a communication company. None of his sites are normal it would appear, so he apparently need some expert help.
Why oh why would you ever want to use an antenna of only one element while you had a nice gain antenna on the same frequency? If you are using the directivity the multi element provides, you will be hearing signals that the monopole might not have enough power to get back to, unless you increase the power. And it is much simpler and more efficient to get antenna gain than to pump up transmitter power.
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As St Augustine famously said, "You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing."
I thought that was Rudy Galindo?
Now, you can argue that my wages will start climbing as a result of this
No, you can't argue that. As Americans replace jobs designing smartphones with jobs sewing t-shirts, wages will go down, not up.
High tariffs mean higher prices and lower wages.
Every complex problem has a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong. Protectionism is one of those solutions.
As Trump has turned the Republican partyy into the party of tariffs and protectionism, next up is a Nixonian re-implementation of wage and price controls. The freeze on Federal employee wages at a time when unemployment is low is merely testing the waters for the next phase. As the Republican party shifts it position to whatever it is that Trump wishes, and obeys his every move, ordinary citizens do not understand that any money coming in from tariffs is not for them.
Am I wrong? Perhaps. But we shall see shortly. Trump is reinventing the Republican party as we speak, and they lack the intestinal fortitude to oppose him. I would not be terribly surprised if we nationalize industry soon, and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan will smile as they sign the law.
I feel quite sorry for you.
Yay?
Look, I'm not going to pick on you any more, because my mother taught me better. Rant if you like, it might release your demons for a while.
What I wonder, and what I didn't get from the essay is what the author hoped to accomplish.
Men who have sold their soul to thd devil will do the devil's bidding. This man was trying to take down Trump, who is doing God's will on earth.
There is an increasingly interesting rumor that Trump is actually the very son of God, come to fulfill the end time prophecies.
Not knowing who it is, all we know about him or her is that the editorial board of the New York Times likes what he or she has to say. For all we know, it's some random blogger, or someone entirely made up, like the Jayson Blair thing.
Silly boy, It's Hillary, writing from her Pizzagate Bunker.
Vetted out by the Bwana Devil himself - O'Blama, writing from his bunker in the Kenyan embassy at the secret film stage in Area 51 where Stanly Kubrick filmed the faked moon landings.
We'll find out soon enough, but the Smart money is on John McCain's buddy, Dan Coats.
I was just curious though. As you and the other Trumpites join along with your leader Trump, in the castigation and making enemies of nearly all Americans, do you have a final solution? The circle of those appointed by God to join Trump in MAGA is getting smaller and smaller, so while you have allies, you better start culling your enemies soon
The mean girl hissyfit that Emperor BoneSpurs has embarked upon simply verifies the article is spot on true.
Apparently the McCain death and funeral was the final straw for someone.
This is not a true anonymous story, the "Failing New York Times" knows exactly who it is, and it will come out soon enough. It correlates with the new book "Fear" by Robert Woodward, who even the cowardly Republicans agree is as straight a shooter as you'll find.
Meanwhile, I would offer the Emperor a protip. When completely innocent, the best tactic is to act innocent. Just sayin'.
Ah yes, the last resort of the desperate. If you can't argue on facts and can't win on emotion, try blaming the other person's sense of humor. I guess that means you have conceded that the imperial system is objectively more arbitrary, though in the last gracious way possible..
Unlike yours, my sense of humor actually works properly. Not only do I laugh when things are actually funny, I'm capable of telling when things aren't funny too.
I feel quite sorry for you. You not only have a real problem with humor, you appear to have some deep seated anger issues. Don''t find it funny? Argue with the moderators. The individual does not need to find the humor in any given piece. But they do need to understand that is what is intended. Even the post you are replying to is a metric joke. Chillaxe me hearty - life is a lot more fun when you see the humor in it.
tl;dr: if everyone thinks it is funny but you, the problem is you.
I've figured out your problem serviscope_minor. There was a conversion error in your humor glands and you were shortchanged by 10X
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a different system use your inability to strut like you are somehow superior.
You know I did hear that. From a man. Made of straw.
And yet, here we are, with everything that you post seemingly proving my point.
Brittle and maladaptive.
Imperial measurements? Sure. I'll raise my 568ml (or is it 473) glass to that.
In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
You're confusing "can" and "should". I can work in imperial and have done so many times. But it's full of the most inane conversion factors. So, it's basically more of a pain in the arse.
You are validating what I write as you try to refute it. You appear to find it an insufferable pain. Me? Just a different size. In an ideal world there would be 1 measurement system. But it would definitely not be based on one ten-millionth of the distance between the north pole and the equator on the meridian passing through Paris, a terribly inaccurate and hopelessly non repeatable measurement. A measurement that is so awkward that it is now measured by an absurd fraction of the arbitrary length of time based on oscillations of a cesium isotope atom, that fraction measuring the distance light travels in a vacuum over the fraction of a second.
But that isn't what we have, is it? We have multiple measurements. It's a safe assumption that you are from somewhere in the British Isles. Do all of your citizens walk into pubs and order 0.4731765 litres of ale? While researching the metric version of the acre, lookie what I found. Real Estate in Great Plumstead with Imperial measurements first, followed by metric in Paren. Yikes! https://www.onthemarket.com/de...
But I answered the question of acres, and it is even yummier than I thought https://www.onthemarket.com/de... It is hectares, followed by acres in paren.
Seriously, I absolutely despise howaboutism, so I'll tread gently here. For all of the whining and moaning and gnashing of teeth of the metric supremacists, it is nothing short of hilarious that y'all do what you do, while just a little research shows that you are guilty of what you rail against.
I'll drink a pint with ya any day friend, while you partake of 0.4731765 litres, but you might find out that I'm no nutjob as you claim, but more of an adaptive adroit who's major vice is enjoying the trolling of fussy people. Since you seem to find it necessary to lace your posts with insults, I might take a little umbrage at your rudeness, but I am rather adaptive and all. I can tolerate rude people.
My only beef with the metric system is that there appears to be some alternative universe that 10 MM sockets seem to transport to. Perhaps the universe that one of each pair of socks ends up in when washing them. Socks and sockets. A coincidence?
Clearly we should stop trying because we have already invented the best of everything that can be invented.
Clearly you have slippery sloped this to the max.
Pointing out issues is how science works. The science of this is fascinating. But your approach is the exact opposite of what is needed. Skepticism is the rule to progress.
This is how people who are denialisms of AGW and Creationists accidentally help undermine their own faith. Pointing out anything that remotely looks anomalous, and the scientists scurry to address that issue.
Anyone who simply says "Oh this is freaking awesome and the way of the future!" is worthless from a scientific or research perspective. Me pointing out problems because I would like to see something succeed is very worthwhile. Would I like this to succeed? Sure. I would love a teeny tiny antenna for the Medium frequencies. Do I think it will work? No. But my criticisms are valuable nonetheless. Your slippery slope analysis is less than worthless, it's asking for no input.
You should try the "shivery feeling of superiority" from demanding all non-metric weights declare Avoirdupois or Imperial.
I sure as hell wouldn't demand that. I wonder, who is? Everyone I've worked with has pretty seamlessly worked in both methods since the 1970's. Just say metric, and it's metric, standard, and it's standard
Perhaps y'all might think about being less intransigent. Perhaps any "shivery feeling of superiority" should be reserved for those who aren't constrained by one system of measurement.
But that would be a really silly thing to feel superior about, donchya think?
Rather arbitrary one might think
Huh? No one claimed ever that the overall scale of the metric system isn't arbitrary.
Surely you jest. I get to listen to how the metric system is so logical, so just right, so "we have ten fingers and ten toes, so it is perfect" when you folks who are simply not capable of using a differnt system use your inability to strut like you asre somehow superior. Stiffness and inability and whining about it are not superior. Not even close.
The point is there's only a single scale up to integer powers of 10. There's no sillyness like having to convert gallons to cubic feet.
Brittle and maladaptive. I use metric all the time. In fact, if you came to me requesting a part made in grains, I would do it, maybe crack a smile, but not a word of bitching would leave these lips, because I can work in any unit of measurement provided.
And BTUs! We've abandoned them so you should probably rename them to ATUs.
Once again, give me units, and I'll work in them.
Oh and tools don't get me started with tools. So er ok measure in thou except when you don't and it's multiples of 1/32 of an inch except when neither is good enough and you need a #7 bit because what the fuck?
Do not disrepect fractions - they are the very base of your unit of measure.
Anyhow, what a first world problem. I have calipers that will measure in multiple units, including fractions of inches, inches and metric. I suppose it is pretty difficult to press a button and instantly measure and convert. I have a metric mill and lathe that alomst without thinking, I can make either metric or standard parts. With less thinking than what has gone into these postings.
I went for metric. It's a nice simple 5.1mm which sits between 5.0mm and 5.2mm in the online store.
That's nice. I have metric, Standard, and a few Whitworth even. The last was used on some British motorcycles. Not very adaptable are ya?
But I'n not fitting your narrative, am I? I'm supposed to be the stupid 'Murrican, insisting on that stupid standard system because of stupid.
And yet, I work largely in Metric, and save the standard works for things that are already standard. I know the advantages and disadvantages of each, but at base, understand that the metric system is just as arbitrary as anything else. If it was somehow more accurate, that might be a different thing. But it's just one more standard. I just take it as it comes, and save the brain cells for more important things, not simple mindless things.
In the end, what you are doing is arguing that ignorance and intransigence is superior to knowledge, ability and flexibility. The fun is in tweaking the noses of those people who are too rigid, or perhaps not clever enough to do the simple conversions needed. Otherwise I wouldn't waste my time.
Or, you know, a news source that writes in the popular style could just use the units that its readers use every day.
But that wouldn't give us that little shivery feeling of superiority, would it now?
Which groups are getting that shivery feeling of superiority - the Euro-entities or the dumb 'Murricans.
Mention a non-metric measurement, and the metric crowd goes nuts about their arbitrary measurement system, while the dumb 'Murricans just shrug their shoulders and go on working with both systems.
Going crazy is more a symptom of insecurity. Meanwhile my metric bois, the meter is defined using a fraction, and approximately 9 billion oscillations of a cesium atom.
This is no more "dumbing down" reporting than adjusting reported times for the current timezone. Insisting on times in UTC has some merit, but isn't necessary, and is just as arbitrary as demanding SI units.
This!
As l like to point out to our friends who pop a gasket every time someone dares to mention a non-metric unit of measure, The official metre id defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second
A freaking fraction! And tied to the freaking second!
The second, by the way, is defined as The duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. Most people shorten it to nine billion oscillations, but our Metric friends pride themselves on their accuracy and the universal logic of their system
Rather arbitrary one might think, and a rather odd thing that it's adherents find it necessary to thump their chests like Gorillas in heat.
When in fact, anyone with a bit of intelligence can seamlessly move between the two systems. I have a metric lathe and mill in my home shop, but I regularly make standard parts on it. And I can make metric parts on a standard device.
So Chill, my homies, and we can get back to much more important issues, like who would win in a fight between Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.
It is only a problem when it isn't the US doing it, right?
It is always wrong, dear little coward. We're just doing something about it.
As a Russian myself I see this as extremely hypocritical for Americans to be dismayed at this "election interference" considering that US never shied to meddle in politics of other countries, including Russia itself.
Whataboutism, the concept of trying to make your adversary out as a hypocrite, is 100 percent beside the point. One wrong does not make another wrong right. If US interference in other countries elections is found, document and report it.
All of which is to say Russia got caught. Rather than say America does it so it is a good thing when we do it, perhaps exposing the wrong is better than expressing desire for allowing it.
In fact I don't even believe that it was Russian government agents who are responsible for events on those American elections, due to the fact that Russian gov has nothing to accomplish by this, they're more in bed with Clintons than with Trumps.
Whataboutism number 2. Your mortal enemy, the Clintons are in no political power now. And after all, you just justified the Clintons by bringing them into the conversation. Trump is justified because Clintons justifies the Clintons. Whataboutism is a logical fallacy custom made for the soundbite era.
And for sure Russian intelligence agencies would do something more effective than just making some flamewars using bot spewing nonsense that nobody with brains would take seriously.
Depends on how smart the people are.
Now - there was a bit of a perfect storm going on here that allowed your guy to get elected.
Biggie - complacent voters. My personal blame book goes mostly to the 50 percent turnout rate.
Pretty Biggie - Comey's announcement regarding re-opening the Clinton investigation while simultaneously not announcing the ongoing investigation of Trump.
Electoral College - Yeah, we get it trolls, it's the law, but so far it has been helping one group, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be from that group if they lost. But given this isn't the first time that the minority candidate has won, we should look into the exact why that is a recurrent theme.
Highly targeted social media postings. The Cambridge Analytica and their weaponization of stupid people's personal data for localized and personalized notifications
Russian trolls and bots - really a minor player, and completely ineffective ploy at this time. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be acknowledged
More to Russian work in the US are matters like the NRA dark money fund, which has given as much as 70 million dollars to elect Trump. Much of the dark money has come from one Alexander Torshin. Not legal.
More to Russian work is the guilty plea of Lobbyist Sam Patten, a Paul Manafort associate who laundered Russian money to donate to Trump's inauguration.
Mike Flynn, who illegally took money from RT, and had a number of other improper contacts with others, including a lot of communications with one Sergey Kislyak. Flynn is a particularly interesting person, having pled guilty to a simple misdemeanor in return for cooperation in the Mueller investigation. I for one can hardly wait to hear what he has to say.
There are more but I'm tired of typing.
In the end, Facebook trolls and howaboutism don't mean a whole lot - there is plenty of evidence that Russia had a whole lot to do with the 2016 election, was involved in illegal activities, and that the dominos are falling as we write.
Russian interference = handful of retweets.
Illustrate your claim.
Oh yes russian interference is worst issue in the world because we support this vaguely anti-trump narrative... but let's not talk about how we shit on our user's privacy for profit because we are modest!
So anyhow - you support Russian interference in US elections? I keep hearing people whine about how they don't want to hear about it any more.
That is either acceptance or approval. Which are you tovarish?
Trump is very worried that the American people might affect the next election.
the next fallout will perhaps include even more atomic radio
If we do ever decide it's time to play with our nucs, radio communications will be pretty dicey for quite a while. Those EMP pulses are going to shut down a lot of communications. Might be some Ionosphere disruptions as well.
A lot of Emergency communicators store their equipment in Faraday cages for just that reason. I have some radios stored in ammo boxes to protect against EMP. A direct strike obviously won't matter as we turning into overcooked toast or die of radiation poisoning.
Lasers aren't that clunky, they are nice & small these days. Every blu-ray player has 3 or so - small compared to the clunky rotating medium.
Radio to optic signal instead of electric is interesting. Even more interesting if it picks up weaker signals than the ordinary approach.
Even more interesting is it it will brew me a cup of coffee in the morning.
Look, if this will allow below the noise floor instantaneous communications with zero noise and always perfect reception, it will be a lot more than a use of a known concept. It will require a total re-write of the laws of physics. And I'll be happy to be wrong.
If you are so certain, hold your breath until this optical antenna eliminates all other towers - they won't be needed any more because of the elimination of the signal to noise ratio problem, and allows instantaneous global communications on all frequencies because there is no longer any signal restraints because optics.
I've seen this all before with these miracle antennas, both the concept, and the luddite shaming of any one who dares to question the breakthrough. It's all great breakthroughs until it isn't.
You don't need a high-gain antenna, if instead you can amplify a weak signal and not introduce noise.
That certainly would be nice. The problem with weak signals is that they come with the noise attached. We do have innovative ways of receiving data that is actually at or below the noise floor. It is very slow, however. But this is a miraculous antenna indeed if it discards all of the noise, and amplies only the signal that you want.
An ordinary antenna senses EM waves by turning them into electricity directly. Well understood, and with well-known limitations like antenna sizes.
This thing has a medium whose transparency varies with the EM waves passing through it. Transparency is then measured by passing light through it. The signal is then available as variable light, instead of electricity.
You do understand that light is still electromagnetic energy don't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... This is along the same path as the visible light transmitters and receivers I made as a kid. The only possible advantage is if the signal picked up by the sensor is somehow noiseless.
Today's high end radios are miracles of quiet. The background noise in even the most quiet RF free location is well above the noise floor of the radio itself. If you disconnect the antenna from the radio and the noise doesn't go down, there is something wrong with the radio.
A very different form of detection, which is interesting by itself.
Oh yes - it is very interesting.
A key question is how the signal to noise ratio compares to an ordinary antenna. If it turns out to be better, it might be useful for receive-only situations.
If the antenna is adding noise other than the inherent vertical versus horizontal polarization noise (most local noise sources tend toward vertical polarization, and using vertical polarization is therefore the antenna picking up more ambient noise) there is something wrong with the antenna or connections.
Why does this have a score of 2? People must be self modifying. Any extreme reception problem now may have a better solution, such as: Submarine to surface communications, satellite to surface, radio space exploration, etc.. Not all radio communications are consumer. I can't believe that the military hasn't classified this and started creating better communications equipment, etc.
Because it isn't better. Just because people do experiments and get all excited about them does not ipso facto make the thing they are all excited about the ultimate. It is merely a receive antenna that is made by utilizing a pretty standard physics application. It isn't really anything new, and not having the ability to transmit, and with the basic physics not showing any practical way to get any gain out of the antennas, then it is relegated to interesting footnote status. A interesting solution that is looking for a problem. Especially at the frequencies involved. My Jello antenna is also an application of physics, but I'm not going to suggest that all other antennas be abandoned for it.
And my toilet seat antenna is pretty shitty.
yeah, let's all judge the potential of new tech by its first clunky prototype.
Every few years, there is some "major breakthrough" in antennas. Almost all turn out to be major fails. I remember the Rutgers antenna that they claimed the prototype was so efficient that it melted when they pumped 100 watts through it! They actually said that, despite the fct that converting RF energy into heat was the exact opposite of efficiency. Then there was the Italian circularly polarized dish antenna that supposedly did it's polarization by virtue of putting a spiral shape on the dish. Then there are the EH antennas, which are a tuned circuit on top of a stick. Any RF getting out of those are from the coax going to the antenna.
Make no mistake, this is interesting. And being reminiscent of the already existing plasma antenna, will probably have the same limitations.
We can make antennas out of so many things. As a demonstration, I made an antenna out of Jello. It worked. I also made an antenna out of a toilet seat. It worked also. But an antenna that will require lasers to excite cesium atoms in a tube that only works as a receive antenna is more than just clunky.
Good point. However, receive and transmit antennae are normally separate anyway. You use a multi-element receive antenna, but a single element transmit antenna. If you can replace all of your multi-element receive antennae with a single, smaller one, that's still a big win in terms of tower real-estate.
Could you show me an implementation of what you consider a normal antenna array?
I'll bounce that off of a friend who owns a communication company. None of his sites are normal it would appear, so he apparently need some expert help.
Why oh why would you ever want to use an antenna of only one element while you had a nice gain antenna on the same frequency? If you are using the directivity the multi element provides, you will be hearing signals that the monopole might not have enough power to get back to, unless you increase the power. And it is much simpler and more efficient to get antenna gain than to pump up transmitter power.