Now try that again while looking through a pinhole. Your ears have only one dimension of input. The dimensionality of sound comes from the differences between what each ear hears. More than one speaker per ear won't help, only math to change what each ear hears will help.
They may not have been required to carry the channels before then, but they sure weren't prevented from carrying them. The law was passed when cable companies got all uppity and decided that they didn't need to carry one or more local channels, and the local stations weren't happy about that.
Originally the whole point was a better antenna than you could have, or at least be bothered to keep working. I don't know where you got the idea that cable TV had anything to do with eliminating commercials. (Pay channels getting commercials is another matter, but that had nothing to do with getting cable TV started in the first place.)
I unsubscribed in the early '00s when they started going all-out ZOMG GLOBUL WARMAN and other forms of politicized science. Then a few years later I saw an interview on PBS with the head editor who basically admitted as much that it was intentional and all his idea to go that way. So good riddance, especially if it's only gotten worse in other ways since then.
For me, the deal-breaker is that it's in the People's Republic of California. It's a nice place, but I want no part of their state government. If they were to move to Austin, I'd be all over that.
If only there was some way you could gohorizontally without investing in crazy building-wide single-point-of-failure infrastructure like a mile-long moving walkway.
It's also not like this is the world's first long building. The USAA building in San Antonio is one of the longest buildings in the world. I hear that new employees get a guide assigned to them for their first week so that they don't get lost in the twisty maze of hallways that all look alike.
As I understand it (from when I first saw stuff about this new building like two years or so ago), Apple has been perpetually bursting at the seams when it comes to office space and really needs it. Many companies in the past have put up some grand building and that marked the start of their downfall, but those companies didn't need the office space when they did it.
And Apple is sitting on a boatload of cash, so it's not like they can't afford it.
They could put Steve's coffin/ashes at the middle of it to make it rotate. After all, the world revolves around him! Who needs perpetual motion when you can use RDF power!
Will it give perfect reception of multipath signals too? ATSC is apparently harder to receive close to the transmitters because multipath can fuck with the digital signal pretty badly. I'm about 15-20 miles from "the farm" and have to turn my big antenna in the right direction or I get bad reception. Every few months I have to go up and rotate it back after the wind blows it around.
Broadcast TV in the US has always been funded by advertising (except for PBS, which has regular pledge drives for donations), probably as an extension of radio already having been funded by advertising. The other countries that have licence fees do so because they're smaller countries and decided they needed it to get television started there.
Cable became dominant in the US after people got tired of trying to get a good signal, either in rural areas where the transmitters were distant, or in cities, where buildings caused multipath ghosting and other bad reception. Then people just got too damn lazy (or lived in areas with HOAs that forbade them) to put up antennas.
During the '90s and '00s, live sports moved off of broadcast TV and onto cable. First it was just the "trash sports" and obscure games with teams nobody cared about, then finally Monday Night Football moved to cable. (But there's still enough sports on broadcast TV to fuck up Saturday and Sunday night television schedules when games run long, which is really annoying when Fox's Sunday night animation block is showing new episodes.)
Now live sports is really the only real reason to get cable, and there are a lot of sports fans in the US. But some people pay lots of money to get the glass teat anyhow even when they don't care about sports.
That's probably not an accident since it should have made bipartisan support easy to achieve.
Obamacare didn't need or get "bipartisan" support. The Democrats had an absolute majority in both houses and it passed without a single Republican vote. It's as partisan as is possible to be.
Two words: Term limits. No way should someone be a senator for multiple decades, if only to keep them from "going native" to the DC culture. Of course the very people who need the term limits are the ones who would have to vote it in, so it's not likely to happen.
Actually it's more funny that he only got there because the press had such a hard-on crush for him. ("Sort of a god", "had to step down" to the White House, etc.) Now that he's not living up to their fan-fiction dreams of him, they're not happy.
It's like investing in wheat, and finding out what you really got was rescuegrass. Hey, just look at those pictures, they look kind of the same, right?
Most of them will just shove it into the UV lamp box anyhow. I've even seen them do it with five dollar bills. It lets them catch the otherwise obvious photocopier/inkjet copies without the person actually having to use their brain. (which is the only way it's worth counterfeiting fives anyhow)
Too bad that they decided make the dollar coins out of a yellowish metal that looks like absolute shit with only a little bit of circulation. The whole thing turns to a brassy brown matte surface where you can barely see any detail. I mean the old Eisenhower dollar was clearly way too big to be usable (even the Kennedy half dollar is too big), and the new dollar coin is a decent size, but they really do look like shit when they actually get used.
I think it would depend on how new the place is. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to rewire a hotel pulling cat-5 for Ethernet to every room. I remember hearing that some hotels (before WiFi became common) would actually wire up each room with a DSL modem because it could use the existing copper phone line.
For what it's worth, gasoline in the US is sold with about 50 cents a gallon in taxes, from 25 cents a gallon in Alaska to 75 cents a gallon in California. Another factor in the price is "anti pollution" fuel additives, especially for summer blends. To make things worse, many states mandate different blends, making gasoline a less fungible product. If a refinery has a problem making a specific blend, prices in that area will go up.
Any aspects of Obamacare created in response to "criticisms" were not in response to Republicans. It passed both houses with ZERO Republican votes in favor of it. All they cared about was getting enough Democrats on board to ramrod it through with an absolute majority. (And if you don't believe me, just try to find the name of a single Republican Congressman or Senator who voted for it.)
Slashdot Mirror
Now try that again while looking through a pinhole. Your ears have only one dimension of input. The dimensionality of sound comes from the differences between what each ear hears. More than one speaker per ear won't help, only math to change what each ear hears will help.
Stay strong, zero-information voters. Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga will do your bothering for you.
[citation needed]
Are you under the age of 40?
They may not have been required to carry the channels before then, but they sure weren't prevented from carrying them. The law was passed when cable companies got all uppity and decided that they didn't need to carry one or more local channels, and the local stations weren't happy about that.
Originally the whole point was a better antenna than you could have, or at least be bothered to keep working. I don't know where you got the idea that cable TV had anything to do with eliminating commercials. (Pay channels getting commercials is another matter, but that had nothing to do with getting cable TV started in the first place.)
I unsubscribed in the early '00s when they started going all-out ZOMG GLOBUL WARMAN and other forms of politicized science. Then a few years later I saw an interview on PBS with the head editor who basically admitted as much that it was intentional and all his idea to go that way. So good riddance, especially if it's only gotten worse in other ways since then.
You can talk about that idealism all you want, but the fact is that most people don't know a god damn thing about who they are actually voting for.
For instance, Obama supporters don't even know what party he is with. (And a whole bunch of other fun things, too.)
I would willingly relocate to do so
For me, the deal-breaker is that it's in the People's Republic of California. It's a nice place, but I want no part of their state government. If they were to move to Austin, I'd be all over that.
If only there was some way you could go horizontally without investing in crazy building-wide single-point-of-failure infrastructure like a mile-long moving walkway.
It's also not like this is the world's first long building. The USAA building in San Antonio is one of the longest buildings in the world. I hear that new employees get a guide assigned to them for their first week so that they don't get lost in the twisty maze of hallways that all look alike.
As I understand it (from when I first saw stuff about this new building like two years or so ago), Apple has been perpetually bursting at the seams when it comes to office space and really needs it. Many companies in the past have put up some grand building and that marked the start of their downfall, but those companies didn't need the office space when they did it.
And Apple is sitting on a boatload of cash, so it's not like they can't afford it.
They could put Steve's coffin/ashes at the middle of it to make it rotate. After all, the world revolves around him! Who needs perpetual motion when you can use RDF power!
Will it give perfect reception of multipath signals too? ATSC is apparently harder to receive close to the transmitters because multipath can fuck with the digital signal pretty badly. I'm about 15-20 miles from "the farm" and have to turn my big antenna in the right direction or I get bad reception. Every few months I have to go up and rotate it back after the wind blows it around.
Broadcast TV in the US has always been funded by advertising (except for PBS, which has regular pledge drives for donations), probably as an extension of radio already having been funded by advertising. The other countries that have licence fees do so because they're smaller countries and decided they needed it to get television started there.
Cable became dominant in the US after people got tired of trying to get a good signal, either in rural areas where the transmitters were distant, or in cities, where buildings caused multipath ghosting and other bad reception. Then people just got too damn lazy (or lived in areas with HOAs that forbade them) to put up antennas.
During the '90s and '00s, live sports moved off of broadcast TV and onto cable. First it was just the "trash sports" and obscure games with teams nobody cared about, then finally Monday Night Football moved to cable. (But there's still enough sports on broadcast TV to fuck up Saturday and Sunday night television schedules when games run long, which is really annoying when Fox's Sunday night animation block is showing new episodes.)
Now live sports is really the only real reason to get cable, and there are a lot of sports fans in the US. But some people pay lots of money to get the glass teat anyhow even when they don't care about sports.
That's probably not an accident since it should have made bipartisan support easy to achieve.
Obamacare didn't need or get "bipartisan" support. The Democrats had an absolute majority in both houses and it passed without a single Republican vote. It's as partisan as is possible to be.
Two words: Term limits. No way should someone be a senator for multiple decades, if only to keep them from "going native" to the DC culture. Of course the very people who need the term limits are the ones who would have to vote it in, so it's not likely to happen.
Actually it's more funny that he only got there because the press had such a hard-on crush for him. ("Sort of a god", "had to step down" to the White House, etc.) Now that he's not living up to their fan-fiction dreams of him, they're not happy.
But at least The Doctor saved a few quid on his TARDIS insurance.
This site is so crappy that Drudge actually linked to its Javascript:
https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/global/en_US/registration.js
That's some high-quality crap right there.
It's like investing in wheat, and finding out what you really got was rescuegrass. Hey, just look at those pictures, they look kind of the same, right?
Most of them will just shove it into the UV lamp box anyhow. I've even seen them do it with five dollar bills. It lets them catch the otherwise obvious photocopier/inkjet copies without the person actually having to use their brain. (which is the only way it's worth counterfeiting fives anyhow)
Too bad that they decided make the dollar coins out of a yellowish metal that looks like absolute shit with only a little bit of circulation. The whole thing turns to a brassy brown matte surface where you can barely see any detail. I mean the old Eisenhower dollar was clearly way too big to be usable (even the Kennedy half dollar is too big), and the new dollar coin is a decent size, but they really do look like shit when they actually get used.
I think it would depend on how new the place is. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to rewire a hotel pulling cat-5 for Ethernet to every room. I remember hearing that some hotels (before WiFi became common) would actually wire up each room with a DSL modem because it could use the existing copper phone line.
When I was a kid they used to put Kix coupons in Trix. I was a teen before I ever saw a box of Kix on a supermarket shelf.
And the only thing I think has any power to end it is for them to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
FTFY with the help of Douglas Adams.
What are you talking about? GTA sends the cops after you after you do shit. Or at least it tries to. When it notices it.
For what it's worth, gasoline in the US is sold with about 50 cents a gallon in taxes, from 25 cents a gallon in Alaska to 75 cents a gallon in California. Another factor in the price is "anti pollution" fuel additives, especially for summer blends. To make things worse, many states mandate different blends, making gasoline a less fungible product. If a refinery has a problem making a specific blend, prices in that area will go up.
Any aspects of Obamacare created in response to "criticisms" were not in response to Republicans. It passed both houses with ZERO Republican votes in favor of it. All they cared about was getting enough Democrats on board to ramrod it through with an absolute majority. (And if you don't believe me, just try to find the name of a single Republican Congressman or Senator who voted for it.)