It also helps you notice things like scratches earlier so you can take care of them, otherwise you might lose the car earlier than you should to rust. That's simply wasteful.
Depends on where you live. In many parts of the world cars don't rust quickly enough to matter even if the paint gets scraped.
And in other parts of the world (like much of the US north) they pour so much salt on the roads in the winter that it isn't going to make any damn difference, unless you're touching up those scratches on the underside and hard-to-get-at places, where the salt works its magic. The body will probably last 15 years and then rust out, no matter how much you touch up and wax the outside surfaces, because that's not where the killer rust occurs.
And what phone were you using that didn't have speaker phone capabilities? Nearly all land line phones do that, as well as all mobile phones.
Huh? None of mine do, and damn few of the others that I am familiar with, especially outside of businesses. Mobile phones, yeah, but that assumes you can do a Skype call with a computer link from a mobile phone. Can everybody interface their desktop/laptop with their smartphone? (I wouldn't know, I've got a dumbphone.)
I am not denying that we are having more severe weather, higher watermarks on the coast, etc. I am just saying that the evidence I've seen has not really shown to me that it is only man's fault.
Why does it have to be only man's fault? There are so few things in the world that have only a single cause. Isn't the fact that man is apparently contributing to it, enough?
It's true the Earth has experienced many things in the past, including warm periods, ice ages, and mass extinctions. In fact, for most of the Earth's lifetime, it has gotten along fine without humans. Now, I don't expect global warming will make humans extinct, as a group we're pretty adaptable (if you don't care what happens to any particular individuals). But if it's enough, it could, there have been widespread extinction events before. Homo sap has been here for what, 100K years +- 50% (on the long side for critters with the right anatomy, on the short side for behavior), there's no guarantee we will be here for another 100K, or even 10K. Nature doesn't care, any more than it did about dodos or passenger pigeons, we can be replaced.
But even if global warming doesn't mean extinction, flooding, heat, changing weather patterns, changing disease patterns, changing rainfall can mean the deaths of many individuals. We're much more likely to make things worse by not changing our behavior, than we are by changing it to reduce our contribution to warming.
Most entrepreneurs I know have no problem with paying local or state taxes, taxes where we see where the money is spent and where we have the option of moving away when government is screwing up.
And that's different from federal taxes, how? You've always got the option of moving to, oh, say, Belize. You don't have to put up with the federal government pissing away money on Interstates and FEMA and Social Security and military adventures in Iraq (if you provide a good pension plan for all your workers, and don't steal the money like a lot of big companies did, they won't need that Social Security).
You watch too much TV. Its hard to have dialog in the show unless there are partners.
Seriously, the only places you see two officer cars are in areas where crime is so rampant that cops are afraid to go alone.car.
Around here, it's because cops prefer to cruise with a buddy (wouldn't you?), and have a union that's strong enough to call the shots. And, of course, because we have a chief and city council who are too spineless to press the issue (you just know the union's PR response would be "they're needlessly endangering our brave boys in blue").
The FBI collected information for a period from January 1960 to September 1962 and found that in American cities deploying both types of vehicles, 65% of the officers killed while on duty killed were in two-officer vehicles while only 35% were in one-officer vehicles. This statistic seems to indicate that the presence of a second officer does not guarantee personal safety.
No. And they are less likely to kill innocent bystanders or other people who aren't actually a serious threat, too. Maybe when they're alone, they're less likely to be asshats, and not be playing to their buddies. Maybe it's "mob psychology" that affects the cops. (And of course, maybe it's that if they're alone, they won't go anywhere that might be dangerous until backup arrives.)
And it's not as if cop is that dangerous a job. Being a garbage man, farmer, or truck driver is far more dangerous (top 10 US dangerous occupations: fisherman, logger, pilot, garbage collector, roofer, structural iron worker, farmer, truck driver, powerline worker, taxi driver). But we don't have any TV series about garbage collectors.
I think its odd they skipped the whole audio era. You can buy a little flash drive recorder that'll record for hours right now, for practically nothing. Its hard to find a smart phone that doesn't come with an audio recorder app. Yet I never heard of the cops doing audio recording in the past.
I used to get catalogs from the vendors that sell to public-safety types. Gadgets to break auto glass with, neat gear for your auto office, decals for the side of your car, lights for the roof, leather gloves (with or without lead loading), and yes, concealed audio recorders to wear. Not the secret "wearing a wire" stuff, I think they transmitted back to a recorder in the car (this was 20 years ago, so no video eyeglasses).
The union is going to fight for the most restrictive conditions possible in order to limit reviews of the footage. Because, god forbid, the bosses troll through the footage looking for misconduct instead of only checking it when allegations are made.
Don't kid yourself, the bosses (chief, mayor, city council) don't want to see any misconduct either, because it would reflect poorly on them. they don't want successful lawsuits against the police, those can be expensive. They don't want to look anti-cop, because the general public thinks cops are heroes and anything they do to somebody, the perp probably had it coming anyhow.
I get email offers on a daily basis from "Canadian Pharmacy" offering to sell me generic Viagra - or Viagra with other ED medications in a "super pack" - all the time. You don't mean to say that some of the email offers I get aren't genuine, do you?
Well, probably not. But seriously, if you verify a pharmacy through someplace like this they'll be for real.
No, that's still a violation of the law in the US. I'm pretty sure that the FDA would have something to say about importing medications from abroad without proper approval. And customs can seize any such shipments.
The FDA may have something to say about it, but AFAIK the US government doesn't choose to make it an issue, probably because they'd then have to defend the fact that the pharma industry gouges US customers with prices that are twice what they charge for export. I'm sure most of the Canadian mail-order pharmacies will sell it to you. I bought lovastatin (generic Lipitor) that way for years (when your drugs are 100% out of pocket, it pays to shop around). They also sold grey-market Lipitor for about 2/3 of what it costs in the US (manufactured by Pfizer in Australia, shipped from pharmacies in various countries). The generic was about 1/3 the US Lipitor price and was manufactured in India. And while I'm a little leery of Indian drugs (they're perfectly capable of making quality drugs, but there are a lot of counterfeits too), this stuff worked fine. And in 10 or so years I never had a shipment seized or held up.
I did what seemed to be the only thing left - started my own company!
There's people that will work for, but there's also people it won't work for. For one thing, figure that if you're starting up, you're going to have to spend half your time in marketing (if you thought sales and schmoozing were nifty, you probably wouldn't be a programmer, but at least you'll learn why those inane ego-boosting seminars are so popular with salesmen). It also tends to be boom-and-bust, periods when you don't have any work interspersed with periods where there's too much work. Plus, you get to do the accounting, though for a one-person business that shouldn't be too onerous.
Why not 100% vote by mail (in effect, everyone an absentee voter)?
It works here, and I have yet to hear a cogent argument against it.
And where you are, it's 100% impossible for anyone else to watch while you fill out the ballot, and 100% impossible for anyone else to fill it out for you. And your mail is 100% delivered, 100% on time. I bet the trains run on time there, too.
What some people outside of the US are wondering about the Presidential election is: Are you friggn serious?... Everyone has their share of crazies and we share a laugh and a head-shake when they rant off, but we mostly ignore them or move them to the side. Not so in the US.
We'd expect something like this from a banana republic or Italy, but the US?
It saddens me to say this, but yes, the US too. Our citizens aren't any smarter or or our candidates any more scrupulous than other counties (and we can all think of advanced countries that in the last century made very very bad choices about leaders). For us as well, it's hard to tell what's simply bullshit to get elected, what's negotiable, and what's heartfelt opinion. Yes, it's scary.
A security guard is not a lawyer and must rely on what he is told to do by management.
I would say, a security guard is, or should be, held legally responsible for his own actions. If management tells him to do something illegal, there is no reason that should be any different than if his brother-in-law tells him to do something illegal.
This is my policy since PATRIOT act. Even more so since NDAA...
Yep, both of which Obama signed. So much for hope and change.
And only an idiot would think Romney would do anything differently.
And people here keep telling me there's some kind of difference between the two.
There are differences between the two. Just not so much in that area. The differences are mostly in the areas of things like woman's rights, lowering taxes on the rich at the expenses of the poor and middle classes, cutting services for the poor, and (maybe, depending on what Romney's position is as of noon today) health care.
But I think that no president will willingly give up powers such as the "Patriot" act. Because, after all, they will use it for good, not evil (like the other guy).
Some would argue that "Islamic Fundamentalists" is just a fancy term for normal, mainstream Muslims who aren't of the ultraliberal (from the POV of Middle Eastern folks) branch of Islam
Right, because white supremacists are plowing planes into buildings, bombing market squares filled with their own people, stoning and beheading others with government backing and attacking embassies at the drop of a hat.
Austin airplane attack on IRS. Kansas City bombing. Abortion doctor assassinations. Anthrax. Olympics bomb. Ted Kaczynski. Chinese embassy in Iraq. Though no stonings or beheadings with government backing that I'm aware of. So if those are logical ANDs (requires that all be simultaneously true) I guess it might be accurate.
The guard does not make the policy; management does. If the guard does not enforce the management policy they will be fired for cause. The guards were probably just doing as they were told and any blame should be put on the policy makers. Would you risk your job or follow policy? This is not an "I was just following orders" as used in the Munich trials; no one was killed.
Does the policy need to be changed? Probably but thet is not the guard's call.
The guard does not make the policy; management does. If the guard does not enforce the management policy they will be fired for cause. The guards were probably just doing as they were told and any blame should be put on the policy makers. Would you risk your job or follow policy? This is not an "I was just following orders" as used in the Munich trials; no one was killed.
Does the policy need to be changed? Probably but thet is not the guard's call.
Fine. So (if the guard laid a hand on the kid, as the picture would suggest) the guard's defense can be "management told me to assault him and take away his camera". Then you call the manager to the stand and ask them if they gave that order. And the manager will say "of course I told them to do it, if anyone is guilty of assault it is me." Or perhaps, bosses being what they are, they'll say "oh, no, no, we never told the guard to do that" and leave the guard to hang out and dry. Which would be an object lesson to other security guards, and perhaps workers in general.
Medicare. This is what happens when other people pay the bills. And people want more of this? It is like any other government service. You charge as much as possible for the service as long as you stay within the government guidelines for price, you get to keep upping the price. If you actually let the market decide and not allowed a continuous government bailout of our healthcare system, read, medicare, then prices would get to a sane level. The greater good served by more people having affordable care would offset the number of those who could not afford it. I don't see why people don't understand how contracts and government programs work. We have a few examples, but hey, bread and circus, right?
WTF does Medicare have to do with hearing aids? I'll tell you what Medicare has to do with hearing aids:
Medicare doesn't cover hearing aids or exams for fitting hearing aids.
That's a quote from "Medicare & You 2013: the official U.S. government Medicare handbook".
Me, I don't see why some people don't understand how business works when it can get away with it. But that's just me.
Often I'm hired to do work for US firms, and am paid less than half of what I would be in the US. But since this is Latin America, these wages let me live comfortably in the middle class.
And it's the wet dream of most employers, to pay their employees less than half of what they do now. Since this is North America, you will not live comfortably on that. But why should they care, as long as their stock price rises and they get big bonuses?
But isn't the US a meritocracy?
Mitt Romney had to sell some stocks to make ends meet while he was in college. Since you went to school in the US, I expect you're familiar with having to do that. No, it's not a meritocracy, though we like to pretend it is.
What about the American dream?
The reason it's called a "dream" is to distinguish it from reality.
Does anyone know exactly what is fried in the monitors and in the PC's? I would have thought that the metal cases found on most PC's would have provided some amount of protection.
I expect it does. If the cases didn't have any of the drive bay knockouts removed, or any wires going in and out (and attached things that are unshielded, like keyboards and monitors), I'd think the cases would provide pretty good protection.
Private companies have no motive to fund massive R&D efforts that yield sub-fractional returns after long periods of effort. It takes public sector projects to get that done.
So... you're saying that (at least in the present US form) "private" capitalist companies do not produce progress without massive government subsidies. Maybe we need to change the rules.
I dunno what frequency they are using exactly, but microwave radiation doesn't penetrate very deep into human skin, so it might not do any damage at all. And it's focused, so they can avoid planes and hospitals.
Oh, it's like "smart bombs". They're the reason that the US hasn't hit any civilians or unintended targets since the 1980s or so.
The light bulbs one is actually somewhat true. A cartel fixed how long they would last. There was a documentary by Horizon on it.
Well, there was such a cartel in the early part of the last century, but it's long since gone.
You know the saying "you can have it good, fast, cheap, pick any two"? With conventional incandescent light bulbs, it's "you can have it bright, low-power, long-lasting, pick any two". The three traits are interdependent. IIRC, most light bulbs are optimized to last 1000-2000 hr, consume a specified wattage, and be as bright as possible given the first two selections. "Long-life" bulbs run at a lower temperature, last longer, and put out less light. OTOH, photoflood bulbs are optimized to put out a humongous amount of light, at the cost of having a rated lifetime as short as 3 hr.
I know gas mileage is important to some people out there on a budget.....but man, you'll get run over on most roadways here if you try putting around in a 37HP car? Sounds more like a go-cart than a car....
I dunno. My first car was a SAAB 93. That had a 33HP (3 cylinder 2-stroke) engine. It got around ok. It did take a while to get up to speed (and if you saw a big hill coming you'd floor it to have a running start, to avoid having to creep up in 2nd gear) but that was ok. Of course, in those days the roads weren't full of asshats in Hummers.
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Depends on where you live. In many parts of the world cars don't rust quickly enough to matter even if the paint gets scraped.
And in other parts of the world (like much of the US north) they pour so much salt on the roads in the winter that it isn't going to make any damn difference, unless you're touching up those scratches on the underside and hard-to-get-at places, where the salt works its magic. The body will probably last 15 years and then rust out, no matter how much you touch up and wax the outside surfaces, because that's not where the killer rust occurs.
And what phone were you using that didn't have speaker phone capabilities? Nearly all land line phones do that, as well as all mobile phones.
Huh? None of mine do, and damn few of the others that I am familiar with, especially outside of businesses. Mobile phones, yeah, but that assumes you can do a Skype call with a computer link from a mobile phone. Can everybody interface their desktop/laptop with their smartphone? (I wouldn't know, I've got a dumbphone.)
The rest of your comments, however, are right on.
I am not denying that we are having more severe weather, higher watermarks on the coast, etc. I am just saying that the evidence I've seen has not really shown to me that it is only man's fault.
Why does it have to be only man's fault? There are so few things in the world that have only a single cause. Isn't the fact that man is apparently contributing to it, enough?
It's true the Earth has experienced many things in the past, including warm periods, ice ages, and mass extinctions. In fact, for most of the Earth's lifetime, it has gotten along fine without humans. Now, I don't expect global warming will make humans extinct, as a group we're pretty adaptable (if you don't care what happens to any particular individuals). But if it's enough, it could, there have been widespread extinction events before. Homo sap has been here for what, 100K years +- 50% (on the long side for critters with the right anatomy, on the short side for behavior), there's no guarantee we will be here for another 100K, or even 10K. Nature doesn't care, any more than it did about dodos or passenger pigeons, we can be replaced.
But even if global warming doesn't mean extinction, flooding, heat, changing weather patterns, changing disease patterns, changing rainfall can mean the deaths of many individuals. We're much more likely to make things worse by not changing our behavior, than we are by changing it to reduce our contribution to warming.
Most entrepreneurs I know have no problem with paying local or state taxes, taxes where we see where the money is spent and where we have the option of moving away when government is screwing up.
And that's different from federal taxes, how? You've always got the option of moving to, oh, say, Belize. You don't have to put up with the federal government pissing away money on Interstates and FEMA and Social Security and military adventures in Iraq (if you provide a good pension plan for all your workers, and don't steal the money like a lot of big companies did, they won't need that Social Security).
You watch too much TV. Its hard to have dialog in the show unless there are partners.
Seriously, the only places you see two officer cars are in areas where crime is so rampant that cops are afraid to go alone.car.
Around here, it's because cops prefer to cruise with a buddy (wouldn't you?), and have a union that's strong enough to call the shots. And, of course, because we have a chief and city council who are too spineless to press the issue (you just know the union's PR response would be "they're needlessly endangering our brave boys in blue").
The FBI collected information for a period from January 1960 to September 1962 and found that in American cities deploying both types of vehicles, 65% of the officers killed while on duty killed were in two-officer vehicles while only 35% were in one-officer vehicles. This statistic seems to indicate that the presence of a second officer does not guarantee personal safety.
No. And they are less likely to kill innocent bystanders or other people who aren't actually a serious threat, too. Maybe when they're alone, they're less likely to be asshats, and not be playing to their buddies. Maybe it's "mob psychology" that affects the cops. (And of course, maybe it's that if they're alone, they won't go anywhere that might be dangerous until backup arrives.)
And it's not as if cop is that dangerous a job. Being a garbage man, farmer, or truck driver is far more dangerous (top 10 US dangerous occupations: fisherman, logger, pilot, garbage collector, roofer, structural iron worker, farmer, truck driver, powerline worker, taxi driver). But we don't have any TV series about garbage collectors.
I think its odd they skipped the whole audio era. You can buy a little flash drive recorder that'll record for hours right now, for practically nothing. Its hard to find a smart phone that doesn't come with an audio recorder app. Yet I never heard of the cops doing audio recording in the past.
I used to get catalogs from the vendors that sell to public-safety types. Gadgets to break auto glass with, neat gear for your auto office, decals for the side of your car, lights for the roof, leather gloves (with or without lead loading), and yes, concealed audio recorders to wear. Not the secret "wearing a wire" stuff, I think they transmitted back to a recorder in the car (this was 20 years ago, so no video eyeglasses).
The union is going to fight for the most restrictive conditions possible in order to limit reviews of the footage.
Because, god forbid, the bosses troll through the footage looking for misconduct instead of only checking it when allegations are made.
Don't kid yourself, the bosses (chief, mayor, city council) don't want to see any misconduct either, because it would reflect poorly on them. they don't want successful lawsuits against the police, those can be expensive. They don't want to look anti-cop, because the general public thinks cops are heroes and anything they do to somebody, the perp probably had it coming anyhow.
I get email offers on a daily basis from "Canadian Pharmacy" offering to sell me generic Viagra - or Viagra with other ED medications in a "super pack" - all the time. You don't mean to say that some of the email offers I get aren't genuine, do you?
Well, probably not. But seriously, if you verify a pharmacy through someplace like this they'll be for real.
No, that's still a violation of the law in the US. I'm pretty sure that the FDA would have something to say about importing medications from abroad without proper approval. And customs can seize any such shipments.
The FDA may have something to say about it, but AFAIK the US government doesn't choose to make it an issue, probably because they'd then have to defend the fact that the pharma industry gouges US customers with prices that are twice what they charge for export. I'm sure most of the Canadian mail-order pharmacies will sell it to you. I bought lovastatin (generic Lipitor) that way for years (when your drugs are 100% out of pocket, it pays to shop around). They also sold grey-market Lipitor for about 2/3 of what it costs in the US (manufactured by Pfizer in Australia, shipped from pharmacies in various countries). The generic was about 1/3 the US Lipitor price and was manufactured in India. And while I'm a little leery of Indian drugs (they're perfectly capable of making quality drugs, but there are a lot of counterfeits too), this stuff worked fine. And in 10 or so years I never had a shipment seized or held up.
I did what seemed to be the only thing left - started my own company!
There's people that will work for, but there's also people it won't work for. For one thing, figure that if you're starting up, you're going to have to spend half your time in marketing (if you thought sales and schmoozing were nifty, you probably wouldn't be a programmer, but at least you'll learn why those inane ego-boosting seminars are so popular with salesmen). It also tends to be boom-and-bust, periods when you don't have any work interspersed with periods where there's too much work. Plus, you get to do the accounting, though for a one-person business that shouldn't be too onerous.
Why not 100% vote by mail (in effect, everyone an absentee voter)?
It works here, and I have yet to hear a cogent argument against it.
And where you are, it's 100% impossible for anyone else to watch while you fill out the ballot, and 100% impossible for anyone else to fill it out for you. And your mail is 100% delivered, 100% on time. I bet the trains run on time there, too.
What some people outside of the US are wondering about the Presidential election is: Are you friggn serious?...
Everyone has their share of crazies and we share a laugh and a head-shake when they rant off, but we mostly ignore them or move them to the side.
Not so in the US.
We'd expect something like this from a banana republic or Italy, but the US?
It saddens me to say this, but yes, the US too. Our citizens aren't any smarter or or our candidates any more scrupulous than other counties (and we can all think of advanced countries that in the last century made very very bad choices about leaders). For us as well, it's hard to tell what's simply bullshit to get elected, what's negotiable, and what's heartfelt opinion. Yes, it's scary.
A security guard is not a lawyer and must rely on what he is told to do by management.
I would say, a security guard is, or should be, held legally responsible for his own actions. If management tells him to do something illegal, there is no reason that should be any different than if his brother-in-law tells him to do something illegal.
This is my policy since PATRIOT act. Even more so since NDAA...
Yep, both of which Obama signed. So much for hope and change.
And only an idiot would think Romney would do anything differently.
And people here keep telling me there's some kind of difference between the two.
There are differences between the two. Just not so much in that area. The differences are mostly in the areas of things like woman's rights, lowering taxes on the rich at the expenses of the poor and middle classes, cutting services for the poor, and (maybe, depending on what Romney's position is as of noon today) health care.
But I think that no president will willingly give up powers such as the "Patriot" act. Because, after all, they will use it for good, not evil (like the other guy).
notice how drone articles have a fraction of Obama criticism as waterboarding articles had of Bush criticism.
Oh, crap. Obama is protecting Bush's torturers, Bush was conducting drone strikes. in this venue there's not much difference between them.
Some would argue that "Islamic Fundamentalists" is just a fancy term for normal, mainstream Muslims who aren't of the ultraliberal (from the POV of Middle Eastern folks) branch of Islam
That is, the Saudi Arabian (Wahhabi) branch?
Right, because white supremacists are plowing planes into buildings, bombing market squares filled with their own people, stoning and beheading others with government backing and attacking embassies at the drop of a hat.
Austin airplane attack on IRS. Kansas City bombing. Abortion doctor assassinations. Anthrax. Olympics bomb. Ted Kaczynski. Chinese embassy in Iraq. Though no stonings or beheadings with government backing that I'm aware of. So if those are logical ANDs (requires that all be simultaneously true) I guess it might be accurate.
The guard does not make the policy; management does. If the guard does not enforce the management policy they will be fired for cause. The guards were probably just doing as they were told and any blame should be put on the policy makers. Would you risk your job or follow policy? This is not an "I was just following orders" as used in the Munich trials; no one was killed.
Does the policy need to be changed? Probably but thet is not the guard's call.
The guard does not make the policy; management does. If the guard does not enforce the management policy they will be fired for cause. The guards were probably just doing as they were told and any blame should be put on the policy makers. Would you risk your job or follow policy? This is not an "I was just following orders" as used in the Munich trials; no one was killed.
Does the policy need to be changed? Probably but thet is not the guard's call.
Fine. So (if the guard laid a hand on the kid, as the picture would suggest) the guard's defense can be "management told me to assault him and take away his camera". Then you call the manager to the stand and ask them if they gave that order. And the manager will say "of course I told them to do it, if anyone is guilty of assault it is me." Or perhaps, bosses being what they are, they'll say "oh, no, no, we never told the guard to do that" and leave the guard to hang out and dry. Which would be an object lesson to other security guards, and perhaps workers in general.
Medicare. This is what happens when other people pay the bills. And people want more of this? It is like any other government service. You charge as much as possible for the service as long as you stay within the government guidelines for price, you get to keep upping the price. If you actually let the market decide and not allowed a continuous government bailout of our healthcare system, read, medicare, then prices would get to a sane level. The greater good served by more people having affordable care would offset the number of those who could not afford it. I don't see why people don't understand how contracts and government programs work. We have a few examples, but hey, bread and circus, right?
WTF does Medicare have to do with hearing aids? I'll tell you what Medicare has to do with hearing aids:
Medicare doesn't cover hearing aids or exams for fitting hearing aids.
That's a quote from "Medicare & You 2013: the official U.S. government Medicare handbook".
Me, I don't see why some people don't understand how business works when it can get away with it. But that's just me.
Often I'm hired to do work for US firms, and am paid less than half of what I would be in the US. But since this is Latin America, these wages let me live comfortably in the middle class.
And it's the wet dream of most employers, to pay their employees less than half of what they do now. Since this is North America, you will not live comfortably on that. But why should they care, as long as their stock price rises and they get big bonuses?
But isn't the US a meritocracy?
Mitt Romney had to sell some stocks to make ends meet while he was in college. Since you went to school in the US, I expect you're familiar with having to do that. No, it's not a meritocracy, though we like to pretend it is.
What about the American dream?
The reason it's called a "dream" is to distinguish it from reality.
Does anyone know exactly what is fried in the monitors and in the PC's? I would have thought that the metal cases found on most PC's would have provided some amount of protection.
I expect it does. If the cases didn't have any of the drive bay knockouts removed, or any wires going in and out (and attached things that are unshielded, like keyboards and monitors), I'd think the cases would provide pretty good protection.
Private companies have no motive to fund massive R&D efforts that yield sub-fractional returns after long periods of effort. It takes public sector projects to get that done.
So... you're saying that (at least in the present US form) "private" capitalist companies do not produce progress without massive government subsidies. Maybe we need to change the rules.
I dunno what frequency they are using exactly, but microwave radiation doesn't penetrate very deep into human skin, so it might not do any damage at all. And it's focused, so they can avoid planes and hospitals.
Oh, it's like "smart bombs". They're the reason that the US hasn't hit any civilians or unintended targets since the 1980s or so.
The light bulbs one is actually somewhat true. A cartel fixed how long they would last. There was a documentary by Horizon on it.
Well, there was such a cartel in the early part of the last century, but it's long since gone.
You know the saying "you can have it good, fast, cheap, pick any two"? With conventional incandescent light bulbs, it's "you can have it bright, low-power, long-lasting, pick any two". The three traits are interdependent. IIRC, most light bulbs are optimized to last 1000-2000 hr, consume a specified wattage, and be as bright as possible given the first two selections. "Long-life" bulbs run at a lower temperature, last longer, and put out less light. OTOH, photoflood bulbs are optimized to put out a humongous amount of light, at the cost of having a rated lifetime as short as 3 hr.
I know gas mileage is important to some people out there on a budget.....but man, you'll get run over on most roadways here if you try putting around in a 37HP car? Sounds more like a go-cart than a car....
I dunno. My first car was a SAAB 93. That had a 33HP (3 cylinder 2-stroke) engine. It got around ok. It did take a while to get up to speed (and if you saw a big hill coming you'd floor it to have a running start, to avoid having to creep up in 2nd gear) but that was ok. Of course, in those days the roads weren't full of asshats in Hummers.