With ever more gov regulations its back to POTS, costly last mile partial networks of optical or coax from your gov approved monopoly or cozy duopoly network provider.
I have AT&T U-Verse and it is already slower and more expensive than the 768/768 SDSL that I had 10+ years ago.
Just imagine what the US would be like if instead of selling the spectrum used for just one of the recent spectrum auctions (take wimax for starters) they had instead allowed unlicensed use... The explosion of technologies in the extremely limited ISM bands suggests at just how useful this spectrum could be, instead of sitting around mostly unused.
Any solution which does not include rent seeking is not a solution.
This was a problem for 20 years, and eventually the US attorney general made a ruling that in general, you can't sieze cash [justice.gov] as civil-asset forfeiture.
The Department of Jerks reversed this ruling 2.5 months later:
This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else find it weird that we are on the cusp of all these radical new technology breakthroughs, yet we can no longer build enough new houses each year to keep up with population growth?
The physical process of building houses is the easy part. What we cannot do is issue permits and that is an unsolvable political problem.
The technical groups which maintain themselves on Yahoo have already made plans to transfer their contents off despite Yahoo's interference and resume operations elsewhere. There is zero expectation that any buyer or especially Verizon would maintain them anyway although I suspect even Verizon will object legally on IP grounds once it happens.
I have always assumed that the big push for "interoperability" included the ability to jam all of the satellite positioning services within a given area.
I'm not old enough to have designed valve circuits, but from what I vaguely recall, you only get emission from cathodes, so with no hole mobility I don't understand quite how these things are supposed to provide complementary logic.
They cannot but before complementary devices became available, all NPN, NMOS, and PMOS logic were common. Vacuum tubes are depletion mode devices like n-channel JFETs but there are other structures possible like beam deflection tubes.
I bet they try a one job per family program first. That will help with the unemployment because it will takes lots of government workers to administer it. Then later they can make an ordered list for people applying for jobs. Put the white males at the bottom.
That could be fun in the US. There have been cases of citizens being required to voluntarily cede rights in exchange for access to government programs. Now we can find out exactly how much the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th amendment rights are worth in dollars.
It shouldn't even be that terribly difficult to implement. You can start rolling it in without cutting anyone's benefits, but at the same time make any benefits they receive from Basic Income automatically be deducted from their potential aid from all existing welfare programs, at all levels of government. They get their basic income payment, but all of their other payment are automatically reduced or eliminated by a net corresponding amount. Including big-ticket items like national pension programs (Social Security, etc). So many smaller programs quickly end up in a situation where the vast majority of their enrollees no longer collect anything - and with scaleup, the big-ticket ones as well. With the right policies in place, anyone who doesn't collect anything for several years gets automatically booted from the rolls. As the rolls shrink, the overhead costs drop. When a welfare program gets small enough, it gets killed altogether, with the eventual goal of only Basic Income remaining.
I see a practical problem in the lack of rent seeking without which it is not politically feasible. Actually, it would reduce existing rent seeking which is even worse.
The coming increase in productivity though will not offset the costs of regulation and rent seeking which are soon if not already the majority of costs so the end price to the consumer is not going to have the same kind of decline.
This also happened within just the catagory of pickup trucks. The EPA (and NTSB?) has more stringent requirements for lighter trucks and the result has been that there are no light trucks; they are effectively illegal. So people who would have gotten by with a light truck that has a higher MPG have to buy a heavier truck with a lower MPG.
A neighbor and I both had late model GMC Sonomas but he sold his a couple years ago and bought the truck that replaced the Sonoma. I got to inspect it pretty carefully and the only practical difference is that it is about 500 pounds heavier.
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It is not doing a very good job and ultimately that is our fault. We get the government we deserve.
The rule of men is now more important than the rule of law.
I have AT&T U-Verse and it is already slower and more expensive than the 768/768 SDSL that I had 10+ years ago.
Any solution which does not include rent seeking is not a solution.
The Department of Jerks reversed this ruling 2.5 months later:
https://www.justice.gov/crimin...
Precedent goes back to before the American Revolutionary War so the law is on their side.
The money has no rights.
The physical process of building houses is the easy part. What we cannot do is issue permits and that is an unsolvable political problem.
Just make manual control of a flying car over a populated area an organ bank crime.
"First thing you need is a Social Security and driver's license."
"Drivers license? For what, mass driver? Disk drive?"
And private ownership of unregistered modems had been legal back then.
Obscure?
Orwell was an optimist.
The technical groups which maintain themselves on Yahoo have already made plans to transfer their contents off despite Yahoo's interference and resume operations elsewhere. There is zero expectation that any buyer or especially Verizon would maintain them anyway although I suspect even Verizon will object legally on IP grounds once it happens.
The same IPSec that the NSA systematically undermined?
The caps also increase demand for the video services AT*T and Comcast sell.
I have always assumed that the big push for "interoperability" included the ability to jam all of the satellite positioning services within a given area.
Well, those are more difficult for the US to jam so of course they want to eliminate them.
Primitive ECL and CML products still sold go to nobodys for nobody projects that do not exist.
They cannot but before complementary devices became available, all NPN, NMOS, and PMOS logic were common. Vacuum tubes are depletion mode devices like n-channel JFETs but there are other structures possible like beam deflection tubes.
I bet they try a one job per family program first. That will help with the unemployment because it will takes lots of government workers to administer it. Then later they can make an ordered list for people applying for jobs. Put the white males at the bottom.
That could be fun in the US. There have been cases of citizens being required to voluntarily cede rights in exchange for access to government programs. Now we can find out exactly how much the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th amendment rights are worth in dollars.
So . . . require a minimum wage for the robots so they can pay taxes.
Politics is not decided by net result.
I see a practical problem in the lack of rent seeking without which it is not politically feasible. Actually, it would reduce existing rent seeking which is even worse.
The coming increase in productivity though will not offset the costs of regulation and rent seeking which are soon if not already the majority of costs so the end price to the consumer is not going to have the same kind of decline.
Grammar skills: do you have them?
This also happened within just the catagory of pickup trucks. The EPA (and NTSB?) has more stringent requirements for lighter trucks and the result has been that there are no light trucks; they are effectively illegal. So people who would have gotten by with a light truck that has a higher MPG have to buy a heavier truck with a lower MPG.
A neighbor and I both had late model GMC Sonomas but he sold his a couple years ago and bought the truck that replaced the Sonoma. I got to inspect it pretty carefully and the only practical difference is that it is about 500 pounds heavier.