What about giving cushy government positions like Bush Jr. does to his daddy's buddies and business cohorts? Is that the solution to every domestic economic problem?
How do environmental laws affect the power grid infrastructure any more than a regular business would be affected?
I just spent half a year studying the EPA and NJDEP, and read nothing about the power grid infrasturcture being affected by "environmental laws" any more than any other industry.
I don't know if you have a "Board of Public Utilities" over there, but in the US, when all else fails, you can talk with them. If that doesn't work, we can go to our congressman, and they can usually fix the problem if it is extreme enough.
Remember, these are busy people, so the squeakiest (not neccesarily the most annoying) wheel gets the grease.
I don't know about that. As much as people put the "blame" on the terrorist attacks on 9/11 for EVERY change in New York City, I disagree.
It sounds nice and warm and fuzzy to have something "good" come out of the terrorist attacks. I think that in general, New Yorkers behave themselves because if they don't, life will really, really suck. First WTC bombing people? You didn't see people looting or freaking out.
This isn't the first large power outage that hit NYC recently. It happens every other summer or so, just not as widespread.
I think many people view cities as being inhabited by some sort of animals which have no self control. These people, all living in McMansions in the suburbs, are amazed when adverse situations affect cities, and they don't burn to the ground. Maybe they're jealous that we get to hang out on street corners and drink beers while the power is out, who knows?
New Yorkers have helped each other before 9/11, and it's obvious that they'll do it after 9/11. Perhaps it awoke something in you that tells you to be civil to your neighbors, but most New Yorkers grow up this way and don't know another. These things happen when you live on top of 8 million other people.
... and you couldn't hide the sliders you don't use? Maybe you can try a mixer program that didn't come with your Operating System of choice? The card has nothing to do with the software. You have a choice, exercise it.
Bullshit. On my XP laptop, I just need to click on the start button then hover over the "All Programs" button, and up pops my programs list. One click. It wasn't difficult nor "perverse".
Rent on decent non-sprawl-development 3 bedroom house in New Jersey: $2400/month
$2400*12=$28800/yr
$28800/$50000=0.576 or a little over 57% of total pre-tax income spent on housing.
Most experts claim you shouldn't spend more than 33% of your after-tax income on rent or mortgage.
You claim to live "frugally". More power to you. Average rent for a very simple 2 bedroom apartment in NJ is around $1600-$1800. That works out to about 38% of your pre-tax income spent on rent alone.
This is before taxes, of course.
Let's not forget clothes, food, care for the children...And I won't even mention auto insurance.
Like the parent said, it's not enough. You're either living in a magical dream world, or you're talking about living in the middle of a cheaply built, sprawled out cookie-cutter development off of a highway next to a strip mall and a walmart in a cornfield somewhere.
That is an outright lie. Ham radio is actually very cheap to get equipment for, and a 12 year old kid should have no problem passing the licensing exam. Most hams will give new hams their old equipment that they don't need very much anymore.
Yes, but what good is not having interference in the bush if people in civilization have large amounts of interference?
The radio frequencies that HAMS are upset about are the HF frequencies, from about 1.5mhz up through 20something mhz. 99% of the conversations on these frequencies are not run through a repeater -- they don't need to. Get a decent (not huge) antenna, and a decent radio, and you can easily talk the world from a fully mobile, even humanly portable station. This isn't with a repeater -- this is direct radio contact.
It's irresponsible to take the spectrum away from the same guys who save our ass during severe thunderstorms. Many, if not most, HAMS are NOAA trained storm spotters. When thunderstorm warnings are issued for an area, there's a very good chance a HAM sitting in his car or looking out his window has participated in this process.
How about during any large community event, like a bike race or marathon? Ham radio operators handle communcations for these types of situations regularly. They provide a public service and should be respected as much as possible.
Another thing to bring up is Shortwave Listening (SWL). SWL is a very popular hobby, and the only way some people can get reliable news that isn't from a corporate radio station. Like to hear BBC radio, radio free cuba, or the countless other stations on the shortwave dial? Forget about it, if broadband over powerlines becomes commonplace, you won't be able to hear a thing.
One would think in this age of media consolidation and government lies/censorship, most/.'ers would be smart enough to realize that having more communication options is a good idea.
DING DING! He compares smoking to rape and murder. One is a lifestyle choice, the others are felonious crimes. Apples and oranges, my friend. C'mon, try harder next time, fool.
Lack of moving parts? Ignoring the fact that it's got a hard drive as its main storage component, there are buttons and what appears to be a knob. What moving parts does the Zen have? Oh, I must have forgotten about the elaborate pulley system you use to select what song to play.
What the hell is the point of an external battery pack for your oh-so-small, oh-so-light, oh-so-cool iPods? People get an iPod because they want to look cool, as well as get the smallest, lightest player around. What's the point of an iPod if you're just going to make it bigger and heavier? Seems to me I'd save paying the Apple luxury tax, and pick up something that isn't supposed to make you cooler just by buying it.
I'd take points off of the Nomad simply because it has Microsoft's proprietary WMA in it. Ish, don't encourage them.
Honestly, are you transferring large amounts of mp3s back and forth all the time -- enough to warrant the 35% speed increase (and price increase too!)?
Interesting analogy, but not quite correct. A VCR is primarily an entertainment good, and is marketed as such. Panasonic doesn't go around saying "This new VCR will change the way you live your life!"
The Segway is marketed as a life-saving, ground-shaking, useful vehicle -- an "evolution in mobility", or so says their website. Nowhere do they market the Segway as an entertainment device, or a toy.
A much more relevant (but still not terribly accurate) analogy would be to compare getting pissed off about the price of a segway to getting pissed off over the disparity in cost and features between safety equipment in American and European cars.
Pretty much every European car comes with all kinds of advanced safety equipment. You've got to shell out the big bucks to see this kind of stuff in the US.
It's rather silly to go around touting that you're going to revolutionize life as we know it, and then ask some outrageous amount of money as compared to other devices that do similar things.
It really sucks to have this technology dangled in front of us, just to have it out of reach for the people that would really benefit from it (poor workers stuck in cities with no/poor public transport).
This doesn't happen in the US because of the automobile industry lobby -- honestly! There are "standards" for building streets and roads (not the same thing -- roads are for cars, streets are for everyone). If you don't adhere to these standards (making sure theres enough room for cars, small/no sidewalk, no "dangerous" shade trees, straight, boring ROW) you won't get any money from either the state or federal coffers. Who sets these standards? It varies from state to state, but back in the 30's and 40's, the big auto companies lobbied state and federal governments to legislate bike and trolley lanes out of existence. What they couldn't legislate out, they bought (trolley companies who wouldn't die to do the quality of their service) and ran into the ground.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, has not bowed down to automobile interests as much as the US has. The government also taxes its citizens very heavily to provide their advanced infrastructure. The US government is afraid to spend real money on anything but building new roadways that will give the perception of solving the traffic problems, while all they're doing is providing more capacity which will actually get congested faster than the previous roadway.
What does this all mean?
#1. The US isn't the Netherlands, nor is it Europe, the UK, or even Canada.
#2. Due to the automobile culture in the US (sprawl development, big-box stores in the middle of nowhere), it is highly difficult to get people out of their cars.
#3. Because of the sprawl development, most Americans travel further on more trips, on more dangerous roads than most other Highly Developed Nations.
#4. It would take a huge influx of federal, state, and city money to make only ONE city segway-friendly. This would require new ROW's, new traffic patterns, and diminished capacity to move automobiles. Is it worth it? Who knows.
#5. Because of the high cost (monetary, time, congestion during construction, etc) of completely overhauling current cities' transportation infrastructure, it is highly unlikely that the segway will be anything but a fun toy in the US.
Also, the US will never look as cute as Amsterdam because we don't tax our houses by the width of their property frontage.
I'm all for peopel doing things themselves, but if this was really true, wouldn't the quoted poster who is making these claims of shenannigans on Linksys want to post his evidence too? I won't believe it untill I see it.
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What about giving cushy government positions like Bush Jr. does to his daddy's buddies and business cohorts? Is that the solution to every domestic economic problem?
How do environmental laws affect the power grid infrastructure any more than a regular business would be affected?
I just spent half a year studying the EPA and NJDEP, and read nothing about the power grid infrasturcture being affected by "environmental laws" any more than any other industry.
I don't know if you have a "Board of Public Utilities" over there, but in the US, when all else fails, you can talk with them. If that doesn't work, we can go to our congressman, and they can usually fix the problem if it is extreme enough.
Remember, these are busy people, so the squeakiest (not neccesarily the most annoying) wheel gets the grease.
Untrue, my Uni kept commodity internet connectivity (Central NJ) the entire time. That includes Verizon's fiber network.
I don't know about that. As much as people put the "blame" on the terrorist attacks on 9/11 for EVERY change in New York City, I disagree.
It sounds nice and warm and fuzzy to have something "good" come out of the terrorist attacks. I think that in general, New Yorkers behave themselves because if they don't, life will really, really suck. First WTC bombing people? You didn't see people looting or freaking out.
This isn't the first large power outage that hit NYC recently. It happens every other summer or so, just not as widespread.
I think many people view cities as being inhabited by some sort of animals which have no self control. These people, all living in McMansions in the suburbs, are amazed when adverse situations affect cities, and they don't burn to the ground. Maybe they're jealous that we get to hang out on street corners and drink beers while the power is out, who knows?
New Yorkers have helped each other before 9/11, and it's obvious that they'll do it after 9/11. Perhaps it awoke something in you that tells you to be civil to your neighbors, but most New Yorkers grow up this way and don't know another. These things happen when you live on top of 8 million other people.
... and you couldn't hide the sliders you don't use? Maybe you can try a mixer program that didn't come with your Operating System of choice? The card has nothing to do with the software. You have a choice, exercise it.
Bullshit. On my XP laptop, I just need to click on the start button then hover over the "All Programs" button, and up pops my programs list. One click. It wasn't difficult nor "perverse".
Rent on decent non-sprawl-development 3 bedroom house in New Jersey:
$2400/month
$2400*12=$28800/yr
$28800/$50000=0.576 or a little over 57% of total pre-tax income spent on housing.
Most experts claim you shouldn't spend more than 33% of your after-tax income on rent or mortgage.
You claim to live "frugally". More power to you. Average rent for a very simple 2 bedroom apartment in NJ is around $1600-$1800. That works out to about 38% of your pre-tax income spent on rent alone.
This is before taxes, of course.
Let's not forget clothes, food, care for the children...And I won't even mention auto insurance.
Like the parent said, it's not enough. You're either living in a magical dream world, or you're talking about living in the middle of a cheaply built, sprawled out cookie-cutter development off of a highway next to a strip mall and a walmart in a cornfield somewhere.
Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy stuff on the wall and the mozzarella sticks?
That is an outright lie. Ham radio is actually very cheap to get equipment for, and a 12 year old kid should have no problem passing the licensing exam. Most hams will give new hams their old equipment that they don't need very much anymore.
Totally elitist!
You hit the nail on the head.
Yes, but what good is not having interference in the bush if people in civilization have large amounts of interference?
/.'ers would be smart enough to realize that having more communication options is a good idea.
The radio frequencies that HAMS are upset about are the HF frequencies, from about 1.5mhz up through 20something mhz. 99% of the conversations on these frequencies are not run through a repeater -- they don't need to. Get a decent (not huge) antenna, and a decent radio, and you can easily talk the world from a fully mobile, even humanly portable station. This isn't with a repeater -- this is direct radio contact.
It's irresponsible to take the spectrum away from the same guys who save our ass during severe thunderstorms. Many, if not most, HAMS are NOAA trained storm spotters. When thunderstorm warnings are issued for an area, there's a very good chance a HAM sitting in his car or looking out his window has participated in this process.
How about during any large community event, like a bike race or marathon? Ham radio operators handle communcations for these types of situations regularly. They provide a public service and should be respected as much as possible.
Another thing to bring up is Shortwave Listening (SWL). SWL is a very popular hobby, and the only way some people can get reliable news that isn't from a corporate radio station. Like to hear BBC radio, radio free cuba, or the countless other stations on the shortwave dial? Forget about it, if broadband over powerlines becomes commonplace, you won't be able to hear a thing.
One would think in this age of media consolidation and government lies/censorship, most
If you think that was funny, it was even funnier when we found out that it was our roommate's new cell phone that we Returned to Sender!
If being able to watch Three's Company at 9pm instead of 8pm changes your life, you should take a vacation.
DING DING! He compares smoking to rape and murder. One is a lifestyle choice, the others are felonious crimes. Apples and oranges, my friend. C'mon, try harder next time, fool.
Lack of moving parts? Ignoring the fact that it's got a hard drive as its main storage component, there are buttons and what appears to be a knob. What moving parts does the Zen have? Oh, I must have forgotten about the elaborate pulley system you use to select what song to play.
What the hell is the point of an external battery pack for your oh-so-small, oh-so-light, oh-so-cool iPods? People get an iPod because they want to look cool, as well as get the smallest, lightest player around. What's the point of an iPod if you're just going to make it bigger and heavier? Seems to me I'd save paying the Apple luxury tax, and pick up something that isn't supposed to make you cooler just by buying it.
USB 2.0 FUD?
What FUD?
I'd take points off of the Nomad simply because it has Microsoft's proprietary WMA in it. Ish, don't encourage them.
Honestly, are you transferring large amounts of mp3s back and forth all the time -- enough to warrant the 35% speed increase (and price increase too!)?
Interesting analogy, but not quite correct. A VCR is primarily an entertainment good, and is marketed as such. Panasonic doesn't go around saying "This new VCR will change the way you live your life!"
The Segway is marketed as a life-saving, ground-shaking, useful vehicle -- an "evolution in mobility", or so says their website. Nowhere do they market the Segway as an entertainment device, or a toy.
A much more relevant (but still not terribly accurate) analogy would be to compare getting pissed off about the price of a segway to getting pissed off over the disparity in cost and features between safety equipment in American and European cars.
Pretty much every European car comes with all kinds of advanced safety equipment. You've got to shell out the big bucks to see this kind of stuff in the US.
It's rather silly to go around touting that you're going to revolutionize life as we know it, and then ask some outrageous amount of money as compared to other devices that do similar things.
It really sucks to have this technology dangled in front of us, just to have it out of reach for the people that would really benefit from it (poor workers stuck in cities with no/poor public transport).
This doesn't happen in the US because of the automobile industry lobby -- honestly! There are "standards" for building streets and roads (not the same thing -- roads are for cars, streets are for everyone). If you don't adhere to these standards (making sure theres enough room for cars, small/no sidewalk, no "dangerous" shade trees, straight, boring ROW) you won't get any money from either the state or federal coffers. Who sets these standards? It varies from state to state, but back in the 30's and 40's, the big auto companies lobbied state and federal governments to legislate bike and trolley lanes out of existence. What they couldn't legislate out, they bought (trolley companies who wouldn't die to do the quality of their service) and ran into the ground.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, has not bowed down to automobile interests as much as the US has. The government also taxes its citizens very heavily to provide their advanced infrastructure. The US government is afraid to spend real money on anything but building new roadways that will give the perception of solving the traffic problems, while all they're doing is providing more capacity which will actually get congested faster than the previous roadway.
What does this all mean?
#1. The US isn't the Netherlands, nor is it Europe, the UK, or even Canada.
#2. Due to the automobile culture in the US (sprawl development, big-box stores in the middle of nowhere), it is highly difficult to get people out of their cars.
#3. Because of the sprawl development, most Americans travel further on more trips, on more dangerous roads than most other Highly Developed Nations.
#4. It would take a huge influx of federal, state, and city money to make only ONE city segway-friendly. This would require new ROW's, new traffic patterns, and diminished capacity to move automobiles. Is it worth it? Who knows.
#5. Because of the high cost (monetary, time, congestion during construction, etc) of completely overhauling current cities' transportation infrastructure, it is highly unlikely that the segway will be anything but a fun toy in the US.
Also, the US will never look as cute as Amsterdam because we don't tax our houses by the width of their property frontage.
Wrong. In NJ, they have their own network that is not part of their GSM network.
Especially if those voices are tens or hundreds of thousands of little green George Washingtons!
How about you show us the results of your experiment instead of just making sweeping generalizations?
I'm all for peopel doing things themselves, but if this was really true, wouldn't the quoted poster who is making these claims of shenannigans on Linksys want to post his evidence too? I won't believe it untill I see it.
I guess the CIA wouldn't exactly feel up on giving us their sources. Oops.
And you believe these statistics? Sources, please.