Why not require the Telcos to permit any number to operate as a "premium-rate telephone number" (what we in the USA call a "900 number")?
Government agencies would be automatically whitelisted, and you could upload your own whitelist of people who would not be charged. You could set your own price--whether it's a one-time or a by-minute charge--the telco would get their profitable cut, and you would be credited the rest. But the default would be that a caller would have to be able to pay on their phone bill if it's a call handled through the telco exchanges, or would have to supply billing information if they came-in through VoIP.
Of course, this is the kind of thing would so decimate the telemarketing industry that they would spend tremendously on lobbyists for their survival.
So do you really, typically sit closer than 0.78 screen heights (51" from a 65" TV)? Because that's the distance at which a person with 20/20 eyesight can discern pixels on a 4k (3,840 x 2,160) TV.
If it's an HDR set, definitely wear shades and sunscreen.
A person with 20/20 visual acuity would need to sit 0.39 screen heights away to get the full benefit of the 4,320x7680 resolution. That would be 25 inches on a 65 inch diagonal TV.
Or, Megane, you could read not only the source article, but follow the other links and discover that WWVB is also one of the, "NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii." [ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
Someone didn't RTFOA. And I neglected to include WWVB in the summary. But the source document [ https://www.nist.gov/director/... ] indicates that all radio broadcast operations in Colorado and Hawaii are on the chopping block.
...including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii
So perhaps all broadcast operations in Colorado will be shut down. According to this page, WWVB is also in Colorado: [ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
NIST radio station WWVB is located on the same site as NIST HF radio station WWV near Fort Collins, Colorado.
So it looks to me like WWVB could also be on the chopping block.
Hypertalk made the whole process of creating a usable program of significant complexity quite easy--easy enough for an early grade school student. Apple really, really didn't know what they had.
So does that mean they have a sufficient constellation of LEO satellites that one has connectivity anywhere on the globe? If not, then it's false advertising to call them, "always connected."
I've always argued that all fines for any offense should not be fixed monetary amounts, but rather defined as some number of hours or days of the convict's income, depending on the severity of the crime, and calculated accordingly. Let that same rule and calculation apply to corporations as well.
Perhaps a speeding ticket would cost a day's pay: $80 for some people, $80,000 for others. Big corporate misdeeds could require forfeiture of weeks or months of a company's income.
So you have bought the transponder for a dozen different municipalities, or have you just not gone anywhere that only accepts pre-payment by those transponders. You apparently had some vending machine to stick your card into?
There are systems around the USA where if you cross a bridge or drive on a toll road without a transponder, they will photo your license plate and fine you for toll evasion.
Every month or two, it seemed, when the TV started having problems, my Dad and I would take all of its glass tubes out of their sockets and take them down to the drug store or hardware store to test them. Usually, we found one that was weak or bad, and bought a replacement on the spot. My Dad preferred RCA tubes, but I liked the look of the Philips boxes better. We took them all home and put them back into the TV. It always worked after we did that. A couple of times, while I was still in grade school, I was allowed to do this all by myself, which made me feel pretty important.
When color TVs finally became affordable, they were all-transister except for the picture tube, and so this little ritual ended.
Yup. That's my main issue too. While I do use the Airport Express units as non-routing access points, more important to me is their function as Airplay nodes. I'm not sure what if anything could replace those.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."--Anatole France
Likewise, our law, in it's majestic equality, permits the poor as well as the rich to donate millions to their favorite politicians in order to favor their unique interests.
I don't know who stole from who, but during the telecast of the first space shuttle launch, a camera went live on Walter Cronkite when he wasn't expecting it, and he mused: "It must be a sobering thought to those brave astronauts, seated atop several million pounds of high-energy explosive, to realize that its contained in a vehicle built by a lowest bidder." I noticed years later when I watched a documentary about the shuttle program, that line had been cut.
...in the US, highway speed limits are designed for one purpose, and that purpose is money, not safety...
Agreed. If they were designed strictly for safety, they would be slower almost everywhere.
...driving the speed limit is stupid.
True. Often much, much slower is safer for you and everyone around you. Too many motorists are more concerned with saving seconds rather than than saving lives.
Also, most accidents are caused by people who drive too slowly, not drive too quickly. If everyone was driving 90 mph, it would be just as safe as everyone driving 60 mph
Please link to examples where U.S. courts have ruled in favor of a motorist who collided with a slower moving vehicle, finding fault with the slower-moving vehicle operator. In other online discussions, nobody has ever produced verifiable statistics that don't amount to personal anecdotes of near-misses.
(And yes, I took the bait from an AC-troll. Sorry.)
The meme "Accidents happen," in the driving of automobiles arose from a campaign of collusion between various interests in the motor vehicle, oil, and insurance companies as a strategy to clear the roads of pedestrians, equestrians, and cyclists, so that motorists could live the "dream of freedom" promised to them in automobile advertisements.
There are not nearly as many accidents in the operation of motor vehicles as there are collisions caused by negligence or malice, mislabeled as accidents in order to absolve the motorist of responsibility.
If you're driving too fast for conditions, such as so fast that you can stop for that child running out from between parked cars, you are negligent. If you're driving on a twisting mountain road, and you encounter a cyclist before you in the same lane, or perhaps a slower-moving vehicle like a school bus, and you collide, you are negligent for going too fast for conditions. If you're driving and your brakes fail, chances are better maintenance with expert inspections would have prevented this, and you are negligent. If you're driving down a street and run over a *@&%$ cyclist won't get out of your way, you're malicious and criminally sociopathic. If a bridge fails out from under you, then those charged with maintenance and inspection of the bridge are probably negligent. If a large tree suddenly falls into your path and you collide, then it is an "act of god", in other words, an accident.
That's funny -- I only know a single person who uses gmail.
I use Gmail, as an IMAP account provider, and never through their web GUI. But I only give that address out to the most-likely-to-spam-me senders, such as political campaign mailing lists. Since I subscribe to an eclectic collection of lists from all across the political spectrum, Google's ad engine has got to be pretty confused about me.
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Why not require the Telcos to permit any number to operate as a "premium-rate telephone number" (what we in the USA call a "900 number")?
Government agencies would be automatically whitelisted, and you could upload your own whitelist of people who would not be charged. You could set your own price--whether it's a one-time or a by-minute charge--the telco would get their profitable cut, and you would be credited the rest. But the default would be that a caller would have to be able to pay on their phone bill if it's a call handled through the telco exchanges, or would have to supply billing information if they came-in through VoIP.
Of course, this is the kind of thing would so decimate the telemarketing industry that they would spend tremendously on lobbyists for their survival.
So do you really, typically sit closer than 0.78 screen heights (51" from a 65" TV)? Because that's the distance at which a person with 20/20 eyesight can discern pixels on a 4k (3,840 x 2,160) TV.
If it's an HDR set, definitely wear shades and sunscreen.
Unfortunately, Blu-Ray can still deliver higher bit rates than over 80% of home Internet connections in the USA.
A person with 20/20 visual acuity would need to sit 0.39 screen heights away to get the full benefit of the 4,320x7680 resolution. That would be 25 inches on a 65 inch diagonal TV.
Although I omitted WWVB in the summary I submitted, there's no information that it wouldn't be included in the general statement:
...including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii.
Because WWVB is in Colorado [ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ].
Most of the devices mentioned use WWVB which I understand will continue to operate.
WWVB is one of the, "NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii." [ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
What references can you cite that say it won't be shut down?
Or, Megane, you could read not only the source article, but follow the other links and discover that WWVB is also one of the, "NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii."
[ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
Someone didn't RTFOA. And I neglected to include WWVB in the summary. But the source document [ https://www.nist.gov/director/... ] indicates that all radio broadcast operations in Colorado and Hawaii are on the chopping block.
According to this page, WWVB is also in Colorado:
[ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
NIST radio station WWVB is located on the same site as NIST HF radio station WWV near Fort Collins, Colorado.
The budget proposal says:
...including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii
So perhaps all broadcast operations in Colorado will be shut down.
According to this page, WWVB is also in Colorado:
[ https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-... ]
NIST radio station WWVB is located on the same site as NIST HF radio station WWV near Fort Collins, Colorado.
So it looks to me like WWVB could also be on the chopping block.
Hypertalk made the whole process of creating a usable program of significant complexity quite easy--easy enough for an early grade school student. Apple really, really didn't know what they had.
So does that mean they have a sufficient constellation of LEO satellites that one has connectivity anywhere on the globe? If not, then it's false advertising to call them, "always connected."
Yup. I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad I run my own DNS.
I've always argued that all fines for any offense should not be fixed monetary amounts, but rather defined as some number of hours or days of the convict's income, depending on the severity of the crime, and calculated accordingly. Let that same rule and calculation apply to corporations as well.
Perhaps a speeding ticket would cost a day's pay: $80 for some people, $80,000 for others. Big corporate misdeeds could require forfeiture of weeks or months of a company's income.
My Dad occasionally knew which tube was causing the misbehavior and would then just take that one to test.
By the time I might been old enough to acquire that knowledge, very little new home entertainment equipment with vacuum tubes was being sold.
So you have bought the transponder for a dozen different municipalities, or have you just not gone anywhere that only accepts pre-payment by those transponders. You apparently had some vending machine to stick your card into?
There are systems around the USA where if you cross a bridge or drive on a toll road without a transponder, they will photo your license plate and fine you for toll evasion.
Communities will only eliminate the cash option if they want to totally discourage tourism by automobile.
Every month or two, it seemed, when the TV started having problems, my Dad and I would take all of its glass tubes out of their sockets and take them down to the drug store or hardware store to test them. Usually, we found one that was weak or bad, and bought a replacement on the spot. My Dad preferred RCA tubes, but I liked the look of the Philips boxes better. We took them all home and put them back into the TV. It always worked after we did that. A couple of times, while I was still in grade school, I was allowed to do this all by myself, which made me feel pretty important.
When color TVs finally became affordable, they were all-transister except for the picture tube, and so this little ritual ended.
Threatening the messenger is now how science is done:
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com... ]
Yup. That's my main issue too. While I do use the Airport Express units as non-routing access points, more important to me is their function as Airplay nodes. I'm not sure what if anything could replace those.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."--Anatole France
Likewise, our law, in it's majestic equality, permits the poor as well as the rich to donate millions to their favorite politicians in order to favor their unique interests.
I don't know who stole from who, but during the telecast of the first space shuttle launch, a camera went live on Walter Cronkite when he wasn't expecting it, and he mused: "It must be a sobering thought to those brave astronauts, seated atop several million pounds of high-energy explosive, to realize that its contained in a vehicle built by a lowest bidder."
I noticed years later when I watched a documentary about the shuttle program, that line had been cut.
"Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting"
[ http://www.urbanwildlands.org/... ]
...in the US, highway speed limits are designed for one purpose, and that purpose is money, not safety...
Agreed. If they were designed strictly for safety, they would be slower almost everywhere.
...driving the speed limit is stupid.
True. Often much, much slower is safer for you and everyone around you. Too many motorists are more concerned with saving seconds rather than than saving lives.
Also, most accidents are caused by people who drive too slowly, not drive too quickly. If everyone was driving 90 mph, it would be just as safe as everyone driving 60 mph
Please link to examples where U.S. courts have ruled in favor of a motorist who collided with a slower moving vehicle, finding fault with the slower-moving vehicle operator. In other online discussions, nobody has ever produced verifiable statistics that don't amount to personal anecdotes of near-misses.
(And yes, I took the bait from an AC-troll. Sorry.)
The meme "Accidents happen," in the driving of automobiles arose from a campaign of collusion between various interests in the motor vehicle, oil, and insurance companies as a strategy to clear the roads of pedestrians, equestrians, and cyclists, so that motorists could live the "dream of freedom" promised to them in automobile advertisements.
There are not nearly as many accidents in the operation of motor vehicles as there are collisions caused by negligence or malice, mislabeled as accidents in order to absolve the motorist of responsibility.
If you're driving too fast for conditions, such as so fast that you can stop for that child running out from between parked cars, you are negligent. If you're driving on a twisting mountain road, and you encounter a cyclist before you in the same lane, or perhaps a slower-moving vehicle like a school bus, and you collide, you are negligent for going too fast for conditions. If you're driving and your brakes fail, chances are better maintenance with expert inspections would have prevented this, and you are negligent. If you're driving down a street and run over a *@&%$ cyclist won't get out of your way, you're malicious and criminally sociopathic. If a bridge fails out from under you, then those charged with maintenance and inspection of the bridge are probably negligent. If a large tree suddenly falls into your path and you collide, then it is an "act of god", in other words, an accident.
That's funny -- I only know a single person who uses gmail.
I use Gmail, as an IMAP account provider, and never through their web GUI. But I only give that address out to the most-likely-to-spam-me senders, such as political campaign mailing lists. Since I subscribe to an eclectic collection of lists from all across the political spectrum, Google's ad engine has got to be pretty confused about me.