Oh Em Gee! College students built a radio?!? What a surprise. What is the world coming to when some news article thinks building a radio is amazing. Is everybody that stupid?
About 5 years ago I bought a Logitech Cordless Mouse. It is the mechanical rolling ball with optical sensor wheels. It has a firm click feel on the middle button and wheel rolling action. It only just barely has ergonomic sides. The size is minimal rather than those really tall ergonomic mice.
So last Christmas somebody gave me a gift certificate from Walmart. Welp. I'm pretty sure you all know that they have a tiny selection of computer accessories. Knowing I didnt want probably anything from there but had to spend it on something I ended up with this Logitech laser mouse. Its tall, has extra buttons, no ball. Here's the problem. For twice the price it gives me a lot of hand pain. The extra buttons are cool but awkward. The laser skips a lot. The wheel has virtually no tactility. The main buttons are soft as well. After 6 months of figuring it'd get better, I gave up on it.
I'm a 3dsmax user. I really spend a lot of time clicking. Eventually using max was so tiring I didnt enjoy it any more. Going back to the old mouse took away my hand pain and I regained my speed. Not long ago the plastic on the left button became dented enough to cause failure. I went with a piece of cardboard under the plastic. That works fine for now. Still have to clean it now and then but it works better than any mouse I've ever had. Too bad for AAA batteries though. The new mouse has AAs which sadly don't seem to last any longer!
Remembering the old IBM keyboards of yore, I am fast coming to the same point with mice. Now most mice sold are laser mice and have some funky shapes. Engineers seem to be regressing. Why is it technology goes up while product quality continues to go down? Thank you market.
I don't even want to get into this touch screen argument because its just simply inane. I have 4 monitors wide on an elevated shelf (2 on main computer, the side monitors are driven by 2 other machines). BTW Synergy for the win! The view doesn't get much better than that, so why would I want to hold my arms up? The one keyboard and mouse work across all 3 machines, 4 monitors. Very little mouse movement from screen to screen. I hate to say it but for this desktop, that touch thing is not going to work. Sorry touch screen advocates.
No way. As a multi-monitor user I absolutely hate the idea of the same image on 2 displays. If you have that much screen space you want to use all of it. Duplication gives you a sickly off balance feeling.
Except that you forgot the only reason they let you watch those shows on TV is because the commercials are included. It seems trivial, but the commercial advertising model is the one they depend on for revenue. Otherwise there would be no TV, no radio and now no internet. If you are willing to just press mute and or skip via TIVO they're willing to let you keep watching at the same price whatever that is. Its a gamble on both ends. Not that you shouldn't complain about it if you feel its a problem, but keep in mind that the result is probably going to be higher prices. Everyone complains that ISPs are advertising x and you're paying for it. Sure they're counting on you not noticing the overselling and not reading the fine print. But the bottom line is you would not be able to buy it at all if you really want it that way. Advertising is a broken business model that only works because SOME people actually watch commercials and are influenced by them. Overselling bandwidth is a similar broken business model but it works for a similar reason in that only a few people fully utilize and only a few people are interested in complaining about it.
I would love to see a statistical analysis of taxes paid vs bandwidth between those ISPs in countries people keep raving about doing so well providing internet vs US. People keep saying how the internet in the US sucks compared to so in so country. Well if you consider how many people are actually using a particular network you might see where the problem is. In the US we're lazy and consumption spoiled. You can get almost anything at any time. The quality of that which you get is mostly based on what you pay. Pay less, get less, pay more get more. This "rule" doesn't always work out but if you are a careful shopper it may work out for you. That's all anyone can count on unless one gets off one's ass and produces their own product. In some other country that may have much more taxpayer subsidy or a smaller number of users to support or a smaller percentage of users to support or a smaller land mass to cover maybe they are getting better service. It's a lot easier to support 10 users than 10,000. Its a lot easier to support 10sq miles than 10,000sq miles. If you want to keep griping, I challenge you to produce a service that is superior to that which is available. Talk to me in a decade.
YOU are apparently under the impression that wealth is available in fixed supply. Wealth is PRODUCED by effort. More people does not necessarily have to result in fewer resources. In fact, were the vast majority of people to change their attitudes that wealth is some how deserved instead of earned, then we could produce any amount of resources. It is obvious that a small minority of people are achievers producing a vast amount of wealth. Increase the number of achievers, increase wealth. Longer lives represent a possibility to learn more than a shorter living species. Given time the results could be even better than what we have now. Do not always assume it must get worse.
Welp. Considering that I always read at -1 mod points means nothing to me. There was a while when I used to get mod points but then I got pretty slack about using them when I failed to find anything interesting enough to mod. So I stopped getting mod points. Frankly I wonder about people who are so offended by any of the lamo comments that moderation actually means something to them. So much so that you talk about whether it's broken or not and seem to go on and on analyzing the mod system instead of what the actual story or comments mean. Where ever you go on the internet, you find a mixture of lame and brilliant comments. The brilliant ones and even just interesting ones give you an overall view of who is using their brains. The lame ones give you an overall view of how lame the lame get. Its somewhat entertaining. Although I doubt any of this is going to advance the planet much, but I think if you're going to read comments on anything, being tolerant your brain is more useful than any protection you might think you need from a moderation system.
Except that you forgot that the cardboard itself will be the display material and so all sides WILL have animated ads on them. But wait! there's more. Need low power consumption? Suppose the box can detect what side is facing the brightest light? Then that side must be facing the isle. Now you only have to animate that side. Now supposing the box can detect movement. Now it only has to animate when a customer walks by. Supposing even further that rows of boxes can detect each other and communicate. Now you have an entire shelf sized or even isle sized ad. Suppose even further that boxes have photovoltaic cells on them too. Now all you need is nice bright grocery store lights for perpetual animating ads. But wait! suppose the box is even smarter and it can detect its content level! Now you have a screaming franticly animated ad on your breakfast table begging you to resupply!
Because of course there are so many more monkeys than humans. Whats the monkey count now? 8billion? Oh wait...
The unfortunate problem here is that you don't realize that reproduction is not a goal oriented process. DNA doesn't want to reproduce; it just does. Humans have so much more brain than is needed to survive that we could be much much dumber and still keep going. Even if we are not as smart and thinking as we could be, we still are the only species we know of capable of leaving the planet. It has been said that cock roaches will be here even if we blow it all up. I'd like to point out that cockroaches will not be builing any spaceships and we could be meticulous enough to ensure that no cockroach dna leaves the planet. That isnt to say that we will be that meticulous but we could if we so desired.
Human population is still on the rise even considering any engineering you speak of. Dumb or not, we're succeding more and more, for the good or bad. Yes I'd like people to think more and be smarter. But the fact is, all you suggest is not required until it becomes obvious that we must leave the planet to survive, and do so persistently. Even at that, we may already be more intellectually advanced than required for that task as complicated as it seems. Just as conceptual steam engines were known even in Roman times but they had too many slave to care about engines, we could leave Earth and build more complex technology but we havent been pushed by a need. Adaptation is driven by changing environments, change so drastic that only improved generations can survive. Our environment does not yet drive us to produce. We may still yet advance even without that push, but don't hold your breath. Thinkers are rare and precious. If you only consider that once in a few million a really smart guy like Einstein might be born, then simply increasing the population might eventually produce the brains you require. Or not.
Except that he SAID HE WAS AN UBUNTU EXPERIENCED PERSON. I was aghast when the reviewer said he couldnt figure out how to shutdown the machine from the ui especially since he's experienced with ubuntu! While I admit that not a lot of computer illiterates would make it very far, the reviewer cant both claim experience of ubuntu and unable to find that shutting down the system from the ui includes a trip to the logout thingy.
OTOH, I find the jab 'intalling Vista is criminal' to be pretty funny and a good comment on the state of the industry. Shame on you m$. Now of course you'll be looking for zealots, linux ones I suppose. Sorry my 2 main machines are win xp pro sp2 as are my wife's and 2 kids machines. I just happen to have an ubuntu box and 2 freebsd ones. fbsd ftw! for the last decade server wise but frankly, I still prefer the windows desktop in user land. PC hosted unix-a-like has become much better but guys, please drag in the game makers and user friendly designers or it'll be m$ forever
I rarely see the "pro-science" side call creationists bigots. More often it's "knowledge deficient" or some synonym there of. Tolerance is a funny idea. You ought only tolerate what doesn't harm you or others. In this case I cannot tolerate creationism. You have already prematurely labeled me a bigot but if it means simply I am intolerant of inadequately supported ideas then thank you I must be a bigot. king-manic,
Most eloquently put. That pretty much makes my day and this session of/. worth reading. Thank you.
mmm no what its really more like is slander. You take a narative that makes fair sense with some pictures representing what the narrator is talking about, then you totally misrepresent it to make it easier to call garbage. Now that you have garbage you can more easily convince your choir that it has to be design since nothing that complicated could have come together by accident. So you've convinced everyone that science is no good thus god is designer.
I dont know where you got that idea. 120 times per second you have a possible chance to let go (AC at 60Hz, the voltage is 0 twice per cycle) compared to DC where the voltage is constantly non-0. I wouldnt challenge you to set up a 110vdc vs 110vac comparitive experiment, but from experience, I promise you: DC hurts MUCH worse.
People are also fond of calling republics democracies.
Democracy: people vote and the power and law are made directly (volatile) Republic: people vote and representatives implement the power and law (slow change over time, more stable)
As for capitalism being fair (or not), my grandma always said, "If you dont work you dont eat." Fairness doesnt come from the marketting scheme per se, but from ethical practice. There are rich and poor, fair and unfair people. In theory those that do the most valuable work or inovate the most valuable products make the most money. In practice ethics can fail. Given this, capitalism already is the most fair possible marketting scheme avaiable. If you cant put forth the effort to provide a valuable product, you will be poor. In another point if you dont use your brain while practicing the system, you will fall victom to those practicing bad ethics. It is when large groups of people do not use their brains that large groups of people fall to even mediocre semi-fair but marginal ethics. Use your power to fire those companies who's products you dont like. Done in volume even large companies with bad ethics can be put down. It is the assumption of people who feel they have no power that keeps large unethical companies in business. However, lazy fat people rarely care if they are being screwed. Thus, everyone thinks capitalism is unfair.
By contrast, socialism is a system where by many lazy uninventive people with voting power cry that no one has given them anything and politicians wanting power cater to that outcry. Thus the few earners and inovators are forced to support the masses.
In essence, the definition of 'fair' has been skewed.
Except that your long post goes on about an entity that currently does not exist. The free industrialized world nations that you know today are representative republics. Democracy is where everyone votes and power and law are decided based on the outcome directly. A republic is where everyone votes but the power and law are implemented by representatives.
Hey! You know what? Thats good! It shows that the (partially) free market in still at work and doing well. Unions drive up the price of labor (a commodity like entity) and thwart performance. Union employees are asked to provide mediocre labor to keep the work available longer and easier to perform. Its in the union rules most of the time how much work can be performed to prevent overburdonning members. Remember when labor performance incured a reward in the form of a raise? Not if you're unionized you don't remember. Union members make rate. So it doesnt matter how hard you work and your buddy is a slouch you both get paid the same. If a boss tries to fire the slouch the union board steps in and says hey hold on here a minute you cant fire our union member. Remember when bad performanced incured a punishment in the form of dismissal? I doubt you do if you're a union member. Unless labor is priced as a result of supply/demand then it is artificially priced. If there are 2million ppl who can do your job its going to have LOW VALUE. Too bad! Have some ambition and learn some more valuable skills or work longer hours. This is how business men made successful companies. By insisting on unions and government enforced minimum wages you cripple the labor market and all those companies who must now RAISE THE PRICE OF GOODS. As a result higher pay results not in higher buying power but simply INFLATION.
And btw, your health is not the responsibility of your employer or the govt. IT IS YOURS!
Exactly. Imo it is a lack of understanding of 'building infrastructure." People talk about multiple sets of wires without realizing what that means. Do you realize that power and telephone poles are owned by the companies that have installed them? If you plant a power pole you have to have purchased either property or an easement on property to place that pole. How many subdivisions or other residence concentrations would have enough land or easement space available for purchase for these multiple sets of wires AND poles. Do you expect the pole owners to give way? If a property owner has been forced to give easement do you expect the government to continue to force that property owner to give easement until he has no property? Can residential neighborhoods even exist with that sort of easement competition?
I challenge you in a residential area to see how much you have to go through to string up a private cable across the street to your private neighbor or to tunnel under the ground. You'll have to have agreement from pole owners, pole leasers and road owners. Unless you have a lot more money than its worth, you'll not be doing it legally.
There is a heirarchy on the poles: power, catv, pots, other Its not always in the same order but where ever your service falls, you have to have an agreement with those other services in the heirarchy to string cable. Pole owners are not going to make agreements with ever person and their brother to string cable, and dont even get me into trenching and tunnelling.
The largest infrastructure of poles is power. Most of the power companies own most of the poles. There are areas where telcoms own poles and maybe even where catv owns poles, but I challenge you to find space on a set of poles when and a legal agreement to string cable without VAST change in government structure.
Citizen, you can go one better: Do not accept faith in reality. You can test it every moment by breathing, pumping blood, typing, remaining in contact with tera firma... need i go on? You have direct testable and falsifiable evidence surrounding you constantly. Drop the word faith from your vocabulary. I'm sure someone will attempt to debunk this statement as many have given many examples of faith in science but these are false. There is never any need to have faith in science. Everything we rely upon in science is testable any time you care to bother. If parts of science you are accepting without doing large scale experimentation, perhaps you have seen that these parts add up well. Thus they are not faith but only unlikely to be false and well documented by past science that only a small shred of evidence is enough to convince you that further experimentation is not required. That is, I jump and return to the ground every time. Not an amazing experiment but it IS fair confirmation that mean old mr gravity is still working. Have no faith. You only need science based experience.
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Its a recording artifact, get over it.
Oh Em Gee! College students built a radio?!? What a surprise. What is the world coming to when some news article thinks building a radio is amazing. Is everybody that stupid?
About 5 years ago I bought a Logitech Cordless Mouse. It is the mechanical rolling ball with optical sensor wheels. It has a firm click feel on the middle button and wheel rolling action. It only just barely has ergonomic sides. The size is minimal rather than those really tall ergonomic mice.
So last Christmas somebody gave me a gift certificate from Walmart. Welp. I'm pretty sure you all know that they have a tiny selection of computer accessories. Knowing I didnt want probably anything from there but had to spend it on something I ended up with this Logitech laser mouse. Its tall, has extra buttons, no ball. Here's the problem. For twice the price it gives me a lot of hand pain. The extra buttons are cool but awkward. The laser skips a lot. The wheel has virtually no tactility. The main buttons are soft as well. After 6 months of figuring it'd get better, I gave up on it.
I'm a 3dsmax user. I really spend a lot of time clicking. Eventually using max was so tiring I didnt enjoy it any more. Going back to the old mouse took away my hand pain and I regained my speed. Not long ago the plastic on the left button became dented enough to cause failure. I went with a piece of cardboard under the plastic. That works fine for now. Still have to clean it now and then but it works better than any mouse I've ever had. Too bad for AAA batteries though. The new mouse has AAs which sadly don't seem to last any longer!
Remembering the old IBM keyboards of yore, I am fast coming to the same point with mice. Now most mice sold are laser mice and have some funky shapes. Engineers seem to be regressing. Why is it technology goes up while product quality continues to go down? Thank you market.
I don't even want to get into this touch screen argument because its just simply inane. I have 4 monitors wide on an elevated shelf (2 on main computer, the side monitors are driven by 2 other machines). BTW Synergy for the win! The view doesn't get much better than that, so why would I want to hold my arms up? The one keyboard and mouse work across all 3 machines, 4 monitors. Very little mouse movement from screen to screen. I hate to say it but for this desktop, that touch thing is not going to work. Sorry touch screen advocates.
No way. As a multi-monitor user I absolutely hate the idea of the same image on 2 displays. If you have that much screen space you want to use all of it. Duplication gives you a sickly off balance feeling.
Except that you forgot the only reason they let you watch those shows on TV is because the commercials are included. It seems trivial, but the commercial advertising model is the one they depend on for revenue. Otherwise there would be no TV, no radio and now no internet. If you are willing to just press mute and or skip via TIVO they're willing to let you keep watching at the same price whatever that is. Its a gamble on both ends. Not that you shouldn't complain about it if you feel its a problem, but keep in mind that the result is probably going to be higher prices. Everyone complains that ISPs are advertising x and you're paying for it. Sure they're counting on you not noticing the overselling and not reading the fine print. But the bottom line is you would not be able to buy it at all if you really want it that way. Advertising is a broken business model that only works because SOME people actually watch commercials and are influenced by them. Overselling bandwidth is a similar broken business model but it works for a similar reason in that only a few people fully utilize and only a few people are interested in complaining about it.
I would love to see a statistical analysis of taxes paid vs bandwidth between those ISPs in countries people keep raving about doing so well providing internet vs US. People keep saying how the internet in the US sucks compared to so in so country. Well if you consider how many people are actually using a particular network you might see where the problem is. In the US we're lazy and consumption spoiled. You can get almost anything at any time. The quality of that which you get is mostly based on what you pay. Pay less, get less, pay more get more. This "rule" doesn't always work out but if you are a careful shopper it may work out for you. That's all anyone can count on unless one gets off one's ass and produces their own product. In some other country that may have much more taxpayer subsidy or a smaller number of users to support or a smaller percentage of users to support or a smaller land mass to cover maybe they are getting better service. It's a lot easier to support 10 users than 10,000. Its a lot easier to support 10sq miles than 10,000sq miles. If you want to keep griping, I challenge you to produce a service that is superior to that which is available. Talk to me in a decade.
YOU are apparently under the impression that wealth is available in fixed supply. Wealth is PRODUCED by effort. More people does not necessarily have to result in fewer resources. In fact, were the vast majority of people to change their attitudes that wealth is some how deserved instead of earned, then we could produce any amount of resources. It is obvious that a small minority of people are achievers producing a vast amount of wealth. Increase the number of achievers, increase wealth. Longer lives represent a possibility to learn more than a shorter living species. Given time the results could be even better than what we have now. Do not always assume it must get worse.
ps: being tolerant and using your brain. I blame that on this uber tiny comment box.
Welp. Considering that I always read at -1 mod points means nothing to me. There was a while when I used to get mod points but then I got pretty slack about using them when I failed to find anything interesting enough to mod. So I stopped getting mod points. Frankly I wonder about people who are so offended by any of the lamo comments that moderation actually means something to them. So much so that you talk about whether it's broken or not and seem to go on and on analyzing the mod system instead of what the actual story or comments mean. Where ever you go on the internet, you find a mixture of lame and brilliant comments. The brilliant ones and even just interesting ones give you an overall view of who is using their brains. The lame ones give you an overall view of how lame the lame get. Its somewhat entertaining. Although I doubt any of this is going to advance the planet much, but I think if you're going to read comments on anything, being tolerant your brain is more useful than any protection you might think you need from a moderation system.
Except that you forgot that the cardboard itself will be the display material and so all sides WILL have animated ads on them. But wait! there's more. Need low power consumption? Suppose the box can detect what side is facing the brightest light? Then that side must be facing the isle. Now you only have to animate that side. Now supposing the box can detect movement. Now it only has to animate when a customer walks by. Supposing even further that rows of boxes can detect each other and communicate. Now you have an entire shelf sized or even isle sized ad. Suppose even further that boxes have photovoltaic cells on them too. Now all you need is nice bright grocery store lights for perpetual animating ads. But wait! suppose the box is even smarter and it can detect its content level! Now you have a screaming franticly animated ad on your breakfast table begging you to resupply!
Because of course there are so many more monkeys than humans. Whats the monkey count now? 8billion? Oh wait...
The unfortunate problem here is that you don't realize that reproduction is not a goal oriented process. DNA doesn't want to reproduce; it just does. Humans have so much more brain than is needed to survive that we could be much much dumber and still keep going. Even if we are not as smart and thinking as we could be, we still are the only species we know of capable of leaving the planet. It has been said that cock roaches will be here even if we blow it all up. I'd like to point out that cockroaches will not be builing any spaceships and we could be meticulous enough to ensure that no cockroach dna leaves the planet. That isnt to say that we will be that meticulous but we could if we so desired.
Human population is still on the rise even considering any engineering you speak of. Dumb or not, we're succeding more and more, for the good or bad. Yes I'd like people to think more and be smarter. But the fact is, all you suggest is not required until it becomes obvious that we must leave the planet to survive, and do so persistently. Even at that, we may already be more intellectually advanced than required for that task as complicated as it seems. Just as conceptual steam engines were known even in Roman times but they had too many slave to care about engines, we could leave Earth and build more complex technology but we havent been pushed by a need. Adaptation is driven by changing environments, change so drastic that only improved generations can survive. Our environment does not yet drive us to produce. We may still yet advance even without that push, but don't hold your breath. Thinkers are rare and precious. If you only consider that once in a few million a really smart guy like Einstein might be born, then simply increasing the population might eventually produce the brains you require. Or not.
except that copyright trolls have some copyrights to troll with. SCO plainly doesnt have any according to 1.1(b)
except you forgot to read the addendum 1.1(b) which specificly excludes all copyright
Except that he SAID HE WAS AN UBUNTU EXPERIENCED PERSON. I was aghast when the reviewer said he couldnt figure out how to shutdown the machine from the ui especially since he's experienced with ubuntu! While I admit that not a lot of computer illiterates would make it very far, the reviewer cant both claim experience of ubuntu and unable to find that shutting down the system from the ui includes a trip to the logout thingy.
OTOH, I find the jab 'intalling Vista is criminal' to be pretty funny and a good comment on the state of the industry. Shame on you m$. Now of course you'll be looking for zealots, linux ones I suppose. Sorry my 2 main machines are win xp pro sp2 as are my wife's and 2 kids machines. I just happen to have an ubuntu box and 2 freebsd ones. fbsd ftw! for the last decade server wise but frankly, I still prefer the windows desktop in user land. PC hosted unix-a-like has become much better but guys, please drag in the game makers and user friendly designers or it'll be m$ forever
Most eloquently put. That pretty much makes my day and this session of
mmm no what its really more like is slander. You take a narative that makes fair sense with some pictures representing what the narrator is talking about, then you totally misrepresent it to make it easier to call garbage. Now that you have garbage you can more easily convince your choir that it has to be design since nothing that complicated could have come together by accident. So you've convinced everyone that science is no good thus god is designer.
Slander.
I dont know where you got that idea. 120 times per second you have a possible chance to let go (AC at 60Hz, the voltage is 0 twice per cycle) compared to DC where the voltage is constantly non-0. I wouldnt challenge you to set up a 110vdc vs 110vac comparitive experiment, but from experience, I promise you: DC hurts MUCH worse.
and especially if you say direct current current
What do you call successful marketting if not creative?
People are also fond of calling republics democracies.
Democracy: people vote and the power and law are made directly (volatile)
Republic: people vote and representatives implement the power and law (slow change over time, more stable)
As for capitalism being fair (or not), my grandma always said, "If you dont work you dont eat."
Fairness doesnt come from the marketting scheme per se, but from ethical practice. There are rich and poor, fair and unfair people. In theory those that do the most valuable work or inovate the most valuable products make the most money. In practice ethics can fail. Given this, capitalism already is the most fair possible marketting scheme avaiable. If you cant put forth the effort to provide a valuable product, you will be poor. In another point if you dont use your brain while practicing the system, you will fall victom to those practicing bad ethics. It is when large groups of people do not use their brains that large groups of people fall to even mediocre semi-fair but marginal ethics. Use your power to fire those companies who's products you dont like. Done in volume even large companies with bad ethics can be put down. It is the assumption of people who feel they have no power that keeps large unethical companies in business. However, lazy fat people rarely care if they are being screwed. Thus, everyone thinks capitalism is unfair.
By contrast, socialism is a system where by many lazy uninventive people with voting power cry that no one has given them anything and politicians wanting power cater to that outcry. Thus the few earners and inovators are forced to support the masses.
In essence, the definition of 'fair' has been skewed.
Except that your long post goes on about an entity that currently does not exist. The free industrialized world nations that you know today are representative republics. Democracy is where everyone votes and power and law are decided based on the outcome directly. A republic is where everyone votes but the power and law are implemented by representatives.
Hey! You know what? Thats good! It shows that the (partially) free market in still at work and doing well. Unions drive up the price of labor (a commodity like entity) and thwart performance. Union employees are asked to provide mediocre labor to keep the work available longer and easier to perform. Its in the union rules most of the time how much work can be performed to prevent overburdonning members. Remember when labor performance incured a reward in the form of a raise? Not if you're unionized you don't remember. Union members make rate. So it doesnt matter how hard you work and your buddy is a slouch you both get paid the same. If a boss tries to fire the slouch the union board steps in and says hey hold on here a minute you cant fire our union member. Remember when bad performanced incured a punishment in the form of dismissal? I doubt you do if you're a union member. Unless labor is priced as a result of supply/demand then it is artificially priced. If there are 2million ppl who can do your job its going to have LOW VALUE. Too bad! Have some ambition and learn some more valuable skills or work longer hours. This is how business men made successful companies. By insisting on unions and government enforced minimum wages you cripple the labor market and all those companies who must now RAISE THE PRICE OF GOODS. As a result higher pay results not in higher buying power but simply INFLATION.
And btw, your health is not the responsibility of your employer or the govt. IT IS YOURS!
Exactly again, see comment above reguarding digging, easements, and poles
Exactly. Imo it is a lack of understanding of 'building infrastructure." People talk about multiple sets of wires without realizing what that means. Do you realize that power and telephone poles are owned by the companies that have installed them? If you plant a power pole you have to have purchased either property or an easement on property to place that pole. How many subdivisions or other residence concentrations would have enough land or easement space available for purchase for these multiple sets of wires AND poles. Do you expect the pole owners to give way? If a property owner has been forced to give easement do you expect the government to continue to force that property owner to give easement until he has no property? Can residential neighborhoods even exist with that sort of easement competition?
I challenge you in a residential area to see how much you have to go through to string up a private cable across the street to your private neighbor or to tunnel under the ground. You'll have to have agreement from pole owners, pole leasers and road owners. Unless you have a lot more money than its worth, you'll not be doing it legally.
There is a heirarchy on the poles: power, catv, pots, other
Its not always in the same order but where ever your service falls, you have to have an agreement with those other services in the heirarchy to string cable. Pole owners are not going to make agreements with ever person and their brother to string cable, and dont even get me into trenching and tunnelling.
The largest infrastructure of poles is power. Most of the power companies own most of the poles. There are areas where telcoms own poles and maybe even where catv owns poles, but I challenge you to find space on a set of poles when and a legal agreement to string cable without VAST change in government structure.
Good luck.
well...um....there's nothing strange about steam in submarines, nuclear plants produce steam to ultimately produce electricity
Citizen, you can go one better: Do not accept faith in reality. You can test it every moment by breathing, pumping blood, typing, remaining in contact with tera firma... need i go on? You have direct testable and falsifiable evidence surrounding you constantly. Drop the word faith from your vocabulary. I'm sure someone will attempt to debunk this statement as many have given many examples of faith in science but these are false. There is never any need to have faith in science. Everything we rely upon in science is testable any time you care to bother. If parts of science you are accepting without doing large scale experimentation, perhaps you have seen that these parts add up well. Thus they are not faith but only unlikely to be false and well documented by past science that only a small shred of evidence is enough to convince you that further experimentation is not required. That is, I jump and return to the ground every time. Not an amazing experiment but it IS fair confirmation that mean old mr gravity is still working. Have no faith. You only need science based experience.