Until they actually make wearable tech that is actually waterproof; it isn't usable really. When you can wear one exercising and void the warrantee because water got in... worthless.
Anyway, for me they are totally missing the mark. I don't give a flying flip how many steps I've walked. I'm an old fart that wants my smart watch to automatically check BP and heart rate and buzz like hell if it gets outside the parameters I set. Vibrating on the wrist when a phone call comes in is good. Displaying caller ID is good. But I have too bloody much stuff trying to talk to me already... curmudgeonly snort!
Restaurant refused to accept a sack full of pennies for a meal and called the police on the poor chap. The judge ruled that a merchant refusing legal tender for a debt just gave away the merchandise.
Cashless may be the wave of the future but just might not be legal to refuse cash yet.
I hate to disappoint "The Hill" but this kind of thing was stock and trade for cold war era antics. And the way the article was written; you would think it was edited by a 2nd grader that can't find the term DSRV anywhere or look up the evolution of deep diving vessels that manipulate things on the ocean floor.
Gad, you can rent one for repairing underwater oil pipelines from offshore rigs. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/7c/15/5b7c158be3ce5919e596f468b6a1ac4f.jpg
Check the doors, roads coming in, windows next to doors. You will probably find words to the effect of, "Entering this facility constitutes consent to identification and search." along with a bunch of legal code gobbledygook that cites the authority to do that under Federal law and legal code in the local jurisdiction. You are giving implicit consent whenever you walk in the door.
So far, posted signs giving implicit consent have stood up in court. Yep, kinda crappy.
Amen to the crazy dive watch battery replacement cost. I considered getting a pressure box so I could redo the watch and seals myself. Then found a better solution.
I traded in my Seiko dive watch with the battery for an antique old school self winding watch... hasn't needed anything but the occasional wash down for ten years.
Bio monitoring. I bought one of the cheaper ones that does heart rate, blood pressure, etc. It also does steps walked, sleep monitoring, buzzes your wrist on a phone call, and displays sms messages on the unit. $39 plus shipping. Hey, after a respiratory virus set off atrial fibrillation; I got concerned.
The downside, I'm on my third monitor sold as "waterproof to 15 meters" that fails if you sweat on it a lot. No more warrantee replacements because I'm "abusing" my unit.
Wearable tech is a promise that doesn't fulfill in my book.
High energy UV can penetrate the dead layer of skin and cause chemical changes in the living skin cells. Enough of this over enough time and you can get chemical changes that trigger runaway cell growth... cancer. That is a current working theory since UV doesn't penetrate with the amount of energy needed to ionize the DNA inside the nucleus.
But what about sustained and highly-localised energy inputs?
Bingo, sustained and highly localised. A 300 milliWatt transmitter in a cellphone that is only near the body while transmitting on an intermittent basis is neither sustained, highly localized, nor high power at all.
Yeah, if you kick up the power of a radio transmitter by a half dozen Fermi numbers; you get eddy currents induced in nerve clusters and can have a seizure leading to death. That is why you do a lock out/tag out before approaching high power transmitter antennas, working on wave guides, disconnecting transmitter coaxial cable, or anything that can expose you to high energy RF. An analogy would be worrying about the hazards of old #2 pencils because a full grown redwood tree and crush a tank when cut down.
The power used in a pocket size cellphone is so low that you can get kids radios to play with that put out more power.
Cancer is caused by far more than ionising radiation. Is it within the realm of possibility that localised heating of cell contents by microwaves could cause damage to cell machinery for replication control? Or cause localised unwinding of DNA to expose repressed genes for transcription? Both are possible.
Yes, Cancer can be caused by more than ionizing radiation. In fact, cancerous cell growth is one of the more rare outcomes of bombarding cells with ionizing radiation. Cancerous cell growth can be caused by mutagenic chemicals, irritant chemicals, viruses, and inherited genetics. One form of cancer, is actually caused by a non-ionizing radiation. The one type of cancer that has been shown to be caused by non ionizing radiation is melanoma of the skin caused by decades of exposure to high energy ultraviolet radiation. (Cause vector is considered to be chemical reactions in the plasm of the cells instead of DNA damage such as with ionizing radiation.) Microwaves are of the wrong frequency to ionize animal cells. What microwaves can do, if the power is high enough, is to cook animals cells. Water has a covalent bond that is not symmetrical and can be vibrated by induced magnetic fields of the proper frequency. i.e. Microwave ovens.
California listens to many nut jobs instead of looking at the issue. A pocket size cellular phone is limited to 300 milliWatts of broadcast power. This maximum is so frigging low you can't show any effects with dozens of generations of test animals. A full size cellular phone (wall mount Marine unit) or a phone attached to a booster has a maximum 5 watt output power.
If such RF signals could possibly cause tumors you would think the many decades of police, fire, Citizen's Band, and HAM radio would have given some indication of causing tumors with their much higher power radio transmitters.
Radio signals held next to the head causing cancer was shown to be hooey over 20 years ago. And an article that says "tumors" without saying what type of tumors in which organ is a grand indication of more hooey fake science.
I'll just say that the two years I spent working at Chalk River, Ontario I found my Virgin Mobile account to be cheaper than my U.S. minimum price AT&T phone. And I have a decades old cheaper contract with AT&T they keep trying to get me to let go of so they can raise my rates. I keep turning down new iPhones for free.
An even bigger racket is needed a prescription to get parts of a CPAP.
On a trip I dropped and stepped on a mask. There was a medical appliance store at the shopping center right next to a Subway. Could I get a new mask? NO, not without a current prescription within six months. This isn't for the programmable breathing appliance but for the plastic mask on the end of a hose. I had to pay way too much for express shipping to get one out of Canada.
Johnson was really miffed that certain Pork Barrel spying Senators got the planned launch vehicle engine refurbishing facility moved out of Texas. They never did get to refurbishing the ginormous Saturn V engines.
If traveling I-10 across the Louisiana/Mississippi line pay attention. If the rework facility is testing a launch engine at night; you can see a hell of a light show even as far away as the Interstate.
"Why would we have to worry about determining a specific quantity of gravity? Why would the budget for 1G versus 0.5G reflect a significant difference in cost?"
Cost of continuous acceleration or rotation to attain the simulation of gravity. Cost, not as in dollars, but cost as in resources that have to be expended for the desired result.
I learned that in a serialized Heinlein story published in Boy's Life magazine back when I was 8 years old.
The big issue is loss of bone density under lower gravity.
How much bone loss can be tolerated and be able to re-acclimate to a planetary gravity level in a reasonable amount of time. Are there any long term health effects from reduced bone density then returning to a full gravity field? Is there a threshold of lower gravity when bone density loss starts?... some of the questions ISS produced data to answer.
Ever hear of "isometric exercise"? That is a space program developed technique for mitigating loss of muscle tone in micro-gravity and cramped spacecraft.
What is the point of a serious space program if you aren't working towards manned voyages? Without working towards that eventual goal; it is just expensive physics experiments.
"Define ECONOMIC SENSE. Is economic sense calculating the total cost of using renewable energy sources AND their minimal carbon footprint?... Or is economic sense to use coal/oil/gas count only the price of extraction/transport/energy-generation? Because that is how things usually work with people arguing that fossil fuels make more economic sense than renewables. The fossil fuel pundits never count the cost of the enormous carbon footprint of coal/oil/gas and the cost of the damage that carbon footprint does. Once you factor that in, the picture of the argument that coal/oil/gas make superior economic sense looks a lot weaker. The basic truth is that coal/oil/gas are wreaking havoc in the life support system of this planet (hint: the part of your environment that produces oxygen for you to breathe) that makes them a liability, economically, environmentally and even in the USA they will eventually become a liability politically. Coal/oil/gas is already a political liability in much of the rest of the world. But do continue to argue in favour of coal/oil/gas and ignore the fact that wind/solar/battery are already cheaper than coal and according to the summary they are now getting cheaper than gas. You seem like to type who'll enjoy being like one of those guys 20 years ago who kept arguing long after the writing was on the wall that digital cameras will never replace film cameras because of the superior quality of film."
If you are talking about primary source batteries; what do you do with the tons and tons and tons of toxic hazmat from the chemicals produced during the battery's lifetime? If you are talking TESLA type STORAGE batteries; they don't make electricity just store it with huge losses in the conversion going in and coming out both.
For the typical solar panel, it would take 15 years to generate the amount of electricity needed to make one due to the high temperature annealing process required. The mean lifetime of solar panels at full power generation is around 5 years.
With the efficiency of electric motors, electric generators, and conversions for electric to chemical energy in batteries, the overall system is extremely inefficient with a lot of losses. If most of your electric power comes from fossil pants in your area; an electric car causes more fossil fuel to be burned than a typical gasoline engine. It just doesn't get burned in your back yard.
What actually makes sense is using Hydro/Nuclear for base loads. Those techs are most effective when brought to full load and left to run there for months at a time. Fluctuating load to be covered by Coal/Oil/Gas (Daytime run during high use shut down to hot standby after the evening domestic peak) Wind generation in areas where possible to reduce need for Coal/Oil/Gas use. (Geographically and weather dependent. Can't be relied on or even implemented in many areas.) Diesel or Gas turbine for peaking loads when and if needed. (Expensive but on line within an hour from cold shut down.)
If you drop all needs for high capacity loads such as industrial uses; you can change up the model. A bedroom community with no light or heavy industry can be powered by solar/wind and battery leveler with a diesel peaking unit. Rather like the Edison model from the early 20th century that got supplanted by the Westinghouse model of ginormous electric plants running full capacity all the time and expensive long distance transmission lines.
Peaker plants, such as gas turbine plants,have always been the most expensive way to generate electricity. Peaker plants are what you need if you are depending on solar, wind, or both for your base load.
If the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow and the water in the river is way way low; peaker plants all fire up nice.
I have some hand blown wine glasses from the 70s that were actually from a Bistro in France. They hold 4 oz if filled to the brim and 3oz if filled to the proper point for serving.
Starting in the late 1970s; I started hearing that my glasses were too small for a "serving size" of wine. Where did that come from.... what I found was in the first discussion of how much alcohol is bad for a person and how much has a positive health benefit.
The common though was that two ounces, or equivalent, was the maximum in a day to not have any bad health effects. An ounce shot of whiskey or other distilled spirits or 7 ounces of wine, or 16 ounces of beer contained the equivalent of 1 once of alcohol.
Thus was the "serving size" of wine and beer varied to suit of an equivalence out of a medical study. Wine glasses moved from holding a quarter or third cup to holding a full cup of tipple. Bottled and canned beer migrated from 8-12 oz containers (1940s) to full pints...... just an Old Fart observation.
Sidebar: a bottle of distilled spirits or wine can be called a "fifth" and was actually 4/5 quart. Or, coming from the other direction, a fifth of a gallon. 4/5th quart, 1/5 U.S. Gallon, is 757ml. Today, most whiskey bottles and wine bottles are 750ml as a standard size... a "metric fifth"?
Using robots is a bit different from hiring a tough bully with a truncheon which is the classic solution to a noticeable homeless population (Great Depression). When an area has only one area where the homeless won't be harassed or molested; there gets to be a bit of a name for it. i.e. Hooverville, Hobo Jungle, Public Camp. What is the name for it in your community?
In the U.S. Civil war; it was called "Soldier's Heart". In World War 1; it was called "Shell Shock". In World War 2; it was called "Battle Fatigue".
The term "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" was first coined during the Vietnam Conflict. PTSD combines conditions with common symptomology from divergent environment stressors. Battle Fatigue, Survivor's Guilt, and reliving disasters all can show the same symptoms. PTSD isn't a "recent thing" but an evolving recognition of the fact that when you go through HELL; you can't forget it. You cope with the visit to hell. Some cope well from their time in hell. Others don't cope with hell memories too well.
Until some Dr. Feelgood markets a truly effective eye bleach and mental floss; there will be PTSD.
You do realize that in many states it is now unlawful to set up a muni wifi?
The large ISPs have gotten court orders to shut down muni wifi as it is government directly competing with private business. Direct competition even if the ISP doesn't provide service to small town and rural areas.
That was one reason net neutrality, keeping an ISP out of personal business, was so necessary.
My personal experience with muni wifi is very very bad. When you fill wifi with inserted advertisements making reading anything with a web browser a frustrating exercise in clicking multiple windows closed with each paragraph it can be not worth the effort. When you load down a wifi access point with so much net nanny filters that "nail gun" gets blocked as a terrorist weapon; even checking prices at Home Depot. (Raspberries to the Virginia town I'm thinking of. Had to buy a molasses slow air-card to actually do any business across the net on that job.)
The article is a bit clueless. Comcast and AT&T have quietly bought out the internet backbone companies that actually run the internet. With acquisitions and buy outs; the duopoly of Comcast and AT&T have acquired a majority of the ISP companies that provide connection to the internet for most of the U.S.
Now, they have won a victory in a battle that they have been playing since the mid 1990s making it lawful for an ISP to edit, throttle, and control what their customers can do on the internet.
Even if you can get the capitol to create a new small local ISP company; it is now legal for the duopoly who runs the internet backbone to muck with the ability of a new service provider to provide service. The FTC fines if they are caught are inconsequential compared to the benefits of proving only the big boys can play here.
The big telecom companies first got net neutrality put in as a regulation (1996) by being greedy when they finally got into the internet business. The repeated court challenges to net neutrality got it put into a long winded regulation in 2015. By bribing or bullshitting their way into getting the regulation of the internet tossed out; Comcast and AT&T are daring the public to push for making net neutrality a law instead of a regulation.
We have been dared. Shall we take up the dare and write our Congressional representatives? This might just be one issue that Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian can agree on; giving control of the internet in the U.S. to a corporate Duopoly.
A> Control of the majority of internet access (ISPs) B> Between the two companies; owning all the backbone provider companies.
That sure sounds like a cartel of two having a monopoly or damned close to me. C> Can now legally throttle connection speeds, block content, sell information on use of the internet. Will they decline to profit from those, now legal, options?
Thank you lawsuit happy crybabies. Previously, as long as you abide by FAA regulations on hobby aircraft; there was no law requiring registration. Since a few people decided to sue over using unregistered hobby aircraft for money making commercial purposes; now the hobby market has to register ALL hobby aircraft.
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Until they actually make wearable tech that is actually waterproof; it isn't usable really. When you can wear one exercising and void the warrantee because water got in... worthless.
Anyway, for me they are totally missing the mark. I don't give a flying flip how many steps I've walked. I'm an old fart that wants my smart watch to automatically check BP and heart rate and buzz like hell if it gets outside the parameters I set. Vibrating on the wrist when a phone call comes in is good. Displaying caller ID is good. But I have too bloody much stuff trying to talk to me already. .. curmudgeonly snort!
I need to find that court case from the 70s.
Restaurant refused to accept a sack full of pennies for a meal and called the police on the poor chap. The judge ruled that a merchant refusing legal tender for a debt just gave away the merchandise.
Cashless may be the wave of the future but just might not be legal to refuse cash yet.
I hate to disappoint "The Hill" but this kind of thing was stock and trade for cold war era antics.
And the way the article was written; you would think it was edited by a 2nd grader that can't find the term DSRV anywhere or look up the evolution of deep diving vessels that manipulate things on the ocean floor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_rescue_vehicle
Gad, you can rent one for repairing underwater oil pipelines from offshore rigs.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/7c/15/5b7c158be3ce5919e596f468b6a1ac4f.jpg
Check the doors, roads coming in, windows next to doors.
You will probably find words to the effect of, "Entering this facility constitutes consent to identification and search." along with a bunch of legal code gobbledygook that cites the authority to do that under Federal law and legal code in the local jurisdiction. You are giving implicit consent whenever you walk in the door.
So far, posted signs giving implicit consent have stood up in court.
Yep, kinda crappy.
Amen to the crazy dive watch battery replacement cost. I considered getting a pressure box so I could redo the watch and seals myself. Then found a better solution.
I traded in my Seiko dive watch with the battery for an antique old school self winding watch... hasn't needed anything but the occasional wash down for ten years.
Bio monitoring.
I bought one of the cheaper ones that does heart rate, blood pressure, etc. It also does steps walked, sleep monitoring, buzzes your wrist on a phone call, and displays sms messages on the unit. $39 plus shipping. Hey, after a respiratory virus set off atrial fibrillation; I got concerned.
The downside, I'm on my third monitor sold as "waterproof to 15 meters" that fails if you sweat on it a lot. No more warrantee replacements because I'm "abusing" my unit.
Wearable tech is a promise that doesn't fulfill in my book.
So how does non-ionizing UV light cause cancer ?
High energy UV can penetrate the dead layer of skin and cause chemical changes in the living skin cells. Enough of this over enough time and you can get chemical changes that trigger runaway cell growth... cancer. That is a current working theory since UV doesn't penetrate with the amount of energy needed to ionize the DNA inside the nucleus.
But what about sustained and highly-localised energy inputs?
Bingo, sustained and highly localised. A 300 milliWatt transmitter in a cellphone that is only near the body while transmitting on an intermittent basis is neither sustained, highly localized, nor high power at all.
Yeah, if you kick up the power of a radio transmitter by a half dozen Fermi numbers; you get eddy currents induced in nerve clusters and can have a seizure leading to death. That is why you do a lock out/tag out before approaching high power transmitter antennas, working on wave guides, disconnecting transmitter coaxial cable, or anything that can expose you to high energy RF. An analogy would be worrying about the hazards of old #2 pencils because a full grown redwood tree and crush a tank when cut down.
The power used in a pocket size cellphone is so low that you can get kids radios to play with that put out more power.
Cancer is caused by far more than ionising radiation. Is it within the realm of possibility that localised heating of cell contents by microwaves could cause damage to cell machinery for replication control? Or cause localised unwinding of DNA to expose repressed genes for transcription? Both are possible.
Yes, Cancer can be caused by more than ionizing radiation. In fact, cancerous cell growth is one of the more rare outcomes of bombarding cells with ionizing radiation.
Cancerous cell growth can be caused by mutagenic chemicals, irritant chemicals, viruses, and inherited genetics. One form of cancer, is actually caused by a non-ionizing radiation. The one type of cancer that has been shown to be caused by non ionizing radiation is melanoma of the skin caused by decades of exposure to high energy ultraviolet radiation. (Cause vector is considered to be chemical reactions in the plasm of the cells instead of DNA damage such as with ionizing radiation.)
Microwaves are of the wrong frequency to ionize animal cells. What microwaves can do, if the power is high enough, is to cook animals cells. Water has a covalent bond that is not symmetrical and can be vibrated by induced magnetic fields of the proper frequency. i.e. Microwave ovens.
So sorry that California is the 6th largest economy in the world and the breadwinner, by far, for the entire United States.
Economy numbers where nothing is created but illusions and poor produce. Pull the other one, it has bells on.
California listens to many nut jobs instead of looking at the issue.
A pocket size cellular phone is limited to 300 milliWatts of broadcast power. This maximum is so frigging low you can't show any effects with dozens of generations of test animals.
A full size cellular phone (wall mount Marine unit) or a phone attached to a booster has a maximum 5 watt output power.
If such RF signals could possibly cause tumors you would think the many decades of police, fire, Citizen's Band, and HAM radio would have given some indication of causing tumors with their much higher power radio transmitters.
Radio signals held next to the head causing cancer was shown to be hooey over 20 years ago. And an article that says "tumors" without saying what type of tumors in which organ is a grand indication of more hooey fake science.
I just hope the script has less Mary Sue fan fiction vibe than the last disappointing attempt at telling a Star Wars story.
I'll just say that the two years I spent working at Chalk River, Ontario I found my Virgin Mobile account to be cheaper than my U.S. minimum price AT&T phone. And I have a decades old cheaper contract with AT&T they keep trying to get me to let go of so they can raise my rates. I keep turning down new iPhones for free.
An even bigger racket is needed a prescription to get parts of a CPAP.
On a trip I dropped and stepped on a mask. There was a medical appliance store at the shopping center right next to a Subway. Could I get a new mask? NO, not without a current prescription within six months. This isn't for the programmable breathing appliance but for the plastic mask on the end of a hose.
I had to pay way too much for express shipping to get one out of Canada.
1970? That's just like yesterday man!
Oh yell no. I refuse to wake up and be 13 again.
No. Johnson killed Saturn V.
Johnson was really miffed that certain Pork Barrel spying Senators got the planned launch vehicle engine refurbishing facility moved out of Texas. They never did get to refurbishing the ginormous Saturn V engines.
If traveling I-10 across the Louisiana/Mississippi line pay attention. If the rework facility is testing a launch engine at night; you can see a hell of a light show even as far away as the Interstate.
"Why would we have to worry about determining a specific quantity of gravity? Why would the budget for 1G versus 0.5G reflect a significant difference in cost?"
Cost of continuous acceleration or rotation to attain the simulation of gravity.
Cost, not as in dollars, but cost as in resources that have to be expended for the desired result.
I learned that in a serialized Heinlein story published in Boy's Life magazine back when I was 8 years old.
The big issue is loss of bone density under lower gravity. ... some of the questions ISS produced data to answer.
How much bone loss can be tolerated and be able to re-acclimate to a planetary gravity level in a reasonable amount of time. Are there any long term health effects from reduced bone density then returning to a full gravity field? Is there a threshold of lower gravity when bone density loss starts?
Ever hear of "isometric exercise"? That is a space program developed technique for mitigating loss of muscle tone in micro-gravity and cramped spacecraft.
What is the point of a serious space program if you aren't working towards manned voyages? Without working towards that eventual goal; it is just expensive physics experiments.
"Define ECONOMIC SENSE. Is economic sense calculating the total cost of using renewable energy sources AND their minimal carbon footprint? ... Or is economic sense to use coal/oil/gas count only the price of extraction/transport/energy-generation? Because that is how things usually work with people arguing that fossil fuels make more economic sense than renewables. The fossil fuel pundits never count the cost of the enormous carbon footprint of coal/oil/gas and the cost of the damage that carbon footprint does. Once you factor that in, the picture of the argument that coal/oil/gas make superior economic sense looks a lot weaker. The basic truth is that coal/oil/gas are wreaking havoc in the life support system of this planet (hint: the part of your environment that produces oxygen for you to breathe) that makes them a liability, economically, environmentally and even in the USA they will eventually become a liability politically. Coal/oil/gas is already a political liability in much of the rest of the world. But do continue to argue in favour of coal/oil/gas and ignore the fact that wind/solar/battery are already cheaper than coal and according to the summary they are now getting cheaper than gas. You seem like to type who'll enjoy being like one of those guys 20 years ago who kept arguing long after the writing was on the wall that digital cameras will never replace film cameras because of the superior quality of film."
If you are talking about primary source batteries; what do you do with the tons and tons and tons of toxic hazmat from the chemicals produced during the battery's lifetime? If you are talking TESLA type STORAGE batteries; they don't make electricity just store it with huge losses in the conversion going in and coming out both.
For the typical solar panel, it would take 15 years to generate the amount of electricity needed to make one due to the high temperature annealing process required. The mean lifetime of solar panels at full power generation is around 5 years.
With the efficiency of electric motors, electric generators, and conversions for electric to chemical energy in batteries, the overall system is extremely inefficient with a lot of losses. If most of your electric power comes from fossil pants in your area; an electric car causes more fossil fuel to be burned than a typical gasoline engine. It just doesn't get burned in your back yard.
What actually makes sense is using Hydro/Nuclear for base loads. Those techs are most effective when brought to full load and left to run there for months at a time.
Fluctuating load to be covered by Coal/Oil/Gas (Daytime run during high use shut down to hot standby after the evening domestic peak)
Wind generation in areas where possible to reduce need for Coal/Oil/Gas use. (Geographically and weather dependent. Can't be relied on or even implemented in many areas.)
Diesel or Gas turbine for peaking loads when and if needed. (Expensive but on line within an hour from cold shut down.)
If you drop all needs for high capacity loads such as industrial uses; you can change up the model. A bedroom community with no light or heavy industry can be powered by solar/wind and battery leveler with a diesel peaking unit. Rather like the Edison model from the early 20th century that got supplanted by the Westinghouse model of ginormous electric plants running full capacity all the time and expensive long distance transmission lines.
Peaker plants, such as gas turbine plants,have always been the most expensive way to generate electricity. Peaker plants are what you need if you are depending on solar, wind, or both for your base load.
If the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow and the water in the river is way way low; peaker plants all fire up nice.
I have some hand blown wine glasses from the 70s that were actually from a Bistro in France. They hold 4 oz if filled to the brim and 3oz if filled to the proper point for serving. ..... just an Old Fart observation.
Starting in the late 1970s; I started hearing that my glasses were too small for a "serving size" of wine. Where did that come from.... what I found was in the first discussion of how much alcohol is bad for a person and how much has a positive health benefit.
The common though was that two ounces, or equivalent, was the maximum in a day to not have any bad health effects. An ounce shot of whiskey or other distilled spirits or 7 ounces of wine, or 16 ounces of beer contained the equivalent of 1 once of alcohol.
Thus was the "serving size" of wine and beer varied to suit of an equivalence out of a medical study. Wine glasses moved from holding a quarter or third cup to holding a full cup of tipple. Bottled and canned beer migrated from 8-12 oz containers (1940s) to full pints.
Sidebar: a bottle of distilled spirits or wine can be called a "fifth" and was actually 4/5 quart. Or, coming from the other direction, a fifth of a gallon. 4/5th quart, 1/5 U.S. Gallon, is 757ml. Today, most whiskey bottles and wine bottles are 750ml as a standard size... a "metric fifth"?
Using robots is a bit different from hiring a tough bully with a truncheon which is the classic solution to a noticeable homeless population (Great Depression). When an area has only one area where the homeless won't be harassed or molested; there gets to be a bit of a name for it. i.e. Hooverville, Hobo Jungle, Public Camp. What is the name for it in your community?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/e/e0/20090312174935%21Hobo_Jungle.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States
In the U.S. Civil war; it was called "Soldier's Heart".
In World War 1; it was called "Shell Shock".
In World War 2; it was called "Battle Fatigue".
The term "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" was first coined during the Vietnam Conflict. PTSD combines conditions with common symptomology from divergent environment stressors. Battle Fatigue, Survivor's Guilt, and reliving disasters all can show the same symptoms. PTSD isn't a "recent thing" but an evolving recognition of the fact that when you go through HELL; you can't forget it. You cope with the visit to hell. Some cope well from their time in hell. Others don't cope with hell memories too well.
Until some Dr. Feelgood markets a truly effective eye bleach and mental floss; there will be PTSD.
You do realize that in many states it is now unlawful to set up a muni wifi?
The large ISPs have gotten court orders to shut down muni wifi as it is government directly competing with private business. Direct competition even if the ISP doesn't provide service to small town and rural areas.
That was one reason net neutrality, keeping an ISP out of personal business, was so necessary.
My personal experience with muni wifi is very very bad. When you fill wifi with inserted advertisements making reading anything with a web browser a frustrating exercise in clicking multiple windows closed with each paragraph it can be not worth the effort. When you load down a wifi access point with so much net nanny filters that "nail gun" gets blocked as a terrorist weapon; even checking prices at Home Depot. (Raspberries to the Virginia town I'm thinking of. Had to buy a molasses slow air-card to actually do any business across the net on that job.)
The article is a bit clueless. Comcast and AT&T have quietly bought out the internet backbone companies that actually run the internet. With acquisitions and buy outs; the duopoly of Comcast and AT&T have acquired a majority of the ISP companies that provide connection to the internet for most of the U.S.
Now, they have won a victory in a battle that they have been playing since the mid 1990s making it lawful for an ISP to edit, throttle, and control what their customers can do on the internet.
Even if you can get the capitol to create a new small local ISP company; it is now legal for the duopoly who runs the internet backbone to muck with the ability of a new service provider to provide service. The FTC fines if they are caught are inconsequential compared to the benefits of proving only the big boys can play here.
The big telecom companies first got net neutrality put in as a regulation (1996) by being greedy when they finally got into the internet business. The repeated court challenges to net neutrality got it put into a long winded regulation in 2015. By bribing or bullshitting their way into getting the regulation of the internet tossed out; Comcast and AT&T are daring the public to push for making net neutrality a law instead of a regulation.
We have been dared. Shall we take up the dare and write our Congressional representatives? This might just be one issue that Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian can agree on; giving control of the internet in the U.S. to a corporate Duopoly.
A> Control of the majority of internet access (ISPs)
B> Between the two companies; owning all the backbone provider companies.
That sure sounds like a cartel of two having a monopoly or damned close to me.
C> Can now legally throttle connection speeds, block content, sell information on use of the internet. Will they decline to profit from those, now legal, options?
Thank you lawsuit happy crybabies.
Previously, as long as you abide by FAA regulations on hobby aircraft; there was no law requiring registration.
Since a few people decided to sue over using unregistered hobby aircraft for money making commercial purposes; now the hobby market has to register ALL hobby aircraft.
Thank you scammers for screwing up a decent deal.