"You have to go to the ethnic restaurants to get real seafood."
Sheesh, you are confusing fast food with a restaurant. Picking up a box of fried cod or pollock filets with some sides on the way home from work is a far cry from going out to a restaurant with a chef instead of a teenage "fry cook".
"How can you possibly be so ILLITERATE and post a response? Women self selected for this."
If you could go work in an office with a window, make more money, wear fancier clothing to work, and actually have to do less work than you were doing on the tech side, wouldn't you?
Just thinking of the 70s and 80s where so many female co-workers opted to leave the low paying tech end and move to office management. So many middle managers that desperately needed an "assistant" that could actually operate a copying machine, print out an online document, and even be able to read a spreadsheet printed out on double wide fan-fold out of the line printer. And "executive assistant" paid 1.5-2.0 times the salary of a technician.
That is the main objection to removing the classification of the internet as a public utility and moving the administration of internet issues to the Trade Commission; who investigates a monopoly doing reprehensible things.
The FTC only investigates if there is a legal challenge to what a company is doing and it takes lawyers and years. As a public utility, the companies have to get permission to change how they do business and public comment is done prior to decisions being made. Obviously, the current FCC head does not like public comment at all.
"They could solve this by saying 95% of subscribers have to have the "standard" service, and they can give 5% a different service. That should basically preserve the spirit of neutrality whilst allowing exceptions."
It is called buying a larger bandwidth ISP service package to get higher speeds. It comes down to what an ISP is. Is an ISP a provider of a connection to the world wide networks of the internet or is it like cable TV where the owners decide what you can have available and you can buy "premium" services if you can afford it.
Throttling is just a sneaky way of censoring what you are allowed to read and watch.
5G? We are talking about the internet not cellular service. Having a cellular link to the internet is certainly a telecom issue and regulated as a utility. Cellular bandwidth is contracted as a finite resource. Only a very very small fraction of internet traffic impacts with cellular service. The cell companies never bothered to implement 4G so what makes you think they will upgrade to 5G? (In the rest of the world, 4GLTE is 4G lite or 3G+)
The low cutoff for being considered "broadband" is 25 Mbps which was fought tooth and nail by Comcast & AT&T as they are not providing a "broadband" connection to most of their customers even though their rate plans call the wimpier plans "broadband".
It is hard to compare the internet and packet switched radio with a gateway to the internet but the speeds really tell it: 5G tech for cellular, which has been out in Japan since 2013, is supposed to be a 1Gbps service. Verizon 4Glte is 3.5 Mbps and AT&T 4G is 2.2 MBps
And the decline in U.S. Health Care started when the Democratic agenda took government regulation of health care away from the Surgeon General and gave it to the bureaucrats of the HEW Department. Republican Agenda... we are spending too much on health care. We need a more efficient system, preferably a private one instead of bureaucratic. Democratic agenda... change health care so it provides less service and costs more from the public coffers. The latest debacle is trying to convince people that insurance equals service. If that were true, my car insurance would change my oil and gas up my car.
The health care system needs help and a lot of work. A sinecure for insurance companies is not the answer to overpriced and low availability of health care.
There is no such thing as "total bandwidth". There is "total traffic" for a given period of time. Bandwidth is akin to the size water pipe you have running to your house. You can only get so much through it before the flow degrades. You rent a pipe from the ISP and it is irrelevant how much you bring through the pipe as it costs the ISP the same for a Megabit or a Gigabit of data coming through.
Companies that have financial stakes in content providers and are also retail internet service providers want net neutrality kaboshed.
Content providers that make more money from having people access their services want net neutrality to continue.
A level playing field benefits consumers and content providers. Making the internet into a "commodity" only benefits the ISPs that own content providers as they can then block and throttle anyone they don't own.
An ISP sells a connection to the network. You pay for the pipe size you want. The bigger the pipe, the higher the cost.
Selling internet by the gigabit or megabit is a heinous crock of shite as there is no more cost to providing more data once the pipe is put in. Mo money, mo money, mo money, less service. It is not like time sharing on a cell tower; the wire is in, you have the pipeline to the backbone. The only problem is when an ISP oversells their retail connections higher than the pipe to the backbone they are willing to pay for.
An ISP is NOT a content provider. That an ISP wants to throttle anything they don't have a financial stake in is just trying to give the golden goose an enema. Comcast and AT&T mergering their way into a duopoly doesn't mean the the structure of a network has changed. It just means they are trying to leverage every mite and shekel they can.
Moving from considering the internet as a "utility" to considering it as a "commodity" means the big bucks will buy and control it all instead of the level playing field the internet has been since inception.
I'd love to see an explanation how distancing the end use of energy from the source of generation is more efficient.
As electric motors are maximum 28% efficient (power factor) and electric generators at the power plant are maximum 28% efficient; how do you get a high efficiency out of the whole system? Electric car scenario. Burn fuel Boil water Turn turbine generating electricity (with losses) Send down long distance transmission lines (with losses) Charge a battery (with losses) run a motor (with losses) regenerative braking to recharge battery (with losses)
ICE scenario Burn fuel to turn engine (with heat losses) Tap engine movement to drive wheels. (friction losses)
With the losses every time you convert the form of energy and the efficiency issues in the conversion; it seems that electric cars would actually burn more fuel just not in your back yard (the roadway).
"If someone can put you out of business simply by copying what you are doing, maybe it means you're a shit company who isn't doing it very well."
If you have enough fiscal leverage, certainly you can. Microsoft has been doing that since the 1980s. Sell out to us or we will just roll your software into the OS and eliminate your market.
The government needs to be consistent in its oversight nuclear power plants to justifiable engineering standards rather than pandering to the political opinion of the moment.
Light water reactors such as used in the U.S. were originally designed for a 40 year lifespan. The limiting item is neutron embrittlement of the core pressure vessel. When you hear about a license being "extended" it means that based on samples of the core vessel being tested, it is good to go for a longer period of time.
Licenses are extended beyond the original design criteria based on hard science not political opinion.
Academics often pontificate on subjects that have been studied for years by "amateurs" whose work they totally discount because no Piled higher and Deeper letters are attached.
On the subject of cooking in the 1700s; it has been studied to the point that Wm. Townsend & Sons has been running a series on that very subject for several years. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr2d4As312LulcajAkKJYw
If you want an Elizabethan era cookbook translated for a modern kitchen; contact your local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. (Unless you want to figure out a gill of milk and a fist of ginger yourself)
If you want to talk 19th century cooking; try the Civil War reinactors.
I've seen so many academic "studies" that just filed the author's names off niche group publications and claimed credit for the research done by the "amateurs".
Taste in food changes with a culture. Consider "frumenti". Supposedly it was Shakespear's favorite treat. To me, frumenti is still sour fermented flour and fruit suitable only for catfish bait.
Media English is taking over. It isn't "American English" or the "Queen's English" it is that commonly used screen and video language patterns are becoming the norm and dialects are becoming a thing of the past or at least only used by the "ignorant fly over country". You don't hear a lot of colloquialisms anymore unless you consider "leetspeak" and "textish" to be dialects.
Numbers from 1993, INPO report released to utility plants:
Nuclear Power in the U.S. generated 7,000,000,000 Curies of low level radioactive waste in a year. The hazardous waste was accounted for, controlled, and put into a certified for 5000 year hazmat burial facilities.
Based on the percentage of pitchblende (uranium ore) in coal and the amount of coal burned for electric power generation; coal fired plants put 300,000 Curies of radioactive material into the atmosphere each week.
Do that math... kind of scary. The good thing is that it is Uranium. Uranium will give you heavy metal poisoning with symptoms akin to lead poisoning long before the radiation will cause a health effect. (yes, this comment is snark)
Radioactive emissions due to "naturally occurring" radioactive material are not regulated. Most of the drinking water in the U.S. contains traces of radioactive material. There are radon decay products plating out with the morning dew. You can't get away from low levels of radioactive materials anywhere on the planet. This is not a man made phenomenon but men can cause higher concentrations in localized areas or raise the worldwide background levels. (atmospheric bomb testing and chernobyl were the historical sources)
Personal anecdote: This bit about radioactive material in coal really became obvious to me when at one utility; they brought in mechanics and instrument techs from the coal fired plants to help with a refueling outage at the nuclear plant. ALL of the company workers from the coal plant had to have new uniforms and safety shoes supplied because they couldn't pass the exit radiation monitors wearing clothes that had been repeatedly exposed to coal dust and fly ash.
TSA and the department of Homeland Security keep saying there is no viable bomb detection equipment usable in airports. Yet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been requiring automated bomb detectors at entry portals to licensed facilities since the early 1990s. In the early 2000s; automated machinery was developed for Border Patrol to detect explosive materials hidden in truck loads of other materials that could easily be used for luggage scanning.
Why the TSA continues with ineffectual, intrusive, painfully stupid, protocols seems to be just sheer circus drama that provides nothing extra in the way of security.
When I'm flying, I can't help thinking of flying Lufthansa between German cities during elevated terrorist alert conditions back in the 90s. The Lufthansa solution was not more pre-boarding screening but to post a body armored security person in front and back of the plane armed with a sub-machine gun loaded with rubber ammunition. (I asked the guard about the cabin integrity issue at altitude. BTW, rubber bullets are are still lethal but don't put holes in walls and airplane cabins that would kill bystanders.)
According to Apple, iPhones have an operating temperature ambient situated between 32 and 95 Fahrenheit, that's 0 and 35 Celsius. The manufacturer also provides information about a non-operating temperature interval ranging between -4 to 113 F, that's -20 to 45 C.Nov 29, 2014
Liquid crystal displays fade to unreadable around -20F and become totally black around 105F. Both temperatures can be experienced working outside in some of the Rocky Mountain regions. In winter, the phone is kept in a t-shirt pocket inside the warm clothes and will work for a few minutes after removing. In summer, you keep your phone in a zip lock bag in the cooler full of water bottles.
If you really need a wider temperature range on a phone; you go with a Panasonic Tough Phone https://panasonicbts.factoryoutletstore.com/details/154793/panasonic-fz-e1bbcazzm.html?category_id=52208&catalogitemid=137947
Come to think of it, with the high price of the walled garden phone that is the iPhone X; the $1800 for a tough phone doesn't look as ridiculous as it once did.
Huge issue with bluetooth and video... out of sync audio. Bluetooth is laggy. Not an issue if you are just listening to music but the latency issue crops up frequently with video.
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"You have to go to the ethnic restaurants to get real seafood."
Sheesh, you are confusing fast food with a restaurant.
Picking up a box of fried cod or pollock filets with some sides on the way home from work is a far cry from going out to a restaurant with a chef instead of a teenage "fry cook".
Yep, paternity leave existed on the books.
But, in the 1980s, try to take paternity and you got shitty evals because you were "gaming the system".
"How can you possibly be so ILLITERATE and post a response? Women self selected for this."
If you could go work in an office with a window, make more money, wear fancier clothing to work, and actually have to do less work than you were doing on the tech side, wouldn't you?
Just thinking of the 70s and 80s where so many female co-workers opted to leave the low paying tech end and move to office management. So many middle managers that desperately needed an "assistant" that could actually operate a copying machine, print out an online document, and even be able to read a spreadsheet printed out on double wide fan-fold out of the line printer. And "executive assistant" paid 1.5-2.0 times the salary of a technician.
That is the main objection to removing the classification of the internet as a public utility and moving the administration of internet issues to the Trade Commission; who investigates a monopoly doing reprehensible things.
The FTC only investigates if there is a legal challenge to what a company is doing and it takes lawyers and years. As a public utility, the companies have to get permission to change how they do business and public comment is done prior to decisions being made.
Obviously, the current FCC head does not like public comment at all.
Where is Amazon actually delivering with their own fleet?
"They could solve this by saying 95% of subscribers have to have the "standard" service, and they can give 5% a different service. That should basically preserve the spirit of neutrality whilst allowing exceptions."
It is called buying a larger bandwidth ISP service package to get higher speeds.
It comes down to what an ISP is. Is an ISP a provider of a connection to the world wide networks of the internet or is it like cable TV where the owners decide what you can have available and you can buy "premium" services if you can afford it.
Throttling is just a sneaky way of censoring what you are allowed to read and watch.
5G?
We are talking about the internet not cellular service. Having a cellular link to the internet is certainly a telecom issue and regulated as a utility. Cellular bandwidth is contracted as a finite resource. Only a very very small fraction of internet traffic impacts with cellular service. The cell companies never bothered to implement 4G so what makes you think they will upgrade to 5G? (In the rest of the world, 4GLTE is 4G lite or 3G+)
The low cutoff for being considered "broadband" is 25 Mbps which was fought tooth and nail by Comcast & AT&T as they are not providing a "broadband" connection to most of their customers even though their rate plans call the wimpier plans "broadband".
It is hard to compare the internet and packet switched radio with a gateway to the internet but the speeds really tell it: 5G tech for cellular, which has been out in Japan since 2013, is supposed to be a 1Gbps service. Verizon 4Glte is 3.5 Mbps and AT&T 4G is 2.2 MBps
No one denies health care.
You just delay treatment and keep them coming back until they die or give up.
And the decline in U.S. Health Care started when the Democratic agenda took government regulation of health care away from the Surgeon General and gave it to the bureaucrats of the HEW Department.
Republican Agenda... we are spending too much on health care. We need a more efficient system, preferably a private one instead of bureaucratic.
Democratic agenda... change health care so it provides less service and costs more from the public coffers. The latest debacle is trying to convince people that insurance equals service. If that were true, my car insurance would change my oil and gas up my car.
The health care system needs help and a lot of work. A sinecure for insurance companies is not the answer to overpriced and low availability of health care.
"Arpaio was conviced for violating the actual constitution and Trump pardoned him."
Not even close. Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court for not following a judge's instructions. That's a far cry from violating the constitution.
There is no such thing as "total bandwidth".
There is "total traffic" for a given period of time.
Bandwidth is akin to the size water pipe you have running to your house. You can only get so much through it before the flow degrades. You rent a pipe from the ISP and it is irrelevant how much you bring through the pipe as it costs the ISP the same for a Megabit or a Gigabit of data coming through.
Pay attention to who is shilling whom.
Companies that have financial stakes in content providers and are also retail internet service providers want net neutrality kaboshed.
Content providers that make more money from having people access their services want net neutrality to continue.
A level playing field benefits consumers and content providers. Making the internet into a "commodity" only benefits the ISPs that own content providers as they can then block and throttle anyone they don't own.
An ISP sells a connection to the network. You pay for the pipe size you want. The bigger the pipe, the higher the cost.
Selling internet by the gigabit or megabit is a heinous crock of shite as there is no more cost to providing more data once the pipe is put in. Mo money, mo money, mo money, less service. It is not like time sharing on a cell tower; the wire is in, you have the pipeline to the backbone. The only problem is when an ISP oversells their retail connections higher than the pipe to the backbone they are willing to pay for.
An ISP is NOT a content provider. That an ISP wants to throttle anything they don't have a financial stake in is just trying to give the golden goose an enema. Comcast and AT&T mergering their way into a duopoly doesn't mean the the structure of a network has changed. It just means they are trying to leverage every mite and shekel they can.
Moving from considering the internet as a "utility" to considering it as a "commodity" means the big bucks will buy and control it all instead of the level playing field the internet has been since inception.
If 60 minutes were available online it would be easy to go back with current documentation to show how they have been faking news for decades.
After the third time of having first hand knowledge of a story 60 minutes edited to spin 180 degrees out from reality; you doubt everything they do.
I'd love to see an explanation how distancing the end use of energy from the source of generation is more efficient.
As electric motors are maximum 28% efficient (power factor) and electric generators at the power plant are maximum 28% efficient; how do you get a high efficiency out of the whole system?
Electric car scenario.
Burn fuel
Boil water
Turn turbine generating electricity (with losses)
Send down long distance transmission lines (with losses)
Charge a battery (with losses)
run a motor (with losses)
regenerative braking to recharge battery (with losses)
ICE scenario
Burn fuel to turn engine (with heat losses)
Tap engine movement to drive wheels. (friction losses)
With the losses every time you convert the form of energy and the efficiency issues in the conversion; it seems that electric cars would actually burn more fuel just not in your back yard (the roadway).
"If someone can put you out of business simply by copying what you are doing, maybe it means you're a shit company who isn't doing it very well."
If you have enough fiscal leverage, certainly you can.
Microsoft has been doing that since the 1980s. Sell out to us or we will just roll your software into the OS and eliminate your market.
The government needs to be consistent in its oversight nuclear power plants to justifiable engineering standards rather than pandering to the political opinion of the moment.
Light water reactors such as used in the U.S. were originally designed for a 40 year lifespan. The limiting item is neutron embrittlement of the core pressure vessel. When you hear about a license being "extended" it means that based on samples of the core vessel being tested, it is good to go for a longer period of time.
Licenses are extended beyond the original design criteria based on hard science not political opinion.
Old does not mean lacking modern safety features with all the upgrade programs over the years.
The failure at Fukushima was in not accounting for the effects on emergency cooling of a record high tsunami.
Academics often pontificate on subjects that have been studied for years by "amateurs" whose work they totally discount because no Piled higher and Deeper letters are attached.
On the subject of cooking in the 1700s; it has been studied to the point that Wm. Townsend & Sons has been running a series on that very subject for several years.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr2d4As312LulcajAkKJYw
If you want an Elizabethan era cookbook translated for a modern kitchen; contact your local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. (Unless you want to figure out a gill of milk and a fist of ginger yourself)
If you want to talk 19th century cooking; try the Civil War reinactors.
I've seen so many academic "studies" that just filed the author's names off niche group publications and claimed credit for the research done by the "amateurs".
Taste in food changes with a culture. Consider "frumenti". Supposedly it was Shakespear's favorite treat. To me, frumenti is still sour fermented flour and fruit suitable only for catfish bait.
Media English is taking over. It isn't "American English" or the "Queen's English" it is that commonly used screen and video language patterns are becoming the norm and dialects are becoming a thing of the past or at least only used by the "ignorant fly over country".
You don't hear a lot of colloquialisms anymore unless you consider "leetspeak" and "textish" to be dialects.
Numbers from 1993, INPO report released to utility plants:
Nuclear Power in the U.S. generated 7,000,000,000 Curies of low level radioactive waste in a year. The hazardous waste was accounted for, controlled, and put into a certified for 5000 year hazmat burial facilities.
Based on the percentage of pitchblende (uranium ore) in coal and the amount of coal burned for electric power generation; coal fired plants put 300,000 Curies of radioactive material into the atmosphere each week.
Do that math... kind of scary. The good thing is that it is Uranium. Uranium will give you heavy metal poisoning with symptoms akin to lead poisoning long before the radiation will cause a health effect. (yes, this comment is snark)
Radioactive emissions due to "naturally occurring" radioactive material are not regulated. Most of the drinking water in the U.S. contains traces of radioactive material. There are radon decay products plating out with the morning dew. You can't get away from low levels of radioactive materials anywhere on the planet. This is not a man made phenomenon but men can cause higher concentrations in localized areas or raise the worldwide background levels. (atmospheric bomb testing and chernobyl were the historical sources)
Personal anecdote: This bit about radioactive material in coal really became obvious to me when at one utility; they brought in mechanics and instrument techs from the coal fired plants to help with a refueling outage at the nuclear plant. ALL of the company workers from the coal plant had to have new uniforms and safety shoes supplied because they couldn't pass the exit radiation monitors wearing clothes that had been repeatedly exposed to coal dust and fly ash.
TSA and the department of Homeland Security keep saying there is no viable bomb detection equipment usable in airports. Yet, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been requiring automated bomb detectors at entry portals to licensed facilities since the early 1990s. In the early 2000s; automated machinery was developed for Border Patrol to detect explosive materials hidden in truck loads of other materials that could easily be used for luggage scanning.
Why the TSA continues with ineffectual, intrusive, painfully stupid, protocols seems to be just sheer circus drama that provides nothing extra in the way of security.
When I'm flying, I can't help thinking of flying Lufthansa between German cities during elevated terrorist alert conditions back in the 90s. The Lufthansa solution was not more pre-boarding screening but to post a body armored security person in front and back of the plane armed with a sub-machine gun loaded with rubber ammunition. (I asked the guard about the cabin integrity issue at altitude. BTW, rubber bullets are are still lethal but don't put holes in walls and airplane cabins that would kill bystanders.)
According to Apple, iPhones have an operating temperature ambient situated between 32 and 95 Fahrenheit, that's 0 and 35 Celsius. The manufacturer also provides information about a non-operating temperature interval ranging between -4 to 113 F, that's -20 to 45 C.Nov 29, 2014
Liquid crystal displays fade to unreadable around -20F and become totally black around 105F. Both temperatures can be experienced working outside in some of the Rocky Mountain regions. In winter, the phone is kept in a t-shirt pocket inside the warm clothes and will work for a few minutes after removing. In summer, you keep your phone in a zip lock bag in the cooler full of water bottles.
If you really need a wider temperature range on a phone; you go with a Panasonic Tough Phone
https://panasonicbts.factoryoutletstore.com/details/154793/panasonic-fz-e1bbcazzm.html?category_id=52208&catalogitemid=137947
Come to think of it, with the high price of the walled garden phone that is the iPhone X; the $1800 for a tough phone doesn't look as ridiculous as it once did.
Huge issue with bluetooth and video... out of sync audio. Bluetooth is laggy. Not an issue if you are just listening to music but the latency issue crops up frequently with video.
Bleach is for bacteria and fungi. Baking soda is for neutralizing organic phosphates used in herbicides and pesticides.
The bleach wash is for commercial packagers. Baking soda in the wash water is for the end user (the cook) to do as part of preparation in the kitchen.
You should ALWAYS was produce prior to preparing in the kitchen. If you can't figure out why; you may not be a safe person to have preparing food.