Just so we're clear here, you're claiming that the federal government has no business protecting individual constitutional rights, but has a vested interest in the radio spectrum?
That does raise the interesting question of which can be auctioned off for the greater amount of money.
And you think regulating radio interference could be done at a state level without massive consequences?
I can't speak for the earlier poster, but standards could be set at the federal level and regulated at state level. So yes, I do think that could be done.
I don't see a lot of issues from the current approach aside from regulation of rather pointless things like naughty words and the aforementioned regulatory capture.
Electro-magnetic radiation has a tendency not to respect cartographic borders.
Cable vs DSL (if you're in the right neighborhood wire quality and distance to the CO-wise) is one thing, cable vs the phone company is fixing to install fiber-optic is "we better not make our cable customers too mad at us or they'll be too eager to jump to fiber when it comes to their street."
The City of Wilson sold bonds to finance the installation, by them, of fiber.
There was never any taking over of privately constructed infrastructure--that was part of the problem, Time-Warner didn't want to install anything, or anything decent, in certain areas, at least not until Wilson decided to go the municipal route, and then all of a sudden they're all "We were gonna get to those areas any day now, and what the city's doing ain't fair", and then they started buying politicians to keep other NC towns from doing the same thing.
The customers of municipally operated Greenlight in Wilson, NC don't seem too unhappy with their service.
Time-Warner's unhappy about it, of course.
You say Comcast knows they have to compete with AT&T.
Are you talking cable versus DSL, or cable versus cable in the same neighborhood?
Most places you have a choice of between 0 and 1 cable companies from which to choose, and your phone wiring may or may not be new enough and close enough to the central office for DSL to be a viable alternative to cable internet.
Here I go undoing a bunch of mods to point out that Propadrene (phenylpropanolamine) works much better than psuedoephedrine, but it was an even earlier victim of the DEA so that you can't get it at all now (although apparently you can buy the version for pets online), not even if you jump through all the hoops you have to just to get psuedoephedrine these days.
Saw some drug cop being interviewed on C-SPAN back when they took it off the market and he dismissed those of us who had relied on it as "having the sniffles".
It's the first time I ever wanted to hold someone down and pack their sinuses with Quik-Crete.
Without doing a lot of research to see who got into the studio first, I can tell you from memory that Gaynor was the one, at least here in the U.S., that had the massive airplay, back smack dab in the middle of the disco boom.
I never heard Franklin's version, and didn't know there was one.
Maybe it was an album cut.
Franklin has had some singles come out a year or three later than someone else's version of a song.
Otis Redding's "Respect" and Dionne Warwick's "Say A Little Prayer" come immediately to mind.
I have internet cable, but no cable TV. It's not that hard. You're right that I "miss out" on Monday Night Football, but I also "missed out" on the Spanish Inquisition, and I miss both of those things approximately equally.
As I recall, the Spanish Inquisition was available (whether you wanted it or not) without ESPN getting $5 a month out of every cable subscriber whether they cared about sports or not.
Over here in the Continental US, I've heard of the NHS, but those who talk about it have never, that I've noticed, been specific about exactly where HMG gets the money to run it, so I'd never heard of National Insurance Contributions before.
So the AC made an informative and worthwhile contribution to the thread.
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Only if you use laser LEDs that are powerful enough to burn through them.
Unfortunately lasers that powerful have to be cooled by a continuous saline solution stream.
Although I hear some research has been done in that area that involves mounting them on large, constantly moving ocean creatures.
Here, let me fix that for you.
"If I hire someone else to travel to Washington D.C., and speak to a senator about my opinion on some issue, that is the very definition of lobbying."
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
That's not from Google, that's from memory.
And while we're on the subject--
R.I.P., Mark Slate
...Okay, I'd like to call for a vote on the prohibition of new, unnecessary acronyms...
You want a V.O.P.N.U.A.? Okay, it's no A.C.O.R.N., C.A.R.E., or Man From U.N.C.L.E, but I think we can work with it.
Seeing as going totally off topic is the new fad on /. ...
Well you're obviously new here.
... A law that prohibits driving monster trucks through my yard will take care of a substantial portion of said traffic.
Well, yeah, if you don't go with the land mine option instead.
...
Just so we're clear here, you're claiming that the federal government has no business protecting individual constitutional rights, but has a vested interest in the radio spectrum?
That does raise the interesting question of which can be auctioned off for the greater amount of money.
And you think regulating radio interference could be done at a state level without massive consequences?
I can't speak for the earlier poster, but standards could be set at the federal level and regulated at state level. So yes, I do think that could be done.
I don't see a lot of issues from the current approach aside from regulation of rather pointless things like naughty words and the aforementioned regulatory capture.
Electro-magnetic radiation has a tendency not to respect cartographic borders.
...You're getting a smell!
Seems to me reliability in engine control software _is_ doable. Toyota just didn't do it.
Probably some kind of poor management decision that will ultimately be blamed on bad engineering.
Only because they can't get away with blaming the floor mats anymore.
Cable vs DSL (if you're in the right neighborhood wire quality and distance to the CO-wise) is one thing, cable vs the phone company is fixing to install fiber-optic is "we better not make our cable customers too mad at us or they'll be too eager to jump to fiber when it comes to their street."
The City of Wilson sold bonds to finance the installation, by them, of fiber.
There was never any taking over of privately constructed infrastructure--that was part of the problem, Time-Warner didn't want to install anything, or anything decent, in certain areas, at least not until Wilson decided to go the municipal route, and then all of a sudden they're all "We were gonna get to those areas any day now, and what the city's doing ain't fair", and then they started buying politicians to keep other NC towns from doing the same thing.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/04/23/1521218/Time-Warner-Cable-Wont-Compete-Seeks-Legislation
...is that he's getting paid to push this.
The customers of municipally operated Greenlight in Wilson, NC don't seem too unhappy with their service.
Time-Warner's unhappy about it, of course.
You say Comcast knows they have to compete with AT&T.
Are you talking cable versus DSL, or cable versus cable in the same neighborhood?
Most places you have a choice of between 0 and 1 cable companies from which to choose, and your phone wiring may or may not be new enough and close enough to the central office for DSL to be a viable alternative to cable internet.
Here I go undoing a bunch of mods to point out that Propadrene (phenylpropanolamine) works much better than psuedoephedrine, but it was an even earlier victim of the DEA so that you can't get it at all now (although apparently you can buy the version for pets online), not even if you jump through all the hoops you have to just to get psuedoephedrine these days.
Saw some drug cop being interviewed on C-SPAN back when they took it off the market and he dismissed those of us who had relied on it as "having the sniffles".
It's the first time I ever wanted to hold someone down and pack their sinuses with Quik-Crete.
Without doing a lot of research to see who got into the studio first, I can tell you from memory that Gaynor was the one, at least here in the U.S., that had the massive airplay, back smack dab in the middle of the disco boom.
I never heard Franklin's version, and didn't know there was one.
Maybe it was an album cut.
Franklin has had some singles come out a year or three later than someone else's version of a song.
Otis Redding's "Respect" and Dionne Warwick's "Say A Little Prayer" come immediately to mind.
Gloria Gaynor
I have internet cable, but no cable TV. It's not that hard. You're right that I "miss out" on Monday Night Football, but I also "missed out" on the Spanish Inquisition, and I miss both of those things approximately equally.
As I recall, the Spanish Inquisition was available (whether you wanted it or not) without ESPN getting $5 a month out of every cable subscriber whether they cared about sports or not.
Flamebait? This is a real world example of trickle down economics!
With the cable customers being the ones getting trickled down on.
Over here in the Continental US, I've heard of the NHS, but those who talk about it have never, that I've noticed, been specific about exactly where HMG gets the money to run it, so I'd never heard of National Insurance Contributions before.
So the AC made an informative and worthwhile contribution to the thread.
...The best policy in dealing with these cross bred bears is never, ever, find one.
Especially if they've been bred to be really cross.
Everybody knows that when you cross a brown bear and a polar bear you get a chupacabra.
If you cross either one you'll be incredibly fortunate if all you get are severe lacerations.
...hope they (and Mouser) keep a good stock of Low ESR capacitors for some time to come, due to "capacitor plague".
... Designing analog electronics is a dieing art...
As is spelling, it would seem.
: - )
But seriously, if you've got the kind of brain suited for it, not just analog, but the voodoo known as RF in particular should keep you in demand.
...I am constantly amazed when pricing out designs and discovering that the quite capable little MCU that I budgeted $3 for now costs a mere $1.20.
And if you weren't such a blabbermouth about it you could have pocketed the difference and no one would ever have been the wiser.
: - )