Not quite. Telus and Bell used to have (separate) CDMA, POTS, and other, networks, Telus in the west, Bell in the east. They both realized that GSM was the future and Rogers was going to eat their lunch, so they ganged up... uh, cooperated, to build out a competing GSM network. In eastern Canada you're correct. In western Canada it's the other way around.
Telus, by the way, used to be Alberta Government Telephones (AGT). They were privatized, ended up with more money than they knew what to do with, and now I think they might have more telecom infrastructure internationally than they do in Canada.
Your rhetorical style matches modern politics pretty well. Strawmen and outrage.
You said "Thats all tech the USA had to pay for and test." This isn't true. US rocketry technology was developed with collaboration and input from around the world. Including very significant contributions from Nazi Germany and scientists "acquired" from Nazi Germany. Quite a few US Air Force satellites were launched on ULA's Atlas V... which uses a Soviet engine.
"Should govt lay down the ground rules for what these studies can record / collect like a medical study?"
That's not a bad place to start. After various nastiness, like the US Army infecting soldiers with syphilis and the Nazi's crucifying people to see how they died, the world decided that human subject research needed some oversight, safeguards, and strong ethical rules. Corporations that don't do human subject research as their bread and butter generally don't bother to follow those rules.
Psychology has recently undergone a bit of a rude awakening, realizing that study design, placebo effect, biased sampling, replicability, etc. are somewhat important.
Kind of a stupid article too. Somebody who won't leave the Roomba unattended, even though they also admit that it's never broken anything, including itself.
Most people with less than 4 acre properties have neighbours... who mow their lawns. Try not mowing your lawn in suburbia for a while and see how the neighbours react.
Hmmm... that shouldn't be too hard actually. Probably easier than a lawn mowing robot. And I bet there are a lot of people who would pay a few hundred bucks for such a thing.
Except for manned launches, rocket launching in the US has been pretty much private sector for a long time, by the likes of Boeing and Lockheed. Government is certainly a major customer, but that's not going to change. ArianeGroup is also a private company.
Well, a lot of it the US stole from the Nazis. Some more they borrowed, bought, or otherwise acquired from the Soviets. Not even the Russians, the Soviets.
Science is a very international undertaking, perhaps the most international undertaking.
Towers are usually built to oversee the whole airport, or at least as much of it as possible, from one place. The only way to do that is to be up high. If you're willing to use cameras, and you've got some way to coordinate them (that's why the AI), then you can stick them on the ground, wherever you need. At each end of each runway, probably everywhere a taxiway exits a runway, all around the ramp, etc.
You ignored the other part of his comment. Energy for transportation and electrical generation are interchangeable, we just don't do it currently because it's bit cheaper to pump oil out of the ground than it is to make it out of electricity.
The US Navy estimates they can make jet fuel for around $3 a gallon from electricity, seawater and air.
Assuming you're American, it looks like you'd probably want to start on the western half of the country, but there are some okay sites on the east coast too.
Seems reasonable, yes. I don't know how Americans work it, but in Canada famers who can show a vehicle is for use mostly on their own property don't have to pay fuel tax, which supports road infrastructure. You could arrange something similar for the unvaccinated. They'd only have to pay for things like water, sewer, defence... nothing that they wouldn't use as they were confined to their own property.
No no, he's on to something. People have a right to choose.
People who choose not to get vaccinated should just forfeit the right to use public resources. Like schools and hospitals. And streets, sidewalks, public right of ways, etc. Maybe put up some plastic sheeting to keep their germs contained too. You could even have some kind of sign to indicate the situation. This one is kind of pretty: https://goo.gl/images/iV5tXV
This is an absolutely perfectly example of the adage "the plural of anecdote is not data."
Measles has a death rate of around 2 per 1000, higher in very young children and adults. The serious complication rate (like permanent hearing damage) is a bit higher. It's absolutely unsurprising that in your sample of two, neither of you died. But if measles was endemic in a country of, say, a third of a billion people... that's a lot of fatalities.
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The point of NAFTA was never to remove trade barriers for *people.* It was to remove them, strategically, for companies.
I generally call them "fucking Bell." Although they still haven't figured out how to actually bill me for internet service, so there's that.
Not quite. Telus and Bell used to have (separate) CDMA, POTS, and other, networks, Telus in the west, Bell in the east. They both realized that GSM was the future and Rogers was going to eat their lunch, so they ganged up... uh, cooperated, to build out a competing GSM network. In eastern Canada you're correct. In western Canada it's the other way around.
Telus, by the way, used to be Alberta Government Telephones (AGT). They were privatized, ended up with more money than they knew what to do with, and now I think they might have more telecom infrastructure internationally than they do in Canada.
I suspect Ubisoft doesn't care much about people who "literally can't afford food."
They are concerned that they can't quite pull off Rockstar-esque fuck the twitter outrage.
Your rhetorical style matches modern politics pretty well. Strawmen and outrage.
You said "Thats all tech the USA had to pay for and test." This isn't true. US rocketry technology was developed with collaboration and input from around the world. Including very significant contributions from Nazi Germany and scientists "acquired" from Nazi Germany. Quite a few US Air Force satellites were launched on ULA's Atlas V... which uses a Soviet engine.
Collaboration isn't "just giving" things away.
Yeah, corporations *never* do anything evil.
International human research conventions were written as a collaboration by lots of different groups, not just governments.
"Should govt lay down the ground rules for what these studies can record / collect like a medical study?"
That's not a bad place to start. After various nastiness, like the US Army infecting soldiers with syphilis and the Nazi's crucifying people to see how they died, the world decided that human subject research needed some oversight, safeguards, and strong ethical rules. Corporations that don't do human subject research as their bread and butter generally don't bother to follow those rules.
Psychology has recently undergone a bit of a rude awakening, realizing that study design, placebo effect, biased sampling, replicability, etc. are somewhat important.
Kind of a stupid article too. Somebody who won't leave the Roomba unattended, even though they also admit that it's never broken anything, including itself.
Most people with less than 4 acre properties have neighbours... who mow their lawns. Try not mowing your lawn in suburbia for a while and see how the neighbours react.
Hm... I found a flying poop scooping drone. Would make delivery quicker, but doesn't fix the battery life issue.
Looks like there are a fair number of them in the works. Here's one from CES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My favourite part of the second video: "Are you interested in joining our mailing list" "um..."
Should make the thing pick up leaves too.
Researchers do consider things like that. In a proper study there shouldn't have been anyone else in the room with him at all.
The CIA may not be the best research institution.
Hmmm... that shouldn't be too hard actually. Probably easier than a lawn mowing robot. And I bet there are a lot of people who would pay a few hundred bucks for such a thing.
Except for manned launches, rocket launching in the US has been pretty much private sector for a long time, by the likes of Boeing and Lockheed. Government is certainly a major customer, but that's not going to change. ArianeGroup is also a private company.
Ahem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, a lot of it the US stole from the Nazis. Some more they borrowed, bought, or otherwise acquired from the Soviets. Not even the Russians, the Soviets.
Science is a very international undertaking, perhaps the most international undertaking.
You don't have to have had a cold sore. 50%+ of the adult population harbours herpes simplex viruses. They're endemic.
Does Epstein-Barr virus (the cause of mono, the kissing disease) count as an STD? Something like 90%+ of the population has it.
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Towers are usually built to oversee the whole airport, or at least as much of it as possible, from one place. The only way to do that is to be up high. If you're willing to use cameras, and you've got some way to coordinate them (that's why the AI), then you can stick them on the ground, wherever you need. At each end of each runway, probably everywhere a taxiway exits a runway, all around the ramp, etc.
You ignored the other part of his comment. Energy for transportation and electrical generation are interchangeable, we just don't do it currently because it's bit cheaper to pump oil out of the ground than it is to make it out of electricity.
The US Navy estimates they can make jet fuel for around $3 a gallon from electricity, seawater and air.
Gates already tried China, but the US trade war shut that down.
https://www.nrel.gov/gis/image...
Assuming you're American, it looks like you'd probably want to start on the western half of the country, but there are some okay sites on the east coast too.
Seems reasonable, yes. I don't know how Americans work it, but in Canada famers who can show a vehicle is for use mostly on their own property don't have to pay fuel tax, which supports road infrastructure. You could arrange something similar for the unvaccinated. They'd only have to pay for things like water, sewer, defence... nothing that they wouldn't use as they were confined to their own property.
No no, he's on to something. People have a right to choose.
People who choose not to get vaccinated should just forfeit the right to use public resources. Like schools and hospitals. And streets, sidewalks, public right of ways, etc. Maybe put up some plastic sheeting to keep their germs contained too. You could even have some kind of sign to indicate the situation. This one is kind of pretty: https://goo.gl/images/iV5tXV
This is an absolutely perfectly example of the adage "the plural of anecdote is not data."
Measles has a death rate of around 2 per 1000, higher in very young children and adults. The serious complication rate (like permanent hearing damage) is a bit higher. It's absolutely unsurprising that in your sample of two, neither of you died. But if measles was endemic in a country of, say, a third of a billion people... that's a lot of fatalities.