And hands up who wants their automotive safety to depend on a Comcast Internet connection?
Everyone whose car provider uses a Comcast business internet connection to provide data to the vehicle, even if there is a failover provider.
From the Summary:
It even suggests the commission adopt a "strong presumption against" agreements that benefit an ISP's own content over competitors' work, but it's not clear how benefiting one car company or telemedicine company over another is any different.
Prioritizing car or telemedicine over website is not benefiting one car company over another. It's a restatement of one of the design concepts of the internet: quality of service is an existing prioritization and yes, indeed, there are services that need realtime data. You can delay a website for a second and nobody really cares, except the zealots who demand full-speed data access at all times because they paid for 50Mpbps and they are being ripped off if a packet is delayed for any reason. If a car gets a data packet ten seconds late it could have serious consequences; if you see your twitter feed delayed by ten seconds it makes no difference at all.
you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
You didn't think that when the guys are busy tossing cow bits into the grinder to make ground beef that they keep track of which cows the bits come from and clean out the grinder between each one, did you?
It's a beginner's design and analysis course, not a beginner's electronics course.
Ideally you should already know the basic component types from building other people's designs before you try to design your own circuits.
There are plenty of free courses and web pages and YouTube videos that cover the novice material you're talking about, but I haven't found much that fits this book's niche.
Given that the only person who is hindered from reading it is me, I don't think so. The chances of me seeing it depend on me accessing my gmail in the very short bit of time between the one failed login attempt and the second successful one when the hacker deletes it.
He's actively accessing my account. I'm not. Who is going to get to that email first, do you think?
Now, you might think that gmail will continue to block logins from that location, but they don't. I routinely see the "we blocked a login" emails while I'm still in the place they blocked them from, just not the first time I try to retrieve my email. I try once and see nothing new, I try a couple of hours later and I am told. And it's the old Dilbert joke about customer service: someone who has a problem with their email is told to send an email to customer support to get help. Ha ha.
No... UPS/FedEx are not told by Amazon to only deliver after 5pm on day two.
I didn't say they are. UPS promises "BY a certain time", not "AFTER a certain time." I said that Amazon promises, and pays for, delivery "by 8PM", which is three hours after USPS and most businesses that have one shift are closed. If USPS is closed you can't get your package after 5PM, and if you are having it delivered to a business you can't get it delivered after 5PM. And Amazon knows if the delivery is by USPS or to a commercial address. That makes "by 8PM" a deliberate deception. They know it will likely be delivered on the third day, but promise two.
Sometimes "by 8PM" results in the stuff arriving in the normal morning UPS delivery. Sometimes.
If we are getting there after 5PM that's because the driver was overdispatched or technology failed.
I don't know who "we" are. I know that I've seen Amazon report delivery of stuff to me after 5PM when it is a USPS shipment -- a clear impossibility. The fact is, they consider it delivered when it arrives at your local post office, not when it finally reaches you.
FTC: "That's their cost of doing business, nothing to see here.
"Cost of doing business" is not the issue. The issue is that they are deliberately lying about "FREE SHIPPING".
Find it cheaper somewhere else, buy it from there and don't patronize Amazon"
So, when you find a company committing fraud, you think the correct governmental action is to tell the victim to "find it somewhere else"? Why have laws about truth in advertising if they aren't going to be enforced?
I truly love it when Google sends me an email to my gmail account telling me that it didn't allow my device to log in to get my gmail because it was coming in from an unknown IP address. This truly is Dilbert levels of customer support.
It would be irresponsible of me to future generations to get vaccinated. If everyone lives to breeding age even with weak immune systems, then weak immune systems will become common in future generation,
I think you are trying for humor here, but consider this. Mandating vaccinations of children will be an effective selection mechanism against anyone seriously allergic to those vaccinations. As children, this will remove them from the gene pool prior to reproduction, removing the genetic tendency to allergy.
This is a good thing for society as a whole, even if it isn't so good for individuals. But then, that's the whole purpose of vaccination and the concept of "herd immunity".
It's worth noting that the elderly are also highly encouraged to get annual flu vaccines because they have failing immune systems and it's far more likely to kill them and the elderly people around them.
If your immune system is failing then a vaccine isn't going to help you. Why not? Because a vaccine works by "priming the pump" on your immune system. It causes your immune system to create antibodies to the disease. A non-working immune system won't create those antibodies.
No, the reason elderly are encouraged to get vaccinated against flu is because their OTHER systems are less resilient to the effects of a major illness, not because their immune system is failing. For example, if you've lost lung efficiency because you are old, then a disease that hampers breathing will be more serious than for someone whose lung functions are normal.
They are going to reduce services, raise the prices, or just cut off particular areas.
They are doing this. The main attraction for me was free two day delivery. That no longer exists, even though they say it does.
First, they started shipping "two day" so it would arrive after 5PM. That's fine, except the post office closes at 5PM so any USPS shipment that "arrives" after 5PM isn't delivered until day three. Any UPS/other shipment that goes to a commercial address where the business closes at 5PM means three day delivery. Amazon knows both before they ship, so they know the promises are a lie.
And now the "free" part is gone. They are giving people an option of "no-rush" delivery with either a direct discount on the price or coupons or credits for other merchandise. One recent thing I was going to order was a $10 product where I would get a $5 credit at Prime Pantry, effectively a 50% discount for not using the free two day delivery.
Here's the summary: if you can buy the exact same product from the exact same company for LESS than the price with "free shipping" by using another shipping method, the the FREE SHIPPING IS NOT FREE. FTC, are you paying attention?
You want to use Sling TV, but guess what, Comcast doesn't want you to access Sling so will have poor performance or no access at all.
I have found no block on my access via Comcast to Sling.
And what happens if Century Link get bought out by the folks who own Sling and you want Hulu or NetFlix
You can hypothesize all day all kinds of bad things an ISP can do.
, if we did have all these major corporations abusing their power, we wouldn't need regulation.
No, apparently all it takes is the ability to hypothesize that some evil corporation will do something evil for there to be a demand for government regulation. You're hypothesizing a buyout of a major telco and a block on access to other stuff as an argument for regulation, for example.
other than the dial-up era in the late 90s, when have we ever had competition?
You mean for an ISP? Today. There are at least two wired ISPs readily available in my city and half a dozen wireless. If I wanted to get other wired ISPs, I could. At least one dialup if I wanted that. Not a huge city, by the way, and not unlike many others.
Mandatory Voting. Everybody votes. You can send in a blank ballot if you want,
You think this will make things better? It will increase the impact that advertising has on the results, which is a BAD thing. People won't send in blank ballots. They're likely to think "I saw an ad for X and he seems ok, I'll vote for him."
And since everyone votes there's no such thing as voter suppression.
With the large number of blank ballots and uncaring people holding them, you're very likely to get the increased effects of ads like I propose, or the other result will be voting of those ballots by spouses or others. "Hey, honey, you're sending in a blank one, let me fill it in for you."
FTFY. CU allows PEOPLE to form CORPORATIONS for the purpose of paying for speech, which the first amendment says congress shall not create laws to infringe upon. Remember, some of those "corporations" are unions, which we love because they usually speak on a certain side of the issues. If CU had not reiterated (not created) the concept that corporations could spend money on speech then unions, among others, would have had to stop, too.
The difference between CU and ACA as examples is that CU supported an existing ruling regarding corporate speech and the ACA created a precedent of the government mandating that people buy a commercial product simply because the people exist.
This is a downside that was a big lesson we should have learned from the breakup of Ma Bell. Used to be, Ma Bell was the provider of all. If there was a problem with "phone service", you called Ma Bell and it was Ma Bell's responsibility.
Cue divestiture and hundreds of long distance companies all competing for your dollar. First, this created some huge issues of fraud, and there was at least one company that named itself "None of the above" so that when they called and asked which long distance service you wanted from the list they read to you, and you said "none of the above"... Or they'd call and simply switch your service no matter what you said. That's called "slamming", and you wind up paying $1/minute for LD service.
But more important, when something didn't work who did you call, and who would take responsibility? If you had a problem making a long distance call you might call "the phone company" who would tell you to call the long distance company. The LD company told you it was a problem in the telco system, call the telco.
This idea of the city holding the hardware and the ISP doing the ISP means when your internet breaks you call the city who tells you it is the ISP, you call the ISP who tells you it is the city. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You'd be amazed how much automation is going on at networks these days.
A couple of the local AM stations here (owned by the same company) are that way. I don't listen to the sports one, but the talk station has the last live local person ending at 9AM with network feeds for the rest of the day and well into the night. (It used to carry Art Bell -- who I miss very much. He had a real hoot show and was a magnificent host. He could have the nuttiest people on and make them feel like someone was interested, and be making fun of them at the same time. A rare talent. You could be a believer in the nuts or laughing at them and you'd love the show either way.)
It is not uncommon to hear three different things all playing at once on that talk station, after the live guys go home. Or nothing all at once.
It is not at all unlikely that the reporter at the event was the only person on duty for the station anywhere, and he was controlling the entire thing remotely.
And apparently this station doesn't use any form of security on that link despite the means to transmit being very well known.
"Being very well known" and "being readily available", or "a sociopath ready and willing to do it" are two different things.
There are lots of things I "very well know" how to do that would screw up a lot of stuff, but I'm not a sociopath so I don't do them. I respect what other people own because I expect them to respect my stuff.
For example, it is very well known how to make a master key for a facility if you have one key to start with. At least I think it is very well known. I have a key to a university building and I even have the six blanks necessary. If I didn't have the blanks, I have found the website where I can buy them for almost nothing. I have a file, too. A key-making machine is ~$700 otherwise. But I don't do it because... well, why bother?
I also have a can of cold galvanizing spray and my neighbors have satellite dishes. Oooh the fun I could have. Yawn.
And I have a very nice radio that can transmit on many of the standard wireless microphone frequencies, and can go to local concerts where the performers use them. If I didn't already have it, I could buy a wireless mic from eBay.
You might be amazed at all the things that are "very well known" that nobody spends extra money on protecting, because most people aren't jerks.
You'd think they would spend the money to add some equipment at both ends to prevent actual takeover,
The climate change in this one is much, much faster than that of any previous extinctions.
I saw one of the most asinine bumper stickers this morning on the way to work: "The climate is changing faster than we are."
Now, I don't know about you, but I can change on a time scale on the order of "weather". Hey, it's hot out, let's go inside where the AC is on. Hey, it's cold out, put on a sweater. I think most people can do that. So if we can change faster than the weather, and the climate is changing faster than we can, then climate change has to be happening faster than the weather. But weather is the day-to-day stuff and "climate" is the long term stuff. So weather changes much faster than the climate. We change faster than the weather.
The car owner clearly doesn't understand the rules of math.
But then, I'm positive of that because of the vehicle they drive: a Subaru Forester. It has the label "pzev" on it. I couldn't figure out by looking at it what that meant, but I saw it at the Subaru dealer. "Partial zero emissions vehicle". How can a vehicle be "partial zero"? Either it is zero or it is not. Unless you're saying "the only thing that emits on this car is the engine, and the engine is only a part of the car...", so only a part of the car emits... but that's just dumb. Every car qualifies for that.
And I see my stalker got mod points again. You missed a few other postings I made in other threads, or did you run out of points before you could get them all?
The fact that the extinction of species has been happening for as long as there have been species and is part of the natural process of evolution is pretty relevant when the topic is gloom and doom about how species are going extinct. Life is not a "spreadsheet", and we're not in a "cataclysm", no matter how much hoopla Paul Ehrlich wants to spread.
No, Mr. Little, the extinction of species will continue as long as there are species and change. We don't need to be here for it to happen. At least that's what Rexamundo, the T-Rex I keep in my basement, tells me. He speaks quite fondly of his boyhood chums Dippy the diplodocious and Pterry (who was a star on Pee Wee's Playhouse.)
Darwin is dead because he was born a long time ago
Wow again. Did not know that.
and if enough of them die, so will the species.
The discussion isn't about the human species going extinct. It is about the awful situation where other species are going extinct, which apparently has never happened before and thus is a huge issue.
If you think about Darwin and the evolution of species, it's based on adaptation and natural selection, which implies that those species that are not well adapted -- go EXTINCT because they all die. That's why I mentioned Darwin along with all the other extinct things. Not only is the extinction of species not a new thing, it is inherent in the current theory of evolution.
Of course, Paul Ehrlich is known for doomsday predictions that don't come true, so this prediction now is also not anything new.
Do they actually relay transmit radio broadcasts from other radio broadcasts anymore? Like picking up a distant 92.5 station and retransmitting it locally on 101.3 or something?
In the US, yes they do. It's called a "translator" and it is very common in much of Oregon, e.g., where there are few large broadcasters and they want to cover a lot of rural terrain. It's done with radio and television, both.
But many stations also use a studio-transmitter link to send the studio signal to the transmitter up on the mountain or outside the urban area. Microwave, usually, and the last one I heard live was around 950 MHz.
with my pet Tyrannosaurus Rex. He's pretty unique, and I think his species is about extinct.
I almost wallopped him one when he ate my pet dodo bird, because those really are hard to come by. But I was too busy scaling the coelacanth I had caught for lunch to notice when he made DeeDee his lunch.
What a horrible era we live in, when some species go extinct. It's such a rare thing we should take pictures so we can remember it longer. I was pretty sure that Darwin talked about this already, but he's dead and I can't ask him.
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And hands up who wants their automotive safety to depend on a Comcast Internet connection?
Everyone whose car provider uses a Comcast business internet connection to provide data to the vehicle, even if there is a failover provider.
From the Summary:
Prioritizing car or telemedicine over website is not benefiting one car company over another. It's a restatement of one of the design concepts of the internet: quality of service is an existing prioritization and yes, indeed, there are services that need realtime data. You can delay a website for a second and nobody really cares, except the zealots who demand full-speed data access at all times because they paid for 50Mpbps and they are being ripped off if a packet is delayed for any reason. If a car gets a data packet ten seconds late it could have serious consequences; if you see your twitter feed delayed by ten seconds it makes no difference at all.
you get 100 different cows in your single cheese burger.
You didn't think that when the guys are busy tossing cow bits into the grinder to make ground beef that they keep track of which cows the bits come from and clean out the grinder between each one, did you?
It's a beginner's design and analysis course, not a beginner's electronics course. Ideally you should already know the basic component types from building other people's designs before you try to design your own circuits. There are plenty of free courses and web pages and YouTube videos that cover the novice material you're talking about, but I haven't found much that fits this book's niche.
This.
Nonsense. Those emails are important.
Given that the only person who is hindered from reading it is me, I don't think so. The chances of me seeing it depend on me accessing my gmail in the very short bit of time between the one failed login attempt and the second successful one when the hacker deletes it.
He's actively accessing my account. I'm not. Who is going to get to that email first, do you think?
Now, you might think that gmail will continue to block logins from that location, but they don't. I routinely see the "we blocked a login" emails while I'm still in the place they blocked them from, just not the first time I try to retrieve my email. I try once and see nothing new, I try a couple of hours later and I am told. And it's the old Dilbert joke about customer service: someone who has a problem with their email is told to send an email to customer support to get help. Ha ha.
No... UPS/FedEx are not told by Amazon to only deliver after 5pm on day two.
I didn't say they are. UPS promises "BY a certain time", not "AFTER a certain time." I said that Amazon promises, and pays for, delivery "by 8PM", which is three hours after USPS and most businesses that have one shift are closed. If USPS is closed you can't get your package after 5PM, and if you are having it delivered to a business you can't get it delivered after 5PM. And Amazon knows if the delivery is by USPS or to a commercial address. That makes "by 8PM" a deliberate deception. They know it will likely be delivered on the third day, but promise two.
Sometimes "by 8PM" results in the stuff arriving in the normal morning UPS delivery. Sometimes.
If we are getting there after 5PM that's because the driver was overdispatched or technology failed.
I don't know who "we" are. I know that I've seen Amazon report delivery of stuff to me after 5PM when it is a USPS shipment -- a clear impossibility. The fact is, they consider it delivered when it arrives at your local post office, not when it finally reaches you.
FTC: "That's their cost of doing business, nothing to see here.
"Cost of doing business" is not the issue. The issue is that they are deliberately lying about "FREE SHIPPING".
Find it cheaper somewhere else, buy it from there and don't patronize Amazon"
So, when you find a company committing fraud, you think the correct governmental action is to tell the victim to "find it somewhere else"? Why have laws about truth in advertising if they aren't going to be enforced?
I truly love it when Google sends me an email to my gmail account telling me that it didn't allow my device to log in to get my gmail because it was coming in from an unknown IP address. This truly is Dilbert levels of customer support.
A smartphone never really sleep when its not being used.
"Not being used" is not the same as "off". If you have apps that are busy updating the phone while it is off, then it's an unusual phone.
It would be irresponsible of me to future generations to get vaccinated. If everyone lives to breeding age even with weak immune systems, then weak immune systems will become common in future generation,
I think you are trying for humor here, but consider this. Mandating vaccinations of children will be an effective selection mechanism against anyone seriously allergic to those vaccinations. As children, this will remove them from the gene pool prior to reproduction, removing the genetic tendency to allergy.
This is a good thing for society as a whole, even if it isn't so good for individuals. But then, that's the whole purpose of vaccination and the concept of "herd immunity".
It's worth noting that the elderly are also highly encouraged to get annual flu vaccines because they have failing immune systems and it's far more likely to kill them and the elderly people around them.
If your immune system is failing then a vaccine isn't going to help you. Why not? Because a vaccine works by "priming the pump" on your immune system. It causes your immune system to create antibodies to the disease. A non-working immune system won't create those antibodies.
No, the reason elderly are encouraged to get vaccinated against flu is because their OTHER systems are less resilient to the effects of a major illness, not because their immune system is failing. For example, if you've lost lung efficiency because you are old, then a disease that hampers breathing will be more serious than for someone whose lung functions are normal.
They are going to reduce services, raise the prices, or just cut off particular areas.
They are doing this. The main attraction for me was free two day delivery. That no longer exists, even though they say it does.
First, they started shipping "two day" so it would arrive after 5PM. That's fine, except the post office closes at 5PM so any USPS shipment that "arrives" after 5PM isn't delivered until day three. Any UPS/other shipment that goes to a commercial address where the business closes at 5PM means three day delivery. Amazon knows both before they ship, so they know the promises are a lie.
And now the "free" part is gone. They are giving people an option of "no-rush" delivery with either a direct discount on the price or coupons or credits for other merchandise. One recent thing I was going to order was a $10 product where I would get a $5 credit at Prime Pantry, effectively a 50% discount for not using the free two day delivery.
Here's the summary: if you can buy the exact same product from the exact same company for LESS than the price with "free shipping" by using another shipping method, the the FREE SHIPPING IS NOT FREE. FTC, are you paying attention?
You want to use Sling TV, but guess what, Comcast doesn't want you to access Sling so will have poor performance or no access at all.
I have found no block on my access via Comcast to Sling.
And what happens if Century Link get bought out by the folks who own Sling and you want Hulu or NetFlix
You can hypothesize all day all kinds of bad things an ISP can do.
, if we did have all these major corporations abusing their power, we wouldn't need regulation.
No, apparently all it takes is the ability to hypothesize that some evil corporation will do something evil for there to be a demand for government regulation. You're hypothesizing a buyout of a major telco and a block on access to other stuff as an argument for regulation, for example.
other than the dial-up era in the late 90s, when have we ever had competition?
You mean for an ISP? Today. There are at least two wired ISPs readily available in my city and half a dozen wireless. If I wanted to get other wired ISPs, I could. At least one dialup if I wanted that. Not a huge city, by the way, and not unlike many others.
Mandatory Voting. Everybody votes. You can send in a blank ballot if you want,
You think this will make things better? It will increase the impact that advertising has on the results, which is a BAD thing. People won't send in blank ballots. They're likely to think "I saw an ad for X and he seems ok, I'll vote for him."
And since everyone votes there's no such thing as voter suppression.
With the large number of blank ballots and uncaring people holding them, you're very likely to get the increased effects of ads like I propose, or the other result will be voting of those ballots by spouses or others. "Hey, honey, you're sending in a blank one, let me fill it in for you."
Citizens United that unites.... people.
FTFY. CU allows PEOPLE to form CORPORATIONS for the purpose of paying for speech, which the first amendment says congress shall not create laws to infringe upon. Remember, some of those "corporations" are unions, which we love because they usually speak on a certain side of the issues. If CU had not reiterated (not created) the concept that corporations could spend money on speech then unions, among others, would have had to stop, too.
The difference between CU and ACA as examples is that CU supported an existing ruling regarding corporate speech and the ACA created a precedent of the government mandating that people buy a commercial product simply because the people exist.
Cue divestiture and hundreds of long distance companies all competing for your dollar. First, this created some huge issues of fraud, and there was at least one company that named itself "None of the above" so that when they called and asked which long distance service you wanted from the list they read to you, and you said "none of the above" ... Or they'd call and simply switch your service no matter what you said. That's called "slamming", and you wind up paying $1/minute for LD service.
But more important, when something didn't work who did you call, and who would take responsibility? If you had a problem making a long distance call you might call "the phone company" who would tell you to call the long distance company. The LD company told you it was a problem in the telco system, call the telco.
This idea of the city holding the hardware and the ISP doing the ISP means when your internet breaks you call the city who tells you it is the ISP, you call the ISP who tells you it is the city. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You'd be amazed how much automation is going on at networks these days.
A couple of the local AM stations here (owned by the same company) are that way. I don't listen to the sports one, but the talk station has the last live local person ending at 9AM with network feeds for the rest of the day and well into the night. (It used to carry Art Bell -- who I miss very much. He had a real hoot show and was a magnificent host. He could have the nuttiest people on and make them feel like someone was interested, and be making fun of them at the same time. A rare talent. You could be a believer in the nuts or laughing at them and you'd love the show either way.)
It is not uncommon to hear three different things all playing at once on that talk station, after the live guys go home. Or nothing all at once.
It is not at all unlikely that the reporter at the event was the only person on duty for the station anywhere, and he was controlling the entire thing remotely.
And apparently this station doesn't use any form of security on that link despite the means to transmit being very well known.
"Being very well known" and "being readily available", or "a sociopath ready and willing to do it" are two different things.
There are lots of things I "very well know" how to do that would screw up a lot of stuff, but I'm not a sociopath so I don't do them. I respect what other people own because I expect them to respect my stuff.
For example, it is very well known how to make a master key for a facility if you have one key to start with. At least I think it is very well known. I have a key to a university building and I even have the six blanks necessary. If I didn't have the blanks, I have found the website where I can buy them for almost nothing. I have a file, too. A key-making machine is ~$700 otherwise. But I don't do it because ... well, why bother?
I also have a can of cold galvanizing spray and my neighbors have satellite dishes. Oooh the fun I could have. Yawn.
And I have a very nice radio that can transmit on many of the standard wireless microphone frequencies, and can go to local concerts where the performers use them. If I didn't already have it, I could buy a wireless mic from eBay.
You might be amazed at all the things that are "very well known" that nobody spends extra money on protecting, because most people aren't jerks.
You'd think they would spend the money to add some equipment at both ends to prevent actual takeover,
Budgets are budgets.
The climate change in this one is much, much faster than that of any previous extinctions.
I saw one of the most asinine bumper stickers this morning on the way to work: "The climate is changing faster than we are."
Now, I don't know about you, but I can change on a time scale on the order of "weather". Hey, it's hot out, let's go inside where the AC is on. Hey, it's cold out, put on a sweater. I think most people can do that. So if we can change faster than the weather, and the climate is changing faster than we can, then climate change has to be happening faster than the weather. But weather is the day-to-day stuff and "climate" is the long term stuff. So weather changes much faster than the climate. We change faster than the weather.
The car owner clearly doesn't understand the rules of math.
But then, I'm positive of that because of the vehicle they drive: a Subaru Forester. It has the label "pzev" on it. I couldn't figure out by looking at it what that meant, but I saw it at the Subaru dealer. "Partial zero emissions vehicle". How can a vehicle be "partial zero"? Either it is zero or it is not. Unless you're saying "the only thing that emits on this car is the engine, and the engine is only a part of the car...", so only a part of the car emits ... but that's just dumb. Every car qualifies for that.
doesn't mean they are a good idea.
Do you see me saying they are a good idea?
And I see my stalker got mod points again. You missed a few other postings I made in other threads, or did you run out of points before you could get them all?
Life....finds a way. But humans....won't. And that's the point.
The most adaptable species on the planet, the toolmakers and builders, won't find a way to survive. What absolute malarky.
Is this Paul posting as an AC?
That's irrelevant
The fact that the extinction of species has been happening for as long as there have been species and is part of the natural process of evolution is pretty relevant when the topic is gloom and doom about how species are going extinct. Life is not a "spreadsheet", and we're not in a "cataclysm", no matter how much hoopla Paul Ehrlich wants to spread.
until we extinct ourselves.
No, Mr. Little, the extinction of species will continue as long as there are species and change. We don't need to be here for it to happen. At least that's what Rexamundo, the T-Rex I keep in my basement, tells me. He speaks quite fondly of his boyhood chums Dippy the diplodocious and Pterry (who was a star on Pee Wee's Playhouse.)
Species are made up of individuals.
Really? Wow.
Darwin is dead because he was born a long time ago
Wow again. Did not know that.
and if enough of them die, so will the species.
The discussion isn't about the human species going extinct. It is about the awful situation where other species are going extinct, which apparently has never happened before and thus is a huge issue.
If you think about Darwin and the evolution of species, it's based on adaptation and natural selection, which implies that those species that are not well adapted -- go EXTINCT because they all die. That's why I mentioned Darwin along with all the other extinct things. Not only is the extinction of species not a new thing, it is inherent in the current theory of evolution.
Of course, Paul Ehrlich is known for doomsday predictions that don't come true, so this prediction now is also not anything new.
Do they actually relay transmit radio broadcasts from other radio broadcasts anymore? Like picking up a distant 92.5 station and retransmitting it locally on 101.3 or something?
In the US, yes they do. It's called a "translator" and it is very common in much of Oregon, e.g., where there are few large broadcasters and they want to cover a lot of rural terrain. It's done with radio and television, both.
But many stations also use a studio-transmitter link to send the studio signal to the transmitter up on the mountain or outside the urban area. Microwave, usually, and the last one I heard live was around 950 MHz.
I almost wallopped him one when he ate my pet dodo bird, because those really are hard to come by. But I was too busy scaling the coelacanth I had caught for lunch to notice when he made DeeDee his lunch.
What a horrible era we live in, when some species go extinct. It's such a rare thing we should take pictures so we can remember it longer. I was pretty sure that Darwin talked about this already, but he's dead and I can't ask him.