Electric trains are an urban-suburban phenomenon (think commuter trains). Vast stretches of rural landscape are not cost-effective for electric trains.
Presently, modern technology is used only to efficiently siphon productivity gains to the 1% taker class...
Polio. Smallpox. Rickets. A whole host of other diseases. All eradicated or avoidable by modern technology.
Electronic communications and entertainment.
The automobile. .
A 17th century lifestyle is nothing but drawbacks. .
Anyone believing the vile garbage you spew is a fool.
Proper government exists for the sole purpose of protecting the rights of its citizens as well as possible. Such a government is by necessity small, because a large government requires high taxes to support it, and high levels of taxation do more harm than good both in principle and in practice. Such a small government is not "statist", "transnational mafia", nor "warlord chieftan". The "mega-corporate" term you use is vague and not necessarily bad, but in any case corporations should be neither favored nor disfavored by government.
Cities are also much more efficient for terrorists; a few pounds of gunpowder and some shrapnel can kill hundreds at rush hour, whereas out in the country he'd be lucky to kill one person.
Some things become obsolete. Religious training in public school used to be standard, it's widely ignored now. Bits and pieces of various fields have been dropped as irrelevant to modern life. In many fields teaching has become more efficient, as subjects thought to be prerequisites to "final" skills and knowledge have been found unnecessary or have been streamlined. The time saved from teaching obsolete material can be dedicated to new stuff.
There are schools where they can't even afford basic supplies like paper.
That is total BS. Paper for a whole classroom costs less than 1 minute of a teacher's salary. The inefficiencies in modern schooling have roughly doubled the cost of schooling (in constant dollars) from 50 years ago. There are legions of unnecessary teachers, administrators, assistants, and counselors doing little but sucking up money. Unions promote waste and get a cut of salaries, with the sole goal of increasing their own political power.
Progressivism is not exclusive to Democrats. There are many Republicans - Theodore Roosevelt, the Bushes, for examples - whose minds are polluted to varying degrees with Progressive ideology.
OTA UHD requires too much bandwidth, and bandwidth is limited and expensive. It's unlikely to ever become a market success when 3 or 4 2k channels use the same bandwidth, for 3 or 4 times the revenue.
8k is useful for text and extremely good static images being carefully examined. For anything that moves I think that the human vision system would have trouble distinguishing 4k from 8k. 8k is at or just beyond the limits of human visual acuity.
You can make a point contact diode in your basement, and that was a common hobbyist trick 60 years ago.
Making transistors with a power gain greater than one is more difficult. If you look into semiconductor history, you might find a way to make germanium point contact or junction transistors with luck and patience. For silicon, you might be able to use photocells as a substrate and spot-weld impurities to make collector and emitter. Just guessing, I've never tried.
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Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Electric trains are an urban-suburban phenomenon (think commuter trains). Vast stretches of rural landscape are not cost-effective for electric trains.
Orbiting solar satellites beaming microwaves to airplanes (A Step Farther Out, Pournelle, 1973).
Polio. Smallpox. Rickets. A whole host of other diseases. All eradicated or avoidable by modern technology.
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Electronic communications and entertainment.
The automobile.
A 17th century lifestyle is nothing but drawbacks.
Anyone believing the vile garbage you spew is a fool.
Proper government exists for the sole purpose of protecting the rights of its citizens as well as possible. Such a government is by necessity small, because a large government requires high taxes to support it, and high levels of taxation do more harm than good both in principle and in practice. Such a small government is not "statist", "transnational mafia", nor "warlord chieftan". The "mega-corporate" term you use is vague and not necessarily bad, but in any case corporations should be neither favored nor disfavored by government.
Slavery and capitalism are mutually exclusive.
Cities are also much more efficient for terrorists; a few pounds of gunpowder and some shrapnel can kill hundreds at rush hour, whereas out in the country he'd be lucky to kill one person.
Breathing puts carbon into the air. Everybody must stop breathing. You first.
Measured how? Weight? Volume? Items? Dollar volume?
"Output" is not a verb, and if it were the past tense would be "output", not "outputted".
Some things become obsolete. Religious training in public school used to be standard, it's widely ignored now. Bits and pieces of various fields have been dropped as irrelevant to modern life. In many fields teaching has become more efficient, as subjects thought to be prerequisites to "final" skills and knowledge have been found unnecessary or have been streamlined. The time saved from teaching obsolete material can be dedicated to new stuff.
Who teaches "casting out nines" these days?
Good way to turn dislike of a subject into active hatred.
Frequently, what is needed is a different approach.
If you don't understand the value of having children, it's a good thing you don't have children.
That is total BS. Paper for a whole classroom costs less than 1 minute of a teacher's salary. The inefficiencies in modern schooling have roughly doubled the cost of schooling (in constant dollars) from 50 years ago. There are legions of unnecessary teachers, administrators, assistants, and counselors doing little but sucking up money. Unions promote waste and get a cut of salaries, with the sole goal of increasing their own political power.
There's no lack of money. Get rid of the waste.
Progressivism is not exclusive to Democrats. There are many Republicans - Theodore Roosevelt, the Bushes, for examples - whose minds are polluted to varying degrees with Progressive ideology.
How does "pretend play" differ from real play?
OTA UHD requires too much bandwidth, and bandwidth is limited and expensive. It's unlikely to ever become a market success when 3 or 4 2k channels use the same bandwidth, for 3 or 4 times the revenue.
3D generally has been a fringe market for over 100 years. Every time publicists claimed 3D would be the next big thing it's flopped.
8k is useful for text and extremely good static images being carefully examined. For anything that moves I think that the human vision system would have trouble distinguishing 4k from 8k. 8k is at or just beyond the limits of human visual acuity.
The hospital colluded with the state.
Gag orders ought to be considered unConstitutional.
Kidnapping is what the hospital did. Taking her from the hospital is rescuing a kidnap victim.
touché. You are correct sir.
You can make a point contact diode in your basement, and that was a common hobbyist trick 60 years ago.
Making transistors with a power gain greater than one is more difficult. If you look into semiconductor history, you might find a way to make germanium point contact or junction transistors with luck and patience. For silicon, you might be able to use photocells as a substrate and spot-weld impurities to make collector and emitter. Just guessing, I've never tried.
Sorry, that should be 306:1, not .306:1.