Sugary soft drinks cost more than tap water, and (most places) tap water is a lot better for you. Most good-for-you foods are moderately priced; heavy processing doesn't come free: you pay for those extra steps and packaging than make food worse for you.
Frozen mixed vegetables are under $1/pound. Milk runs about $2.70/gallon.
If poor people have poor health because they each inferior food, it's not because of cost but rather ignorance or self-destructiveness.
Ponzi schemes by their very nature eat up the money they take in and provide no benefit to their newer customers. By intention, they seldom last longer than a decade. Major insurance companies have been around for a long time, and accumulate capital.
"Nationalized health insurance" is worse than a Ponzi scheme because instead of taking money only from fools, it steals from everybody at gunpoint.
Obama opposed the pipeline from Canada so that his contributor Warren Buffet could keep shipping by rail and trucks (!). Looks like the oil industry lost on that one.
Stop distorting history. Slave states wanted slaves to be prevented from voting but still be counted toward presidential election clout. The 3/5 compromise was a way to tell slavers "you're not getting away with that."
Most expensive land is urban or suburban. Desert and other useless land miles from nowhere is almost free. Fertile land is more expensive, but undeveloped land in e.g. Indiana is under $4000 per acre.
Tractors for a small plot are the sort of thing you buy at Home Depot for $1500.
If you've got a cushion of money to ride on and are only trying to meet expenses and feed yourself, a couple of acres of intensely farmed land suffices.
Panasonic is one of the worst battery manufacturers, at least for the common carbon-zinc cells. Expect failure rates in excess of 10%, new from the blister-pack.
Zoning laws require 110VAC sockets every few feet. It's going to be a while before that requirement goes away.
Stereos, large screen TVs, electric blankets, fans draw enough current to make 12 Vdc a poor choice. Window air conditioners are already marginal at 110 V.
It is dishonest to use the phrase "access to" as if it meant the same as "having". All Americans have literal access to health care, food, heat, etc. and they can have it if they pay for it.
Even in the age of online distribution the number of people who can write full time is fairly low.
Newspaper writers. Ad copy writers. Book authors. Comic and comic book writers. Songwriters. Bloggers. Movie and television writers. Technical manual writers. Magazine writers. Crossword puzzle creators. If the total of all those in the US is below 100,000, I'd be astounded.
The business of a "civil rights activist" is to bitch and moan, obstruct productive people and sue them. There's no "uses reason" in that job description.
There will always be some people, myself included, who are willing to pay for genuine hand-crafted goods. If there's enough spare money around for people to buy unique luxury goods, the Amish will prosper. If the world becomes so impoverished that everybody struggles to survive, the Amish are already well-prepared for that situation.
The problem with that logic is, in order to better yourself you need to take risks
Most people don't think that working for a living is a "risk". Bettering yourself, at a minimum, need consist of no more than working, saving and accumulating what's left over after living expenses.
"But wait! Oh Lather's productive you know,
he produces the finest of sounds;
putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
snorting the best licks in town."
(Jefferson Airplane)
If nobody is willing to pay for it, it's worthless (except maybe to its creator).
If nobody is willing to pay you for what you do, you're not contributing to society.
The Republican is the party of rights, unchanged. What has changed is public discourse as seen by popular media: whereas it was once considered to be your right to keep what you earned, it is now claimed to be your right to smoke pot at public expense.
The Democrats were the party of slavery when they were founded in 1828, and remain the party of slavery to this very day. In 1896 with the leadership of William Jennings Bryan they also became the party of theft, a title that proudly lives on in Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
As long as the antenna isn't far from that circulator, reflection from the antenna is just seen as an impedance mismatch. Match the receiver/transmitter/antenna impedances to the circulator (or compensate for the resultant errors) and theoretically the transmitted signal can be cancelled completely at the receiver. The problem is that the transmitted signal can easily be 120 dB greater than the received signal, meaning that the correction applied has to be better than 1 PPM.
Generally, that's not possible because (1) transmit currents in the circulator and antenna generate noise and (2) the environment around the antenna changes, changing its effective impedance and upsetting the assumptions that allow cancellation.
Your overall point, that they're claiming phenomenal (and likely impossible) performance is correct. I suspect they're envisioning a local system where maybe 60 dB cancellation is required, and somebody got too enthusiastic with the vague claims.
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If you haven't found a way to enjoy the work you do, you're already brain-dead.
Sugary soft drinks cost more than tap water, and (most places) tap water is a lot better for you. Most good-for-you foods are moderately priced; heavy processing doesn't come free: you pay for those extra steps and packaging than make food worse for you.
Frozen mixed vegetables are under $1/pound. Milk runs about $2.70/gallon.
If poor people have poor health because they each inferior food, it's not because of cost but rather ignorance or self-destructiveness.
Ponzi schemes by their very nature eat up the money they take in and provide no benefit to their newer customers. By intention, they seldom last longer than a decade. Major insurance companies have been around for a long time, and accumulate capital.
"Nationalized health insurance" is worse than a Ponzi scheme because instead of taking money only from fools, it steals from everybody at gunpoint.
Nye is a known shill. His opinions are worth nothing.
As opposed to a government healthcare system that denies good healthcare to everyone.
Obama opposed the pipeline from Canada so that his contributor Warren Buffet could keep shipping by rail and trucks (!). Looks like the oil industry lost on that one.
Stop distorting history. Slave states wanted slaves to be prevented from voting but still be counted toward presidential election clout. The 3/5 compromise was a way to tell slavers "you're not getting away with that."
Most expensive land is urban or suburban. Desert and other useless land miles from nowhere is almost free. Fertile land is more expensive, but undeveloped land in e.g. Indiana is under $4000 per acre.
Tractors for a small plot are the sort of thing you buy at Home Depot for $1500.
If you've got a cushion of money to ride on and are only trying to meet expenses and feed yourself, a couple of acres of intensely farmed land suffices.
Chemical imbalances go hand-in-hand with the feeling of helplessness; they boost each other. To some extent, fixing either one can break the cycle.
Panasonic is one of the worst battery manufacturers, at least for the common carbon-zinc cells. Expect failure rates in excess of 10%, new from the blister-pack.
One of the "water engine" frauds is very old. It involves calcium carbide and water, which generates acetylene gas.
Zoning laws require 110VAC sockets every few feet. It's going to be a while before that requirement goes away.
Stereos, large screen TVs, electric blankets, fans draw enough current to make 12 Vdc a poor choice. Window air conditioners are already marginal at 110 V.
It's not the instruction set, it's the implementation. Intel gets better instructions-per-clock than AMD.
It is dishonest to use the phrase "access to" as if it meant the same as "having". All Americans have literal access to health care, food, heat, etc. and they can have it if they pay for it.
Newspaper writers. Ad copy writers. Book authors. Comic and comic book writers. Songwriters. Bloggers. Movie and television writers. Technical manual writers. Magazine writers. Crossword puzzle creators. If the total of all those in the US is below 100,000, I'd be astounded.
The business of a "civil rights activist" is to bitch and moan, obstruct productive people and sue them. There's no "uses reason" in that job description.
There will always be some people, myself included, who are willing to pay for genuine hand-crafted goods. If there's enough spare money around for people to buy unique luxury goods, the Amish will prosper. If the world becomes so impoverished that everybody struggles to survive, the Amish are already well-prepared for that situation.
Most people don't think that working for a living is a "risk". Bettering yourself, at a minimum, need consist of no more than working, saving and accumulating what's left over after living expenses.
"But wait! Oh Lather's productive you know,
he produces the finest of sounds;
putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
snorting the best licks in town."
(Jefferson Airplane)
If nobody is willing to pay for it, it's worthless (except maybe to its creator).
If nobody is willing to pay you for what you do, you're not contributing to society.
The engine appears to work by utilizing a Maxwell's demon.
More people not president than president have been on the US paper currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
The Republican is the party of rights, unchanged. What has changed is public discourse as seen by popular media: whereas it was once considered to be your right to keep what you earned, it is now claimed to be your right to smoke pot at public expense.
The Democrats were the party of slavery when they were founded in 1828, and remain the party of slavery to this very day. In 1896 with the leadership of William Jennings Bryan they also became the party of theft, a title that proudly lives on in Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Burberry manufactures cloaks.
As long as the antenna isn't far from that circulator, reflection from the antenna is just seen as an impedance mismatch. Match the receiver/transmitter/antenna impedances to the circulator (or compensate for the resultant errors) and theoretically the transmitted signal can be cancelled completely at the receiver. The problem is that the transmitted signal can easily be 120 dB greater than the received signal, meaning that the correction applied has to be better than 1 PPM.
Generally, that's not possible because (1) transmit currents in the circulator and antenna generate noise and (2) the environment around the antenna changes, changing its effective impedance and upsetting the assumptions that allow cancellation.
Your overall point, that they're claiming phenomenal (and likely impossible) performance is correct. I suspect they're envisioning a local system where maybe 60 dB cancellation is required, and somebody got too enthusiastic with the vague claims.