You're saying that federal Senators and Representatives need more than text speed in their offices? They should be dealing with issues that can be put into words, not watching cat videos or porn. Internet speed does not affect the valid business of Congress.
Bandwidth is not properly measured in bits per second. Even with single-bit-per-sample encoding, the data rate is 2 bits per Hertz. With fancy encoding schemes, the bitrate/Hz can be much higher: consider 56 kbps on 4 kHz telephone lines.
The concepts are related but they're not the same. Using them interchangeably is confusing and sometimes deceitful.
Satellite is not the solution. For a reasonable antenna size, there is only a limited number of satellites in geostationary orbit that can push through a limited bitrate in the dependably transparent bands of the atmosphere
Politicians shouldn't be catering to anybody, that only encourages corruption. Government should only be protecting life and property, leaving people free to do with their lives what they want.
If government outside the local area isn't involved (providing "free" money) the primary driver for water service is sanitation. Somewhere in the region of 0.5 to 3 acres per family leach fields become ineffective and centralized sewage handling is necessary. If you're putting up the money to dig up the roads and bury big sewage pipes, it makes sense to add the smaller pipes for drinking water also.
How is video and photo editing affected by internet speed? Download video or photos, internet use is done. Edit locally.
Properly encoded live video can easily be handled by 1.5 Mbit/sec, even high action video like football. Until you start demanding high resolution video, higher speeds are simply a luxury for the vast majority of users.
I still don't understand why we are using science class to deal with religious topics
Logically, once you have accepted into your belief system one error, that one flaw can be used to tear apart everything you know. Nothing claimed to be physically real is outside the purview of science. As long as religion makes testable claims, those claims are available for review by science. The only relevant restriction is whether a particular religious claim should be handled in a particular science class.
This is another example of a government solution causing a problem, leading for demands for more government action to "fix" the problem. If we eliminate the root cause, government schools (other than the official military academies like West Point), the problem of arguments over what is taught in public schools doesn't exist.
Parents are rightly expected to feed their children's bodies; parents should also feed their children's minds.
The fact of gravity is obvious. We're not floating around. Few people are going to deny its existence, and the number of people who care about there being a good theory of gravity is pretty limited.
The fact of evolution isn't obvious, observation and thinking are required. This allows axe grinders and people who don't think much to deny evolution.
The theory behind gravity (is there actually one that has widespread acceptance?) is difficult and beyond the level of high schoolers. The equation of gravitational attraction is all they need to learn. Evolutionary theory is easy to explain in a qualitative manner, and it's easy so easy to understand that it's almost a tautology: creatures with flaws that make them unable to live don't live.
The Republicans go after the religious vote, and in that regard they aren't critical about intelligence. The Democrats go after the unemployable, which are heavily dominated by the stupid.
The longstanding joke is that the Republicans are the stupid party, the Democrats are the evil party. Alas, the joke's on us.
Republicans tend to be the sort of person who grew up obeying mommy and daddy, and accepting their beliefs which were founded on religion. Thus Republicans tend to be stolid workers, and people blindly pushing all elements of a religious morality.
Democrats tend to be the rebels, people who challenged all rules whether good or bad. Thus they wisely cast off religion and stupidly broke laws. The sharpest ones didn't get caught and became habitual large scale lawbreakers and politicians, the stupidest ones were their natural prey. As the boldest people with the biggest mouths, they bent the culture in their direction, so that when they do something egregious it doesn't seem bad because it's in line with culture.
Thus some Republicans will insist on teaching the Bible as literal truth, and Democrats will insist on taking from the rich to give to the poor. Both ideas are foul and stupid, but the culture has been bent to see the latter as almost good.
Ten years ago, when I was still getting calls asking me to subscribe to a satellite service, they were all 3rd party vendors, some of them dishonest. Did Dish become too stupid to use a cutout?
On February 2, 2013, Chris Kyle was shot dead at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. His friend, Chad Littlefield, age 35, was also killed. The former Marine accused of killing Kyle, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. (wikipedia). Not an assault of a range, but an assault at a range. Of a hero.
Much fear is caused by associating things with pain. Some people fear dogs after being bitten. That's not the sort of thing that's going to disappear if governments and religion end.
The claim that "fear of time" is anything but a rare aberration is just silly.
How do you determine the emotional state of an animal? When a single dog or a pack kills another dog, is it having fun? When in a feeding frenzy a one of school of sharks gets shredded, are the others having fun?
Generally, a human who kills for fun is considered to be mentally diseased, mentally defective, a monster. Claiming that humans kill for fun when only the defective humans do that is akin to saying "pipes leak" when actually only defective pipes leak.
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You're saying that federal Senators and Representatives need more than text speed in their offices? They should be dealing with issues that can be put into words, not watching cat videos or porn. Internet speed does not affect the valid business of Congress.
Bandwidth is not properly measured in bits per second. Even with single-bit-per-sample encoding, the data rate is 2 bits per Hertz. With fancy encoding schemes, the bitrate/Hz can be much higher: consider 56 kbps on 4 kHz telephone lines.
The concepts are related but they're not the same. Using them interchangeably is confusing and sometimes deceitful.
Satellite is not the solution. For a reasonable antenna size, there is only a limited number of satellites in geostationary orbit that can push through a limited bitrate in the dependably transparent bands of the atmosphere
Politicians shouldn't be catering to anybody, that only encourages corruption. Government should only be protecting life and property, leaving people free to do with their lives what they want.
In some places cannibalism is "a long-standing tradition". That doesn't make it right.
If government outside the local area isn't involved (providing "free" money) the primary driver for water service is sanitation. Somewhere in the region of 0.5 to 3 acres per family leach fields become ineffective and centralized sewage handling is necessary. If you're putting up the money to dig up the roads and bury big sewage pipes, it makes sense to add the smaller pipes for drinking water also.
How is video and photo editing affected by internet speed? Download video or photos, internet use is done. Edit locally.
Properly encoded live video can easily be handled by 1.5 Mbit/sec, even high action video like football. Until you start demanding high resolution video, higher speeds are simply a luxury for the vast majority of users.
Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell.
Logically, once you have accepted into your belief system one error, that one flaw can be used to tear apart everything you know. Nothing claimed to be physically real is outside the purview of science. As long as religion makes testable claims, those claims are available for review by science. The only relevant restriction is whether a particular religious claim should be handled in a particular science class.
This is another example of a government solution causing a problem, leading for demands for more government action to "fix" the problem. If we eliminate the root cause, government schools (other than the official military academies like West Point), the problem of arguments over what is taught in public schools doesn't exist.
Parents are rightly expected to feed their children's bodies; parents should also feed their children's minds.
The fact of gravity is obvious. We're not floating around. Few people are going to deny its existence, and the number of people who care about there being a good theory of gravity is pretty limited.
The fact of evolution isn't obvious, observation and thinking are required. This allows axe grinders and people who don't think much to deny evolution.
The theory behind gravity (is there actually one that has widespread acceptance?) is difficult and beyond the level of high schoolers. The equation of gravitational attraction is all they need to learn. Evolutionary theory is easy to explain in a qualitative manner, and it's easy so easy to understand that it's almost a tautology: creatures with flaws that make them unable to live don't live.
The Republicans go after the religious vote, and in that regard they aren't critical about intelligence. The Democrats go after the unemployable, which are heavily dominated by the stupid.
The longstanding joke is that the Republicans are the stupid party, the Democrats are the evil party. Alas, the joke's on us.
Republicans tend to be the sort of person who grew up obeying mommy and daddy, and accepting their beliefs which were founded on religion. Thus Republicans tend to be stolid workers, and people blindly pushing all elements of a religious morality.
Democrats tend to be the rebels, people who challenged all rules whether good or bad. Thus they wisely cast off religion and stupidly broke laws. The sharpest ones didn't get caught and became habitual large scale lawbreakers and politicians, the stupidest ones were their natural prey. As the boldest people with the biggest mouths, they bent the culture in their direction, so that when they do something egregious it doesn't seem bad because it's in line with culture.
Thus some Republicans will insist on teaching the Bible as literal truth, and Democrats will insist on taking from the rich to give to the poor. Both ideas are foul and stupid, but the culture has been bent to see the latter as almost good.
Progressive the insurance company is run by political progressives, which is how the company got its name.
Ten years ago, when I was still getting calls asking me to subscribe to a satellite service, they were all 3rd party vendors, some of them dishonest. Did Dish become too stupid to use a cutout?
The slash mark slants to the right.
On February 2, 2013, Chris Kyle was shot dead at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. His friend, Chad Littlefield, age 35, was also killed. The former Marine accused of killing Kyle, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. (wikipedia). Not an assault of a range, but an assault at a range. Of a hero.
Too bad you didn't read the article. The find is in Kenya.
Much fear is caused by associating things with pain. Some people fear dogs after being bitten. That's not the sort of thing that's going to disappear if governments and religion end.
The claim that "fear of time" is anything but a rare aberration is just silly.
Most assholes are the result of parenting failures -- not that that is an adequate excuse.
Yours is a typical anticapitalistic mentality. You identify "pooling resources" and can't see that it implies "reduced conflict."
Capitalism is the protection of rights viewed from an economic perspective.
The term "capitalism" was coined by Karl Marx as a sly libel, implying that money is the sole motivator of the whole system.
You are confusing Republicans with certain religious zealots. The sets overlap, but neither set is a superset of the other.
How do you determine the emotional state of an animal? When a single dog or a pack kills another dog, is it having fun? When in a feeding frenzy a one of school of sharks gets shredded, are the others having fun?
Generally, a human who kills for fun is considered to be mentally diseased, mentally defective, a monster. Claiming that humans kill for fun when only the defective humans do that is akin to saying "pipes leak" when actually only defective pipes leak.
WWII is 70+ years gone. Japan has been behaving in an exemplary manner for a long time.
Right wing reactions to various foreign nations tends to be based on things like
Such behavior makes it not in the good interest of the United States to cooperate with them.
"USAian". Is that someone from the Union of South Africa?
On a more serious note: grow up.