Per Floridaâ(TM)s concealed carry law, those with a license to carry may not carry their firearms into an establishment that serves alcohol....
The state statute that covers the license to carry a weapon, Title XLVI Chapter 790, clearly states that guns are not permitted in bars.
Section (12)(a) tells concealed carry license holders that "A license issued under this section does not authorize any person to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or firearm into: Any portion of an establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, which portion of the establishment is primarily devoted to such purpose."
So, as with the incident at Luby's Cafeteria in Texas, the hundreds of potential victims in The Pulse were disarmed by state law.
Though it is easy to get a concealed weapon license in Florida, they were in a "gun free zone" and thus not a one of them could fire back at the lone gunman. They had to wait three hours while the swat team got to the site and got its act together, and a substantial number of them were shot - at least 50 fatally.
If you read the papers and letters of the Founding Fathers you'll see that "bear arms" was always used in connection with military units
If you read the documents and histories of the period you'll see that the revolution with fought largely with privately-owned weapons: Pistols, rifles, cannon, rockets, warships,...
It would have been hard to fight it with government-owned weapons. Those were mostly in the hands of the forces of the British Crown.
... the underlying law has been expanded and abused over the decades...
Which was predictable - and predicted at the time.
RICO and other asset forfeiture statutes recreate the incentive structure that drove the Spanish Inquisition:
- The inquisitors rolled into town.
- They busted some people for allegedly being a heretic, witch, etc. Typically a relatively well-to-do farmer with lots of assets and some jealous neighbors.
- They tortured them until they had something to use as "evidence". (If all else failed, "The Needle" would find one of the spots on the skin (where the nerves come up, like the blind spot in the eye) where pain sensitivity is absent and the victim doesn't flinch when pierced.)
- Then they did them in, seized their assets, and split it between the Inquisitors and the local authorities.
Needless to say there was a strong financial incentive to find ever more heretics.
Communication networks are likely via line-of-sight laser or some means we can't comprehend, so there's no transmissions for us to pick up.
Spectrum is a limited resource. The more efficiently it is used, the more the resulting signal looks like thermal noise.
Early modulation schemes (CW, AM) were simple, sending extremely redundant signals. These would survive substantial noise and be recognizable, even at interstellar distances.
Thanks to the enormously improved price-performance of modern electronics, a lot of computation can be thrown at constructing and decoding waveforms that can squeeze the most out of the spectrum - and we have enough information to send to make it worthwhile. So modern modulation schemes (ODFM, CDMA, and other spread-spectrum techniques) look almost like noise - with a tiny bit of redundancy to synchronize the decoders at the receiving end. If you don't know what you're looking for, or there's just a little to much noise (for instance, if you're just a little to far away from the transmitter to recover the pilot signals) the rest of the signal might as well be thermal gibberish.
Heck, some of them (like CDMA) work by convolving the information with a pseudo-random "spreading function" to make it look JUST like noise if you can't regenerate the same pseudo-random function. Then they share the spectrum by using different spreading functions, so on decoding their signal "piles up" into something intelligible that rises out of the "grass" while the competing signals just get mushed around, changing from one pile of random junk to another.
So my preferred solution to the Fermi Paradox is that, a very short time (like a century or so) after a new civilization becomes detectable by radio signals, it doesn't necessarily die out, but does becomes UNdetectable again, as its radio technology improves beyond recognition at a distance.
Thus there's no need to assume, as TFA apparently does, that (oh HORROR!) virtually every civilization that made it to an industrial revolution immediately made their planet uninhabitable by intelligent (or any) life and died off. (Or fell victim to anti-technological environmentalists and reverted to freezing in the dark and not having the energy to transmit detectable radio signals.)
It turns out that in addition to having vibration motors, smartphones also have regular microphones.
But if the security auditors are only looking for code that gets signals from the microphone, they might miss code that gets signals from the vibrator.
Using the ringer for a room bug has been stock stuff since at least WWII. It has the advantage that it's connected to the line all the time and doesn't require any modification of the phone.
The early electronic piezo-electric sounders, which replaced the electromechanical bell mechanisms, were even better microphones, too. (I recall the blurb on the box of the Unisonic model 7441, which was a two-line phone from about the mid '80s, which had one of each - a bell for line 1 and a piezo sounder for line two. The blurb was really funny: The C-suite character it was attributed to was bragging about being ex-FBI and how important it was to have a secure phone. B-) )
Which "La Raza" group? read up a little... and then report back.
If you have a point to make it's up to YOU to provide a clear statement of it and supporting evidence.
Arrogating to yourself the authority to assign homework to your debate opponents doesn't even rise to the level of a gratuitous assertion (which may simply be gratuitously denied).
... everyone dies eventually, and we are maybe just witnessing the "older generation who was the first to benefit from those progresses" starting to die.
But the death rate within each age group went up. Ageing population was already corrected for.
Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook... aren't legally obligated, but have agreed...
Great! A conspiracy of the major industry players to censor unpopular opinions from their services.
Seems to me, in the U.S., that would constitute an illegal cartel.
Remember when the Internet was going to improve freedom of speech? Apparently not in Europe.
Fortunately, the peer-to-peer approaches to conferencing still work. This just means that people using these commercial services, either to conference or to hunt for content, won't get to see or participate in the action - at least until they somehow find out about where it's going on.
As someone who has clients in one of those areas I can tell you: you have to contact your state legislator to get ordinary service orders completed.
Are "those areas" suburbs buried in cities (like my townhouse with the outage) or rural?
I'm not even kidding. AT&T only wants to do wireless now. From where I'm sitting, it looks like they are stripping the wireline side bare and are waiting for a regulatory opportunity to spin off the carcus.
My retirement ranch, in a somewhat rural part of NV, used to have Verizon for POTS. (I got a phone line mainly to use dialup.) Verizon, a few years ago, sold the area's wireline service off to Frontier - a never-was-part-of-bell rural utility company founded in the 1930s as "Citizens..." - that has been buying up rural assets the big urban phone companies have been dumping.
As long the providers don't get the money until after the project is completed
And people are connected.
And the customers have a contractual commitment from the company to keep them served and cap their PAYMENT rates for at least enough years to amortize the installation investment.
And they have to PAY IT BACK if they drop service.
My AT&T DSL at home has been out for over two weeks and it looks to be out for another week before they get around to moving my line to a RT that is still live. That's IN A CITY IN SILICON VALLEY. If they can do that HERE (where I COULD switch to the cable provider) and get away with it, what will they do to subsidized rural customers with NO alternative but maybe satellite (if they "have a view of the southern sky") or dialup?
It works like this: Come up with a baseless claim against another company. Take the amount the court could award us, A, multiply by the probability that we can convince the court to rule in our favor, B. A times B equals X. If X is more than our lawyer fees, then we sue.
You forgot: "What counter-claims could they come up against us and how much, C, could they sue for? How likely, D, is the court to decide to award that? Is AxB - CxD still greater than the lawyer fees?"
And then there's: "How big is their patent pool? How big is ours? Do they have any patents that would be really useful for something we want to do? Do we have patents that they might like to use (that won't result in them competing us into oblivion)? Are they open to settlements of the form: 'We'll cross-license our patents, they guy with the smaller pile gives the guy with the larger pile some money, and then we BOTH go back to work - including our lawyers, who use the combined pile to spike our mutual competition (or suck them into a similar deal).'".
Software companies will all close shop in the U.S. and move their operations to countries where APIs are legally declared not copyrightable.... The U.S. will be relegated to a software backwater, as most of the software made and sold in the rest of the world cannot legally be distributed in the U.S.
Something similar to this happened with encryption. The US regulated it as a weapon and banned / limited / added red tape to the export of strong encryption software. US companies also couldn't import strong encryption software, include it in their products, and resell them elsewhere. The software had to be installed outside the US by non-US companies.
The result was that commercial development and deployment of strong encryption software pretty much stopped in the US and picked up outside its boundaries for several years, and various workarounds were developed (such as "encryption with a hole" so a strong encryption module could be installed later).
This continued up to about the turn of the centur, when laws, policies, and court decisions loosened things up enough that US companies could play again.
The problem is not simply poorly written laws (or at least not primarily that). The problem is enforcement of those laws.
Hear hear!
The non-enforcement of the laws means that contractors are in a bind. Their markets are highly competitive. When a few bad actor start using cheap imported labor illegally, and the government doesn't enforce the law to stop them, they can lower their bids. The rest are left with two choices:
1. ALSO switch to illegally using cheap imported labor.
2. Go out of business. Results:
a. Essentially all the contractors still in business are illegally using cheap imported labor.
b. NON-imported laborers need not bother to apply.
That's why, over the last couple decades, the immigrant labor pool has expanded faster than the job growth rate and the absolute number of US-born or naturalized laborers has actually shrunk.
And THAT's why Trump has swept the Republican Primaries: He's the only major candidate promising to actually turn this around - which makes him very popular with those out of work, underemployed, or underpaid, whether blue-collars being drowned in "undocumented" workers or white-collars being drowned in H1B holders.
Last time I flew was - holy cannoli - 2002. I'm a little shocked at that because I really didn't think about it until I typed it.
My wife and I stopped flying shortly after 9/11 and the resulting security theatre hassles. We've vacationed by driving cross-country with a travel trailer - visiting family a couple thousand miles away in a multi-week round trip.
I think I've flown twice since we decided to stop: Once on business for an employer, once to attend my mother's funeral (too far to drive in the time available.)
In _The Probability Broach_, an alternate-universe Science Fiction novel where the "North American Confederacy" is a minarchist "government" evolved from the pre-Constitution, Articles of Confederacy - based, United States, where pretty much everybody goes around armed all the time, a (private-enterprise zeplin) airline has a weapons checkpoint in the boarding path.
What they check is that, if you're carrying a projectile weapon, it is loaded with frangible rounds that won't penetrate the walls and internal partitions of the aircraft.
Anyone foolish enough to try to rob, beat, etc. others, and thus provoke them into a self-defence draw-down, is on their own. B-) Meanwhile, trying to get into the control cabin with frangible ammunition is futile - and will attract the attention of the other, armed, passengers.
I remember when ClearCase was considered to be the top notch VCS, and it did have some very nice features in the day.
It was a top-notch VCS. It would still be a top-notch VCS (in an environment where you have continuous access to the repository).
In particular, the ability to construct "views" of the code base with a simple language, specifying, in a few lines, what versions of things you wanted, was invaluable for diverge-converge development in an environment that had to maintain several production threads concurrently.
But at $three grand per seat it was not suitable for hobbyist development and was a hard sell to startups and PHBs everywhere.
Sorry, guys. Loved the product. Couldn't use it outside a couple big houses - that were dinosaurs in other ways and went belly up on schedule.
you moved out there to get away from the masses, mission accomplished:)
No, I moved out there to get away from California laws.
I'm a target shooter and CA was banning and moving to confiscate all my pricey toys, and I had some stock options that CA wanted to tax at nasty rates after I retired. The NV site was about as close to Silicon Valley as I could get and not be in CA or the Pacific Ocean (about 250 miles by road). The rural location has its ups and downs
(Unfortunately the startup did a merger and the stock options got force-exercised before I could change my residence. So they got taxed anyhow. B-b )
No they won't because the energy in the individual infra-red photons is insufficient to raise an electron up the energy levels for it to dissociate itself from the nucleus of the atom. That you think it would shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how this stuff works at the quantum mechanical level.
Sorry, it's you who is missing it. When the radiation is coherent it's not the energy in the individual photons that counts, because they gang up.
Microwave photons have a LOT less energy than infrared. Even with a half percent of argon added, the ionization voltage of the gas in a neon lamp is over a hundred volts. Stick one in a microwave oven, though, and it lights up just fine. Or put in two pennies side-by-side with a small gap between them (in dry air which ionizes at 3 kV/mm) and watch the pretty sparks.
(Be sure to put it on a ceramic plate to protect the paint and include a cup of water to absorb some of the microwaves, so you don't get an arc inside the magnetron's waveguide that starts the destruction of your oven. Cover the water cup loosely to keep the air dry - for a minute or so after the oven comes on - so you don't think it's a cheat.)
Just as microwave ovens are coherent, so is the output of a cellphone. (They're even within a couple octaves of each other.) So photon energy is not a factor in effective voltage gradient and the resulting ability to ionize.
Which is also not germane to the original discussion, which was about chemical events that take place at voltage gradients FAR below those needed to ionize the molecule.
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I don't know about Florida, but state laws in the US typically prohibit possession of guns wherever alcohol is served...
According to Breitbart:
So, as with the incident at Luby's Cafeteria in Texas, the hundreds of potential victims in The Pulse were disarmed by state law.
Though it is easy to get a concealed weapon license in Florida, they were in a "gun free zone" and thus not a one of them could fire back at the lone gunman. They had to wait three hours while the swat team got to the site and got its act together, and a substantial number of them were shot - at least 50 fatally.
Additionally, the LGBT community is not known for their tendency to carry a pistol.
Talk to a member of "The Pink Pistols" about that.
If you read the papers and letters of the Founding Fathers you'll see that "bear arms" was always used in connection with military units
If you read the documents and histories of the period you'll see that the revolution with fought largely with privately-owned weapons: Pistols, rifles, cannon, rockets, warships, ...
It would have been hard to fight it with government-owned weapons. Those were mostly in the hands of the forces of the British Crown.
... the underlying law has been expanded and abused over the decades ...
Which was predictable - and predicted at the time.
RICO and other asset forfeiture statutes recreate the incentive structure that drove the Spanish Inquisition:
- The inquisitors rolled into town.
- They busted some people for allegedly being a heretic, witch, etc. Typically a relatively well-to-do farmer with lots of assets and some jealous neighbors.
- They tortured them until they had something to use as "evidence". (If all else failed, "The Needle" would find one of the spots on the skin (where the nerves come up, like the blind spot in the eye) where pain sensitivity is absent and the victim doesn't flinch when pierced.)
- Then they did them in, seized their assets, and split it between the Inquisitors and the local authorities.
Needless to say there was a strong financial incentive to find ever more heretics.
Communication networks are likely via line-of-sight laser or some means we can't comprehend, so there's no transmissions for us to pick up.
Spectrum is a limited resource. The more efficiently it is used, the more the resulting signal looks like thermal noise.
Early modulation schemes (CW, AM) were simple, sending extremely redundant signals. These would survive substantial noise and be recognizable, even at interstellar distances.
Thanks to the enormously improved price-performance of modern electronics, a lot of computation can be thrown at constructing and decoding waveforms that can squeeze the most out of the spectrum - and we have enough information to send to make it worthwhile. So modern modulation schemes (ODFM, CDMA, and other spread-spectrum techniques) look almost like noise - with a tiny bit of redundancy to synchronize the decoders at the receiving end. If you don't know what you're looking for, or there's just a little to much noise (for instance, if you're just a little to far away from the transmitter to recover the pilot signals) the rest of the signal might as well be thermal gibberish.
Heck, some of them (like CDMA) work by convolving the information with a pseudo-random "spreading function" to make it look JUST like noise if you can't regenerate the same pseudo-random function. Then they share the spectrum by using different spreading functions, so on decoding their signal "piles up" into something intelligible that rises out of the "grass" while the competing signals just get mushed around, changing from one pile of random junk to another.
So my preferred solution to the Fermi Paradox is that, a very short time (like a century or so) after a new civilization becomes detectable by radio signals, it doesn't necessarily die out, but does becomes UNdetectable again, as its radio technology improves beyond recognition at a distance.
Thus there's no need to assume, as TFA apparently does, that (oh HORROR!) virtually every civilization that made it to an industrial revolution immediately made their planet uninhabitable by intelligent (or any) life and died off. (Or fell victim to anti-technological environmentalists and reverted to freezing in the dark and not having the energy to transmit detectable radio signals.)
It turns out that in addition to having vibration motors, smartphones also have regular microphones.
But if the security auditors are only looking for code that gets signals from the microphone, they might miss code that gets signals from the vibrator.
Using the ringer for a room bug has been stock stuff since at least WWII. It has the advantage that it's connected to the line all the time and doesn't require any modification of the phone.
The early electronic piezo-electric sounders, which replaced the electromechanical bell mechanisms, were even better microphones, too. (I recall the blurb on the box of the Unisonic model 7441, which was a two-line phone from about the mid '80s, which had one of each - a bell for line 1 and a piezo sounder for line two. The blurb was really funny: The C-suite character it was attributed to was bragging about being ex-FBI and how important it was to have a secure phone. B-) )
Which "La Raza" group? read up a little... and then report back.
If you have a point to make it's up to YOU to provide a clear statement of it and supporting evidence.
Arrogating to yourself the authority to assign homework to your debate opponents doesn't even rise to the level of a gratuitous assertion (which may simply be gratuitously denied).
... everyone dies eventually, and we are maybe just witnessing the "older generation who was the first to benefit from those progresses" starting to die.
But the death rate within each age group went up. Ageing population was already corrected for.
Too true
Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook ... aren't legally obligated, but have agreed ...
Great! A conspiracy of the major industry players to censor unpopular opinions from their services.
Seems to me, in the U.S., that would constitute an illegal cartel.
Remember when the Internet was going to improve freedom of speech? Apparently not in Europe.
Fortunately, the peer-to-peer approaches to conferencing still work. This just means that people using these commercial services, either to conference or to hunt for content, won't get to see or participate in the action - at least until they somehow find out about where it's going on.
For IoT you want a system-on-a-chip with a BLE / Bluetooth Smart radio. The big three there are Nordic, TI, and Dialog, and there are a couple others.
All three supply chips with non-BGA packaging options.
As someone who has clients in one of those areas I can tell you: you have to contact your state legislator to get ordinary service orders completed.
Are "those areas" suburbs buried in cities (like my townhouse with the outage) or rural?
I'm not even kidding. AT&T only wants to do wireless now. From where I'm sitting, it looks like they are stripping the wireline side bare and are waiting for a regulatory opportunity to spin off the carcus.
My retirement ranch, in a somewhat rural part of NV, used to have Verizon for POTS. (I got a phone line mainly to use dialup.) Verizon, a few years ago, sold the area's wireline service off to Frontier - a never-was-part-of-bell rural utility company founded in the 1930s as "Citizens ..." - that has been buying up rural assets the big urban phone companies have been dumping.
As long the providers don't get the money until after the project is completed
And people are connected.
And the customers have a contractual commitment from the company to keep them served and cap their PAYMENT rates for at least enough years to amortize the installation investment.
And they have to PAY IT BACK if they drop service.
My AT&T DSL at home has been out for over two weeks and it looks to be out for another week before they get around to moving my line to a RT that is still live. That's IN A CITY IN SILICON VALLEY. If they can do that HERE (where I COULD switch to the cable provider) and get away with it, what will they do to subsidized rural customers with NO alternative but maybe satellite (if they "have a view of the southern sky") or dialup?
By "centur" you mean half-man half-horse, right
Only if he did something in my keyboard to make the Y key intermittent.
It works like this: Come up with a baseless claim against another company. Take the amount the court could award us, A, multiply by the probability that we can convince the court to rule in our favor, B. A times B equals X. If X is more than our lawyer fees, then we sue.
You forgot: "What counter-claims could they come up against us and how much, C, could they sue for? How likely, D, is the court to decide to award that? Is AxB - CxD still greater than the lawyer fees?"
And then there's: "How big is their patent pool? How big is ours? Do they have any patents that would be really useful for something we want to do? Do we have patents that they might like to use (that won't result in them competing us into oblivion)? Are they open to settlements of the form: 'We'll cross-license our patents, they guy with the smaller pile gives the guy with the larger pile some money, and then we BOTH go back to work - including our lawyers, who use the combined pile to spike our mutual competition (or suck them into a similar deal).'".
Software companies will all close shop in the U.S. and move their operations to countries where APIs are legally declared not copyrightable. ... The U.S. will be relegated to a software backwater, as most of the software made and sold in the rest of the world cannot legally be distributed in the U.S.
Something similar to this happened with encryption. The US regulated it as a weapon and banned / limited / added red tape to the export of strong encryption software. US companies also couldn't import strong encryption software, include it in their products, and resell them elsewhere. The software had to be installed outside the US by non-US companies.
The result was that commercial development and deployment of strong encryption software pretty much stopped in the US and picked up outside its boundaries for several years, and various workarounds were developed (such as "encryption with a hole" so a strong encryption module could be installed later).
This continued up to about the turn of the centur, when laws, policies, and court decisions loosened things up enough that US companies could play again.
It's one thing to buy a nice walled garden.
It's another for the contractor to come around a bit later and brick up the entrance.
Sounds more like a Pilot Fish.
This discovery might lead to significant improvements in batteries and/or fuel cells.
The problem is not simply poorly written laws (or at least not primarily that). The problem is enforcement of those laws.
Hear hear!
The non-enforcement of the laws means that contractors are in a bind. Their markets are highly competitive. When a few bad actor start using cheap imported labor illegally, and the government doesn't enforce the law to stop them, they can lower their bids. The rest are left with two choices:
1. ALSO switch to illegally using cheap imported labor.
2. Go out of business.
Results:
a. Essentially all the contractors still in business are illegally using cheap imported labor.
b. NON-imported laborers need not bother to apply.
That's why, over the last couple decades, the immigrant labor pool has expanded faster than the job growth rate and the absolute number of US-born or naturalized laborers has actually shrunk.
And THAT's why Trump has swept the Republican Primaries: He's the only major candidate promising to actually turn this around - which makes him very popular with those out of work, underemployed, or underpaid, whether blue-collars being drowned in "undocumented" workers or white-collars being drowned in H1B holders.
Last time I flew was - holy cannoli - 2002. I'm a little shocked at that because I really didn't think about it until I typed it.
My wife and I stopped flying shortly after 9/11 and the resulting security theatre hassles. We've vacationed by driving cross-country with a travel trailer - visiting family a couple thousand miles away in a multi-week round trip.
I think I've flown twice since we decided to stop: Once on business for an employer, once to attend my mother's funeral (too far to drive in the time available.)
In _The Probability Broach_, an alternate-universe Science Fiction novel where the "North American Confederacy" is a minarchist "government" evolved from the pre-Constitution, Articles of Confederacy - based, United States, where pretty much everybody goes around armed all the time, a (private-enterprise zeplin) airline has a weapons checkpoint in the boarding path.
What they check is that, if you're carrying a projectile weapon, it is loaded with frangible rounds that won't penetrate the walls and internal partitions of the aircraft.
Anyone foolish enough to try to rob, beat, etc. others, and thus provoke them into a self-defence draw-down, is on their own. B-) Meanwhile, trying to get into the control cabin with frangible ammunition is futile - and will attract the attention of the other, armed, passengers.
I remember when ClearCase was considered to be the top notch VCS, and it did have some very nice features in the day.
It was a top-notch VCS. It would still be a top-notch VCS (in an environment where you have continuous access to the repository).
In particular, the ability to construct "views" of the code base with a simple language, specifying, in a few lines, what versions of things you wanted, was invaluable for diverge-converge development in an environment that had to maintain several production threads concurrently.
But at $three grand per seat it was not suitable for hobbyist development and was a hard sell to startups and PHBs everywhere.
Sorry, guys. Loved the product. Couldn't use it outside a couple big houses - that were dinosaurs in other ways and went belly up on schedule.
you moved out there to get away from the masses, mission accomplished :)
No, I moved out there to get away from California laws.
I'm a target shooter and CA was banning and moving to confiscate all my pricey toys, and I had some stock options that CA wanted to tax at nasty rates after I retired. The NV site was about as close to Silicon Valley as I could get and not be in CA or the Pacific Ocean (about 250 miles by road). The rural location has its ups and downs
(Unfortunately the startup did a merger and the stock options got force-exercised before I could change my residence. So they got taxed anyhow. B-b )
No they won't because the energy in the individual infra-red photons is insufficient to raise an electron up the energy levels for it to dissociate itself from the nucleus of the atom. That you think it would shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how this stuff works at the quantum mechanical level.
Sorry, it's you who is missing it. When the radiation is coherent it's not the energy in the individual photons that counts, because they gang up.
Microwave photons have a LOT less energy than infrared. Even with a half percent of argon added, the ionization voltage of the gas in a neon lamp is over a hundred volts. Stick one in a microwave oven, though, and it lights up just fine. Or put in two pennies side-by-side with a small gap between them (in dry air which ionizes at 3 kV/mm) and watch the pretty sparks.
(Be sure to put it on a ceramic plate to protect the paint and include a cup of water to absorb some of the microwaves, so you don't get an arc inside the magnetron's waveguide that starts the destruction of your oven. Cover the water cup loosely to keep the air dry - for a minute or so after the oven comes on - so you don't think it's a cheat.)
Just as microwave ovens are coherent, so is the output of a cellphone. (They're even within a couple octaves of each other.) So photon energy is not a factor in effective voltage gradient and the resulting ability to ionize.
Which is also not germane to the original discussion, which was about chemical events that take place at voltage gradients FAR below those needed to ionize the molecule.