By prohibiting punitive damages you've just made gross, negligent, and willful unjust and illegal action on the part of business entities almost universally profitable. Punitive damages are needed or else that one time you got caught will never result in a penalty greater than the profit you made doing something you knew you weren't supposed to do.
That isn't going to rehabilitate anything, that is going to encourage more bad behavior. If you want to fix something, fix it so medical device and drug companies have to follow FDA requirements for safe production but are granted no legal immunity from suit by FDA compliance. The FDA should be a screen for the public, it should still be on the company to actually make sure they selling something safe.
"It has to feel like a clinical procedure, otherwise you may as well just be chopping off heads with a sword in the public square."
If you sell tickets you could offset the cost of giving them all those appeals... which is a bit much but since more than half the people we convict are likely innocent it seems like a necessary step.
Bleeding to death is painful. The terrible deaths have to be minimized because of the rules against cruel and unusual punishment. Lethal injection is the biggest joke of all, paralyzing someone while, as far as the best can tell, giving a sensation of being on fire from the inside.
"Bonus: nitrogen is a heck of a lot cheaper than lethal injection drugs. (and they are getting really hard to obtain)"
lol Nah, there will be a dedicated contracter who is the only one approved and regulated by the state to provide execution gas as some outlandish rate... because of the extra checks for purity, compliance, chain of custody, etc. By the time they get done it will be $150,000 for a 20lb tank of execution gas.
"Er, for the same reason that all consumer products don't disintegrate in just one day?"
The market wouldn't bear that, that is the only reason and for markets where it will that is exactly what they do (see paper towels).
"If they go too far in planned obsolescence, then they leave themselves wide open to a competitor who does not."
It is far more profitable to operate as they are. They get most of the market purchasing phones 5x more often this way, they make as much getting 20% of those upgrades as they would getting every single upgrade on the next round because they produced a phone that lasts and if they are able to pull better than 20% on any round they are ahead. Additionally they wouldn't get every upgrade because it will still take years to prove they've future proofed a product and that is no guarantee the current round of their products is future proofed. Since the same is true for every competitor and any competitor large enough to matter can do this simple math no competitor has to worry about "leaving themselves wide open to a competitor who does not."
There is still a "too far" but the industry has evolved a 2yr cycle with 6mo on early adopters standard. No competitor has to guess how long their phones should last.
"Why aren't we even trying to make designs that good? Instead all you get is stupid little gimmicks like rounded corners or notches in the screen."
Because having phones that last longer is in direct conflict with the motives of literally every competitor making phones. Even if they never sit in a room and collude they'll reach the same result simply by acting out of self-interest. Why would they compete with each other on more durable phones or in any real way on cost when those things hurt their bottom lines? Better to make everyone replace their phone on a regular basis and compete for pieces of the next round of purchases.
No doubt but there being worse types of election manipulation hardly gives the FCC commissioner a pass. Not that they did anything here but say "shame shame."
Look at it another way. As a major public official they get a much louder voice than your typical citizen and that voice is essentially being funded by tax dollars because the existence of their position is funded by tax dollars. This is no different than a charitable non-profit advocating a political candidate, it's a backhanded way of using tax dollars to fund someone's campaign. This isn't something you should support regardless of whether it happens to have been benefitting a political candidate you support or the other guy. This is one of those things which should fall under zero tolerance.
People have propped up far too many hypocritical standards like this, willing to allow bad behavior if it happens to benefit their agenda. Russians manipulating our elections buying facebook ads? Yes that is bad. But if they'd funneled the money through the US arm of Kaspersky into a superpac, perfectly legal thanks to citizens united, they'd have been doing nothing different than all the other nations trying to influence our elections and what many hostile nations did in support of the Clinton campaign and other campaigns. In the same token, that doesn't give Trump a pass.
So... as I said in the comment you responded to, this is a terrible idea but the flaw is not as suggested by the GP that the modification to waveforms is addition.
I said "... this is a terrible plan... It may not be the most efficient way" You seem to be rephrasing the same sentiment I express but with a tone implying it is somehow an argument against what I said.
By the way, if we are talking about using universal logic operators rather than this wifi radio proposal on the whole you should be aware that for the most part the fastest general purpose processors are following a similar path at the transistor level.
An outcome is distinct from the specifically prohibited class of outcome, namely an election. The FCC commissioner can try to influence the outcome of many manner of things but is prohibited from influencing the outcome of an election. You can't get much more blatant about manipulating the outcome of an election than saying "you should vote for..."
"I don't know about that. Lots of places have wifi right now and have for over the past decade."
And it does cause interference already.
"Going from random to not random isn't going to change anything related to how interference happens."
Yes it is, it's going to change the density of transmission. Random means there is no consistent loss. It's like an analog tv broadcast, random noise degrades the picture but it is scattered throughout the image causing fuzz that has to be extremely severe to prevent you from recognizing the image and content despite the errors. What is missing in one frame will be present in the next allowing you to deduce across a sequence what was missing. Not random means strong coherent noise, instead of fuzz that shifts from frame to frame you will have consistent errors that are targeted. It will be more like errors in a digital transmission where you lose entire frames or have solid black bars or analog where you have a constant line of distortion through the image. The total amount of interference might be the same but those errors will be concentrated in more specific ways.
The more coherent and not random data on a transmission the more it interferes with other signals which is why HAMs have limitation from the FCC on data rates for their transmissions. A sparse 100mW signal causes less interference than a dense one. The more computation you perform the more dense the signal and digital processing is extremely inefficient super dense micro-computation (often using tens or hundreds of thousands of tiny universal logical operations to execute a specific macro routine with a couple dozen potential outputs).
"The signal strength will be the same, the frequency range will be the same, and the pattern encoded into it will be the same."
The pattern encoded into it will not be the same otherwise you can't set up and read the result of a specific computation. Without changing the pattern you'd be reading the result of random computations with no relevance to the output you need and you could that with a recording of a waveform and skip the real antennas and wifi.
"Adding waveforms together is really just that - adding."
There are a lot of reasons this is a terrible plan but that isn't one of them. It has been proven that every logical operation can be performed with negated binary addition. It may not be the most efficient way but it can be done.
Most wifi routers come with multiple antennas onboard now. What makes this moronic in my opinion is that the transistor count to handle all that waveform lifting is going to exceed the count to simply perform the operations. Not to mention the RF interference this system is going to cause.
It's illegal for them to attempt to influence the outcome of the 2020 election not to speak on anything political.
That said, why would anyone be seeking rational to protect the FCC commissioners? Unless you are a telco or cable company the FCCs recent actions and policy are very much against you.
The US has extreme economic leverage over most of the internationally operating entities in the world both government and private either directly or through secondary channels. That's without getting into other forms of leverage that come in when you realize the US is the largest arms dealer in the world or likely has some pretty big guns in your backyard.
The leverage of the US was strong enough to force the bankruptcy and failure of the USSR a backwater like North Korea has never had a chance.
The US might have a massive landmass and range of national resources that would allow it close its borders and survive just fine but North Korea certainly doesn't, without trade they are destined to be poor. Neutrality on the part of the US would have allowed them a fair chance but instead they've been proactively hampered from fair and equitable dealing on a global stage by the US since 1950. In the same fashion the US has artificially propped up South Korea to the point where it is (in local relative terms) more successful than the US itself.
These two nations have been used as US propaganda poster children for the communism vs capitalism war of hearts and minds. Something similar was done with E v W Germany as well. This was about battling the USSR and creating the impression of success and supremacy. In general though, if you have a sense that nation X is bad, good, evil, etc there is almost certainly a propaganda effort at work on you. These are terms that are questionable to use with regard to a person and make zero sense applied to a mass population of individuals. A person might have a bad habit, a nation might have a bad policy, either can act badly (from the perspective of some) but neither a person or a nation is innately bad.
"I wouldn't be surprised if one factor is that he realizes that making everyone in North Korea 2x as wealthy will make him 100x as wealthy. That making life better for the peasants will make him more of a god than he already is. It only makes sense - the cult of personality is well established. Make life better for people, and you cement a legitimate place in history as a great leader."
No doubt but lets not pretend N. Korea is poor because they want to be. They are poor because they've been kept that way under the boot of the US. Their purpose is to be one of the poster children of the failure of communism.
"3) NK has what they always wanted, Nukes and long range missiles."
Based on what? They didn't have any successful tests. Stop believing propaganda. Just because trump is an asshat doesn't mean you need to believe baseless propaganda that NK ever represented any sort of threat.
"With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably."
Not really, the modern Navy doesn't really have any need of these bases. We can put troops, missiles, jets, etc pretty much anywhere on the globe in a matter of hours.
I'm 36 years old and we've been engaged in one or more wars that entire 36 years. Not sure how it worked before that but according to Wikipedia we've been engaged in this war against North Korea since at least 1950 so that is at least 68 sequential years of war.
Next up, make the same crime, robbery, suddenly a different crime if the robber who did the same thing and took the same thing used a gun... then call it gun crime. Oh and pretend that reducing the number of firearms made available does not "take their guns away" just as surely as literally going door to door and taking firearms away just more slowly.
It's all been nothing more than screaming loudly to intimidate us combined with the standard Eastern European/Asian cultural inability to admit weakness. The fact is we've kept N. Korea under the boot of the US since the start of the Korean war to the point that they are asking us to end it. We've kept them a poster child of the evils of communism, all the while using our stronger position and propaganda to make sure they live up to that image. How much better would the standard of living be in North Korea if the US hadn't been preventing its allies from freely establishing friendly relations and trade with them?
It's time to move on, stop pretending "the commies" are evil or even the enemy. The point has been made, they don't really have the stomach to keep battling us on the global scale and just want to live in peace. Let them. We could actually use their support against China. This includes Russia, whatever else Putin is he is no fool. Russia has a lot more to gain from neutral to friendly relations with the US than hostility with a much more dangerous Chinese opponent on the map.
It might be possible but I'm skeptical. I've been fighting for 20yrs and only during one brief 2 month stint did I have a schedule that matched my night owlness for any length of time. Given a couple weeks off I automatically find myself shifting back to being up all night... hell, a fair amount of time I slip just given a weekend.
Someone else pointed out we aren't born larks or owls. As a father I can assure you that is true. Babies are polyphasic sleepers. For practical reasons (and because you don't want to take any risks playing with something different than what is known to work and be healthy for a newborn) we start adjusting them to a lark schedule.
It could well be that the schedule we could all adjust to is polyphasic with interval sleeping and the rapid onset REM (take a 20min nap every couple hours, round the clock, and REM sleep kicks in immediately) but adjusting from the long period sleep schedule to a polyphasic is extremely hard, first because you will effectively have no sleep for 3-7 days while your body adjusts it's REM habits and second because of the rest of the world who has no accommodation or understanding of polyphasic sleeping.
Or more productively, we should encourage businesses to accommodate the rhythms of their employees for every position so that working in accounting or higher level positions no longer means being tied to a 9-5.
If we are being honest, night owls may well be 30% or more of the population.
Really? I can only think of a handful that don't close that early (9-10pm anyway)... Diners, Taco Bell, a handful of 24hr McDonalds... essentially any restaurant where you get seated and with a cloth napkin closes that early. If you are a night owl on a natural schedule restaurants are mostly closing at your brunch time. You have more options on a Friday night but take a serious look around at a reason night owl early evening time of 2am on a Tuesday and see where you can take your spouse for a made to order burger, steak, or lobster dinner. I'm confident your options will be zero throughout most of the US.
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By prohibiting punitive damages you've just made gross, negligent, and willful unjust and illegal action on the part of business entities almost universally profitable. Punitive damages are needed or else that one time you got caught will never result in a penalty greater than the profit you made doing something you knew you weren't supposed to do.
That isn't going to rehabilitate anything, that is going to encourage more bad behavior. If you want to fix something, fix it so medical device and drug companies have to follow FDA requirements for safe production but are granted no legal immunity from suit by FDA compliance. The FDA should be a screen for the public, it should still be on the company to actually make sure they selling something safe.
"It has to feel like a clinical procedure, otherwise you may as well just be chopping off heads with a sword in the public square."
If you sell tickets you could offset the cost of giving them all those appeals... which is a bit much but since more than half the people we convict are likely innocent it seems like a necessary step.
Bleeding to death is painful. The terrible deaths have to be minimized because of the rules against cruel and unusual punishment. Lethal injection is the biggest joke of all, paralyzing someone while, as far as the best can tell, giving a sensation of being on fire from the inside.
"Bonus: nitrogen is a heck of a lot cheaper than lethal injection drugs. (and they are getting really hard to obtain)"
lol Nah, there will be a dedicated contracter who is the only one approved and regulated by the state to provide execution gas as some outlandish rate... because of the extra checks for purity, compliance, chain of custody, etc. By the time they get done it will be $150,000 for a 20lb tank of execution gas.
"Er, for the same reason that all consumer products don't disintegrate in just one day?"
The market wouldn't bear that, that is the only reason and for markets where it will that is exactly what they do (see paper towels).
"If they go too far in planned obsolescence, then they leave themselves wide open to a competitor who does not."
It is far more profitable to operate as they are. They get most of the market purchasing phones 5x more often this way, they make as much getting 20% of those upgrades as they would getting every single upgrade on the next round because they produced a phone that lasts and if they are able to pull better than 20% on any round they are ahead. Additionally they wouldn't get every upgrade because it will still take years to prove they've future proofed a product and that is no guarantee the current round of their products is future proofed. Since the same is true for every competitor and any competitor large enough to matter can do this simple math no competitor has to worry about "leaving themselves wide open to a competitor who does not."
There is still a "too far" but the industry has evolved a 2yr cycle with 6mo on early adopters standard. No competitor has to guess how long their phones should last.
"Why aren't we even trying to make designs that good? Instead all you get is stupid little gimmicks like rounded corners or notches in the screen."
Because having phones that last longer is in direct conflict with the motives of literally every competitor making phones. Even if they never sit in a room and collude they'll reach the same result simply by acting out of self-interest. Why would they compete with each other on more durable phones or in any real way on cost when those things hurt their bottom lines? Better to make everyone replace their phone on a regular basis and compete for pieces of the next round of purchases.
No doubt but there being worse types of election manipulation hardly gives the FCC commissioner a pass. Not that they did anything here but say "shame shame."
Look at it another way. As a major public official they get a much louder voice than your typical citizen and that voice is essentially being funded by tax dollars because the existence of their position is funded by tax dollars. This is no different than a charitable non-profit advocating a political candidate, it's a backhanded way of using tax dollars to fund someone's campaign. This isn't something you should support regardless of whether it happens to have been benefitting a political candidate you support or the other guy. This is one of those things which should fall under zero tolerance.
People have propped up far too many hypocritical standards like this, willing to allow bad behavior if it happens to benefit their agenda. Russians manipulating our elections buying facebook ads? Yes that is bad. But if they'd funneled the money through the US arm of Kaspersky into a superpac, perfectly legal thanks to citizens united, they'd have been doing nothing different than all the other nations trying to influence our elections and what many hostile nations did in support of the Clinton campaign and other campaigns. In the same token, that doesn't give Trump a pass.
So... as I said in the comment you responded to, this is a terrible idea but the flaw is not as suggested by the GP that the modification to waveforms is addition.
I said "... this is a terrible plan... It may not be the most efficient way" You seem to be rephrasing the same sentiment I express but with a tone implying it is somehow an argument against what I said.
By the way, if we are talking about using universal logic operators rather than this wifi radio proposal on the whole you should be aware that for the most part the fastest general purpose processors are following a similar path at the transistor level.
An outcome is distinct from the specifically prohibited class of outcome, namely an election. The FCC commissioner can try to influence the outcome of many manner of things but is prohibited from influencing the outcome of an election. You can't get much more blatant about manipulating the outcome of an election than saying "you should vote for..."
"I don't know about that. Lots of places have wifi right now and have for over the past decade."
And it does cause interference already.
"Going from random to not random isn't going to change anything related to how interference happens."
Yes it is, it's going to change the density of transmission. Random means there is no consistent loss. It's like an analog tv broadcast, random noise degrades the picture but it is scattered throughout the image causing fuzz that has to be extremely severe to prevent you from recognizing the image and content despite the errors. What is missing in one frame will be present in the next allowing you to deduce across a sequence what was missing. Not random means strong coherent noise, instead of fuzz that shifts from frame to frame you will have consistent errors that are targeted. It will be more like errors in a digital transmission where you lose entire frames or have solid black bars or analog where you have a constant line of distortion through the image. The total amount of interference might be the same but those errors will be concentrated in more specific ways.
The more coherent and not random data on a transmission the more it interferes with other signals which is why HAMs have limitation from the FCC on data rates for their transmissions. A sparse 100mW signal causes less interference than a dense one. The more computation you perform the more dense the signal and digital processing is extremely inefficient super dense micro-computation (often using tens or hundreds of thousands of tiny universal logical operations to execute a specific macro routine with a couple dozen potential outputs).
"The signal strength will be the same, the frequency range will be the same, and the pattern encoded into it will be the same."
The pattern encoded into it will not be the same otherwise you can't set up and read the result of a specific computation. Without changing the pattern you'd be reading the result of random computations with no relevance to the output you need and you could that with a recording of a waveform and skip the real antennas and wifi.
"Adding waveforms together is really just that - adding."
There are a lot of reasons this is a terrible plan but that isn't one of them. It has been proven that every logical operation can be performed with negated binary addition. It may not be the most efficient way but it can be done.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/universal-logic-gates/
Most wifi routers come with multiple antennas onboard now. What makes this moronic in my opinion is that the transistor count to handle all that waveform lifting is going to exceed the count to simply perform the operations. Not to mention the RF interference this system is going to cause.
It's illegal for them to attempt to influence the outcome of the 2020 election not to speak on anything political.
That said, why would anyone be seeking rational to protect the FCC commissioners? Unless you are a telco or cable company the FCCs recent actions and policy are very much against you.
The US has extreme economic leverage over most of the internationally operating entities in the world both government and private either directly or through secondary channels. That's without getting into other forms of leverage that come in when you realize the US is the largest arms dealer in the world or likely has some pretty big guns in your backyard.
The leverage of the US was strong enough to force the bankruptcy and failure of the USSR a backwater like North Korea has never had a chance.
The US might have a massive landmass and range of national resources that would allow it close its borders and survive just fine but North Korea certainly doesn't, without trade they are destined to be poor. Neutrality on the part of the US would have allowed them a fair chance but instead they've been proactively hampered from fair and equitable dealing on a global stage by the US since 1950. In the same fashion the US has artificially propped up South Korea to the point where it is (in local relative terms) more successful than the US itself.
These two nations have been used as US propaganda poster children for the communism vs capitalism war of hearts and minds. Something similar was done with E v W Germany as well. This was about battling the USSR and creating the impression of success and supremacy. In general though, if you have a sense that nation X is bad, good, evil, etc there is almost certainly a propaganda effort at work on you. These are terms that are questionable to use with regard to a person and make zero sense applied to a mass population of individuals. A person might have a bad habit, a nation might have a bad policy, either can act badly (from the perspective of some) but neither a person or a nation is innately bad.
"I wouldn't be surprised if one factor is that he realizes that making everyone in North Korea 2x as wealthy will make him 100x as wealthy. That making life better for the peasants will make him more of a god than he already is. It only makes sense - the cult of personality is well established. Make life better for people, and you cement a legitimate place in history as a great leader."
No doubt but lets not pretend N. Korea is poor because they want to be. They are poor because they've been kept that way under the boot of the US. Their purpose is to be one of the poster children of the failure of communism.
"3) NK has what they always wanted, Nukes and long range missiles."
Based on what? They didn't have any successful tests. Stop believing propaganda. Just because trump is an asshat doesn't mean you need to believe baseless propaganda that NK ever represented any sort of threat.
"With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably."
Not really, the modern Navy doesn't really have any need of these bases. We can put troops, missiles, jets, etc pretty much anywhere on the globe in a matter of hours.
I'm 36 years old and we've been engaged in one or more wars that entire 36 years. Not sure how it worked before that but according to Wikipedia we've been engaged in this war against North Korea since at least 1950 so that is at least 68 sequential years of war.
Next up, make the same crime, robbery, suddenly a different crime if the robber who did the same thing and took the same thing used a gun... then call it gun crime. Oh and pretend that reducing the number of firearms made available does not "take their guns away" just as surely as literally going door to door and taking firearms away just more slowly.
"And there is nothing 'legal' about that. It is only an 'I have the power' and you 'have no way to do anything against it'."
That's what legal is about.
It's all been nothing more than screaming loudly to intimidate us combined with the standard Eastern European/Asian cultural inability to admit weakness. The fact is we've kept N. Korea under the boot of the US since the start of the Korean war to the point that they are asking us to end it. We've kept them a poster child of the evils of communism, all the while using our stronger position and propaganda to make sure they live up to that image. How much better would the standard of living be in North Korea if the US hadn't been preventing its allies from freely establishing friendly relations and trade with them?
It's time to move on, stop pretending "the commies" are evil or even the enemy. The point has been made, they don't really have the stomach to keep battling us on the global scale and just want to live in peace. Let them. We could actually use their support against China. This includes Russia, whatever else Putin is he is no fool. Russia has a lot more to gain from neutral to friendly relations with the US than hostility with a much more dangerous Chinese opponent on the map.
Parents start sending their kids to bed early after a few weeks... that's years before school comes into play.
It might be possible but I'm skeptical. I've been fighting for 20yrs and only during one brief 2 month stint did I have a schedule that matched my night owlness for any length of time. Given a couple weeks off I automatically find myself shifting back to being up all night... hell, a fair amount of time I slip just given a weekend.
Someone else pointed out we aren't born larks or owls. As a father I can assure you that is true. Babies are polyphasic sleepers. For practical reasons (and because you don't want to take any risks playing with something different than what is known to work and be healthy for a newborn) we start adjusting them to a lark schedule.
It could well be that the schedule we could all adjust to is polyphasic with interval sleeping and the rapid onset REM (take a 20min nap every couple hours, round the clock, and REM sleep kicks in immediately) but adjusting from the long period sleep schedule to a polyphasic is extremely hard, first because you will effectively have no sleep for 3-7 days while your body adjusts it's REM habits and second because of the rest of the world who has no accommodation or understanding of polyphasic sleeping.
Or more productively, we should encourage businesses to accommodate the rhythms of their employees for every position so that working in accounting or higher level positions no longer means being tied to a 9-5.
If we are being honest, night owls may well be 30% or more of the population.
Really? I can only think of a handful that don't close that early (9-10pm anyway)... Diners, Taco Bell, a handful of 24hr McDonalds... essentially any restaurant where you get seated and with a cloth napkin closes that early. If you are a night owl on a natural schedule restaurants are mostly closing at your brunch time. You have more options on a Friday night but take a serious look around at a reason night owl early evening time of 2am on a Tuesday and see where you can take your spouse for a made to order burger, steak, or lobster dinner. I'm confident your options will be zero throughout most of the US.