Business band can also encrypt. "Public" bands being used by licenses specifically for public use are not allowed to encrypt specifically because they're public. If you want to be private, you can apply for a license and communicate privately all that you want.
The entire point of ham radio (and CB for that matter) is to facilitate learning and open communication. If it's encrypted then it's not facilitating open communication.
When I visited San Francisco a few years ago we used the subway, but the former-native that we were with knew how to go make use of it there, or else our stops were generally based on the mass transit system.
When I visit greater Boston we mainly use the T to go into downtown, otherwise we drive. When my in-laws still had a vehicle we'd take mass transit from the airport out to the station closest to their house and use their car for most errands or trips, again excepting those that necessitated going downtown, but we'd still drive to the T-stop to park.
I found London's mass transit system to be quite good with both public and private options; the tube was great for getting around to most of the major regions (many tube-stops were perfectly located for tourist functions) and the hop-on-hop-off private tourist buses worked quite well too. I was surprised how we were able to get out to Greenwich to the Naval War College from central London without trouble.
I didn't like Paris' system as much. Dragged luggage around both, it was far easier to get from Heathrow to our hotel near Hyde Park than it was to get from Charles de Gaulle to the apartment we rented on the Boulevard du Montparnasse.
I used to live an eighth-mile north of a major street that, eight miles east, was also an eighth-mile south of where I worked. One bus route right?
Technically yes, but it was complicated. Two different cities. I lived in a city that believed in mass-transit, such that the bus stopped near my apartment every fifteen minutes. Unfortunately I worked in a city that didn't want to commit enough money, so every other bus ended its route at the border between the cities. On top of that the ones that did go through made this weird detour near that city's downtown Senior Center, sat there for fifteen minutes (and of course didn't get there in time to switch to an earlier bus) and then made its way back to that main road before continuing. The trip took 45 minutes to go eight miles, which one could do by car in fifteen minutes even in lousy traffic.
I took the bus when my vehicle had been stolen and stopped taking it once I had a car again. It literally was not worth the time it took to use the bus, I couldn't do any shopping or other side-stops on the way home without a lot of hassle, and my time is simply worth more than that.
Nowadays I take mass-transit when I'm going to an event where parking will be bad, where I may have to leave the car for an extended period of time (on the scale of days), or where driving is no better a choice. Otherwise I'll drive every time.
It also depends on how it was subdivided in the first place. In the subdivision that I live in, the city owns the road, the sidewalk, and about two feet of the unpaved yard adjacent to the sidewalk, to be reserved for an easement for public utilities. It also owns the alley behind the property. The bulk of the city is configured this way as it was built off of a county and state plan that was surveyed and plotted before the area was particularly settled. The laws of the city require that the property owner maintain the unpaved portion of municipal land between their property and the improved street or sidewalk, as well as maintaining the half of the alley adjacent to the property (basically preventing weeds from getting out of hand and ensuring that the garbage truck can pass).
My city doesn't have very many areas with HOAs because it was completed and land-locked by other municipalities before the rise of the HOA, but in other places, if I understand it correctly, the large parcel that was subdivided to create the neighborhood still exists as a legal entity (the HOA itself) and that HOA, not the city, owns the roads. Depending on the legal agreements that created the subdivision and HOA in the first place it might be the HOA that has to maintain those roads, or it might be the city's responsibility. That's part why HOAs can do things like prohibit street parking overnight when the city would otherwise allow it. To me that's the worst of both worlds; HOAs generally aren't run by professionals so their rulemaking bodies are fraught with questionable decisions and uneven enforcement, and the homeowner pays 'tax' to the HOA while still having to pay all of the other municipal, county, and state taxes that might be imposed on the land.
I'm sure that in rural areas, or on undivided parcels, or on divided parcels where the land was only subdivided into large acreages as opposed to suburban or urban sizes the rules are different.
I very much doubt that any Roman roads, to the description of using Roman design, are in-service as high quality roadways anymore. Their alignments or rights of way might still be in use, but either completely replaced or else substantially upgraded to modern construction techniques.
Calling them Roman roads when they were built and abandoned and rebuilt and re-abandoned and rebuilt again, etc is as accurate as calling the irrigation canals that supply flood-irrigation water to the Phoenix metropolitan area Hohokam canals- the canals were built by the Hohokam originally but abandoned for hundreds of years before the alignments were rediscovered, cleaned out, lined with modern concrete and control gates, and put into service again.
Likely they'll still remain a public road, just grind it back to a dirt road. It is the hardtop that is expensive to maintain. Re-grading dirt once a year or less is more palatable,
Depends on where you are and what kind of traffic the unmaintained pavement sees. I live in the desert and if an abandoned paved road doesn't see heavy truck traffic the biggest danger to it being covered over with wind-blown dirt or sand. Over the span of years the next danger is the striping eroding off and making it riskier to drive due to the lack of defined shoulder line, and over longer spans like decades, expansive soil eventually cracking and heaving the pavement.
I imagine that in places that suffer freezing in the winter, the expansion crack/heave problem can be measured in months or years rather than decades. In other places like Hawaii, they have to constantly mow the shoulders to keep the foliage at bay. I imagine in some particularly wet lowland parts of the southern United States they have to deal with subsidence and the roads sinking back into the swamp in places.
I'm not going to comment on what Iowa should do because I've never been there and I do not know how roads wear there. Iowans themselves, in concert with any external agencies that provide funding for maintenance, should be the ones discussing this.
They've been closing roads in much of the rural areas, in the name of "protecting the environment". Next step: Make it a public policy to abandon or close non-wilderness rural roads.
Sounds like you're a member of the Pave the Whales Foundation...
Between blatantly violating the laws covering passenger livery and blatantly violating the laws covering employee compensation, Uber and its ilk are looking more and more like organized crime than like a lawful-evil taxi company.
You have two morning newscasts, a lunchtime newscast, an afternoon newscast, and an evening newscast. You also have airtime between those newscasts to fill, and a lot of stations are taking to making their news staff run coffeetalk shows or other roundtable type non-news shows on the same sets as the news shows because they're cheaper to produce than it is to license reruns, and new content often gets better ratings. It's now worse worse because there's usually less local stuff to report on, so any little thing has to become very, very important so to keep the audience hooked. Consequently, "high school student trespasses, steals old thermostats from broken-down warehouse," becomes, "man breaks into warehouse to steal materials that could be used in a bomb! Oh mah gawd!"
All I need from my local news is the traffic, the weather, a calendar of upcoming municipal-sized events that could either disrupt traffic or could be fun to go to, and news of patterns of significant crimes taking place outside of parts of town where they're expected. That's really it.
Some kid broke a couple of thermometers in a classroom a couple years ago around here and the EPA was called when word got out to some helicopter parent.
Okay, with you so far...
They brought in a device to measure the mercury vapor level in the room and the room was declared a hazard after taking the air measurements. The room became a suit-up, limited exposure-time environment while they figured out what to do.
If the readings were that bad, does that mean that they were overreacting?
Students houses were visited and clothing and shoes bagged for hazmat disposal. Seriously. I believe the room's carpet is now rolled up and buried in a hazardous chemicals disposal facility. The paranoia prevalent today about mercury is ridiculous and is unfortunately being backed up by supposed scientific authorities.
People love to complain about the authorities, but think about it for a minute... It costs money to enforce regulations. Departments are only given limited budgets. They're not going to add to their regulatory duties things that don't matter for no good reason, as they already have enough problems regulating the stuff that really needs it. Add to that, schools don't want to be liable for physically hurting kids during their childhood and adolescent development, and will very likely follow the guidelines of their risk-management departments to attempt to mitigate the potential for lawsuits later.
It's funny that my generation is not the one with all the crazy levels of autism claims, and we're the ones that freely played around with mercury in our chemistry classes.
No, but your generation's children have come down with all manner of interesting diseases and conditions. Maybe something related there...
Yeah yeah yeah, I hated rebooting my machine several times a day during the 90's, too.
I hate that I still have to reboot my Microsoft boxes regularly; the tablet crashes far too often when docking or undocking or coming out of sleep and there have been too many times that the servers have had problems during expected operating hours that they are rebooted every scheduled maintenance window whether they're serviced or not.
The Linux boxes get rebooted either when something really critical needs updating or when the power goes out in the office area. The OSX box I'm typing this on has been up for a little over 222 days, is put into sleep several times a day, and travels with me from time to time.
Their old Satellite lines weren't much to write home about either. I ended up with several Satellite 1700 series in the past because numerous broken ones came my way, was ultimately able to make one good one with all of the cannibalized machines but the ports were way, WAY too fragile and the hinges tended to stick and break the adjacent metal parts.
I reached 35 without any major problems caused by the body itself. I've had my share of minor ones like viral or bacterial illness and the occasional injury, and even moderate ones like seasonal allergies, wisdom teeth, and a need for vision correction, but so far nothing that couldn't be addressed at a doctor's office or an urgent-care clinic if they'd been open. Went to the ER a couple of times because of outright injury without an urgent care facility being open.
I admit it very well could be BS in this case. It has been demonstrated that men who remain very close with their pregnant wives and their young children do undergo physiological changes though. Contrast that with men that inseminate and leave.
Or, since Holder has no official position, he's a good way of testing the waters where if the reaction to his statements is not good, they don't have to honor them or even acknowledge them.
My father-in-law worked a labor job until the mandatory retirement age of 70. He probably could have and would have kept going until 75 if they'd let him. He didn't start seriously deteriorating until 80, and almost ten years after that he still does most of his own house and yard maintenance. It's literally what's keeping him alive.
Well even if you are allowed to retire earlier, you would make less money than a person who was healthy enough to work another decade. So I feel that there is a built in incentive there.
Unless one adjusts for that too, giving preferential treatment to those who age faster, giving them greater fianancial benefits in retirement.
Mind you, I don't agree with that, mainly since in my experiences with my extended family (my paternal grandparents had a LOT of children) there's huge variation in how people have aged, so it's clearly not simply a matter of biology. Choice plays a rather large part and those that have engaged in fewer self-destructive habits have generally aged better.
On the other hand there are some disease processes that can be reversed, like some forms of Diabetes, when the individual starts taking better care of themselves. If I knew a guy that was probably close to 400lb by the time he graduated high school, and looked every bit as bad as one could expect. He literally decided to do something about it one day, changing his diet, changing his habits, exercising more, and within about four years he was down probably half his body weight. He did it slowly enough that he didn't really have skin issues either. It was honestly astounding; I hadn't seen him during the transition so when he stopped in to visit his mom I did not recognize him at first.
I've heard a theory that once one's biological imperative is met, one's body may indeed start to change. This could be just an old wives' tale, but on the other hand if the 'family unit' tends to make for physiological changes in both parents (as opposed to the male leaving after conception) then maybe there's a bit of truth to it.
We really don't have enough information at this point though.
If the HTML5 implementations were conceived of as quickly as Flash exploded, my guess is that they're no more secure. The only difference is that people haven't started exploiting all of the bugs yet.
All statements in the Constitution are dependent on the courts agreeing to their meaning. Remember there was a time when there was an assault-weapons ban, which limited magazines to a certain size, and there still is a ban on the sale of new full-automatic weapons to private citizens. The magazine size law expired through its own vocabulary setting a duration of effect, while the automatic weapons ban is still in-effect.
As long as the courts are willing to accept that there are such things as reasonable limits, there will be regulation of firearms.
They didn't around here either, until there were far too many cases of unregistered vehicles with otherwise unexpired plates running around. My guess is that the change was partially a response to the purchasing habits of undocumented immigrants, which could not get vehicle registrations on their own but could 'inherit' the old plates with up to two years remaining on them even if they were technically no longer valid, as it would require comparing registrations and MVD 'sold-notices' to catch the discrepancy. Just easier to pull the plate when selling so that the buyer has to obtain his own registration, and if he can't then he might find himself unable to get plates.
This is fine when the application is high-end and the organization can justify employing expensive, highly-trained staff to maintain the equipment, but for the average business, even one with a fairly extensive datacenter, there is no practical way to do this. Too many staff do double-duty (ie, take care of software applications and occasionally do hardware maintenance) or are too reliant on software/systems vendors that are themselves locked in to hardware incompatible with such an environment for this to be practical. It's cool, but it's definitely a niche within a niche.
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Business band can also encrypt. "Public" bands being used by licenses specifically for public use are not allowed to encrypt specifically because they're public. If you want to be private, you can apply for a license and communicate privately all that you want.
The entire point of ham radio (and CB for that matter) is to facilitate learning and open communication. If it's encrypted then it's not facilitating open communication.
When I visited San Francisco a few years ago we used the subway, but the former-native that we were with knew how to go make use of it there, or else our stops were generally based on the mass transit system.
When I visit greater Boston we mainly use the T to go into downtown, otherwise we drive. When my in-laws still had a vehicle we'd take mass transit from the airport out to the station closest to their house and use their car for most errands or trips, again excepting those that necessitated going downtown, but we'd still drive to the T-stop to park.
I found London's mass transit system to be quite good with both public and private options; the tube was great for getting around to most of the major regions (many tube-stops were perfectly located for tourist functions) and the hop-on-hop-off private tourist buses worked quite well too. I was surprised how we were able to get out to Greenwich to the Naval War College from central London without trouble.
I didn't like Paris' system as much. Dragged luggage around both, it was far easier to get from Heathrow to our hotel near Hyde Park than it was to get from Charles de Gaulle to the apartment we rented on the Boulevard du Montparnasse.
Exactly this...
I used to live an eighth-mile north of a major street that, eight miles east, was also an eighth-mile south of where I worked. One bus route right?
Technically yes, but it was complicated. Two different cities. I lived in a city that believed in mass-transit, such that the bus stopped near my apartment every fifteen minutes. Unfortunately I worked in a city that didn't want to commit enough money, so every other bus ended its route at the border between the cities. On top of that the ones that did go through made this weird detour near that city's downtown Senior Center, sat there for fifteen minutes (and of course didn't get there in time to switch to an earlier bus) and then made its way back to that main road before continuing. The trip took 45 minutes to go eight miles, which one could do by car in fifteen minutes even in lousy traffic.
I took the bus when my vehicle had been stolen and stopped taking it once I had a car again. It literally was not worth the time it took to use the bus, I couldn't do any shopping or other side-stops on the way home without a lot of hassle, and my time is simply worth more than that.
Nowadays I take mass-transit when I'm going to an event where parking will be bad, where I may have to leave the car for an extended period of time (on the scale of days), or where driving is no better a choice. Otherwise I'll drive every time.
It also depends on how it was subdivided in the first place. In the subdivision that I live in, the city owns the road, the sidewalk, and about two feet of the unpaved yard adjacent to the sidewalk, to be reserved for an easement for public utilities. It also owns the alley behind the property. The bulk of the city is configured this way as it was built off of a county and state plan that was surveyed and plotted before the area was particularly settled. The laws of the city require that the property owner maintain the unpaved portion of municipal land between their property and the improved street or sidewalk, as well as maintaining the half of the alley adjacent to the property (basically preventing weeds from getting out of hand and ensuring that the garbage truck can pass).
My city doesn't have very many areas with HOAs because it was completed and land-locked by other municipalities before the rise of the HOA, but in other places, if I understand it correctly, the large parcel that was subdivided to create the neighborhood still exists as a legal entity (the HOA itself) and that HOA, not the city, owns the roads. Depending on the legal agreements that created the subdivision and HOA in the first place it might be the HOA that has to maintain those roads, or it might be the city's responsibility. That's part why HOAs can do things like prohibit street parking overnight when the city would otherwise allow it. To me that's the worst of both worlds; HOAs generally aren't run by professionals so their rulemaking bodies are fraught with questionable decisions and uneven enforcement, and the homeowner pays 'tax' to the HOA while still having to pay all of the other municipal, county, and state taxes that might be imposed on the land.
I'm sure that in rural areas, or on undivided parcels, or on divided parcels where the land was only subdivided into large acreages as opposed to suburban or urban sizes the rules are different.
I very much doubt that any Roman roads, to the description of using Roman design, are in-service as high quality roadways anymore. Their alignments or rights of way might still be in use, but either completely replaced or else substantially upgraded to modern construction techniques.
Calling them Roman roads when they were built and abandoned and rebuilt and re-abandoned and rebuilt again, etc is as accurate as calling the irrigation canals that supply flood-irrigation water to the Phoenix metropolitan area Hohokam canals- the canals were built by the Hohokam originally but abandoned for hundreds of years before the alignments were rediscovered, cleaned out, lined with modern concrete and control gates, and put into service again.
Likely they'll still remain a public road, just grind it back to a dirt road. It is the hardtop that is expensive to maintain. Re-grading dirt once a year or less is more palatable,
Depends on where you are and what kind of traffic the unmaintained pavement sees. I live in the desert and if an abandoned paved road doesn't see heavy truck traffic the biggest danger to it being covered over with wind-blown dirt or sand. Over the span of years the next danger is the striping eroding off and making it riskier to drive due to the lack of defined shoulder line, and over longer spans like decades, expansive soil eventually cracking and heaving the pavement.
I imagine that in places that suffer freezing in the winter, the expansion crack/heave problem can be measured in months or years rather than decades. In other places like Hawaii, they have to constantly mow the shoulders to keep the foliage at bay. I imagine in some particularly wet lowland parts of the southern United States they have to deal with subsidence and the roads sinking back into the swamp in places.
I'm not going to comment on what Iowa should do because I've never been there and I do not know how roads wear there. Iowans themselves, in concert with any external agencies that provide funding for maintenance, should be the ones discussing this.
They've been closing roads in much of the rural areas, in the name of "protecting the environment". Next step: Make it a public policy to abandon or close non-wilderness rural roads.
Sounds like you're a member of the Pave the Whales Foundation...
Between blatantly violating the laws covering passenger livery and blatantly violating the laws covering employee compensation, Uber and its ilk are looking more and more like organized crime than like a lawful-evil taxi company.
Local news can be much worse.
You have two morning newscasts, a lunchtime newscast, an afternoon newscast, and an evening newscast. You also have airtime between those newscasts to fill, and a lot of stations are taking to making their news staff run coffeetalk shows or other roundtable type non-news shows on the same sets as the news shows because they're cheaper to produce than it is to license reruns, and new content often gets better ratings. It's now worse worse because there's usually less local stuff to report on, so any little thing has to become very, very important so to keep the audience hooked. Consequently, "high school student trespasses, steals old thermostats from broken-down warehouse," becomes, "man breaks into warehouse to steal materials that could be used in a bomb! Oh mah gawd!"
All I need from my local news is the traffic, the weather, a calendar of upcoming municipal-sized events that could either disrupt traffic or could be fun to go to, and news of patterns of significant crimes taking place outside of parts of town where they're expected. That's really it.
Some kid broke a couple of thermometers in a classroom a couple years ago around here and the EPA was called when word got out to some helicopter parent.
Okay, with you so far...
They brought in a device to measure the mercury vapor level in the room and the room was declared a hazard after taking the air measurements. The room became a suit-up, limited exposure-time environment while they figured out what to do.
If the readings were that bad, does that mean that they were overreacting?
Students houses were visited and clothing and shoes bagged for hazmat disposal. Seriously. I believe the room's carpet is now rolled up and buried in a hazardous chemicals disposal facility. The paranoia prevalent today about mercury is ridiculous and is unfortunately being backed up by supposed scientific authorities.
People love to complain about the authorities, but think about it for a minute... It costs money to enforce regulations. Departments are only given limited budgets. They're not going to add to their regulatory duties things that don't matter for no good reason, as they already have enough problems regulating the stuff that really needs it. Add to that, schools don't want to be liable for physically hurting kids during their childhood and adolescent development, and will very likely follow the guidelines of their risk-management departments to attempt to mitigate the potential for lawsuits later.
It's funny that my generation is not the one with all the crazy levels of autism claims, and we're the ones that freely played around with mercury in our chemistry classes.
No, but your generation's children have come down with all manner of interesting diseases and conditions. Maybe something related there...
Yeah yeah yeah, I hated rebooting my machine several times a day during the 90's, too.
I hate that I still have to reboot my Microsoft boxes regularly; the tablet crashes far too often when docking or undocking or coming out of sleep and there have been too many times that the servers have had problems during expected operating hours that they are rebooted every scheduled maintenance window whether they're serviced or not.
The Linux boxes get rebooted either when something really critical needs updating or when the power goes out in the office area. The OSX box I'm typing this on has been up for a little over 222 days, is put into sleep several times a day, and travels with me from time to time.
Not facism when a government uses a service without being a partner to it. After all, the telephone system is private.
Their old Satellite lines weren't much to write home about either. I ended up with several Satellite 1700 series in the past because numerous broken ones came my way, was ultimately able to make one good one with all of the cannibalized machines but the ports were way, WAY too fragile and the hinges tended to stick and break the adjacent metal parts.
I reached 35 without any major problems caused by the body itself. I've had my share of minor ones like viral or bacterial illness and the occasional injury, and even moderate ones like seasonal allergies, wisdom teeth, and a need for vision correction, but so far nothing that couldn't be addressed at a doctor's office or an urgent-care clinic if they'd been open. Went to the ER a couple of times because of outright injury without an urgent care facility being open.
I admit it very well could be BS in this case. It has been demonstrated that men who remain very close with their pregnant wives and their young children do undergo physiological changes though. Contrast that with men that inseminate and leave.
Or, since Holder has no official position, he's a good way of testing the waters where if the reaction to his statements is not good, they don't have to honor them or even acknowledge them.
My father-in-law worked a labor job until the mandatory retirement age of 70. He probably could have and would have kept going until 75 if they'd let him. He didn't start seriously deteriorating until 80, and almost ten years after that he still does most of his own house and yard maintenance. It's literally what's keeping him alive.
Well even if you are allowed to retire earlier, you would make less money than a person who was healthy enough to work another decade. So I feel that there is a built in incentive there.
Unless one adjusts for that too, giving preferential treatment to those who age faster, giving them greater fianancial benefits in retirement.
Mind you, I don't agree with that, mainly since in my experiences with my extended family (my paternal grandparents had a LOT of children) there's huge variation in how people have aged, so it's clearly not simply a matter of biology. Choice plays a rather large part and those that have engaged in fewer self-destructive habits have generally aged better.
Ah, the Internet. Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage girls are FBI agents...
On the other hand there are some disease processes that can be reversed, like some forms of Diabetes, when the individual starts taking better care of themselves. If I knew a guy that was probably close to 400lb by the time he graduated high school, and looked every bit as bad as one could expect. He literally decided to do something about it one day, changing his diet, changing his habits, exercising more, and within about four years he was down probably half his body weight. He did it slowly enough that he didn't really have skin issues either. It was honestly astounding; I hadn't seen him during the transition so when he stopped in to visit his mom I did not recognize him at first.
I've heard a theory that once one's biological imperative is met, one's body may indeed start to change. This could be just an old wives' tale, but on the other hand if the 'family unit' tends to make for physiological changes in both parents (as opposed to the male leaving after conception) then maybe there's a bit of truth to it.
We really don't have enough information at this point though.
If the HTML5 implementations were conceived of as quickly as Flash exploded, my guess is that they're no more secure. The only difference is that people haven't started exploiting all of the bugs yet.
All statements in the Constitution are dependent on the courts agreeing to their meaning. Remember there was a time when there was an assault-weapons ban, which limited magazines to a certain size, and there still is a ban on the sale of new full-automatic weapons to private citizens. The magazine size law expired through its own vocabulary setting a duration of effect, while the automatic weapons ban is still in-effect.
As long as the courts are willing to accept that there are such things as reasonable limits, there will be regulation of firearms.
They didn't around here either, until there were far too many cases of unregistered vehicles with otherwise unexpired plates running around. My guess is that the change was partially a response to the purchasing habits of undocumented immigrants, which could not get vehicle registrations on their own but could 'inherit' the old plates with up to two years remaining on them even if they were technically no longer valid, as it would require comparing registrations and MVD 'sold-notices' to catch the discrepancy. Just easier to pull the plate when selling so that the buyer has to obtain his own registration, and if he can't then he might find himself unable to get plates.
This is fine when the application is high-end and the organization can justify employing expensive, highly-trained staff to maintain the equipment, but for the average business, even one with a fairly extensive datacenter, there is no practical way to do this. Too many staff do double-duty (ie, take care of software applications and occasionally do hardware maintenance) or are too reliant on software/systems vendors that are themselves locked in to hardware incompatible with such an environment for this to be practical. It's cool, but it's definitely a niche within a niche.