Hard to do well and can be insanely counterproductive, so not so simple in some cases. Look at the cane sugar industry - the tariff just meant local sugar priced itself out of it's market and everyone is getting fat twice as quick on corn syrup that costs more than the global cane sugar price but less than the local cane sugar price. Look at what the tariff on steel did to manufacturing. A lot of it moved to where higher quality steel (since local general purpose stuff got frozen at 1970 quality) is cheaper. In the end US steel was so carefully protected that it couldn't compete even after a tariff was applied to imported steel made cheaper due to improvements since the 1970s that were seen as not needed by US steel producers with a captive market. There's others still in place that were not such a disaster - beef etc, but two ongoing disasters are enough to show it's not simple.
Before you consider the action "must reinstate protectionist measures" it's worth considering the ones that were never removed.
remaking our country in the image of the worst oligarchies
There's plenty of US companies bent on doing that without any overseas influence.
The spirit of the current employment rules is not too bad, it's the loopholes that run contrary to them that are the problem. Various scarcity clauses are being shamelessly gamed and I strongly suspect that plain old corruption (under the guise of donations) is the reason why the gaming is not being stopped and the laws are not being enforced. When few recent engineering graduates could get a job the pretended "scarcity" was still being used as an excuse to import indentured workers.
They also seem to be unable to understand that making laws is not a way to actually change reality.
When you've got a hammer... Making laws is all the ones mentioned in the article who are actually likely to act do. The Homeland guy is just keeping a seat warm and watching the money come in and nobody is going to tell him to actually do something other than grow his utterly useless department that only exists because a previous administration was too spineless to tell the CIA to do the job it was set up for.
Yes I know about that and I suggest you consider how much extra compression there is in terms of dynamic range with low bitrate encoding - a lot more than losing sensitivity with age. Anything with strings is especially obvious. I'm not saying AM is good, despite listening to it while travelling each day (a 24hr news network) it's obviously not able to carry as much as FM and I'm not arguing anything as silly as that, I'm merely pointing out that some streaming audio is so crappy that it's as bad or worse than AM.
I've been there, and the tax rules where I live drove me out. I think it was a requirement that I get no more than 70% income from a single source per quarter that drove me back to being an employee - full time plus more than 30% extra time somewhere else sucks along with juggling two employers who want you NOW when anything more than trivial turns up. Expect something like that in your area some day when tax authorities want to crack down.
Been there in a different country under a different designation and very likely a lot less pay, but the main hassle was as a contractor to a single body I could forget about trying to get a loan from a bank and was considered a risk for rental purposes because they assumed (probably correctly) that my job could vanish in an instant. There were ways around that, such as contracting to more than one company (thus becoming a "real" contractor to the banks), but being a pretend contractor just so the employing company could avoid some regulations (and make it trivial to fire people) sucked. It especially sucked since the tax department saw it as an abuse but went after the fake contractors (unless you had that second job) and not the company abusing the system.
Assuming it's the icon next to your UID it is orange on my screen and titled "freak" so I have no idea what that means,
Nice try - wait, no make that an utterly transparently pathetic attempt at evasion. I gave my opinion to the above poster and you jumped on with your "correction" about Apple streaming only applies to Apple streaming, so please go bother somebody else on some topic that you actually know something about instead of inflicting ignorant noise on me.
With respect the "internet radio" via some flash shit that people listen to in my workplace is pretty crap and uses hardly any bandwidth while the AM is broadcast from a small mountain in the middle of the city (within 20km of all the outlying suburbs) is definitely better than the streaming stuff I've heard. So while some may be good the one I've been exposed to fits Neil Young's description - YMMV. I'd better take a look on Monday and see what the piece of crap is called so that you can see the bandwidth and hear the lack of quality for yourself.
The Canadian-German scifi series "Lexx" had the ATF in complete control of the USA, and effectively the world, in the final season (2002). Nigel Bennett plays the head of the ATF like Lucifer as a being of temptation, and having control of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms gives him a lot to tempt with. Way ever the top, but the power of that agency is worth questioning in such a way since the three things don't really go together. "Lexx" is generally so way out there that watching a single season is not going to be a lot more confusing than watching the lot, but any episode of season 3 will give some background on the "Prince" running the ATF in season 4.
Meanwhile back in reality the ATF is so stupid that it's worth laughing about it in fiction.
It's like connecting horse racing and road building in one department (done in my state), just a concentration of power for it's own sake instead of them being related things.
The buildings weren't designed to withstand a plane collision
Most are not, partly because the risk is low and partly because many were built when aircraft were smaller. The WTC was designed and partly built before the first Boeing 747 flew.
One of those "engineers" is on slashdot at times and it turns out HR called him "software engineer" when he became a team leader after a few years as a programmer. Such "engineers" are easily identified by assertions that redhot steel is just as strong as cold steel and similar symptoms of not earning the title by either experience, training or education.
You are the one with the vast stream of "satire" and "irony" that adds nothing piled on a short and serious post, so no, no tickets on me, just not rolling over and taking your bullshit. Look at what taking you at face value got me - a new stream of hillbilly shit and denial of your obvious trolling. Why does a serious reply to a serious post need "irony" or being enough of a fan of Shirley McLaine and Alanis Morrisette to know what the fuck a troll who is following me around is going on about? Stop pretending that your stream of insults has anything to do with what I've written or the topic and be honest and that will show that you are not an utterly worthless coward that just likes to pick on the kiddies and is still bitter that he accidentally got a grownup who did not roll over last time.
Just as I suspected - thin skin around mass of hillbilly shit is back. This time it wasn't swap 101 that set you off but instead the audacious opinion that maybe we shouldn't be quick to shoot the messenger and whether his opinion should be heard shouldn't depend upon personal musical tastes. I've given my opinion - it was very clear above and really didn't warrant weird Shirley McLaine insults - maybe you should re-read what you've misinterpreted and over-reacted to?
Preferably after the anti-satire pills have worn off
So you jumped on my serious post to deliver a steaming load of "satire" did you? How kind of you. WTF did it do to deserve your attention in the first place - oh that's right, you saw the name of the guy who didn't back down to your insults earlier and thought you'd have some "fun". Rather obvious but I thought I'd ignore it for politeness sake for one post in the hope that you'd not behave like a thin skinned sack full of hillbilly shit this time.
I know you desperately want to find some way of putting me down, but how about forgetting about who I am and just looking at network activity when one of these streaming services is running?
Have you considered that hypocrisy may be a necessary requirement for being a politician?
Now consider a similar thing, whether self-promotion is a survival tactic in the US music industry or not. He's done it a LOT less than many, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done it at all and that's not what I was suggesting above. It's also got nothing to do with the article either way IMHO, which is why it took it up with the above poster which you seem to have misunderstood when you decided to jump on this wagon. Also consider whether the posts being critical of him are guilty of shooting the messenger instead of addressing the message.
As I see it, he's involved in the industry and has given his opinion - which really has nothing to do either way with the quality of his work.
That's assuming the device it is charging is very power hungry. Consider how HP calculators used to plug into mains and have LED segments versus the current calculators that are solar and have LCD segments. If we only have milliwatts there's a lot more we can do with it than we used to.
Personally, I'd like to see both Trump and Sanders lose their respective primaries
I'd like to see Trump pay off his massive debt that he avoided by bankruptcy (then magically finding some money somewhere very quickly, exactly as if he'd hidden it) before he is allowed to ever crow about how rich he is. He's so far in the red that his contribution to the economy is vastly less than a homeless person who has been unemployed for their entire life.
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It was like that in 1990 :) We had three streams.
Hard to do well and can be insanely counterproductive, so not so simple in some cases.
Look at the cane sugar industry - the tariff just meant local sugar priced itself out of it's market and everyone is getting fat twice as quick on corn syrup that costs more than the global cane sugar price but less than the local cane sugar price.
Look at what the tariff on steel did to manufacturing. A lot of it moved to where higher quality steel (since local general purpose stuff got frozen at 1970 quality) is cheaper. In the end US steel was so carefully protected that it couldn't compete even after a tariff was applied to imported steel made cheaper due to improvements since the 1970s that were seen as not needed by US steel producers with a captive market.
There's others still in place that were not such a disaster - beef etc, but two ongoing disasters are enough to show it's not simple.
Before you consider the action "must reinstate protectionist measures" it's worth considering the ones that were never removed.
There's plenty of US companies bent on doing that without any overseas influence.
The spirit of the current employment rules is not too bad, it's the loopholes that run contrary to them that are the problem. Various scarcity clauses are being shamelessly gamed and I strongly suspect that plain old corruption (under the guise of donations) is the reason why the gaming is not being stopped and the laws are not being enforced. When few recent engineering graduates could get a job the pretended "scarcity" was still being used as an excuse to import indentured workers.
When you've got a hammer ...
Making laws is all the ones mentioned in the article who are actually likely to act do. The Homeland guy is just keeping a seat warm and watching the money come in and nobody is going to tell him to actually do something other than grow his utterly useless department that only exists because a previous administration was too spineless to tell the CIA to do the job it was set up for.
Yes I know about that and I suggest you consider how much extra compression there is in terms of dynamic range with low bitrate encoding - a lot more than losing sensitivity with age. Anything with strings is especially obvious.
I'm not saying AM is good, despite listening to it while travelling each day (a 24hr news network) it's obviously not able to carry as much as FM and I'm not arguing anything as silly as that, I'm merely pointing out that some streaming audio is so crappy that it's as bad or worse than AM.
You had plenty on more than one occasion previously.
I've been there, and the tax rules where I live drove me out. I think it was a requirement that I get no more than 70% income from a single source per quarter that drove me back to being an employee - full time plus more than 30% extra time somewhere else sucks along with juggling two employers who want you NOW when anything more than trivial turns up. Expect something like that in your area some day when tax authorities want to crack down.
Been there in a different country under a different designation and very likely a lot less pay, but the main hassle was as a contractor to a single body I could forget about trying to get a loan from a bank and was considered a risk for rental purposes because they assumed (probably correctly) that my job could vanish in an instant. There were ways around that, such as contracting to more than one company (thus becoming a "real" contractor to the banks), but being a pretend contractor just so the employing company could avoid some regulations (and make it trivial to fire people) sucked. It especially sucked since the tax department saw it as an abuse but went after the fake contractors (unless you had that second job) and not the company abusing the system.
Nice try - wait, no make that an utterly transparently pathetic attempt at evasion. I gave my opinion to the above poster and you jumped on with your "correction" about Apple streaming only applies to Apple streaming, so please go bother somebody else on some topic that you actually know something about instead of inflicting ignorant noise on me.
With respect the "internet radio" via some flash shit that people listen to in my workplace is pretty crap and uses hardly any bandwidth while the AM is broadcast from a small mountain in the middle of the city (within 20km of all the outlying suburbs) is definitely better than the streaming stuff I've heard.
So while some may be good the one I've been exposed to fits Neil Young's description - YMMV. I'd better take a look on Monday and see what the piece of crap is called so that you can see the bandwidth and hear the lack of quality for yourself.
I'm someone you marked as "foe", remember how you saw it on the GUI and decided I needed to be "corrected". Why bother acting innocent now?
I doubt that is what is being talked about. There is streaming audio that drops below 64kps, such as Pandora.
That is another way of looking at it. Your suggestion completely failed the reality test and it's not a thread about SF or fantasy.
See my post above and try reading as far as line two this time.
The Canadian-German scifi series "Lexx" had the ATF in complete control of the USA, and effectively the world, in the final season (2002). Nigel Bennett plays the head of the ATF like Lucifer as a being of temptation, and having control of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms gives him a lot to tempt with. Way ever the top, but the power of that agency is worth questioning in such a way since the three things don't really go together.
"Lexx" is generally so way out there that watching a single season is not going to be a lot more confusing than watching the lot, but any episode of season 3 will give some background on the "Prince" running the ATF in season 4.
Meanwhile back in reality the ATF is so stupid that it's worth laughing about it in fiction.
It's like connecting horse racing and road building in one department (done in my state), just a concentration of power for it's own sake instead of them being related things.
Discussion? I think you came to the wrong room. He's pointing out reality to someone that was looking at something else instead.
Most are not, partly because the risk is low and partly because many were built when aircraft were smaller.
The WTC was designed and partly built before the first Boeing 747 flew.
One of those "engineers" is on slashdot at times and it turns out HR called him "software engineer" when he became a team leader after a few years as a programmer. Such "engineers" are easily identified by assertions that redhot steel is just as strong as cold steel and similar symptoms of not earning the title by either experience, training or education.
Yes but then there's Pandora etc. Nearby AM radio is better than some.
You are the one with the vast stream of "satire" and "irony" that adds nothing piled on a short and serious post, so no, no tickets on me, just not rolling over and taking your bullshit. Look at what taking you at face value got me - a new stream of hillbilly shit and denial of your obvious trolling.
Why does a serious reply to a serious post need "irony" or being enough of a fan of Shirley McLaine and Alanis Morrisette to know what the fuck a troll who is following me around is going on about? Stop pretending that your stream of insults has anything to do with what I've written or the topic and be honest and that will show that you are not an utterly worthless coward that just likes to pick on the kiddies and is still bitter that he accidentally got a grownup who did not roll over last time.
When someone is stopped a number of people spread over a range of pay grades are involved. Try adding a couple of orders of magnitude.
One very widespread example of poor quality is enough.
64k is fine for voice but everything else sounds a bit off.
I've given my opinion - it was very clear above and really didn't warrant weird Shirley McLaine insults - maybe you should re-read what you've misinterpreted and over-reacted to?
So you jumped on my serious post to deliver a steaming load of "satire" did you? How kind of you. WTF did it do to deserve your attention in the first place - oh that's right, you saw the name of the guy who didn't back down to your insults earlier and thought you'd have some "fun". Rather obvious but I thought I'd ignore it for politeness sake for one post in the hope that you'd not behave like a thin skinned sack full of hillbilly shit this time.
I know you desperately want to find some way of putting me down, but how about forgetting about who I am and just looking at network activity when one of these streaming services is running?
Now consider a similar thing, whether self-promotion is a survival tactic in the US music industry or not. He's done it a LOT less than many, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done it at all and that's not what I was suggesting above. It's also got nothing to do with the article either way IMHO, which is why it took it up with the above poster which you seem to have misunderstood when you decided to jump on this wagon.
Also consider whether the posts being critical of him are guilty of shooting the messenger instead of addressing the message.
As I see it, he's involved in the industry and has given his opinion - which really has nothing to do either way with the quality of his work.
That's assuming the device it is charging is very power hungry.
Consider how HP calculators used to plug into mains and have LED segments versus the current calculators that are solar and have LCD segments. If we only have milliwatts there's a lot more we can do with it than we used to.
I'd like to see Trump pay off his massive debt that he avoided by bankruptcy (then magically finding some money somewhere very quickly, exactly as if he'd hidden it) before he is allowed to ever crow about how rich he is. He's so far in the red that his contribution to the economy is vastly less than a homeless person who has been unemployed for their entire life.