Microwave networks are extremely susceptible to rain fade,
It's a shame that the experts working on deploying this have never though of that, and don't know how to build a margin into the link budget, and no engineer has ever thought about it, so that you can't buy anything with automatic gain adjustment to compensate.
They should fire all the physicists and engineers working for them and hire you and pay you for the 30 jobs you are replacing.
We already have a technology which allows signals to travel at the speed of light and is immune to weather, solar radiation, and nearly anything else short of a major earthquake. It's called single mode fiber optic cable.
And microwave transmission speed is about 25% faster than fiber optics.
They are deliberately making an end run around the private car service by imitating it and meeting all the requirements thereof. The rest is propaganda, from both sides.
The sentence works if you say "No price controls or government interference." as well as "No government interference or government price controls." As written it is ambiguous. Arguing about the ambiguity is silly. Both interpretations are grammatically correct, but the OP hasn't clarified.
If I'm a construction worker, and I'm driving to work, I'm covered by personal insurance until I'm at work, if I drive to another construction site in my personal vehicle, but am not using it for work (not hauling timber), I'm covered by personal insurance. If I'm a Uber driver, and I'm driving to work (being a pickup of a person), I'm not covered by personal insurance. In both cases, I'm driving solely because I'm working, between "jobs", so I honestly don't see the massive difference that's being asserted here.
They are not supposed to, and banned by law, from stopping to pick up a person who hailed them down. Thus, they are not a taxi. They are a private limo service, or other private car service.
Everyone else certainly does when you are injured so severely you can't work and have to draw disability for the rest of your life and we are paying for it.
If everyone had the proper insurance, then "we" aren't paying for it, the insured are paying for their risks.
And laws to make things double-illegal are bad. Bad driving is illegal, drugged driving is illegal, so lets pass yet another law to address the same thing and ban 20+ straight hours of driving. Yay, more laws to make already illegal acts even more extra-illegal. It worked the first two times it was made illegal, so maybe it'll work the third time.
Oh, and what about private drivers? I drove from Dallas to Anchorage in 5 days, in winter. I'd have broken lots of laws if the caps on driving were applied equally.
Neither is the government. Where do you think the government gets the money to pay for this?
The people. The government is the will of the people, and serves at the pleasure of the people. The government doesn't "own" anything. The people do, and the government manages some of it on behalf of the people.
In fact, the first roads were entirely private.
No, they weren't. All Roads Lead to Rome was said because the roads were owned by Rome, and thus lead there (for military reasons). Roads go back before that, but you are obviously unaware of how things worked. Who owned the Oregon Trail? Oh yeah, 100% government owned. Roads in the US started out all government owned, and if you are talking world roads, they started government owned as well.
You have no such luck at the airport taxi stand, sometimes you get the worst driver who adds miles while talking on the phone.
Walking out of the Frankfurt train station, we ran into that. The first cab and second cab got into a fight. The sign by the side of the cab rank said (in German and English) "You are not required to take the first taxi in the line and may choose any taxi", or something like that. With the taxi driver still screaming at us, I walked to the nearby street, and hailed one.
Did much better with a hailed cab, than taking one waiting in the rank.
Ubiquitous and cheap taxis decrease the number of cars on the road. Medallions limiting taxis increase cars, not the other way around. If you can walk out and hail a cheap cab any time of day, anywhere in the city, why would you ever want to own a car?
Should I be in jail? I once took "gas money" from a hitch hiker. By your absolutes, I should meet all the rules for a commercial carrier at all times. Thankfully, not everyone works on the absolutes you do.
I don't recall the details, but I remember it was detailed. There were bits about the radiation of antimatter weapons causing issues, mines, missiles, beam weapons, and all that. The maneuverability of ships at 30 light seconds out making non-smart weapons useless, even ones like lasers, as 30 seconds leaves a long time for them to maneuver, and you can fire for 30 seconds before they even know.
I'll have to dig it up. It's been so long, I can probably put it in the re-read pile.
I don't remember races, but I recall the impression it was manly humans in space, and wasn't Niven-like, where Niven's space is more Star Wars, where humans were the minority in many places.
A drone is an unpiloted vehicle. Airplanes are 99% of the way to manned drones. They have a "pilot" of record, who doesn't fly much, and if they were 100% drones, they could still be considered "maned" because they have people on board. Or are unmanned drones the same as autonomous drones? Though I don't think that true in the description of the events here.
I never said the person murdered must be identified, but that they must be named. The law handles it by naming unknown people. Note, the law doesn't require the name be real, or correct. Jane Doe identifies the dead body he's accused of murdering.
I never said I know more than you. I gave an incident. You disagreed because you didn't like the conclusion. Not because any facts were wrong.
For one thing, when a truck gets into an accident that's anything more than a dented fender, there are many people investigating it. It would take a cop far dumber than most to lie on an accident report because he knows that the incident is not going to end with his report.
The cop isn't lying. You aren't even reading what I write, so why should I bother to correct you, other than insulting your stupidity and ignoring you?
And Iago in Othello has more impact on the story and screen time than Othello.
Also, on the Fugitive, when it was sequeled with US Marshals, which "character" returned in the sequel, and which didn't? I think that alone could be a good argument for the Marshal being the protagonist.
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Microwave networks are extremely susceptible to rain fade,
It's a shame that the experts working on deploying this have never though of that, and don't know how to build a margin into the link budget, and no engineer has ever thought about it, so that you can't buy anything with automatic gain adjustment to compensate.
They should fire all the physicists and engineers working for them and hire you and pay you for the 30 jobs you are replacing.
We already have a technology which allows signals to travel at the speed of light and is immune to weather, solar radiation, and nearly anything else short of a major earthquake. It's called single mode fiber optic cable.
And microwave transmission speed is about 25% faster than fiber optics.
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/f...
Microwave is faster than fiber.
Read about the new low-latency networks between NYC and Chicago used for HFT. They used microwave because it was lower latency than fibre.
Maybe they heard about that, and thought about applying it to general traffic.
Every location I've ever been to had the regulated fares set by the taxi regulator who is made up of taxi companies representatives.
They are deliberately making an end run around the private car service by imitating it and meeting all the requirements thereof. The rest is propaganda, from both sides.
No government interference or price controls.
The sentence works if you say "No price controls or government interference." as well as "No government interference or government price controls." As written it is ambiguous. Arguing about the ambiguity is silly. Both interpretations are grammatically correct, but the OP hasn't clarified.
So my desk job started when I got the offer, and all driving to get me to the job after that is "on the clock" as far as insurance is concerned.
By that logic, I am "working" when I commute in to a desk job. I've accepted the job, and am headed to the clock-in point.
If I'm a construction worker, and I'm driving to work, I'm covered by personal insurance until I'm at work, if I drive to another construction site in my personal vehicle, but am not using it for work (not hauling timber), I'm covered by personal insurance. If I'm a Uber driver, and I'm driving to work (being a pickup of a person), I'm not covered by personal insurance. In both cases, I'm driving solely because I'm working, between "jobs", so I honestly don't see the massive difference that's being asserted here.
they are regulating Uber because it IS a taxi.
They are not supposed to, and banned by law, from stopping to pick up a person who hailed them down. Thus, they are not a taxi. They are a private limo service, or other private car service.
That's better than those who claim market regulations never work, but government regulations always do.
Don't we already have laws about insurance? Why don't we just update or enforce those, rather than making new laws to accomplish the same thing?
Everyone else certainly does when you are injured so severely you can't work and have to draw disability for the rest of your life and we are paying for it.
If everyone had the proper insurance, then "we" aren't paying for it, the insured are paying for their risks.
And laws to make things double-illegal are bad. Bad driving is illegal, drugged driving is illegal, so lets pass yet another law to address the same thing and ban 20+ straight hours of driving. Yay, more laws to make already illegal acts even more extra-illegal. It worked the first two times it was made illegal, so maybe it'll work the third time.
Oh, and what about private drivers? I drove from Dallas to Anchorage in 5 days, in winter. I'd have broken lots of laws if the caps on driving were applied equally.
So I should be in jail for the time I took gas money from a hitchhiker?
Neither is the government. Where do you think the government gets the money to pay for this?
The people. The government is the will of the people, and serves at the pleasure of the people. The government doesn't "own" anything. The people do, and the government manages some of it on behalf of the people.
In fact, the first roads were entirely private.
No, they weren't. All Roads Lead to Rome was said because the roads were owned by Rome, and thus lead there (for military reasons). Roads go back before that, but you are obviously unaware of how things worked. Who owned the Oregon Trail? Oh yeah, 100% government owned. Roads in the US started out all government owned, and if you are talking world roads, they started government owned as well.
So no law passed before your birth is valid? Your system seems unworkable with a unique law for everyone.
You have no such luck at the airport taxi stand, sometimes you get the worst driver who adds miles while talking on the phone.
Walking out of the Frankfurt train station, we ran into that. The first cab and second cab got into a fight. The sign by the side of the cab rank said (in German and English) "You are not required to take the first taxi in the line and may choose any taxi", or something like that. With the taxi driver still screaming at us, I walked to the nearby street, and hailed one.
Did much better with a hailed cab, than taking one waiting in the rank.
Ubiquitous and cheap taxis decrease the number of cars on the road. Medallions limiting taxis increase cars, not the other way around. If you can walk out and hail a cheap cab any time of day, anywhere in the city, why would you ever want to own a car?
Should I be in jail? I once took "gas money" from a hitch hiker. By your absolutes, I should meet all the rules for a commercial carrier at all times. Thankfully, not everyone works on the absolutes you do.
I don't recall the details, but I remember it was detailed. There were bits about the radiation of antimatter weapons causing issues, mines, missiles, beam weapons, and all that. The maneuverability of ships at 30 light seconds out making non-smart weapons useless, even ones like lasers, as 30 seconds leaves a long time for them to maneuver, and you can fire for 30 seconds before they even know.
I'll have to dig it up. It's been so long, I can probably put it in the re-read pile.
I don't remember races, but I recall the impression it was manly humans in space, and wasn't Niven-like, where Niven's space is more Star Wars, where humans were the minority in many places.
If you attempt to rob a bank by burning down an abandoned farm, but your charges won't be for attempted robbery.
Same as if you attempt to "murder" a dead man isn't "assault". It may be a crime, but not the one he was charged with.
A drone is an unpiloted vehicle. Airplanes are 99% of the way to manned drones. They have a "pilot" of record, who doesn't fly much, and if they were 100% drones, they could still be considered "maned" because they have people on board. Or are unmanned drones the same as autonomous drones? Though I don't think that true in the description of the events here.
I never said the person murdered must be identified, but that they must be named. The law handles it by naming unknown people. Note, the law doesn't require the name be real, or correct. Jane Doe identifies the dead body he's accused of murdering.
For one thing, when a truck gets into an accident that's anything more than a dented fender, there are many people investigating it. It would take a cop far dumber than most to lie on an accident report because he knows that the incident is not going to end with his report.
The cop isn't lying. You aren't even reading what I write, so why should I bother to correct you, other than insulting your stupidity and ignoring you?
And Iago in Othello has more impact on the story and screen time than Othello.
Also, on the Fugitive, when it was sequeled with US Marshals, which "character" returned in the sequel, and which didn't? I think that alone could be a good argument for the Marshal being the protagonist.