I love cheese, fancy or not. But it's expensive. Quit hoarding, lower the price, and I'll eat it! Dairy product boom and bust is nothing new in the U.S. When I was a kid, dairy was like some kind of strategic item, with practically a command economy, government subsidies always coming and going. Our neighbor (farmer) got in and out of the dairy business every few years, following the subsidies. In fat (ha ha) years, the government was giving the stuff away.
How much of that debt is for vocational schooling? That seems to be all that this would address. I wouldn't want it any where near a normal University, for fear it would kill off the less lucrative subjects.
Not to detract from your point, but I'd just note that the blame coming from other countries seems to pale in comparison to our own self-loathing here in the U.S. Many of us feel guilty, at least subconsciously, about what we have and we want to give it away, or pay some penance. This is probably a natural behavior for people who have the luxury of being able to think more globally, and the idea seems to spread like fashion to others who themselves can barely afford it.
Position clarification: My personal perspective is more on evolutionary and geologic time scales, so political and climate changes don't concern me much.
I'm wondering how their networks will support this, assuming that they are primarily wireless. It really amazes me how much entertainment is streamed every which way across the internet compared to the efficiency of traditional broadcasts. I guess we've got fiber to burn here in the U.S., but not so much in developing countries.
I would agree on Harbor Freight being a factor, though on tools Home Depot and Lowes are very convenient these days. Appliances are one place where Sears should still have had the upper hand, because they were the only store in my area that had a large locally-stocked selection. Forget Home Depot and Best Buy -- in recent years they have dwindled their in-store appliance inventories to practically nothing. So it's Sears vs Lowes around here, and Lowes wins for me because Sears' website is garbage. My measure of a store is whether I can find what I want at a decent price, at a local store, on their website without being bamboozled by "marketplaces" and out of sync inventory systems.
I think it will probably last longer than that, based on the run that relatively-neglected Team Fortress 2 had, because Fortnite is kept much fresher both in variations of modes under Battle Royale and in the challenges / achievements. TF2, and Valve in general, seemed to fall into the "Czech trap" of achieving success followed by investing further money and time into partying as hard as humanly possible. So far, Fortnite appears to be avoiding that.
Back when I used to work on those giant microwave ovens for them, the local McDonalds restaurant got a robot to cook their fries. It worked, but apparently not as efficiently as teenagers and senior citizens, so it was gone after several months. That was about 25 years ago, BTW.
In my business, we are transitioning from daily to 15-minute intervals for all of our few million data points. That's like 100 times more data per day. Plus we are collecting 3 to 10 times more measurements at those points. When the upgrade is complete, we'll collect more data in a few months than we have in the past 20 years. And that is not even real time data. Transferring and storing all that data is not cheap, and the uses for it are very vague and hopeful.
Energy exports didn't "westernize" (rich/stable not really the words you are looking for) the Middle East. As long as those folks have a markedly different culture (not that there's anything wrong with that), no one should rely on them for critical needs such as energy.
He wasn't using Wireshark on the Internet, unless he works for AT&T and is tapping into some big fiber, and even then, it's not much of the Internet. Most likely he was talking about using it within his company's networks somewhere, thus only being scary to you only if you are doing your private stuff in his or someone else's corporate network. Personally, I only do work on work systems and don't even use the guest wi-fi.
Evolution ensures that there will always be some percentage of the populace that employs the "take advantage of the nice people" strategy. Evolution favors groups that have a multitude of strategies, regardless of whether more than a few are successful in a particular place and time. Hence the large prison population and constant churn of people trying to run their own Italian restaurant.
Or they could just pay some humans to open and close some gated channels to allow everyone to leave first and then to allow people to enter only until departure time. I think Japan was already doing some version of this in the past, with attendants that stuffed people into the train, and presumably cleared a path to let them out. Either way, you need the humans, because nearly everyone acts badly in their absence.
On the local radio here in Seattle, the study's purveyors did mention that it hurt entry-level opportunities. Similar to what sounds like the case in Britain, employers focus harder on getting more for their increased payouts, holding out for more experienced employees when hiring, and pushing productivity higher. I would question whether that situation actually results in better value for the workers. It seems a bit futile anyway. In an economic upswing, what the market gives, employers will tend to take, and what employers are then forced to give, the market too soon takes away when the cycle turns downward.
It has to be good enough to justify wearing the gear and getting up out of my chair. And that's a tall order considering that I can become highly immersed in a virtual world simply by reading a book, listening to a radio show (theatre, not talk), or watching a TV show. Long ago, I sold televisions for a living, and something that struck me was that after 10 minutes of watching a good show, it didn't matter how bad your signal was or how small your screen was -- most people were immersed by then.
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I love cheese, fancy or not. But it's expensive. Quit hoarding, lower the price, and I'll eat it! Dairy product boom and bust is nothing new in the U.S. When I was a kid, dairy was like some kind of strategic item, with practically a command economy, government subsidies always coming and going. Our neighbor (farmer) got in and out of the dairy business every few years, following the subsidies. In fat (ha ha) years, the government was giving the stuff away.
How much of that debt is for vocational schooling? That seems to be all that this would address. I wouldn't want it any where near a normal University, for fear it would kill off the less lucrative subjects.
Not to detract from your point, but I'd just note that the blame coming from other countries seems to pale in comparison to our own self-loathing here in the U.S. Many of us feel guilty, at least subconsciously, about what we have and we want to give it away, or pay some penance. This is probably a natural behavior for people who have the luxury of being able to think more globally, and the idea seems to spread like fashion to others who themselves can barely afford it.
Position clarification: My personal perspective is more on evolutionary and geologic time scales, so political and climate changes don't concern me much.
I'm wondering how their networks will support this, assuming that they are primarily wireless. It really amazes me how much entertainment is streamed every which way across the internet compared to the efficiency of traditional broadcasts. I guess we've got fiber to burn here in the U.S., but not so much in developing countries.
And in other Amateur Radio news...Billy Crowell soldiers on, shutdown or not.
Too bad there's nothing worth Eddie Lampert's attention in FB.
I would agree on Harbor Freight being a factor, though on tools Home Depot and Lowes are very convenient these days. Appliances are one place where Sears should still have had the upper hand, because they were the only store in my area that had a large locally-stocked selection. Forget Home Depot and Best Buy -- in recent years they have dwindled their in-store appliance inventories to practically nothing. So it's Sears vs Lowes around here, and Lowes wins for me because Sears' website is garbage. My measure of a store is whether I can find what I want at a decent price, at a local store, on their website without being bamboozled by "marketplaces" and out of sync inventory systems.
It's India, new rules just mean that some palms needs some extra greasing.
I think it will probably last longer than that, based on the run that relatively-neglected Team Fortress 2 had, because Fortnite is kept much fresher both in variations of modes under Battle Royale and in the challenges / achievements. TF2, and Valve in general, seemed to fall into the "Czech trap" of achieving success followed by investing further money and time into partying as hard as humanly possible. So far, Fortnite appears to be avoiding that.
"Read recycled news, it's good for website profitability and OK for you."
Keying? Hrrmph! True freedom comes only from entering it with toggle switches!
And the websites don't have a crappy UI?
Back when I used to work on those giant microwave ovens for them, the local McDonalds restaurant got a robot to cook their fries. It worked, but apparently not as efficiently as teenagers and senior citizens, so it was gone after several months. That was about 25 years ago, BTW.
Dogecoin.
BTW: I've heard rumors about you from various people in multiple villages.
In my business, we are transitioning from daily to 15-minute intervals for all of our few million data points. That's like 100 times more data per day. Plus we are collecting 3 to 10 times more measurements at those points. When the upgrade is complete, we'll collect more data in a few months than we have in the past 20 years. And that is not even real time data. Transferring and storing all that data is not cheap, and the uses for it are very vague and hopeful.
Show how earth people have been hyping stories since they sat around the cave fire.
Energy exports didn't "westernize" (rich/stable not really the words you are looking for) the Middle East. As long as those folks have a markedly different culture (not that there's anything wrong with that), no one should rely on them for critical needs such as energy.
He wasn't using Wireshark on the Internet, unless he works for AT&T and is tapping into some big fiber, and even then, it's not much of the Internet. Most likely he was talking about using it within his company's networks somewhere, thus only being scary to you only if you are doing your private stuff in his or someone else's corporate network. Personally, I only do work on work systems and don't even use the guest wi-fi.
I would think you already knew not to do your private stuff on somebody else's network.
And in between there are countless cases where a company sold off a video game division that wasn't worth anything and never would be.
Country with most people has largest number of people doing something!
Evolution ensures that there will always be some percentage of the populace that employs the "take advantage of the nice people" strategy. Evolution favors groups that have a multitude of strategies, regardless of whether more than a few are successful in a particular place and time. Hence the large prison population and constant churn of people trying to run their own Italian restaurant.
Or they could just pay some humans to open and close some gated channels to allow everyone to leave first and then to allow people to enter only until departure time. I think Japan was already doing some version of this in the past, with attendants that stuffed people into the train, and presumably cleared a path to let them out. Either way, you need the humans, because nearly everyone acts badly in their absence.
On the local radio here in Seattle, the study's purveyors did mention that it hurt entry-level opportunities. Similar to what sounds like the case in Britain, employers focus harder on getting more for their increased payouts, holding out for more experienced employees when hiring, and pushing productivity higher. I would question whether that situation actually results in better value for the workers.
It seems a bit futile anyway. In an economic upswing, what the market gives, employers will tend to take, and what employers are then forced to give, the market too soon takes away when the cycle turns downward.
It has to be good enough to justify wearing the gear and getting up out of my chair. And that's a tall order considering that I can become highly immersed in a virtual world simply by reading a book, listening to a radio show (theatre, not talk), or watching a TV show. Long ago, I sold televisions for a living, and something that struck me was that after 10 minutes of watching a good show, it didn't matter how bad your signal was or how small your screen was -- most people were immersed by then.