So population of the USA is about 340M, this claim is just under 1 in 4 people in the USA listen to AM radio. To be honest I haven't listened to the radio in my car in over a decade - am or fm. I do not know anyone that does and I am in the age demographic that would likely listen to a radio rather than stream. Does anyone under 30 or 35 use a radio in their car, I know my child never has in almost a decade of driving.

Well, wait till you live in an area where a widespread emergency happens, like a hurricane, earthquake or wildfires....and you'll see where AM comes in handy.

Pretty much all of the emergency communications infrastructure is built around AM due to its ability to send signals far and away over areas blacked out from other forms of communication.

Cell phones are the first things to go my friend.

Because they're old and old people like AM radio. Plus old people have nothing better to do than call state reps and write snail mail complaints.

Yeah...let's not take into consideration emergency situations and communications...where things like call phones, etc. are knocked out, but AM radio is still on the air.

Nah...disregard the emergency infrastructure built around AM, and those pesky signs along the highway saying things like "for emergency information tune to AM xxx.yy"

Nah....dont' need anything like that, because, HEY...no wide spread emergencies like hurricanes, tornadoes earthquakes or fires happen here...no sir.

And the summary says something about an animation playing too...how the hell am I supposed to see animations on the screen when I'm talking on the phone with it up to my ear...?

Seems stupid all the way around....

If only one group who created a bill that would have increased numbers to help with this problem didnt vote against it because an orange wanted it as a political football.

It was a worthless bill, with no teeth and no real solving of the problems.

It allowed many thousands a day (5K?) before anyone could do any action on closing or limiting border access.

Turn the shit off now....no crossings outside of official checkpoints will be considered, if we catch you outside of there crossing over, you are caught, documented and sent back with a permanent ban on future admission for any reason.

There's a good start....

No it's not. And you know it's not, because you correctly identity the broken asylum system as the problem, and those people aren't sneaking across an undefended border. They're SEEKING OUT Border Patrol officers so they can make their asylum claim.

Some are...some are trying to avoid them.

Whether or not they are crossing and trying to get caught..the border is wide open allowing them the ability to cross at all.

That needs to be stopped, halted as close to 100% as possible.

ONe way to help, make it so that ANYONE caught crossing at any point other than a regular checkpoint, is forever banned from any legal asylum or other legal admission to the US.

No more crossing and trying to find a border guard....you immediately are documented and put back across the border and never allowed in again for any reason for life.

The law entitles you to a HEARING the moment you ask for asylum. Until that hearing occurs you are legally entitled to remain in the country.

Fuck that...it isnt' working, shut it down.

We're "full" and no one is allowed in till we work through the backlog....cross now in any fashion other than us letting you thought a checkpoint....you're put back across the border, no exceptions and banned from future legal entry.

Time to shut the border DOWN.

Any asylum claims can and should be made in the first country they cross into....so stay in MX...no more crossing multiple country borders to get to the US, you can seek asylum in one of those countries before the US.

Economic problems are not an asylum criterion.

Then perhaps all those hotels, golf courses, landscaping companies, restaurants, home builders, construction companies, meat packing plants, farmers, ranchers, wineries and who knows who else, stop hiring them. Problem solved.

I agree!!

Many of them are fleeing their countries in S. and C. America because climate change has upended their way of life. I wonder who's responsible for this climate change? Who could that be? Why America, that's who. Welcome the newcomers, educate them, train them, and stop fucking whining about it.

1. Not my fucking problem.

2. Still not a valid asylum admission value even if it is a factor.

3. The US is not the only country in the world that pollutes....and we're making huge strides against it.

If you lived in the USA, you would know this isnt true.

I live in the US and the southern border is indeed WIDE OPEN.

Invasion is an accurate term.

Seems an odd position for you to take, to slap down those that are already beaten and bloody on the floor. But hey, you do you there anonymous coward that isnt even from the USA.

I wasn't the OP, but I guaran-fucking-tee you I'm a US citizen. And the majority of those crossing the border are not legitimate asylum seekers...they are ONLY coming here to earn money.

Being poor in a foreign country does not qualify you for asylum under those laws. Most of the border crossers are younger military age males.

If they truly were seeking asylum from political or other persecution, they'd not be crossing over multiple countries ...they'd apply in the first country they come to, but no, they keep going multiple borders to get to the US borders.

Why? To make money...

We're not under obligation to take in economic nomads....and most of the people coming across...if we can catch them, do NOT qualify for asylum and will get deported, but our US system of letting them in and "trusting" them to come back in a year or two for a hearing...isn't really working out that well.

JFC....even the northern cities are starting to get tired of this shit because now, they are finally getting a taste of what the southern states have been going through by being overrun by these illegal aliens.

Sentiment is turning....finally.

Let's say half a billion people worldwide use windows regularly... With all the changes MS keeps pushing, let's say each one of them loses an hour a month in productivity on average to relearn the new and "better" UI or the shifted settings screens. Or reactivating or redeactivating something Microsoft toggled in the latest update.

500 millio nhours every month. If my math isn't completely off its rocker, that's 800+ human lives (average lifespan of 70 years) wasted every month.

Now this is not quite murder, I get it. And if it was due to human errors like bugs, I wouldn't be making a stink about it.

But the things I listed are greed driven at best and just plain malicious at worst.

I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where we'll put company CEOs in jail for this crap.

I can save you some time here: It probably isn't.

I don't care that this is almost guaranteed to get me modded troll... Linux and OSS as a whole is a clusterfuck in terms of usability for anyone other than an enthusiast.

Granted, MS is working hard to make Linux better than Windows in that regard so it's probably a matter of time until everybody loses.

It's all a matter of perspective. A lot of people are working just to get by in the world. If they're just giving everyone 10 more years, I'm probably in. If I have to trade 10 more years of work, to pay for 10 more year of life, it's not as enticing. I'm not outright declining, but it very much becomes a cost/benefit question for a large portion of society.

Given the 10yr extra option...I'd take the years!!

I haven't learned to enjoy life in 40 years. I don't expect chances of it happening to increase whether I live another 20 or 80 years.

They also think timber framed houses in a first world country is absolutely fine,

What exactly is wrong with them....?

Are you saying everyone needs to build their homes 100% out of cinderblocks, no matter where they are in the world?

Even if they could extend life for hundreds of years it would be terrible for society.

Well, I'll be happy to let you and other people altruistic enough to volunteer for early death, do just that.

Moi?

I'm wanting to live a long as I possibly can (in comfort and enjoying life the way I do now)....and would be willing to do just about anything to do so.

I don't get why to some people their own lives don't seem to be that important, but to me...MY life is the #1 priority to me.

I only get 1 life as far as I know, on this planet....I'd like to have it last as long as I possibly can.

I do, however, need to lose weight first, as that I'd prefer NOT to go through eternity as a fat vampire...