He's still wrong if he did or not. Plenty of telecom infrastructure around every tower, with fixes for every tower not so close. It just costs.

Profits.

WiFi on my phone isn't worth the trouble is leaving it on, signing in to the hotspots, password for the personal WiFi at work, and the lame public networks overwhelmed with everyone else.

I leave it off, keep my T-Mobile unlimited for real 4g, and let the wankers fight over '\free' WiFi.

Where I work, we use a Wang system based on a Honeywell system to store and manage images. It's still state of the art, was when it was introduced, and is living on in emulated hardware that does, in fact, work very very well. Downtime is measured in single digit minutes per year.

It certainly meets the common definition of 'legacy'

People use 'legacy' to describe 'obsolete', 'expensive', or 'not new'. Wrongly in many cases.

Alas, it is popular to replace 'legacy' systems with new ones that the newer teams understand better and are more comfortable fixing. Note I did not say just 'understand'. Nor did I claim that these are 'better'. Just more comfortable.

'far too much influence'

You have an objective measure of this value?

Please share.

The 'ignition switch' in a diesel car turns on the electrical, of course can engage the starter, and permits accessory mode etc.

Since diesels employ explosive detonation instead of spark-induced combustion, they do not require an actual ignition source other than the heat of compression (and probably a little help from chamber edges and hot spots).

Eliminating the ignition system is a useful advantage for diesels.

"(if you're honest about it, and include government R&D and subsidies in the cost)."

If we're going to be honest about it, what energy technology isn't supported by government R&D and subsidies?

I was trying to agree...

Well, it's in the Washington Bleep, so it must be true. The Bleep being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Left for at least 42 years.

So less egregious corruption would be OK with you? Or at least not worth note?

And the Democrats practice this with federal legislation.

If anyone asks me for specific examples, they are either obtuse or ignorant. It should be obvious to any thinking citizen.

Both. I used to fear the Republicans less, but that's not a certainty any more.

... And the solution is to concentrate money to the government.

Yeah, nerds are shortsighted too...

For decades the process was called 'redistricting' or 'apportionment'.

That was what Democrats called it, anyways.

The poster auto-converted the date for them. A favor.

Yeah. The city tree is a telephone pole. Downtown is indeed blighted. I miss Biddeford Pool. Reilly's probably gets buns in a box, hang around before the sun comes up and check the name on the bakery trucks...