I will happily sacrifice half the budget for the military industrial complex to invest in renewables and electric vehicles. I will aslo happily pay 5% mor in tax rates if it will apply to my bracket and higher.

Dropped the phone/TV, not the internet, sorry.

Thank goodness I upgraded when I did, I barely managed to stay broadband by bumping from 15/5 Mbps to 30/5 Mbps, and somehow payed $5 less a month ($35/mo now).

I finally started liking our FiOS once I dropped the phone/internet and figured out how to stop the incessant beeping when the phone backup battery died. The FiOS box does not properly maintain the lead-acid battery and it runs flat after a year or so, so I found the buzzer on the PCB and smashed it. No more battery at all. None of our phones worked without line power anyway, and we switched to Vonage for the house phone that we can't quite bring ourselves to get rid of.

Seems to me they are just jealous that the zone of lawlessness is excluding them from the picture. All was fine in their minds if the main law violators were mostly within the CIA/NSA/FBI/etc. Now that they have been cut out of the party they are spreading FUD like crazy.

Yep, we should hit them where they hurt. Such behavior should result in being disqualified for spectrum auctions, or similar censuring.

Speeding laws and their enforcement are corrosive to our sense of justice. Think of it as a gateway law to break.

Drive the speed limit and you get angry people tailgating you and angrily making unsafe passes even when you are in the slow lane. Clearly in most places the speed limits are too low. So most folks in decent highway conditions drive 10-15 mph over the limit, which makes them all law breakers.

Cops don't clearly state at what point they will pull someone over, or what cup size allows you to talk your way out of a ticket, which really erodes our sense of equal justice for all (and violates our constitutionally guaranteed right to equal protection under the law). In fact we all violate the law several times a day just to live like a normal citizens, and much of the time we are pretty unaware something was even against the law (a sure sign our legal system has gotten out of hand). Cops get to choose when to apply esoteric laws and when to ignore pretty basic ones (depends highly on skin color or the presence of a badge).

They claimed there was a 20 wavelength discrepancy. So it should allow a pattern every 5 cm along the length of the beam.

If they indeed can do this, I would have like to have seen a demonstrate interference pattern showing the beat note between the normal beam and the "slowed" beam. It should be roughly as simply as using a beam splitter, one though their mask, then back into a beam combiner. If coherent laser light is pump in the slower photons should create an interference pattern along the length of the beam that any crummy detector should be able to pick up.

Instead they compared time of arrival over a single distance (as best I can tell from TFA), which is subject to systematic offsets, such as the fixed delay to get through the mask.

Heisenberg's uncertainty limit does not say you can't know the speed and location at the same time, but rather there is a limit to the overall accuracy. So the more precisely you measure the speed, necessarily the amount of uncertainty on your measurement of location goes up. Heisenberg's limit it pretty damn small, FYI.

I read TFA and could not specifically find where they showed they adjusted the speed and not just added an initial delay. They ran it through a mask, then onto a ~1 meter long "race track" to compare. I really wanted a clear explanation that they ran the test over 2 lengths to factor out any static delay caused by the propagation through the mask itself.

Use tithing as a reference. Set the penalty upper limit at about 10% of yearly revenue pretax, and pre double irish. Cancel all outstanding executives bonuses at the C level up to and including today as well.

Execs should be held liable personally. Shareholders end up taking it in the shorts thanks to the excess legal shielding that incorporation provides, which lets wreckless management sink good companies while the guilty escape with golden parachutes. Oh well.

Once you have been out of school for a decade a lot of the fluff, like Diffy-Q, dissipates from severe lack of use. The main utility of having taken differential equations is to know that there is some good math to back up the shenanigans you are doing, but none of the experienced engineers I know can solve anything but the most trivial differential equations if they have been out of school for more than 5 years.

Frankly there was a lot of crap in college that was a wast of time in retrospect. Numerical Analysis would be a better class to have most EE's take rather than the third semester of Calculus for example. These days most hard problems are solved with burly simulators and simply cannot be solved directly with math, yet most folks with a EE degree never took a Numerical Analysis class that would help them understand the underlying engine in their Spice or FEM solver.

When you have interviewed that many people without success I would really encourage you to look in the mirror, something isn't right about your story. At the very least you need to do more phone screening (unless that is what you are calling an interview?).

My only thought is that it sounds like you are doing power electronics of some flavor, which at the moment is in a big upswing thanks to solar, EV's, and so on. Lots of converters and inverters are getting designed into things at the moment. As such, demand is going to outstrip supply for a bit.

In general, engineering has gotten much more specialized than when I started 17 years ago. It is harder to get any old EE and ask them to quickly go from analog circuits to switching power supplies than it used to be. So don't be surprised if you have to either train someone up, or throw money at someone to poach them.

Thanks for the insight.

I have long laughed at fake hood scoops (especially aftermarket adhesive attached ones), spinny wheels, Harley's, monster front grills that are more than half fake (physically blocked as part of the molding process), and so much more. Having fake engine sounds piped in just adds icing to the cake.

Car buyers are strangely aspirational, much more so than for other goods. There are tons of 4x4's that will NEVER be off road running around fair weather states depreciating like mad, and 500 hp Mustang's that will never see over 80 mph for almost any of their life time. People pay a ton either for "just in case", and for "I could if I would".

There is also a huge market for turning your Civic into some winged contraption (shopping carts as my friend calls them). I see 10 year old cars owned by 20 year olds who are clearly spending half their Target paycheck on throaty exhaust, race style hood clips, and fancy looking rims. Throwing a munch of money at an economy car to get it to look like a race car is the height of putting lip stick on a pig.