Fixed that for you.

Maybe he came up with that conclusion because its been well understood for decades, that both the rich and the poor subsidize the middle classes higher education.

Me too. I'm well-off enough to pay more for gold-plated connectors on all my digital audio cables that sound better.

...how does your grasp on science effect the 10 commandments?

You shouldn't really worry about it, because in all likelihood the alternative for the people there is worse. Our garbage is now a jobs program overseas, even though we didnt intend it to be.

What are we going to do about it, after all? Start up a real jobs program for these people? Its not exactly our responsibility to provide jobs to people on another continent.

All the stuff about toxicity, cancer, and so on is a red herring. The alternative for them is zero income.

You're right. While there's no legal expectation of privacy, there's social expectation of privacy in a bar. At least one expects that they aren't going to be filmed without consent.

You keep saying that, but that doesnt make it true.

I'd like to point out that Rosie quit after a couple of weeks because she thought the job was too dangerous.

You seem to forget that many academics and people in industry are also amateur operators or got their start as amateur operators. The current innovations are in SDR (software defined radio), DSP (digital signal processing) and mesh networks. Did you know that hams can operate 802.11 wireless gear at higher power and different frequencies under the FCC part 97 rules, versus the regular part 15 unlicensed operation?

Also, much of the spectrum allocation is governed by international treaty, so we can't always act unilaterally on spectrum. We need to keep these narrow slices of spectrum open for future innovation.

No, they have small slices across the spectrum. We need to keep those slices open to experimentation because of the need to be able to experiment and test a concept at different frequencies. Closing this off to experimentation stifles innovation.

Those frequencies are used all of the time but you may not be able to pick them up because of the lack of sensitivity of you receiver/antenna or they aren't being used in your area when you're listening.

On top of that, they're used for emergency communication. In my state (Montana) ham radio operators stepped up and help to save millions of dollars in property damage and quite possibly lives by allowing fire fighters to coordinate their efforts when the county's repeaters got burnt down. This was recognized by state government and hams were exempted from distracted driving laws so they could continue to operate mobile.

The problem is many employers expect someone do be productive from day one, but school can't teach them anything that is specific to a given company. That has to be learned at that company.

I also think companies need to be much more willing to train in general. They used to be better about this. Now you're just supposed to "pick up" everything along the way. How much sense does it really make for a prospective employee to get trained in a vendor-specific technology on the off-hand chance that the place they get hired at will use that specific product? Learn network theory at school and learn Cisco or Juniper or Sonicwall at the company that deploys that technology.

Nice hyperbole, but grossly inaccurate.

A good chunk of those on entitlement programs are there because employers like Walmart won't pay a living wage and another large chunk are there because, if you haven't noticed, unemployment is very high.

We have a lower percent of GDP devoted to welfare that most other industrialized countries.

We could easily balance the budget and get out of debt if corporations would pay their fair share.

Those are some pretty misleading infographics.

The Social Security slice is represented as spending but fails to mention that it's 99% a wash as it's funded by payroll taxes, whereas defense spending is mostly money out the door, minus what services members, etc, pay in taxes. I'd include what the military-industrial complex pays in taxes but it's not clear that they pay any net taxes.

What do you think video games are? You're being trained and socialized/desensitized to virtual killing as a next generation soldier. And they got you to buy the equipment and train on your own time!

Brilliant!

It's not now well it works, especially under ideal conditions, its now gracefully it fails and everything eventually fails.

Remember the Navy ship that ran Windows and was stuck for days at sea? That's an example of not failing gracefully.

If it's purely infotainment, what's it really matter? It's not different then having a laptop with convenient mounting. But if it controls essential vehicle functions it needs to be very secure and reliable.
Maybe infotainment and vehicle control should be completely separate systems.