This idea has merit... too bad it'll probably never happen.
I definitely think civics should be taught as a required pass/fail course in high school. I also think Logic and Home Ec (yes, you SHOULD know how to cook, balance a checkbook and do laundry) should be required to graduate.
Oh, please. Unions aren't there for "the workers" they are a separate management system trying to get themselves (the "union bosses") better control without having to do any actual work. I will _never_ work for a union. I worked at Lucent/Avaya for a couple of years as a contractor, and the union employees barely lifted their fingers to do any work - I had to work around them as much as I could just to get MY job done. Maybe back in the 1900s unions where useful, but these days I'm pretty anti-lazybutt, whether that's unions or just slacker coworkers.
That said, jury duty pay in America is crap - in Colorado the first three days are paid by your employer (so small companies are punished more than large ones, YAY!) and then after that you're paid by the government a paltry sum that wouldn't buy me my lunch and bus fare to/from said courthouse. It's embarrassing.
I **love** this idea? Make bikes pay an annual registration charge, and make bicyclists running on public roads with a speed limit over 25 MPH have to have a "bikers" license.
Really? It's safer for my 8 year old to ride in the middle of the street than on our sidewalk? Odd, I think those fancy metal boxes called "cars" deal much more damage, and run at higher speed, than the local pedestrians. Maybe my local townsfolk don't ingest enough iron... I'm gonna call BS on this one.
We aren't doing it for YOUR BENEFIT. We're doing it so you can get the heck off of our roads and far, far away from us. You are DANGEROUS. I hit you with my car, even if it's your fault, and I will LOSE MY LICENSE and my car. Here in Colorado, bikers are considered holy men (and women) and hitting one, even if it's just a scratch, is like murdering kittens - you will be lucky if you don't get your license taken away and your vehicle impounded until you cough up a couple hundred bucks to pay to get it back.
Honestly, I wish bikes would just keep to the trails, where it's DESIGNED for them and if anyone's at fault, it's them because they hit a pedestrian. Putting them on roads with cars just means accidents will ensue.
What?? 70cm is alive in most places, since most places with repeaters don't have any free 2m frequency pairs for repeaters. Shoot, here in Denver even 70cm (440) is full, unless you want to deploy digital (DStar/MotoTrbo). Even then there's not a lot of room.
220 (222?) is pretty empty, according to my handy-dandy ARRL Repeater Directory. With almost as much room as 2m you'd think it would be better utilized..
Do you WANT ex-farm-administrators to decide how wireless spectrum should be sold?? ARE YOU CRAZY!? No, I want someone with some experience managing bandwidth. Someone who understands how commercial, public service, amateur radio and broadcast radio all interact. Someone who understands what broadband internet means (no, Hughes/Net is NOT broadband, Mr. Farmer!).
Take my kid's cell phone from him and expect a theft charge from my lawyer shortly thereafter. That phone is private property and they do NOT have a license to take it. They may restrict its use, certainly, but they can't legally steal it from my kid. Not in these parts...
Sounds just like any firewall, so what's the diff?
Actually, I'd love to plug that kind of data into my zabbix instance, so I can plot temperatures, power usage, on/off cycles and analyse what's going on and why. But that should be strictly separate from any POS or corporate network - setup a VLAN or two for vendor stuff. Ideally each should be separate anyways. There's plenty of subnets under 10.x.x.x - use them!
Great, so you're ok with arming the American Indians, then, right? Because that's EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM until about a century or so ago.
You must be confusing the US with Europe - while there are a few privacy laws, generally they are trumped by agreements and contracts between you and your bank, credit cards and merchants, that allow them to sell or share the data as they see fit with associates (which includes FICO, the IRS, Visa, etc..). In Europe you can sue if they don't actually have your permission, but here in the US you don't have an inherent right to privacy.
Actually, it's often (not always) against contract to charge a fee for using credit cards, but apparently legally offering a discount for cash is not equal to that, so they get away by doing it that way (it also skirts the State's laws for those that have it on the books as illegal). Colorado gas stations are starting to do it this way, by saying you get a cash discount instead of saying there's a surcharge for using credit cards. The same net result, but worded differently. I think it should be illegal, but don't have the resources to take them to court.
Because I have to have this funny thing called MONEY to buy FOOD, because I get HUNGRY without it. Right now, our whole society, actually, both of the big ones - eastern and western, are predicated on the idea that you get paid only when you do something of value for someone who has money. In exchange for the work/product/service, they give you something of value, so you can now go get your food/drink/whatever you want.
Changing society so everyone just gets a certain allotted amount of money is considered a) socialism (which is evil according to many), and b) means I will sit on my ass all day long doing nothing, because why would I do anything else? The machines do all the work that matters! I could just sit here, ask my robo-butler to bring me the gourmet food my robo-chef cooked up for me, and I will turn into a fat slob who can't get off my bed/couch/floor. After all, it's not like I *need* to go anywhere - everything I *need* is provided for me by robots and free money/food/water! An alternative is c) communism, where the government assigns you a job (much like joining the military - you want to be a computer geek but they assign you to clean big guns and swab the deck) and in exchange the gov't gives you money/food/water and whatnot. Also not really something most Americans consider "good".
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