Methinks KATE was repurposed from its former role of predicting ocean level rising.

Which is fine in social media, but it's also the case at my workplace!

That's probably a ClearQAM signal that he is receiving. Most HDTVs in North America have dual-standard 8VSB/QAM64 tuners so they can receive both broadcast and cable channels. No CableCard required.

It's more likely that it's a mix of that and analog. In Las Vegas at least, Cox makes all channels below 100 available as unencrypted analog video, receivable by pretty much every TV built since the '40s or so. Local channels (including the subchannels many of them have offered since the digital transition) are also available in unencrypted digital form. It works out to probably somewhere around 70-80 channels, with maybe a half-dozen in HD, a dozen or so in digital SD, and the balance in analog SD.

I cut off TV service about a year ago, switching to data-only service. They've not bothered blocking these channels, so they're still available. My TVs are set up to tune them in, but I can't remember the last time I watched something that wasn't streamed from across the Internet or played back from the file server on my LAN.

The District of Columbia might be a counterexample of that.

I guess you're saying the lower levels of governance would have the militias and the territory to support them, and the higher levels wouldn't, and the lower levels would use them against the higher levels if they overstepped their levels of what they were responsible for handling.

Seems like some lower orders might side with an overstepping higher order, for competitive gain. Civil wars might be occasional rather than practically never.

The military and corporate planes have had rear facing passenger seats for ages. It certainly doesn't affect babies being carried in rear facing car seats. There's all kinds of safety reasons why this is a good idea, but I can't find anything substantial to back up your claim.

I've flown on 737s with rear-facing seats. Southwest used to have them...last time I recall seeing them was in the mid-'90s:

http://www.blogsouthwest.com/flashback-fridays-southwest-airlines%E2%80%99-interiors-over-years/

They blame changed safety regs, strangely enough:

When Southwest introduced the 737-700 in January 1998, new federal safety regulations doomed the lounge areas. No rear-facing seats could meet this new safety requirement, and the -700s were delivered with all forward facing seating. Lounges in the -300s and -500s were phased out, and only the -200 retained lounges until they were retired at the start of 2005.

Ahh, so since we have screwed up once, we have no choice but to simply keep screwing up?

Your local municipalities, school districts, counties, and states will do anything to grow their castles. That I see you granting your government more power and authority for the sake of netflix access shows that your vote can be bought with the simple promise of convenience. You are just what your local bureaucrat is hoping for.

Oh jeeze.. you're right. And worse: swans aren't deterred by water!

not when the other two companies are forced to subsidize their competition.

but hey, as long as local bueracrats can build castles.

So these quarantine containers won't be needed by our troops being sent there, because they won't be working with people directly, just handling their bodily fluids. That's a relief!

Holy crap, apparently it's a colloquialism for a large, sprawling set of freeway onramps and offramps! Now that I'm looking at the pattern, I think I know where a half "cloverleaf interchange" is in my area.

That's okay, we're never been on the same wavelength (like for example, doesn't it seem like this got strayed awfully far from what I was posting about, or what you journaled about in the first place?).

Fine, you can't do an aircraft carrier as a craftsman. But you can do it as craftsmen. Vice say how AFAIK auto assembly is typically done, for example where one guy is responsible for bolting in the right front seat, and that's all he does, all day long.

Wondering what this has to do with scaling the society in general, and in particular how it prevents or mitigates a class struggle from emerging.

(If I've been intruding, and you're really only interested in talking with DR about things under this topic, just say so. It's your journal, you should get to do as you please with it, and I'll apologize for... not being able to read your mind! ;)

p.s.:

"put in a cloverleaf at your intersection of choice"? What. The. Fuck!?

I used to be floored by your astounding level of obtuseness, and not in a good way. But now I'm in amazement of it! :)

I wonder what technology you're thinking of that is too taxing on the human brain to be done by one person. Or what you're thinking is solved by people specializing more than we already are.

I'd like to see us instead being a craftsman society. Then maybe there'd be pride in quality. I'd rather things lasted and repairs were cheaper than a higher initial cost, vice cheap junk that we just throw away when it breaks. Capitalism on its own will make everything, and everyone, disposable. People ought to watch out for that.

I also wonder how all of this prevents a class struggle from emerging.

Maybe you meant to answer someone else, as I made no reference to a problem of scale. But on that topic of your link, of division of labor, I side with Karl Marx. Capitalism's "progressive" force towards never-ending greater and greater efficiencies, no matter how dehumanizing, is a major downside of this economic system that needs to be kept thoroughly in check. Capitalism should serve us, not the other way around.

And I have no idea what that other stuff means.

I don't get it.

A la what I posted in smitty's latest JE, I don't think there's anything that can limit your "limited but strong", given human nature.

Even when you start with an uncomplicated arrangement, of society into a single order, some part of it has to have power over the rest, to maintain and enforce the rules of the society.

But people will always strive to live a more comfortable life. With a tap into the wealth of all, necessary to support governing operations, greed (the bad kind) eventually compounds until it manfests in the governing sector of the society granting more exclusive privileges to itself than the ones it started with that were necessary for it to do its special job.

When awareness of this inevitably grows, it attracts more and more people to want to join them, who then implement more of exactly what they got into it for, causing a snowballing of growing wealth and privilege in that sector, transforming it into an order of its own.

And consequently it repulses some people, who oppose and resist the others' growing privilege over them and at their expense.

I don't see how it cannot be the case that the real class struggle is and will always be between the governors and the governed, where economics is just one facet of the issue, and not the actual issue itself.