Optimizing one law to aid abuse of a different law does not sound like a good idea.

They could do all that, but really, would they bother? Just to save the cost of a frequency license? That sounds rather far-fetched.

Yes, it is a horrible idea to give those HAM guys more freedom. Every time we relax the rules for them, we get disasters of biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

Wow, your eloquent debating skills really showed me there. I shall immediately change my opinion.

The ambulance drivers were being paid then. They are not being paid now. Fixing that is trivial.

Cell phone network latency is measured from handset to cell. What you do with it after it leaves the cell does not concern the standard.

You can easily do more than one bit per second per Hertz. There is no need to go to 1600GHz. 256 QAM gives you 8 bits per second per Hertz, leaving you with 100GHz. Now go 10-way MIMO and you are at 10GHz. Polarize and you are at 5GHz.

Fitting 20 antennas per supported frequency band into a phone is left as an exercise for the reader.

Also, cell phone networks always calculate as if they have precisely one customer per cell. The 800Gbps is shared.

Don't worry, 2018 leaves plenty of time for crashes to wipe out your retirement plans.

LTE is definitely a generation ahead of 3G. The latency is massively different; 4G feels very different from 3G in the same way that ethernet-over-fibre feels different from VDSL. 4G can actually feel like an OK DSL line. 5G with 1ms latency should be able to compete favourably with low-speed fibre.

(Latency is also why it is laughable that UK providers pretend that they are selling fibre optic broadband. It is a sign of the missing consumer protection laws in the UK.)

Well, in Denmark that would be the random checkpoint. No suspicion or probable cause is needed to ask for a breathalyzer test in Denmark.

It was possible in July. Why is it not possible in December?

Videoing does not help. Almost everyone can drive just fine when drunk; a car has four wheels and generally stays pointed in the same direction if you do not mess with it.

The problem is what happens when something unusual occurs. That is when being drunk gets you and people around you killed. If you are just videoing someone, you are unlikely to catch them in such a situation, and even if you do, it is too late.

I completely agree. In the normal situation. This is not a normal situation.

This is a situation where health is put a risk on a global scale because we cannot be arsed to pay a few thousand ambulance drivers, and so infected people are left at home to infect their community. It is complete stupidity.

Those ambulance drivers are risking their lives every day. The least we can do is pay them their normal wages.

a) Of course we can. Practically the entire Western world has universal healthcare, and the one country which does not pays more than average on health care per capita.

b) We are not talking about actual treatment. Only about finding a few hundred million dollars to keep existing medical personnel paid while governments in the affected countries are in deep trouble.

If Ebola gets to Western countries, a few hundred million dollars are gone in the blink of an eye.

That is what significancy is! What else would it be?