In the USA, there was Zenith, GE, RCA, Motorola, Admiral that had the lions share of television sales. Then, the Japan came along and the USA television makers disappeared. This happened about the time of the switchover from tubes (valves) to solid state televisions. With the solid state boxes, you'd turn on the tv and didn't have to wait for it to "warm up". Labor costs also figured into this shift to the Japanese sets. American workers wanted more and more money after WW2 and labor costs increased. In Japan, reeling from WW2 was CHEAPER. As Japan modernized and their population expanded, the labor costs in Japan increased as well. Now the shift to CHINA where labor costs are LOW and for the most part, will REMAIN low as long as the CCP controls everything. Not like the workers can demand much of anything. There has been some push back to the labor problems in China, which has made some companies pull out and move to India. And the trend of corporations to seeks out more profit and cheaper labor continues. Once AI/robots improve human labor will be replaced with robots anyway.

Shoot, most of the new stuff doesn't interest me anyway. Pluto, Tubi, Plex, are enough for me.

Said no one.

I worked 911 and did a lot of ride alongs with deputies. In our downtown area, the traffic lights had this long tube above the light and if you shined the spotlight into it, it would change the light from red to green. It was obviously suppose to be for fire trucks etc, but once high powered flashlights started showing up and people would trigger them, they disabled their function.

In the USA, it takes typically 20+ years after sentencing, for an execution to be carried out.

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989...Now wait just a minute! I was told that Al Gore invented the internet! /s

I remember when they started the Amazon stores. Thought it was the DUMBEST thing Amazon came up with. Apparently I was correct.

Yeah, tell me about that when the temperature since this past weekend has been between 0 and -10F with a wind chill of -20F. The global temperature has collectively been INCREASING since the last ice age. Heck, in the 70's, with all of the global pollution/smog etc there was talk of a new ice age. So, the globe got rid of most of the air pollution & what not, and now temperatures are rising. Then, you hear people like Bill "I know everything" Gates saying perhaps we should spray stuff in the upper atmosphere to block some of the sunlight to reduce the global temperatures. Just leave the Earth alone. It was here before humans and unless we blow it up, it will be here after humans are gone!

Was a flame thrower with the 5th Marines in Iwo Jima. Nightmares for years after he returned according to my mother. Would wake up in the middle of the night screaming. When the Japanese started really importing cars after "the oil crisis", he told all six of his kids that if I ever catch you buying a Japanese car, I'll never talk to you again. Hey, I get it...considering what he went through. Shoot, today, you see more Japanese cars that you do American. Plus, I read a report that showed the percentage of domestic produced parts used in manufacturing vehicles built in America a couple weeks ago. Toyota, Honda were at the TOP of the list. At the bottom? Ford & GM.

When I worked on TV's in the 70's, the "big" boys were Zenith, Admiral, RCA, Motorola etc. Once solid state took over, Sony, Panasonic etc came along and the American TV's disappeared. Sadly, it's just the name of the game.

I've seen way too many of these things zipping in and out of traffic! If you put a battery or gas motor on it, then it should be required to have an operator license & insurance.

I deal with paper cut all the time. It can be a real PITA! Something else a lot of people don't think about is when you make color prints, a VERY light row of yellow dots are printed along the top edge, and the left edge. Those dots are in a specific pattern. That pattern denotes the machine serial number, date, time etc. which can be traces back to the manufacturer, who can trace back to the distributor, that can be traced back to the retail dealer, who can trace it back to the person that purchased it. (unless you bought one used). It's mostly for copyright purposes. Most printers now won't copy "illegal" things like money, securities etc, but something else that "knows" what you did.

Ever since cellular phones came along, I've always used a BT headset. Even on my first flip phone, which did NOT have Bluetooth I used one. Plantronics made the M1500 which was a two piece headset. The headset was wireless, and the other part plugged into the earphone jack on the phone. I've always used either handsfree or BT headsets when using the phone. Not out of caution, but back then, there wasn't speakerphone mode or connecting it to your car. So if you needed to answer a call, you had to hold the phone up to your ear, which wasn't really a good thing to do while driving. Especially when your work vehicle was a manual transmission. It's just habit now to pop on the BT headset if it isn't already on my head.

You can drive across each country pretty much in one day. It takes MULTIPLE days to drive across just the state of Texas, and there are 47 others in the continental U.S.

I use to be a 911 dispatcher for over 20 years. LOL, one of my dispatcher groups said they were getting a lot of SOS text messages from people wanting to know why their phones were not working. Yep, people are THAT dumb! If we had an EMP or Carrington event, the world would collapse!