I was talking with my sister and brother in-law today. She is a Third grade government school teacher. She is NOT liking distance learning she prefers in person teaching. This summer she is tutoring a sixth grader who's dad is a lead pilot for SpaceX. Anyway, the Dad after he moved out here realized the Internet in rural settings sucks. So he signed the local elementary school up for the Starlink Beta program. Should be cool. Starlink is designed for rural areas and does not work well in cities due to population density issues.
This could really help remote rural areas to finally get the bandwidth needed for telecommuting in rural areas, eventually it will cover most of the world.
Amazon has a similar project. It's sort of like the TVA project to electrify rural areas in the thirties, only better, it's privately funded.
So, I'm very Happy to see progress being made.
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Re: Happy Talk
by Newfie » Thu 06 Aug 2020, 08:33:40
The USA lags many countries in internet availability. It would be a good green project to make it more available, promote work at home.
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Re: Happy Talk
by Ibon » Thu 06 Aug 2020, 10:32:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I') was talking with my sister and brother in-law today. She is a Third grade government school teacher. She is NOT liking distance learning she prefers in person teaching. This summer she is tutoring a sixth grader who's dad is a lead pilot for SpaceX. Anyway, the Dad after he moved out here realized the Internet in rural settings sucks. So he signed the local elementary school up for the Starlink Beta program. Should be cool. Starlink is designed for rural areas and does not work well in cities due to population density issues.
This could really help remote rural areas to finally get the bandwidth needed for telecommuting in rural areas, eventually it will cover most of the world.
Amazon has a similar project. It's sort of like the TVA project to electrify rural areas in the thirties, only better, it's privately funded.
So, I'm very Happy to see progress being made.
This could really help remote rural areas to finally get the bandwidth needed for telecommuting in rural areas, eventually it will cover most of the world.
Amazon has a similar project. It's sort of like the TVA project to electrify rural areas in the thirties, only better, it's privately funded.
So, I'm very Happy to see progress being made.
Yeah that Starlink is cool but there has been a far better solution for rural areas if it wasn't for the regulatory laws that favor large providers like Verizon and cable companies.
Here in Panama we are in an extremely remote location. We pay $55 dollars a month for 3 mega speed. You know who the provider is? A very small mom and pop company the head of who is a switched on electrical / computer engineer who started up his business 10 years ago, set up a series of micro wave towers throughout the valley and transmits internet signal via microwave up into the mountains for folks in remote areas to have internet. This is not a Verizon or Cable & Wireless or AT&T.
Imagine if the US would deregulate the licensing, open up the ability in small rural areas throughout the country for small individual companies to buy bulk signal to then transmit via microwave and build up customer base.
This is not permitted because the licensing is all tied up with the big providers and it would be illegal to do this.
Imagine how many good paying jobs, how much entrepreneurial spirit this would empower individuals, how much of a rapid build out this would enable taking this last link to rural areas out of the control of the Verizons and AT&T's and let small companies loose in setting up a similar operation of what we are using here in Panama?
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Re: Happy Talk
by The_Toecutter » Thu 06 Aug 2020, 13:02:41
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', ' ') This is not permitted because the licensing is all tied up with the big providers and it would be illegal to do this.
Imagine how many good paying jobs, how much entrepreneurial spirit this would empower individuals, how much of a rapid build out this would enable taking this last link to rural areas out of the control of the Verizons and AT&T's and let small companies loose in setting up a similar operation of what we are using here in Panama?
Imagine how many good paying jobs, how much entrepreneurial spirit this would empower individuals, how much of a rapid build out this would enable taking this last link to rural areas out of the control of the Verizons and AT&T's and let small companies loose in setting up a similar operation of what we are using here in Panama?
If such an industry existed with a low barrier of entry where I am at, I might not be using my electrical engineering degree and 10 years related experience in the field to wash dishes at a restaurant for minimum wage.
The U.S. government and the corporations who have bought it have deliberately rigged things to herd such talent into the military-industrial complex, and the compensation for the work to be performed via said talent is being ratcheted downwards while the risks to the individual performing the work are being increased. A lot of talent is going unused in the U.S. as a consequence, because the crony capitalist model doesn't see such talent as useful unless it is in service to the immediate and short term profit margins of its benefactors. It is deemed a threat to the parasites at the top of the socio-economic heirarchy when such talent is not being used to this end, for which it is indeed such a threat. I know a few engineers, coders, and designers, that are or have been homeless, and/or are stuck working some menial job, unable to make some piece of their visions manifest in the world even if it is merely just to demonstrate potential usefulness, novelty, or even viability, because they lack the financial resources to do so when the focus is constantly on survival needs, and/or they don't want to serve organizations that serve to destroy humanity in the name of profit and/or nor do they want to do high level, high stress, high value work for peanuts either, but would otherwise take any other opportunity they could find were it genuinely available.
asg once recommended I look for a token effort such as installing solar hot water heaters or the like. Had I come across such an opportunity and been hired for it, I gladly would have taken it. So far, no dice.
Meanwhile, the planet is heating up and a great tragedy is befalling the human race as we speak. But with the current system in which we are forced to live, all that matters to those with the power to make the big decisions within society is that the richest among us get richer and expand the facets of our lives that they get to micromanage in some way in the pursuit of more profit...
Thus, we have your example. The FCC has essentially been captured by companies such as ATT and Verizon. They LIKE being able to charge people $100+/month for basic internet with their "legal monopolies", while making yet more money off of their partnerships with the U.S. government to conduct unconstitutional spying upon the public through electronic communications and they do not want any alternatives to this crony model to be available. These rules are unlikely to be changed, even if 99% of the American people decided they wanted them changed.
Yet another example of just how broken things are. There's not much of a point in having a civilization if one group of people is allowed to constantly prey upon everyone else without consequence.
But with everyone out in the streets, some change is coming soon. To what degree, and of what kind, remains to be seen. I try to be optimistic. I think I'm going to vote for Adam Kokesh for President in 2020.
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Re: Happy Talk
by The_Toecutter » Thu 06 Aug 2020, 14:07:24
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Just put it all on the plastic so you can put on the plastic
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Just put it all on the plastic so you can put on the plastic
I'm sure you've had some frightfully expensive orgasms in your time.
Having barely clawed my way out of debt and having made great sacrifices to do so, I don't find a few hundred milliseconds of bliss to be worth tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt that can follow me around and limit my future opportunities.
Everyone's got different priorities though.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bochen777', 'N')othing wrong with hooking up with young women of legal age no matter how much older the guy is... in fact the older a guy is the younger his partner should be in terms of absolute age number disparity... the fact you look younger than your real age is a benefit not a negative
When I was in my mid to late 20s, women just barely of legal age and into their early 20s were hard to get in spite of me being nearly 10 years older than them, because I had to convince them that I was of legal age. Back then, I was still a minor in appearance. Now it's kind of borderline and I don't have to convince them that I'm not 16, but they never believe I'm almost 40.
It my seem to be advantageous at first glance(and in many ways, it is), but it makes things awkward at the same time.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')iologically women peak at 24... its all downhill from there, slowly at first then faster and faster... the age 30 wall is a very real thing
If they care for their health properly, the 30 wall becomes the 40 wall. I've seen women in their early 40s that you could not tell were more than 24. And they do not look that way by habitually eating fast food and sitting on the couch watching soap operas.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')tart taking cold showers, lift, heavy weights, not the cardio shit...
ALL of those things are already a habit. I curl 40 lb weights with each arm and am stronger than many 200+ lb men.
I have a fast basal metabolism though and it would require a great effort to bulk up, and I see no need in doing so. It's already a lot of effort to continue to prepare and eat enough food to avoid losing weight.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'g')et on ketosis, cut sugar, cut carbs esp the unprocessed simple carbs, and go heavy on good fats and protein to build lean muscle mass and stay in ketosis mode.
I'm not on any keto diet, but my diet is very low in refined sugar. I avoid processed foods out of habit. MOST of my calories are from fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, nuts, seeds, cooked legumes, and wild caught fish. I do have pastas and breads in my diet, but I go for non-Roundup sprayed whole wheat varieties that haven't had their micronutrients bleached out of them.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ntermittent fasting is a must, 72 hour water fasts are good, the occasional 48 hour dry fast is great for losing fat since it converts fat to water but you are underweight so I dont recommend it for you.
