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> on low power AM broadcasting The FCC's actions are public documents and published on their website. Its not a coincidence that the ONLY actions the FCC takes for pirate stations …

> all TV signals had to be sent digital. And of course if you set up an antenna, you can receive crystal-clear HD broadcasts of local TV stations over the air. One of the problems …

> I suspect most of the silent movies of the time would seem quite trivial compared with much amateur YouTube content today I can't say what constituted "most film" in 1926 (are we…

> The idea that people in the past had personalities that valued the pursuit of perfection more-highly than now is often assumed, but seldom is good evidence given to support it. I…

> The social system we live in cannot tolerate mass unemployment It already does if you go by the labor participation rate. The traditional prescription for unemployment caused by …

> First is figuring out if we’ll need a safety net for the first wave of automated workers, or if more jobs will be quickly created. Part of the problem is that people whose entire…

I am not sure that the American public cares much about what has become the norm in other countries so that line doesn't really carry any weight here. I'd argue that instead, its m…

2008 I had a totally offline map of all of North America in my car's aftermarket radio (7" touch screen, AM/FM, DVD player, GPS, analog TV, SD slot, all running a version of Window…

Vaccinations /= medical experimentation. Are you suggesting we as a species should still be being ravished by the scourge of smallpox?

> They need to be good, well run with compassion and care of course. And there lies the core of the paradox: We can't pull that off with run of the mill geriatrics. Bottom barrel n…

> and suddenly allow what was unconstitutional before. To be fair, this isn't as much of an obstacle as the rest is.

> A typical case from this time... the case of Edna Long, ...they put what assets remained under the management of an attorney, who made a bit of money from reducing the value of h…

And the station wagons got killed off by CAFE standards because they were treated as cars instead of as their own category. Taking a sedan and turning it into a station wagon is go…

> Then they're left out of some things, but they get to deflect that social stigma. I'm willing to accept being the lame parent. I know this is anecdotal, but my experience doesn't…

> you're raised speaking German first, so that you can "learn your heritage" (read: always feel the divide between yourself and the rest of the country). This isn't a fair take IMO…

> and yet 30% of Amish girls don't want to kill themselves. You can't swap in a lack of evidence as "evidence of zero." We have no reliable information on how many Amish girls want…

$100k of debt for a poor person is not unrealistic, between student loans and/or medical debt.

Human consumption includes some agriculture. You'd be surprised to learn what counts as agriculture for purposes of water in places like California. One example: Golf courses. Othe…

Maybe that was true in the pre-firearm era. You'd have a hard time arguing that in today's world "if you send women to war your population dies." Israel, since its conception has p…

Lowered birth rates is actually a good thing, if we're going to be honest about our way of life and its sustainability problem. As a species, we are going to have to make some hard…

> she's in apartment 349 which is on the third floor. Very hard to imagine off gassing from the ground creates hazardous conditions three floors up. I don't know enough about VOCs …

> How else would one build up a library of e-books without purchasing them? books.google.com and archive.org have a lot of content. Depending on his interests, its possible if not …

> Do you think this actually hurts sales though? It might in some situations. With music for example, some bands have successfully encouraged people to buy their releases by includ…

> Amazon's DRM on the other hand only lets you lend a book for 14 days. WTF? A real book isn't going to care how long you lend it for. Even many libraries let you extend book loans…

> (How do you return a borrowed ebook I wonder?) That is actually a feature built into some ebook formats & proprietary software packages. Adobe's bloatware supports this feature, …