Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

Trump will be making the announcement on Wednesday that by 2035, walking will be totally banned in America. Only cars and mobility scooters are allowed.

It's been proven the that RF link latency is faster enough to justify the effort. Vp here is the issue, and fiber will never propagate as fast as free space radio.

Even in the US the only homogeneity is if your education background uses Websters as its standard reference, which I suspect is above 99% of US schools.
The dictionary situation in Canada has historically been less one-sided. Depending on province is the most common dictionary, with Gage being the only truly Canadian dictionary I ever saw growing up. But I suspect OUP Canada is the dominate one now (I haven't been over there in decades).

Years ago, at least in the northern US, metre and meter were both common to see in print. And metre was preferred if ambiguity was possible, which is rarely the case. But hey, I'm from a part of the US that teaches children to sing in French. So perhaps not an ordinary sample of USian lifestyle.

A combination of arrogance and denial will lead to this century being known as the Chinese Century. Western style democracies are unlikely to retain the geopolitical dominance they once enjoyed, and neither the US or EU are prepared culturally or materially for this eventuality.

I've said before that the upcoming bans were more aspirational than effective, placed far enough in the future that when things didn't go as rosy as predicted (which itself should be predictable), that they'd modify them.
Examples include:
1. Expanding the qualifying vehicles, like including HEVs in the same category as EVs
2. Pushing deadlines back
3. Lowering percentages.

Memorising a bunch of spelling in order to read some 18th and 19th century documents that are otherwise modern English seems inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as teaching millions of children and English as a second language students a bunch of spelling variations that should otherwise be obsolete.

None of us can read Old English without significant training. And even Middle English (~400-500 years) is troublesome for a layperson without an annotated student book for the text you want to tackle.

I don't agree that the job of dictionary compilers would be any different. Each one attempts to establish their own vision of the English language for their region. And they will continue to do so, perhaps selling a lot more material if we have to transition between new spell (and possibly new alphabet) and old spelling. Most of us that already know the old system would end up buying reference material for the new version.

Mechanical analysis would be easier, not harder. And with LLMs most of the expert systems for this are obsolete precisely because they are inflexible.

The number one reason not to do this is: Interia.
Nobody likes having to learn new things or change the way they've been doing things. If grouping numbers together in multiplication for "common core math" causes a row with parents, imagine if we added some letters for the various forms of TH ? People would lose their minds that they can't sing the Alphabet Song anymore!

There's all sorts of good stuff in the application notes of IC catalogs. Some of it not even copyrighted.

Came across a Burr-Brown (!) catalog in the library at work about 15 years back. And I was thinking...why would our professionally staffed research library keep a vendor catalog from a defunct company? And then I opened it and saw a whole cook book for high frequency analog designs.

When this is what passes for a scandal, things are OK.

Both are inconsistent and irritating, and by preserving spellings through linguistic shifts, they make it essentially impossible to generalize a phonetic system. Add to that the Latin alphabet, even with various digraphs, is insufficient to cover English's phonemes.

And at once instance we'll spell something with a letter we no longer pronounce, out of tradition. And another we'll swap HW in the beginning of all Old English words and start pronouncing them like "white" or "whey". Absolutely ridiculous language.

>"Why is your TV spying on you somehow worse than your Roku, AppleTV, or whatever spying on you?"

Because this spying in the article is done on ANYTHING displayed from ANY device on the TV. That is MUCH worse than the spying performed by any one device, where you can control it better or just replace it. And those devices can only spy on things you do on THOSE devices, not others. I don't know about other people, but my "TV" is connected to a TiVo, a Roku, a Wii-U, a bluray player, my Linux computer, and potentially other devices).

So yeah, this stuff is much, much worse in the TV. So like I tell everyone- never connect your TV to the network, period. Just use it as a display, like a TV really should be in the first place- a monitor (and sometimes speakers; I use a "real" AV system that has real speakers located all over for real/full/rich surround sound).

>"I still bitterly cling to my hot-lamp projector, it is as dumb as a fencepost and doesn't sell me out"

Not necessary. Any TV can be just a monitor. At least for now. Simply do not connect it to the network. Done. Connect whatever devices you want/control to the HDMI port(s). Don't want a "streamer", don't connect it. Connected a streamer and they go bad or anti-consumer, throw it away and get a different box.

The moment the manufacturers try to REQUIRE internet access to use it as a monitor is the day that consumers should punish those manufactures. Don't buy. If you did buy, return it (which costs them a lot). If beyond return window and they didn't clearly disclose such a requirement, sue them.

We need to set the expectation NOW that there is a line that cannot be crossed, and that is: No matter what crap they add to TV's, we can still connect our TV's like a monitors and use them with whatever only-local devices we want and they will operate without internet, forever.

>"This and many other highly negative consequences Germany experiencing due to high energy costs."

And the flood of Chinese vehicles being allowed into Europe and elsewhere (still not the USA, though).

You had it, it's all about the latency. The absolute bandwidth is not so important necessarily. The data bandwidth over a 25 MHz carrier isn't anything extraordinary compared to say ethernet, etc. But it's enough and it's the latency. Radio would be faster even than fiber optics even with minimal Network routing. But you can look it up. It's from 2023, and it was a big deal in the community back then. There's another messaging service that wants to run much higher up in UHF, and would it appear potentially to interfere with a variety of other services, including starlinks control Network.

"Free Speech" from the MAGA "If you don't think sunshine came out of Charlie Kirk's ass you're losing your job" crowd. From the SLAPP "BBC hurt Trump's reputation" as if his reputation is even capable of sinking lower than it already is. From the "Let's ban LGBT books" campaign led by Republicans who inevitably subsequently get arrested for possessing CSAM or diddling minors.

HILARIOUS.