It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency communications, they run low-power stations from remote locations, and many more kinds of activities.
> Police officials say she had arrived at the complex after working a full shift and was still in full uniform when she entered the victim's apartment, thinking it was her home.
> "It was, like, police talk: 'Open up! Open up!'" 20-year-old Caitlin Simpson said.
It isn't illegal to be hated, at least not yet. You seem awfully eager to coerce your neighbors into behaving in a way consistent with your personal values.
It's altogether worse than that because at the very least most city dwellers are being taxed to support these transit services. They can't exactly opt out of supporting it.
The devil is in the details, so they say, but what you describe is not negligence. They didn't disable a safety feature and do nothing, they replaced a safety feature with something else. You'd need to make the case that this something else was somehow deficient in some material way and management shipped this feature knowing it was materially deficient for this to be negligence.
Why don't we instead start with the individual who was supposed to be monitoring the road and the vehicle's systems? It's well known at this point that they in fact were negligent in their duty.
> it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it?
I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching public works projects budgets balloon completely out of control. It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.
> A much simpler (and more plausible) solution to chapium's problem is simply getting rid of the electoral college.
Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even smaller number of densely populated cities.
It would be far better to revoke much of the power of the central government rather than to try and debug our way through to a mythical process by which all individual interests are considered. Because, in the end, minority interests will always be cast aside once the election is over anyway.
It seems that the humans in this thread are equally bad at it, considering the clamor for government force over an infinitesimally small number of admittedly tragic events.
> ...how many CO deaths from accidentally leaving the car running in the garage were happening before the introduction of key fobs vs. now.
The great thing about the free market is that information spurs innovation. News stories like these make consumers aware of risks they couldn't recognize before. Now we, as informed buyers, can seek out these safety features in the products we buy.
> Which ISPs are so bad that you want to use external services, which are further in distance than your ISP, for speed?
When I upgraded my WiFi equipment at home a month ago I thought it was defective. Multiple times every day I'd seem to lose connectivity to the internet. After two weeks it occurred to me that my previous router was configured to do a couple things for me, one of which was overriding what DNS servers were assigned with DHCP. I reconfigured my new equipment to use those DNS servers and suddenly everything works normally.