Posted on 12/16/2010 2:18:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Everything is grubby in countries run by statist moonbats — even dishes fresh out of the dishwasher.
A couple of months ago, Sandra Young from Vernon, Fla., started to notice that something was seriously amiss with her dishes.
"The pots and pans were gray, the aluminum was starting to turn black, the glasses had fingerprints and lip prints still on them, and they were starting to get this powdery look to them," Vernon says. "I'm like, oh, my goodness, my dishwasher must be dying, I better get a new dishwasher."
Susan Baba from Procter and Gamble says the company had no choice. It just wasn't feasible to make detergent with phosphates for some states and without them for others.
"You know, this isn't really a huge environmental win," she says.
That's because phosphates are wonder ingredients. They not only strip food and grease from dishes but also prevent crud from getting reattached during the wash. So she says without phosphates, people have to wash or rinse their dishes before they put them in the dishwasher, which wastes water. Or they run their dishwasher twice, which wastes electricity.
Intelligent idiots dictating to the 80 persent of us Americans
What’s wrong with digital TV? It is a wholly proper thing under the most originalist reading of the Commerce Clause for the national government to set standards for uses of the electormagnetic spectrum for broadcast emittters operating at frequencies where the emmissions can radiate beyond a limited radius of a few miles.
And while it is surely un-Constitutional for the Federal Government to regulate household water flows under any orginialist or near-orginalist interpretation, it happens that the regulations requiring low flush toilets forced toilet manufacturers to aggressively re-engineer and redesign outflow. Some of those toilets work better that the older big gulp toilets.
“What’s wrong with digital TV? It is a wholly proper thing under the most originalist reading of the Commerce Clause for the national government to set standards for uses of the electormagnetic spectrum for broadcast emittters operating at frequencies where the emmissions can radiate beyond a limited radius of a few miles.”
I never said it was unconstitutional. I said that it was a mistake. Let me explain what’s wrong with digital TV:
*Induced manufacturers to discontinue CRT TVs
*Incompatible with 60+ years worth of TVs
*Signal dropout/freeze up
*MPEG artifacts
*Should never have been required that all TV stations use it or that all TVs have ATSC tuners
The only real advantage is freeing up some bandwidth for HD transmission.
“Some of those toilets work better that the older big gulp toilets.”
Most low flush toilets I’ve seen release a spray of high pressure water that splatters up on you. Now do you really want to be hit with toilet water? Mind you, I’d like to know what kind of toilets Al Gore has in his house. Probably 5-gallon ones.
Digital signals don’t propagate anywhere near the distances that analog signaling can.
A good example, from the days before wide-spread fiber optic use in computer networking was 10Broad-36, which was sort of an analog version of what many people call “ethernet.” It used 2 coax cables, but you could run a distance of 3600 meters, as opposed to Ethernet’s 500 meters without a repeater.
Another example is the fact that a POTS (plain old telephone system) wiring’s local loop could go a very long distance between your home and the central office, but the very same line that carries DSL is much more limited in distance.
Mark
My local restaurant supply store sells the commercial version of Cascade with the phosphates still in it. Any good size town should have a store like it.
Yes. The analog signals would fade, but never freeze up or cause the sound to cut out. One problem is that digital transmission is at much lower wattages than analog. They could use higher power, but cell phone companies rudely demanded more bandwidth.
“OTA digital is great—when it works—but it doesn’t always work.”
Theoretically you have a better picture without our old friends Dot Crawl and Color Bleed, when as you said, it works.
“Digital signals don’t propagate anywhere near the distances that analog signaling can.”
The real deal behind DTV was using less bandwidth, not reliability. They say you can have more channels, but it doesn’t mean much for OTA since you can only get a few at a time there.
Heck, I can pick up WSB AM 750 Atlanta on the radio, a station that’s hundreds of miles from where I live. I’ll bet you I can’t pick up a TV station that far away.
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