Readit NewsIt doesn't have to. This is a choice Google is making on how it wants to conduct charity.
>The federal government should be providing interest-free working capital and guaranteeing the sale of every glove and mask
Sale at what price? It has to be bounded or else it sounds ripe for fraud (people are monsters).
> anyone can produce.
So is the loan for anyone that wants it? Or just for companies that have proven they can make gloves and masks? If the former, what stops people from just using the loan to fund salaries while making a ritual display of making masks for a few months and then declaring bankruptcy after collecting salaries during that time?
It's very common, and becoming more common.
WLW was a special case because it put out so much power it affected homes a fair distance away. But even stations as low as 1,000 watts have to deal with this today.
I worked at close to a dozen different AM stations in a previous life. It's very common for AM transmission towers to be located in flat, moist areas. I'm not an electrical engineer, but from what I remember, flat is preferred so the groundwave signal travels farther, and marshy for electrical reasons.
The problem is that when vast majority of AM stations were built, they transmitters were in the middle of nowhere. Since then, the suburbs have surrounded these facilities with homes, sometimes building houses right up to the property line, and people get interference in their electronics. And they're not happy about it. If they're close enough, everything with a speaker in the house only broadcasts that nearby station. Radios, TV's, even things that don't have "speakers," but are able to pick up the radio waves and resonate.
It's like when people build a house next to an airport, and then complain about all the damn airplane noise.
For reasons I don't understand from an electrical standpoint, it was particularly bad at one 1,000-watt station where I worked in the mid-90's. The General Manager's attitude was along the lines of, "Why would you move next door to a radio station? Didn't you notice the 300-foot-tall red-and-white tower with all the blinking lights out front?" Of course, that's a wholly unsatisfying answer to a new homeowner.
Since I left radio, I've read that there are a number of AM stations that have gone off the air simply because of the angry neighbors. They get the local politicians to pass zoning regulations that end up forcing the AM stations to move their towers, but the stations have nowhere else to go for three reasons: First, because they have to be located within a certain area to fulfill the coverage requirements of their license; second, depending on the station's transmitting characteristics, they may need a pretty large piece of land for multiple towers; and third, because AM radio doesn't make a lot of money, they may not be able to afford new land. So for some, they just go dark.
Not really. Buying near an airport requires explicit acknowledgement that you're doing it and that's why homeowners don't really have a leg to stand on when they complain to their local government. IIRC last time I looked at a home near a bunch of transmitters, there was no such disclosure required.
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> and what it means to live a good life
That's just self-aggrandizing bullshit. There is no class that will tell you what it means to live a good life. Anyone who thinks so is dearly lacking perspective.
>an exclusive focus on STEM is indeed 'super specialized'.
An exclusive focus on STEM will include the philosophy of science and what it means to seek truths about the physical world. IMO that has immensely more value in a philosophical sense than you seem to imply.
Edit: Let me state it a different way that might shed more light on my point. A CS major can pass all of his/her classes with a perfect GPA and still be incapable of writing software ready for a production system (even at small scale).
The STEM degrees emphasize fundamentals that are rarely (if ever) used in day-to-day "real jobs".