I wonder how long it will take a thread about telephone poles to turn into an atheist vs theist argument
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’ve never had a landline phone call drop, ever, in my life. I can’t think of a single issue I’ve ever had with a landline actually. Not one. [/quote]
Really lol? [/quote]
Not that I remember.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Okay. We have problems with our phones at work all the time, and when I was a kid we did as well. Not to mention when a poll falls down. [/quote]
I’m surprised you still use landlines at work. Ours are all VOIP at this point routed through CISCO.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
This is called conditioning. And likely why we are both accountants and not getting paid to develop new technologies.
When my grandkids say all this same shit about the internet, that you are now about phones, I’m going to laugh, my ever living nuts off, at all the people happy about this takeover. [/quote]
I guess. I just don’t see what you see.
Government regulates communications (Title 47)
Companies invest millions and create new technologies (Cell Phones), making them massive profits while still being regulated by Title 47.
Like I keep saying, maybe telephone poll technology can be made better, but what I don’t follow is why companies would invest in R&D to make them better. Now, in the past, or ever.
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
I wonder how long it will take a thread about telephone poles to turn into an atheist vs theist argument[/quote]
Jesus didn’t invent the remote control for us to be listening to music on vinyl records forever.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
I wonder how long it will take a thread about telephone poles to turn into an atheist vs theist argument[/quote]
Jesus didn’t invent the remote control for us to be listening to music on vinyl records forever. [/quote]
Science invented the remote you theistic Mongoloid.
Go pray to your sky wizard for better satellite tv.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Beans: I mean, look at telephone polls… It isn’t like the wired infrastructure has seen a whole lot of advancement since the government took over.
USMC: cell phones, cell phones, cell phones
Beans: Wired communication infrastructure
USMC: Cell phones, cell phones, cell phones
Beans: there is a world that existed prior to cheap enough cell plans
USMC: Cell phones.
Beans: I give up. [/quote]
Seriously though, how can you innovate on telephone poles?
The issue with wires are-
1- You have wires.
2- They can be broken.
3- You have wires.
4- They can be broken.
As such, you have two distinct and obvious ways to innovate on wires.
1- Remove them entirely.
2- Make them harder to break.
People apparently chose to go with #1, for what appears to me obvious reasons.
Innovation doesn’t have to be step by step. We knew about wireless transmission since the start of the 20th century. We stuck with telephone poles and such only because they were the easiest way to allow an entire nation to have phone service, but why bother developing a technology we know will go obsolete instead of devoting the time and money into something that is obviously and clearly better (wireless)?
And regulation clearly didn’t prevent us from improving upon communication infrastructure. Else we’d be stuck with switchboards.
[quote]magick wrote:
Seriously though, how can you innovate on telephone poles?
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Again, I’m acquaintances with a man that is developing a fiber that mixes with the water in things like a fire hose so the stream becomes illuminated.
I hold more computing power in the palm of my hand than they had in landing people on the moon.
The idea we can’t get better than a pole is… short sighted. The idea there was no money in it because of regulation? Less ridiculous.
Cutting costs by replacing humans with machines. Thank the good fucking lord the government doesn’t prevent companies from cutting costs.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
You evolutionists are all alike. You can’t even talk about the evolution of the telephone without invoking your faith. Again.[/quote]
Behold evolution
And the LORD Steve Jobs formed iPhone of the dust of the ground, and breathed into its headphone-jack the breath of iOS; and iPhone became a smartphone.