Why do LEDs generate heat? (2025 Update)

Even in the most popular areas around town I might encounter half a dozen people during a six or seven mile walk. In other areas I don't meet any. There are people around the trailhead parking areas but they spread out on the different trails. The exception is the trails that go up a canyon. Even then you don't see a lot of people because of the terrain.

Back east is a different story. Which is why I don't live there anymore.

Australians can relate, Europeans not so much. The real problem is when Somalis etc. come to the US they don't settle in Wyoming. They prefer big cities so areas that are already overpopulated get more people to support.

It is just not fully implemented. OTOH if your movie itself has modified the copyright and DRM signature, the hardware probably will not care. It just proves when piracy mitigation gets better, it breeds better pirates. I have found that the PC capture cards I have tried puke on an HD movie. (or anything from a cable/satellite box) They don't seem to care about SD/NTSC tho if you use the A/V inputs. That is the same with my Tivo.

That is the 4x3. 16x9 monitors are just about as big as you want one.

Too many people like me here who just do not text. I have never even sent a text ... ever ... other than via Email.

That sounds like a great idea but the call probably looks like it came from the US. In fact if they really needed to they could just put a PC somewhere (or rent some server space) here and do it from there with a US IP address. These are not really calls from a phone. They start as VOIP.

England by itself is about 50,000 square miles. Montana is 147,000 square miles. I'm not kidding when I say you could drop England into eastern Montana.

Massachusetts and Connecticut are the closest in density. New York is deceiving. 19.5 million people live in the state. When you throw in Lawn Guiland about 12 million live in Sodom on the Hudson in about 500 square miles. The rest live in the other 54,000 square miles.

We did lots of hikes out west without ever seeing another soul. Most started close to a pretty big road back into forest service land.

The big difference is, in the low population states, welfare is pretty much unavailable. You need to find something to do to make money or you starve. That is not very attractive when they are looking for a place to squat and suck on a government tit.

I don't answer calls where the caller ID name is "TOLL FREE CALL" or a city and state (such as "MIAMI FL".

Later, my 'phone company' introduced a similar service. It's a lot less effective than my method.

They could block calls claiming to be from numbers that aren't in use.

I suppose they provide cell service for the electric company employees.

When I was growing up a 19" TV was a big one (however, that was 4:3 which does look bigger than a 16:9 19").

Recently, my doctor appointment reminders have been coming by text message, I do find that preferable to phone robocalls.

Or the "city ST" caller ID names that keep happening.

I have that here, mostly for weather emergencies. The city decided to do that instead of having emergency sirens.

They usually spoof a real number, sometimes your own.

I have seen my number come up a number of times on the caller ID.

I understand that calls from our phone can be blocked from over seas. Looks like the phone company could block incomming calls from over seas.

There should be a way to block calls from a phone if more than 10 or 20 calls are made in one or two hours.

That would block political campaign calls and no congressman would allow that to happen. In fact that is probably why we are not really getting that much help from DC. Every other year, about half of the robo calls I get are political in nature. At a certain point I would rather just hear from Rachel at card services than someone telling my who to vote for or just soliciting money for some weasel I would never vote for.

I sometimes get calls on my cell phone, that claim to be from my home phone. These try to fool me into thinking I'm connected to my voicemail, although it sounds different from mine (for one thing, it sounds drunk). There's the usual truncation at the beginning (if if the robot was too stupid to "WAIT FOR THE BEEP").

As to spoofing real numbers, how do you explain the "city ST" caller ID (like AUSTIN TX) or "TOLL FREE CALL" that appear on around 99% of the junk calls I get.

How are these calls to be counted?

I don't give to anyone over the phone, especially if I didn't make the call.

I'm often not good at speaking, another reason to avoid answering political or survey calls.

I would like to think that was your Telco detecting a spoofed caller ID and just telling you all they know for sure. That may be optimistic. I don't really see the caller ID since I dumped Dish. It used to pop up n the TV. Tivo hasn't figured out that trick.