....and the little fish too?
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Are broadcast networks becoming obsolete 10-20 yrs from now?
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They have to be born on American soil. Offshore, the only places would be our territories and possessions plus on Embassy grounds (however unlikely). My wife was born in Japan in 1960 in a USAF hospital and became a naturalized citizen at 18. That might have changed since then.
The Chinese have been doing that for years.
That is exactly what I said: "illegal immigrants who have children". If they are "immigrants" they are already here in the US, and their children are citizens.
But not in such massive numbers. One estimate from a research company in Lima says that there have been 200,000 such cases in the last 6 months.
Wow! Is it only the wealthy who do that, and why? Things in Peru that bad or is it one of those 'just in case' type decisions? I didn't think the upper class in Peru had that many people but then I didn't look either.
The move to Florida for an American birth costs around $100,000 including hospital, prenatal care and living quarters and expenses. Peruvian insurance, of course, does not cover that.
In the urban areas of Perú there are many middle and upper class persons, likely around 50% or more of the population:
According to Ipsos-Apoyo, Group C has become the largest and fastest growing group in Lima, representing 35 percent of the city’s population. Another poll, by Arrellano Marketing, found that 57 percent of Peruvians identify themselves as middle class—twice as many as eight years ago.
Most of that is C class, the middle income group. The upper class is estimated at 5% to 10% depending on the standard used. In Latin America, it is common to divide demographics by income, often using the A to D classifications.
Those able to travel to Miami would be A, B and C+ residents.
This phenomenon and general migration out of Perú is due mostly to the disastrous new government, where some ministries have had a half dozen leaders in the 14 months since Castillo became president.
Was the average Peruvian happier and wealthier under Fujimori?
If I were subscribing to cable/satellite, I would not want any of the money I was putting in to go to any political "news" station (I say that because almost all of them have had as their stated and once and forever goal to make the political party they represent look whiter than snow, and the other blacker than coal-- utterly stupid, IMO).
I think a big issue with over the air TV are the networks that currently operate them. Example: Scripps have a bunch of networks on their own channels. At the same time, because of contracts made prior to their purchase of Ion, which the other companies can't get out of for some reason, a lot of these same networks are duplicated on those other channels. In NY, Bounce TV is on 31.2 and also on 41.2. Similar duplications are found with Laff and Ion Mystery as well. At this point, Scripps is getting an unfair competitive advantage by not allowing the other companies to immediately take off duplicated networks to put on other services that people might want to watch. I wish Congress could change the law so that networks get out of contracts earlier if a service they contracted for was later put on a channel owned by the party they contracted with.
Why would Congress care about that? There no monopoly or antitrust issue involved.
Here is more on the study on Linear TV and not surprising.
Linear TV is a better way to distribute programming.
There's surely a limit on how many cable channels can go through the pipeline. That's still better than everyone trying to stream.
There's surely a limit on how many cable channels can go through the pipeline. That's still better than everyone trying to stream.
I've never heard anyone say that before.
I'm sure it has been said here. If not, I've read it somewhere.
Explain it to me, please. Because putting one thing on any given channel at a time instead of allowing me to watch what I want when I want doesn't sound like a better way as a viewer.
And having been on the TV programming end 20 or so years ago, I promise you, putting it on a server and letting the audience go for it beats the hell out of structuring a schedule and worrying about whether a show retains, improves on, or loses its lead-in's numbers.
Probably on Wikipedia? We all know how reliable that information is... Not.
It's a better way for you if you are streaming or getting programs from cable, but not for the people delivering the programming to you. You're dealing with pipelines that are limited and if everyone is streaming at once, that slows it down for everyone.
You mean they feature their own programming on their own cable network? Isn't that what most cable networks do? Also, Scripps sold off several of their networks to TW/Discovery.
So, you're objecting to them carrying programming that they own, on their own cable and diginet networks? What's unfair about that? These programs have a limited audience, and Scripps paid for all of them. They should be able to put them wherever they choose.
I believe that would violate certain restraint of trade laws.
Am I missing something? Because this sentence makes no sense. What people delivering the programming to who? The viewer?
The public Internet is a shared resource. You share a connection with your neighbors. If you have slowdowns, you're welcome to look at other providers or options.
If you're referring to the "pipeline" meaning a cable TV distribution system, that doesn't seem to be the case. I have Comcast and get more than 1,000 TV and music channels, + tons of OnDemand movies and TV shows that can be watched whenever I wish, and fast forwarded, rewound, paused, etc. High-speed internet is also available through that same cable "pipeline". Keep in mind that there's a very big difference between the days when at least most parts of a CATV distribution system were copper and there were filters and lots of clunky hardware needed at various points to make it all work. Now everything is digital, much of the distribution is done via fiber, every cable box throughout the system has an indivudual address and while talking to Comcast on the phone, they can send a reset, push data, etc. to an individual box in your home.
Again, it seems you're thinking of older systems or those with limited bandwidth, or lower quality systems or cases where thousands of people are connecting to the same WiFi or data network like in an airport or sports stadium. As an example of a more modern system, our HOA uses Webpass for internet. There are several hundred households, all connected and most all of them streaming movies or other content, doing online gaming in real time against other players elsewhere in the world, and regardless of the time or day, I've never once experienced a slow connection or an outage. And in our case it accomplishes all that for all those residents via 1 antenna.
Okay, if I can find where I read what I read, we'll see if that's outdated.
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