I have a high speed fiber-line coming right into my house.

Yeah, the U.S. is actually recovering from about five years of trending toward Canadian prices

which are insane

max I can get here in PA is 100mb bought, 60 mb actual service

Well, I'm willing to set up masts and fixed radio

you can get >1Gb full duplex on the good ones these days

in Tulsa the zoning laws do place some restrictions on masts though

and that is time warner only due to how rural pa areas are

I love Radio. I started WAAAY back in the early 90's (When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth) with a Ham Radio license and I've been a radio-enthusiast ever since.

Yeah, it has many benefits

when the link is up, you can get less latency over radio than over fiber

if you have some sort of local realtime application.

I was doing packet radio back when it was still a new thing, and kept up with the developments in radio data transmission ever since.

I think it'd be interesting, to revamp the curriculum in some of the U.S. public schools.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/27/are-you-a-xennial-take-the-quiz

if primary and secondary schools focused on reading, writing, and thinking

I figure they could produce better citizens

I actually wonder why more kids don't just test out of it

Oh, you mean "English" and "Critical Thinking and Reasoning?" Yeah, blame Jimmy Carter for that one....

because it consumes them

define xennial

too dumb to read

they have two days off per week to think about this

and their parents need the daycare

GED + perfect SAT at 14 should do the trick nicely

I'm DEFINITELY not a Xennial then. One year too late. I was born on the day Jimmy Carter was elected President (making him *Not* my mother's fault).

I left school at 14 and it worked out okay

didn't even bother with GED or SAT

I've been working since then

six (Canadian) figures in my third year of working

was a little bit difficult to get full time work at 17, but managed to convince a company that it was legal

I dropped out of Tennessee Public High School as a first semester sophomore and now have an advanced college education, but I received that education prior to 1997 so I was at the tail-end of when college was still relatively worth it.

You received that education before the year I was born, lol.

I wouldn't recommend college to anyone now unless they wanted to go to Med School or Law School (and even then, Law School is iffy in the US nowadays)

Well

mid level law school is

economy-grade law school can be worth it

and so can top-tier law school (if you have the IQ and social skills to show for it)

there are schools with strong STEM programs and excellent placement for graduates

if you can make the financial arrangements work, it could be a winner still

Agree. I've seen better lawyers coming out of the Saul Goodman Night School of Law and Plumbing than those coming out of Harvard and Yale in the last decade (or so, being polite)