crimandnakatoya

Apple is also getting away with the exact same behavior that caused the Microsoft v. United States antitrust case 20 years ago, by bundling WebKit with iOS and refusing to allow the installation of other browser engines.

But there are effectively no functioning regulatory institutions in the United States today, so who's going to stop them? Apparently companies like Epic have more judicial clout than the federal government these days...

Ha, that's nothing. Two years ago, I walked up to a police officer in Seattle and pointed out an individual who was splayed face-first on the sidewalk a half-block away, in front of a food truck where a line of customers was patiently stepping over them.

The officer shrugged and walked off in the opposite direction. I think that was the moment that I decided it was time for a change of scenery.

Points 2 and 3 seem like they could contradict each other. Wouldn't a tiny amount of power for you equate to a much larger amount of power at the radiation's source?

Isn't that sort of like stealing power? Wouldn't the station need to broadcast with more energy to reach any listeners "behind" your antenna-siphon? And isn't the energy transfer extremely inefficient?

It kind of sounds like the apocryphal tales of farmers who would lay big loops of cabling underneath HV lines to power their electric fences.