To tack on to this:

SMS requires practically no transmission cost, as it is embedded in an unassigned portion of the frames being sent between the phone and tower - frames which are always being sent anyway for keep-alive, registration, etc. There’s some infrastructure required (SMS gateway, network to other cell companies) so it’s not completely a sunk cost for them.

MMS historically worked the same way, just the media was base-64 encoded, and required an http server to temporarily host the media files for the person you were sending to.

Begin the age of the smart phone and data plans - now MMS are sent via the data connection because it’s much faster and doesn’t consume voice channel time, leaving more voice channels available for voice calls.

Today SMS is still largely sent the old way, but with 4G/5G the connection is completely different (it doesn’t use the same framing), so effectively it’s being sent via the data connection.

Voice is generally no longer via a voice channel, but really VOIP - vendors have pushed for voice-over-data since the beginning of 4G (I think LTE doesn’t even have voice channels anymore, 5G definitely doesn’t - it’s all essentially VOIP).

This is all from memory, so may not be spot on.

Bandwidth is akin to number of lanes on an interstate, latency is how long it takes each car to go from point A to B (or X, or wherever you’re measuring to).

Technically, bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of hertz (so how “wide” is the signal) - in ye olden days the signal width corresponded to transmission capacity.

While latency is a measure of how long a specified bit of data took to transit a system, especially when compared against the “ideal” performance of the system.

Some good, some bad.

I complimented my doctor the other day for an interesting word choice.

He blushed.

Cool dude too

I mean a simple Wikipedia search would’ve corrected that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Except, even from the start it wasn’t defined by wires.

It’s based on an assumption that was never correct.

A simple read of the definition of Internet, or a Wikipedia page would’ve clarified this.

That’s an interesting linguistic point - so tax in your language would use “less/more” being uncountable.

Technically, in English, taxes should be fewer/greater (being a countable dollar thing), but we often say “less”. Prescription vs description in action!

Yet another person assuming this perspective.

That may be the case for some people - no one I know thinks that way.

Not sure why you’re assuming that subtext.

The taxes one pays are the obligation one has, therefore “my tax obligation”.

Not yours, not another person’s, mine. You don’t pay my tax obligation, I don’t pay yours.

The Great Courses has a series on Comparative Religion.

They also have a series where each course covers a different world religion.

Then another course covers different mythologies (e.g. Norse) from different regions.

The first course would answer all your questions, the rest will fill out your understanding.

See if your local library carries them - mine does.

Lots of last names are occupational names, like your Smith example, so were often a qualifier that others used.

And it seems the immigration story wasn’t really that common.

Only the passerines (songbirds) sing.

So passerineodons?

*Phase

You just leave the body in a space about to be covered in dirt. Not very difficult (on the surface), the challenge is to not be seen doing it

You have to know the process well enough to know that a given area is completed so it doesn’t get dug up during construction.

Not sure why this is a question, unless you want us to tell you how to get away with it.

Well put.

I like how so many studies (or summaries of studies) use these ambiguous “more”.

Every time I go look at details, that “more” nearly always turns out to be meaningless.

cookie(n.) 1730, Scottish, but the sense is “plain bun,” and it is debatable whether it is the same word; in the sense of “small, flat, sweet cake” by 1808 (American English); this use is from Dutch koekje “little cake,” diminutive of koek “cake,” from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). “Dutch influence is no doubt responsible also for the parallel use of the word in South African English” [Ayto, “Diner’s Dictionary”].

As an example, I once lived in a brick house in the southwest. A true brick house, built in the 1930’s so EVERY wall was 3 or 4 courses of brick - 18".

The west-facing wall would bake all afternoon and then radiate that heat all night long. During the summer months that wall never cooled off, it was always warm (80°+).

Winter it was nice, but summer it was a bitch cooling that place at all.

Ah, yes, good ole ignorant jingoism.

You probably don’t know that code in Florida has required concrete reinforced cinder block 1st floor for residential houses since the 90’'s, because that’s what can withstand hurricanes and flooding. Typical block construction only requires concrete and rebar reinforcement at windows, doorways, etc, while this code requires it in every other opening, thereby tying every course together, from first to last. This prevents flood surges from weakening the structure, and also provides a physical barrier for objects flying at 100mph+.

Code has also required hurricane straps on every rafter, since forever.

There’s probably a lot more code I don’t know.

But here you’d have them build houses out of stone which wouldn’t withstand flooding, unlike reinforced and anchored block, cause in your hubris you think you know something.

Houses are already wrapped with materials like Tyvek, before the exterior is put on.