Excess Heat

Marc Andreessen is one of the earliest tech entrepreneurs of the information age, a Democrat and major league venture capitalist.  His many successes give reason to take his thoughts very seriously.  He has been quite skilled at recognizing value in the complex and competitive emerging fields.  Did all that recently change?  Probably not. This recent ZeroHedge article about a Joe Rogan interview of Andreessen is focused on the statements from Andreessen about meetings in Spring of 2024 with Biden officials.  Andreessen is influential for obvious reasons, besides being a fountain of capital to fuel the aspirations of tech innovators.  Influential people are those with whom politicians want to somehow join forces.  In this case, it backfired because of the policy that shocked Andreessen concerning startup businesses, which have been his 'bread and butter'. How does this differ from a merchant being approached by a mob made man who makes him 'an offer ...

I spent most of my FAA career in field installation work.  The last major project I worked was a new Airport Traffic Control Tower at Broomfield, Colorado .  This was to replace an existing ATCT that was poorly positioned and too short to view one of the entire runways.  I had only a portion of the engineering work assigned to me, which was installation of communications and RADAR .  The RADAR work there consisted of a display system that is fed out of Denver International Airport .  The project was a great success for all involved. During the review of the antenna placement on the roof, I was concerned about the possibility of multipath because the air-to-ground communications uses a very old form of modulation, AM , that is particularly susceptible to multipath.  Multipath is a condition where the signal transmitted by an antenna is reflected so that there are multiple transmission paths of differing lengths between the receiver and transmitter.  S...