Imagine if one company owned all the local news papers and replaced all the content with wire stories and the lowest quality local content or a fox news like company bough local news to run a propaganda operation. Oh wait that's real.
PCBs were only used in oil capacitors and some transformers. Generally these were used in motor and grid power applications. The only consumer applications are some motor capacitors and florescent light ballasts.
Engineers are to consider public safety first. This is not negotiable for real hardware engineering. Poor people could always purchase used appliances.
French is widely spoken throughout the world. If you speak French you can travel to Canada, the Caribbean, Africa and parts of South America without needing to speak another language. Also French is an official language in Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg as well as being widely spoken and taught as a second language in contentental Europe. Japan is spoken mostly in Japan and expat communities.
Medallions only apply to yellow cabs and the green outer borough taxis. Any New Yorker will tell you stories of hail (yellow) cabs not stopping, not driving minorities, not driving to locations in the service area or not being present outside Manhattan. Calling for a cab, van, car service or limo does not require a medallion.
Cabs refused to innovate. Before Uber the process to obtain a cab meant using a phone to call a human to radio a driver in a vehicle. It was obvious in the year 2005 that booking through the internet was going to happen.
Gannet and CNN are already bottom of the barrel for journalism. Both are just rewritten wire articles at best. Both companies were obsolete 10 years ago at best.
Those components are not used in military products. Specialized vendors manufacture passives for the military. AVX, CDE and Vishay are just the first three I recall.
All of the contemporary competitors of Tek were also bought out except for Keysight. Why? Low margins an incomplete lineup and commoditization of the asics.
And suddenly it wasn't 1960 and the PCBs were in mass production.
Suddenly it was 1990 and only the true high end low volume (space and mil) paid for their own custom silicon and fabs.
Finally it was the year 2010 and the front end of a scope was a mass produced part for pennies with an fpga and the scope was a hobbyist and auto mechanics tool.
Anyone who lives in a area with hundreds of competing jurisdictions sees this problem everyday. One tiny village says yes the neighboring tiny village files a lawsuit. The smaller the jurisdiction the more desperate the government is for funding and tuft.
Because sophisticated investors know that the Black Projects and revenue are not affected. Because the command information equipment sold to the navy is not affected.
These types of lasers are integrated into end customer systems by techs at a factory. They are very simple to setup from the black box level of understanding. All you do is plug in water (blue hose in and red hose for out) since the electrical system is typical a box that simply plugs into the laser head and the wall outlet. The only factor that could affect the output power that's not on the controls would be the water temperature.
The structure of the industry is many small companies that make one specific laser based on the owner's PhD research. These companies cannot have the perfect safety culture simply due to staffing numbers.
Taxes are higher in the suburbs of NYC due to the funding of segregated school districts. MTA (mass transit) is a state agency and most of the highways are paid for through the state.
Apples and oranges. The F35 is probably using 15-20 year old technology based on program start. Some cruse missiles use 1970s era technology at the newest based on program start and publicly available documents (since there were some updates).
In the real world there are other effects besides local votes. In the US limiting the amount of representatives in the legislature was resulted in 1 legislator for more and more people in civilization. If I represent hundreds of thousands of people how do I get a consensus from those people? The people when polled nationally agree on abortion or gun control poll for action by a decent percentage but congress has not acted.
Also the legislature does more then pass new laws they vote on military appointments, sign treaties, determine judges, create budgets and more.
Which Israeli defense contractors build airplanes and tanks? Without aircraft and spares you cannot have a modern military. The US absolutely props up Israeli with weapons and military technology that they do not produce in country. Waving around nuclear weapons and a massive number of troops are the actions of states that are weaker then project as (Russia DPRK).
And old people losing their connection with objective reality is connected to fox news. Next argument. It's being banned because old technically illiterate people (most of congress) latched onto a simplistic solution to the wrong problem,
ITAR applies to many technologies that are trivial to duplicate or have been redeveloped outside the US to bypass those restrictions. Memory chips hardened for space are subject to ITAR. These memory chips are commercial with lead tape on them.