That's may be how the back-end of a modern broadcast FM radio transmitter works, but the good old stereo radio transmission itself still the same as it's been for many decades: It is analog, and mid-side encoded, and it remains completely compatible with monophonic receiver implementations.
Maybe you misunderstood OP's point and the English language can be confusing. It's south-the region, not south-the direction. "South of the Americas" means "the south region of the Americas" which is not "south of where the Americas end". Or like the top of your head is the upper part of your head, not your hat.
Everyone knows Venezuela is in South America. Which is not south of where the Americas are (Antarctica) or, confusingly if you're US-centric, is not in the American South either (Texas).
The problem raised above and the root of the confusion is that the US adopted "America" as their own instead of what it actually is, the name of 2 entire continents, the Americas. American South means US South just for US-centric commenters.
To the world this is like Germany naming itself Europe and then claiming Bavaria is European South, different from Southern Europe (e.g. Greece) or South of Europe (e.g. Greece of Africa, depending on how you spell or understand this expression).
I understood the point about the American South just fine.
I then supplied an analogy about the South of England, which I reckon to be closer to home for someone who made the distinction about the other side of the Atlantic.
That South of England analogy, by the way, was a description that I didn't know of myself until I went looking for something like that while drafting the previous response.
(After that even my smooth, featureless American corn-fed brain became willing to accept London as being somewhere in there.
Even though I know quite well that South of Cincinnati is not Cincinnati, but is instead Kentucky.)
That analogy would work better if England and France weren't very different places with very different names that nobody ever really confuses, except if you stumble on that quirk of unclear language (direction from the center, or direction from the edge). America and America are different places with the same name, which is not actually the same name because one of them is "U.S. of America".
Australia might be a better analogy/confusion. The continent also includes New Zealand and the country officially called Commonwealth of Australia is commonly referred to as Australia. At least in this case nobody considers New Zealanders to be Australians based on the continent name, or at least I could not find anything about this naming ever being used. In the Americas both continents are "America" and all people are "Americans", like all people in Europe are Europeans.
Any countries where a city (the capital) is named exactly the same will also check the confusion box.
It's fine that you're confused, I guess. Or at least: I am certainly willing to accept that I am powerless to impart any top-down disambiguation of any descriptive expressions. I can't do anything about there being a plurality of Americas in the world. It is possible that there will also always be football, and football, and that the two sports will always share the same name despite their clear differences.
RBBS-PC. I used to call one of those sometimes -- but it was in the next town over, and in-state long-distance charges were more costly than calling across the country was. It was a nice board: Two lines, lots of software (IIRC 1.2 gigabytes), with 19.2k Telebit Trailblazers at a time when 9600 was still considered fast.
I was more into WWIV. It ran OK on the whitebox DTK Computer clone build from the very local computer shop that the guy was running in what had been the garage behind his house.
But the 16450 serial port UART in that 10MHz 8088 barely kept up with the 14.4k SupraFAXModem that came a bit later; keeping that stable was tricky.
I miss the grunts from the ST-225 at startup.
At one point someone donated an ST-419. That was a full-height disk that, when formatted MFM, held only 15 megabytes. But 35 total megabytes was a lot more than the 20 that the ST-225 offered.
It didn't fit inside of the desktop case at all so the lid was always off and things were just kind of stacked up, including the extra power supply that I used for staging power turn-on.
Because, you see: That ST-419 was so slow at spinning up and becoming usable that the controller would completely give up on it from a cold start. So I'd fire that up first, and give it a moment, and then power up the rest of the system.
Other fun hacks included a 2-megabyte EMS memory card. That thing had 72 socketed DIP chips on it and it did not arrive populated. Half of the memory served as a disk cache for Stacker and the other half as a RAM disk that got populated at every boot with some often-read, never-automatically-written BBS stuff that callers previously had to wait around for.
Anyway, I made a number of great friends back then with the BBS. I talked to one on of them on the phone just tonight, and a bunch of others of us still hang out together like we started doing 35 years ago.
Way back then, they named that first computer "The XT from Hell".
this is an interesting specimen. vitriol is off the charts even for a solicited critique - I suspect here is a case where the pangram verdict is acting as a sort of license for the critic to treat the author as subhuman
A couple of years ago, I repaired one of a pair of drives (I think they were 750GB) that had the connectors mysteriously snapped off[1] while I was poking around in a client's system.
It was a special system, Linux-based, running proprietary software for expensive proprietary hardware.
I apologized profusely. I got them some new hard drives coming right away. I found a forgettable donor drive in the boneyard that had a close-enough footprint for the connector, harvested it with hot air, and put its connector onto one of the broken client drives.
A little bit of dd and some mdadm magic later, and they were back in business with that RAID-1 array like it never happened (other than just a few days of downtime on a system they only used occasionally).
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A different time, 25 or more years ago now, I somehow broke a 4-pin Molex[2] power connector off of one of my own IDE drives. I don't remember the details, but I do remember that I fixed it by soldering a Y cable power splitter into the holes on the board. This gave me a drive that worked, and that had power pass-through. It was kind of nice to have (and it worked for years and years after that).
Anyway, I guess shit happens sometimes.
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[1] I wasn't rough with anything; I was just moving wiring out of the way, as one does, to attack the dust bison that had accumulated over the previous decade or more with some canned air.
I somehow broke the connectors of both drives, anyway. I can't explain it and I don't have to, so I guess I won't bother trying. They were fine when I started and they were broken when I finished.
[2]: Those aren't Molex connectors. Everyone calls 'em that, like everyone calls adhesive bandages Band-Aids, but the old drives used a design characterized by the Amphenol Mate-N-Lok connector design which had nothing to do with Molex.
In the the Space Exploration overhaul mod I once played for Factorio, at one stage the game progressed to the point that many/most resources could be converted into matter.
This matter could be transported from A to B.
And at the destination, this matter could be converted back into resources.
Mine uranium and/or copper and turn them into generic matter? Sure, why not.
Turn that matter into iron somewhere else? Of course!
And since matter could be transported in pipelines, it was just one tube for ~everything at that point. Some processes put matter into the tube, and some other processes took matter out of that same tube.
(It was very energy-intensive to make these conversions, but an intense amount of electrical power was also a solved problem by that point in the game.)
Other examples exist for things like The War in Afghanistan, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, and similar. But I'm not trying to write an unprompted book here on this fine October night. :)
(Maybe Congress didn't declare those wars, but they sure seemed to accept participation in them nonetheless.)
Try to book something to shop by freight; expect a long wait
Take a trip on Amtrak and enjoy sitting still for 2 hours as freight trains go past you due to congestion / priority
The East Palestine disaster put an end to some tricks the railroads had been doing to squeeze out a little more capacity. The railroads are trying to expand switchyards and acquire old unused tracks like mad. My buddy who is in the union is pretty happy since this all means he’s moved up a few notches, gets day shifts now, and doesn’t need to travel as much.
I don't have any idea how to begin booking anything to ship by rail freight but there was no time in my life when I would have expected it to be a thing that could be scheduled with any agility. They closed the the Amtrak station and took the town off of the route decades ago, and I have been lead to understand that it has been a slow way to get from A to B in this country for my entire lifetime. I have not noticed a change in the number of freight trains that I hear in the past ~6 years, except during the beginning of covid when things got very quiet; but this is an anecdotal observation and does not represent the result of a study with any kind of formality. I have not witnessed an expansion in rail lines; the disused paths that I'm personally aware of remain disused, although I am aware of a new apartment complex that is presently being built atop of one of them near me. I do not know your buddy, or his union; I wish to presume that they're a very nice person, and that their union is very good for them and their fellow members, as I also wish to to presume that you are a fine person as as well, but this kind of presumptive character assessment is unrelated to the question. I am uninterested in conducting research to prove or disprove anybody else's stated assertion and I presently perceive no compulsion to become interested in doing that.
I’m in the same state you are, so you can probably guess which railroad he works for. My town used to have its own tiny railroad complete with a local sales office that got busy signing up every business with a siding to try out shipping by rail. (It’s owned by a small multiple system operator now.)
I happen to have a few acquaintances who ship by rail and things are consistently at capacity. They’d rather move by rail than truck considering how much cheaper rail is, but timeliness is an issue. Most people simply aren’t aware that MOST freight is moved by ship and rail. Trucks are for the last few miles, in terms of total tonnage.
To change this would require buying trillions of right of way to build more tracks.
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