Telecommunications Sector: G6,7, and 8. Cell Phone with SAT Phone Capabilities. Build Our own with e-SIMS

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LOCAL Communications\Telecommunications Commissions\Authority have a role in all communications capabilities in your jurisdiction.

 

GET INVOLVED in a commission in your local area.

 

One Local Community Example:  Montgomery County, Maryland

 

 

Montgomery County, Maryland   Cable and Communications Advisory Committee (13-19) Created: Mo. Co. Code Section 8A-31, as amended Description: Assists the County in overseeing the cable television franchise agreement and advises on use of the cable system, allocation of grants for public service, and technology issues. Members serve three-year terms without compensation. Type of Positions: General public members, representatives of the Md. Municipal League, and the cities of Rockville and Takoma Park    Cable Compliance Commission (5) Created: Mo. Co. Code Section 8A-31 Description: Decides subscriber complaints which have not been resolved by the cable administrator concerning customer cable service or any other product or service that uses the equipment of the franchise agreements such as one-way or interactive video, audio, data and information services. Members serve three-year terms without compensation. Type of Positions: Should include a cable TV service subscriber, broadband internet service subscriber, an individual with general business experience, an individual wMontith technical experience in communications.   Montgomery County, Maryland.  https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/cable/towers/home.html

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Reasoning: “baloney detection kit” — a set of cognitive tools and techniques that fortify the mind against penetration by falsehoods

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us  

Pocket worthyStories to fuel your mind

The Baloney Detection Kit

Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

The Marginalian

• Maria Popova

Read the full article here:   https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan-s-rules-for-bullshit-busting-and-critical-thinking?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us  

 

EXCERPT:  

 

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The kit is brought out as a matter of course whenever new ideas are offered for consideration. If the new idea survives examination by the tools in our kit, we grant it warm, although tentative, acceptance. If you’re so inclined, if you don’t want to buy baloney even when it’s reassuring to do so, there are precautions that can be taken; there’s a tried-and-true, consumer-tested method.

But the kit, Sagan argues, isn’t merely a tool of science — rather, it contains invaluable tools of healthy skepticism that apply just as elegantly, and just as necessarily, to everyday life. 

 

By adopting the kit, we can all shield ourselves against clueless guile and deliberate manipulation. Sagan shares nine of these tools:

1. Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
2. Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
3. Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
4. Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
5. Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.
6. Quantify. If whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.
7. If there’s a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them.
8. Occam’s Razor. This convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
   
9. Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron, say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result.

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