Build a new house that's more efficient than your neighbor's?
Sure you have -- Airports, coffee shops, even your neighbor's unprotected home network are limited by the current WiFi spectrum.
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It should work the same whether you plug that wire into your house, your neighbor's house, or all around the world...
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You have to do all the building, and the end product is not going to be much different from your neighbor's.
Unlike other taboo subjects, your neighbor's income isn't likely to keep you up at night with burning questions you must hear answered before you die.
Even if you're calling someone next door, the cellular signal must first travel to the local cell tower before being routed to your neighbor's phone.
You do not make the air any cleaner by decreeing that the green electrons are going to your house and the dirty ones to your neighbor's.
Richard Wilkinson of Nottingham University argues that the really important difference is not how much money you make but how your bank account compares with your neighbor's.
Type in your home address, and within seconds you've got an idea of what your house would sell for and what you could buy your neighbor's house for, too.
To keep you from breaking into your neighbor's home to take a peek at his or her checkbook, we've put together a list of occupations and the salaries that just might surprise you because they don't earn as much as you'd expect.
"It's different from a club, where you are right beside your neighbor and you have drinks clanging and waiters serving, " said Martin Kagan, Pace's director of cultural affairs, who also presented Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton-Callaway in their show "Boom" last year.
Ms. ANNE STANBACK (Executive Director, Love Makes a Family): The world changed and the bar was raised and I think it's hard to be satisfied with second best when your neighbor has the real thing.
By reaching this deal with the writers, the studios bet (unwittingly and against their will) that Hollywood's talent pool can best Silicon Valley's when it comes to content--that professional writers and producers can trump whatever your neighbor is filming and uploading to YouTube, and the studios can figure out how to make money off of it better than Google can.
But again, I think as I told Chip yesterday, I think if a pollster calls you, and you have been laid off and your wife has been laid off, and you're having trouble finding money to pay for college, your neighbor has been foreclosed on, I don't think it's surprising if they ask you about the Recovery Act that you're a little sour on it.
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