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kent_eh ,

The law specifically sets the fine at max $1000 per offence. The judge doesn’t have the authority to set higher fines.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making...

kent_eh ,

but what happens if some event has already occurred which disabled large portions of the cellular network

As someone who has worked as a technician in both broadcast and cellular, I can absolutely confirm that cellular networks are a lot more fragile than any type of traditional broadcast, and that AM is much more robust than any other form of broadcast.

The transmitters are so much more simple devices, and are much easier to repair with limited resources than FM or television, should the need arise.

kent_eh , (edited )

The world doesn’t need an EV Mustang or $99K F150, it needs an EV Focus or Escort oor Fiesta level car that normal people can afford.

kent_eh , (edited )

Now look at how much the executives are being paid in the US compared to the cost of the vehicles…

It ain’t the welders and wrench turners who are adding the most to the cost of vehicles.

kent_eh ,

Investors love job losses

Once again confirming how sociopathic the stock market can be.

kent_eh ,

Maybe the stations require more maintenance than they anticipated?

That seems to be the case with many of the brands of public charging stations.

There are often more plugs out of service or operating at lower than rated capacity than there are fully working ones.

kent_eh ,

And the judge acknowledged that point in his statement. Pointed out that other types of violations allow the guilty party’s wealth to be taken into account, but this charge doesn’t. Also pointed out that ignoring this sentence and doing future violations are mush more likely to lead to jail time.

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Despite Trump’s whining about everything being unfair to him, and the public saying this is a slap on the wrist, the judge is taking the legally appropriate and legally required steps.

kent_eh ,

I’m sure he’s shaking in his boots.

Seething with anger, more likely.

kent_eh ,

And Limbaugh opened the door for Hannity, Alex Jones, and the rest of the Faux News screaming liars.

kent_eh ,

They represent the values of the people who vote for them

Given how low the voting turnout has been in the last decade or 2, that is far from a majority of the population.

kent_eh ,

What they’re saying to me is they DGAF about how the city/state/country is run.

kent_eh ,

If it has been trained using questionable sources, or if it’s training data includes sarcastic responses (without understanding that context), it isn’t hard to imagine how confidently wrong some of the responses could be.

kent_eh ,

Trains make a lot of sense for cargo moving ascoss more than 1-2 provinces/states, and shoukd be the first choice for that.

But for stuff moving only a couple hundred kilometers or less, and to all the places where there aren’t rails, you still need trucks.

kent_eh ,

Education is the best investment a democracy can make.

Which explains why one candidate was saying “I love the poorly educated”.

kent_eh ,

The internet has allowed greater collaboration, and the faster spread of information.

It has also allowed the village idiots to find each other and band together…

kent_eh ,

I have yet to encounter a person who uses “woke” as an insult that is able to define the word.

kent_eh ,

Maybe not the majority, but plenty of the most outspoken ones seem to be.

kent_eh ,

I don’t understand why officers always ignore people when they ask for medical help.

Not to appear to be defending the cops, but I would expect a lot of people who are being arrested for legitimate reasons (and again, I’m not talking about this specific case) are motivated to lie to the police in an attempt to get out of the situation.

kent_eh ,

Austin is progressive compared to the rest of Texas, but that’s faint praise.

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog (apnews.com)

The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting....

kent_eh ,

The point is to show she can intentionally and decisively be cruel and mean, especially to an animal under her custody.

Combine that with Trump labeling groups he doesn’t like as a bunch of animals and it gets even scarier to think that they might join forces.

kent_eh ,

If you’re coming up on an hour or more, you should really look at that script again.

Depends what the video is about.

If it’s a how-to demonstrating a long and complex process, then it should be as long as it needs to be.

But if it’s a political rant, then yeah, get to the point already.

kent_eh , (edited )

The problem is that hosting video is a lot more expensive than hosting text,

Which is why there aren’t any effective competitors to youtube.

Several have tried to directly compete, and they ran out of money.

In addition to the costs of the infrastructure, there are other issues.

In order to get to the scale where youtube would even care, you would need to have a lot of content that viewers want to watch. And to attract enough good video creators to post exclusively on your platform, you need a way for them to earn some money from their effort.

Yes, Odysee and Vimeo exist, but they’re pretty niche, and each has major limitations.

Odysee has a tiny audience, and they “pay” in their own crypto, which is very hard to convert into actual money that you can buy food with.

And Vimeo has some odd rules about what they want on their site. And creators have to pay to upload at any useful scale. Plus their search and suggestion system is almost useless.

kent_eh ,

Those content restrictions aren’t because youtube itself has any moral objections, it’s a combination of what the law allows (see COPA related fines changing content rules) and what (most) big budget advertisers are willing to appear beside.

The previous "adpocalypse"s have shaped a large portion of youtube’s content policies.

Any other platform hoping to take market share from youtube will have to deal with the same pressures if they expect to pay their bills once the VC money runs out.

kent_eh ,

Tux welcomes you to a better future

kent_eh ,

But let’s also change the legislation for Secret Service protection so that our good Secret Service do not have to be in jail too.

This type of statement always makes it sound like they would be sitting in the cell with him.

Which is, of course, ridiculous.

If Trump actually faces prison time, it’ll most likely be in a separate facility where he can be kept separate from other inmates. And the secret service detail would become essentially jail guards. Probably a much smaller group as well, as thwy wouldn’t need to protect him in such a variety of locations and situations.

kent_eh , (edited )

Why stop at Isreal? We have plenty of grievances

There’s enough that a person could spend their entire life doing nothing but protesting all of them.

kent_eh , (edited )

So the Jewish people you know are stupid enough to shoot their own feet?

kent_eh ,

MVNOs are not competition.

Given the hundreds of billions it would cost for an actual competitor to build out their own infrastructure, it’s likely the most we can realistically expect.

kent_eh ,

Hey Trump

kent_eh ,

I suspect it’s more unpopular with souvenir shop owners than anyone else.

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kent_eh ,

Anticheat is pretty much the one thing that Linux doesn’t play nicely with.

It’s the other way around.

Anticheat doesn’t play well with Linux.

kent_eh , (edited )

the fact that non competes and NDAs are a thing upon leaving a company is fucking insane

Non-competes are completely evil. Especially so in fields requiring very specialized skillsets. And even more so when the company insisting on the non-compete lays off people.

How the fuck is someone supposed to keep a roof over their head in a situation like that?

kent_eh , (edited )

Non-competes are antisocial, because they blunt one of the few mechanisms capitalism has to keep employers in check – labor market mobility

Hence the chamber of commerce threatening legal action.

If businesses can’t abuse the workers, how can they continue to set new profit records every month? Won’t someone think of the poor CEOs?

kent_eh ,

The cruelty is the point.

kent_eh ,

Ferengi rules of acquisition:

34 - War is good for business.

kent_eh ,

I’m most shocked that this was ever allowed in any trial.

There are a lot of pretty obvious situations where you wouldn’t want the accused or their “associates” to be able to identify a juror (or their family or anyone they might be connected with).

kent_eh ,

Jesse Watters already doxxed a juror

That happened immediately before the judge made this order, and was part of the reason the judge did so.

kent_eh ,

Devin Nunes was only making $15K from one of the bribery schemes that was supporting him

“One of the bribery schemes”…

If they’re selling out to one faction, there’s nothing stopping them from taking bribes from a bunch of other sources as well.

I doubt there are exclusivity contracts in place.

kent_eh ,

They know the most about how bribery works, and just assume everyone else is as corrupt as they are themselves.

kent_eh ,

Russian government spokespeople say lots of things.

Very few of them are true, or accurate.

kent_eh ,

Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Cut Off Aid to Israeli Military Unit

To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

kent_eh ,

the headline def means to slant towards sovcit being the victim

Or lazily slanting towards “ACAB”.

kent_eh , (edited )

The secret service will never let him go to jail with the commoners.

There’s a motion being proposed to remove secret service for any individual who gets themselves convicted of a felony.

Of course the Republicans will ensure that it will fail to be passed, but it’s still an interesting thing to think about.

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kent_eh ,

I don’t know how I feel about pitching anti-terror or war machines to children through the lens of, “Engineering is cool!” That said, there are many more examples of that pitch out in the world in other forms.

Kids have been sold military toys since forever. GI Joe, tin soldiers, toy guns, toy armor and swords, model kits of tanks and fighter aircraft…

kent_eh ,

The US navy did a campaign a few years ago that paid a bunch of youtubers across a wide range of video genres.

Looking from outside the US, it appears pretty weird how deeply ingrained in America’s mindset the military is.

kent_eh , (edited )

Given that his own kid is on the autism spectrum, I’d like to think any involvement he has with autism related organizations comes from a genuine desire to do good by autistic people.

kent_eh ,

That’s my approach to turning off these “can’t turn off” features.

Fakebook and Instaspam aren’t important enough to demand that much control over what I do.

kent_eh ,

Claiming Democrats and Republicans work together on anything seems a pretty crazy suggestion these days.

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