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Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 198

So, "But our car violates Part 15" is not exactly what I'd call a good reason to let them drop AM receivers.

And selling a car that violates Part 15 can cause BIG problems for the owner of the car. The FCC can show up and tell you that you're not allowed to operate your car. So unintentional radiation is something that MUST be fixed no matter whether the car has an AM radio or not. And car manufacturers shipping cars that don't meet Part 15 is eventually going to get them sued, and going to result in them losing and having to pay a LOT of money.

Manufacturers should not even be trying to fight this. Their liability exposure is potentially huge if they're shipping RF noisy cars.

Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 2, Informative) 198

So, the reason for mandating it in cars isn't the right wing talk garbage.

It's the highway information radios. The ones the transportation departments have set up in cities and around construction projects, along with the signs with flashing lights that say things like "tune to 1620 AM when flashing" to let you know there's something going on with the road that you should know about. The low power AM signal propagates further than low power FM would, and the band is less crowded.

And it's not a couple hundred bucks. It's maybe $5 worth of parts. And the car companies can't market it as an add-on if it's mandatory.

AM works just fine in my plug-in hybrid, and those electric motors are spinning any time the car is moving.

Comment Re:Element Pro is not Open Source (Score 2, Insightful) 67

Because anything not at the whim of Trump and his gang of degenerate thugs will offer more national security then counting on the US.

It's already the case that European government are moving their physical gold reserves out of the US because they know that Trump might steal it. It's clear that besides looting the US Treasury for his personal gain, he's turned the entire country of Venezuela his personal piggy bank.

Are you stupid enough to think that just because Microsoft is a huge financial entity that he won't use it to get what he wants? We all know that anything that MS controls is riddled with back doors ans this administration has already used them for financially corrupt reasons.

This is a permanent change. Post Trump no county in the world can trust the United states on anything. We make China look honest.

Comment Re:Open version. (Score 3) 11

I understand almost none of it, but sometimes I plow through things like this to try and get a bare glimpse of what's going on.

It's a theoretical study of the interactions of phonons, i.e. quantized vibration in condensed matter. If the phonons have handedness then pseudo-particles can form have eight fold symmetry. They suggest known physical system with these properties and how they might be detected.

That's all I've got. Sorry no pussy jokes. Maybe this time I'm the grownup in the room.

Comment Will they confiscate non-MS laptops? (Score 0, Troll) 19

Maybe it will be some sort of involuntary trade-in, where after they seize your Mac or (gasp) Linux system you will be handed a shiny new top of the line Windows machine. How can you complain with such an obvious trade up for Freeeeeeee!

BTW, is it legal to use Linux to do official business in Washington state? Asking for a friend.

Comment Re:No surprises (Score 5, Insightful) 70

Well yeah, TreasonBitch Trump and Apartheidist RetardedShit Musk's "DOGE" fired the competent employees all over. GOP are traitors and saboteurs, they all need to be removed from office and permanently barred from it forevermore so we can get started fixing all the problems that the America Hating Retardican Shitbags Party have caused.

Comment Re:First Amendment (Score 2) 131

Right wing freedom of speech bullshit. When you are an elected official you are not supposed to make money from your official position. In the real world it's impossible to completely stop this, but if one had any integrity it wouldn't happen.

If Obama had sponsored as meme coin when he was in office your brain would have exploded. Your hypocrisy so toxic it's surprising you haven't died from it by now.

Comment Re:Nothing changes (Score 0) 161

Big chain fast food is the shortest path to consuming Trump's tainted overseas mystery meat. They all use the lowest quality/cheapest ingredients and want to have as little as possible product in inventory.

Maybe someone who is an outsider will start monitoring for toxic ingredients in the food supply, but for the foreseeable no government entity or business will check anything. Even if problems are detected everyone will keep quiet because they are afraid of the wrath of the Orange Tyrant and his brain worm rotted sidekick RFK Jr.

It's a certainty that Trump sill eats a mostly McDonald's diet because he has lifelong food paranoia. It also extremely likely the version he gets is completely different then what normal people eat. They use real McDonald's packaging but use less-toxic ingredients, and much lower amounts of added salt. His health is so bad that if he was mainlining real junk food he would have keeled over by now.

It's not impossible that an animatronic version is in the works. The public unveiling of the zombie Mitch McConnell may be a trial run of the future immortal President for Life Permanent Fearless Leader of America Forever USA.

(Note: for the MAGA/Republican/brain-dead true-believers, the previous sentence was low quality satire, not a threat against Trump. See 8647)

Comment Re:They worried about Florida Man (Score 1) 49

So what? The heard immunity of the general population even protects religious fanatics up to a point. It's when death cult Republicans with organic brain damage (RFK Jr.) get even more idiots to jump on the stupid train that these types of outbreaks become more common. Given that those with reduced immune responses are much more at risk, calling out death cult Republicans is an accurate description.

Comment Re:How about fruit (Score 1) 159

The problem isn't when they're picked, it's the cultivar. They're optimized for even ripening, longevity (thick skins), and truly extreme yields.

This is why heirloom tomatoes are so much more appealing then generic chain grocery tomatoes. If you get heirlooms the shoulders, the part near the stem, will not necessary look as ripe as the rest of the fruit. Breeding for uniform ripeness and thick skins decreases flavor and texture.

Buying heirlooms at chains, even the high price ones, is no guarantee of good flavor. The intrinsic shorter shelf life and thinner skins make the supply chain/shipping effects more noticeable.

If you get small cherry/grape tomatoes, even at a big chain, you will have a much better shot at getting good flavor and texture. You loose having a nice big juicy slice, but the flavor is much more likely to be good.

Never refrigerate tomatoes, it ruins them. Better to have them get overripe/soft then the flavor/texture destruction of refrigeration below 7-10C/44-50F.

Comment It kind off happened already (Score 1) 80

Blockbuster got caught having two copies of their web page. The external one had lower prices, but in store prices were higher. If a customer said the saw a higher price in person the clerks would go to a in store computer showing the higher price.

What were the repercussions? Almost nothing. They paid a fine unrelated to how much money they stole and promised not to do it again. No individual received any direct compensation.

Just like a class action suit. Normal business practice. Nothing to see here, move along.

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