I'm no fan of surveillance, but in Detroit they have a "Green Light" program, where high-risk businesses, like gas stations and 24-hour convenience stores, can opt in to a program where the police department gets direct access to their camera system. So, if a place is held up, once an alarm is triggered the video gets sent to the police immediately, and they can get a description of the perpetrators and vehicle immediately.

From people I know who are familiar with the project, it actually does work. Crime trends down on businesses that have the green lights outside. I don't mind it much because:

1. It's opt-in - business owners are under no obligation to sign up for the project
2. It's obvious when a business is using the service - there's a big green light out front
3. Police only get instant access to the video when the owner says there is a problem, otherwise it's up to the owner to give up the video, or the police can get a warrant for it, as it's always been


I'll take a program like this over Flock that tracks everything everyone does everywhere.

I'm pretty sure someone was expecting that we were addicted to that $100B trade, and by throwing a 15-999% tariff on it, 15B-1.5T of fresh taxes were going to be generated. With a 40% drop in purchasing, that's going to translate to a lot lower tax intake than expected. The price for that will probably be more inflation, but the powers that be have shown very little concern over using other, more nuclear options (possibly even literal nuclear options), for handling budget shortfalls.

Exciting times!

Yes. Exactly. That is my point. Behaving badly or in a manner that disadvantages others is not evidence that you are a monopoly.

Antitrust laws are there to protect consumers, not manufacturers or corporations. Are there viable alternatives to an iPhone? Yes? A lot of them? And Apple is making it more difficult to develop for their platform? Sounds like a self-solving problem.

The OP seems to think so. I'm only commenting if Apple is an absolute monopoly, which they clearly aren't. It's incredibly easy to not use any Apple products at all.

Eufy sends all images from their security cameras to a central server somewhere, whether or not you agree to it. Are they an absolute monopoly?

GM dropped CarPlay and Android Auto from all their EVs. No customer wanted or asked for this. Are they an absolute monopoly?

Subaru is popping up ads in their in-dash displays. Nobody wants this. Are they an absolute monopoly?

There is a gap in your logic.

Since the article is somewhat vague about it, a SNAP generator is a thermal generator mostly used to power satellites. It uses the heat from nuclear decay to generate power. It's not a nuclear reactor. If you've seen The Martian, that tube with fins that Watney digs out of the ground is what a SNAP generator looks like. They used to be top-secret classified, but just about everyone knows how to make one nowadays. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

I remember arguing with someone that the "States Rights" mantra was just a mask for racism and the ability to shit on minorities by southern states. He made vast arguments about the power of a federation and states abilities to try different things and learn from each other. Statements that even at the time were bullshit and we both knew it (sitting in Austin, working for tech companies that were only there to escape taxes).

Well, now that racism is federally mandated, they're still doing away with states rights. So I guess I win that 25 year old argument. I don't particularly disagree with the stated purpose of this law, but the irony of it being delivered by a racist at the expense of state's rights is hilarious.

Ever been to Switzerland? It's small. It's roughly the size of New Jersey. Most of it is mountains. They farm and raise livestock on their slopes as there is literally nowhere else to put them. There isn't a whole lot of space for cities, which is why living in one is incredibly expensive there.

So, yeah, putting a hard limit on immigration makes a lot of sense. There are lots of other places to live in Europe. Finland has nothing but room.

They can unwind deals after they are complete. It's pretty rare, because it's messy and expensive for all parties involved.

Also, given the rubber-stamping of the last dozen or so media mergers, it would be difficult for the government to explain why this particular merger would be harmful, while the last dozen mega-mergers and divestitures were just fine.

I'd say keep letter delivery, but cut it to once a week. Have a smaller workforce cycle through the routes. Do bulk mail once a month.

The Kroger by us, in a fairly densely populated suburb, has over 25 positions open. The nearby Wal-Mart can't stay open 24-hours because they can't get enough people to work the night shift. Two nearby restaurants closed because they couldn't keep enough staff to stay open during lunch and dinner rushes.

I'm not even a manager and there are, at present count, 30 hours of meetings on my calendar. I go to less than half, I just let the meetings sandbag my calendar so that new meetings are difficult to schedule. Either you know me and we have a reason to meet, or fuck you.

The actual managers are much worse off. Corporate life is stupid.

My son works for his high school newspaper. He brought in a battery powered Panasonic cassette recorder to do interviews, complete with the cheesy chrome microphone it came with. It got people more interested in the interviews and he got some good copy out of them. He also brought in a portable typewriter we found on the side of the road being thrown away. He fixed it up and uses it to type notes in newspaper class. Everyone in that class loves it.

The difficulty is that when you need them, you need them.

Money through the mail, money when online services aren't available, backups when AWS goes out, or the Internet is out in the region, etc, etc.

They provide an exact amount and an alternative when other methods fail.

Because ECC adds price and, usually, is slower than regular memory. What has mainly driven PC hardware is gaming, and gamers care about speed, not long-term stability.

RAM speed doesn't matter as much as it used to for framerates, though, unless you are overclocking a ton, in which case you don't care about stability anyways.