It's all good until the squirrel gets you.
OOH SQUIRREL!!!
Most of the piece is right on target. But then:
SQUIRREL
Physics has nothing to do with it. Starlink is not limited by physics, orbital mechanics, LEO latency, BW, etc. That's all tech specs which are the mfg (SpaceX) design choice. Physics is just fine, thanks.
SQUIRREL
The spurious $1,500 install upcharge is a choice on SL's part. It's not physics, it's not systemwide, and it doesn't represent system BW limitations. It's just another opportunity to effect funds transfer from suckers to Musk companies.
Try not to get distracted by squirrels and focus on facts. SL could up their BW if they reach a saturation point. They've redesigned their core network at least twice to make it more efficient. Physics is not a hampering factor here, nor their upcharges.
Define your customer. Serve your customer. They do that. Don't fuck over your customr -- they're working on it.
E
Remember when Sony CDs would install spyware even if you never clicked “agree”?
Sony Free Spyware comes with no EULA and no T&Cs so there's nothing to agree to. Since you also likely didn't ask for the spyware, they can yoink it at any time.
It's ok for Sony to do it because they're big. South Park covered that one well.
As a Mathers fan I found this interesting. The thing that stuck out for me was the appelate court saying:
This was mainly based on the fact that Defendants' transfer of copyrighted material to third parties did not include ownership title of copyrighted material, and that Defendants reserved the right to reclaim copyrighted material at any time, therefore no sale was made.
Interesting to see that a license isn't a sale. The discussiong a download qualified as a "master recording" due to the fidelity is also worthy of note. A BRrip and DVDrip would likely qualify under that same "understanding".
While tech has made it easier for companies to prevent rips, that's kind of a red herring as to whether the license was accepted, or whether it was a purchase/sale, whether the first-sale doctrine applies, etc.
All good points, in one case. I'm surprised I never heard about that one. My comments were referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum_(2009).
E
Few people can read EULAs or take the time to understand all the ramifications. Just like you wouldn't sign any random citation the "person in the blue suit with the shiny star" hands you without reading it, don't sign an "I agree" unless you read and agree.
In reality-land that means a lot of "offers" will not be reachable. FOMO, however, is not a reason to give away rights.
So what do you do?
- Get hard media or download the content
- Rip it to your server of choice. Jellyfin is free and good. Plex Media Server is too (although some options are pay.)
- Share access to your lawfully acquired content with everyone.
Remember, when these shit-talkers say they lost BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SALES due to PIRACY, they first are using a definition of piracy that's hilariously wrong, and second it's not SALES, it's temporary ephemeral licensing. Can't have it both ways, Sony, which leads to the second begged question:
When SONY STEALS your media and you can't ever access it again, that seems like theft. Why is that legal? If the answer is that you never bought it, never owned it, and all you had was that license, then how could you (and the other pirates) have STOLEN what you never removed from them nor had title to in the first place?
Hopefully one day this will come before a judge with a thinking process, not litigated by a has-been law-prof and "Kiwi" -- his obese student of screwing up playing lawyer -- and new case law will be made.
Until then
- what you download isn't yours
- you agree to a limited license
- YOU PAY FOR THAT as if you're purchasing the product/media/content
- Sony et al get to complain that downloaders are PIRATES and they lose 56 Billion Dollars in SALES each year
- But then they yoink that content and say it was never bought
Pick one.
The judge even calls them out for “saying the quite part out loud”
s/quite/quiet
It's correct in the actual quote right below that comment.
[Also I agree wholeheartedly with all the comments thus far. This shitstain is the biggest vandal of them all, and his destruction will take years to undo.]
E
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elon-musk-says-sadly-yes-200126096.html
Musk is not in the habit of donating. He's not going to foot the bill for installs. If he was we wouldn't be talking about it.
Physics is what it is... until we learn otherwise. The SH theorem (not a law) is only as good as today's tech. The example of number of transistors on a chip was a good one. The five-minute mile is another.
So politics and regulations aside the real question is what the market will bear, and these behemoth companies have done more research than all TD readers. Starlink concluded billing some people $1,500 is a great deal. For whom I'm not sure.
Want to connect to "THE Backbone"? That went away with ANSnet. Now there are many, and the more money you pour into railway fiber lays the more there will be. Interconnects became MAEs and CIXs and now SWITCH and other IO interconnects abound.
I'm loath to bring up the "No datacenters in my neighborhood!" crap because some of them are interconnect hubs. The Internet requires them to minimize latency and single points of failure (SPOFs).
No resumé here, as I've founded two ISPs (and sold them) since 1992. I watched the commercial Internet come into existence, the backbones built to bypass DARPA's "academic" restrictions on use, etc.
Physics is fine. LEO vs GEOSTAT is a choice. Backbones are where companies put them, and they do that based on customer projected revenue. MRR is king. Also $1,500 NRR doesn't hurt -- if you can get it.
Physics isn't the factor here, it's technology. For one example, fiber-optics meant one circuit between two points. Then OC carriers and 640 circuits. Then DM, WDM, DWDM. Now passive splitters and GPON.
The physics are the same but our ability to use the resource to deliver more facilities improves. 4-wire T-1s became 2-wire ADSL, VDSL, etc. 2-Wire ISDN is gone. X.25 what?
Starlink can leverage their radios any way they like. Modern SDRs can do amazing things. FSK, QFSK, QAM, oh that list does go on.
You could even go back to the 1980s and 1200 baud modems. Then increase the signals per transition and it's still 1200 baud but now 4800bps, 9600bps, 19200bps, and "upto" 56Kbps on that same phone line. .. on which we never asked "Can you hear me now."
StarLink is in its startup mode. One day they'll up their game in both bw delivery and customer service. The kvetching is irrelevant and wastes our time.
Is there anywhere someone can point to a Contract, Agreement, T&Cs, ToS, etc. that provides for random unannounced charges. Starlink's Terms of Service and Fair Use Policy do not allow for unannounced overage fees on standard residential plans.
Is there anyone who can point to such charges on an invoice and which indicates on that line item what the extra "thousands of dollars" is for?
This looks like nothing but a rant-excuse. I can't find evidence to the contrary. Anyone? Buehler?
While pervious is a word, according to M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pervious
Becile is NOT a word. You know, someone really smart is the opposite of imbecile. Not to worry, "peccable" IS a word and that makes slobthuggery all the better.
Ehud "ESL" Gavron
It takes a lot of investment to fund the CAPEX for building the wireline infrastructure to tie together wireless service areas. However, no matter the "optimistic" "coverage area maps" put out by the Big-3 in the US, the reality is this:
No matter which carrier you choose you'll have coverage in some areas and none in others.
5G isn't creating tele-surgery or any other nonsense the flashy ads suggest. It falls over in simple university sports stadium tests.
Phones can be bought that are unlocked so nobody needs to whine about locked phones. That dog stopped hunting 30 years ago. If you want the hw discount you get it in return for your obsequious devotion to your chosen provider.
BUT having said ALL THAT the reason people stay with a carrier (other than wasting 1-2 hours on the phone if the IMEI/SIM swap online failed) is CUSTOMER SERVICE.
All of the Musk companies (e.g. Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, etc.) are well-known for having zero usable customer service. If they did build something AND iff customers would come, then customers would quickly leave, experiencing the joy of working with Musk's conceptualization of "service" being a big fat empty set.
At the end of the day Musk has no desire to change. The richest man in the world, the occasional first trillionaire, and a sociopathic fuckwit moron who shoots from the hip and regularly misses isn't expected to "all of a sudden" have a no-wait call-center with knowledgeable staff eager to help mere mortals.
He has this as a blind spot and so he'll never fix it. SpaceX doesn't deal with ma and pa "end users" so that's a safe company. Tesla does have end users and they are churning away.
Unless he let someone else run it [ego driven assholes rarely give up power] he's just going to build a network... ...to be sold off later.
In any market there is a provider of a commodity or service and a user of that item. When the two agree on its trade value (normally "price") then there's a transaction.
Taking out today's drug dealers just moves tomorrow's dealers closer to the buyers. We can't take out the buyers because 1)They're those "children" we must "think about" and 2) The War on Drugs™ was started in 1971 and drug use and abuse has only grown with enhanced marketing (the Internet), delivery (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc) and more clients. It's been 55 years and the only stupid fucks are the US Govt continuing to pretend this does something... and using it as an excuse to kill S.American fishermen, arrest children (but do "think about" them) and eliminate currency denominations that reflect 1971's high prices.
Time to stop legislating morality, and remove the fuckwits from office who won't stop Trump from killing fishermen, and lay off the "war on drugs" and the elimination of larger bills.
This isn't as much about "kill the dealer and someone will take his place" (which IS true, but:) It's about stopping this insipid "war" that reduces our rights daily but does little to nothing at all to stop contraband smuggling.
We're two days away from the anniversary of the signing of the Delaration of Indepence. Why not call it like it is -- a failure.
What's my dog in this hunt? I hate hypocrisy AND I want to see Chase accept cash/wch for no good reao
It seems someone forgot the whole point of narcotics SALES is for the manufacturers, smugglers, distributors, and sales arms of the drug trade TO MAKE BANK.
If you want to go after rich white fat assholes with plenty of cash start with "2.2B$ last year"'s top of the shit chain and work your way down the halls of Congress.
Published statistics exist for minor spending in the 5-12 years of age and 13-17 years of age. Arguendo you need a vehicle or a friend with one since drug dealers don't use DoorDash. That puts it at a subset of maybe 16-17 year olds.
Gemini suggests that group has $3,800 to spend each year at their discretion. NIH says that's not even half of what someone using fentanyl needs. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7737485/
I think the "children" aren't what we need to worry about. Put them on the school buses (https://www.cga.ct.gov/2016/rpt/2016-R-0318.htm) and let them be crushed to death. Priceless.
Math is right in his correction of my 1975 commercial. 1924 saw Mom and Apple pies being American even another 50 years before that. Count it 102 years ago for mom, and 51 years for Baseball, hot dogs, and that French car "chevrolet" which became the Chevy, a joke at any time (think Chevette).
Mr. Wilson is also right in his comments on vacc but not so much on the purpose and creation of the 2am. I get it, it's anti-gun week but your hatred of individual ownership of firearms shouldn't lead to such gross generalizations.
The Anonymous Coward posts sounds like someone arguing with him/herself and is as useles as a crystal ball of 404s.
Everyone speaks. We need not heed them.
Ehud
One day when you get Google, try
https://www.google.com/search?q=baseball+hot+dogs+apple+pie+etymology&oq=baseball+hot+dogs+apple+pie+etymology&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYQNIBCDg5NDlqMGo5qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Also, freedom. Probably bald eagles. Perhaps apple pie and baseball are involved.
None of those are merkun. Even the bald eagle was considered an air-rodent by the founding fathers. It's not endangered but the government says it is.
Baseball comes from cricket and rounders. Hot dogs are Frankfurters, and no that's not the capital of Kentucky. Apple streudel comes from Austria.
Etymology OR "Know where this comes from before you just accept it, run with it, and rationalize how it's become de-facto Merkun:"
The expression comes from a 1975 TV commercial and the full version is American as "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and CHEVROLET."
So repeating the idea that any of these are "true merkun" is just repeating a 50 year old TV commercial slogan, lacking understanding, and pretending it's Lee Greenwood music or nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXfdnhh2Mo
I should know. I'm a naturalized US Citizen and we had to study to pass and EARN the US Citizenship. None of that involved fealty to a Chevy commercial.
Also Hegseth and RFK Jr. doing something stupid is an old story. The "something" keeps changing but the "stupid" is a constant.
Turbine engines do put out exhaust biproducts, but formaldehyde is found for cold-start and idle turbines and incomplete fuel burn. In the typical use case (aircraft engines and the Lycoming AGT-1500 which powers the M-1 Abrams MBT) there is no luxury of "just turn the idling engine off." With turbine power generators (57 of them!) the unneeded ones are offlined.
That's why aircraft ramp operations personnel show breathing distress, runny nose, eyes, etc. but MBT operators and people in turbine-powered electrical plant neighborhoods.
It isn't accurate to suggest the mere existence of a turbine engine equals formaldehyde at levels affecting human beings. If it were the quotes would refer to runny noses, irritation of the skin and nostrils and eyes, not just "there's an unpermitted 30 extra turbine generator units."
The rest of the piece is more Trump admin being anti-science, all for "drill baby drill", "global warming is a myth" and anything that can destroy the environment while enriching the richest men [man?] in the world.
Hell, on a long enough timeline, I imagine the chances of there not being some kind of amendment to the U.S. Constitution that has something to do with AI is probably zero.
Translating that to English, "likely there will be a Constitutional amendment relating to AI."
Offered and abandoned, this absurd idea is a nonstarter. AI being "whatever" to different people, and "constitutional amendment" being a near impossibility -- doable with 13 states, not doable with 50 -- none of this will happen.
We'll continue to have laws and regulations and in some cases Federal law insisting it overrides state laws (see 10th amendment, then search CONUS for AI...) being the law of the land.
If magically someone thinks AI will trump more charged topics (e.g. right to abortion, Equal Rights Amendment, right to have a bluetooth speaker named "BOMB" on a transatlantic flight, etc.) think again. We are a balkanized people uneducated on the topics, voting as per the TV paid commercials of the day.
Even if Congress wasn't dysfunctional, which it has been for decades, the states won't pass these things-- and they're not even on-ballot.
No. Nobody will be amending CONUS regarding AI. Not in 2026 and not until Skynet.
This really isn't an indictment against undefined crap being pushed as AI ("super grammar checker that talks back to you") but rather our system has ground to a halt.
The key parts to unpack are "I consulted with [many] lawyers" and it may "...violate..." TN's ban, but now that lots of people have been entering opinions, it's ALL OK which wasn't OK last week.
This is a "public servant" who is not serving the public.
Put it all before a court, and let the matter proceed. With everyone writing in it won't be hard to find a putative plaintiff... or you can do it... or I volunteer to do it.
...and take that to where appeals are done and the question is settled.
Because, for now, it's not.
"...North Dakota, a state she had never visited. Police had arrested her at gunpoint..."
OH, so she had never been to North Dakota? What exactly did that change? She was ARRESTED AT GUNPOINT. By humans -- being stupid because the screen said to do it.
What if she HAD been to ND? What WORSE things would have she been subjected to, and this time the excuse/rationalization/stupid-bait wouldn't be "But AI" and instead "But AI and she was once in ND!!!"
Stop the rationalizations. It makes ZERO DIFFERENCE if she even knows of the existence of ND. It makes zero difference to her "status of a victim" because her kid had kids (hence her earned title of "grandmother.")
Here's the real headline:
STUPID THUG COPS VIOLENTLY ARREST WOMAN FOR NO REASON but blame "AI" -- News media quick to point out she's a grandmother AND has never been to some state.
That darn squirrel
It's all good until the squirrel gets you. OOH SQUIRREL!!! Most of the piece is right on target. But then: SQUIRREL Physics has nothing to do with it. Starlink is not limited by physics, orbital mechanics, LEO latency, BW, etc. That's all tech specs which are the mfg (SpaceX) design choice. Physics is just fine, thanks. SQUIRREL The spurious $1,500 install upcharge is a choice on SL's part. It's not physics, it's not systemwide, and it doesn't represent system BW limitations. It's just another opportunity to effect funds transfer from suckers to Musk companies. Try not to get distracted by squirrels and focus on facts. SL could up their BW if they reach a saturation point. They've redesigned their core network at least twice to make it more efficient. Physics is not a hampering factor here, nor their upcharges. Define your customer. Serve your customer. They do that. Don't fuck over your customr -- they're working on it. E
I agree
FBT
As a Mathers fan I found this interesting. The thing that stuck out for me was the appelate court saying:
Interesting to see that a license isn't a sale. The discussiong a download qualified as a "master recording" due to the fidelity is also worthy of note. A BRrip and DVDrip would likely qualify under that same "understanding". While tech has made it easier for companies to prevent rips, that's kind of a red herring as to whether the license was accepted, or whether it was a purchase/sale, whether the first-sale doctrine applies, etc. All good points, in one case. I'm surprised I never heard about that one. My comments were referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum_(2009). EEULAs, T&Cs, etc.
Few people can read EULAs or take the time to understand all the ramifications. Just like you wouldn't sign any random citation the "person in the blue suit with the shiny star" hands you without reading it, don't sign an "I agree" unless you read and agree. In reality-land that means a lot of "offers" will not be reachable. FOMO, however, is not a reason to give away rights. So what do you do? - Get hard media or download the content - Rip it to your server of choice. Jellyfin is free and good. Plex Media Server is too (although some options are pay.) - Share access to your lawfully acquired content with everyone. Remember, when these shit-talkers say they lost BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SALES due to PIRACY, they first are using a definition of piracy that's hilariously wrong, and second it's not SALES, it's temporary ephemeral licensing. Can't have it both ways, Sony, which leads to the second begged question: When SONY STEALS your media and you can't ever access it again, that seems like theft. Why is that legal? If the answer is that you never bought it, never owned it, and all you had was that license, then how could you (and the other pirates) have STOLEN what you never removed from them nor had title to in the first place? Hopefully one day this will come before a judge with a thinking process, not litigated by a has-been law-prof and "Kiwi" -- his obese student of screwing up playing lawyer -- and new case law will be made. Until then - what you download isn't yours - you agree to a limited license - YOU PAY FOR THAT as if you're purchasing the product/media/content - Sony et al get to complain that downloaders are PIRATES and they lose 56 Billion Dollars in SALES each year - But then they yoink that content and say it was never bought Pick one.
Typo
Musk Money
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elon-musk-says-sadly-yes-200126096.html Musk is not in the habit of donating. He's not going to foot the bill for installs. If he was we wouldn't be talking about it. Physics is what it is... until we learn otherwise. The SH theorem (not a law) is only as good as today's tech. The example of number of transistors on a chip was a good one. The five-minute mile is another. So politics and regulations aside the real question is what the market will bear, and these behemoth companies have done more research than all TD readers. Starlink concluded billing some people $1,500 is a great deal. For whom I'm not sure. Want to connect to "THE Backbone"? That went away with ANSnet. Now there are many, and the more money you pour into railway fiber lays the more there will be. Interconnects became MAEs and CIXs and now SWITCH and other IO interconnects abound. I'm loath to bring up the "No datacenters in my neighborhood!" crap because some of them are interconnect hubs. The Internet requires them to minimize latency and single points of failure (SPOFs). No resumé here, as I've founded two ISPs (and sold them) since 1992. I watched the commercial Internet come into existence, the backbones built to bypass DARPA's "academic" restrictions on use, etc. Physics is fine. LEO vs GEOSTAT is a choice. Backbones are where companies put them, and they do that based on customer projected revenue. MRR is king. Also $1,500 NRR doesn't hurt -- if you can get it.
Physics
Reality is not whining about disliking Elon
Is there anywhere someone can point to a Contract, Agreement, T&Cs, ToS, etc. that provides for random unannounced charges. Starlink's Terms of Service and Fair Use Policy do not allow for unannounced overage fees on standard residential plans. Is there anyone who can point to such charges on an invoice and which indicates on that line item what the extra "thousands of dollars" is for? This looks like nothing but a rant-excuse. I can't find evidence to the contrary. Anyone? Buehler?
Pervious... IS a word
While pervious is a word, according to M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pervious Becile is NOT a word. You know, someone really smart is the opposite of imbecile. Not to worry, "peccable" IS a word and that makes slobthuggery all the better. Ehud "ESL" Gavron
One thing is lacking in all of the Musk companies
It takes a lot of investment to fund the CAPEX for building the wireline infrastructure to tie together wireless service areas. However, no matter the "optimistic" "coverage area maps" put out by the Big-3 in the US, the reality is this:
- No matter which carrier you choose you'll have coverage in some areas and none in others.
- 5G isn't creating tele-surgery or any other nonsense the flashy ads suggest. It falls over in simple university sports stadium tests.
- Phones can be bought that are unlocked so nobody needs to whine about locked phones. That dog stopped hunting 30 years ago. If you want the hw discount you get it in return for your obsequious devotion to your chosen provider.
BUT having said ALL THAT the reason people stay with a carrier (other than wasting 1-2 hours on the phone if the IMEI/SIM swap online failed) is CUSTOMER SERVICE. All of the Musk companies (e.g. Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX, etc.) are well-known for having zero usable customer service. If they did build something AND iff customers would come, then customers would quickly leave, experiencing the joy of working with Musk's conceptualization of "service" being a big fat empty set. At the end of the day Musk has no desire to change. The richest man in the world, the occasional first trillionaire, and a sociopathic fuckwit moron who shoots from the hip and regularly misses isn't expected to "all of a sudden" have a no-wait call-center with knowledgeable staff eager to help mere mortals. He has this as a blind spot and so he'll never fix it. SpaceX doesn't deal with ma and pa "end users" so that's a safe company. Tesla does have end users and they are churning away. Unless he let someone else run it [ego driven assholes rarely give up power] he's just going to build a network... ...to be sold off later.Classic market and a 55 year old war. Winners all around.
In any market there is a provider of a commodity or service and a user of that item. When the two agree on its trade value (normally "price") then there's a transaction. Taking out today's drug dealers just moves tomorrow's dealers closer to the buyers. We can't take out the buyers because 1)They're those "children" we must "think about" and 2) The War on Drugs™ was started in 1971 and drug use and abuse has only grown with enhanced marketing (the Internet), delivery (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc) and more clients. It's been 55 years and the only stupid fucks are the US Govt continuing to pretend this does something... and using it as an excuse to kill S.American fishermen, arrest children (but do "think about" them) and eliminate currency denominations that reflect 1971's high prices. Time to stop legislating morality, and remove the fuckwits from office who won't stop Trump from killing fishermen, and lay off the "war on drugs" and the elimination of larger bills. This isn't as much about "kill the dealer and someone will take his place" (which IS true, but:) It's about stopping this insipid "war" that reduces our rights daily but does little to nothing at all to stop contraband smuggling. We're two days away from the anniversary of the signing of the Delaration of Indepence. Why not call it like it is -- a failure. What's my dog in this hunt? I hate hypocrisy AND I want to see Chase accept cash/wch for no good reao
All the money children have these days
It seems someone forgot the whole point of narcotics SALES is for the manufacturers, smugglers, distributors, and sales arms of the drug trade TO MAKE BANK. If you want to go after rich white fat assholes with plenty of cash start with "2.2B$ last year"'s top of the shit chain and work your way down the halls of Congress. Published statistics exist for minor spending in the 5-12 years of age and 13-17 years of age. Arguendo you need a vehicle or a friend with one since drug dealers don't use DoorDash. That puts it at a subset of maybe 16-17 year olds. Gemini suggests that group has $3,800 to spend each year at their discretion. NIH says that's not even half of what someone using fentanyl needs. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7737485/ I think the "children" aren't what we need to worry about. Put them on the school buses (https://www.cga.ct.gov/2016/rpt/2016-R-0318.htm) and let them be crushed to death. Priceless.
Right and wrong
Math is right in his correction of my 1975 commercial. 1924 saw Mom and Apple pies being American even another 50 years before that. Count it 102 years ago for mom, and 51 years for Baseball, hot dogs, and that French car "chevrolet" which became the Chevy, a joke at any time (think Chevette). Mr. Wilson is also right in his comments on vacc but not so much on the purpose and creation of the 2am. I get it, it's anti-gun week but your hatred of individual ownership of firearms shouldn't lead to such gross generalizations. The Anonymous Coward posts sounds like someone arguing with him/herself and is as useles as a crystal ball of 404s. Everyone speaks. We need not heed them. Ehud
and I'm not Canadian but I know how to use a search engine
As American as... Chevrolet.
Turbine exhaust biproducts
Turbine engines do put out exhaust biproducts, but formaldehyde is found for cold-start and idle turbines and incomplete fuel burn. In the typical use case (aircraft engines and the Lycoming AGT-1500 which powers the M-1 Abrams MBT) there is no luxury of "just turn the idling engine off." With turbine power generators (57 of them!) the unneeded ones are offlined. That's why aircraft ramp operations personnel show breathing distress, runny nose, eyes, etc. but MBT operators and people in turbine-powered electrical plant neighborhoods. It isn't accurate to suggest the mere existence of a turbine engine equals formaldehyde at levels affecting human beings. If it were the quotes would refer to runny noses, irritation of the skin and nostrils and eyes, not just "there's an unpermitted 30 extra turbine generator units." The rest of the piece is more Trump admin being anti-science, all for "drill baby drill", "global warming is a myth" and anything that can destroy the environment while enriching the richest men [man?] in the world.
typo
Constitutional amendment? No.
Let the courts rule
The key parts to unpack are "I consulted with [many] lawyers" and it may "...violate..." TN's ban, but now that lots of people have been entering opinions, it's ALL OK which wasn't OK last week. This is a "public servant" who is not serving the public. Put it all before a court, and let the matter proceed. With everyone writing in it won't be hard to find a putative plaintiff... or you can do it... or I volunteer to do it. ...and take that to where appeals are done and the question is settled. Because, for now, it's not.
Stupid people do what stupid machines tell them to
"...North Dakota, a state she had never visited. Police had arrested her at gunpoint..." OH, so she had never been to North Dakota? What exactly did that change? She was ARRESTED AT GUNPOINT. By humans -- being stupid because the screen said to do it. What if she HAD been to ND? What WORSE things would have she been subjected to, and this time the excuse/rationalization/stupid-bait wouldn't be "But AI" and instead "But AI and she was once in ND!!!" Stop the rationalizations. It makes ZERO DIFFERENCE if she even knows of the existence of ND. It makes zero difference to her "status of a victim" because her kid had kids (hence her earned title of "grandmother.") Here's the real headline: STUPID THUG COPS VIOLENTLY ARREST WOMAN FOR NO REASON but blame "AI" -- News media quick to point out she's a grandmother AND has never been to some state.