I've never before heard a more ridiculous, crippling proposal being taken so seriously.

I ssh into every linux (and most windows) systems I run. My primary linux workstations at home and at work both run web servers serving my home directory. Why would I ever want to go back to the early 1980's and prior "put in your floppy disk" workflow?

If I cannot avoid this nonsense I'll either have to do my own distro, fork linux, or choose a BSD. This may just force me over the line that systemd is treading ever so closely.

I gave up reporting these kind of scams to youtube. There are continuous such streams and it seems to get worse on weekends. The only things that ever change are the hook/content to get people in, the crypto involved, and the account. But using a microsoft account isn't new. Either stolen or faked microsoft accounts have been streaming for at least a week. I haven't paid much attention, like I said, I gave up reporting them because nothing every happens.

20ft long. Over 6ft tall. Unpainted stainless steel body. It is obviously meant to never be put in a garage.

You are only considering supply. The other part of the problem is distribution. I'd like to use a large electric car battery to keep my lights (and etc.) on during power outages caused by distribution problems.

Brown outs, accidents, storms and simple failures can all take down the distribution system. I'm in city limits but as semi-rural suburb without redundant feeds I lose power multiple times per year. Our lines were buried in the 1970's and at least once per year we lose power for 6 to 12 hours for repairs. Lines supplying our subdivision are not buried and with those we lose power to storms 2 or 3 times every year. Other incidents take down our power at least once per year.

Problem with the common inverter generators to power the house -- no 240v.

Even with gas heat, all of the several homes I'm familiar with still require 240v to run the gas furnace. It's stupid, but that's the way it is. When I replaced my system a few years ago using water to air heat (heat supplied by external system) I even asked them for a 120v air handler and it was written in the contract. But then they came back to renegotiate the contract because they couldn't get manufacturer warranty on a 120v setup and would have had to cobble the system together on their own.

Solve the furnace problem? Okay, next you get to deal with providing power to both sides of the panel. Normally being powered by 180d out of phase 120v, trying to power both sides with the same 120v appears at first to work. Just hope you don't have any circuits wired with a shared or down-sized neutral. If you do, you can now overload the neutral without triggering the over current protection for the circuit. Not a problem normally because the loads would balance and the neutral would only carry the current delta, but that isn't valid when the hot legs are in phase.

I do have a 120v to 240v transformer (4 of them, actually) to use with a 120v supply (in my case a large sine wave inverter) but the transformer wastes a lot of energy when idle. A not insignificant part of that loss is acoustic and that is intolerable. I do use a transformer when I need my well pump to run from 120v, but I have to manually switch it. I tried to rewire so the pressure switch would switch the 120v side. Even with the contacts in parallel they still burnt out dealing with the over 2x current demand. 50amp contactors are expensive, large and noisy.

Might as well get a proper 240v generator and solve all the problems at once.

Perhaps they've been watching Man in the High Castle and are trying to learn some history?

After all, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana) and there are some things we do not want to repeat.

In other news, a majority of young Americans are retarded (in the clinical sense, before political correctness rewrote the DSM) snowflakes, and big government likes them that way because they are easier to control. Wind 'em up, spin 'em around...

Also, we're besties with North Korea and war with Russia is imminent. No wait, that was yesterday's copy. Today we are besties with China, war with Iran is imminent and neither Russia nor China play fair and we are very upset about it.

No, not every project or "creator" deserves "inspiration and a virtual high-five." There are too many fraudulent projects or ones that are simply outright idiotic (like the old one to make a heat exchanger in your fridge or freezer to cool your house).

The real world isn't about participation trophies or a medal for effort and propagating that attitude is a strong indicator of immaturity.

forget the blinking dot, even if you can figure out where you are on a paper map, that map can't tell you what direction you are going!

Really? An impeachable offense? Just because the president fails to execute some laws he does not like? Like Obama failing to enforce drug laws in how many states now?

Or just skip down the hall on the way to and back from the restroom...

Exactly. There is a strong argument to be made that the pool from which the prevailing opinion should apply is all eligible voters, not just those who happen to vote. If too many don't care enough about a law to vote, why would we want to have that law?

Furthermore, passing a new law should require well over simple majority, and every law should sunset automatically in a few years (2? 5?). This gets rid of the baggage of stupid, useless and harmful laws from accumulating without end. Add to that the renewal of a law that had sunset should require even higher majority margin because if it was a good law everyone will want to keep it - bad or even neutral why bother keeping it. (which is another argument for keeping initial period short - people will remember what it was like before the law) Once renewed a law could remain on the books longer, perhaps double or 4x the previous valid time.

Fact 1: Your opinion that there is no difference between index cards and computers is ludicrous. Any such opinion that violates basic facts is too stupid to ever be considered.

Fact 2: The government has no authority to transfer costs incurred by a party to some other party.

Opinion 1: If the cost of the system is making lookups possible by local authorities, then local authorities should pay that cost.

"Here, read this, especially the part about the FAA wanting to educate drone users, not punish them"

Sucker. They got you good.

This is the same path followed by the vast majority of regulations - start light, easy and cheap, and of course highlight how it is for the benefit of those being taxed. Then there are only two paths: drop any attempt at the regulation or raise the tax, tighten the rules, increase the enforcement. CB radio, now FRS and GMRS; cars; guns; the various building/construction trades; and on and on and on.