Puh-lease. Roberts, Alito, and crew are literally making it up as they go along, demanding or ignoring plain text and meaning whenever it suits their political agenda.

They're literally playing Calvinball.

The governments of the world, even those led by (in theory) democratic principles, are not going to like having data they can't see at will. The only things most of these articles miss is:

1) How many of these companies might as well be extensions of a government
2) How many governments willingly break their own laws to steal citizen data without legal cause

The fact that these tools are then used by people/governments who are alleged to murder people that disagree with them is irrelevant to the companies involved. Most will sell to anyone with the money in the end, because money is everything. Even those with a theoretical stop because of ideology will end up selling to someone they hate because of a third party intermediary.

In the end it should be noted that many of these companies have multiple motives. That means these tools should be considered just as dangerous for the person/agency using them to gain data.

Now this is unfair. Just because you know about technology doesn't mean you are also knowledgeable about other things. That would be like me insulting your intelligence because you couldn't land a plane or my brother mocking you because you couldn't read an CT scan.

People are specialists today, you literally can't know everything. So I could mock others as lesser because they don't have a specific degree or fail to understand something... then again I couldn't fix a modern car... or blend the color on a paint job... or be a baker... perform surgery... or do any of 1000's of other jobs.

For some thieves to figure this out. Now, of course, it'll go nationwide in nothing flat. Fortunately for me I have a wired security system, but the dang doorbell camera is still wireless. Of course me not trusting wireless there's a separate wired camera watching that area as well. We need vendors to stop messing around and update their doorbell cameras to Cat6.

Sure you'll have quite a bit of gap for a while, but new construction will just being to install the Cat6. Heck many electricians already used Cat3 or similar for doorbells. Why? Because who wants to carry yet another type of wire and save basically nothing.

I don't understand why you think that at all. The C-levels, not me, tell you they deserve their high compensation because they are absolutely indispensable and make the decisions. Well if that's true, and the company breaks the law, then I guess they shouldn't have made that decision.

This isn't rocket science, and I'm not even imprisoning them, simply fining them mate. Now if they break the law so much they get banned for life, it's not my fault it is their fault.

Privacy regulation and we need to change the way companies are fined, including the leadership.

If a company makes US$1 Billion and get's fined US$5 million, well the fine is just a cost of doing business. On the flip side, if the company is fined 20 percent of income before any taxes, depreciation, or anything else for the first offense, that's a bit more problematic. Even more problematic when the fine rises, if the behavior reoccurs within 20 years, to 40 percent and finally 80 percent with a corporate death penalty. Investors might abandon the company after the second fine.

Wait, there's more...

Since executives, especially CEO's, love to tell us how indispensable they are to the company to justify their high compensation packages they're on the hook. So all company executives are stuck with the same fines as the company, based on their total compensation package. That's everything from pay to stock options to using the corporate jet to housing allowance or assistance. Everything. The fine will double similar to the company fine, 40 percent then 80 percent, but no death penalty. They just cant work as an executive, management, or serve on any board of any company that receives a cent from the government... including if that company owns a majority stake in any company that receives money from the government... for life.

This would be a good start at least.

"B-b-but that might mean business can't do whatever it wants with the data! THAT'S ISLAMOFASCICOMMUNISM! WHY YOU HATE BUSINESS?"

Pretty much what will start being spouted the instant anyone makes any headway on something remotely close to GPDR.

The robber barons of the Gilded Age lived in opulence that would have made Croesus blush until the end of their days. That was even with the labor movements carving out a tiny piece of the pie for the line workers.

Why start at any point? We should have to go back to the first stock exchange or it's not fair!

Perhaps because that calamity (C19 in March 2020) hit everyone across the world so it's about an even starting point as you'll find.

Irrational exuberance in many cases really. SpaceX isn't really doing anything new, and you can't really buy SpaceX. Not only that the companies took a lot of EBIL BIG GUBBERMINT money Elon seems to hate now that he no longer needs it, or they would've gone bankrupt long ago. Note: This isn't tax credits when someone buys a vehicle, a small business (or similar) loan, or part of a contract to build something, but literal grants from the government.

Socialize the risk, privatize the profits, it's the Capitalist way.

What really killed E3 is the same thing that killed the commercial real estate, not "culture war" bull. What's the point of spending a RIDICULOUS amount of cash in the current era to go on-site and effectively run some commercials? The sheer cost of the event versus the return, post C19 changes to how people interact, made it a costly anachronism. I'll wager you'll see even more conference dying off in other industries as well. I know my friend's healthcare conference was nuked from orbit in 2022 permanently for the same reason: You can't justify the cost to the bean counters.

Not everything is because of culture wars despite them being politically convenient to blame. C19 exposed how many lies we were living in terms from office culture to marketing to systems.

Socialize the risk, privatize the profits, it's the American way.

Normal people do that and they'll face the bank coming after them until they finish a bankruptcy.

No you said above, and I quote:

The electrical contractors I know question his competency.

What's truly amazing here is you think that businesses (in general) don't have access to 3 phase. Sure your average retail mall customer probably won't have 3 phase at their terminal, but the building has a better than even chance of having it for the multi-ton AC units on the roof. I mean, do you general contract at all? You sound like someone trying to to be smart but not knowing how commercial or industrial structures are built at all.

Still waiting for that link to the magical car charger that outputs 22kW from single phase. Still waiting for you to explain how you're going to get magical cheap DC fast charging from a single phase line. Your attempts at dodging is adorable at this point.

Instead of waiting for you to dodge some more, let's see what a charger manufacturer says.

https://www.power-sonic.com/le...

Ok, 7kW. Maybe that's just one let's ask another:

https://wepoweryourcar.com/blo...

Oh and they have a nice quotable line: "No, not everyone can have a 22kW EV charger installed on their property, as it depends on whether you have a three-phase electricity supply. Three-phase is typically found in industrial or commercial properties, and it’s rare to find in UK domestic homes." You can get 3 phase but like much of the rest of the EU you're more likely to see it in an apartment setting before it's split to the tenants as single phase, e.g. the apartments I've lived in on the mainland. One more for you.

https://go-e.com/en/magazine/s...

Hmm, a max 7.4kW for single phase even using the 22kW charger. Huh, when you hook that charger up to 3 phase it can output 22kW. I'm sure you'll post your magical charger any time now... yep... any... time... now. They even have a useful statement:

What Role Does Your Power Grid Play?

You’ve got a powerful three-phase wallbox, and your vehicle can charge with three phases. The perfect combo. Wait, one more thing can be a limiting factor - power grid capacity. When you are at home, you only have a limited amount of energy that you can call on once at a time. If the limit is exceeded, the whole house may black out.

Please note the Tesla Charger (NACS) is only suitable for single phase or DC Supercharging because of a lack of pins. Remember, there are hard circuit level limits here even if you try to pull your cute little "going DC is just a couple rectifiers" crap. That's why SAE / IEEE will probably end up adding a couple more pins (much to the chagrin of Tesla) for NACSv2 - Three Phase Pins Boogaloo.

Then he should start by schooling you on efficiency because what you're spouting is hilarious.

B-b-but it's just a couple rectifiers so no big deal to that at home or anywhere with a little dc converter box just like a monitor. (eyeroll)

You backed yourself into a corner and are trying to suck and blow at the same time. DC is easy and cheap adding no real complexity and you need to keep all that heavy conversion hardware in the car so you can charge anywhere.

B-b-but DC is just a couple rectifiers and such. That's like sooper cheapo and totes not complex at all. You, apparently, also have ZERO understanding about permitting and electrical codes.

So what you're saying is that you're full of it and that there aren't aren't 22kW single phase chargers for sale to install. I mean, surely you can post a link. Here's a company that's showing charge rates per

A small primer on 3 phase power your electrician brother should have started with in explaining to you the efficiency differences.

https://www.vertiv.com/en-emea...

https://www.fluke.com/en-us/le...

https://www.ny-engineers.com/b...

Yeah, that's why.

I think it's completely daft to not compare it to turboprop maintenance. Batteries, like turboprops, are black boxes that live or die (usually) based on cycles. They are usually only repairable (under warranty) by the manufacturer. Most of them contain/require parts that are only obtainable (initially) from the manufacturer.

Unless Elon and team are morons (not impossible) then the difference would not be more than marginal in the terms of vehicle cost. The size of the battery isn't changing per se. The battery could probably get lighter if you remove (or reduce) the extra complexity/cooling needed to support rapid charging. Batteries themselves would probably last longer because they're no longer be quick-charged. The addition of the structural rigidity to the car and battery is fairly unchanged. One thing that HAS to change is the chassis and battery being redesigned to be independently rigid during the battery swap. If you think that is somehow going to massively increase weight then you must think safety standards for gas tanks make them incredibly heavy.

You apparently don't understand planned death in mobile devices either. A non-replaceable battery means that the device will be recycled (at best) much faster than just some OS upgrades. Oh and comparing a mobile phone battery to a car battery is a bit laughable. Why?

EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO CHARGE A PHONE TO 80% IN 5 MINUTES YOU DON'T NEED A CHARGER SHOOTING OUT ~1MW OF POWER FOR IT TO HAPPEN!

What in the actual eff are you smoking? Do you think every Buc-ees, Kwik Trip, Pilot, BP, Sinclair, and so on, should have a 50-100 megawatts power hookup to the grid? Do you even have a clue what the infrastructure baseload capacity increase would cost?