Make that: I wonder if we'll see anti-SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

On Thursday, in a unanimous decision, a four-judge New York Supreme Court appellate panel ordered the case to continue, keeping the Dendrite issue alive and also allowing us to proceed in seeking damages based on New York's anti-SLAPP law, which prohibits "strategic lawsuits against public participation."

Hmmm...

I wonder if we'll see SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

Ubuntu is a weird borkage of Debian which was mostly obsoleted by Bookworm's inclusion of firmware.

Unless you need automatic ZFS support in the installer then install Bookworm.

There's a ZFS howto that just needs a LiveCD image. The lxqt image works better than GNOME.

"But the manufacturer said is was safe" is not really convincing without a supportive history. I've run into too many cases where one of the terms wasn't defined in the "obviously correct" manner. Or perhaps there are failure modes that aren't covered by "thermal runaway".

The argument about propane tanks is better...but when I lived with an external (butane) tank, it was placed at a considerable distance from the house.

Most states and towns in the USA do not have building codes for residential off-grid battery storage.

I thought that was in the National Electrical Code (NEC) section on solar, at least if they're on the 2017 version (or some earlier versions). Most jurisdictions adopt some version of the NEC (and occasionally move to a later version - my county is on 2017 as of a year or so ago) and then maybe add a few changes, rather than write their own electrical code.

Main remaining downsides, if you want to keep your fire insurance, are finding listed (by an NRTL such as UL) systems (there are a few, even some that are rated for elevations over 1,500 meters - about 79 feet short of 5,000) and that the code now requires a cert for solar systems installers, so if you want to install it all yourself you have to drop a couple hunderd bux on a short online course or hire a pro to make the major connections and maybe do some of the design for your install.

Problem is that gas is often byproduct of oil extraction, and very difficult to transport since it's a gas and disperses, unlike oil that is a liquid and can be stored in a simple container.

So use a thermoacoustic liquefier. Bunch of plumbing and a burner regulator on a par with a water heater, which contains the only moving part. Burn off 30% of it and use the heat energy to turn the rest as liquefied propane (LP) Gas, ready to haul away. One model, about the right size to haul in on a flatbed semi, can output 500 gal per day at that efficiency.

You'd want it outdoors anyway, and separated from your house by a firewall. Storing large quantities of energy is dangerous.

Check out "adverse possession". Whether that *should* be recognized, however, was not what I was considering.

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Too bad - I am buying a large quantity of batteries for a project.

Way to launch.

Free fuel should be pumped into an onsite mining rig and split the crypto with the owner.

Do I need to build the trailer?

They have a fear of fire. It's a primitive fear.

They want to ban coal, wood stoves, gas stoves, iCE's, diesel ships - anything that uses fire.

Solar, wind, wave - they are not afraid of those.

"FIRE BAD!" - Unfrozen Caveman Bureaucrat

Buybacks signal there is nothing better you can think of doing with all your cash.

Or that you have a lot of cash and other assets and a market mob madness has depressed your stock price to where it's a really good deal to spend some of the cash to take some of the stock out of circulation and concentrate the company's value in the rest of it.

Possibly it's even such a good deal that some rich outsiders could buy up controlling interest, sell off the non-money assets, take that and the cash pile, and come out ahead. That leaves the current employees out of a job and with their unvested options worthless. Better to spend the hostile-takeover bait making the rest of your stock more valueable now, and keep the company running, than wait until the hostiles are buying and screw up the company and its stockholders with poison pills and the like.

Germans want to blow up the Kirsch Bridge even more than they want to engage in buggery.

Listen to the leaked tapes from last month.

Now they are forming a pretext.