I just assumed that OnStar was being used to track drivers. It's promising to see that after lawsuits that they stopped selling the data to insurance companies, because as life gets more modern and connected, tracking seems inevitable. I'm cynical and I expect, after some lobbying, that the government will mandate sharing of location info.

I'd hope that as part of any settlement, that GM be forced to offer to completely disconnect and disable OnStar upon demand, AND...provide literature on how to do it for yourself for those DIY folks that really want to make sure it is dead in person.

Trump wants to keep armed the .00001% of nutjobs who own firearms and who are willing to be violent and use them to attempt to overthrow the government to keep Trump in power (You DID see the Capital riots, I assume? It was kinda covered in the news).

Yep, I saw them.

I saw a protest that got out of hand with a some of the people being violent.

That that were violent, should be charged, but I do have a problem with those that merely went inside (especially those that video shows the cops LET in and welcomed in)...at worst they should have only gotten misdemeanor trespassing.

But back to your quote...are you seriously calling the riot an "armed insurrection"? If so, that was the WORST armed insurrection I have ever seen...especially given the number of guns we have in the hands of the people in this country.

And as for Trump...did you miss the parts of his speech telling folks to to peacefully protest?

No, maybe not...the mainstream news seems to conveniently leave that part out.

The only person shot there that day was a protesting lady by a Capitol guard....

I don't hold any delusions that Trump is much more than a narcissist....but, even so, I remember my life while he was president just before covid happened. Inflation was down, prices were reasonable, unemployment was down, and we weren't embroiled with wars all over the f'ing world.

He might not be the best person in the world, but things were running pretty well in spite of him you might say.

And given what we've seen with Biden...well, I'd vote for a small soap dish over that shell of a man....and even more scary for me, a vote for Biden is more than likely a vote for President Kamala, and that cackling bitch scares the fuck out of my more than any of them running.

Her in charge? Kiss the world goodbye....although the state of the union word salads would be amusing.

I worried about this a couple of decades ago, when killing your newborn girl was a thing. Beyond that, you were setting up a nation with a 50 million excess of angry men who couldn't get gfs or wives.

Which would be right about now.

Beautiful woman teleports in, slashdot male walks up, states to her, "Let's have sex."

"Ewwww, gross!"

I was offered a job for pretty much a fortune in a country whose politics I disagree with and I declined. I'm sure someone else will get this job and consider me a moron for rejecting what's easy money.

Err...just out of curiosity, what country was this....and are they still taking resumes??

For how much again??

;)

All it would take is the U.N. declaring all of Israel to be a demilitarized zone, ordering the Israeli government and Hamas to both disarm, shooting anyone who refuses to comply, and then keeping those million or so troops in that region to help rebuild, slowly drawing down the number of troops over... say 200 years, so that by the time they are gone, no one alive still remembers the horrors of this day.

Look, while I admire your passion for what's happening over there, and your love for peace, your statement REALLY troubles me.

I mean, who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?

I mean, the UN is a place for the world to talk, but they simply have no power nor jurisdiction to go into a country and force anyone to do shit....

I mean, let's move it to another country for an example....the UN has no power nor would they have any to come into the US with an armed force and demand us to do anything. I dont care what happens, they are not the world police and have no hold over any sovereign country.

The UN has no power nor authority to declare anything.

I'm curious where you got this idea that they did....?

And wow..that part where you have the UN "shooting anyone who refuses to comply"....

Seriously???

I have not bought or have been given a book in the last 15-20 years I enjoyed.

It doesn't matter to most people out there, sadly...

The two latest generations can't fucking read anyway...

And they didn't come upon this out of the blue...their parents apparently weren't all that literate and didn't teach their children to sit still, obey and have an attention span longer than a gnat.

Back to corporations have no speech rights. What a brief interlude it was!

I didn't say possible. I said practical. Strong crypto is hard. Secure key exchange is hard.

Governments have been breaking codes for as long as we have had codes.

LK

The way they speak you can't understand a word they are saying, either.

Well, in all fairness...it wasn't always this way.

Before we started getting overrun by illegal immigrants over the boarder there you could count on most people being able to speak English to you.

Like the Fascist Orange man

I'm guessing you're talking about Trump?

A fascist??

You're calling a guy who cut citizens' taxes and allowed/helped them keep their 2A rights (guns) a fascists?

Wow...he's gotta be the worst one in the world at it...or perhaps he got the wrong dictionary definition of fascist.

At least by historical standards.

I still pay about $2500 a month

Wow....

Ok, I was about to ask how f'ing big is your house...but saw further down that it's about 3K square feet. Large, but not a mansion really.

Ok, a pool..etc.

But even with all that....$2500 a month for power???

Damn it must be expensive out there.

I live in New Orleans....where basically the AC clicks on in April and doesn't shut off till about the first week or so in November, and no I'm not exaggerating.

I do leveled billing, I don't turn off computers, or anything really to conserve power....I live in about 2000 sq ft I believe....and my bills monthly are in the $180 range...sometimes into the low $200's....

Again, I do not do anything to try to conserve energy....so, I'm guessing you either have an outrageous power draw somewhere, or it's just too damned expensive where you live for electricity...?

And you're saying that $2500/mo is even after you have solar running a lot of things?

wow...

A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

I would.

I'd at least have a few window units around for when I needed them....much like they do in older US homes built before central AC was a thing.

Until you are running your AC totally on renewables, you are part of the CO2 problem

Still.....better than sweating....

:)

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