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Comment Cable TV-like service has Cable TV-like price rise (Score 5, Insightful) 95

YouTubeTV is really just a cable TV bundle delivered over the internet. It is no real surprise that it's price is behaving in a similar manner to the tradition cable TV bundle.

An antenna/DVR combo (if you live close enough to transmitters) and rotating through the various streaming packages will be much cheaper, the only thing it does really cover is sport and with the Bally RSN issues that may be moving to streaming packages quicker than expected.

Comment MSG Owner Dolan threatens to stop alocohol sales (Score 4, Informative) 40

Dolan picks a fight the the State liquor authority over the issue, threatens to stop alcohol sales at a hockey game, and holds up contact information of the head of the state liquor authority. Just Jimmy Dolan being his usual self.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/...

Owner James Dolan is threatening to pick a night at the Garden, possibly a Rangers game, to shut down alcohol sales in response to the New York State Liquor Authority investigating Dolan about his facial recognition technology that has resulted in bans against lawyers suing him.

“They’re being extremely aggressive and they’re saying, ‘We’re gonna take away your liquor license,’ ” Dolan said of the SLA during an appearance on “Good Day New York” on Fox 5. “So I have a little surprise for ‘em. They’re basically doing this for publicity, so we’re gonna give ‘em some publicity. What we’re gonna do, right, is we’re gonna pick a night, maybe a Rangers game, and we’re gonna shut down all the liquor and alcohol in the building. This isn’t gonna bother me because I’ve been sober 29 years. I don’t need the liquor.”

Dolan then held up a sign with a photo of Sharif Kabir, the CEO of the State Liquor Authority, along with his contact information. He said the signs will also ask fans to call Kabir if they want to drink at games

Comment A book on Junk Science (Score 5, Informative) 95

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System By: M. Chris Fabricant

https://www.akashicbooks.com/c...

https://www.amazon.com/Science...

"In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the "science" that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo."

"Junk Science is a book that should be on every true-crime reader's shelves. It is an eye-opening and infuriating tour through the failed idealism of forensic science as a discipline, how certain techniques like analyzing fibers and bite marks wilt under scrutiny, and how the criteria for 'experts' in a courtroom can be laughable at best and dangerous at worst, causing scores of innocent people to lose decades behind bars (or, in some heartbreaking instances, their lives.)."

The TLDR of the book is that the only science that stands up is DNA evidence

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