Except the Democrats shifted RIGHT. Remember when unions actually made some difference? I do. Did the Democrats do anything to fight the "giant sucking sound" of jobs being outsourced? Remember who signed NAFTA?

Are you kidding? In the '70s we still had unions. Both the Republicans and Democrats moved to outsource labor which has now mostly neutered the unions. The "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot talked about came to pass. And since then wages have stagnated except for those at the top.

I don't see them automatically sending NSLs to every company in the United States, even just once, much less on a regular basis. That in itself would create quite a stir. And if they try to do it just to companies who've published canaries, they'll be playing whack-a-mole with them. And they can't pass a law pre-empting canaries in general without running into freedom of speech problems. No, I don't see they can stomp on canaries and still continue to fly under the radar.

Too risky-- it would show up in Canary Watch when they all dissapear, and you'd start seeing a lot of new canaries being published by companies who hadn't done it before, which would then all get their own NSLs, and the whole thing would continue to snowball until someone refused to comply with an NSL and the resulting stink would probably kill off NSLs alltogether.

What probable cause? You obviously haven't been paying attention. The Snowden release has proven without a doubt that probable cause restrictions are ancient history. The Constitution is supposed to set limits in government, but the government has been treating Section 215 as a one-size-fits-all loophole that permits anything.

THIS. ABSOLUTELY.

Frankly, there's far less threat from terrorism than there is from government overreach. Now, that's not the government's opinion on the matter, which should be no surprise, but I'm not the government. As an average citizen, I'm far more likely to be struck by lightning, or to be a victim of mistaken identity by some government agency (already happened, once), than I am to be a victim of a terrorist. Given that, the terrorists aren't the only "enemy" here, nor are they the most dangerous one by any measure.

A useful study would be to ask the question-- on average, what provides better outcomes, 1) a really small class size taught by amateur teachers, possibly as a second job, or 2) large class sizes taught by professionals who don't have a second job (for the most part, anyway), but may be burnt out or are provided with few resources or support. I'm glad it's a decision I don't have to make, but I'm sure glad home schooling wasn't in vogue when I was a kid. My parent's couldn't decide which church to take me to (one Catholic, one Protestant), tried to compromise (Episcopalian), found it met neither of their needs and lost interest (thankfully, as far as I am concerned). I shudder to think what that dynamic might have done to my education...

Oh BS. Plenty of liberals choose to home school. The only thing home schoolers have in common in my opinion is their teachers are amateurs (with a few wxceptions).

Actually home schooling can be popular both on the right and in the left. The right so they can be taught to whatever the parents think are Biblical principles, and the left in order to "protect" the child's self esteem, improve on the quality, or some other justification of that sort. It might also be important to remember that the quality of public education in the US since the 1960s or so has not fared so well, many baby boomers have realized public education today isn't as good as it was when they went to school-- largely because public schools have been under attack by the right in the years since. And then people wonder why things are so polarized, when both the left and right are home-schooling to their personal tastes.

For this sort of thing I'd go to ebay and search on "video server." These things usually support NTSC and PAL cameras and provide them IP/web connection and motion capture with FTP and Email. The advantage of these is you're not stuck with the el-cheapo built-in cameras most IP cams have. You can get a hi-rez (>=600 line) starlight cam using a Sony Effio chip or similar for probably less than $100 (also on ebay) and get good nighttime vision and great daytime color with decent resolution as well. It's not HD, but it gives you options you won't have with an integrated IP cam unit AND it's relatively cheap. Generally you can use wget to grab stills from these, as there's usually a still grab URL. And many have motion detection FTP features as well, that can auto-upload an image to a website based on the alarm trigger, which by the way you could do with a button as most have external alarm NO/NC switch terminal inputs that will trigger the capture.

Don't forget to mention how well (or how poorly) lcds work in bright sunlight...

Obligatory Dilbert reference:

wally: "When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "windows". All we had were zeros and ones — and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I once wrote a database using only zeros."
dilbert: "You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O"."

133M OS? Bloated. My first decent coding job was working on a 4-user OS that ran in 8K. Supported text terminal based business apps written in a tight tokenized language by swapping segments of them in 256 byte chunks from floppy (with a small cache) and the DB stored on floppies as well. And I can tell you we didn't waste bytes on using either null as a string terminator OR a length byte, 7-bit characters with the high bit being the terminator saved us all kinds of space (made supporting international character sets a pain, but we did that too for many of them). When we finally got around to porting the environment to Linux, it scaled REALLY well. The dang thing could run 1000 users from a PC based server (this was in the early '90s with sub-gigabyte memory). This was when the GUI-heavy competition was struggling to support 20 users.

Well, if robocalls aren't a "zone of lawlessness" I don't know what is...