...is that they're basically taking an issue that most people either didn't really know about or didn't really care about too strongly, and are shoving it into everyone else's faces, so that they now have a reason to take a stance against it?

Several years ago I remember a protest in an open-carry state about a public library attempting to prohibit open-carry in the library. Things were nice and peaceful and respectful, until some jackass wearing hunting camo and leather two sashes covered in shotgun shells came in carrying a pump-action twelve gauge. Any goodwill that the previous firearms enthusiasts created was utterly destroyed by one jerk that decided to push the limits.

Guns are a lot of fun to shoot. There are times when guns serve a legitimate use. On the other hand, if guns are introduced into situations where they have no business then it's not exactly a surprise when movements to prohibit them or to confiscate them come to be.

You have the Part 15 and ISM services for that. You really can buy a microwave link that's metropolitan-distance and legal to use.

We lost much of our 440 capability to PAVE PAWS in California. Remember, Amateur Radio is not the primary service on many bands. The military is on 440.

If you want that nearly infinite microwave spectrum, you have the Part 15 and ISM services. Absolutely nothing is stopping you. Power is not the issue with those frequencies, it's line of sight and Fresnel zones.

No, I absolutely do not have to prefix my words with anything. You do that by posting as an anonymous coward. I use my real name to indicate that I stand behind my words.

Yes. The usual mechanism here would be WiFi security, with HTTPS or SSL inside of it.

" They are in use, very small scale now, huge growth is expected as battery tech is dropping in price continuously large percentage every year."
They are not in production yet and they are not improving or dropping in costs at that great of a rate.
Battery/Storage technology has been the problem for around the last 50 years. The limits on them are based on chemistry.
The real issue with batteries replacing peaking plants is a real simple one. A peaking plant can provide peaking for as long as you have fuel. Using Solar or Wind a storm can cause a "peaking" issue lasting days not hours and batteries are practical for those kinds of peaks.
Not to mention that if you are really interesting in reducing CO2 it really is not the peaking plants you want to replace but the coal fired baseload plants.
If you have a cheap enough source of power you could use that power to create methanol or NH4 for storage and use that for fuel cells. The energy density would be much higher than you can get from batteries and pipelines are more efficient than power lines for transporting energy. The problem is that the conversion is less efficient than a battery.

After dealing with decades of battery tech promises it is hard to not sneer at any "replace x with batteries" comment.

Maybe people will actually keep private things private?...
Naw...
It is amazing the differences I see see between my friends in their 30s and up vs some of the young people I know.
A friend of mine got divorced and I know she got divorced and I know she is sad. I do not know the exact details of why. She is someone I know but was not really close to. Her close friends have all the details but they are not posting them online.

The 20 somethings that I know post everything public. I know that one broke up because of cheating and I know who they cheated with and when. I know when another one is super drunk and hates everyone... ... And they say young people "understand" social media and older people don't...

" Seriously, prove them wrong "
And you are a Russian spy that is under deep cover planing the overthrow the US government and enslave all of us.
Seriously prove me wrong...

See the problem. You can not in any way prove me wrong but the idea is very crazy. If you want change Russian for space alien to push it a little farther into crazy.

When you take a violent action and justify with sci-fi movie you are will into the crazy range.

I've found that the various iterations of Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets work well for zoning out, even with lyrics. The various Resurrection Hex remixes are very effective.

OK, no real technical data and some absurd claims here.

First all-digital transceiver? No. There have been others. Especially if you allow them to have a DAC and an ADC and no other components in the analog domain, but even without that, there are lots of IoT-class radios with direct-to-digital detectors and digital outputs directly to the antenna. You might have one in your car remote (mine is two-way).

And they have to use patented algorithms? Everybody else can get along with well-known technology old enough that any applicable patents are long expired.

It would be nicer if there was some information about what they are actually doing. If they really have patented it, there's no reason to hold back.

I feel like you're missing the forest for the trees here. The reason people engage in vigilante activities is because there isn't a legal remedy available to them. Do you disagree with that?

The practical details of budgeting issues, qualifications for police employment, and prioritization of investigations of course plays a role in why there is no legal remedy available. Those details, however, have no bearing on why people choose vigilante justice over no justice.

Our choices, as a society, are to provide some sort of legal venue to pursue justice whenever people feel wronged or accept that those people will find another way to right the wrong. Of course, the third option is to provide no legal means to pursue justice, but crack down hard on anyone who tried to handle it on their own. There are long-term consequences to that approach as well.

I think the problem was the way the sprite for the gun bobbed and weaved in front of you.

Compared to playing any of the Wolfenstein-based games it was nice to my eyes, as it was not nearly as unrealistically still as even Rise of the Triad...

Especially if they're your own, and those around you become nauseated because of them, right?

I agree with the AC here. The defendant is at an extreme disadvantage when up against the state and shouldn't be compelled to cooperate in his conviction.

This applies doubly during police interrogation, where there is no time to consider how your statements may be used against you and the police are certainly not sharing their facts and theories with you. Admitting to anything prior to discovery could build a case against yourself, even if your intent was to prove your innocence.

Which is an example of why hard cases make bad law. Jurisprudence shouldn't be tossed out the window just because the subject matter is revolting or sympathetic.

A case which absolutely requires the cooperation of the defendant is what is commonly known as a flimsy case. Doubling down on coercing the defendant to enable access to evidence against himself isn't the proper way forward.

Which seems like a pretty dangerous exemption to me, when you're faced with police who can add/drop charges as they like. You shouldn't need to cooperate with your prosecution at such an early stage in the case and where you are at such an extreme disadvantage. They're not sharing all of their evidence with the accused during the interrogation, so why should the accused be compelled to spill everything out of court?