The good news is if it fails, lawyers get nothing. What damages has the class suffered? Fewer bad movies and shows? Higher costs? IF Netflix get more expensive, cancel it. It's not like you need Netflix or HBO or whatever. I get creatives' concerns, especially if Netflix moves away from theatrical releases, which can change how they get paid at the back end. Should teh class get certified, opt out. If enough people do, the action becomes worthless for the lawyers and costly since they don't get paid.

Mighty nice place you have here. Be a shame if anything happened to it, I suggest insurance from here...

Quite true, but you are limited to the quality of the stream; and if a service decides to remove the video and your file gets corrupted/lost you can't redo it. Then again, DVD media is not eternal either. Both options have their pluses and minuses.

They're still making DVD drives. They're just mostly USB now. Ripping is pushbutton easy these days. No messing around with getting a copy of DeCSS and such.

It's ca;;ed the real world, and is coming at them with a clue by four. A HS near me no longer fails students, because well, it's easier to pass them and push them on than deal with parents who blame the school and teachers for their kid's performance.

And you can rip them for portablity or to put on a server. Best of both worlds.

Rather, itâ(TM)s about money. If Netflix goes streaming, all that money made in distribution, percentages of gross, etc. goes away. WB doesnâ(TM)t care because, except for payments such as percentages of gross, much of it rolls back to them eventually. All the creatives, OTOH, may lose out on a lot of money.

Or the jerk in glasses decided to shoot you when being assaulted.

First,mandatory screen time needs to be limited. If they want text books in ebook form, great, but they'll need a way to restrict school issued pads to school work during the school day.

On the flip side, I have more than once heard a parent complaining that homework is being given that requires a computer to complete where a school doesn't allow chromebooks to be taken home. That's equally absurd. Not every family can afford to give each kid a computer, and sometimes computers break. It's not like parents can just grab an extra one at the corner store like they would a pack of pencils or paper. If school work requires a computer and/or internet connection, the school should provide it. If that includes homework, the students must be allowed to take it home.

If the schools don't like that or can't afford it, they can issue text books and homework that can be completed with pencil and paper (yes, that includes accepting hand written essays).

And as for not letting parents view the assignments, that's ridiculous. Of course the parents have a right to see it. If some company wants to claim that to be proprietary information, I guess the school can't use it at all.

It's crazy to complain about students on their screens too much and then have mandatory screen time. It's equally ridiculous to complain that parents need to be more involved and then shut parents out.

/rant

I doubt any bus driver would want to cross to the other side, it would be a challenge, even if cars cooperated. You'd have a line of blocked cars that would need to be let by, while holding up traffic behind you. If the driver doesn't have on red flashers when they start to move, a car could potentially legally pass them and the bus pull out into them. Then if the stop is near a corner, the driver may not see an oncoming car, setting up your scenario; or I've seen stops on a street with a 45 MPH limit, trying to cross that and then face oncoming traffic would be crazy.

I'm thinking very very stupid. No sprues for casting.

Some cars do not have integrated gsrage door openers. I have one that uses bluetooth and works great, no network needed.

Agreed. This is all stuff that at MOST should be accessible over the LAN. The ESP32 is cheap and provides the WiFi and enough power to run a simple RESTful web app. If I actually need/want to access it remotely, it'll be through a well protected integrated web servie on a jump box.

A cheaper manufacturer could probably make the ESP32 do double duty as the primary micro-controller with a suitable interrupt routine.

The situation was worse than I thought. According to the AAIB report, they tested the material and found the glass transition temperature to be about 53C, so the jackass printed it in PLA.

Also, since it's Poly Lactic Acid, our metabolism is already well equipped to deal with the breakdown product.