Counter point. I pay taxes and am perfectly legally allowed to drink water from a publicly placed fountain. The outlet was publicly accessible.

I should add that the RIAA is also using the jacked up rates on streaming to suggest that cable and satellite music stations should also pay the ridiculous fees. They haven't as yet tried to get terrestrial radio rates jacked up...but that's mostly due to the National Association of Broadcasters lobbying preventing them from doing it.

Yet again, the 'little' guy is squeezed because the big boys have money to buy laws.

it's FUD because Pandora isn't fighting to pay artists 'less' it's fighting to be treated the same as radio...which, in the 21st century...is exactly what streaming services are.

The RIAA has set pricing on streaming licenses ridiculously high - hence why no streaming service can reliably make a profit.

The organization trying (and succeeding) at ripping off artists isn't the one actually playing the music...

Did you even read the very next sentence?

It still goes that him being at the school for a reason (presumably other than to plug in his car) is very much akin to people plugging in their phones while at the school for reasons other than charging their phone.

Taking of physical things is obviously bad, but explain why society tacitly allows the 'stealing' of electricity by people plugging in their phones? Why is the car 'different' than the phone?

He could be the officer assigned to the school, hence he would have jurisdiction - but as you said we don't know.

If the EV owner has a child at the school, then he might very well have reasonable belief that he could use the electricity since he's technically paying for it. Hell, with public schools all people in the district are paying for the electric bill.

This is an issue we'll have to address, since no reasonable person thinks there's anything approaching criminal with someone plugging their phone in while waiting in a reception area. But plugging in the car outside while on school property and presumably with official business at the school is somehow different?

The only difference here is likely the scale of the draw, since an EV is going to draw significantly more power in total than a phone ever would.

Most other news outlets are based on facts though. Fox on the other hand, well, 'fact free' sums it up pretty well.

couple that with the google cached copy of the site has a 'search for speeches' section which now is, interestingly enough, missing as well.

Actually no, those speeches don't seem to exist on the party website now either.

Indeed this is ridiculous that the IA would retroactively remove stuff though as you say hopefully just disable access instead. Even then, why would they keep stuff they aren't displaying? It's an 'archive' and should reflect how stuff 'was' at the time; legalities of that obviously being quite murky and hard to defend against expensive lawsuits, but still.

The problem is that without detailed and extensive oversight of the secrecy, it *will* exceed it's mandate. It's simply human nature.

The 'laws' may not be secret, but until very very very recently, the 'interpretation' of the Executive branch as to what those 'public' laws granted them power to do, was quite secret.

Google is you're enemy apparently, because it will give you all the facts you need about how much energy hits the earth as sunlight compared with how much humanity uses planet wide.

The irony of an AC asking for 'citations' is noteworthy at least.

and I'm apparently dense :) Missed the subtlety of your original post. I blame....well I'll get back to you when I run out of things that aren't my brain ;-)

saying that EU regional entities have partners to trade with, then implying that the US (which is the size of the EU itself) doesn't also have trade prospects between the entities within it, i.e. States, is ridiculous. If anything, the US is better off because there are fewer rolls of red tape when transferring energy around our States compared with within the EU.

'lack of insulation' - one of THE cheapest things to upgrade in your house that will net you almost instant return.

I'm pretty sure that the completely unemployed, but entirely mortgage free and clear, homeowner is quite the minority. Exceptions prove the rule.