So? Just rewind to before it was mounted and provision it. Don't you have a time machine?

Seriously though, that sounds like a rough situation. I'm not looking forward to a job we have coming up where I'm going to have to wipe and re-adopt an in-place Unifi network that includes a nanobeam where the other end is hiding in a land of mystery.

Still, don't hold your rotten time on that job against Ubiquity. They make good stuff, and it's way cheaper than Meraki. No stupid license fees. You just got screwed.

Maybe we should turn this into an onsite IT nightmare thread. I bet we have some good stories here.

I didn't say that as a criticism of you or your post, rather as a criticism of the "pundits" you're talking about. Though it would be safe to infer that I am also suggesting that you should know better than to fall for clickbait when you know it's clickbait.

Also, in this case I'm not quibbling about which President is worse, I'm just trying to point out that you gave an example of something a President didn't have power to do and an example of something a President does have the power to do. You probably should have picked a different Trump example if you wanted two examples of Presidents being slapped down. Like how he can't send people checks without Congressional approval, though I haven't seen evidence that he is trying to do so. If he does try to do that without Congressional action, yeah. It's also possible the Court will strike his tariffs. We'll know in a few months.

I like your username.

"Turning to a page from “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a 9-year-old boy whose father was killed in the 9/11 attacks, Hair began to read: “I know that you give someone a blow job by putting your penis ”

That’s as far as she made it before Board of Education Chair Wesley McCall cut her off. He reminded her of “the rules that we talked about in the beginning” of the meeting concerning the board’s policy about “profane comments.”"

Yeah. Too vulgar to read out loud in front of the adults of the school board, but not too vulgar to give to children?

Besides, if you're talking about sexual orientation, you're talking about sex. That is not appropriate for kids who aren't old enough for sex-ed, which is questionable in and of itself.

https://www.propublica.org/art...
https://13wham.com/news/nation...

I suppose so, but I just looked at Temu for the first time ever and while the first item I looked at had a $2.99 shipping fee (shipping from seller warehouse in California), while the next item had free shipping. The first item was a portable projector ($11), the second was a couch ($384). If I didn't want the couch in two days, I could save $5. I don't want it at all, but that's not important now.

That doesn't seem like a good revenue stream.

Next item, $5.03 head scarf thing, free shipping.

Oh! But that first item I looked at was also an ad. So that's revenue.

The options to pay in installments (which I assume is what installment credit means) are both interest-free through Klarna or Alterpay, so where's the revenue there? Does Klarna pay them for the opportunity to not earn interest on a loan? I don't know how that works, never used it.

I get what you're saying, I just can't see it that way. "Copilot search" says, "In U.S. law, fraud is generally defined as an intentional misrepresentation of material fact made by one person to another, with knowledge of its falsity, for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, resulting in injury or damage." The DoJ is rather unclear about it - https://www.justice.gov/archiv...

Anyhow, as I see it fraud requires the intent to deceive, not the potential for a deceptive outcome of other activities.

Oh, and here (I think this is where Bing sourced the summary) https://definitions.uslegal.co...
The last section seems to lean towards my interpretation - "To constitute fraud the misrepresentation or omission must be made knowingly and intentionally, not as a result of mistake or accident, or in negligent disregard of its truth or falsity."

And that's what it looks like when I write my response as I research it.

Doh! You got me on that one. I just can't justify the expense of an 8 port PoE switch to have a little extra visibility in my house, let alone a gateway. And I like my PfSense firewall.

The only network hardware I have that I paid for is my U6 AP. Everything else is something a client threw out. I'm pretty cheap.

There are ways around that. Prep a cloudkey or UDM offsite, install it onsite and let it adopt the hardware. You need one to act as an NVR anyhow. Or prep everything offsite. That's how I do it.

Oh! And that would justify what is otherwise a baffling move. Let's hope.

It would make too many court cases illegible. VS vs Vnited Something Co.

I figured Congress should be using Comic Sans due to the overwhelming appropriateness.

How much do you reckon it actually costs to change fonts? It costs me under a minute and zero dollars, so for government workers what, an hour and whatever it cost to assemble a committee to decide how to tell everyone to change fonts?

Or the news equivalent of a slow news day. Which is just a slow news day. Nothing worth mentioning to report, so report the things not worth mentioning.

There's nothing much of political import going on in DC during the holiday season, so this is when we get the wacky stories.

I hear Congress is going to use Comic Sans from now on, as it was determined to be the one that most closely matches their work product.

to glue all the serifs back onto the characters. I hope they were kept in boxes so that the administration didn't have to buy new ones.

https://termlimits.com/progres...

It's for their own good. Power corrupts.