No, they don't. Coal and nuclear plants aren't located near residences either, but we still lose under 5% in transmission in the USA. The losses are higher than local, but not anything you could reasonably call "high".

It seems like you could do it with any decent firewall easily enough. Certainly on any of the popular Unixlikes it would be reasonably trivial.

False. I need to change too, but the whole system is set up to make that inconvenient, so I require systemic change before I will be able to do so. For example, I cannot stress enough how much I want to switch every vehicle in our little fleet over to electric, but it's practical for 0 of the vehicles for me right now. I can't charge them, I can't afford them, etc etc.

I care because I want to look critically at what they did and use the parts that make sense, and I want to know what they thought about both those parts as well as the other parts so I can more easily learn from it. Not enough to spend a lot of time reading about it, though, so obviously I don't care personally and only in principle. Every so often I go off on a tear about some particular subject and learn about what they thought about that, but it's not a hobby.

What matters more than what they did is what we need to do now. This is a different time. We should probably do many things differently. This first past the post voting thing is bananas, as is the undemocratic system of not counting our votes for president individually.

It's not true anyway, different constitutional rights have been held to have differing scope. The 1A has long been considered to cover actual people from anywhere, but not so much for corporations. There's not one standard for them and never has been.

Did the founders follow the process in breaking away from England? There was no process that would work for that, so no.

Did the founders foresee that we might have to have a revolution every few generations? Yep, some of them wrote about it explicitly.

Keep blaming victims, it will cause change ANY DAY NOW

Slashdot ID is correlated solely with account creation time.

We've all known dumb old people, right?

"Apple has some of the best hardware you can buy."

As measured how?

Union can't protect workers who don't follow safety standards. That tells us that nobody was checking up to make sure they did because it might affect the bottom line, which in turn tells us it was management's fault and had nothing at all to do with any unions.

We already knew this because of all the cost cutting crap Boing has done over the years. Notably, they shifted a lot of production to contractors on whom they never checked up.

I didn't say anything was "okay", what I Said was that it's legal.

Work on your reading comprehension, it is important when you want to communicate with text.

"forbidding it to everybody is clearly not a matter of national security. If it was, they would forbid ALL actors (e.g. facebook, google etc...) to gather data and sell it to everybody which, they do."

All national social media services are known to be part of PRISM. They are literally part of the panopticon. Therefore they are essentially defense contractors. What they sell and to whom is probably under a lot more scrutiny than you think. Anyone buying that data and trusting it to be accurate is as dumb as those who believe that Facebook targets their advertising accurately. That is to say, spectacularly.

It doesn't have to say it anywhere in practice. What matters is what has been done historically, we call that precedent.

The precedent is for the 1A to apply to humans everywhere, but only to US corporations.

There is ample precedent for doing basically anything in the name of national security as well, so good luck with your argument. Normally you're not even allowed to know about it (See: National Security Letters - wait, you don't GET to see those...)

When the Constitution was written it inconceivable to have a communications platform like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc.

Newspapers and book publishers existed when the Constitution was written. Neither is under any obligation to print your letter to the editor or book, respectively.

I gave up on palm pilots when the second one broke in my pocket. Cool software, though.