We can't stop changing from DST and back to standard time, because setting a single standard time splits the voters between just going to real standard time and just going to always lying about the time with permanent DST. Even if a majority wanted to stop changing official time, they can't form a majority on which way to do it.

Even trying a compromise and making DST only 1/2 hour difference, fails because figuring the 1/2 hour difference, is just too complicated getting appointment times correct, with the amount of easy travel that is available today.

My personal preference is to just keep with standard official time, and suggest schools and business just change their summer hours as they feel like. Probably there, individual initiative might be best with making a compromise 1/2 difference.

Darn, I just want to know that noon is when the sun is as high in the sky as it can go -- well plus or minus only 1/2 hour in any given "time zone". I don't care what businesses or institutions set as their start of work and end of work hours. Just work a 7 hour day if necessary -- that's good enough for all of us. And let the few over-achievers work 16 hour shifts as much as they want too, if they want to be blind to the real meaning of life.

What a hall of mirrors... The article itself is an example of headlines making a total waste of research time sound interesting, whereas in fact, the result was pitiful.

Whatever "Woke" means....

This article would be more helpful if the examples given had some numbers included, like original cost of the printer, and current replacement cost of the printer or nearest equivalent, number of pages printed, and the duration it was in service. [Actual dates allow for factoring in inflation.] Then most of the discussion could be more specific. For instance, I have seen that, since most printer companies make most of their profit from the supplies, they then usually offer the printer itself for a ridiculously low price. [There was a reference to an "expensive" printer -- but was that really the case?]

Where there are really low prices for a new unit, then the consumer may as well buy a new printer, rather than "repair" the previous one. In this case the discussion might dwell mostly on the "environmental costs" of having to send excessive amounts of waste to the land fills. Also look at the cost of supplies for a newer printer, and/or how fiendishly clever the newer printer might be in making it harder to use other methods to replace toner. In other words the devil is in the details, and analysis of one particular situation or two of them, might be better than trying to cover the entire larger issue. Or at least, the larger issue could be discussed secondarily. Well that's my "two-nie" Canuck.

It's insane to broadcast our location before we are ready to defend it. These people should locked up immediately. Sure, much of the damage has already been done, but why increase the danger? If we lie as low as possible it will bring the least amount of attention to us. If our chances of surviving discovery by the wrong set of aliens are already too high -- why are these betrayers of our species tying to make certain our eventual demise?

It is we who should shut up and keep trying to listen to what is out there. If we can keep this planet from blowing itself up, perhaps our descendants will still have some small chance to spread a bit, and to lessen the risk of living only on one fragile planet, and learn how not to become easy targets far too soon.

Why bother translating the name from the original Russian? Isn't Pravda good enough for the Liar in Chief?

Pretty much true. Worse yet, it usually most benefits the candidate of the major party you utterly hate!

BUT, since they know this, and we know this, then throwing away your vote is a sign of how extremely dissatisfied you are. And it's a far far better option than not voting at all. So when enough people vote third party, then the major parties eventually wake up, and the one that wakes up first, will have the advantage that the third party voter can take some satisfaction in.

How much a thorn in the side of the major parties it is, can be easily discerned by how often and how hard the major parties work to make it a meme, that to vote third party is to throw away your vote.

Yes, voting third party is a dangerous weapon, but it must be an option to hang on to, for when it is necessary.
 

Obama was afraid that going further might have been so hard as to lose the whole thing. And that was astute and correct. He also figured that it was only necessary to give voters a taste of government medical care, no matter how flawed, and it would be impossible to entirely roll back, and would eventually evolve into something more sensible. That was also astute and correct.

That Obamacare was, and is still quite imperfect, and is accordingly tough to defend. Hopefully now and in the long run, factions and corporate medical giants, will be able to work out something that works a lot better, and with less burdensome administrative costs.

There needs to be more folks objecting to any limits on receiving radio, regardless of which tyrant run country, or tyrant run army, or tyrant inspired agency or bureaucracy in an otherwise democratic country wants it otherwise. Those more vicious manifestations of humanity can figure out how to encrypt their communications if it really matters to them. It shouldn't be a problem for anyone in the public, or amateur radio licensee, in particular, to worry about what kind of receiver or receiving process you are using or offering to share. The control freaks are what desperately needs controlling, not those who listen to radio any way they want to. Let them expand their laws on what you can listen to on the air, next thing you know it will eventually evolve to licensing the right to even breath air. Hah! we have been reminded recently how low level cops have long been thinking that they have authority over that already, and worse yet, they have been applying it selectively, with the administrative level looking the other way. Stop radio receive censorship in it's tracks, now. VE6QBD/K2QBD

We already know about the evils of the countries you mention. Worse, is that we can not see easily see how the road to improvement within them can be discovered. However, there is a chance that the more democratic nations can further reform, and further inspire the rest of the world to do likewise. It's the opportunity for enrichment of the process of justice world wide that makes this case so important. All these concessions to might-makes-right may sound insightful in a worldly pessimistic way, but some of the improved versions of justice that we do have, which have been fought for at tremendous cost, should not be dismissed as unimportant just because there are so many cesspools of injustice still existing in this world. Either the fight for truth and honesty and justice continues to inspire us to fight for ever more improvement, or we will all backslide, inch by inch, into the still existing pits of horror we came from. It's not a perfect process, humans, mere mortals are involved. Forward progress is a bumpy road of advances and setbacks. Win or lose this skirmish, what direction to you want to push for....? That is the question.

Evidence has weakened??? But it was always a he-said she-said situation. There wasn't really any material evidence outside that. Plus there was a lot of agreement on fact that consensual sex occurred, even if there was a complaint about disputed aspects of that activity. Clearly, the chances of a conviction were so minuscule in the first place, it's beyond fantasy to use words like "weakened" to describe the change over time for something that was a mere fantasy of successful conviction in the first place. That's why any person with common sense would immediately understand that the description of why the charges were dropped was pure PR bullshit on the part of the prosecutors. It is more likely that the prosecutors themselves would be found guilty of false presence over the whole affair, if only they would submit themselves to a fair trial. And same goes for certain aspects of the whole servile Swedish justice system, regards pressure from the US.

"American Trucking Association says that the shortage of long-haul drivers has reached 60,000..."

I really doubt that. It's certainly just a shortage of willingness to pay drivers sufficient money for the services they offer.
 

A little bit of crowd funding and a cheap removal and re-insertion tool could be developed. Could arrange to send my pet cockroach to work with a friend if I wanted a day off.

Needs legislation -- require payment of $1 million+taxes to each employee required to accept that.
Also, that way it will be mostly directors and upper management that will have to receive the honour.

More interesting would be any kind of headlights, that don't blind the driver coming at you and are digitally enhanced so that with some kind of viewer, you could see the road ahead of you all night, as clear as or better than day.