Are these American militias being massively supported and aided by China and Russia?

I suspect most of these people will just shit themselves and downplay their involvement or go the way of David Koresh if it actually escalated to a real confrontation with the government, who have a much more legitimate claim of representing The People anyway.

Make that: I wonder if we'll see anti-SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

On Thursday, in a unanimous decision, a four-judge New York Supreme Court appellate panel ordered the case to continue, keeping the Dendrite issue alive and also allowing us to proceed in seeking damages based on New York's anti-SLAPP law, which prohibits "strategic lawsuits against public participation."

Hmmm...

I wonder if we'll see SLAPP actions by Trump, Giuliani, or Fox News if they win an anti-defamation suit or appeal of one?

Most states and towns in the USA do not have building codes for residential off-grid battery storage.

I thought that was in the National Electrical Code (NEC) section on solar, at least if they're on the 2017 version (or some earlier versions). Most jurisdictions adopt some version of the NEC (and occasionally move to a later version - my county is on 2017 as of a year or so ago) and then maybe add a few changes, rather than write their own electrical code.

Main remaining downsides, if you want to keep your fire insurance, are finding listed (by an NRTL such as UL) systems (there are a few, even some that are rated for elevations over 1,500 meters - about 79 feet short of 5,000) and that the code now requires a cert for solar systems installers, so if you want to install it all yourself you have to drop a couple hunderd bux on a short online course or hire a pro to make the major connections and maybe do some of the design for your install.

Problem is that gas is often byproduct of oil extraction, and very difficult to transport since it's a gas and disperses, unlike oil that is a liquid and can be stored in a simple container.

So use a thermoacoustic liquefier. Bunch of plumbing and a burner regulator on a par with a water heater, which contains the only moving part. Burn off 30% of it and use the heat energy to turn the rest as liquefied propane (LP) Gas, ready to haul away. One model, about the right size to haul in on a flatbed semi, can output 500 gal per day at that efficiency.

Dual boot a phone? That sounds absolutely niche and not worth their time of day.

Buybacks signal there is nothing better you can think of doing with all your cash.

Or that you have a lot of cash and other assets and a market mob madness has depressed your stock price to where it's a really good deal to spend some of the cash to take some of the stock out of circulation and concentrate the company's value in the rest of it.

Possibly it's even such a good deal that some rich outsiders could buy up controlling interest, sell off the non-money assets, take that and the cash pile, and come out ahead. That leaves the current employees out of a job and with their unvested options worthless. Better to spend the hostile-takeover bait making the rest of your stock more valueable now, and keep the company running, than wait until the hostiles are buying and screw up the company and its stockholders with poison pills and the like.

First, Ranger was a sequential TV system. not a "Gatling Gun of Cameras" . Someone with a movie script should certain know that, particularly since the TV system cause most of the later failures in various ways.

      There is no particularly good reason to do the near side first. The only consequential bit of added complexity is the lack of direct communications. That, too, is a long-solved problem and China has already landed on the far side and has a workable communication method. Putting that aside, all the critical events are automatic anyway, the one difference from near-side mission being a dual-burn return trajectory, but that is a relatively simple matter. If you can do one of them automatically, you can do more than one, it a few lines of software.

      Point being, the mission complexity for either location is pretty high, but only marginally more difficult than once you have a way to communicate with the lander.

      Whether it is *worth* doing is another matter, but it's vanity/tech development project, not a scientific one, so the return may be useless. Just being able to do it all is the point.

For the most part, the various levels of American law enforcment are reasonable, helpful, and rational. But that is not what gets you on the news.

Normally you would think so, but the entire specttrum is very narrow and noritiously subject to interference. This is just them not wanting to have to shield the electrical system sufficiently to avoid massive static.

I know that, I was just commenting on the notion that it would harm the range - which it will not.

      AM radio is being destroyed by other forces related to this - switching regulators and switching power supplied spew RF that caused tremendous interference, and EVs are chock full of them, including the main drive power.

I am no fan of congress regulating things into existence, but the concern over decreasing the range is utter and complete bullshit. Running an AM radio, and presuming that the power amplifier and digital interface are already there for any other audio source, takes about ** 10 milliamps **, that is 1/100th of an amp. At 12v that is a mere 0.12 watts. Turning the display screen 1 notch higher is about 10 times that, it's nothing at all and will be utterly imperceptible effect on range.

I live in a country with universal healthcare where I pay somewhere between 30-35% in income taxes. People on lower incomes post far less. People without a job still get coverage. Why do you think it should put average taxes up to 50%?

On the flip side, you can get rid of all the admin overhead, which is very expensive, including the people who are paid to investigate claims or find ways to deny you coverage. Also, businesses donâ(TM)t have to waste money and attention on providing coverage, which makes their products more cost effective.

People have all the "freedom" in the world, they can use a second rate Android or other garbage phone and have all the "freedom" to do anything they want on it.

While I have been working in a very high technology industry for decades - a lot higher than the software gadget business - I don't care anything about cell phone software. I do not want to endlessly grub around in it and find the 2 things that work and 50000 things that don't. I want an appliance I am singularly uninterested in even understanding it or the software. I am paying a premium *for other people to do it for me*.

      There are far more people that only want to have a phone that works, without knowing anything about the guts, than a few zealots with a "principle" that they should be able to dick around with it. That is why Apple has been so incredibly successful, and also why no one here seems to grasp why this nonsense it so insidious.

Humanity: hold our beer!

One decade might be a stretch, but after less than two centuries, we burned most of easily mineable coal already.