I raise you, one US Federal Government.

NAT? No. What they do is refuse to assign anything other than a single /64 to the modem. So you can't actually do much with it if you don't want to use their router box. They then proceed to firewall everything inbound from the internet. So you can't make connections to those addresses anyway. Their box will set up an RA and the v6 network does function, unless you want inbound connections or use vlans etc.. Even Comcast will delegate a /60, and at the moment anyway, a real IPv4.

v4 is on CGNAT with 464XLAT. It also means that gaming is pretty restricted.

It's ok if it's all you can get or are fine with the limitations. A lot of people are. I use it as a backup right now.

Ah, the Audi 5000 mess:
https://www.curbsideclassic.co...

TL;DR: It wasn't Audi. It wasn't even an engineering problem. It was the fact that it was unusually narrow spacing between the gas and brake pedals, and the fact they were nearly the same size. Great for heel-and-toe shifting, really bad for American drivers used the 9" wide brake pedal on a Buick. The car didn't have an override for the gas and brake being pressed at the same time, so even if someone was laying on the brakes, it was possible they were stepping on the gas at the same time. The harder they pressed the brakes, the harder the car would pull. The brakes would eventually overpower the engine, but not until the driver was scared somewhat shitless.

Audi was confused as shit about this problem originally, as the entire engine control system was the same as the cars sold in Germany, and they hadn't had a single reported case of this in the country. It was something that only was happening in the American market. Eventually they figured it out, but not until well after the PR damage was done.

Not exactly, or not universally at least:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The "Exploder" moniker was, at least in the USA, due to the Firestone tires "exploding" on a large number of 1st gen. Ford Explorers.

I never did totally buy the idea the Windows compatibility killed OS/2. It contributed, but IBM, MS, and a few others had at least as much to do with it. It's too bad, the competition was good for both of them.

I don't mind the mount output, and think that the SNAP/flatpack style setup is a decent way to go for things that are not distributed with the distro. I do think it would make sense to mount/unmount on demand though. And perhaps add an option to clean up mount output. I can see how it could be annoying.

They aren't that hard to make. They can be dangerous to make, but not really that difficult. The process has been known for over 100 years, after all. Same with powder, particularly if I don't mind black powder, which works plenty well. Bullets are simple as well. Even the brass isn't that difficult, though making it quickly and inexpensively might be difficult without industrial machinery.

The downside of trying to ban ancient tech is that everyone who wants to knows how it works and how to make it. Particularly when cheap CNC is already out there.

You weren't paying attention.

I had a Miss Bistany in 1st grade.
Later that year, the name tag was Mrs. Bistany.

Wasn't hard to figure out.

"Because they were professionals and stuck to their topics. Their private life was not a school to[ic."
The K-12 educator that manages to keep their entire private life separate from school is rare. College is different.

"The teacher's job is to instruct in reading, math, science, etc."

On paper, sure.
In reality, a K-8 teacher is mom,dad,counselor,cook,friend,comedian,historian,protector,psychologist,teacher,confideant
This is not new. This isn't even 1930's new. This is one of the reasons that so many of the teachers found the underpaying job so, so, rewarding: it's never been just about the teaching.

Disney isn't the first, or last, for any of that kind of public-private game. This isn't exactly the same thing, but I'm too lazy to really find the right links now:
https://rethinkq.adp.com/artif...

We do have a long, storied, history in the USA about companies in then-remote areas setting up shop with very "special" rules. Disney was smart enough to capitalize on that for decades after building in the middle of Alligator Alley.

It's tough to take the climate alarmists seriously when they all travel in private jets and with motorcades burning 10x the fuel any of us use in a week for one day. While purchasing beachfront real estate and screaming that nuclear is bad and can't even be considered.

Even if I think the worst predictions are true, why should I give a fuck when the people "most concerned" obviously do not?

All the so-called "solutions" amount to killing 50%+ of the people, or everyone except them has to go stone age. Neither of those is going to happen without a LOT of death and fighting from those people they want to kill or disadvantage. They want to take natural gas from people. That will cause people to die from cold. Those people will not just sit down and die. They will burn whatever they can to try to stay alive, and it will pollute far worse than even a poorly maintained natural gas burning setup will. And they WILL resort to violence if the situation gets bad enough. That's just basic human nature.

Without storage and/or huge grid upgrades, renewables can't do it. And that's from someone that owns a good size rooftop solar array (~15kw). Nuclear could, though it has its own problems. And if you want to replace gas heating, you are going to require huge upgrades to the grid. Even with modern heat pump designs, that is a LOT of electricity that needs to move around. And that ignores EVs and other loads they want to add. And that's before you get into the costs to replace all that gear, not the mention the environmental costs for manufacturing it.

If you want to see change and be taken seriously, you and your leaders need to live it and provide realistic solutions that people will accept. For example, we have mostly replaced incandescent lights with more efficient tech. Once it worked well and was reasonably priced, it was obviously better and people adopted it. If you can't do that, you need to accept that prevention is impossible and move to mitigation. I don't think we're there yet, but we will be if the alarmists keep this crap up. The more they yell while insisting that the rules don't apply to them, the less people will listen.

Gotta argue the Audi thing from as objective as a point as I can. Or not:

Base Model A3 or A4 - Should have bought an Accord, but wanted 4-wheel drive because.....reasons.....and more cupholders. Not a status symbol.
A6 or A8: Yup, asshole car of choice. That's a long, low, status symbol car. Kinda like the M5.
Q-anything: Status symbol. Should have bought an Outback or a CR-V.
A1 or A2: Fun, cheap, practical. Not a bad car if you can get one. Not a status symbol.
TT: I work in personal grooming

S-model cars: Depends on which one.
S7: Yup, status.
S4: Well....It's kind of like an M3. Might be status, might be someone who understands what brake fade is and how to induce it.
S6: You wanted an M5, but your stock broker has one already and you didn't want to show your envy
SQ-anything: Status symbol. Should have bought an Outback or CR-V
TT-S: I work in personal grooming

R-model Cars.....
RS-6: Because long, low, expensive, and angry makes you happy. Kind of like your SO.
RS-4: Beware the RS-4 owner. One of the sweetest sounding V8's ever stuffed in a modern car. The owner is a *driver*
RS-3: Hard to call this one. Could be a status thing that didn't want an M2 or M3, but could be a proper driver. If they use turn signals, you'll know.
TT-RS: I'm dating a hairdresser and can't drive away fast enough.
R-8: It's a supercar. 90% status. 10% sheer terror.

Audi. There you go.
Brought to you by Volkswagen. We do diesel well! :)

Crew cabin likely stayed intact during the explosion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I'll answer that: me.

I'd classify myself as a "car guy". I do my own wrenching, worked as a mechanic for a while, have the big ol' set of tools (though in a Craftsman box, not a Snap-on), and have a special love/hate of VW products....like I think anyone who works on them does. I'd normally never even consider buying a car sight-unseen. Until last year.

We live in the NorthEast United States. My wife, with a short commute and Level 2 chargers at work for free, decided that it was time for her 2016 VW Golf to go. The perfect car presented itself after a short search: 2017 VW eGolf. Produced 2014-2019(?), it was all of the Golf goodness, but battery powered. Has a range of ~100 miles. It was, effectively, the test platform for what became the now-produced ID.4.

Here's the problem: VW never sold them in this part of the country. Something like 90% of them were sold in California, so they're literally not on the used car lots in this part of the country. The closest one was something like 1000 mile drive from here. Even if we went out there to get it, getting it home would be an adventure unless we shipped it.

Enter Carvana. They had a half-dozen available; the prices were reasonable. We picked the colour and options we liked, and for 750 bucks delivery fee and a week later, the car, which was originally titled in California, showed up in front of our house on a little rollback. The deal was this: you had 7 days and 300 miles to test drive the car. If you didn't want in that period, you called them up and they'd come get it. You'd be out 500 bucks for shipping fees if you did that, but that's it. For a car that we wouldn't have access to otherwise, 500 bucks was a reasonable chance to take.

Turned out that the car was even nicer than the pictures let on. Granted, this isn't a tuner kind of car, so if we were looking at WRX EVO's or something, I'd have been way more wary of it having the shit beaten out of it. But, those are available here though conventional means. The eGolf wasn't.

This, I think, was Carvana's key bit of power: access. For run-of-the-mill cars, who cared. For the harder to find cars, but not the exotics that have their own following, they made it very easy to have access. Cars like the eGolf, Like the Fiat 500's Abarths, like Audi TT's, like the WRX's. Not rare cars, but not common on the used market in the less populated areas of the country. They found a good niche that was underserved in the car world.....and then screwed themselves.

When you don't bother to learn any skills other than "management by walking around" while the geeks you sneer at learn skills essential to producing valuable goods and services, yes, you're just gonna have to suck it up and take it when they get demanding.

"Woke" is the word used by people who wish they had the nerve to just say "Uppity".