A hospital is a valid military target if it's being used for military purposes (e.g., storing weapons caches and hiding military personnel).

Geneva Protocol I, Article 21: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...
Additional Protocol, Article 12: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...
Convention IV, Article 19: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...

When your terrorist buddies stored weapons, ammunition, and military personnel in a hospital that Israel built for Gaza, it lost its protected status.

They were making assumptions, the type which can often go against the average citizen and it should not be such.

There are liberals on the supreme court?!

VERY much so...

Kagen, Jackson and Sotomayor....I dunno if I got the spelling right on those...

You can't expect him to read the title. Come on man.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I'll bet you are the life of the party, amiright?

Personally, I'd rather stay young at heart and mind....especially when the body starts to fail a bit.

Yes.

See, I don't know whether it was intelligent foresight or accidental good fortune, but the iPhone got three things exactly right in its initial release: it *didn't* have an App Store, it *did* leave the door a smidge open for people to install apps on it *without* an App Store, and it got a lot of features right that made the phone desirable irrespective of that.

Listening to music on a phone is a default thing now; in 2024 we probably use a phone to do that more than any other device...but in 2006, everyone was carrying around both a phone and an iPod. While the original iPhone has a small screen by today's standards, compared to other portable video players of the day, it was quite an improvement, so watching videos away from home was finally viable (you hadn't LIVED until you tried converting video for WinMo devices). No stylus, threaded text messaging, a web browser that was actually useful, and native support for IMAP email, even for free Yahoo accounts (then dominant because Gmail was still nascent) were all massive improvements that non-techies could appreciate. ...and, roughly eleven seconds after some techies got a hold of it, we ended up with the jailbreaking scene. That's where Labyrinth and Tap Tap Revolution (Revenge) and dozens of others got their start, and it was that underground scene that drew in developers. By time the App Store came into existence, many of those developers just shifted over their app from Installer.App or Cydia to the App Store.

Essentially, the iPhone's success came from the fact that it had plenty of desirable functionality without third party apps, and it enabled an underground scene of developers to get the app ecosystem started by time it was official. The Vision Pro headset had neither of these things going for it...if it's anything beyond the ability to function as a super expensive monitor for a Macbook, I couldn't tell you what it was. Consequently, the Vision Pro *needs* an app ecosystem to justify its existence in the way the iPhone did not...and it isn't there.

Can you cite some examples of overreach besides vague recollections?

Sackett vs EPA is the one I was thinking of...easy to google my friend.

And I found one from NPR to satisfy your liberal bent...

;)

This ruling arrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act and the agency's power to regulate waterways and wetlands.

There have been others, this is setting precedent in a number of unrelated cases of citizens vs govt agency overreach.

A number of pending 2A cases going before SCOTUS use this and other rulings to fight against the ATF in their recent rulings...some of which turn millions of every day citizens into felons overnight for buying weapons that the ATF expressly stated for years (in writing) that it was legal to buy and own....pistol braces for one, and even the bump stock case.

I'll leave those for you to google.

here does it state anything will be shutdown? This about cleaning up their act which might cut into the constant record quarterly profits.

Well, to start with, it is expressly mentioned in the title of this thread:

"New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down"

EVs are perfectly fine for daily commutes within a 120 mile round trip (just pulled that number out of my ass with 1 hour each way @ 60mph) as long as you can charge at home over night. The entire problem for those potential customers is PRICE PRICE PRICE.

Everyone seems to be missing a BIG factor that isn't price.

It's the fact that a LARGE, very significant number of people do not live in single family dwellings they own with off street parking where they can "charge overnight"....

Right now as it stands, they are not interested in EVs either as that refueling is VERY inconvenient.

Sure, but the public demands some God-given right to drive everywhere that is not urbanized or otherwise densified enough to encourage alternative modes of transit like ebikes (bikeshare is in a lot of these locations already, often with government funding e.g. Washington DC's capital bikeshare). There is an unbelievable lack of acknowledgement that the roads infrastructure and city/town layout disaster we have created requires a change in thinking. BEVs are a politically appealing & personally appealing - they are more fun to drive - solution to at least making the driving everywhere issue produce less smog.

You seem to think that everyone in the US yearns to live in a dense urban city, sharing walls and stacked on top of each other like rats.

That simply is not the lifestyle everyone WANTS.

God given right? Well, I believe everyone has the GGR to live however most makes them happy. And for me...it's having a single family dwelling, where I don't share walls with anyone, I have a back yard where I can keep and fire up my wood burning offset smoker, or ceramic grill (lump charcoal)....park my motorcycle...have room for friends to come over and maybe set up for a big crawfish boil, etc.

I'd not be happy in an urban city where I couldn't plant my summer veggie garden and BBQ....and basically HAD to walk everywhere and buy groceries multiple days of the week.

I have no animosity to those that prefer that, but I do believe in CHOICE in the US, and I like the choices I have.

I'm far from being alone in this train of thought.

The public demand argument (it's there, cost is the issue currently)

It's not just cost....it's range anxiety, and the fact that not everyone has a single family home they own with covered parking where they can recharge overnight....and the lack of charging infrastructure in the vast swaths of land between CA and NYC on the extreme coasts.

For a number of reasons, the people that really want EVs....have them, the rest of the country for the most part is "meh"....and not really in the market.

At least not for the present. I don't know of any one in my circle of friends that owns an EV. I only know of one, that had a Prius years back, and told me him and his wife are thinking of getting maybe an EV Jeep in the future, but other than that, I don't know of anyone with interest in going EV just yet.

I haven't seen any in my neighborhood....middle class. I see a few teslas here and there...mostly Uber drivers from what I've observed around town.

This is in the New Orleans area.