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Comment Re:It's surprising people still don't get it. (Score 5, Insightful) 282

Mandated EVs would require multiple chargers in their driveways.

No, it wouldn't. I say this as someone who has your exact scenario -- multiple EV vehicles in a driveway, often for people who merely drive in to to school/job. Because my vehicles are usually driven less than 20 miles a day, not including weekends, one charger works fine because topping off the charge on a car takes only and hour or two. More if I use the glorified-extension cord L1 trickle charger, but with minimal usage like your example cars can go a week or more without charging so swapping spots every other day or so to ensure the cord reaches is trivial.

Comment Re:Okay, but ... (Score 1) 282

You should read beyond headlines. EV sales did not increase at the same rate they did the year before, but they still INCREASED. That is, the rate of growth slowed but it was still growth.

The market is not saturated, with a few exceptions -- Tesla being the largest -- many EVs in the US are first generation and need to mature. And they also focused on large, high-margin vehicles like pickup trucks and SUVs. Once they actually address the rest of the market with small and mid-sized cars, adoption should accelerate again.

Comment Re:No loss in pay (Score 1) 390

If companies are forced to pay OT past 32 hours, they'll freeze pay at current levels and do staggered shifts.

Pay isn't set that way, it is set by supply and demand. Freezing pay only works if the workers have no other options, and the demographic trends of the Baby Boomers retiring in large numbers and a smaller generation following means more jobs than workers -- meaning worker choice. Forcing more overtime is one possible option, constrained by the same supply-demand. The bill Sanders is proposing mandates time-and-a-half past 8 hours and double-time past 12-hours a day. Short of a good old fashioned dose of Nixon Republicanism that won't happen. And considering the epic shitstorm that created for the economy (Hello Stagflation!) -- I wouldn't be surprised in MAGA embraced it wholeheartedly.

"On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States."

After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a "Pay Board" and a "Price Commission," with an eye toward eventually lifting controls -- conveniently, after the 1972 election."

It'll encourage companies to automate away even more positions wherever possible.

They're doing that already and there is little that is going to stop it. Again, see the demographic decline and need to fill jobs with workers that don't exist.

Comment Re:"Fast" is relative (Score 3, Informative) 103

For an individual, yes. For dealing with national policy, no. You need to sample "how people use the internet" and what the available speeds support versus what they could. Your cherry-picked example would be on the far left of the bell curve, being both suitable on low speed connection and as a sample of what people commonly do -- and only do -- on the internet. Your example of the downloader straining gigabit connections is an example from the far right of the curve. As national policy, we're more concerned with the big, fat middle.

Like it or not a lot of what is commonly called work, especially office work, can effectively be done remotely with suitable broadband speeds. Ensuring adequate broadband means those workers can relocate, and revitalize, small town and rural America.

Comment Re:Moving target will thwart reviews (Score 1) 47

Back in the day, Packard-Bell made a business model out of this. Their computers were the cheapest because their components were simply whatever they got cheapest. Whether audio cards or surface mount components on circuitboards, they didn't bother to distinguish makes, models, or revisions. The exact same motherboard revision with only a different manufacture date, could easily have different components.

They made utter shit.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 94

Looking at the regulations, it seems you can only import or buy USED HCFC-22 and not virgin.

And while you may be able to see the wholesale prices, that's probably because you are in a business that is registered and has a craptop of paperwork on file -- or are dealing thru one. The recordkeeping requirements to "buy" this stuff is detailed and onerous.

Comment Re: at the very lest ban forced TV and ban hardwar (Score 1) 64

the next logical step would be to prohibit cable franchise rights that allows municipalities to award monopolies.

That should have been done 20 years ago. Back in the 70s-90s, it made sense. Cable companies were given monopolies to incentivize them stringing cable all over the place so they could recoup their expenses. They have made back their money. Now, they're just milking the people.

LK

Comment Motionless (Score 1) 243

I can visualize images in my mind. I can "see" an apple, or even "read" a page of words from an image of it in my head, which is distinctly different from reciting words from memory without the visualization for me. What I can't do is generate moving images in my mind. If I try and think of a person walking, I can visualize some individual frames but not the full motion. Slideshow yes, movie no. This has always bothered me. I do dream with full motion, though.

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