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Comment Re:It's a trap law (Score 1) 124

Most of the big names in tech showed their true colors, bent the knee, and converted to mega last year or the year before. They were never going to support or work with Newsom th the first place... that was just an act So it would actually and oddly favorable for him to support this sort of authoritarianism.

Comment Re:it's not about power (Score 2) 123

Yeah... in your analogy it's not the comfortable people in the midwest with its boring weather and where nothing interesting happens using using or wanting to keep those window air conditioners. To be analogous, the window A/C draws significantly less electricity and has a backup power source that almost never goes down, even when the main power is out. And it's the people in hurricane country where it's 95 degrees and 95% humidity right after the storm passes and takes out the power to the central A/C who want to keep their window units and whose governments are resisting the utility's desire to take them away.

Now, add California (earthquakes) and New England (nor'easters) and Texas (cold days and no grid interconnects) and Hawaii (low grid redundancy) and maybe you'll see the picture.

Comment Re:Mixed feelings (Score 1) 81

Because false positives are a thing and cops who stop, attack, kill, arrest, detain, lay hands on, attempt to interrogate, approach, or otherwise darken the days of the innocent are not, themselves, terminated, charged with assault and kidnapping, and locked away never again to breathe free air or to look upon the sun or sky without bars interposed. Nor are DAs who charge (lie) the innocent or judges who go along and allow these shenanigans.

See to it that the police, DAs, and judges are all properly punished when they play their "close enough for government work" game; them we'll talk about giving them more power. Until such time as they are held accountable when they abuse the public, fuck 'em.

Comment Re: Probably voice to voice, not voice to broadban (Score 1) 123

I'm older than DSL and was an early adopter.
Unless the technology has changed recently, DSL has a limit of about 18,000 feet of good wire between the house and exchange, and much less if on a concentrator. Almost all places where DSL might work already have fiber or cable.

It's not an option for most people in rural areas.
Also, DSL sucks.

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