The FCC isn't making these decisions. They are made by the DoD and the DHS, per the initial announcement.

Manual windows don't reduce cost much unless you're going to put them on a lot of vehicles, otherwise it's just more parts you need to design and stock, meanwhile window motors are shared between multiple vehicles. Statistically nobody would rather have manual windows on a vehicle which costs even $40k so it might actually increase costs to offer them.

I do not know why you equate a nonprofit entity with amateurism. Nonprofit defines the tax status of an organization, it does not define their professionalism or (despite the name) profitability.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

Not after the bribes are paid.

Before banning foreign made products like routers have some domestic made routers ready to ship, but since the global economy had gutted most domestic manufacturing 50 years ago that's not a quick & easy solution, maybe next time consider the implications of gutting domestic manufacturing and financing foreign factories to do it all because some things are more valuable than a few extra dollars in walstreet's already fat bank accounts, like not having to depend on adversarial nations to manufacture for you using slave labor

"Iran have been planning and trying to get nukes forever."

That's what naziyahoo says every time Israel needs money for more bombs, and you internalized it because your mind is weak.

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

This is a thing that happens, if by aliens you mean foreign weed growers operating unlicensed grows in our country. But it's farmers illegally selling them the water.

Yes, if we want to solve our water problems we should make it possible for farmers to not use water themselves and yet keep their allotment in future years by allowing them to divert the unused portion to an aquifer.

The vast majority of pickups are never used to tow anything for their entire existence, not even once. This is probably not true in the UK, but here in the US they often serve the same market that a luxury car normally would, but for people with tiny PP syndrome.

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Yes. That's correct. But have you seen how much vehicles cost now? That's true of all American automakers in particular.

Ford didn't offer the base package with the big battery, which is how we knew right up front that they didn't give a shit about working people. THAT would be the ideal tradesman's truck, because it can power pretty much anything.

1.50 for a slice, $10 for a pie... but last time I tried to call ahead at 11 to get a whole pie at lunchtime, I couldn't have it until almost 1pm. I conclude that the pizza is another loss leader like the hot dog, which is why they won't hire enough staff to make enough pizzas to satisfy demand.

Maybe. Some of them outright prohibit it because their wiring can't handle the load.

Yeah, in some cases they are wired to the same circuit though. They shouldn't be, but RV campgrounds often aren't held to any reasonable standard.

I'm on some schoolie groups and may still be in rvelectricity (if I haven't been booted again for complaining about AI slop) and bad hookups at RV parks are horribly common.

If you're using all USB connections that's perfectly rational. If you need SPI or I2C then you will need additional hardware, otherwise there's no problem with your approach. OTOH a Pi is a hundred bucks and low power and will fit in pretty much any printer, so there's that I guess. Someday when I have another printer I will replace the guts of my Adventurer 5M because 128MB RAM is pathetic and causes real problems. It would also be nice to have the printer do its own timelapses.