I can understand the logic for Teams, which only works using the 365 cloud infrastructure. However, Zoom still lets you run a local server.

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en...

Apparently, "eroding nuclear control frameworks" are much, much more dangerous than JFK directly threatening to go to war with the USSR over nuclear missiles in Cuba. After that the clock actually rolled back. I guess we need more threats of nuclear war to roll the clock back some more.

Sentencing? This is her initial arrest. She's charged with violating the FACE act, which prohibits interfering with church services.

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In 2017 NYC opened a brand new 400 square foot public bathroom in a public park in Brooklyn. It cost $2 million. That's roughly $5000 a square foot. You could walk across the street and purchase a larger home for a quarter of that price. Nobody can account for it's cost. The official response is - shrug, yeah stuff costs a lot.

It should be an ongoing, continuous, strictly enforced law that any project over a few hundred thousand needs an independent audit conducted. A 10% cost overrun is understandable. A 200%-400% cost overrun is criminal. It happens all the time, continuously, everywhere.

I like watching court cam videos, and Youtube is *constantly* recommending clone channels that clearly download someone else's video, slaps on an AI generated thumbnail and summary, then re-uploads it. I think the entire thing is automatic. I keep reporting the channels and Youtube keeps recommending more.

So, saying they are "cracking down" is kind of funny, as they aren't even doing the bare minimum enforcing their existing policies.

Which reviews are those? All the reputable sites (Rtings, AVSciencce) report that, while expensive, the high-end Sony sets generally have the best picture under most conditions. LG is up there with them, then Samsung.

I bought a TCL Android TV set for the basement on Wirecutter's recommendation, and it's a piece of junk. Sometimes it takes half a minute to turn on. There's always a two or three second lag from pushing a button on the remote to something happening. Streaming applications can take minutes to load. I thought there was something wrong with my set, but others report the same thing, and I went to a showroom and tested out one of their higher end models, and saw the same thing.

My LG, that's four years older than the TCL, still runs fine. No hiccups or issues at all. It cost twice as much, but you get what you pay for.

I'm ambivalent one way or another, but the way these standards generally work is the companies get together and hash out a standard based on various patents they hold, then form a pool to license them out under FRAND rules (Fair, Reasonable, Non-Discriminatory.)

I almost guarantee Acer's patents are "submarined," meaning they waited for the standard to come out, didn't say anything about their patents, *then* asked for licensing. I don't think they were included in developing the original 5G spec and are trying to shoehorn their way in.

That sounds like a lot.

That is not a lot.

The very first flat-screen TVs were plasmas that came out in that time frame, and they were super-expensive. Miles Finch brags about having one in Elf, that came out in 2003.

My turn to be pedantic. What's the call sign of that station? Because CPB isn't a TV station.

Great point! If it's valuable people will happily pay for it.

You're right, I should have said funded. Same argument. Should the federal government be subsidizing television stations?

Teachers don't want to teach full books. I don't know why. Most of the English teachers I've talked to think it's a waste of time. They seem to want lessons that can be taught entirely in one class session, so no long-form anything. My son's newspaper teacher says it's a huge problem, as students aren't used to doing anything that takes more than an hour or so to complete, and newspaper articles can take days to finish.

I went to school in the same time frame in the US and I probably read a dozen full books as required reading, complete with book reports. For one high school class I had to read three books over the summer. I can almost remember them all in order: Rascal, A Wrinkle in Time, Johnny Tremain, Shane, Beowulf, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Great Expectations, A Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Walden, and a few more I can't remember :)

My son, who is graduating soon, I think has read two entire novels. He has read a lot more on his own, but required long-form reading has absolutely decreased since my time in school.

Does anyone besides Trump think Truth Social is a good idea?

It's much simpler than that. There is a list of stuff the government should do. Running television stations isn't on that list for a lot of people. Nor radio stations. Nor newspapers. Nor publishing companies or social media networks.