Tell us you don't understand how the government works without telling us you don't understand how it works.

Congress has the power to delegate it's authority to smaller expert groups. Passing a law that says "The FTC can set rules for trade and commerce in these ways..." is completely valid. Or sure, we could have Senator "series of tubes" Stevens write every single specific rule that controls Internet communications. That will work fine.

There are only two groups of people who want to eliminate regulatory authority: (1) people who are too dumb to understand the negative impact it would have on normal people, and (2) corporate hacks and simps who understand exactly that negative impact and see that as the goal.

As an aside: I find it hilarious that the same people who bitch about "we are a republic, not a democracy" and fight against, for example, eliminating the electoral college, are often the same people who bitch about "unelected bureaucrats".

Where are the power plants for these?

This is pure passive aggressive grey beard Linux snobbery masquerading as thoughtful commentary

Apple is bsd Unix and has a complete set of Unix tools. Apple knows there customers needs probably better than any maker and you never were going to be one.

The whole point of this is it's inexpensive. Ic you desire more power it's not for you

Fuck you and that Ribbon.

I'm sorry. This is a topic that makes me nerd-rage.

LK

How in the fuck does using 15% of the screen for a ribbon provide a compact interface when the menu bar is the competition?

LK

I'm so happy to hear of how many people are expressing this same sentiment.

I absolutely abhor the Ribbon interface. I don't care what their market research shows. I don't care what their shills and evangelists say. I do not like it. It's not intuitive at all.

LK

I have hated the Ribbon interface since it became the default. I use LibreOffice specifically to avoid having to use it.

LK

I'm so tired of seeing this tired old red herring trotted out during debates about daylight saving time.

Using local time versus UTC has absolutely nothing to do with DST. You can get the same effect by eliminating DST and keeping a static UTC offset for local time. There's a reason that Britain, for which GMT/UTC is local time still has British Summer Time (UTC+1) during the summer.

The problem is how the rising and setting of the sun affects schedules. Using UTC everywhere means you'll have people saying "schools need to start an hour later in winter so the babbies don't have to walk in the dark" -- the exact same argument used against permanent standard time.

There's no phone in this model
So we can't talk at all

Well-stated. I can't fathom why this is modded down to zero. Wish I had points to spend.

I have to assume the majority of people have no idea what "neoliberalism" means. Seeing "liberal" in it pisses off progressives because they think you're blaming them for Reagan and his policies, and it pisses off conservatives because they think you're stealing credit for their golden-age accomplishments.

All true, but natural beef is so delicious it's worth those compromises.

Don't worry, I'm sure that the lab-grown stuff won't make those same mistakes.

That's why Amazon wanted to acquire Ring.

I have a ring camera and I'm hesitant to install it for this reason.

LK

Property taxes also increase regularly. Given it's ostensibly the same market forces driving both (supply and demand), in a fair system we should be seeing rent prices and property taxes increase by about the same amount each year.

And the other kind of idiot doesn't see the writing on the wall that points to a future where most features are subscription-only. This was obviously a test balloon sent up by BMW to see what the reaction would be to a hardware subscription service. They tempered it by making it optional but I'm absolutely certain they are talking internally about which features would be tolerable to most drivers as subscription-only.

What an absolutely wrong and completely "yes, please sir, use me as a doormat" take. Maybe you don't buy anything but the words on a page but most normal people buy a car, which includes everything bumper to bumper.

Besides, if this is all a nothing-burger, then I guess it's okay for people to hack their cars to enable heated seats for free? I'm sure nothing will go wrong when most people are driving around with modchips or softmods screwing around with the internals of their cars.

I'm pretty sure that's the entire point behind the exercise (well, except some bonus mild cruelty associated with thoughtless and shitty rules that will inevitably be biased against the poor and powerless). They want to create terrible regulations so that they can point at them later and screech about the TERRIBLE OVERBEARING REGULATIONS. This gives them a lever in 3 years to push against these AI regulations in addition to any others they want to excise.

This is just the techbro version of what Regan did in the 80s. He and his administration claimed the government was and had always been incapable and incompetent, and they proved it by being incapable and incompetent. Then they pointed at their own failures as justification for burning everything down, something we are still paying the price for today.