The EPA was created in the 1970s because of the massive amounts of airborne (and in-waterways) pollution. They didn't have the tools to measure changes in health and deaths because of cleaner air. Now, they do so no guessing required: Once air pollution becomes standard, there will be historical data to indicate the actual damage caused by unregulated pollution. The real problem is the 10-year delay until the consequences can be measured.

Everyone missed the point: Which law says Corporations have a right to a jury? This is pretending they can do everything people do. But they can't: they can't go to prison, they can't be executed, they can't pay taxes on their entire income, they can't be stopped at the national border.

A trial by jury also means the no-fault fine disappears: A court conviction means the corporation has committed a crime. If US courts truly believe corporations are people, then they must apply the same the level of punishment to a corporation: In other words, to the head of the corporation; the CxOs and directors. Anything less means the corporations are forcing the courts to spend taxpayers' money, enforcing a slap on the wrist.

Presumably, you don't give a flying fuck about the the contaminated air and other fossil fuel pollution in your own country. If you did, this evidence that an entire economic ecosystem can be changed in 10 years, means the pollution in your country is a choice.

Translation: I'll happily give my Driver's License to Twitter, Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, Fox News (online), CBS (online), New York Times (online), Washington Post (online), Redtube porn, OnlyFans and 20 other media corporations / data mongers. But sharing it with Dell and System 76 is "evil".

You already share much information with Samsung or Apple who do both hardware and software. Laptop manufacturers sell equipment with Windows product key and software update service in the BIOS, so Microsoft counts as a hardware/software predator too.

The problem is the US government (and all governments) are demanding the business sector do the government's job of knowing who the real people are. It's standard practice in the US to turn government services into private property (prisons, immigration, work for the dole) but other countries don't have an excuse. Government needs to provide a verification service for media corporations: They already do it for jobs and criminals and driving a car. This hypocrisy is a way to continue the data theft: It's not about saving children or catching criminals.

I'm sad this self-deluded rant got 4 likes.

While the Linux UI has been good for a decade and great for a few years, that's not sufficient to make it a ubiquitous appliance. Now that driver libraries are reaching critical mass and most new hardware includes Linux drivers, the biggest hurdle is overcome. There's one more though: Old software. Linux is very much a toy for computer enthusiasts, or tool for the workplace because it is rarely backward-compatible. The way around this, paradoxically, is Windows applications: WINE can run old Windows software very well. It's easier to find and install a Windows version than an old Linux version.

"Don't believe everything you read" has been advice for centuries: Monks in monasteries frequently wrote about the world and nature they had never seen.

Faked photographs are almost as old as photography. The same with moving pictures. Until recently, the tools to make fake video required PhD. level skill in manipulating images. Now that video can be faked by anyone, the problem is, the majority of faked videos are propaganda and misinformation.

There's no AI bullshit and hopefully it will last until EoL in 2032. But that's starting to produce error messages as their updated Win 10/11 middle-ware tries to install Co-pilot and fails. It seems the LTSC version is not compatible with the libraries (Microsoft store ?) that Co-pilot needs.

The only way 'forward' may be MS forcibly downgrading Win 10 LTSC into Win 11 Pro: That will force small businesses to buy US HIPPA compliant add-ons to stop Microsoft's literal data theft.

Other articles raved about the Bosch AI Barista but their lede omitted the fact the AI performed speech recognition. I assumed the AI enabled noobs to make the 'perfect' brew. Apparently, this Alexa+ version is worse than the original Alexa-powered espresso machine.

Thanks for omitting the one important fact: A certain portion of the ideology spectrum are breaking the rules and traditions of leading schools and states while demanding everyone else pretend they're aren't. This year, those people aren't limiting their behaviour to niceties: They are breaking laws.

Bribe-friendly Carr isn't doing this to help consumers, he's doing this to help big business. It's easier to excuse 'progress' if people think it benefits their self-interest. Since consumers currently have no reason to use it, they won't be in harm's way.

Paxton's raft of laws depriving Texans of choices, of rights, indicate he's not doing this to protect the people. This is driven by his xenophobia and racism.

Translation: Customers repeatedly expect a corporation to manage their equipment for them, for years, for free.

Seriously, this has been standard practice for 2 years, yet customers continue to be surprised when a corporation pulls the server's plug. If a product's interface is internet-only, the manufacturer is assuming you are a gullible idiot. Buying the product proves them correct.

If customers aren't asking how long the remote management/sync will be available, they deserve disappointment. If product reviewers aren't asking, they don't care about their audience. Product reviewers should headline their description of internet-based functions with "functionality ends 18 months after product release". What's the manufacturer going to do: Admit the EoL date in advance?

I'm guessing this allows Apple to decide which software the owner can use: Like Google is doing with Android OS. Either way, a hardware driver needs permission to work.

Why is hardware forced to expire? I get the security purpose of certificates but why the forced expiration? It's another form of forced obsolescence. I doubt anyone is making fake Logitech mice, there are easier ways to install malware.

The real problem is, my 6-button mouse needs a manager application to work while my 38 button joystick doesn't.

Of course the king of fraud won't sign but that's not the problem. Who has the power to seize e-mails and trace the payment of moneys? Without that, it's a "been a very naughty boy" posture: If you don't get caught red-handed, it's easy money. In other words, what US congress already does.

That's what war is for: With more people chasing a dwindling resource (middle-class pay-cheque), war is inevitable even though winner-takes-all capitalism has eliminated most of the middle-class (who would pay for that war).

War has useful side effects: Reducing the number of people and their rights (mostly democracy), normalizing theft (of foreign wealth) and creating new customers (the foreigners just robbed), while increasing the wealth of ruling class, yet again.

Civil war is worse because there isn't an invading force to impose law and order, to begin rebuilding the country. The victims of war must divide themselves into the have and have-nots, the cruel and the just. That's near impossible after years of blood-shed. It's why a war for freedom results in a nation that practices more violence and cruelty.