Since all new homes in Ca now require solar be installed, this sounds pretty dodgy. Plus how large is this installation? Plus there will be an easement preventing you from doing anything within a certain area of the installation and to provide access from the street for any repairs/upgrades. I expect this to plan to fail quickly. Personally, I think the answer to the power issue is to eliminate the need for giant AI data centers all together.

No, I think it's simply a problem of who they have contracts with. They all live an work in the metro areas so that's where they find the outside contractors. They never seemed to ask if the appraisers had Ag experience. Of the the trials I observed they all admitted to having never appraised Ag land prior to that appraisal. As I said it never went well for the state.

It is so sad, but you are right.

I've watched several trials here in the Central Valley. One of the main issues is Sacramento sends appraisers from metro areas to appraise farm land. They appraiser starts with, well, there are not any utilities near by, the nearest sewer hookup is 6 miles and there are not any access points, etc, etc. The jury who is full of farmers all but do a face plant and then award ten times what the state/authority had appraised each acre of Almonds for.

Yes, because guns were never made by hand before the invention of CNC. It is quite doable to make a gun or any of it's parts by hand, it just takes alot of time and effort. A law that tries to prevent easy manufacture will not stop someone who is determined. It's just another stupid unenforceable code that will be ignored. However it did enriched the bank accounts of the politicians who proposed it

What hospital isn't for profit?

That was my question about all this. Why would "rural business owners" drive for 30 minutes or more to make a delivery for Amazon? I'm thinking that Amazon believes that the suburbs are the rural areas. Where I live (which is not the middle of nowhere by any means) is over an hour to the nearest incorporated city. The business' owners in the nearest "town" will not be making deliveries, in many if not most cases they are the only one there. More marketing hyperbole.

You missed the guy in the rear. Three makes it 30% more impressive!

"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." -Ronald Reagan

Let me guess, you put your hands in front of your face and chant "nanny nanny, you can't see me" and believe that you are hidden. Have you ever heard of public urination ordinances? In Ca it falls under PC 372, but many if not most cities and/or counties have specific ordinances against it. Just because you can't or don't want to see others does not mean you are not in public. Talk about "patently absurd".

Please don't mistake my post as a "pro" surveillance statement. I was pointing out that many people mistake their desires for what's actually codified.

Since we are discussing cameras in the public view, if you are in public anyone can legally follow i.e. "track" you. Just because you don't like it, does not make illegal. Also the "government" can walk with you, talk with you, and even LIE to you (gasp).

I just had to get rid of my old 5 last year, it just started giving up the ghost on me. Replaced it with a second hand s22, I hate having to twist it all around with one hand trying to get the fingerprint reader to work. IMHO, the best implementation of a bio reader yet.

I was hoping they would bring back the fingerprint reader on the back. That was such a nice convivence to read you index finger without having to move the phone around in your grip.

Show how ignorant you are without intending to show how ignorant you are.