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Comment Re: I'll get the popcorn... (Score 1) 121

Oh summer child,, if you think this is peak wrong, you are not going to like the effects of selling weapons grade plutonium to random countries.

Sudden peace might descend, as various countries would become able to defend themselves against U.S. invasions?

What color is the sky in you imaginary world?

Comment Re:So Iran war is coming to an end? (Score 1) 62

Unless Trump's ready to abandon the problem he created and just let Iran have its way, the that situation isn't coming to a conclusion any time soon. And since Trump can't be trusted to honour anything he says, or signs, someone else will have to fix it after he's left office.

Like he's ever going to leave. He'll declare himself president for life or maybe Emperor, that sounds grander after all.

Comment Lots of rural folk rely on POTS (Score 2) 123

I'm in Ca and had a land line till just a couple of years ago. Again the /. crowd can't seem to recognize that not everyone lives in a metro area. I have no cell service at my property and had DSL right up to finally getting Starlink. Fuck AT&T, they took the money, they need to follow through with the job. That goes for all the carriers that have promised to install high speed internet for years and never followed through.

Comment Re:Do the home owners (Score 1) 162

Well, you just said flat out, user pays $150/month in lieu of ISP+power.

Note that last month my ISP+Power was less than $100/month (thanks to solar offsetting it).

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.

Comment Re:too much local red tape and negotiations (Score 1) 199

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.

Comment Re:too much local red tape and negotiations (Score 1) 199

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.

Comment Re: mill (Score 1) 139

The issue is that making your own out of metal requires skill and expensive equipment.

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

Comment Re:Can Amazon find DSPs in the most rural of rural (Score 1) 22

Amazon's rural push will require a lot more rural business owners willing to make deliveries...

It will be interesting to see how many individuals in rural areas will sign up to be Amazon DSPs (Delivery Service Partners), and stay in the program. In medium/high density areas the ROI can be positive, but if you need to spend more money on fuel (or electricity) than you can make delivering the boxes it may be not a long term business opportunity (no matter how Amazon tries to frame it on their DSP site).

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.

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