There is no right for a "first incident" grace because this is potentially happening to thousands of people and if they all just accept an apology for the "first incident" then Flock keeps getting away with it. Sue immediately.

She should not accept an apology. She has to sue, both the department as well as Flock.

The only thing that will end this is consequences for the department and Flock.

Go talk to a lawyer they eat stuff like this up.

My bad for not being specific. I was talking about the debt, no taxes. And obviously the moderators didn't read any of my other posts or they'd know I was not defending trump.

Sorry but that's not even close to true (yet). You'll have to provide some citations and references to back up your claim.

Better deals? You mean pay double and be happy. Tariffs don't ever make domestic goods cheaper and more available.

It's convenient to blame China of course. It's a lot more palatable than realizing that our own system has screwed us. Because we're the best in the world and if we can't do it cheaply and affordably, they must be cheating! Unfair trade! Unfair to the biggest power in the world.

But the simple fact is American companies put you in this situation. China didn't get ahead because they cheated. They got ahead because American companies deliberately gutted manufacturing and fired workers to improve their bottom line, and China responded to the demand, willing to take slightly lower short-term profits. Tariffs won't fix this (if it actually is broken). In fact they make it much, much worse. American companies aren't incentivized to ramp up production and drive down prices. In fact it's the opposite. With no competition, what capacity you do have will remain the same while prices double and triple. It's all about that sweet sweet shareholder profit (and CEO pay out). There will never be self sufficiency as long as the Harvard Business School mentality drives corporations. Meanwhile enjoy your massive tax increases that fund an ever-decreasing amount of social services.

That is why things were so bad during COVID.

So fascinating! Tariffs all together are the largest tax increase on American citizens in many years. While they do cause damage and harm to others, you are the ones who pay it. Glad you are happy to contribute your part. And yet while they harm the American consumer, they don't seem to do any of the positive things that you suggest. Near as I can tell all they've done is driven up prices and enriched those who were already rich at the expense of the rest of Americans.

Two problems with your statements

First problem: Waymos have been driving on highways for a long time.

Second, is you are looking at the data totally wrong. To be better than human drivers, all any *individual* Waymo driver has to have is more miles than *the average individual driver* - and that number is already passed by tens-of-thousands.

The "number of trips that happen in a single day" is not relevant whatsoever as a safety metric.

Yes it's very interesting how quickly we have learned that the Constitution is simply a piece a paper with no inherent power, except as people honor it. Once that honor is gone, the constitution is gone. Congress and the courts also have no real power, except that which is granted voluntarily. Courts can rule until they are blue in the face but when a president just says, "so what" everything is lost. We all got extremely complacent, thinking that all people, especially presidents, ultimately uphold the constitution as we do individually. Despite generations of talking about freedom, it's astounding how quickly so many just don't care about it actually, and are happy to have a king.

I agree with John V. Last: It's worth fighting for, even if I'm not hopeful about winning. At least you can tell you kids you stood up for the constitution and freedom, even though you lost. The next 10 years will be very interesting.

Manufacturing didn't move to China because the Chinese were cheating and undercutting American companies. Rather it was a deliberate decision on the part of American companies to kill local manufacturing and eliminate jobs (employees are simply costs to reduce), in order to maximize short-term quarterly gains. No amount of tariff and government banning will fix that.

Just for context, when its predecessor RIPA, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, came in it was said to be used only for cases such as terrorism etc.. Instead, it was found that councils started using to check people were putting things in the right rubbish bins for collection.

Robust safeguards indeed.

I've honestly no idea if it's possible, but if they could find a way to get Steam Input into there or the equivalent of their own then I could use it. I have an original Steam Controller, you used to be able to use it on non-Steam games but for a few releases now Steam took that ability away. Some way of emulating or creating an alternative to Steam Input would be superb.

If Apple's RAM is on the cpu die, then they aren't beholden to any RAM supplier! As long as they have fab slots to make their M cpus, they have RAM too. So if demand for RAM is hurting their ability to get fabs to make their M series CPUs, then they are hurting way more than just for high RAM prices.

This is true. And if you don't use any Google services with an alternate firmware, you still can.

Developer verification is enforced through Google Play Services, even for apps that are installed from other sources. It's a pretty neat way of allowing third-party app stores while still guaranteeing their cut.

Google is not allowed to do business at all in sanctioned nations, so devs there can't even access Google Play Services in the first place, which is where the developer verification takes places. No Google services, no Google Play, no Play Services, no developer verification. So there's no "exemption" at play. Surely Google never said any such thing as the headline and summary imply. By this logic, LineageOS or Android OSP without gapps installed is exempted from Google's developer verification program too.