You didn't seem to understand that you are making my point. The claim from the FCC is a variation of "won't somebody think of the children" to wit "won't somebody think of the scam victims", but of course, as we both agree, this isn't about that at all. That is the whole point. Do they to keep up.

Really? Maybe go ask the Uyghurs about their treatment?

Remember how the Chinese responded to Covid-19? They imprisoned citizens in their apartments for weeks.

Go out to the rice paddy's and fish out the girls sacrificed due to China's one child policy.

And so on.

But hey, enjoy your cheap Chinese EV...

Really? $670K per Charger? Really? That's insane...

Tesla vomits up their 12-pack of chargers all over the place - they must be spending much less per charger, I doubt Tesla is dropping anything close to $8M per charging station w/12 chargers...

If you use a phone from another country you don't need a burner phone, because you don't need to conform with FCC laws, so this law doesn't stop scammers from other countries from scamming people in the USA. Herp Derp

Are claiming that you can't place calls from outside the USA to the USA? Are you claiming that there is no such thing as international roaming? I hope that muddies things back up for you.

The US constitution wasn't ratified until 1788 so Adams and Washington would have been approximately 52 and 56, at a time when the average life expectancy was much lower. Most people would consider them to be old even by today's standards. I am less than a 5 years older than they were at the time, and I can 100% confirm that I am an old man.

Bullshit. Your post exposes your complete lack of understanding of this issue. Even if you argue that there is a conspiracy and disabling location services and setting your google account Web & App activity and Timeline to off doesn't really work, these things track a *phone*, not a person. It is possible to simply not tie your phone to any google account, or to get a regular non-smartphone device. You can also create an anonymous google account which gets tied to the phone number, not your ID *until* this requirement is enacted. Once that happens it will be impossible to create an anonymous google account that the government cannot tie back to a citizen. Same with FB and similar, as well as any other website or app that requires/uses a verified phone number. If you have any self-respect at all you will apologize to every person you ever misinformed about this issue. You ignorance is dangerous.

Horseshit.

eBay doesn't have the identifying information off a SIM card sold on their site, they literally have no way of tracking the sale/purchase by the sim information.

You've watched too many crime dramas on TV, the cops can't trace a burner phone by going through shipping invoices to local stores and cross-matching that with credit card receipts and ID the buyer from in-store CCTV footage!

Customers of Pay-as-You-Go services largely avoid providing such information.

Every issue you cite is accurate and was 100% predicted before the project went forward. Every One. But politicians claimed they weren't concerned and pressed forward, shoveling countless billions into the project despite ZERO progress year after year.

Did anyone think land in California was going to get cheaper in the future? That Californians wouldn't go NIMBY and challenge the project at every step? Did anyone really believe the initial price tag?

The federal government has carefully avoided agreeing to cover cost over-runs with this project, California can fund their own high-speed rail project...

You know EVERY state has state-issued (non-drivers license) ID cards available, typically at no cost?

The issue is that people that work in buildings that require state-issued ID to enter (Capitol) insist that requiring ID to vote for them is racist, sexist, AND xenophobic and insist that married women and minorities lack state-issued ID...

This move will absolutely DESTROY the laziest plot-device in modern crime shows on TV today!

Crime dramas can burn a good five minute of airtime 'researching' the model phone the suspect used and then canvassing the area stores and reviewing shipping records to identify who bought the burner phone used in the crime...

This will kill television!

So you're saying Seattle is kicking out large businesses and high-earners in an attempt to free up precious electric resources to power EVs?

Brilliant!

Think of the displaced caribou and polar bears!

Will the City Council and the Mayor change their tune when Starbucks and other large corporations move out of Seattle?

Remember how the mayor was indifferent about millionaires and billionaires leaving Seattle? She was, "like, bye?"

Starbucks is moving 2,000 jobs out of Seattle, that's going to hurt the city, if the mayor realizes it or not...