How the FCC is powerless to enforce net neutrality while at the same time enforcing bans under the guise of software security.

Not after the bribes are paid.

"Iran have been planning and trying to get nukes forever."

That's what naziyahoo says every time Israel needs money for more bombs, and you internalized it because your mind is weak.

Thank you Wired for this insightful article about how CUDA is an impressive tool that creates a moat for NVidia's ongoing business success. Congratulations on waking up to the year 2016, when this was already well-known in the world of computing. The only thing interesting about this article appearing in 2026 is CUDA's continued dominance, which was never really assured.

This is a thing that happens, if by aliens you mean foreign weed growers operating unlicensed grows in our country. But it's farmers illegally selling them the water.

Yes, if we want to solve our water problems we should make it possible for farmers to not use water themselves and yet keep their allotment in future years by allowing them to divert the unused portion to an aquifer.

The vast majority of pickups are never used to tow anything for their entire existence, not even once. This is probably not true in the UK, but here in the US they often serve the same market that a luxury car normally would, but for people with tiny PP syndrome.

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Yes. That's correct. But have you seen how much vehicles cost now? That's true of all American automakers in particular.

Ford didn't offer the base package with the big battery, which is how we knew right up front that they didn't give a shit about working people. THAT would be the ideal tradesman's truck, because it can power pretty much anything.

1.50 for a slice, $10 for a pie... but last time I tried to call ahead at 11 to get a whole pie at lunchtime, I couldn't have it until almost 1pm. I conclude that the pizza is another loss leader like the hot dog, which is why they won't hire enough staff to make enough pizzas to satisfy demand.

Maybe. Some of them outright prohibit it because their wiring can't handle the load.

Yeah, in some cases they are wired to the same circuit though. They shouldn't be, but RV campgrounds often aren't held to any reasonable standard.

I'm on some schoolie groups and may still be in rvelectricity (if I haven't been booted again for complaining about AI slop) and bad hookups at RV parks are horribly common.

If you're using all USB connections that's perfectly rational. If you need SPI or I2C then you will need additional hardware, otherwise there's no problem with your approach. OTOH a Pi is a hundred bucks and low power and will fit in pretty much any printer, so there's that I guess. Someday when I have another printer I will replace the guts of my Adventurer 5M because 128MB RAM is pathetic and causes real problems. It would also be nice to have the printer do its own timelapses.

Yes, indirect benefits and taxation is core to how government services work. You can lose money in one sector and recoup from the gains in others. Cheap and reliable post service has been a backbone of the US economy since its inception, these are like force multipliers. You'd have to show me the USPS has always been "profitable" as a counterexample.

You even use "acceptable cost" so you get what I'm saying, we are just arguing over the amount that is acceptable.

Yes I will excoriate Republicans because they have never, ever in my life cared about root causes.

You want a return to pre 1970s USPS which means fully government controlled. Republicans don't want this. You want USPS reform, Republicans don't want this, they want to divest and privatize it.

Democrats may sometimes throw goodoney after bad but they also get actual governance done, they pass bills. Infrastructure, Chips act, inflation reduction act; all passed under Biden and those bills have project Republicans are taking credit for even while most voted against it.

Republicans can't govern, they have never cared about root causes because they are forced under positions and chose a leader who simply does not understand the concept.

Can you point me to one speech or anything where Trump understand the cause and solution to a root cause issue?

"There is an ongoing war that is crippling economies worldwide specifically to prevent one nation from getting one nuclear weapon."

No, there is not. That is a false pretext.

Same thing happens with humans.

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.