Here in Toronto, we have thousands of people riding around on ebikes and scooters. We are supposed to have a law that they need to have working pedals, but that is completely ignored unless the cops do a blitz. Anyone on a gas-powered moped needs a license, registration, proper helmet and insurance. These e-bikes are just as fast and just as hazardous, but the rules don't apply.

We have a LOT of drunks wobbling around on these: They don't need a license. Users of these things often go along with their feet dragging, no gloves, and a bicycle helmet instead of a real helmet. And a lot of them buy the "hop up" kits that make these things just as fast as small motorcycles and way faster than a moped. These things are deathtraps for the users in this city.

As far as I'm concerned, the licensing, insurance, registration and PPE requirements should be the same for ALL powered vehicles on the street, electric or gas. New Jersey is absolutely right to enforce these requirements.

It's a shame you don't understand police work. Evidence is actually needed: Public video is very valuable, as is citizen-posted cell phone video and reports, provided they are not "edited" for malicious purpose.

Look at what happened in Minnesota: Lots of video of the murder of the woman in the SUV has been very helpful in keeping that horror from being swept under the rug. (Note: I don't consider ICE as "police": They are racist and untrained brownshirts.)

And your Denver situation is far more a straw man argument (Or "argue by exception") than mine.

Next time you're carjacked, robbed in public, or assaulted in broad daylight in public, please make sure you get permission from the EFF and Amnesty International before you permit the police to use any video to track down the criminal who hurt you and recover your property or get restitution.

You may not get any justice, and a criminal may be free to commit violent crime against others with impunity, but think how morally superior you will be!

So a bunch of cameras are streaming live video of a public space on the Internet.

So what? It's a public space with no expectation of privacy. Does a camera have to point to a coffeepot to be acceptable?

We can make more money if we put the seats closer together on the airplanes. Screw the proles: Treat them like sardines!

We can save money by having all the air traffic controllers in some "regional center" instead of having them locate at the airports so they can better see what's going on. Screw the proles: Safety is for the rich!

We can let the agribusinesses make more money if we get rid of food standards. Let them clean filthy chicken soaked with chlorine instead of actually implementing cleanliness standards. Screw the proles: Good food is only for the rich!

And now, we can save money on salaries if we make the proles walk further for the bus. Screw the proles: Make them walk!

So the "vision" is that the ultra-rich own all the computers and everyone else gets to rent them. Sounds like the vision for real estate: The ultra-rich will own all the properties and we will all get to rent them. And food: The ultra-rich will own all the farmland and we get to buy the food from them.

What this really is, is the WEF vision of "You will own nothing and you will be happy". There will be no middle-class allowed to own property: Just the ultra-rich owning everything and the rest of us will be a "working class" only allowed to work to survive.

This is just "Neo-feudalism". A few ultra-rich and a serf class.

Time to break out the guillotines, friends.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. "Engineers" have standards and responsibilities to meet those standards. This does not exist in the software industry.

There is another strong force against "expensive" software and that is FOSS. Justifying "expensive" versus "inexpensive" when there is competition that is free is extremely difficult for manglement who can only see $$$.

Remember that when a mangler sniffs and says "I can't hear you if you don't speak to me in MY language" they really mean "You have to tell me how you are going to make me money or GTFO.".

"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

He's fighting back against enshittification. GOOD for him!!

I suspect that fossil fuel and non-plug-in hybrid drivers would LOVE to replace their fuel bills with a 3 cent per mile charge.

They won't say because Microsoft doesn't want to tell you to install Linux.

Let me know when they change their minds and produce the Spaceballs set and I'll get out my wallet.

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Good little dig at the tories there. Nice to see that the soft left are doing the usual job of making sure to slander decent conservatives at every turn.

The LPC has continuously bent over to the USA whenever there was any form of conflict. They have only paid lip service to most Canadians' reasonable concerns and mild distrust of the Excited States.

Even Diaper Diddler Donny has stated that he prefers Carney to Poilievre: He likes a pushover when he dictates "deals".

If Amtrak doesn't start looking into grabbing a bigger share of the transportation market, they are idiots.

Trains work.

It's like watching a tube man.