Tidal energy is caused by the moon's rotation around the earth. Maybe earth rotation also assists but I haven't seen anything definitive on that but it is also outside my wheelhouse.

It has it's ups and downs. More seriously, this is a failure of both our education system and industry. Currently the American education system pushes students towards college at the expense of people working in the trades (or in some cases actively or subtly disparages and degenerates this class of work). Sometimes this is through subtle comments in an effort to focus on moving youth to college as the ONLY solution, when we need a trained work force for all classes of work. Even farming has a huge need for knowledgeable people. (See what I did there...I degenerated farming deliberately to prove my point of how subtle it can be, when I wholeheartedly disagree that it is not skilled. Technology is needed to assist the farmer and their skill and knowledge is critical for our country. But these types of comments, especially in formative years, make it seem like these roles are not important!) On the other side, equipment and spares are hard to come by. It isn't a huge growth industry, but it is growing and we need to solve some of the problems with supply as well as skills. Some of the manufacturing problems are due to one-off design (for various reasons) and other to JIT (just in time) manufacturing. We also have a shortage of qualified people to machine the parts.

So it WAS the Spanish Inquisition at fault.....

When viewed from a contractual requirement, a purchase is the transfer of the item for "currency" (in quotes, because it could be cash or gift certificates, but in any case it's a transfer of like minded value between two individuals or companies). Contract law will have to be reviewed to determine where this stands. But this doesn't just apply to games, it also applies to music, movies and books bought in this new era to determine if we truly "own" these things (a purchase) or if it is just a limited license. So far the courts are finding that this is only a limited license.

PG&E is a California Company. They provide power in California. (https://www.pge.com/). PGE is Portland General Electric which is an Electric Company providing power in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas. (https://portlandgeneral.com/) PGE is not the same as PG&E and PG&E is the one who is removing the dams.

So Hulu content will show up on Disney+. That seems cool. But I'm paying for Hulu, Disney and ESPN (as a single package). If the content on Hulu is showing up on Disney+, my value proposition has changed and I have to wonder if it's really worthwhile having either Hulu or paying for the combination, especially if the rates are going up again since they just went up in January.

Uranus, like Myanus, loses atmosphere often. I usually blame it on Dogsanus.

OK, so if I grab your spare key under your front door mat, did your Schlage deadbolt get "picked"? No, poor OpSec. If I drop my key fob to my car, and you use the remote open door feature to find it and steal my car. Did GM's laser cut key database get "hacked?" No. GM isn't at fault because I made a mistake. A hack is when someone gets a system to act in an unintended way. Ring is performing as expected: put in a valid username and password, then gain entry. They don't report to have biometrics or other means to authenticate it's you. Hell, a sophisticated threat would clone your phone anyway, making the 2-factor call your phone as well as his. This happens often for higher value targets, but rarely makes the news because the threat is much more sophisticated. That said, yes, you're right. Ring could add sophisticated measures but it's not my bank account we are securing. They're cameras. All of mine are outside so I really don't care if you hacked my 4 Ring cameras. You would see my neighbors doing their laundry and me leaving every morning and coming home 6 hours later. This is why my Echo Show has the camera disabled 99.999% of the time. Hack it and you see nothing.

Right. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do it. This is what separates good engineers from geniuses. To me this is the classic Android versus Apple argument as well. Sure you can do everything on both, but the Apple is more polished. A 2nd grader and a 72 year old can figure an iPhone out without instructions. As you mention, you can spend hours on it, just to be hacked anyway. Or, just buy the Ring and turn on 2-step authentication like you probably should do anyway (RPi, or commercial).

That's akin to saying, "I have absolutely no sympathy for idiots who buy a house when someone breaks in and stabs them. This goes for garages too." The person who took over their account is breaking the law. Period. Not everyone understands security and often re-uses passwords. Do you realize Titan, Schalge and Defiant reuse keys for deadbolts and door locks? Is it ok if I use a set of keys to get into your house and steal everything? "We have no sympathy for idiots who don't understand tumblers and pins of the locks inside their home." How about your car? How about I hack the OBD2 system to make your transmission shift into reverse while you do 70mph down the highway? "I have no sympathy for idiots who don't understand their cars on-board diagnotic system." How about your grandmother who is in intensive care at the hospital? Hospital Wifi is known to be unsecure. Do you have zero sympathy when a hacker shuts down her life supporting systems? Grandma deserves it since she doesn't understand encryption and information security, right?

Turn on two factor authentication and don't reuse passwords. That's the simple lesson here. This 'Crap' you mention has saved a little girl who was kidnapped right in front of their house, led to arrest and prosecution of home invaders who nearly killed a homeowners dog, and cut down on crime in many areas.

I think 9/11 is so far back and most Americans are so apathetic they either didn't know or have forgotten 9/11 wasn't the first attack. It wasn't the 2nd. It was in the teens.. Meaning we were in well over double digits. Khobar Towers sound familiar? USS Cole sound familiar? The Twin Towers in NYC had already been bombed once before. We ignored them. We "kept our troops at home." Problem is, the camps in Afghanistan kept pumping out skilled personnel who learned how to bomb and kill people.

Imagine you have a meth lab next door. Would you tell the cops, "Well, don't invade their home. Just arrest the street dealers. That will solve the problem. Leave the meth lab alone." That's exactly what you're saying when you say, "Don't invade Afghanistan." We had to invade Germany to stop Hitler. We had to nuke Japan to get them to stop suicide attacking throughout the Pacific, and we had to invade Afghanistan to stop the Osama Bin Laden sponsored and Taliban (the government back then) hosted terrorist camps. We also invaded Iraq to get them to stop shooting at F-16s and threatening neighbors, but that narrative has been hijacked by the whole "no WMDs found" false flag. Any one recall how many UN security resolutions were passed telling Saddam to knock his shit off?? Anyone? How many talked about WMDs? (hint: almost none)

The problem however, as we learn everywhere is, "Power abhors a vacuum." If you take out one evil power, you are an open host to what ever else can take its place.

Correct. 350k was nothing compared to the rate we were losing soldiers as we island hopped and tried to defeat Japan. They also refused to surrender and would fight to the last person. They were also convincing local populations to commit suicide rather than wait to see what happened when the Allies liberated their lands, although some were also just murdered. Hard to say how much is fact and fiction in these stories. For anyone skeptical, take a look at how many Russians died kicking Germany out. 26 million... and that was mostly on defense. Going onto the offense makes attrition rates go up.

Beeftopia seems to be the only response I've seen that really understands PsyOps (Psychological Operations in warfare), and the differences.

I worked at Home Depot for over 5 years, and have spent time inside the loss prevention office. They are not face scanning and tracking you through the store. If they are tracking you, it's a guy who's watching a dozen camera feeds and switching between them. If they catch you stealing, it takes awhile for them to take the video from the different cameras and make a CD for the arresting officer. The time depends on how long you spent in the store and how much you moved around.

Those cameras on the aisles are stand alone and not part of the system. They're really just to make you aware they're focusing on that high-theft part of the store (e.g. power tools in Hardware, and $90 circuit breakers in Electrical). Each store has a staff of Loss Prevention, and most employees will ignore you even if you're an obvious thief. They are instructed not to touch you and in some cases I was admonished for asking them "Can I help you?" I got pissed because your thieving takes away money from my bonus. My store probably easily lost over $1M a year to thieves. If you walk in, grab a torch from hardware, a bluetooth speaker, and a $90 Klein electricians backpack.... everyone in the store knows what's happening. And walkie talkies... I did the math. For every pair of walkie talkies sold, 2 were stolen. $200k sold in a year, and about $600k stolen.. just in walkie talkies from my store alone.

Yes, they track people by sales receipts and your Drivers License. This is how they catch people who fraudulently return very high numbers of products. Usually it's stolen but not always. Again, you're robbing the people who work there when you fraudulently return products. That "shrink" reduces revenue, which reduces the employee bonus.

Great question!! As in 1991 I reported to 2 SOPS which performed C2 of a non-existent (according to this article) satellite system. We created navigation uploads based on fake Pseudo-Ranging from about 20 fake satellites received by fake monitoring stations. The Khalman filter took the fake PRs and created fake navigation uploads. I, as the Satellite Operator, started GPS (by name alone) satellite supports by slewing ground antennaes to a fake location (we used wiijii boards and random number generators for az and elev ) to then radiate into blank open space. Funny thing is watching Patrick AFB have fake launches!! They would load billion dollar Delta2 rockets on the pad, pretend they were fitting a GPS satellite onto the top, and then launch nothing into space. We would do pretend thruster firings to get it into a transfer orbit, and then de-spin the fake satellites.

So many fake things I did. OH! And we even stood up a Training Squadron, 534th TRS at Vandenberg to train fake satellite operators!! It's a shame only my last years teaching was to people flying real satellites. I guess we had good practice from years of faking it.

Your net is too small. Middle Easterners have been murdering millions for thousands of years, not hundreds. Look up the origins of Wahhabism. It started shortly after the death of Christ. The "Crusades" is often cast as a response in 1095 to Christians being murdered by Muslims, while crossing the Mediterranean. So that's 925 years ago that people on a large scale started getting pissed off about it.

The book "5 Pillars of Islam" really explains it well. And it's depressing when you realize just how long people have been killing each other over their invisible friend, beliefs, etc.