He was molesting underage women a lot longer then 27 years.

COA member since 2009.
It's not bad.
Was even President for a while before I decided not to run anymore, because frankly- it's a terrible fucking job.
As you mentioned, some kind of COA is pretty necessary for a condominium. Upkeep of the commons is imperative.

That being said, nobody in a COA or an HOA ever wielded a drop of power that you didn't sign a contract granting them right to wield, as well as wield it if you can get voted into HOA office.
An organization governed by a democratic charter is hard to compare with the government of fucking China.

For the things I participated in democratically to vote for- yes.

For the things I participated in democratically to vote for- yes.

It can seize it to recover what it is owed- for sure. Which is a power I voted to give it, and in some municipalities- have even been stripped from it- and after the transaction is complete- I get the difference.

Are you truly too stupid to see how that's different?

That's not what LLMs are.
There are quantifiable performance metrics by which you can judge an LLM. That's how it's better, or not.

To the woefully ignorant such as yourself, I'm unsurprised it appears so.
I suspect you're bewildering by all kinds of things- like light bulbs, batteries... The list goes on.

There are scam artists in every industry.
At this point of proliferation, it's just sad to see people so desperate try to deny the impact and usage.

I'm with registrations_suck- try making accurate posts.
You seem to be fond of the particular set of words, "pedantic at best".

You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

No, it's accurate. Don't be stupid.

Property taxes in my tax jurisdiction go up and down all the time as they're voted for and voted against.

Incorrect.

LOL- not unless you live in a place with very, very strong renter rights that more or less prevents them from evicting you. Otherwise, there's a literal line of people waiting to take your unit.

I own my property. It's pretty clear you don't.

COA, and yes.

You bet wrong.

Correct. If you want the house, you sign the contract that gives them that power.
Don't do that.

Incorrect.
About 75% of them, which is a lot- but not all.

That was your choice. You signed the fucking contract.

The knowledge is free.

The skilled professionals to persuade the pupil whose civil rights include refusing to learn to absorb it are not.

You can lock a kid in a library but you can't make her think. When ignorance is virtue we have lost.

Another Canadian dunce who's drank the warm cup of PP ...

Hmm, I'd return it then, if they have got that much worse. A friend got a recent Panasonic 32" budget set and that seemed very responsive and quick to start up.

I think for all his faults, Xi does genuinely hate poverty and desire to lift people out of if. Maybe it's for selfish reasons like cementing his place in Chinese history, I have no way of knowing, but he is succeeding at it. His methods can be extreme of course, amounting to genocide in some cases, but the fascists got the trains running on time...

But if you are using it as a dumb TV then why do you need the interface? All you need is to change channels and inputs, and maybe the volume (I use my Nvidia Shield remote for that via CEC). I barely ever touch my TV's remove.

As for the lag, it depends on the model. The older and cheaper ones are bad, the newer ones are fine. I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

I'm a little surprised nobody has made a fridge with a motorized door yet. It seems so obvious, and those guys spend their working lives thinking about how to make fridges better.

It depends what you mean. Compared to the USA today... I'd say it's at least comparable. The UK legal system seems to be having some issues at the moment too.

But also failure to deploy renewables faster enough. This week we have had two periods of free electricity due to the abundance of renewables. The things keeping retail prices high are mostly gas and a bit of nuclear. Our system works on the basis that everyone gets paid the price of the most expensive source, which is always gas or nuclear (we don't have any coal).

Another example of NIMBYism making things worse for everyone. Every objection to renewables is forcing prices to remain high.