Sorry about the obvious typo.

Are you talking about the average child-molestation-sentence compared to the average sentence for testing fraud of this scale, or are you cherry-picking cases?

Also, context mayters: If you are looking at the average child molestation care, is the average case one where a 20 year old is busted with a 15 year old girlfriend (where you could make a case for 35 months being a reasonable average sentence) or is the average more like a 50 year old serial rapist who molested dozens of people 12 or younger (where 350 months may be considered too lenient)?

What would really make them worth something is an easy upgrade path to an operating system that was still getting security updates.

Google, Apple, and the major phone vendors could score big PR points be extending security updates to 10 years on products introduced since 2016. In the long run PR points can translate into customer loyalty which can translate into "Step 4: PROFIIT!" in a non-sarcastic way.

There is a market for parts that aren't crypto-locked to or residing on the motherboard.

Cheap small usable high-quality camera for my next project? Yes please.

"... football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents..."

Hyperbolic language meant to spur some sort of emotional reaction, I guess?
This process : deposition of a dissolved solid and then the solvents being driven of by a long, gentle drying process, is pretty common in industry as a method. For example just about every self adhesive product uses this process for its release coating.

is and always will be impossible.

Did you miss my second to last sentence entirely?

Perhaps you could crawl out of your side-bias and recognize that BOTH OF THEM ARE SHIT.

Oh look, more evidence of the ideological capture of slashdot.
A call to murder the president, +5 informative.

I mean you guys have tried what, 4x now? It's always ultimately about murder when the leftist nursery school doesn't get its way.

"too many" being once.

"the American rightâ(TM)s hostility to democracy" you say?
Do tell.

So if we're talking sides, which "side"
- invaded social media spaces, and then emplaced high level government agents within the relevant companies SPECIFICALLY to guide "public conversations" in the directions they prefer?
- pushed for vote-from-home, the most beautifully-crafted system if one wanted fraudulent voting?
- pushed for electronic voting, again simplifying and enabling large scale fraud?
- manipulated information, media, reporting and hid any information that called into question the mandated "It came from bats" COVID theory? And then worked hard to kill/hide the fact that the US actually funded gof work at the lab it seemed to come from?
- spent years telling us how far apart from each other we were allowed to stand?

I don't think Trump and his crew of morons is any better, but the idea that one side is better than the other is laughable.

Some would agree that yes, what was going on was inexcusable.

You "You used an AI"
(provides actual source)
You "I don't like that source"
Also you: I'm disingenuous as fuck.

Even car-only phones would've benefited from early-1980s-style cellular analog radio if the tech was available in big cities in the 1950s.

While I'm sure we all appreciate the ä宣éf's opinion, lying about gross economic statistics and manipulating currency is fundamentally non-capitalist.

I'm not going to disagree with you that Western governments have done so themselves sometimes (for example, the US unstated policy for at least 50 years after WW2 was to keep the USD overly strong as an 'invisible subsidy' to our western economic partners, making their manufactured goods more price competitive; US consumers got cheap goods, foreign economies got to build their factories and economies), but China's economic manipulations are ceaseless and utterly one-sided.

I think everyone understands that fundamentally, dictatorships HAVE ALWAYS been potentially more nimble, more efficient, and more consistent.

At a longer view, the question is if the costs are worth those improvements.

...they're fucked.
Their inventory is insanely high. And worse, it's OLD.

They kept running production full tilt, forcing dealers to take new production AND FORBIDDING THEM offering deals to customers to clear old stocks. They kept trying to sell to the top of the market and nobody's interested.

So their dealers are closing left and right, going bankrupt because they can't service the sustain costs on their inventory (they don't precisely own the cars in their lots) and as few people that are willing to buy a new JEEP for $120k, there's even fewer willing to pay $120k for a "new" 2024 model that's been sitting on the lot for 3 years. Drive that off the lot and you don't lose 30% value, you lose 60% or more.

I'm not in that business, but from what I understand their collapse is a "when not if" proposition. Not shocked that when Carvana looked for someone willing to be their playground, Stellantis was willing and had dealerships that would take anything for some inflow of cash and maybe even customers.