But I do hope they are paying property taxes and asset taxes on the building/contents/land. And if after all these years there are things of value on the property like a camcorder, then they should be paying asset taxes.

If they are getting police to show up to secure the property it is more than I get here when I call. By the time the police arrive if I'm not home, theives could strip the place. And I pay my property taxes and some stupid alarm fee, which circles back to the police get here when they get here even though I'm paying extra for alarm coverage.

Probably true, but I expect the only possible large co that could be given a death sentence, which this is, is something like a meta. The oil & gas, coke, monsato etc are all too intertwined in the US/world economy that they are too important to fail. I don't think the world would stop if Meta dropped dead. And it might send an important shot across the bow of all corp's that we can kill you if we want. I don't think anyone believes that it could happen, just like no one (even here) believes that Meta will get anything close to 1.4T fine. More like 1.4K. Now they will spend 140M in legal fees or buy a trump arch, whichever is less.

No mod points, but true for sure. And I wish there was a mod up called, "Sad but true" or something along those lines. Where a comment is true, pretty obvious and all the same depressing that it is true. "Underrated" just doesn't seem to fit.

This could be called the equivalent of corporate swatting. People have died as a result of being swatted. Even the summary details how the officer knew it was a huge problem. Drive directly home, do not stop, park it, don't drive it anymore. Further the officer says to the man you are lucky you were here and not Minneapolis.

This is most certainly news for nerds as nerds (Flock system) could have easily gotten the man & his wife killed.

As the summary says, "You're lucky we're in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would've come at you with guns drawn.". Imagine somewhere in Texas or Florida. They'd be dead.

These are not ARM parts. They are the equivalent of an LC network with very hi-Q for RF. HP, now broadcom, made RF ceramic filters in Fort Collins. These parts kind of resemble IC processing, except on ceramic and just a metal pattern. Now maybe the 1.5B investment is to turn it into a semi fab, but I doubt it. Google FBAR filter.

They acquired an old HP fab that did FBAR chips (ceramic resonators) If I remember right from school, these are for RF filtering. No semi's, so while technically they are making some small chips in the US, they are not the ones the general public would be thinking of.

I had a prof(RL Gunshor) in college in the 70's who did something similar with SAW(Surface Acoustic Wave) devices and I think these are an offshoot of the technology.

Whoa, in my wildest dreams I'd never have predicted scientology helping society. Never.

Well, I was thinking the US, which the founders were trying to do better than England. But then I'm not sure the founders ever believed someone as crappy as trump would get elected with a congress & supreme court that was complicit. Checks and balances only work when there is a check. Maybe mitch dying is a sign of better times to come.

I think you have a typo. The point of a jury trial is to determine innocence or guilt. Penalty is the 2nd phase. Just because someone goes to trial does not mean they are guilty.

I think pretty clear the founders of the country believed in jury's and unanimous verdicts.

Better if someone would hack the cameras, and nail some mayor visiting his girlfriend during the day. Start doing that en mass and I'll bet the cameras would come down tomorrow.

I think fundamentally the Ben Franklin Freedom is Free thing is sunset-ing. Here recently some young men were stealing cars and shooting at people/houses randomly. A neighboring town with cameras caught them. So of course the cry for cameras in my town so we could have nailed the people sooner. But that is the thing, we can either abridge the freedom of everyone to catch one bad guy, or we can not abridge the freedom of everyone and take longer to catch bad guys. You can't have it both ways.

EOM

There is an old advice line from the dot com bubble. The market may remain irrational longer than you may remain liquid. Sage advice.

Bingo. They have already put the paperwork in place to build pipelines to ship in the nat gas so that the launch cadence is 1/day. Currently they truck in I think I saw around 650 thousand gallons of methane for the fuel for a launch. I figured it is about 1% equivalent of all the gasoline burned in tx for transportation for a day. And because elon really likes no dependencies, he has his own wells as well. I still think it is beyond stupid as an idea, but the leon lovers lick it up. It is the heat problem in which there is no solution. And as others have said, if you can get the processing so efficient as to reduce the heat, well then the power requirements drop equivalently and you'd just do it on earth as the load on the grid wouldn't be an issue.

I'm not sure you'd need to pay much. Already I've seen power prices go negative in TX on ERCOT's site. I expect that is somewhat accounting only. I thought some power is priced ahead and committed at a given price and then there is the "open market" which covers surprises. So if wind/solar has a better than expected day, there are days they get nothing for it. So I'd expect those days they'd take a ten bucks a MWH and be ahead.