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[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

I'm from the school that says Harris' is settled law and it's Walz' vs. Walz's that needs litigated.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 25 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn't know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there'd still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn't progressive enough.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

She isn't on the Republicans for Ukraine report card because (duh!) she isn't a Republican, but the only criteria that would get her mildly dinged there would be that she didn't sign Discharge Petition 9 or 10. Republicans with identical records as Omar get an A - Excellent rating.

Early into the 2022 invasion, she was among fifteen Progressive Democrats to vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, receiving some press attention on that. Around the same time, she voted against the Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act, criticizing it as a symbolic gesture substituted for practical assistance. Neither count on the above report card, but are examples Samuels might cite to impugn her record.

If I were in MN-5 voting singularly pro-Ukraine, there's little for Samuels to genuinely improve upon, and the pretense that he could suggests disingenuousness on the issue I wouldn't consider preferable.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

iFixit noted yesterday, "Though the bill is strong and should make repairs more available for everyone, it allows manufacturers to continue to engage in parts pairing, a practice by which they limit repairs with software blocks. They can also combine parts into expensive assemblies, which makes repairs more expensive."

Similarly doubt there's any way to legislate against the dismal engineering that tempts a failure avalanche like the Ford F150 taillight horrorshow I posted a few days ago.

 

Water gets into 2018 Ford truck tail light assembly, corrodes connectors, disables vehicle, $5600 repair.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

 

And now to meteorologist Louis Rossmann with expected impacts of the forecasted snowstorm in Hell.

 

See also PIRG's statement NHTSA Walks Back Anti-Repair Letter, but Questions Remain, including link to the NHTSA's letter.

 

Holly Borgmann, vice president of government affairs for ADT, Boca Raton, Fla., said that while these types of laws may make sense for some industries, tools and manuals that could enable someone to disarm an alarm or reroute an emergency signal should remain proprietary. Borgmann is an SIA board member and vice chair of the SIA government affairs committee.

A security system that can be repaired without notifying the monitoring service, nor sending any suspicious signals, is a security system that can be defeated independent of right to repair legislation. Likewise, if the monitoring service can't verify repairs to be authorized by the customer, they can't handle response to an ordinary alarm.

The site specific data of an alarm panel is generally uploaded remotely by the monitoring service using the communication system through which the panel is monitored. That data is retained by the monitoring service in the event it needs restored, or for use as a template should it need modified. This is a trivial operation if there are any doubts regarding the integrity of the programming.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iowa Driver's License Manual, page 10, § 2.8 Traffic Signals.

ibid., page 15, § 2.21 Intersections.

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I flunked Sunday school, so I'll take the item description on its word that it's a "great way to give witness to God's truth in the Holy Bible."

 

"In a letter sent to New York Governor Kathy Hochul in December, People for Bikes asked that e-bikes be excluded from the state’s forthcoming digital right-to-repair law... The letter cited 'an unfortunate increase in fires, injuries and deaths attributable to personal e-mobility devices' including e-bikes. Many of these fires, People for Bikes claimed in the letter, 'appear to be caused by consumers and others attempting to service these devices themselves,' including tinkering with the batteries at home. Before Hochul signed the right-to-repair bill, it was revised to exempt e-bikes.

"Asked for data to back up the claim that e-bike fires were being caused by unauthorized repairs, Lovell said that it was 'anecdotal, from folks that are on the ground in New York.'"

[–] RidgeRoad@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn't work.

Same again true of Peter Samson's original 1959 and 1960 editions.

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