@rbreich Smart corporations use regulation as a cudgel to crush competition.
For example, AT&T achieved its monopoly by seeking regulated status as a way to dominate and exterminate the independent telephone companies of the early telephone era. AT&T used regulation as a weapon in ways that were outrageous - witness the amazing Hush-A-Phone case where AT&T tried to ban what amounted to a mere passive plastic hand that could be attached to a telephone in order to better focus voice into the terrible carbon microphones of the 1940s.
Right now the Internet has relatively loose standards for attachment and interoperation. I fully anticipate that we will be seeing efforts to constrict this on the grounds of security or reliability or whatever, much as the 5G telco universe is largely closed to those who do not dance to the monopolistic tune.
What I would have done would be that he'd have to come clean about the prank to the girl and apologize. Then as an apology offer money for a fine dining dinner at a central location on his expense from his monthly allowance. He wouldn't be at the dinner.
What a dimwit son, I would have made him do all the chores in addition. 😡
The #SCOTUS is merely correcting our misunderstanding of the Constitution. You thought "execute the Office" was about faithfully following the laws? Silly you. Execute means kill and now the #PRESIDENT can kill his office and any laws (or political opponents) he doesn't like. No idea why it took the six of them over 100 pages to explain such a silly little mistake.
@georgetakei I do not see much discussion of the approach of having a conversation with the other person where you explain how their behavior (lack of initiation of social situations) make her feel and giving the other person a chance to talk.
Might be a little more productive than a more passive approach, giving the latter might verge on passive-aggresive depending on context.
This week’s Just for Xeets and Giggles is out, and MAGA billboards remain unintentionally funny. For the whole collection, see the link in the replies!
Spoiler: We do not need one drop of "fuels" for cars, trucks and trains that are highly inefficient and / or lead to even more desastrous exploitation of and pollution to the environment.
@arstechnica saying we need x or y while suggesting the set of solutions includes cars suggests what we really need is not going to happen. Unfortunately that seems to be what is happening, we keep raising the bar, not realizing we need to start lowering it to get anywhere. It comes down to energy used per passenger mile. This is all well understood. A 2 to 5 ton rolling brick of batteries does slightly drop CO2 per mile but can't scale like mas transit.