I wonder if it will be possible to have antique cars from this period on. With all of the software in them they’d have to release the source code or decompile it to keep them on the road.

Fire Larry and sell his stock and his yachts and you’ll be in the black again.

Their way around it is they say that the border crossing technically isn’t 100% normal US territory and therefore some constitutional rights are suspended under the concept of “sovereign self-protection”. You could then say any law in the US could be used to justify this concept, in fact it was used to forcibly intern thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during ww2.

He was targeted for purely political reasons, the cop-city environmental protest in Atlanta GA, and I’m wondering why the border officials were even aware of them. Is there some sort of “we don’t like what you think” list run by the gov?

His device was threatened with seizure even though he posed no threat, no visible threat or spoken one, no suspicion of a crime, and they had no idea what the contents were. His 5th Amendment rights were violated by the threat to seize it. They want to establish a precedent, that the very existence of a possibility of criminal contents, regardless of any reason to suspect any, is sufficient for search and seizure. Based on this a little kid deleting the contents of their ipad would be a crime.

The charge treats the alleged wipe as destruction of property intended to prevent a government seizure.

He is being charged with destroying “evidence” but he was never charged with anything in the first place. That is like saying deleting any files at home is a crime. I’d think forcing you to present evidence necessary to charge you with something would fall under the constitutional right against self-incrimination.

So it would be doing well if it wasn’t pissing money away on AI?

You can still adjust them for exceptions, for the rest of the time auto is where it should stay.

China has mandated electric scooters now. They ride on the sidewalks frequently though so when I was there I’d have the crap scared out of me when a scooter would silently blow a few inches past me.

And people need to set their lights to auto and leave them there 99.9% of the time. Pretty much all cars have that setting available now. The number of people I see driving with just their parking lights on, or no lights, at twilight is amazing. It isn’t just so you can see it is so others can easily see you.

You’d think they’d have lights that can self adjust their direction based on the vehicle’s angle and if it is turning. I’d love to have headlights that show me where I’m turning for things like pedestrians crossing in unlit areas. They had these on the 1948 Tucker.

I hope they ban loud exhausts and aftermarket noise exhausts next.

I don’t know why the manufacturers have such a hard-on for super bright headlights. It isn’t like anyone is basing their buying decision on it. I guess when you are an executive who never drives themselves you don’t get blinded by them. I hope the NHTSA finally sets limits on headlight brightness and the gov bans aftermarket lights that exceed limits also. Now if we could just get enforcement to crack down on the a-holes who blast backward facing lights to harass other drivers also.

This puts the burden on owners having their headlights properly adjusted. People who can’t even be bothered to watch the road or change their oil aren’t going to care about their headlights.

The amount we spend on cloud hosting I keep suggesting (and I think they are starting to listen) that having on-prem hardware makes financial sense again. We have the staff to run them already anyway.

Now that every generation from gen-x on mostly no longer gets pensions but gets 401ks this can really f up people’s savings that they will depend on in retirement.

Foreign stock funds.

If only we had these things called electric lights.

Yah, I can’t see anything that could go wrong with this. /s

If you think the left doesn’t do this too I’ve got news for you.

It is like work monitoring that can monitor every keystroke and trip to the bathroom. If you expect people to be 100% rule abiding, perfect and predictable I’ve got news for you. The people putting these systems into place would never stand for them being applied to them.

Freedom until they are in charge.