You aren’t understanding my point.

My point is that you can continue to import and sell the exact same physical device, just with a little change in marketing, and possibly software.

My point is this: Once you have acquired the device, there is fuck all the FCC can do about you converting your “ham radio” back into a consumer-grade router.

This feature isn’t depriving anyone of anything. Neither is the guillotine in my front yard. It hasn’t been used to decapitate anyone. It’s just sitting there in case it’s needed at some point in the future.

Oh, those cameras in the elementary school bathroom? Yeah, those aren’t actually hooked up. They don’t have any power, let alone a network connection to the security camera system we just ordered. Those cameras are there just in case they are needed later.

This date field is a Checkov Gun hanging on the wall in the first act.

This only applies to routers.

It’s not widely known outside the ham radio community, but part of the 2.4GHz wifi band overlaps the 13cm amateur radio band. If you turn off 5GHz wifi and lock the 2.4GHz AP to Channel 1, it qualifies as a ham radio, and can be sold as a ham radio instead of an AP/Router. You do need a ham radio license to operate it as a Ham AP, but you do not need a license to buy a Ham AP.

If the end user wants to turn on 5GHz after the fact, there is not a damn thing the FCC can do about it.

I would strongly suggest Pangolin for that use case. It combines a reverse proxy with a VPN tunnel between your local network and your VPS. You can host your services on your local machine, and serve them from the VPS. Pangolin also sets up your letsencrypt certs for https.

It also provides a security layer: if enabled for a site, you have to be logged in to Pangolin before Pangolin will proxy traffic to your site.

No direct correlation, no. Businesses are largely able to refute and remove derogatory reviews with a little effort. The correlation is in how much effort they are willing to put in to maintain their image. Often that willingness extends to the actual operation of their business, but not always.

The last tolerable version of Windows was XP. The last good version of Windows was 98SE2.

The best time to switch to Linux was 2006. The second best time is Now.

25th requires a 2/3 vote in Congress, so unless he is in a coma, it’s not happening before the next Congressional term starts in January.

At that time, a cross would have carried about the same meaning as a noose.

Hostility from judges needs to fucking start.

The judiciary has the power to deputize individuals to enforce its orders. It needs to fucking start.

There is a generic “Make the site safe from both ends” risk mitigation though,

There is, indeed. One of the “sides” they have to consider is the possibility of a live line coming into contact with the disconnected line that they are currently working on. Lines crisscross frequently, and in the aftermath of a storm, a downed wire on one line could bring it into contact with and inadvertently energize another line.

The steps they take to mitigate the risk of an entire neighborhood worth of power being dumped onto the line they are working is more than adequate to mitigate the risk of backfed solar: They deliberately bond all phases together on the dead line, so any fault is shunted through the short and away from the workers.

I’m saying that the “risks” of backfed solar are far less than the risks that they already mitigate, and certainly do not justify keeping plugin solar off the grid.

(I am not saying that backfeed inverters don’t need to mitigate the risk as well; I am saying that mitigation at the device level is one of several redundant safety measures.)

prevents lots of dead powerline workers.

That’s a persistent myth, and it drives me nuts every time I read it. If power line workers are working on something that is supposed to be dead, they treat it as live and work it with hot sticks until they have bonded all the phases together and to ground. This is done both at the point of disconnect and where the work is actually being done.

Even if they didn’t do this, your little inverter is trying to backfeed the entire grid. The load it sees is indistinguishable from a dead short. Your inverter would overload and trip offline, even if it wasn’t watching the grid voltage and frequency.

There just isn’t a special risk to power line workers.

After about the third “You’re Fired”, I never wanted to hear anything from that asshole ever again.

Yes. And I am being serious.

When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.

To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.

For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.

But once we get approval to for thermonuclear detonations in the middle east, we can modify the plan. We don’t need to dig a new canal if we just blow up any Iranian sites capable of attacking ships in the strait.

There is a big difference between creating an incidental inconvenience, (such as by assembling 10,000 people whose mere presence disrupts traffic patterns around the protest site) and deliberately targeting fellow victims of oppression (such as by assembling a few dozen people to obstruct thousands on a freeway).

The former is a great way to protest. The latter is counterproductive.

If those few dozen people move their obstructive protest from the freeway to the driveway of the richest person in town, they get the same media coverage and motivate hundreds to come out and join them.

Yawn.

And I don’t think you know how to protest. Hint: When the public walks away more pissed off about you than about your cause, your protest has failed. You have distracted the public away from your cause, not supported it.

Instead of legislation in support of your cause, they are backing legislation against you.

Yes, indeed. The conversation has started. But what conversation are they having? You seem to think they are talking about the cause being protested.

They aren’t.

They’re talking about the need for increased police powers to prevent such “anti-social” behavior. They’re supporting broad, authoritarian legislation specifically because it includes provisions against the kind of “protests” that make them late to work, late getting home, late picking up their kids from school, late to their doctors appointments.

The net effect of blocking general traffic is increased support for authoritarianism, and greater tolerance for brutality against demonstrators, as we saw from tribal police in Nevada three years ago.

The conversations you want people to be having only come when your protest narrowly targets the people doing the oppressing. When you’re intention is nothing more than pissing off their victims, you distract them from taking effective action, not focus their attention.

These age gates don’t achieve their stated objectives.

What they will do is allow “KidGroomer dot com” to request an age signal from a visitor. When that signal indicates the visitor is an adult, they can provide an app designed to inform parents about how to protect their kids online.

When that signal indicates the visitor is a child, they can provide an app for connecting kids with their local van-driving puppy owner and purveyor of free candy

Perhaps having your OS announce a user’s age to anyone who asks is a big fucking problem.

No, what you need to do is disrupt the livelyhood of the rich cunts. That means destroying the productivity of their businesses. How do you completely stop all productivity from something like a Tesla manufacturing plant? By making sure noone can get to work to work the machines.

Excellent idea! Shut down the plants the oligarchs are using to fund their oppression. Kudos!

How do you stop the businesses from selling the products of the oligarchs? Make sure they’re stuck in trafic, along with their customers.

Blocking traffic? Targeting their customers? Lumping customers in with the problem class? Keeping working-class people from getting to their jobs, or getting back home again? You just made an enemy of the general public. You aren’t “protesting”. You aren’t “bringing awareness.” You’re campaigning for an authoritarian response against protesting. You’re inviting expansion of laws and enhanced penalties for jaywalking, obstructing traffic, and protesting in general.

This attitude is what I am talking about. You aren’t driving a wedge between reasonable people and their oppressors. You’re declaring that reasonable people do not exist. Just to continue going about their lives, the general populace has to team up with their oppressors to shut down your obstruction. You’re driving a wedge between the people and your cause, rather than using your cause to drive a wedge between the people and their oppressors.

There is definitely a right and a wrong way to protest; you’ve given us examples of both. Thank you!