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Comment Re: I don't understand what makes this ok (Score 1) 86

From the FACE act:

(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or
(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship,

This is the law Don Lemon and the protesters violated when they stormed the church in Minneapolis because they thought a part-time preacher there was an ICE agent.

See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

Comment Re: Um... For mosques they do it all the time (Score 1) 86

It's not at all COMMON for right wingers to go harass Muslims at places of worship.

FTFY

If you want to claim it is somehow "not uncommon" (AKA "common") for right-wingers to harass Muslims at places of worship you really need to cite AT LEAST one specific instance, not a vague reference to an urban legend story with ZERO specifics...

Comment Re: I bet (Score 0) 86

As a reminder, they put on costumes (to hide their identity), assaulted the security guards, trespassed, likely did some damage, and likely interfered/interrupted some sort of religious service going on somewhere inside the building.

I don't think the Muslims in a mosque would be as compliant as you want them to be - I can't see them being very accepting of costumed individuals running into the building as some kind of "tik-tok" challenge...

Comment Re: It's definitely a hate crime (Score 1) 86

Go take a real good look at the FACE act - you know, the one that puts praying grandmothers standing outside abortion clinics in jail. It also applies to people interfering with a person in a religious service - it's what Don Lemon and a few others were charged with violating when they staged a protest inside a church.

The Feds can and should crack down on these 'pranksters' - it wouldn't be too hard to simply lick the doors behind them and keep them in the building till police arrive.

Comment Will it scale up? (Score 1) 35

The San Bernardino County Fire Department recently tested out the equipment using a backpack version and the results were incredible. Video shows firefighters fighting small blazes on a shrub and a stove top fire with the technology putting it out...

OK, so it can put out a burning bush or stove-top fire, but how, exactly will this be deployed in the case of another Palisades fire? As a reminder, in the Palisades fire it was abandoned before it was fully out (no one stayed behind to make sure the wildfire was out), then, hours later, acres were burning - a couple guys with fancy backpack sound machines aren't going to stop it, any more than a couple guys with garden hoses. (PS, water availability was also a factor in Palisades, no matter what 2028 Presidential candidate and part-time international knee-pad salesman) Gavin Newsom says...

Comment Re:OCR struggled? (Score 2) 45

I have been involved in the personal computer world since the late 70s, reading about S100 bus computers and CP/M, but I don't remember these "checksum" tools for entering programs, but I was much more in the TRS-80 world, not Commodore or Apple, maybe that's why? Anyway, what I do remember is one magazine (Kilobaud?) that put flexible 45 RPM vinyl records inside the magazine, and you would "play" the record on your turntable, connected to your cassette interface.

I also remember in the TRS-80 world there was a tradition of making "one line" programs - they got to be quite sophisticated but were really just "scrolling games" in most cases.

I remember typing a massive fruit fly genetics program into an Apple ][ one winter break as extra credit for my biology class - it was in Pascal and was an ungodly amount of typing...

Comment Re: Do the economics work at all? (Score 1) 130

A BEV semi tractor with 500 miles range from Tesla weighs about as much as a conventional diesel semi tractor, give or take about 1,000 pounds. Given the BEV semi weighs the same, and truck weight limits are the same, the BEV semi can haul just as big a load as a diesel semi, the issue is range - a BEV can go up to 500 miles on a full charge, the distance a Diesel can cover before needing to refuel is greater.

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