Transistor radios are still a thing, esp popular in US Prisons, but I don't know if Dr. Demento's radio shows are available online - oh look, there's this:

Dr. Demento Website

Dr. Demento was a syndicated radio show, heard nationwide. I personally listened to it from an AM station out in the Poconos mountains from my childhood home outside Trenton NJ in the 80s and in SF in the 70s.

You apparently missed this in TFS:

RPi Foundation absolutely wanted big companies to put these cheap boards in everything - they are committing to a ten year production life for their devices and have maintained the same physical dimensions so they could easily be added to product designs.

I understand the RPi Foundation also went the extra mile and certified the device as an embed able device that can be incorporated in third-party dedigns without requiring the manufacturer to certify the WiFi and Bluetooth in the RPi in their device.

The commercial applications were always part of the plan to generate sufficient demand to achieve significant volume discounts in manufacturing.

In America, their Gun-Free Zones have been marvelously effective, attracting mass shooters to them like moths to a flame, seems the gunmen prefer unarmed victims - and kudos to the Gun Control Lobbyists for advocating for safe spaces so shooters can hone their craft without fear of return fire...

I was concerned about teens using AI to get around this open source "solution" but I investigated and it turns out they are going to put The Mother of All ROBOTS.TXT files in the GitHub library to keep the source code out of the hands of AI!

Seriously, if you put a Harris/Waltz 2024 bumper sticker on your car, you aren't really trying to keep your politics a secret...

Mark Twain once quipped:

Tremendous, now, after spending billions of dollars, CA finally has a power grid that can stay online year-round without forced "rolling blackouts".

We're all very proud of you finally building a grid that can handle your needs.

Exactly. It's a field they are told to fill in, but don't care.

Don't be so stupid. Don't confuse what officers put in an unrequited field on a form with actual, legal reason.

The field, based on the summery was not required to be filled-in since many users left the field blank and still their search happened.

No one is contending that the "reason" an officer performed a search was because "haha", the officer (obviously) didn't care to type anything meaningful in the (unrequired) field. If your complaint is that nonsense was entered into an unrequired, unverified field on a form, it's a very weak argument/small problem.

NYC only has so many taxis, and the easiest place to pickup rides and keep busy is to operate in Manhattan, not in the Bronx or Queens...

A city may or may not have actual, high-value medallions, but I bet most cities of any significant size has a taxi commission and a means to keep private citizens from starting their own personal taxi service/ride share company...

Typo, should read:

My point was, simply, if the costs get too high, there's nothing keeping them in CA. They don't have employees, they don't own cars, they don't have maint. Facilities, etc - they just have an agreement to skim a certain amount of money off the top of every drive. If the amount they skim gets too low, "the juice might not be worth the squeeze"...

Ride share companies can stop operating in a city, state, etc for any period of time, from hours to days, with nothing more than a simple programming change.

It is possible for CA to regulate the ride shares out of the state - and if that happens, that leaves a whole lot of "gig workers" scrambling to find work. I'm not saying it's likely, I'm saying there's very little keeping them there if the regulations get to onerous.

You lack imagination - the drivers have no leverage - Lyft, Uber, etc can choose to leave a state and make it happen within a few hours, and, as the drivers aren't really full-time employees of the ride share companies they 'gig' for, they really have no advance warning protection that I can see.

If drivers demand excessive compensation and ride share companies can't make a profit, the companies will just close up shop.

What will stop them?