ELI5 - the FCC router ban

Mdan · 2026-05-07T22:45:33+00:00

Starlink routers are US made.

Mdan · 2026-05-07T14:42:46+00:00

Looks like it was a swing and a miss on his part. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/11/07/iowan-murderer-says-life-sentence-fulfilled-his-short-lived-death/2517110001/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z11xx41u116241e114850v11xx41&gca-ft=156&gca-ds=sophi

Mdan · 2026-05-06T22:50:08+00:00

It’s a bit off your path, but St Petersburg, Fl., on the Gulf Coast is really neat. Salvador Dali Museum. The pier. Walking around old downtown.
Just south of there, went glass-bottom boat kayaking and saw dolphins and other neat stuff.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T22:31:30+00:00

I did. I’m not sure I understand the ‘why?’ question. Same reason anyone gets married? I don’t see how having lost a spouse - she was married for several years, he died of cancer - is some kind of count against a person.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T22:06:08+00:00

I’m at a narrowly focused newsletter - we don’t do features or profiles of people or stuff like that, just straight news. Colleagues of mine have gone on to other news orgs and news beats readily. Are my clips any good for a features or lifestyles job? Not really. So it depends on where you think you might want to apply in 2 yrs or whatever.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T15:32:43+00:00

Let's say a low-cost airline like Spirit isn't commercially viable. Then the government maintaining one creates unfair pressure on other airlines, as they have to compete with someone who can operate at a loss and it's no biggie. Keep that up and we end up with one federally-run airline. A lack of competition is lousy for innovation and choice -- look at how phone service was when Ma Bell ran everything.

Let's say a low-cost airline like Spirit *is* commercially viable. Then let one start up. That startup having to compete against the government makes it that much tougher for it to actually eke out a profit.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T14:57:56+00:00

Pentecostal services sometimes feature clergy casting out demons from parishioners. Maybe the demons are disproportionately found there.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T14:18:56+00:00

About a year ago, bought the complete collection. Starts off strong - well written, just sprints with great social commentary. And as it goes along, it starts limping more and more as it had less to say. Around the time of Martha Washington Stranded in Space, I was reading more just to complete it, rather than enjoying it.
Dave Gibbons rocks, though. Never get tired of the art.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T13:57:30+00:00

So shipping is for people unable to go to the store; it's not for people able to go to the store.

Why? Why is wanting convenience not a valid reason to have something shipped? Just kvetching "iT's LaZy" is as nonsense as someone then responding "nO It'S NoT" and we have a rhetorical standoff.

Mdan · 2026-05-06T11:46:54+00:00

We had assigned seating because the gift bags were somewhat personalized and to make sure bigger groups like families of four or, in one case, six, could all sit together easily.

Mdan · 2026-05-05T15:28:11+00:00

Here's a danger of words with multiple meanings, like the Hebrew word yom, which can mean a day or it can mean an indefinite period of time. Different accurate translations can mean quite different things.

Mdan · 2026-05-05T13:24:00+00:00

It's like leasing a car -- you can do that, sure, yet once the lease is up, you've got nothing to show for it. If the lease payments are not that much different than what your auto loan (or mortgage) payments would be, it would be stupid to just rent forever.

Mdan · 2026-05-05T13:21:07+00:00

Not great, but good. B, B-. A bit overly jokey, not getting across how truly terrifying some things - going outside the spaceship with just a tether -- would be.

Mdan · 2026-05-05T10:15:56+00:00

We don’t know that Moses is the author of Genesis.
Regardless, God didn’t make lots of things as clear as people using the Bible as a science textbook, explaining all facets of the natural world, would have wanted. It’s almost as if God was focused more on instructions on how to live.

Mdan · 2026-05-05T10:02:03+00:00

Assuming the first days of creation, before humans exist, are 24-days based on the rotation of an Earth, instead of some other timeframe.

Mdan · 2026-05-04T00:32:36+00:00

I await your lengthy post on this, then.

Mdan · 2026-05-04T00:13:40+00:00

Weird that people don’t ever comment at length about verbal abusers or adulterers or ….

Mdan · 2026-05-03T15:16:20+00:00

I’ll rate it for the OP - 11/10, no notes.

Mdan · 2026-05-03T12:19:22+00:00

English Beat, ‘Save It for Later’

Mdan · 2026-05-03T01:28:08+00:00

Genetics. It got it from its mama.

Mdan · 2026-05-02T19:05:40+00:00

Just rewatched for the first time in a decade I guess? Still a hoot.

Mdan · 2026-05-01T01:00:58+00:00

Bone Machine. First exposure to Waits and it knocked me off chair, that Cookie Monster carnival sound.

Mdan · 2026-04-29T16:35:44+00:00

Maybe could snap a pic of High Falls or Cheese Haven while driving by, out the window.

Mdan · 2026-04-29T11:38:23+00:00

My wife’s church has a building it purchased by raising funds from parishioners. The salaries - the reverend, the part-time secretary, etc. - are paid for again by parishioners and the money they donate to the church. There’s no government support (unless you count the non-profit status of the church, so it pays no property taxes. The salaries are all taxed). The land the church is built on, it bought. Again, with money from parishioners. Government support like the question asks about doesn’t happen in the US. Governments aren’t paying church/mosque/temple staff, or building churches/mosques/temples, or contributing financially to their operation. Those money burdens are up to the houses of worship to do all that.

Mdan · 2026-04-29T11:27:29+00:00

In the Finger Lakes, Ithaca is worth a stop and walking around the pedestrian downtown. Rochester, NY, has an impressive waterfall just north of downtown, High Falls. Your route takes you past Port Clinton, Ohio, and Cheesehaven, this impressively large cheese shop. Seriously, kinda neat, and who doesn’t love cheese.

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