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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.

Their update only applies to routers. It does not apply to Amateur Radios.

The 13cm Amateur Radio band overlaps the 2.4GHz wifi band. Every wifi router with 2.4GHz capability can be configured to operate under Amateur Radio rules. If they are flashed with certain default parameters, they can continue to be sold as Ham Radios:

1. Turn off 5GHz (and any band other than 2.4GHz)
2. Restrict to certain channels. The upper part of the 13cm amateur band is from 2390MHz to 2450MHz. Wifi normally operates from 2400 to 2500MHz. Translating these to the usual wifi channels, Amateurs can use two channels below the Wifi band (Channels 0, and -1), but cannot use anything above Channel 5.
3. Instruct users (In the "quick start guide" in the box) that they need a valid Amateur License and comply with all Amateur Radio regulations to use this device.
4. Instruct users to set the AP's SSID to their callsign, and their device's MAC address to the ASCII-encoded equivalent of their callsign (A 48-bit MAC address can encode a 6-character callsign).

Now the device is a ham radio, and can continue to be imported and sold as such.

You need a license to operate a ham radio. You don't need a license to buy a ham radio. Once it's in the hands of the end-user, there is nothing stopping them from "re-converting" it to a normal, consumer-grade router.

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.

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.

Are you saying that the sucking of dicks is a degrading act? Are you saying you want fewer dicks sucked? Because that's gonna be a non-starter for me. The best people I know suck dicks, and I really don't appreciate you associating them with that useless fuck.

Nothing left to use? Seriously? We're inventing new words by the minute.

If this issue is what's going to drive you to Republicanism, I'd say you're already there.

Yeah, I'm trying to purge similar language from my own vocabulary. Growing up, that was just the language we used. Thinking about now, it really doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean, the world would be a better place if a few more people sucked a few more dicks. The last thing I want to do is portray dick-eatery as some sort of degrading act.

"Suck start a shotgun" is my usual replacement. But, while sufficiently vulgar, the implied violence doesn't seem to match the intent here.

"Fellate a futon" is quite apropos, but doesn't have quite the same punch.

"Suck the shit out of Donny's Diaper" is the best I can come up with. I suppose that could theoretically be considered offensive to incontinent-Americans. However, I've shat myself on rare occasions, and I don't think a reasonable person would consider the command to be derogatory of me and my fellow pants-shitters. Certainly not as disrespectful of the shitter as it is to the Corporal Couchfucker. The thought of him eagerly slurping up Don's dirty skivvies adequately portrays the depth of my disgust for Vance.

If you believe parents are the only people who can help

Parents (and persons serving in loco parentis: guardians, caregivers, etc.) are the only ones who can responsibly impose on the privacy rights of a child. The government needs a warrant to do the same. Society in general includes the pornographers and groomers and others who would do harm to the child, and cannot be broadly trusted with such a responsibility. Any solution for a particular child has to pass through the parents/guardians of that child. The parents/guardians must be the ones implementing it, and they should only be allowed to implement it for their own children/wards. You indicate later that you work with at-risk kids; you might be considered a "guardian" of those kids, and you would be charged with providing this role to your kids. But not to society in general.

Yes, I get it…you’re saying that the groomers are the people collecting that data. Simply not true,

You have yet to read or fully comprehend the California law (in particular) if you're making that claim. Go back and read it. When you do, remember that groomers will be making "applications". Some of the developers receiving "age signals" from childrens' operating systems will be groomers. Re-read the law again, but this time substitute "groomer developer" for "developer", and "groomer application" for "application". This law explicitly requires groomer-developers to collect this data.

poor and at risk children…the children who are majority of children groomed

Violating everyone's privacy is not a replacement for properly supervising children. The poor and at risk kids you're talking about shouldn't exist: Their needs should be properly met, so that nobody is "at risk". Age verification doesn't do anything to help at-risk kids. It does make it easier for groomers to identify them as at-risk kids.

Australia adopted age restrictions on social media. They found that the net effect of their ban was to isolate at-risk kids from support. Kids felt compelled to hide their internet activities from adults and authorities. The act of reporting abuse also served to incriminate the kid for bypassing the bans, so kids tend to conceal both. Their ban is introducing greater harm.

You're not helping kids by supporting these laws. You're putting them at greater risk. As a "front line worker in at risk children", you really should know better.

Well, two additional years of Trump are a guaranteed nightmare. As bad as Vance would be, he's not Trump. Vance certainly won't win in 2028 if Trump completes his term. We'll end up with whatever useless shithead the DNC wants to foist on us. If Vance completes Trump's term, the DNC will actually have to at least consider letting an electable candidate run.

I thought it was the cabinet that voted to remove the president?

Initially, that is correct. Vance and a majority of the cabinet (Technically, the heads of the various executive departments, which are usually the appointed cabinet secretaries, but could be an undersecretary if the seat is vacant) send a written declaration of incapacity to the speaker of the house and the president pro tempore of the senate. Vance immediately assumes the role as acting president.

Trump then has two choices. He can step aside, in which case Vance continues as acting president. Or, at any time before the end of his term, he can send his own declaration that no such disability exists, and immediately resume the presidency.

If Trump declares no disability exists, Vance and the cabinet can (within 4 days) transmit a second declaration of incapacity, forcing Congress to decide the issue. If Vance sends that second declaration, he remains acting president while Congress makes its determination.

Since Congress will be in session in January, Congress has 21 days to decide whether the incapacity exists or not. (They get an extra two days if the notice was sent while Congress was not in session.) Vance then needs a 2/3 majority in each house to agree there is a disability to complete his coup.