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AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users' real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for issuing financial penalties did not violate the right to a jury trial.
@#44 ... You do realize fruits and vegetables are responsible for 46% of foodborne illness, right? ...
I don't realize that.
Please provide data (with links, i.e., not the usual stuff your current alias seems to just make up as it goes along) to convince me.
thx.
btw, found this ...
Annual Reports on Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates
www.cdc.gov
Non-paywall version ...
Trump's lawyers sought to halt discovery in $10 billion BBC lawsuit
www.reuters.com
... U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers asked a federal judge in May for a stay of the discovery process in his $10-billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, pending the outcome of a request to shift such matters to a different judge. ...
Then there's this ...
How Two Former YouTubers Took Over the Weekend Box Office
www.technology.org
... Two filmmakers who built their names on YouTube ran away with the weekend box office, and neither one came up through the studio system. A24's "Backrooms" claimed the top spot, while "Obsession" held second. Both are horror films, and both were directed by creators who learned the craft on a video platform instead of a film set. ...
@#3 ... Why would you even put a data center in California, where electricity is expensive, and building codes are strict? ...
Thoiugh, i do have to add to my comment ...
You raise good points.
So the question that seems to remain open is ... why build a data center in California?
Found this ...
Abundance clashes with affordability in California's data center debate (June 2025)
www.politico.com
... For a state that considers itself a leader in both tech and climate, California is falling behind in both building data centers and putting guardrails around their environmental impacts.
Democrats in Sacramento are taking cues from lawmakers in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia as they explore special electricity rates for data centers aimed at controlling costs for other customers. They're also weighing new energy reporting standards to better understand the supercomputers' impacts on California's electric grid.
Those proposals come as electric utilities are embracing data centers as a potential business savior that promises to increase electrical demand several fold after an era of energy efficiency.
"This trend is absolutely real for us," Pacific Gas and Electric CEO Patti Poppe said during the utility's most recent quarterly earnings call in April. "This will be so beneficial for our customers."
The handful of bills this year are a reaction to PG&E's November 2024 application to energy regulators for a special tariff for all the new data centers it anticipates connecting to its grid in Northern California " enough to require the power of roughly 6.5 million new homes in the next 10 years and four times the output of its Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Tentatively planned projects would add an additional 1.5 million homes' worth of power.
"It's a big change, and not expected," said Hunter Stern, assistant business manager with IBEW 1245, which represents PG&E electrical workers. "For years, California's goal was to reduce emissions through efficiency and load growth was an indication that emissions would be going up, and we've changed that."
But for ratepayer and environmental advocates, it could go either way: Data centers could, if managed properly, bring down the per-customer grid costs that have been dominating the political conversation for months -- or they could leave ratepayers with costly stranded assets and even outpace the growth of renewable energy on the grid. ...
The definition of "Patriotic" has changed under the auspices of Pres Trump.
Lately "patriotic" seems to mean an unabashed fealty to Pres Trump, bowing before him at every possible opportunity. (have you watched his Cabinet meetings?).
The past, and apparently fading, definition of "Patriotic" was a deep respect for The Constitution.