(chuckle) You make my point. TV broadcasters are publishers, since they control the content. And publishing houses are not "open to the public" either. Not even newspapers.
The issue is not whether we are dealing with private or public entities. The issue is whether the entity is a platform or a publisher.
The parallel is exact. Phone companies cannot interfere with conversations because they are a platform, not a publisher. Should they, there would be legal hell to pay.
Clear enough?
Telephone companies are private entities. They do not market themselves as public forums, but they are categorically open to the public (and multi-person conversations). Woe betide any phone company that attempts to control a person's speech over the phone.
I believe it is true that the best protection is to be totally in the public spotlight. Lots of eyes-on. Lots of witnesses. Those who attempt to hide in shadow are disposed of in shadow.
I may have an insight to offer, based on my years of being a conservative fighting corruption in a liberal-led engineering union. It comes down to a very simple partition of human types: the Activist and the Dontgiveashit. It was fair to suppose that about 50% of the union was conservative, but he union council, where all the key decisions were made, was predominantly liberal. At various times, in moments at work, I would have to listen to a member complaining about the political preferences of the council. When the venting reduces to a mild whistle, I interject a question: Would the member be willing to run for an open council seat, so as to change the political composition of the council? "Me? No way? I don't want to have anything to do with that." At which point, I generally chewed them out for being all mouth and no muscle and walked away.
The lefties had a mission and an ideology and were not deterred by working together to Make Things Happen. The righties had a chip on their shoulder, resentment that the lefties were prevailing, and decided to take their marbles and walk off---leaving the game in control of the lefties. I look at a lot of right-wing critics of the left and see this moral and intellectual flaccidity all over again. And I think we should be mindful of this threat internal to the Awakening movement, that such people will hop on board, bitch and moan, and do nothing to move us forward. They want to be spectators or passengers, not actors of destiny (and receive real actors as walking, living reproaches for their feeble and fickle lives).
I think this syndrome is consistent with what happened at Project Veritas.
In times of chaos and confusion, I find it helpful to ask about someone, "Is he making the right enemies?"
This is interesting, as it gives Trump's attorney's something to put into evidence, to influence a jury.
There is another aspect. Constitution Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 states (in part): "In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations AS THE CONGRESS SHALL MAKE."
This clause is hard to find, and the key is hard to see even when it is before your face, but it clearly states a POWER OF THE CONGRESS, to direct the Supreme Court. In this case, as to the acceptance of Law and Fact. What is this declaration other than a declaration of Law and Fact? And as a trump attorney, I would argue that it applies to any J6 case before the Supreme Court as Constitutional direction of the Congress as to MATTERS OF LAW AND FACT. (I knew it was somewhere in the Constitution, having looked it up before, more than once, but it took me tens of minutes to find it.)
Now this declaration is only for the House. The Senate is not on board. But the whole question of the future is something only God knows...
The bulbs are fine. They are very bright and very efficient. Best if you pick the high color temperature variety (color temperature near 6000 K). It's like broad daylight. The lower color temperatures look yellowish, like old incandescent light bulbs. Supposedly, some people like the lantern-colored light over daylight. Not me, but I live in a land where our sunlight is always muted by clouds. I'm not so sure the advertised lifetime is realized in practice, but the light is great. They make them as floodlight bulbs as well, in case you have outdoor lighting to deal with. Like my Dad used to say about lots of automobile horsepower: "When you need it, you gotta have it."
The most sophisticated forms of A.I. cause airplane crashes and traffic accidents. Do you know how difficult it is for even a human operator to make sense of what someone is saying, if they are not speaking directly into a microphone? And where would that microphone be? LEDs are not microphones. Maybe you could cut down the monitoring by a factor of 10. That gets you down to 39 million monitors. That about 10 times as many personnel as we have in the department of defense. Still infeasible. And, you are not reckoning the number of false alarms produced by the A.I. system. Plus you still only have a light bulb connected to an electric socket. How do you retrofit an entire house-wide microphone and multiplexing (multiple conversations) communication system for 130 million households?
I read the same Wikipedia article that description came from. These are not just "LED light bulbs." They are LEDs as the back end of a communication system that has a light sensor, high speed data transmission, encoder-decoder electronics, and an LED...presumably pointed in the right direction. Satellite communication constellations are now implementing laser-communication systems, which are functionally identical. Other communication systems based on solar UV light have been proposed.
Li-Fi might replace Wi-Fi, but I have a hard time reconciling that with the superstitious fear of such things as 5G and 6G communication. Emission detectors should be easy to develop, since LI-Fi requires light modulation and are essentially anti-invisible. I wouldn't be too surprised if some bright inventor could develop a phosphor-coated glass cover that would pass the illumination through a phosphorescence delay that would defeat the high-speed modulation of the signal. But the "bulb" would only be an emitter, not a microphone, nor a camera. And who would it be emitting to? Fren, you have to realize that one must have a system concept that makes sense---not pick out one piece of technology and make it into an evil magic.
The only things that can interface with them are electric power sockets. This is electricity, not magic. There are a whole lot of intervening electronics that would be needed to create a communication system. And for what? Who is going to listen? Who is going to keep tabs on a household 24 hours a day?
There are something like 130 million households in the U.S. If each household was continuously monitored, by 3 shifts of monitors, 8 hrs apiece, that would require 390 million monitors---but there are only 336 million people in the U.S. Do you begin to understand why the idea of universal, comprehensive, continuous surveillance is absolutely infeasible?
One has to smile. To call Haily "competition" is bending over backward. She is maybe another car in the race, but more like a clapped-out Yugo against a Formula One machine. A rational person has to conclude her backers are either fools or totally delusional.
Just another nonsense bogeyman. Rather like saying all the laser pointers in the world are really ready to be used as light sabers. There's a whole lot more that goes into a sensor-communication system than a bulb and an electrical socket, and it will not be present in the home.
And what would be the point? Human voice communication is effectively about 40 bits/second. At 224 billion bits/second, such li-fi system becomes extravagant and useless overkill. It can't report any faster than the original signal. It's like expecting your household plumbing to play like a pipe organ when it is not busy delivering water.
This is not waking up; it is a fever dream.
But doesn't fraud vitiate everything? It would be as though there had been no election in 2020, but a usurpation.
(Not here to argue. Just throwing hay on the fire.)
Amazing. Have you seen an okapi? I haven't seen any okapis. Ergo, by your logic, they must not exist. (That was once the official position on okapis.) Please don't bother people with logical fallacies. Nothing more common in courts of law than persons present who didn't see anything. Caught on video. Witnessed by many bystanders and at least one person in flight. Clipped a light pole. Examples of wreckage. The problem is that you don't want to accept what is real. Your conspiracy bias is more important to you than the truth, which means you are dedicated to dishonesty. And you have a strange desire to trivialize the deaths of the passengers (in-flight hostages) as never having happened.
You put yourself on display with libel.
Thanks for the info on zinc. I take it as a daily tablet but will now check the dose. I also take NAC on medical advice, but more for the second reason than for the first, which I hadn't known. Thanks, twice.
Then you will be endlessly fascinated by what is going on in the mirror of your mind, since that has nothing to do with my voting patterns. I see you cannot resist name-calling, ever the mark of a second-rate mind.
The zinc is equally important as the ivermectin. Dr. Zelenko (RIP) was curing patients with a cocktail that contained zinc and hydroxychloroquine, on the basis of some inductive reasoning. (1) ZINC inhibits the ability of viruses to replicate, therefore it is necessary for it to be in the host's cells to prevent viral reproduction. (2) Zinc is not naturally permeable through cell walls, so it has to be accompanied by a "zinc ionophore," which is a medicine that increases the permeability of cell walls to zinc ions. Hydroxycloroquine is a zinc ionophore. SO IS IVERMECTIN.
Sorry, but you are quite wrong about Kwajalein. There is a lot of ignorance and confusion about this.
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty took effect in 1963, so there were no above-ground nuclear tests in the 70s and 80s. Although Kwajalein is an atoll, the famous nuclear tests occurred at other atolls. Since the 1950s, Kwajalein has been a military facility for tracking of ballistic missiles, re-entry vehicles, and target objects---for which they have powerful radars, much more powerful than used at airports. The radiation warning is simply a warning against intrusion into an airspace that may be subject to radar (microwave) electromagnetic radiation. It can damage or disable aircraft electronics. Thus, the airspace must be controlled for the sake of safety.
The atoll is 1.8 meters high above sea level at its highest point, so it is no surprise that large waves might wash across it. This happens for other islands in the Pacific Ocean (e.g., the north coast of the island of Kuai'i has houses built on stlts in order to cope with this).
It helps to do a little research. "Common sense" (2 words) is a noun. "Commonsense" (1 word) is an adjective. It was used by Trump as an adjective. There is no misspelling. Ergo, there is no heads-up.
I am conversing. You are spitting out insults. And you are so fascinated by this one-sided conversation, you don't want to leave. You could have left several exchanges ago.
Thanks for the confirmation. I was betting with myself that you couldn't explain.
You are also a troubling illustration of how paranoid delusions overcome a clear view of reality, inventing enemies where there are none, and reducing you to spitting out playground insults.
In the video I saw, he was to the left of the image frame, out of view. All you saw was his hand. And she was clearly shot, fell over backwards, and received immediate attention.
Cryptocurrency is not worth the paper it's not printed on.
Or: think of a Schrodinger's Cat that is supposedly valuable (to whom?) being kept in a safe that requires a power source to keep it alive...and the power demand keeps increasing. If the power inevitably goes out, the cat disappears. (How is that different from it not being there in the first place?)
It is the most incredible swindle. You tender actual currency (convertible to goods and services) in order to obtain a...promise. Under the hope that the promise itself will become more valuable in time. I tire of thinking of all the people who have fallen for this scheme. It's not a question of whether they will lose their money. They've already lost it. Now the question is: when will they come to that realization? I am prepared only to offer them a tissue to cry with when this happens, not to offer any consolation or sympathy.
That was obvious from childhood. Where do you get this question?