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According to the Secretary of State, the company was founded on March 3rd of this year. It doesn’t have legal authorization from the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Education to operate in this state. The Chancellor can ask Attorney General Dave Yost to get an injunction to shut them down in short order if they enroll anyone.

The whole thing feels either like something is wrong or it is a sting by ICE. I remember them running one outside Detroit in the past couple years.

I’m very curious how they’re getting around section 1713.02 of the Ohio Revised Code as seen at https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1713.02

They’re not on the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s authorized list. They make no mention on their website of even seeking authorization. They’re not clearly identifying themselves as a “Bible College” to take advantage of that loophole.

It is comforting that people are at least thinking about this potential situation.

As Glenn Hauser, Kim Andrew Elliott, and others have asked it comes down to the big question of what regs exactly authorize this. There really isn’t any ambiguity in the relevant rules to sneak this in under.

I’ve listened to a few shortwave industry experts hammer out the issues with this. Despite the novelty of the technical application this is an end run around the Commission’s rules. As there are other operators carrying out such data transmissions licensed under the Experimental Radio Service the major question is what exactly has changed in the rules to suddenly make this permissible.

The ideas of the World Federalist Movement from the 1930s are being rediscovered! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federalist_Movement

Well, that does help explain why one of the local high schools had their livestream abruptly terminate 22 times when they tried to stream their band’s senior night concert. It does seem to be a clear TOS violation by the school even though the school was trying to work within Ohio coronavirus guidelines. I guess the effort to build something using OpenBroadcaster has increased urgency now.

ikiwiki has been around for over a decade. You can even pay for a hosted version of it at branchable. It is kinda sad how much people overlook it.

That leaves the question of who you are and why your opinion matters then. You could be a rogue GPT-3 experiment for all any of us know.

Chromium was due to the absolute nightmarish amount of manpower on Canonical’s part it took to keep up packaging with releases. Copying Debian’s work wouldn’t have helped because they had and still have fewer resources than Canonical did to commit to packaging it.

LXD ships a private version of a library as it has changes not accepted by upstream. It pretty much needs to be a snap as it doesn’t fit into the realm of .deb packaging due to that.

Two fits “some”. Off the top of my head I cannot recall anything else that has a .deb that diverts to snap. More might come in the future perhaps. 2020 has not been the kindest of years to bookmakers in Vegas and elsewhere.

People are not code. People are, for lack of better terminology, messy. We are still finding unanticipated outcomes from this mess.

I was reading a journal article yesterday about a separate unanticipated consequence of the coronavirus shutdowns that we may start to have trouble with weather prediction. Why? All those grounded airplanes doubled as automated airborne meteorological observation platforms to help provide the most accurate data possible. There are not enough drones with sufficient altitude rating to replace all those missing commercial air flights as to weather data capture.

In Ohio we have an antique provision for the county prosecutor to employ their own investigators. They're not quite the same thing PA has, though. See Section 309.07 of the Ohio Revised Code here: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/309.07v1

Buy a Yaesu.

All I have done is looked for somewhat stable dividend payers, bought those, and held them until various unpleasant circumstances forced me to liquidate. The service I am using now has good guardrails, nice screeners, very responsive customer service, and I am pretty happy with them. The first one tried to look like it was out of Trading Places and was so confusing that I didn’t manage to make a trade on it before dumping it.

At the least I know I don’t know everything in stocks. I know enough to ask questions when I don’t understand. My account is still set to zero margin and will stay there for the time being.

A fabulous tool for the current unpleasantness.

From 10 USC 253:

“ The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

“(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

“(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

“In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.”

I don’t know. Without sufficient intel as to what is happening on the ground I wouldn’t know if civil rights are being denied. If they are and the local authorities are cooperating with the rebellious group then there might be a way to utilize the act. It is just too soon to tell.

This is an outgrowth of the excess proliferation of federal laws. Taking a page from the UK and appointing a Law Reform Commission to simplify, consolidate, and reduce the body of federal laws would reduce the need for so many policing forces.

I used to work at a sub-cabinet bureau that had much, much higher standards than we’re seeing out of the executive mansion now. I’m disappointed.

After just under four years of scorched earth resistance we now get this new EO. I am only surprised he waited this long.

Why not refer to her by name? Her press statement was in this morning’s FCC Daily Digest so it is not a horrible thing to say that Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel made a statement. Here’s her original statement as released: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-364605A1.pdf