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  • For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art…the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.

    “I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”

    I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.

    EDIT: Hell, if you’re freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there’s probably some sort of sound that’s more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.






  • At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.”

    If they want to enter the US and if they hold citizenship, I think that that may violate case law that a US citizen may not be denied entry to the US.

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    Some random law firm, but:

    https://www.rnlawgroup.com/the-rights-of-a-u-s-citizen-upon-reentry-into-the-country/

    Central to these protections is the absolute right of a U.S. citizen to return to their country. This right is unequivocal. No matter where an individual has traveled, the duration of their absence, or their personal or legal background, a U.S. citizen cannot be denied entry into the United States. This principle is supported by both statutory and constitutional law. A landmark Supreme Court case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), established that citizenship includes the right to reenter the nation. Unlike lawful permanent residents or visa holders, U.S. citizens are exempt from admissibility criteria. Consequently, even if a U.S. citizen lacks proper documentation or is subject to further questioning, the government is obligated to permit their entry once their citizenship is verified.

    The federal government can hold US citizens in quarantine upon reentry, in the US. There’s certainly precedent there. But I don’t think that it can constitutionally say “you may not enter the US” to a citizen.





  • Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?

    Keep in mind that this isn’t my personal experience talking here. I also don’t know if the user in question is correct, or if it might be specific to some portion of the respective brands — both make a wide range of UPSes, from inexpensive to pretty pricey. But I did remember reading that, and it did seem potentially germane to OPs problem, so…shrug

    Someone with a multitester or oscilloscope or something and some of those units could probably examine further, see what the actual behavior is for a given model.



  • Carmakers including Ford and Volkswagen have doubled down on petrol cars, especially in the US, due to…regulatory changes under President Donald Trump, who has cut incentives for EV buyers.

    I’m pretty confident that if you’re buying a $640,000 car, you place little relative value on a $7,500 tax credit. It being present or not is under a 1.2% price difference. That particular factor probably isn’t very relevant as regards cars like these.


  • One account on X said: “Ferrari just killed their brand just like Jaguar did. This is straight to the junkyard trash.”

    “What is going on with European Luxury car manufacturers? First Jaguar and now Ferrari”, another account posted.

    But not all commentators were felt negatively about the new car, with one post saying: “Absolute masterclass in design. Ferrari just unveiled the breathtaking LUCE concept, and it is a total game changer.”

    Honestly, BBC, if you’re going to aggregate statistics about tweets on Twitter, use it as some kind of crude poll, maybe you could get something useful that way.

    But reporting on anecdotes about anonymous tweets for things like opinion seems of almost zero value from a news standpoint. If a tweet mentioned a fact that you could validate, say, that might have some value.

    But what you’re doing here is on-par with saying “someone on Twitter said that they liked chocolate ice cream, and someone else said that they didn’t like chocolate ice cream”. That just doesn’t really seem newsworthy. I would say that it’d be surprising if you couldn’t find posts of both sorts for virtually any topic.