Not a single one of those charges is an attempt to overthrow the government. They're all basically trespassing using different words.

I'd love to know how much the FBI spent to go after people like this, whom they could only charge with what amounts to trespassing. Meanwhile, the politicians themselves are frequently involved in illegal shit and the FBI tends to be completely useless in those cases.

Yea.. right from that link:

"Such actions include, but are not limited to, purchasing or leasing a principal (i.e. primary) house or apartment"

A mailbox center is not a house or apartment.

No, because it will cost a lot more per service point in rural areas than it will in denser city areas. Yet when work like this gets done, the costs tend to be evenly distributed. Besides which, we don't need this in the cities. The power doesn't go out that often. Might be nice for aesthetic reasons but it's not worth the disruption.

Move back to Alaska then. Or pay for it yourself. You're not even from around here but you want people to pay to increase the reliability of your electric service? That's some entitlement.

Move to a city if you want more reliable electricity. Geniuses like you choose to live in areas that don't have the creature comforts you want, then you bitch about it and try to force the rest of us to pay it.

Unless you can show us a court case where the charge was rejected, I stand by it being reckless driving. All the cop has to say is that he observed the driver being distracted by the animal. A judge isn't going to care about where you say the animal was at the time. They'll take the cop's word over yours. As for service animals, they're well trained, they wouldn't be sitting in the owner's lap or doing anything to distract them.

Wasn't that supposed to be an Amazon Fresh store that either got delayed or canceled entirely?

Just like the hands free phone issue, I feel like this is already covered under the existing reckless driving law. I understand passing specific laws to rule out any ambiguity, but what is the legislature going to do, theorize about every possible reckless act and pass legislation for each and every one of them?

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265:79 Reckless Driving; Minimum Penalty. – Whoever upon any way drives a vehicle recklessly, or causes a vehicle to be driven recklessly, as defined in RSA 626:2, II(c), or so that the lives or safety of the public shall be endangered, or upon a bet, wager, or race, or who drives a vehicle for the purpose of making a record, or who drives a vehicle at a speed of 100 miles per hour or greater, and thereby violates any of the provisions of this title or any rules adopted by the director, shall be, notwithstanding the provisions of title LXII, guilty of a violation and fined not less than $500 plus penalty assessment for the first offense and $750 plus penalty assessment for the second offense nor more than $1,000 plus penalty assessment and his or her license or operating privilege shall be revoked for a period of 60 days for the first offense and from 60 days to one year for the second offense.

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/xxi/265/265-79.htm

626 IIc:

(c) "Recklessly." A person acts recklessly with respect to a material element of an offense when he is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the material element exists or will result from his conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that, considering the circumstances known to him, its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the conduct that a law-abiding person would observe in the situation. A person who creates such a risk but is unaware thereof solely by reason of having voluntarily engaged in intoxication or hypnosis also acts recklessly with respect thereto.

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/LXII/626/626-2.htm

Precisely. Why do I want to pay anything extra for your comfort and convenience? You chose to live someplace where infrastructure is lacking, you weren't forced to live there. Find a solution with your own money, you're not welcome to mine.

You make it sound like everything falls off the poles every storm. They'll fix it. If it's that much of a problem, get a generator.

Yea, right. They'd just jack our rates even more. Probably end up in court since the utilities won't look kindly on Eversource trying to pass on some of the costs. And it's not the same phone/cable company throughout the state, to complicate things further.

Or.. you know, just leave the wires on the poles and call it done.

Doubt it since power outages in the cities are pretty rare. Then how would the street lights work? Have to replace the wood poles with ones with interior wiring? But then the cable/phone/internet and in some cases fire alarm are all hanging on the existing poles. To do it right would be a lot move involved.

Rural maybe, if it doesn't interfere with their ability to upgrade the lines as the population grows. Cities.. that may be a hard sell. Doubt a lot of people would want their yards ripped up just to get the electricity that they already get.

That's all assuming your analysis is correct, which I'm skeptical of.

Wouldn't be slightly higher. Especially in areas where they encounter rock and need to either drill, blast, or both. A lot of people are struggling with utility costs as it is.

What they should do is build the line from Québec to lower electric costs, then maybe use some of the savings to do infrastructure work.

Target practice? I remember during one of the larger storms, friends of mine that live in areas that were blacked out for a while were seeing vehicles with MA plates moving slowly past houses. One even stopped at one of their houses, was peeking through the windows. Left after the home owner walked over and revealed the pistol on his hip. NH really needs to build a wall on our southern border.

Wrong part of the state for isolation. It's all sprawl, and whatever little isn't.. will be.

Might help if an ice storm hit part of the state and destroyed those types of lines. I watched a line of electric towers fall during the big ice storm. Made a bizarre green glow as the whole line collapsed. They had to evacuate Montréal because they lost two of the three major supply lines going to it. Everyone there has electric heat. No power, everyone freezes.

But yea, generally it's the local circuits. One part gets cut, they all go out. Like old fashioned Christmas lights.

Until some masshole drives up and steals it.

And then people complained about the trees being cut "too far back".

Instead, Boston gets manhole fires and electrified metal plates on the road and side walks. Killed a couple dogs if I remember right.

Depends on many factors. If your area is powered by one set of lines, you lose that, you're out. In a more dense area, there's more lines, less chance of a single break causing a significant outage. If you're well away from civilization, you're also likely to be low on the list for restoration.

Look at the delivery fees on your electric bill right now and tell me you seriously want them to rebuild the entire infrastructure underground. Most of the state wouldn't be able to afford what would happen to that delivery fee.

>If I wanted to live in some authoritarian hellscape I’d go love to Mass.

Cool, see ya.

This isn't a decision that parents should be making, IMO. Wait until the child is old enough to make this decision on their own.

Link to the study?

Nice victim blaming.