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New Jersey Becomes the 12th State to Consider Right to Repair Legislation

"I assume it goes something like this—people introduce legislation, the industry hires lobbyists that descend upon the statehouse, they kill the bill," Moriarty told me.

"If we're the 12th state, they have a well-oiled machine on how to tackle this, but I'm used to that.".

Moriarty announced Friday that he's introducing the "Fair Repair Act," a bill that would require electronics manufacturers to sell replacement parts and tools to the general public and independent repair companies.

It would also require them to make repair guides publicly available.

New Jersey was following close behind and was poised to pass similar legislation.

In effect, the pressure from New Jersey and several other states turned the Massachusetts law into de-facto nationwide legislation.

He says right to repair legislation will help local repair companies hoping to start repair businesses. »

Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)

Authored by billboard.com

But I picked a good job, that's for sure.Â. What would you be doing if you didn't have this job?.

I know it's called "Billy Joel," I'm the guy out front singing, I do the writing -- or I did the writing, anyway.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, [but] I only did that for about six months. »

Now is the time to revisit Wall-E, perhaps the finest environmental film of the past decade

Authored by vox.com

What you can count on is a weekend watch that sheds new light on the week that was.

When Pixar released Wall-E in 2008, it was described as an “environmentalist parable” so often that director Andrew Stanton felt the need to disavow the label.

(What happened to the poorer inhabitants of Earth is left out of the film, probably to make it suitable for children.). »

Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i? : cscareerquestion

Authored by np.reddit.com

Today was my first day on the job as a Junior Software Developer and was my first non-internship position after university.

Which involves run a small script to create my own personal DB instance from some test data.

Unfortunately instead of copying the values outputted by the tool, i instead for whatever reason used the values the document had. »

14 Poisoned By Wild Death Cap Mushrooms In California

Authored by yahoo.com

Death cap mushrooms foraged in Northern California have severely poisoned 14 people in the last few months, three so seriously that they needed liver transplants.

The mushrooms are most abundant during rainy fall and winter months, but they can survive throughout the year in coastal fog in California.

The CDC report urges extreme caution when hunting for wild mushrooms, adding that “inexperienced foragers should be strongly discouraged from eating any wild mushrooms.”. »