Archive of entries posted on 21st November 2023

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Air Force Raises Age Limit for Recruits to 42
www.airandspaceforces.com | Oct. 27, 2023 | David Roza

The Department of the Air Force expects to add about 50 more recruits per year after lifting its maximum age limit for initial accession from 39 years old to 42 on Oct. 24, the latest in a long series of efforts to expand the talent pool in the midst of an ongoing recruiting shortage. The change applies to both officers and enlisted in both the Air Force and Space Force …

The new age limit is the latest in a series of changes made by the Air Force over the last few years to usher in new members. Giving qualified applicants an option to retest if they test positive for marijuana use allowed about 165 Airmen to join in fiscal year 2023, while allowing small hand and neck tattoos brought in another 150. Updating the service’s body fat composition rules brought in another 700 recruits, and streamlining the process for trainees to become citizens upon graduating Basic Military Training brought in 200 new Airmen.

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Biden Sets a Record For Gaffes Per Minute
Vimeo | 11-16-23 | Bill Schwartz

Biden set a new record with at least 5 major gaffes in a 15 minute “Press Conference”

Happens To Have Answer to a Reporter’s Question on Note Cards – People Woke Up Dead

And Ex and Uh and Ex Uh and Exit

Russia’s Refusal and Brutal War to Stop the War and Brutal War

There Are Evidence of Cases That I’ve Made

Vital Miscalculations Can Be Made

At one point a “reporter” was reading her question from a cell phone HELD BY A BIDEN STAFFER. Biden just happened to have the answer to the question on his note cards, from which he read for a full minute without looking anywhere except at the note cards on the podium.

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Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages
The Record | November 8th, 2023 | Suzanne Smalley

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue. One of those cases, against Ford, had been dismissed on appeal previously.

The plaintiffs in the four live cases had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appellate judge ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

In an example of the issues at stake, plaintiffs in one of the five cases filed suit against Honda in 2021, arguing that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.