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Definition of an accord - an agreement between two States. That cannot happen, per the Constitution, without the advice and consent of the Senate, which never happened.

The US cannot legally enter a treaty (or an accord, which is the same thing) without Senate approval. President Obama could not legally enter. President Trump is giving the Paris folks a bit of grace by saying "we'll give you the 3 years you say you need", but there is no legal reason to, since the US was never a signatory to the accord - because it was not agreed to by the Senate.

"they were able to operate these vice apps that blatantly flaunt Apple's content policies"

The word is flout, not "flaunt."

the speech itself being tortuous.

You probably meant "tortious", but given your posting history I can see why the other word sprang to mind.

The word you're looking for is "piques."

http://www.dictionary.com/e/pique-peak-peek/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pique-vs-peak-vs-peek
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/peak-peek-pique/

Apparently you're right, but at 128kbps even on the site it sounds so mechanical and fake:

Yes, by an opera singer! We've collaborated with New-York based opera singers to pronounce every word in our dictionary.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dic...

...the clip that you most likely heard has accentuated higher frequencies due to imperfections in the audio that were created by data compression.

Basically, the clip was manipulated.

While I'm sure it wasn't the GPs intention, "effect" also works in that sentence.

effect can also be used as a verb to mean to produce or to cause to come into being

https://www.vocabulary.com/art...

stop embarrassing yourself

reMUNeration
n the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/remuneration

reNUMeration
"The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suggestions/renumeration
sounds like "counting again...."

Updates for iPhones come direct from Apple. There's no gating by carrier, because Apple had the clout to tell the carriers to shove it when it came to customizing it with their particular crapware.

It's called a "cloud", not a "clout".
Use a spellchecker, dude!

From https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/clout

clout
When you speak of someone having clout, it usually means that they communicate a sense of power or influence, particularly in the political sense. "You’ll wanna talk to that big guy over there if you want me to let you in. He’s got clout."

Use a dictionary, dude!

I can see, why moving to India is less practical for a Californian, than to North Carolina. But I do not see it so much less practical as to make a qualitative difference — merely quantitative. India is a (reasonable approximation of) Democracy, English is the official language...

English is not the official language of India. The 2001 census came up with 122 major languages and 1599 other languages, though there seems to be some confusion in distinguishing languages and dialects.

Form of government may be vaguely similar, but politics are very different. Culture is very different. Your values are very different from your neighbors'. Family and old friends are very distant and very expensive to visit. All of these factors combine to reduce a person's self-confidence and sense of well-being.

Is your argument merely pedantic?

Is that a bad thing?

Oh, I think I see the problem. Yes, being pedantic is mostly a bad thing. It means "ostentatious in one's learning"; "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching". It is engaged in by persons who adhere rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. It's a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way. What's worse, people who engage in this behavior quite frequently aren't able to see what the problem is. It's sort of like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but for personality rather than intelligence.

No, that's not censorship.
That's an editorial decision being made by a private company as they choose what to include in what they publish

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/censorship

Censorship: Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen.
To "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable.

A decision made by a private company to "choose what to include in what they publish" is *exactly* the act of blocking something from being read, heard, or seen by reviewing it and choosing to hide (not publish) it.

How do you figure that isn't censorship? It is literally the dictionary definition of censorship!

Censorship is when the government steps in and says you can't do that.

No definition anywhere of that word involves "government" - anywhere

The first amendment in the US even proves that. That is the amendment that says censorship performed BY the government is illegal.

Why specify censorship by the government if no other forms of censorship existed or were possible?

Why would an entrepreneur go to Australia and pay even higher taxes there than in the U.S. when they could immigrate to some country.../p>

If they are "going" then they are "emigrating" not "immigrating".

Overall, just using "migrate" is probably better as it's independent of the point of view.
e.g.
http://www.vocabulary.com/arti...

I apologize for the nitpick, but "smelt" != "smelled".

I apologize for the nitpick, but "smelt" != "smelled".

You sound very sure of yourself.

And that's a type of ad hominid -- abuse. It looks like this; "Dave failed basic math five times. Let's read what Dave has to say about math!"

Slander needn't be malicious or frivolous.

I didn't say that it did. You quoted the relevant section, so this will be the third time it's having to be mentioned for your benefit: only if you can provide it was malicious. This is a higher standard, and it's what's required to win punitive damages. Merely saying something that later turns out to be untrue doesn't earn you anything but legal costs, the only damages you can recover when you prevail in a lawsuit as a defendant.

You presume that's not the case today.

First, learn the difference between presume and assume. Second, I am neither assuming nor presuming; This is in fact exactly how it works the majority of the time. In the cases where it doesn't, the defendant can have the warrant invalidated, and the prosecution may fuck their case up to the point where it cannot be tried again if a mistake is made here. Double jeopardy applies to criminal as well as civil cases... If the case is dismissed with prejudice (as it likely would if the only evidence collaborating the plaintiff's statements was what was found during the warrant!), it cannot be retried.

Any defense lawyer, civil or criminal, worth their salt would pursue this vigorously; At the very least, it's going to make the evidence they gathered inadmissible in a retrial, and absent that, I suspect the plaintiffs will be hard-pressed to come up with a way to ever recover damages on the basis of theft alone, and will have lost any opportunity to pre-empt the defendant's publication of the source code if he so chooses. He would, of course, then be liable for violations of copyright, trade secrets, tort law (non-disclosure), etc., but if this guy is willing to suck a million dollar judgement down and live broke the rest of his life, he can screw them over real nice and good and if their property is worth as much as they allege... they may as well bend over and kiss their ass goodbye.

Properly executed search warrants are crucial for both the prosecution AND defense.

I am a high paid professional. If they implemented finger print timekeeping would consider it demeaning and wouldn't want to use it.

I'm sorry you can't see that tying a piece of you to your work is demeaning.
Not to mention the gross security issues with using fingerprints.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/demeaning

Wictionary is no more an authority on language than the Urban Dictionary is. See what vocabulary.com says.

Look up "peak" in any real dictionary (NOT wictionary or the urban dictionary but a REAL dictionary edited by people who know their shit).

peak /pÄ"k/Noun
The pointed top of a mountain.

Verb
1.Reach a highest point, either of a specified value or at a specified time.
2.Decline in health and spirits; waste away.

Adjective
Greatest; maximum.

Synonyms
noun. top - summit - pinnacle - apex - tip - acme - vertex
adjective. top - maximum - utmost - ultimate

Neither peek nor peak are synonyms for pique. They're homophones, and saying "their interest was peaked" is as incorrect, aliterate (look that word up) and uneducated as saying "there interest was piqued".

Using wictionary to see if a statement is gramtically correct is like going to the Onion for news.

I hate to be a Spelling Nazi, but: http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/peak-peek-pique/