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Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized
slew writes "CNN is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case where a local community seized private houses for commercial development (not public works) under the guise of eminent domain. Needless to say, the little guy loses to the commercial developer this case...
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And how does this have to do with my rights online? Seriousyl...isn't /. supposed to be a place for technology-related news? Yes, this is very disturbing, but it's way beyond the scope of slashdot.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, things like that are completely unacceptable! We can't sit back and allow people to take our land just to make an extra buck. I'm not sure what can be done about this, but clearly there is something very wrong with the supreme court if companies are allowed to bulldoze homes to build a condo.
This raises some questions about what the value of real estate will be in the future if companies are allowed to just take it. I don't know what kind of compensation the families received, but surely it isn't as much as they would have gotten otherwise. Needless to say, this is completely and utterly unfair...something has to be done.
When cities go after my domain name or phone number or online gaming properties, then it'll be "Your Rights Online".
This should've been in Politics, if anywhere.
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Why waste your mod points on "All your base . . ." jokes? I mean, come on, it's been five years since the thing came out. Maybe we need a new type of Funny mod for /. inside jokes like "All your base . . ." and "In Soviet Russia . . .", that way I can filter those posts to get to some actually funny content.
Meme reinforcement. People like it when a nod is given to their favorite silly cliche. The moderators get to feel smart, because they got the joke. "All your base?" oh yeah, I think I saw some flash thingy about that once...that was pretty funny. Huh huh, heh heh
It's just a cultural flag in the dirt for slashdot. Personally, I'd prefer people spend mod points on things that at least have some originality, otherwise I'll just write a perl script to reload slashdot every 10 seconds and post "All Your Are Belong To Us" so that we can get that entertainment aspect out of the way as quickly as possible. I think there should be a firm principle that any humor that can be perl scripted shouldn't be part of serious debate.
Oh....no....did I use the term "serious debate" in the context of slashdot discussion forums? Oh lord.
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Somebody finally makes an actual funny post and I'm all out of mod points...
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mod parent up. judges are appointed by the president, who belongs to a particular party, but the judges carry no political offiliation.
the grandparent post's reactionary anti-reaction post is self-conflicting, not to mention plain wrong.
Dude, we burnt the transfer allowance halfway through me reading that :(
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
I suppose you oppose Roe vs. Wade and the right to privacy?
Your comment was rated 5 insightful. What's really insighful to me is how you define people who do not fit your myopic and simplistic world views as "waffler". Apparently independent thinking does not exist in your universe.
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