Civil forfeiture laws have been used to deprive people of their property without due process since the 1920s and prohibition, but they really stepped it up in the 80s with the war on drugs.
Good luck getting power-hungry politicians and police forces to give up that cash cow.
The Last Jedi pulled in over $1.3 billion in revenue, which you think means it "bombed", but you're defending $437 as being more than enough to live on.
Maybe you should try adding some of that "SJW nonsense" to your job. It seems to be a hell of a lot more profitable than whatever you're doing now.
We need naked under 18 year olds to dance around in front of the cameras, then we can tip off the feds that the company is collecting and storing child pornography.
I guess you've conveniently forgotten when Netflix increased their premiums for everyone three months after they lost the lawsuit with Comcast (about a month after a federal court suspended the FCC's net neutrality rules) and had make a deal to pay Comcast to stop throttling connections at the peering points.
So yes, Netflix did get more expensive back in 2014 when net neutrality was suspended and the FCC stopped even pretending they were enforcing any of those rules.
Remember all those arguments the FCC made for giving up regulatory power over the internet so they could remove rules they didn't like?
Well, this is what you asked for... no federal regulation. They just didn't think through the part where that left the door open for states to enact their own regulations.
Probably because any group of a million people in one place (yes, attendance was that high) will have far more than just ten bigots of some variety regardless of whether we're talking about the left or the right or the center. These ten are just the ones that were stupid enough to get a headline.
If you wanted specifics, you'd have read the article rather than posting questions that imply that this could be the right thing to do. A new limit isn't what's being proposed.
This legislation forces any cost/benefit analysis to be done using only the benefit of the reduction in mercury output without considering the additional benefits from the reduction in soot and nitrogen oxide that the emission controls produce.
Any analysis done would also have to ignore the cost of emission controls that would have to be put in place to keep soot and nitrogen oxide levels under legal limits, forcing any study to justify the cost of the emission controls based on the benefits of reducing mercury emissions alone.
The point of all this is to make it much harder to justify the cost of lower emission level limits by limiting health benefits that you can consider. That will make it easier to overturn the previous rules in court, which will let the Trump administration to allow corporations to harm even more people in the name of higher profits.
There's no cure for AC syndrome. All you can do is treat the symptoms by setting your threshold at +1 or +2 higher. It removes 99.9% of the AC posts and makes the site 99.9% less irritating. It probably lowers your cholesterol, too.
It's funny you should mention IBM and HP in the context of this story. IBM spun off Lexmark, after all, and both Lexmark and HP are notorious for trying to use DRM to block third party refills and force customers to buy their extremely overpriced printer refill cartridges that cost more than the printer did.
It's a startlingly good parallel to what John Deere is doing, selling at a loss (or minimal profit... I don't have their internal numbers) to undercut competitors, then using DRM to force the buyers to pay for higher priced repairs to make up the profits later.
There sure are a lot of posts here defending Facebook and blaming the woman for not enjoying the experience, despite the many, many, many previous posts on/. where people said nobody should use Facebook because it's trash.
When did/. fall in love with the privacy invading trash fire that is Facebook?
You didn't think the industry spent billions lobbying against net neutrality without expecting to make it all back, did you? They want everyone to be tied to wireless so that they can throttle, cap and otherwise limit their connections in order to force customers into more expensive plans.
The goal is now and always has been to extract as much profit while providing the bare minimum service that they can get away with.
One person with high standards is another person's "dickish aspie."
Linus himself acknowledged that he was being a dick and needs to take steps to be more empathetic and less confrontational, yet you're arguing that he's wrong and he just has high standards?
I occasionally get emails about online pizza orders made by some guy in Germany who shares my last name and can't get his email right. He lives somewhere in Berlin and likes thin crust pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms.
Carlin's 7 dirty words were from a court case that actually banned those 7 words. That case is referenced in the article as the source of the list they were banning, so it's the same list.
The.US domain was being policed by by Neustar (a US based company) and NTIA (a US government agency). The guy who registered the domain is in the US. The EFF is based in the US. The Cyberlaw Clinic is in the US. The 7 dirty words list was based on a US court case.
Yes, the list is outdated. The wikipedia article I linked has details about and reference links to the 2010 US court case that ruled the list unconstitutional.
That said, the entire story is US-centric, so why would you think the way language is used in other countries would have any bearing?
A little. Mostly I was curious how many argumentative replies I would get for making the non-judgemental statement, "people can express hatred in their speech."
That shouldn't be a controversial statement since our language includes the word "hate" just so hatred can be expressed, but there are already replies trying to argue that my post is wrong in one way or another.
Not enough people jumped onto the subscription bandwagon, so we're going to make it look more attractive for a while in order to lure them in.
Later on, when everyone is safely in pocket, we'll crank up the restrictions again and force everyone to buy more subscriptions because it'll be easier than trying to figure out how to downgrade everyone to a version they can actually own.
You underestimate just how tenacious human beings are. Civilization may collapse and billions may die due to global warming, overpopulation induced famines, someone releasing a genetically engineered disease or any of a thousand other apocalyptic scenarios, but there will still be small groups of humans here and there, running their own little post-apocalyptic subsistence farms.
We're the fucking cockroaches of the mammal kingdom.
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Civil forfeiture laws have been used to deprive people of their property without due process since the 1920s and prohibition, but they really stepped it up in the 80s with the war on drugs.
Good luck getting power-hungry politicians and police forces to give up that cash cow.
The Last Jedi pulled in over $1.3 billion in revenue, which you think means it "bombed", but you're defending $437 as being more than enough to live on.
Maybe you should try adding some of that "SJW nonsense" to your job. It seems to be a hell of a lot more profitable than whatever you're doing now.
We need naked under 18 year olds to dance around in front of the cameras, then we can tip off the feds that the company is collecting and storing child pornography.
I guess you've conveniently forgotten when Netflix increased their premiums for everyone three months after they lost the lawsuit with Comcast (about a month after a federal court suspended the FCC's net neutrality rules) and had make a deal to pay Comcast to stop throttling connections at the peering points.
So yes, Netflix did get more expensive back in 2014 when net neutrality was suspended and the FCC stopped even pretending they were enforcing any of those rules.
Remember all those arguments the FCC made for giving up regulatory power over the internet so they could remove rules they didn't like?
Well, this is what you asked for... no federal regulation. They just didn't think through the part where that left the door open for states to enact their own regulations.
Suck it, Ajit.
Probably because any group of a million people in one place (yes, attendance was that high) will have far more than just ten bigots of some variety regardless of whether we're talking about the left or the right or the center. These ten are just the ones that were stupid enough to get a headline.
If you wanted specifics, you'd have read the article rather than posting questions that imply that this could be the right thing to do. A new limit isn't what's being proposed.
This legislation forces any cost/benefit analysis to be done using only the benefit of the reduction in mercury output without considering the additional benefits from the reduction in soot and nitrogen oxide that the emission controls produce.
Any analysis done would also have to ignore the cost of emission controls that would have to be put in place to keep soot and nitrogen oxide levels under legal limits, forcing any study to justify the cost of the emission controls based on the benefits of reducing mercury emissions alone.
The point of all this is to make it much harder to justify the cost of lower emission level limits by limiting health benefits that you can consider. That will make it easier to overturn the previous rules in court, which will let the Trump administration to allow corporations to harm even more people in the name of higher profits.
There's no cure for AC syndrome. All you can do is treat the symptoms by setting your threshold at +1 or +2 higher. It removes 99.9% of the AC posts and makes the site 99.9% less irritating. It probably lowers your cholesterol, too.
It's funny you should mention IBM and HP in the context of this story. IBM spun off Lexmark, after all, and both Lexmark and HP are notorious for trying to use DRM to block third party refills and force customers to buy their extremely overpriced printer refill cartridges that cost more than the printer did.
It's a startlingly good parallel to what John Deere is doing, selling at a loss (or minimal profit... I don't have their internal numbers) to undercut competitors, then using DRM to force the buyers to pay for higher priced repairs to make up the profits later.
There sure are a lot of posts here defending Facebook and blaming the woman for not enjoying the experience, despite the many, many, many previous posts on /. where people said nobody should use Facebook because it's trash.
When did /. fall in love with the privacy invading trash fire that is Facebook?
It's either a pricing bot glitch or it's someone who is laundering money through Amazon.
You didn't think the industry spent billions lobbying against net neutrality without expecting to make it all back, did you? They want everyone to be tied to wireless so that they can throttle, cap and otherwise limit their connections in order to force customers into more expensive plans.
The goal is now and always has been to extract as much profit while providing the bare minimum service that they can get away with.
How much are you paying for the air that you breath and the sunlight that lets you see outside during the day?
One person with high standards is another person's "dickish aspie."
Linus himself acknowledged that he was being a dick and needs to take steps to be more empathetic and less confrontational, yet you're arguing that he's wrong and he just has high standards?
I think someone's feeling a bit called out.
I occasionally get emails about online pizza orders made by some guy in Germany who shares my last name and can't get his email right. He lives somewhere in Berlin and likes thin crust pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms.
Carlin's 7 dirty words were from a court case that actually banned those 7 words. That case is referenced in the article as the source of the list they were banning, so it's the same list.
The .US domain was being policed by by Neustar (a US based company) and NTIA (a US government agency). The guy who registered the domain is in the US. The EFF is based in the US. The Cyberlaw Clinic is in the US. The 7 dirty words list was based on a US court case.
Yes, the list is outdated. The wikipedia article I linked has details about and reference links to the 2010 US court case that ruled the list unconstitutional.
That said, the entire story is US-centric, so why would you think the way language is used in other countries would have any bearing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I believe we may have a Vogon in our midst.
If you want people to look at the government report, link to the government report, not fucking Breitbart.
She's a conservative. And that's not allowed.
Bullshit. If that was true, Donald Trump would have been banned from Twitter years ago for all the racist shit he's posted there.
I think you're just feeding a flamboyant troll.
A little. Mostly I was curious how many argumentative replies I would get for making the non-judgemental statement, "people can express hatred in their speech."
That shouldn't be a controversial statement since our language includes the word "hate" just so hatred can be expressed, but there are already replies trying to argue that my post is wrong in one way or another.
You may believe hate speech is an acceptable form of expression, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's literally defined in the dictionary now
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
Not enough people jumped onto the subscription bandwagon, so we're going to make it look more attractive for a while in order to lure them in.
Later on, when everyone is safely in pocket, we'll crank up the restrictions again and force everyone to buy more subscriptions because it'll be easier than trying to figure out how to downgrade everyone to a version they can actually own.
You underestimate just how tenacious human beings are. Civilization may collapse and billions may die due to global warming, overpopulation induced famines, someone releasing a genetically engineered disease or any of a thousand other apocalyptic scenarios, but there will still be small groups of humans here and there, running their own little post-apocalyptic subsistence farms.
We're the fucking cockroaches of the mammal kingdom.