The SCOTUS has upheld the 14th amendment against this exact challenge multiple times. US v. Wong Kim Ark,https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649
"The amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
The words mean what they say: A person subject to arrest and prosecution in the United States is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country. Since the 1980s, a small part of the legal world, however, has begun arguing for a new and improved “original intent” of the clause. These scholars claim that undocumented aliens and their children are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
Then to say that the strict Constitutional judges (like Scalia, Thomas and Aleto ) would rule otherwise is just idiotic.
Almost all aliens in the United States, even citizens of other nations, still fall within our jurisdiction while they are in our territory, otherwise they could commit crimes of all sorts without fear of punishment.” (And that’s the basis of the counterfactual with which we began.)
And there you are wrong. I have a pretty good career myself. But I see how many coders are treated and I am not surprised at all that there are by far not enough good ones.
I think it depends on the company. I've worked for an established startup that still expected 70+ hours per week of it's coders. The company had all the things you expect for the startup. Free snacks. Break room with gaming consoles, ect. They were most happy with unmarried coders right out of college. If you were married you had better not have kids. If you are married and have kids your wife had better not work. Basically, anything that would take away their coding time is not a good employee. They had a 25-30% turnover but did get bought by a much bigger fish.
I now work for a company that, while paying slightly less than market, allows for work-life balance.
I do not understand why workers should benefit from a union if they are not paying for it. If you do not want to pay for the union you get what the company will offer you. A union should not have to negotiate for non-union members.
Comcast was throttling BitTorrent and lying about it to its customers before the FCC regulations. Comcast also intentionally let their interconnections get saturated to slow down Netflix to get more money. Weâ(TM)ve seen it happen before, it will happen again.
They can do it again as long as they tell the FCC that they are doing it. Seems like it is fine to cheat on your wife as long as you tell her you are doing it.
I just have experience with the MS translation APIs but I am guessing that Google will be similar. With MS, you can "train" their cognitive hub in a language by putting paired documents into it. They need to be the same document that has already been translated. The Hub learns and is able to (eventually) pick up tone. It is useful in industries that can have more specialized language usages.
Downside is that a company must have one "Hub" for each language pair. Takes a lot of training.
Of course, you can keep looking until you find something or the target leaves office... Historically, That's what special councils do anyway, but how much time does it take before we can assume there is no there there? A year, two years? Eight years?
Actually, only Ken Star did that because Congress wanted something on Clinton. All other special prosecutors have stayed within their mandate given by the Justice department. There is no proof that Muller has gone outside that mandate. When he did have evidence of a crime outside his mandate he passed it off to the local federal prosecutors.
I wonder if Disney can, yet again, push to protect the Mouse. That has been the key player in all the copyright pushes in the last 40 years. I think they have 5 more years (1928)
My info is years old when I had to interact with Facebook's business API's but it is exactly their business model. A company could pay a certain amount to dig deep (via the APIs). Once a Facebook user used a Facebook login to another page or took a survey or played a Facebook game the company could use their API access to draw out everything about them and their friends.
If what I read was true, the 50 million people came from about 127,000 people filling out a survey. So they not only got the friends of the people filling out the survey but their friends as well. It will be interesting to see how deep the API allowed CA to pull.
And Justice Antonin Scalia recognized that States and the Federal government can regulate the sale and ownership of firearms. Just like they regulate the ownership of machine guns. I see no problem with them regulating semi-automatic rifles in the same way.
If the NRA ( i.e. the gun manufacturers) would get out of the way to allow background checks for every purchase of a fire arm that would help. I would also strengthen the ATF and the straw sales laws. The person who committed the crime in Florida bought his weapons illegally. He needed to be 21 to buy assault rifles. The person who sold him the rifle should be held accountable for the crimes.
The article was about IPO and not VCs. Going public changes how a company can be run.
Private companies are not required to publicly disclose financial information, while public companies are required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to file an annual report documenting their performance in detail. Because private companies don’t have to disclose financial information, they can focus on long-term growth instead of making sure shareholders are getting their quarterly dividends. Private companies don’t need shareholder approval for operational and growth strategy decisions made by the company, as long as that is stated in their corporate documents.
Public companies must inform shareholders about and get approval for the company’s operations, financial performance, management actions, and other decisions.
Going public is expensive, and there is unlimited liability for a company’s owners.
Public companies may have an easier time raising large amounts of capital by selling securities. Investors are more likely to invest in a public company because there is less risk and more potential to reap large rewards.
Public companies can return to the stock market and raise more capital via a secondary stock offering or by issuing a bond.
Public companies must comply with the rules established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted to protect investors. The act contains a myriad of regulations concerning board responsibilities and requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to administer rules that comply with the law.
Does the FBI agents and administrators swear a oath to protect the Constitution and laws of the US or to obey the President? Lets check https://www2.fbi.gov/publicati...
I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Which is different than the oath that the military swears https://history.army.mil/html/... "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
The FBI was made to be politically independent (https://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/fbi_hist.htm)
Look up Joe Rannazzisi. Former DEA chief prosecutor
JOE RANNAZZISI: If I was gonna write a book about how to harm the United States with pharmaceuticals, the only thing I could think of that would immediately harm is to take the authority away from the investigative agency that is trying to enforce the Controlled Substances Act and the regulations implemented under the act. And that's what this bill did.
The bill, introduced in the House by Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, was promoted as a way to ensure that patients had access to the pain medication they needed.
Jonathan Novak, who worked in the DEA's legal office, says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to keep drugs off U.S. streets -- what the DEA calls diversion.
If the pop music from 2010 is worst than 1972 ( the year the music died) where the #1 pop song was Alone again ( Naturally) then the industry has fallen off a cliff.
Studies(https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/gerrymandering/) have shown the party primary system does more to cause the issues with the extremes of both parties. Gerrymandering is some of the problems. Gerrymandering plus voter suppression makes it worst. An open primary system would solve a vast majority of the problems.
The issues are more of the Indiana Government being lazy in their zealousness to purge voters. I know one person that was hit by this law in its previous form. He made a good argument that all they had to do was check the tax records to see that he was paying property tax on the residence listed for voting. And that he had been paying property taxes there for over 15 years. Everything is hinging on getting a non-certified letter checking the address.
Now it can be even more arbitrary by putting the power into the the highly trained poll workers for instant deregistration.
While I agree that the Nebula Award is better because sci-fi/fantasy authors due the voting, many of the same books are nominated
“Every Heart a Doorway” by Seanan McGuire, won both a Nebula and Hugo "The Obelisk Gate" was a finalist for best novel "Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar, won both a Nebula and a Hugo "Arrival" written by Eric Heisserer, won both a Hugo and Nebula
So either the exclusive club of Sci-fi/Fantasy authors has been compromised or the Hugos are not far off. My guess would the readership has changed over the last 10-15 years.
While I agree with the motivation for discouraging universities from disinviting invited speakers,
Why would you disagree with that? Since when do Universities get exempted from the First Amendment? Note that that also has some things to say about the government's right to interfere with who you associate with.
Universities are not the Government. The 1st Amendment protects your speech from the Government arresting you for what you say. Universities can invite whatever speakers they want and disinvite them as well. Even the proposed law in Wisconsin is not a 1st Amendment issue. It is just a political law that public enforces the rights that everyone already has.
The only government spending that really matters is Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, and Social Security. Those together account for about 3/4 of the federal budget. Any discussion of federal spending that doesn't involve those four programs is pointless and/or grandstanding. Stuff like NASA and education are almost rounding errors in comparison to those four programs.
That's also why anyone who talks about cutting taxes without also talking about cutting either Medicare or Defense is completely full of shit because we don't pay enough in taxes to cover those programs today. We certainly can't afford to cut taxes when last year we borrowed $600 billion to cover the $600 billion defense department budget. Cutting taxes without cutting Medicare or Defense is simply handing the bill to your children which makes the people doing it assholes. Believing that cutting taxes will magically increase government revenues through growth makes the people saying either idiots or charlatans or both.
I wish I had mod point for this. 100% correct. Cutting anything but those 4 programs is like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
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The SCOTUS has upheld the 14th amendment against this exact challenge multiple times. US v. Wong Kim Ark,https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649
"The amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
The words mean what they say: A person subject to arrest and prosecution in the United States is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country. Since the 1980s, a small part of the legal world, however, has begun arguing for a new and improved “original intent” of the clause. These scholars claim that undocumented aliens and their children are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.
Then to say that the strict Constitutional judges (like Scalia, Thomas and Aleto ) would rule otherwise is just idiotic.
Almost all aliens in the United States, even citizens of other nations, still fall within our jurisdiction while they are in our territory, otherwise they could commit crimes of all sorts without fear of punishment.” (And that’s the basis of the counterfactual with which we began.)
People will alway whine.
And there you are wrong. I have a pretty good career myself. But I see how many coders are treated and I am not surprised at all that there are by far not enough good ones.
I think it depends on the company. I've worked for an established startup that still expected 70+ hours per week of it's coders. The company had all the things you expect for the startup. Free snacks. Break room with gaming consoles, ect. They were most happy with unmarried coders right out of college. If you were married you had better not have kids. If you are married and have kids your wife had better not work. Basically, anything that would take away their coding time is not a good employee. They had a 25-30% turnover but did get bought by a much bigger fish.
I now work for a company that, while paying slightly less than market, allows for work-life balance.
I do not understand why workers should benefit from a union if they are not paying for it. If you do not want to pay for the union you get what the company will offer you. A union should not have to negotiate for non-union members.
I just do not get tired of winning
Comcast was throttling BitTorrent and lying about it to its customers before the FCC regulations. Comcast also intentionally let their interconnections get saturated to slow down Netflix to get more money. Weâ(TM)ve seen it happen before, it will happen again.
They can do it again as long as they tell the FCC that they are doing it. Seems like it is fine to cheat on your wife as long as you tell her you are doing it.
I just have experience with the MS translation APIs but I am guessing that Google will be similar. With MS, you can "train" their cognitive hub in a language by putting paired documents into it. They need to be the same document that has already been translated. The Hub learns and is able to (eventually) pick up tone. It is useful in industries that can have more specialized language usages.
Downside is that a company must have one "Hub" for each language pair. Takes a lot of training.
Of course, you can keep looking until you find something or the target leaves office... Historically, That's what special councils do anyway, but how much time does it take before we can assume there is no there there? A year, two years? Eight years?
Actually, only Ken Star did that because Congress wanted something on Clinton. All other special prosecutors have stayed within their mandate given by the Justice department. There is no proof that Muller has gone outside that mandate. When he did have evidence of a crime outside his mandate he passed it off to the local federal prosecutors.
The Senate voted to not repeal it. The House has not,
Will the drug companies be liable for the use of their drug off label? The answer has been yes and that is why they do not want to do this.
Will their be data gathered by these uses? If not, that is another reason for the drug companies not to do it.
I wonder if Disney can, yet again, push to protect the Mouse. That has been the key player in all the copyright pushes in the last 40 years. I think they have 5 more years (1928)
I think they said denuclearize the peninsula meaning the Us must take it's nucs home as well. Then it is down to the biggest conventional army.
My info is years old when I had to interact with Facebook's business API's but it is exactly their business model. A company could pay a certain amount to dig deep (via the APIs). Once a Facebook user used a Facebook login to another page or took a survey or played a Facebook game the company could use their API access to draw out everything about them and their friends.
If what I read was true, the 50 million people came from about 127,000 people filling out a survey. So they not only got the friends of the people filling out the survey but their friends as well. It will be interesting to see how deep the API allowed CA to pull.
And Justice Antonin Scalia recognized that States and the Federal government can regulate the sale and ownership of firearms. Just like they regulate the ownership of machine guns. I see no problem with them regulating semi-automatic rifles in the same way.
If the NRA ( i.e. the gun manufacturers) would get out of the way to allow background checks for every purchase of a fire arm that would help. I would also strengthen the ATF and the straw sales laws. The person who committed the crime in Florida bought his weapons illegally. He needed to be 21 to buy assault rifles. The person who sold him the rifle should be held accountable for the crimes.
The article was about IPO and not VCs. Going public changes how a company can be run.
Private companies are not required to publicly disclose financial information, while public companies are required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to file an annual report documenting their performance in detail. Because private companies don’t have to disclose financial information, they can focus on long-term growth instead of making sure shareholders are getting their quarterly dividends. Private companies don’t need shareholder approval for operational and growth strategy decisions made by the company, as long as that is stated in their corporate documents.
Public companies must inform shareholders about and get approval for the company’s operations, financial performance, management actions, and other decisions.
Going public is expensive, and there is unlimited liability for a company’s owners.
Public companies may have an easier time raising large amounts of capital by selling securities. Investors are more likely to invest in a public company because there is less risk and more potential to reap large rewards.
Public companies can return to the stock market and raise more capital via a secondary stock offering or by issuing a bond.
Public companies must comply with the rules established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted to protect investors. The act contains a myriad of regulations concerning board responsibilities and requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to administer rules that comply with the law.
Does the FBI agents and administrators swear a oath to protect the Constitution and laws of the US or to obey the President? Lets check
https://www2.fbi.gov/publicati...
I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Which is different than the oath that the military swears
https://history.army.mil/html/...
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
The FBI was made to be politically independent (https://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/fbi_hist.htm)
I would like to see what Amazon does with SnowCrash. Right now I am looking forward to Altered Carbon.
Most of this came abut due to the Congress neutering the Law enforcement (DEA) on behest of the Drug Companies that product the opioids.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/e...
Look up Joe Rannazzisi. Former DEA chief prosecutor
JOE RANNAZZISI: If I was gonna write a book about how to harm the United States with pharmaceuticals, the only thing I could think of that would immediately harm is to take the authority away from the investigative agency that is trying to enforce the Controlled Substances Act and the regulations implemented under the act. And that's what this bill did.
The bill, introduced in the House by Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, was promoted as a way to ensure that patients had access to the pain medication they needed.
Jonathan Novak, who worked in the DEA's legal office, says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to keep drugs off U.S. streets -- what the DEA calls diversion.
If the pop music from 2010 is worst than 1972 ( the year the music died) where the #1 pop song was Alone again ( Naturally) then the industry has fallen off a cliff.
Studies(https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/gerrymandering/) have shown the party primary system does more to cause the issues with the extremes of both parties. Gerrymandering is some of the problems. Gerrymandering plus voter suppression makes it worst. An open primary system would solve a vast majority of the problems.
The issues are more of the Indiana Government being lazy in their zealousness to purge voters. I know one person that was hit by this law in its previous form. He made a good argument that all they had to do was check the tax records to see that he was paying property tax on the residence listed for voting. And that he had been paying property taxes there for over 15 years. Everything is hinging on getting a non-certified letter checking the address.
Now it can be even more arbitrary by putting the power into the the highly trained poll workers for instant deregistration.
While I agree that the Nebula Award is better because sci-fi/fantasy authors due the voting, many of the same books are nominated
“Every Heart a Doorway” by Seanan McGuire, won both a Nebula and Hugo
"The Obelisk Gate" was a finalist for best novel
"Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar, won both a Nebula and a Hugo
"Arrival" written by Eric Heisserer, won both a Hugo and Nebula
So either the exclusive club of Sci-fi/Fantasy authors has been compromised or the Hugos are not far off. My guess would the readership has changed over the last 10-15 years.
Who really believes the valuations given by these firms that just want someone else to buy them?
The difference is healthcare and other benefits. Companies would not do it if it were not cheaper
Why would you disagree with that? Since when do Universities get exempted from the First Amendment? Note that that also has some things to say about the government's right to interfere with who you associate with.
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Universities are not the Government. The 1st Amendment protects your speech from the Government arresting you for what you say. Universities can invite whatever speakers they want and disinvite them as well. Even the proposed law in Wisconsin is not a 1st Amendment issue. It is just a political law that public enforces the rights that everyone already has.
The only government spending that really matters is Medicare/Medicaid, Defense, and Social Security. Those together account for about 3/4 of the federal budget. Any discussion of federal spending that doesn't involve those four programs is pointless and/or grandstanding. Stuff like NASA and education are almost rounding errors in comparison to those four programs.
That's also why anyone who talks about cutting taxes without also talking about cutting either Medicare or Defense is completely full of shit because we don't pay enough in taxes to cover those programs today. We certainly can't afford to cut taxes when last year we borrowed $600 billion to cover the $600 billion defense department budget. Cutting taxes without cutting Medicare or Defense is simply handing the bill to your children which makes the people doing it assholes. Believing that cutting taxes will magically increase government revenues through growth makes the people saying either idiots or charlatans or both.
I wish I had mod point for this. 100% correct. Cutting anything but those 4 programs is like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.