Imagine thinking a federal judge is just a fancy-robe-wearing intro-to-law tutor who isn't so much "rejecting your suit completely" as much as "redlining a first draft."
"Please believe our carefully crafted press release that's been approved by the legal department rather than the off-the-cuff remarks we made when we didn't think anyone was listening."
Strong State and national SLAPP laws would be good, but if we really want to stop all this bullshit, what we need is personal liability for abuse of official powers. Cops and AGs get away with this all the time because - at worst - they just have to write a check from somebody else's bank account (taxpayers).
Courts don't want to get involved in "political" disputes, especially when a sizable portion of the populace backs the abuse, but somebody needs to be the adult in the room.
We’ve seen ample indication that streaming executives have learned absolutely nothing from history
Not surprising given that most streaming services outside Netflix and Amazon are just the same old traditional pay-TV companies with a fresh coat of paint.
Paramount, Disney, Max [or whatever it's called this week], Discovery, etc. Steaming isn't exactly a new business as much is it's just a pivot from getting retransmission fees from cable companies to going direct to consumer. They certainly had to build up the infrastructure to do it, but at the end of the day, all they did was cut out the middle man. The momentum is strong to keep doing what they've done for 50+ years.
Other departments are watching, alright. Watching in awe at how this guy keeps getting away with his career of bullshit.
If he doesn't get another position as an officer, it will be because a police union snaps him up as a consultant first.
"We won't see as much election interference if we don't have a huge team dedicated to finding election interference" does have big "the virus will go away if we stop testing" energy.
It's an appropriate name. Any time a reporter writes an article on the company, the first thing I'm doing is moving my cursor to the top right corner of the window and clicking "X".
I give it 5 years before every physical book includes a prologue that's actually just a 10-page EULA about the reader not being a robot, and agreeing to not discuss the events or descriptions of the story without the express written consent of the publisher.
Sounds about right. It's "difficult" to explain the fees in the same way it's "difficult" for one to explain to a significant other that they have been cheating.
But why does a government-run website ever have any 3rd party cookies. Those are primarily intended for advertising, right?
Session-cookies for logins, sure, but non-commercial sites should be super simple, and entirely self-contained. Aside from hyperlinks to useful off-site resources, I can't think of any reason a government site should be relying on any other servers to function. It's not just a matter of privacy, it's basic security.
I'll be a data point in support of this phenomenon, and I have some numbers to back it up. I've been tracking my data usage every day for nearly four years.
My averages over that time:
1st-10th of the month: 28GB/day; 11-20th: 30GB/day; 21-30th: 32GB/day. The very last days are the heaviest. As a subset of that last bucket, for the 27th-30th, my household averages over 37GB/day.
As the month goes on, and I have data to spare, I make sure to download everything I might want, just in case I don't have room in the 'budget' the next month. I have multiple terabytes of video games downloaded and installed that I've never touched, but they're available if I want them. Without the hard cap, I'd feel much more comfortable installing them as desired instead of queueing them up ahead of time.
When the public servants view the public as servants, we've lost our way.
Imagine thinking a federal judge is just a fancy-robe-wearing intro-to-law tutor who isn't so much "rejecting your suit completely" as much as "redlining a first draft."
To be fair
It wasn't just the logo. The biker exclaimed, "Fucks' sake, what are we doing?" which is also the company motto, apparently.
I can't wait for every document shredding company to be swept up in every mail fraud case. 🙄
"Please believe our carefully crafted press release that's been approved by the legal department rather than the off-the-cuff remarks we made when we didn't think anyone was listening."
Meanwhile, others on Substack are downplaying the importance of T&S altogether.
Oh shit! Why didn't anybody ever think of just banning the bad stuff and keeping the good stuff? T&S must be so simple!Strong State and national SLAPP laws would be good, but if we really want to stop all this bullshit, what we need is personal liability for abuse of official powers. Cops and AGs get away with this all the time because - at worst - they just have to write a check from somebody else's bank account (taxpayers). Courts don't want to get involved in "political" disputes, especially when a sizable portion of the populace backs the abuse, but somebody needs to be the adult in the room.
Other departments are watching, alright. Watching in awe at how this guy keeps getting away with his career of bullshit. If he doesn't get another position as an officer, it will be because a police union snaps him up as a consultant first.
Can you report the reply-bot for disinformation?
Haha, j/k. They don't care about that, either.
"We won't see as much election interference if we don't have a huge team dedicated to finding election interference" does have big "the virus will go away if we stop testing" energy.
Sony's going to put a rootkit on your computer for that comment!
It's an appropriate name. Any time a reporter writes an article on the company, the first thing I'm doing is moving my cursor to the top right corner of the window and clicking "X".
I give it 5 years before every physical book includes a prologue that's actually just a 10-page EULA about the reader not being a robot, and agreeing to not discuss the events or descriptions of the story without the express written consent of the publisher.
Sounds about right. It's "difficult" to explain the fees in the same way it's "difficult" for one to explain to a significant other that they have been cheating.
"We don't do things for free, so all the unpaid mods should get back to work" is quite the statement.
Call me naive...
But why does a government-run website ever have any 3rd party cookies. Those are primarily intended for advertising, right? Session-cookies for logins, sure, but non-commercial sites should be super simple, and entirely self-contained. Aside from hyperlinks to useful off-site resources, I can't think of any reason a government site should be relying on any other servers to function. It's not just a matter of privacy, it's basic security.
Objection: Assumes facts not in evidence.
I'll be a data point in support of this phenomenon, and I have some numbers to back it up. I've been tracking my data usage every day for nearly four years. My averages over that time: 1st-10th of the month: 28GB/day; 11-20th: 30GB/day; 21-30th: 32GB/day. The very last days are the heaviest. As a subset of that last bucket, for the 27th-30th, my household averages over 37GB/day. As the month goes on, and I have data to spare, I make sure to download everything I might want, just in case I don't have room in the 'budget' the next month. I have multiple terabytes of video games downloaded and installed that I've never touched, but they're available if I want them. Without the hard cap, I'd feel much more comfortable installing them as desired instead of queueing them up ahead of time.