Sometimes it seems to me that our data might be safer with the Chinese Communist Party that with Musk, Zukerbarg, et-al. We can only speculate what the CCP might do with it while we know for a fact what the "social" media billionaires do with it.
I suspect that the attorneys that Trump still manages to attract are motivated by the thought that "if he survives and gets elected then I've got a spot on SCOTUS with the attendant license to steal or a lifetime federal judgeship or maybe just the title Attorney General."
"...for no good reason" Doesn't that apply to pretty much everything Congress does? They have plenty of BAD reasons for doing things when viewed from the perspective of ordinary citizens. They have plenty of GOOD reasons for doing things when viewed from their own perspectives -- huge sums of money ensuring almost certain reelection and unlimited power.
Can we cut them some slack? These people are politicians. They are not versed in facts or rationality -- those being insuperable impediments in their chosen profession.
So if I am gathering information for "journalistic" purposes no matter what else I'm doing matters? Say I was murdering someone but kept the camera rolling during the process and narrated the commission of the crime it is OK as long as I distribute the stream? Yeah, sounds good to me...
Only question is: if the original $50K wasn't enough motivation and the complainant didn't show is court as required, why didn't the judge call it contempt of court and give a bit of jail time in addition to adding on another $50K? A couple of days (weeks?) in a cell can be convincing.
"There's all sorts of speculation about why Nunes would do this now."
Hmmm. He's looking for somewhere he can do the maximum damage, having exhausted most of his possibilities as a mere congress-critter? Just speculating, you understand, so don't have a cow.
In the UK at least, a person can be charged with "wasting police time". Does this exist in the State of Misery, err, Missouri? Was even a millisecond of "police time" wasted on this? If so, is the Guv going to be charged?
I noticed "fines for individuals" and "fines for corporations" mentioned but no "fines for police". Then I realized that north of the border it is the same as down here -- immunity and impunity are part of the police job description.
But does this mean that inserting false information in a person's credit report is now entirely OK. Unless a person could prove unequivocally that failure to rent a home, get a job, buy a home or car was specifically tied to the false information then no concrete harm?
"has to put up a $1 million bond, and then any "affected party" can sue"
Can we apply that to the politicians themselves? With a suitably higher dollar amount of course. Then any "affected party" who objects and can prove lying or any other misconduct can take the pol to court. Some pols will easily warrant a $1 billion bond and for some that might not be high enough but their PACs can surely cover that trivial amount.
I've often wondered why India is called "the world's largest democracy." The fact that the citizens have a theoretical role in selecting the government they want does not make it true.
Tik-Tok Ban?
Sometimes it seems to me that our data might be safer with the Chinese Communist Party that with Musk, Zukerbarg, et-al. We can only speculate what the CCP might do with it while we know for a fact what the "social" media billionaires do with it.
Motivation
I suspect that the attorneys that Trump still manages to attract are motivated by the thought that "if he survives and gets elected then I've got a spot on SCOTUS with the attendant license to steal or a lifetime federal judgeship or maybe just the title Attorney General."
Age ID
Do the words "Congress" and "think (tank or otherwise)" even belong in the same article?
Meaning?
"...for no good reason" Doesn't that apply to pretty much everything Congress does? They have plenty of BAD reasons for doing things when viewed from the perspective of ordinary citizens. They have plenty of GOOD reasons for doing things when viewed from their own perspectives -- huge sums of money ensuring almost certain reelection and unlimited power.
FBI
Edit: "The FBI hasn’t hacked phones" that we know of...
So?
"Congress And The SEC Are Getting Basically Everything Wrong" OK. So nothing new there...
Can we cut them some slack? These people are politicians. They are not versed in facts or rationality -- those being insuperable impediments in their chosen profession.
As the signature for one of my email accounts says: "Artificial intelligence can never overcome natural stupidity."
"transparency rating of the state and its "sunshine law" took another hit"
But Missouri is the proverbial place "where the sun don't shine"...
So if I am gathering information for "journalistic" purposes no matter what else I'm doing matters? Say I was murdering someone but kept the camera rolling during the process and narrated the commission of the crime it is OK as long as I distribute the stream? Yeah, sounds good to me...
Only question is: if the original $50K wasn't enough motivation and the complainant didn't show is court as required, why didn't the judge call it contempt of court and give a bit of jail time in addition to adding on another $50K? A couple of days (weeks?) in a cell can be convincing.
"There's all sorts of speculation about why Nunes would do this now."
Hmmm. He's looking for somewhere he can do the maximum damage, having exhausted most of his possibilities as a mere congress-critter? Just speculating, you understand, so don't have a cow.
Charges?
In the UK at least, a person can be charged with "wasting police time". Does this exist in the State of Misery, err, Missouri? Was even a millisecond of "police time" wasted on this? If so, is the Guv going to be charged?
"bad-apples-floating-to-the-top-of-the-barrel dept"
In my time in the military the saying was "the really big chunks float to the top of the septic tank"
"A “violent public disturbance” raises similar questions. Is a violent public disturbance a peaceful protest that later turns violent?"
Does it count if the police are the ones committing the violence upon peaceful protestors?
I noticed "fines for individuals" and "fines for corporations" mentioned but no "fines for police". Then I realized that north of the border it is the same as down here -- immunity and impunity are part of the police job description.
But does this mean that inserting false information in a person's credit report is now entirely OK. Unless a person could prove unequivocally that failure to rent a home, get a job, buy a home or car was specifically tied to the false information then no concrete harm?
Immunity and impunity. How Trumpian!
Bondo?
"has to put up a $1 million bond, and then any "affected party" can sue"
Can we apply that to the politicians themselves? With a suitably higher dollar amount of course. Then any "affected party" who objects and can prove lying or any other misconduct can take the pol to court. Some pols will easily warrant a $1 billion bond and for some that might not be high enough but their PACs can surely cover that trivial amount.
I've often wondered why India is called "the world's largest democracy." The fact that the citizens have a theoretical role in selecting the government they want does not make it true.