I didn't hear anything about this until the Ars article even as a resident of Genesee County. The more I hear about it, the less I want to re-elect our county sheriff. I've even asked my mother who watches the local news every day if she heard about it and she hasn't. There needs to be greater accountability of our local officials.
Are you arguing that the people in elected office weren't chosen by a plurality (or in some cases an actual majority) of those who voted in their respective elections? How else did they get into office?
The method by which we in the United States choose our elected officials is democratic. The fact that we use elected officials to pass the laws that bind us is republican. Our states have quite a bit of devolved power from the federal government making us a federation of sovereign states. As such we are a federal democratic republic.
Even without Section 230, website owners still wouldn't be liable for the speech of their users. They'd just have to go through an entire trial to prove it first. Section 230 just provides an easy, "throw this case out" button. The First Amendment provides the basis for one person's speech to not be attributable to another however, without Section 230, a court needs to actively decide this.
Hopefully, if Section 230 is ever repealed, a federal court will make this First Amendment decision quickly and others will simply follow the precedent.
Have you ever sent a letter (or email or phone call) to an elected official trying to convince them to agree with you on an issue? Congratulations, you've just lobbied them.
Do we expect our elected officials to know everything about every area that they pass laws on? If not the experts that they talk to will be lobbying them.
Most importantly, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [emphasis mine] The right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is lobbying.
About 15 years ago I saw the most effective use of an AK-47 ever. I'm from Flint, MI and I was visiting the home of a friend's father when someone started shooting at the house. While on the phone with 911, he told them that if the police weren't there in 5 minutes he'd go looking for them with his AK. The police arrived in 3 minutes (compared to when my mother's home was hit along with her next-door neighbor who had testified against a gang and they didn't come out until the next day.)
Using the threat of taking the law into one's own hands to get a proper response from the authorities was the best use of a rifle I've ever seen.
gun and ammunition is separate locked safes, and no carrying of a loaded gun outside of firing ranges places on private property where they are safe use, and maybe in the back country
Unfortunately, SCOTUS has ruled these parts unconstitutional through various cases over the years. Either we need new justices to overturn some of those cases via a re-interpretation of the Second Amendment or we need to modify the Constitution. Pick your poison.
This is a ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit, they specifically don't have that power. The ruling states (as mentioned in the article) that an appeal to the entire 5th Circuit (or the Supreme Court) could overturn this decision.
Oddly enough, I kinda liked their previous game Propnight. It's a funny mashup of Prop Hunt and Dead By Daylight. I don't often pre-order games though and I didn't buy The Day Before.
Back when Steam did curate content they did it so poorly that people complained loudly about it. Their curation caused huge problems for the visual novel community a few years back. They've decided to go the other way and just allow everyone with $100 to publish games now.
Identify the area where you have your problem and complain at your carrier. If you can make calls but not receive them then the problem may be with your phone rather than the network.
Yeah, that's a 10 Gigabit per second fiber connection they're advertising. They're counting on people not understanding the difference between that and the 5G wireless home internet services and just paying a huge markup for a product they really don't need.
The amendment you point out was initially put forward for ratification alongside the Bill of Rights. Using a 200+-year-old amendment isn't a great look for the amendability of our Constitution.
(somehow we don’t see stories like this bemoaning the loss of landline telephone subscribers)
There's a reason for that. Where we used to have one phone account per household, we have one per person with mobile phones. AT&T and Verizon are doing just fine even after losing a bunch of landline subscribers. The others generally make their money from businesses and DSL services.
That's not a requirement. The only requirements for President and Vice President are that they must be over 35 as of inauguration day, that they must have been born a citizen of the US, and that they must have lived in the US for the last fourteen years.
After Trump, some states tried to require that anyone running for President release a number of years of tax returns for ballot access. Those laws were declared unconstitutional due to Article 2 of the Constitution.
Strict to the point where many manga artists will censor a syllable or completely rename some piece of pop culture in their work. If the US had similar laws to Japan, movie productions would have to seek permission to use things like Mcdonald's or Coca-Cola in their films rather than such companies paying for being shown as is the case now.
I've seen random internet posts out of Japan where people will self-censor the names of major companies to avoid trouble. (I'm not sure how much legal jeopardy they'd actually be in but, if the law encourages that level of self-censorship, it's already broken.)
What population epidemic? The only thing stabilizing the populations of the US and most developed nations is immigration right now. In the US specifically, we're well below replacement by just reproduction right now.
Even from a worldwide perspective, the hockey stick curve is expected to turn into a sigmoid curve in the latter part of this century and flatten out at around 11 billion. I was born in the mid-80s. We've gone from 4 to 8 billion in my less than 40 years of life. If we only go from 8 to 11 in the next 75+ years, we should be just fine in the long run.
How Didn't I Hear About This?
I didn't hear anything about this until the Ars article even as a resident of Genesee County. The more I hear about it, the less I want to re-elect our county sheriff. I've even asked my mother who watches the local news every day if she heard about it and she hasn't. There needs to be greater accountability of our local officials.
Are you arguing that the people in elected office weren't chosen by a plurality (or in some cases an actual majority) of those who voted in their respective elections? How else did they get into office? The method by which we in the United States choose our elected officials is democratic. The fact that we use elected officials to pass the laws that bind us is republican. Our states have quite a bit of devolved power from the federal government making us a federation of sovereign states. As such we are a federal democratic republic.
Section 230 and the First Amendment
Even without Section 230, website owners still wouldn't be liable for the speech of their users. They'd just have to go through an entire trial to prove it first. Section 230 just provides an easy, "throw this case out" button. The First Amendment provides the basis for one person's speech to not be attributable to another however, without Section 230, a court needs to actively decide this. Hopefully, if Section 230 is ever repealed, a federal court will make this First Amendment decision quickly and others will simply follow the precedent.
RE: Lobbying
Have you ever sent a letter (or email or phone call) to an elected official trying to convince them to agree with you on an issue? Congratulations, you've just lobbied them. Do we expect our elected officials to know everything about every area that they pass laws on? If not the experts that they talk to will be lobbying them. Most importantly, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [emphasis mine] The right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is lobbying.
About 15 years ago I saw the most effective use of an AK-47 ever. I'm from Flint, MI and I was visiting the home of a friend's father when someone started shooting at the house. While on the phone with 911, he told them that if the police weren't there in 5 minutes he'd go looking for them with his AK. The police arrived in 3 minutes (compared to when my mother's home was hit along with her next-door neighbor who had testified against a gang and they didn't come out until the next day.) Using the threat of taking the law into one's own hands to get a proper response from the authorities was the best use of a rifle I've ever seen.
Three-Judge Panel
This is a ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit, they specifically don't have that power. The ruling states (as mentioned in the article) that an appeal to the entire 5th Circuit (or the Supreme Court) could overturn this decision.
About Fntastic
Oddly enough, I kinda liked their previous game Propnight. It's a funny mashup of Prop Hunt and Dead By Daylight. I don't often pre-order games though and I didn't buy The Day Before.
Steam Curation
Back when Steam did curate content they did it so poorly that people complained loudly about it. Their curation caused huge problems for the visual novel community a few years back. They've decided to go the other way and just allow everyone with $100 to publish games now.
Identify the area where you have your problem and complain at your carrier. If you can make calls but not receive them then the problem may be with your phone rather than the network.
Yeah, that's a 10 Gigabit per second fiber connection they're advertising. They're counting on people not understanding the difference between that and the 5G wireless home internet services and just paying a huge markup for a product they really don't need.
The amendment you point out was initially put forward for ratification alongside the Bill of Rights. Using a 200+-year-old amendment isn't a great look for the amendability of our Constitution.
They only purged direct/private messages sent prior to January 1st, 2023 not public comments.
That's not a requirement. The only requirements for President and Vice President are that they must be over 35 as of inauguration day, that they must have been born a citizen of the US, and that they must have lived in the US for the last fourteen years. After Trump, some states tried to require that anyone running for President release a number of years of tax returns for ballot access. Those laws were declared unconstitutional due to Article 2 of the Constitution.
States charge extra money for vanity plates. They're a nice money maker rather than the opposite as long as you charge enough.
Strict to the point where many manga artists will censor a syllable or completely rename some piece of pop culture in their work. If the US had similar laws to Japan, movie productions would have to seek permission to use things like Mcdonald's or Coca-Cola in their films rather than such companies paying for being shown as is the case now. I've seen random internet posts out of Japan where people will self-censor the names of major companies to avoid trouble. (I'm not sure how much legal jeopardy they'd actually be in but, if the law encourages that level of self-censorship, it's already broken.)
What Lawn?
I don't have a lawn to tell kids to stay off of. Although, I also don't really want to have a lawn to take care of.
Population Epidemic?
What population epidemic? The only thing stabilizing the populations of the US and most developed nations is immigration right now. In the US specifically, we're well below replacement by just reproduction right now. Even from a worldwide perspective, the hockey stick curve is expected to turn into a sigmoid curve in the latter part of this century and flatten out at around 11 billion. I was born in the mid-80s. We've gone from 4 to 8 billion in my less than 40 years of life. If we only go from 8 to 11 in the next 75+ years, we should be just fine in the long run.
While this is also my personal belief, the notion of Crown copyright that exists in certain Commonwealth nations would disagree with us.