thesiniot

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by thesiniot 4y ago
That was before the Senate hijacked the normal nomination process in 2016. The court has been an illegitimate and partisan body ever since Garland's seat was denied.
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by thesiniot 4y ago
...Until it gets hacked.
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by thesiniot 4y ago
They've been trying to do that for quite some time. It's no easy feat. https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
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by thesiniot 4y ago
It reminds me of that time the US Air Force designed an "open source jet engine". https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/201113... Their definition of "open source" turned o
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by thesiniot 4y ago
Actually, the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional was arbitrarily claimed by the court in 1803. It is not written down anywhere, except maybe the original federalist papers. https://www.history.com/topics/unit
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by thesiniot 4y ago
It seems like there might be a periodic sine wave for media consumption, with price on the Y axis. When we sit at the trough, DRM is heavy-handed and media is expensive to purchase or rent. Piracy is the best option for most consumers. Then
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by thesiniot 4y ago
Airlines and the FAA have way bigger problems than obnoxious vapers. In practice, you have to behave very poorly to merit any sort of serious response: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-levies-161823-against-eight... Th
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by thesiniot 4y ago
Absolutely! But this article may focus too much on ethics. In practice, you usually need to demonstrate that you were harmed by an action to bring it to court. So we would need the author of a GPL'd repository to sue, with proof that c