I remember there was a recent SCOTUS ruling preventing a state from regulating districting, which seems only legit if gerrymandering affects federal elections.
It does, but only on the House side.
The problem remains that one non-executive person can procedurally turn off the government at the federal level.
Totally agree. I heard that that power McConnell exercises is only by tradition/convention, and that by rule the president of the Senate (the VP of the US) can call on whomever they wish to conduct business, bypassing the majority leader if desired. Hopefully Harris does this, and bills can get a vote whether McConnell wishes it or not. The Republicans can still vote the bills down, but they would have to actually do that, rather than relying on McConnell to shield them from having to take a stand.
it's never been entirely clear why you'd protect traditional theaters at the cost of common sense, consumer demand, and a more efficient model.
It has been this way before, therefore the way it has been must be preserved. Or, the problem of concentrated versus dilute benefit/harm. Movie theater chains have an intense interest in protecting their business model and can concentrate money and influence toward that goal. There is no one on the other side of the issue trying to make movies better for the public.
The NDAA is the bill that authorizes military expenditure each year. Without it passing, the military cannot spend any money. I don't know what happens in that case because as far as I know it's never failed to pass.
I'm not seeing where he said he'd defund the military, where did that come from?
From his tweet:
"Therefore, if the very dangerous & unfair Section 230 is not completely terminated as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), I will be forced to unequivocally VETO the Bill when sent to the very beautiful Resolute desk."
It would have to be self-hosted web sites. Without 230, the web host could be liable for whatever you decide to put up on your web site, so they're not going to be willing to host a site from just anyone. You'll have to run it out of your house (AWS won't host it either, because they could also be liable), and your ISP is going to demand you get a business level connection if you start getting any significant traffic.
Type some HTML, maybe CSS if you want to get fancy. Stick them in /var/www/mysite.com, edit a few nginx.conf files, type service nginx restart and you're up and running!
You realize that may as well be black magic to the majority of internet users, right?
Not that I would take anything he says at face value. And his quotes read like they were written by a not very good AI or something. Perhaps typed on a phone in a hurry without proofreading? And is The Times of New York just the NY Times by a different name? Never heard of it.
And you pay a monthly fee, and that's it. Other than pre-paid, you can't even find a cell phone plan that charges by the minute, let alone a home phone. I don't want a broadband plan where I have to consider if it's worth the extra money to stream that movie. I wouldn't object to such plans being available, for people who barely use the internet, but I don't want one.
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This has what, exactly, to do with 5G?
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Re: Stopping Senator McConnell
No, amendment 17 specifies that the people of the state elect the senators.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xvii
It does, but only on the House side.
Totally agree. I heard that that power McConnell exercises is only by tradition/convention, and that by rule the president of the Senate (the VP of the US) can call on whomever they wish to conduct business, bypassing the majority leader if desired. Hopefully Harris does this, and bills can get a vote whether McConnell wishes it or not. The Republicans can still vote the bills down, but they would have to actually do that, rather than relying on McConnell to shield them from having to take a stand.
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Why
It has been this way before, therefore the way it has been must be preserved. Or, the problem of concentrated versus dilute benefit/harm. Movie theater chains have an intense interest in protecting their business model and can concentrate money and influence toward that goal. There is no one on the other side of the issue trying to make movies better for the public.
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It's not a flu at all, it's a different family of virus.
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Its success is not likely.
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McConnell is a senator; gerrymandering has nothing to do with why he gets reelected.
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Five commissioners
The FCC has five commissioners. So it would seem the part of the plan that wasn't mentioned is to deny Biden a commissioner, Garland style.
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Yes, none of that was intended to imply that the situation is hunky dory. Sounds like the kind of video YT should recommend to me too...
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The NDAA is the bill that authorizes military expenditure each year. Without it passing, the military cannot spend any money. I don't know what happens in that case because as far as I know it's never failed to pass.
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Re: Was it just clickbait?
From his tweet:
"Therefore, if the very dangerous & unfair Section 230 is not completely terminated as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), I will be forced to unequivocally VETO the Bill when sent to the very beautiful Resolute desk."
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Gorilla marketing? Is that like the monkey selfie?
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Re: "From a European perspective"
Probably more like 24%. Even the original claim was 40%, not 80%. Unless you have more recent data from the pandemic.
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/do-40-percent-of-americans-have-less
This one seems quite a bit more complicated but if you have a reference I would be interested to see it.
25-30% (not necessarily as their only jobs):
https://www.gigeconomydata.org/basics/how-many-gig-workers-are-there
36%:
https://fortunly.co m/statistics/gig-economy-statistics/
80% is just not a plausible number.
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It would have to be self-hosted web sites. Without 230, the web host could be liable for whatever you decide to put up on your web site, so they're not going to be willing to host a site from just anyone. You'll have to run it out of your house (AWS won't host it either, because they could also be liable), and your ISP is going to demand you get a business level connection if you start getting any significant traffic.
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Re: Re: Uhh, yes?
You realize that may as well be black magic to the majority of internet users, right?
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No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution
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It's not a single solution, it's many things, because it's many problems.
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True, I know about as much as Trump does on the topic.
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Not that I would take anything he says at face value. And his quotes read like they were written by a not very good AI or something. Perhaps typed on a phone in a hurry without proofreading? And is The Times of New York just the NY Times by a different name? Never heard of it.
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And you pay a monthly fee, and that's it. Other than pre-paid, you can't even find a cell phone plan that charges by the minute, let alone a home phone. I don't want a broadband plan where I have to consider if it's worth the extra money to stream that movie. I wouldn't object to such plans being available, for people who barely use the internet, but I don't want one.
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it's likely going to be due to a long string of bad decisions that leave the clueless executives gently gliding on their golden parachutes
FTFY
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