It was never anything more than posturing on Trump's part anyhow. If he has any ambitions for himself or Ivanka, being the guy who defunded the military for any reason would be poison.
Welcome to the hard right supermajority era of the modern supreme court, where no issue that conservatives lost is considered settled. Red state lunatics have begun their efforts to reshape national law by throwing poop at the wall until they find a way to get a thumbs up from the supreme court.
I'm shocked that a regime who can't hire qualified people because they refuse to bend the knee and swear an oath to put loyalty to Trump over doing their jobs would nominate someone whose primary qualification seems to be naked partisanship. They've scraped the bottom of the barrel so often in four years they've dug down to bedrock.
This will probably be dropped the moment there's any sort of discovery because cryptocurrency companies are heavily reliant on qualified people not looking into what they're actually doing on a forum that regulators will find it hard to ignore. You'd think these companies would know by now they're probably not going to create the desired chilling effect going after people who can afford to fight it.
Feel free to explain how a privately owned, for profit company is even the slightest bit 'Marxist', and how it's censorship to expect right wing users to obey the rules they agreed to when they signed up, we're all ears.
They've deemed these kids throwaways so it's fairly safe to say anyone on this secret list is accused of anything, or lives near to a crime, they will not be treated as innocent until proven guilty and they will keep at them until they find something they can make them guilty of. Got to keep those stats high, who gives a crap about the lives ruined to do so?
It's fairly safe to say the PS5 ports will ne handed off to the cheapest outside developer they can find with a short deadline that leads them to be released even less complete than the MS releases, and if they do a good job in spite of that, they won't be first choice for future projects.
Welcome to republican governance, where completely reasonable things are paired with utterly poisonous pills to make sure they never happen. It's going to be four years where nothing is done to clean the pile of dogmess Trump left on the doorstep of the world.
I'm sure the GOP are watching to see how well the whole 'disqualifying and arresting the opposition' thing works so they can work out how to apply it there.
Sadly the writing was on the wall for DC as an entity when they closed the New York office and relocated everything to be closer to the movie people. The breathing space distance provided saved them from some of the interference they would have received under merger demented WB, but now they're just the people writing movie pitches who occasionally get sued by creators over rights.
'Hey, I've been looking at the books at WB and noticed we have this thing called DC that runs at a slight profit and is basically a source of free IP for TV projects, movies, toys, merchandise...'
'A slight profit?'
'Well, they have to pay people for art, writing, inking, royalties, but it pays off long term by giving us new stories, designs and characters to use.'
'But we own all their old stuff, right?'
'Well yes but what about the future...'
'Fire them all, get them off the books so we can tell the shareholders we cut jobs to make them happy!'
'But we need...'
'Fire them all! It needs to look like we're doing things for the shareholders, future be damned! I'll be wrapped in a golden parachute by then!'
Meanwhile in new and concerning copyright system abuses, Disney has decided when they buy a company, the get to pick and choose what liabilities they must honour.
They've stopped paying royalties to Alan Dean Foster for his Star Wars books, having decided that they don't have to honour the liabilities of 20th century fox. They refuse to meet with him without him signing an NDA, which is insane.
Copyright law massively favours entrenched players in a creative field and the entire purpose of the republican party is to roll up the ladder so as few people can climb out of poverty as possible. The only way conservatives are going to start caring about copyright law is if major corporate players start lose their stranglehold on popular culture to the individual, if major properties get pulled from the hands of Warner Brothers or Disney by their creators, then they will move heaven and earth to make sure that they tighten laws to make it all so much worse for everyone.
Musicians not wanting republicans to use their work is inconvenient for their politicians, but it's not a fight they feel that is worth having on a PR front, and they know a song can't be unplayed once they've used it a few times.
If that were the case they wouldn't have spent most of the Trump admin doing just that, hollowing out the state department, the intelligence services, purging the expertise from entire departments by relocating them to red states then firing anyone who refuses to relocate. The hollowing out of government isn't something they've just decided to do, it's something they've been doing all along and now it's time for them to f*** up cybersecurity for a generation too.
They'll fire the deputy and keep on doing it until they reach the level of staff they can promote someone of their choosing from. The way the system is supposed t9 work is now utterly meaningless, with the government packed with people who aren't qualified, confirmed or even able to pass a background check in some cases.
With Zuck it's entirely a performance, Facebook is openly slanted towards right wing bullsh*t with a republican operative in management kneecapping any attempt to change course and harming left leaning news outlets. If he was excused from manufactured right wing outrage, people would ask why.
The party that just tried to blackmail the state of Michigan into letting them effectively toss out the votes for the ENTIRE CITY OF DETROIT has surrendered any right to lecture anyone on election interference.
They backed down, but the fact they even considered it is one of many utterly despicable things they've tried in the past week.
Civil servants, sacientists, people whose job it is to be competent and to do the day to day work of the department they operate in to the best of their ability, rather than to push a political agenda.
The Trump Admin has an unqualified 30 year old political appointee hard at work purging the competent people from the US government for doing their jobs, for even contemplating working with the Biden administration and replacing them with likewise unqualified people with little experience, whose biggest qualification if their wilklingness to kiss the ring of the mad king,
Non political was maybe the wrong way of putting it, but they're pumping raw sewage into the civil service the way they have the judiciary and it will take a long time to undo the damage they cause.
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It was never anything more than posturing on Trump's part anyhow. If he has any ambitions for himself or Ivanka, being the guy who defunded the military for any reason would be poison.
On the post: Tennessee State Rep Ask US Congress To Ignore Supreme Court Precedent And Outlaw Flag Burning
Welcome to the hard right supermajority era of the modern supreme court, where no issue that conservatives lost is considered settled. Red state lunatics have begun their efforts to reshape national law by throwing poop at the wall until they find a way to get a thumbs up from the supreme court.
On the post: Trump's FCC Nominee Asked Fox News To Help Destroy Section 230 To Help Elect More Republicans
I'm shocked that a regime who can't hire qualified people because they refuse to bend the knee and swear an oath to put loyalty to Trump over doing their jobs would nominate someone whose primary qualification seems to be naked partisanship. They've scraped the bottom of the barrel so often in four years they've dug down to bedrock.
On the post: Cryptocurrency Giant Binance Sues Forbes, Driving New Attention To Article About Binance's Corporate Structuring
This will probably be dropped the moment there's any sort of discovery because cryptocurrency companies are heavily reliant on qualified people not looking into what they're actually doing on a forum that regulators will find it hard to ignore. You'd think these companies would know by now they're probably not going to create the desired chilling effect going after people who can afford to fight it.
On the post: Ajit Pai's FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With
Now watch as he somehow finds a way to hand control of it to either an entrenched telecoms player or one of Trump's donors on his way out the door.
On the post: Will Parler Users Treat Its 'Glitch' That Hid Georgia Election Content The Same Way They Treated A Twitter Glitch?
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Unfortunately with the nonsense parroted by our resident right wing trolls it's virtually impossible to tell anymore.
On the post: Will Parler Users Treat Its 'Glitch' That Hid Georgia Election Content The Same Way They Treated A Twitter Glitch?
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Feel free to explain how a privately owned, for profit company is even the slightest bit 'Marxist', and how it's censorship to expect right wing users to obey the rules they agreed to when they signed up, we're all ears.
On the post: Florida Sheriff's Pre-Crime Software Says D-Students And Victims Of Domestic Violence Are Potential Criminals
They've deemed these kids throwaways so it's fairly safe to say anyone on this secret list is accused of anything, or lives near to a crime, they will not be treated as innocent until proven guilty and they will keep at them until they find something they can make them guilty of. Got to keep those stats high, who gives a crap about the lives ruined to do so?
On the post: Microsoft: Bethesda Games Will Be 'First, Best' On Xbox, PC
It's fairly safe to say the PS5 ports will ne handed off to the cheapest outside developer they can find with a short deadline that leads them to be released even less complete than the MS releases, and if they do a good job in spite of that, they won't be first choice for future projects.
On the post: White House Offers To Allow Renaming Confederate Bases... In Exchange For Getting Rid Of Section 230
Welcome to republican governance, where completely reasonable things are paired with utterly poisonous pills to make sure they never happen. It's going to be four years where nothing is done to clean the pile of dogmess Trump left on the doorstep of the world.
On the post: Beijing Tightens Grip On Hong Kong With Arrest Of Pro-Democracy Lawmakers
I'm sure the GOP are watching to see how well the whole 'disqualifying and arresting the opposition' thing works so they can work out how to apply it there.
On the post: 'Activist' Investor Elliott Management Sells Stake In AT&T After Encouraging Mass Firings
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Sadly the writing was on the wall for DC as an entity when they closed the New York office and relocated everything to be closer to the movie people. The breathing space distance provided saved them from some of the interference they would have received under merger demented WB, but now they're just the people writing movie pitches who occasionally get sued by creators over rights.
On the post: 'Activist' Investor Elliott Management Sells Stake In AT&T After Encouraging Mass Firings
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'Hey, I've been looking at the books at WB and noticed we have this thing called DC that runs at a slight profit and is basically a source of free IP for TV projects, movies, toys, merchandise...'
'A slight profit?'
'Well, they have to pay people for art, writing, inking, royalties, but it pays off long term by giving us new stories, designs and characters to use.'
'But we own all their old stuff, right?'
'Well yes but what about the future...'
'Fire them all, get them off the books so we can tell the shareholders we cut jobs to make them happy!'
'But we need...'
'Fire them all! It needs to look like we're doing things for the shareholders, future be damned! I'll be wrapped in a golden parachute by then!'
On the post: Why Don't Conservatives Care About Copyright?
Meanwhile in new and concerning copyright system abuses, Disney has decided when they buy a company, the get to pick and choose what liabilities they must honour.
https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329240238816858120
They've stopped paying royalties to Alan Dean Foster for his Star Wars books, having decided that they don't have to honour the liabilities of 20th century fox. They refuse to meet with him without him signing an NDA, which is insane.
On the post: Why Don't Conservatives Care About Copyright?
Copyright law massively favours entrenched players in a creative field and the entire purpose of the republican party is to roll up the ladder so as few people can climb out of poverty as possible. The only way conservatives are going to start caring about copyright law is if major corporate players start lose their stranglehold on popular culture to the individual, if major properties get pulled from the hands of Warner Brothers or Disney by their creators, then they will move heaven and earth to make sure that they tighten laws to make it all so much worse for everyone.
Musicians not wanting republicans to use their work is inconvenient for their politicians, but it's not a fight they feel that is worth having on a PR front, and they know a song can't be unplayed once they've used it a few times.
On the post: Trump Fires US Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs After Krebs Debunks Trump's Claims Of Election Systems Fraud
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If that were the case they wouldn't have spent most of the Trump admin doing just that, hollowing out the state department, the intelligence services, purging the expertise from entire departments by relocating them to red states then firing anyone who refuses to relocate. The hollowing out of government isn't something they've just decided to do, it's something they've been doing all along and now it's time for them to f*** up cybersecurity for a generation too.
On the post: Trump Fires US Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs After Krebs Debunks Trump's Claims Of Election Systems Fraud
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They'll fire the deputy and keep on doing it until they reach the level of staff they can promote someone of their choosing from. The way the system is supposed t9 work is now utterly meaningless, with the government packed with people who aren't qualified, confirmed or even able to pass a background check in some cases.
On the post: Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Credibly Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election
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With Zuck it's entirely a performance, Facebook is openly slanted towards right wing bullsh*t with a republican operative in management kneecapping any attempt to change course and harming left leaning news outlets. If he was excused from manufactured right wing outrage, people would ask why.
On the post: Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Credibly Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/michigan-certify-election-results.html
The party that just tried to blackmail the state of Michigan into letting them effectively toss out the votes for the ENTIRE CITY OF DETROIT has surrendered any right to lecture anyone on election interference.
They backed down, but the fact they even considered it is one of many utterly despicable things they've tried in the past week.
On the post: Trump Fires US Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs After Krebs Debunks Trump's Claims Of Election Systems Fraud
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Civil servants, sacientists, people whose job it is to be competent and to do the day to day work of the department they operate in to the best of their ability, rather than to push a political agenda.
https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/11/13/in-trumps-final-days-a-30-year-old-aide-purges-official s-seen-as-insufficiently-loyal/
The Trump Admin has an unqualified 30 year old political appointee hard at work purging the competent people from the US government for doing their jobs, for even contemplating working with the Biden administration and replacing them with likewise unqualified people with little experience, whose biggest qualification if their wilklingness to kiss the ring of the mad king,
Non political was maybe the wrong way of putting it, but they're pumping raw sewage into the civil service the way they have the judiciary and it will take a long time to undo the damage they cause.
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