The only way the government can issue tickets to a registered owner (rather than the actual driver of the vehicle) is to decriminalize the violation and issue them administrative fines because the Constitution requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the person accused committed the crime for criminal violations.
Traffic tickets aren't criminal violations to begin with.
common folk are not responsible for climate change. big tech is.
What do you mean by "big tech"? Because most people are talking about Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Not that they have zero responsibility for climate change, but Big Oil is obviously much more of an issue.
There are probably many issues, but the most obvious one to me is that even Google couldn't afford to take on that kind of liability. So the day after that law passed YouTube would stop paying video creators, and all the channels that rely on that income would shut down.
Just how the crisis line could get informed, rational consent to release health information from a person suffering a mental health crisis is questionable at best.
Suffering from a mental health crisis doesn't indicate a lack of competence to consent to something. Such a person may or may not be able to give consent, and that is something that would have to be evaluated in each case, regardless of whether they called a hotline, walked into an emergency room, or whatever else (incidentally refusing treatment also cannot be used to declare someone incompetent).
If done properly, so I don't have to commute in my car or otherwise haul my body to the right place anymore....that would make a dent in global warming.
If you get unlimited data when tethering, which as far as I know no US carrier is offering.
I'll be open to the possibility of 5G helping with climate change as soon as they can prove that 3G and 4G did.
There’s no doubt we are federal as the confederation sends federal members in the form of the senate
We're not federal because of the Senate, but because of the states. The US would still be a federal system even if we had only the House of Representatives.
And republic as the people send representation in the form of the house.
The US would still be a republic even if we only had the Senate, and no House of Representatives. Because senators are elected by the people to represent them. That wasn't always the case, but it is today.
I'm not saying this is the right bill or it isn't unconstitutional as written but to flat say it would be too hard for politicians to have any penalty for dishonesty is giving up on having any ethics in government.
It would be nearly impossible to craft a bill that meaningfully punishes politicians for lying and also stays within the bounds of the first amendment. That's one of the consequences of this freedom that we have decided to have. People, including politicians, can and do abuse it.
The prosecutors shouldn't have been depending on people "messing up" in the first place.
Haven't police (this is all about investigation, not prosecution) always relied on people messing up? A criminal who makes no mistakes is extremely difficult to catch.
Well, I guess that depends on how you look at what true means.
Great, so now besides "democracy" we have to figure out if we mean the same thing by "true"?
A representative democracy IS a democracy.
Cool, we're on the same page. Still think the US is not a federal republic?
I’d also refer you to contextual history on your calling it a “conservative” issue. Remember during the Cold War era, especially during Vietnam, it was the liberal-ist claim the US could not spread what we don’t have at home ourselves. Re:democracy.
Yes, but that had nothing to do with any objection that non-direct democracy isn't really democracy. It was a protest that our representative democracy does a poor job of representing many segments of society.
So we're back to the strange phenomenon of conservatives (at least it seems like it's usually conservatives) denying that representative democracy is true democracy. It's never made sense to me.
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Representative means someone else votes for you. Otherwise you are voting which would be direct democracy. What do you mean by equal? Democracy isn’t equal. It’s majority.
I think you might have thrown me off when you said "A true democracy is 1:1." By "true" do you mean "direct"? It didn't occur to me until just now that you might have meant that, because that implies representative democracy is "false" democracy. Which it isn't.
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How do you figure?
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Deescalate
Police have always been able to deescalate.
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Traffic tickets aren't criminal violations to begin with.
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Thanks for explaining the joke, that always makes it much better.
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Re: A fresh coat of paint on the Titanic
"free rein"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign
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What do you mean by "big tech"? Because most people are talking about Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Not that they have zero responsibility for climate change, but Big Oil is obviously much more of an issue.
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Google (and probably just about anyone else) would just ignore such requests, so that would not be effective.
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Re: Paid creators and section 230
There are probably many issues, but the most obvious one to me is that even Google couldn't afford to take on that kind of liability. So the day after that law passed YouTube would stop paying video creators, and all the channels that rely on that income would shut down.
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Disbursement
disperse: distribute or spread over a wide area.
disburse: pay out (money from a fund).
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Re: In the case of mental health...
Suffering from a mental health crisis doesn't indicate a lack of competence to consent to something. Such a person may or may not be able to give consent, and that is something that would have to be evaluated in each case, regardless of whether they called a hotline, walked into an emergency room, or whatever else (incidentally refusing treatment also cannot be used to declare someone incompetent).
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Re: Well, it could help....
If you get unlimited data when tethering, which as far as I know no US carrier is offering.
I'll be open to the possibility of 5G helping with climate change as soon as they can prove that 3G and 4G did.
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We're not federal because of the Senate, but because of the states. The US would still be a federal system even if we had only the House of Representatives.
The US would still be a republic even if we only had the Senate, and no House of Representatives. Because senators are elected by the people to represent them. That wasn't always the case, but it is today.
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It would be nearly impossible to craft a bill that meaningfully punishes politicians for lying and also stays within the bounds of the first amendment. That's one of the consequences of this freedom that we have decided to have. People, including politicians, can and do abuse it.
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Re: Adinfinitem
You didn't understand the article, did you?
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It's not rare at all. Estimates are that 90+ percent of convictions are plea deals.
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Haven't police (this is all about investigation, not prosecution) always relied on people messing up? A criminal who makes no mistakes is extremely difficult to catch.
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You said it isn't. But OK.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220125/11223948355/devin-nunes-ceo-trumps-truth-social-confi rms-that-free-speech-social-media-will-be-heavily-moderated.shtml#c836
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Great, so now besides "democracy" we have to figure out if we mean the same thing by "true"?
Cool, we're on the same page. Still think the US is not a federal republic?
Yes, but that had nothing to do with any objection that non-direct democracy isn't really democracy. It was a protest that our representative democracy does a poor job of representing many segments of society.
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So we're back to the strange phenomenon of conservatives (at least it seems like it's usually conservatives) denying that representative democracy is true democracy. It's never made sense to me.
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I think you might have thrown me off when you said "A true democracy is 1:1." By "true" do you mean "direct"? It didn't occur to me until just now that you might have meant that, because that implies representative democracy is "false" democracy. Which it isn't.
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