Suspending the trading of a company only hurts the shareholders, not the company. That's effectively a game of hot potato where whoever is holding the stock when trading is suspended loses.
Normally a "return" request for electronic documents simply means, destroy any copies you have or that you've disseminated. If that's not possible, explain why.
That might not be the best solution in this particular case since the requested data is a client's alien file which presumably has their own personally-identifying information in it.
For most requests though, I'm on board with a public clearinghouse website that archives every bit of (de-personalized) data that has been received by anyone via a FOIA request. In fact, adding something like this to FOIA itself sounds like so much government transparency that it'll never happen.
Yes, they would be providing testimony. In the hypothetical you presented, authorities with a warrant would crack the safe to get at its contents rather than ask for the passcode or key.
So, I was going to say that polio isn't quite extinct. However, the last cases of wild polio were in January (one in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan) which is down from 94 in 2020. There were also 170 cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus this year (this happens when there are too many unvaccinated people in a population and the weakened poliovirus from the vaccine infects them and mutates into a dangerous form again**). That 170 figure is down from 1069 in 2020 though and so polio may really be on the verge of eradication this time.
You joke but, I'm reasonably sure that none of those fusion patents are of gravity-based hot fusion (the kind that happens in stars). Any patent like that should be rejected out-of-hand.
You seem to be one of the (many) people who misunderstands how money works from the point of view of the issuer of said money. Every dollar that the US government issues is spent on something. That's how new dollars enter circulation. Taxation, on the other hand, removes dollars from circulation effectively destroying them. If you have a perfectly balanced federal budget, then you've managed to remove exactly as many dollars as you added that year from circulation. Even worse, if you have a surplus then you've removed more dollars than you added that year! If you do either of those things and the population using the currency is still increasing then there are either no new dollars for any currency users (you, me, local/state governments, corporations, etc.) to keep or (in the case of a surplus) fewer dollars to go around than we started with. The federal deficit is the number of dollars that the government created that they haven't removed from circulation. Those are the dollars that all of us currency users have in our pockets, bank accounts, and investments.
While inflation is a worry in the long term, as long as there are still sufficient goods and services for the number of extant dollars to chase, the economy won't collapse.
Even if a homicide is found to be justified as those were, it's still the intentional killing of one human by another. That is, by definition, murder even if no crime has been committed.
As to the second, if you don't allow people without children into school board meetings for "lack of standing" do you also not tax them to pay for education? Remember taxation without representation was a major reason for the creation of the United States in the first place.
*Sorry about the Daily Mail link, while I read it elsewhere, this was the first one I found in my search just now.
My ISP blocks certain legal websites that use services other than Cloudflare for DDOS protection. To access these sites, I have to use a VPN (since Spectrum is the only broadband option available to me).
There was no privacy intrusion by Google because of two things. One the user, by way of Google's Terms of Service, agreed to let Google look at their attachments. Two, Google is not the government so they aren't limited by the Fourth Amendment.
What the court is saying is that until some being with a mind (let's use the term "person" from here on out) looks at the evidence, no search (as defined by the Fourth Amendment) has occurred. This means that if no person at Google or the NCMEC actually looks at the images, no private search has yet occurred and the police need to get a warrant before looking at the forwarded images themselves.
I'm not even certain about that first case. There was a home with two(!) hostage situations that I could see from my bedroom window last year. Even then, the Michigan State Police announced themselves and ended up making entry by dumping a ton of tear gas in through the windows and rushing the perpetrator.
On a separate note, that landlord had a rough time with two separate tenants being held hostage by different people in the house he owned within 6 months of each other. Replacing all those windows twice couldn't have been cheap.
In Michigan, you are required to have your registration in the vehicle when it's in operation on a public road. One example is that, in winter, it's very easy for the plate to be partially (or fully) covered in snow and therefore to have either its characters or its annual tag covered and unreadable. In those cases, proof of registration is required to know if the vehicle actually has up-to-date registration. Anecdotally, every time I've been in a vehicle that was pulled over here in Michigan (this includes one time I was pulled over), the driver has been asked for license, registration, and proof of insurance.
US Senators are only required to be residents of the state they're elected from when they initially run. Members of the House, on the other hand, are required to maintain legal residency in their home state (but not the district that they represent) at all times. Hawley was, therefore, a resident of Missouri when initially elected but now lives closer to where he works.
This is true, Navalny has said some truly dreadful things. However, Putin is also a horrible person to have in charge of a nuclear power, and having someone stand up to him is not exactly a bad thing.
I don't know about that. Without the Constitutions clause specifically allowing Congress to create intellectual property laws, the First Amendment's free speech clause would appear to prohibit Congress from passing a law that keeps someone from duplicating someone else's speech.
The article points out that even if he nominated someone today, it would take most of the rest of the year to actually get them confirmed. It also points out that Interim Chairperson Rosenworcel's term ends at the end of the year which will require another nomination and set of confirmation hearings. I had thoughts like yours after reading the title and before reading the article but, the article cleared up the issues for me.
Re: Re:
Suspending the trading of a company only hurts the shareholders, not the company. That's effectively a game of hot potato where whoever is holding the stock when trading is suspended loses.
Re: What does return documents mean, legally?
Normally a "return" request for electronic documents simply means, destroy any copies you have or that you've disseminated. If that's not possible, explain why.
Re:
That might not be the best solution in this particular case since the requested data is a client's alien file which presumably has their own personally-identifying information in it.
For most requests though, I'm on board with a public clearinghouse website that archives every bit of (de-personalized) data that has been received by anyone via a FOIA request. In fact, adding something like this to FOIA itself sounds like so much government transparency that it'll never happen.
Re:
He nominated Gigi Sohn back in October. The ball is in the Senate's court now.
Re:
Yes, they would be providing testimony. In the hypothetical you presented, authorities with a warrant would crack the safe to get at its contents rather than ask for the passcode or key.
Re: Big problem here
So, I was going to say that polio isn't quite extinct. However, the last cases of wild polio were in January (one in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan) which is down from 94 in 2020. There were also 170 cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus this year (this happens when there are too many unvaccinated people in a population and the weakened poliovirus from the vaccine infects them and mutates into a dangerous form again**). That 170 figure is down from 1069 in 2020 though and so polio may really be on the verge of eradication this time.
*Source who.int
**Source polioeradication.org
Re: Re:
You joke but, I'm reasonably sure that none of those fusion patents are of gravity-based hot fusion (the kind that happens in stars). Any patent like that should be rejected out-of-hand.
Re: "By any measure this is a good thing"
You seem to be one of the (many) people who misunderstands how money works from the point of view of the issuer of said money. Every dollar that the US government issues is spent on something. That's how new dollars enter circulation. Taxation, on the other hand, removes dollars from circulation effectively destroying them. If you have a perfectly balanced federal budget, then you've managed to remove exactly as many dollars as you added that year from circulation. Even worse, if you have a surplus then you've removed more dollars than you added that year! If you do either of those things and the population using the currency is still increasing then there are either no new dollars for any currency users (you, me, local/state governments, corporations, etc.) to keep or (in the case of a surplus) fewer dollars to go around than we started with. The federal deficit is the number of dollars that the government created that they haven't removed from circulation. Those are the dollars that all of us currency users have in our pockets, bank accounts, and investments.
While inflation is a worry in the long term, as long as there are still sufficient goods and services for the number of extant dollars to chase, the economy won't collapse.
Re: Re:
Only one of the two infamous Koch brothers is still alive. David Koch died in 2019.
Re: Re:
Even if a homicide is found to be justified as those were, it's still the intentional killing of one human by another. That is, by definition, murder even if no crime has been committed.
Re:
Unfortunately, this isn't only a metropolitan US policy. In Oklahoma, police have (or at least they had at one point) devices to pull money off of gift cards and prepaid debit cards.
Re:
For your first point, just a few days ago a 17-year-old girl was {shouted down at a school board meeting](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10148303/Gay-student-sharing-experience-bullying-s houted-woman.html)* (by an adult) while she was speaking about being bullied at school over her sexual identity (she's gay).
As to the second, if you don't allow people without children into school board meetings for "lack of standing" do you also not tax them to pay for education? Remember taxation without representation was a major reason for the creation of the United States in the first place.
*Sorry about the Daily Mail link, while I read it elsewhere, this was the first one I found in my search just now.
Sometimes Even Americans Need VPN's
My ISP blocks certain legal websites that use services other than Cloudflare for DDOS protection. To access these sites, I have to use a VPN (since Spectrum is the only broadband option available to me).
Re: the courts are drawing a funny distinction
There was no privacy intrusion by Google because of two things. One the user, by way of Google's Terms of Service, agreed to let Google look at their attachments. Two, Google is not the government so they aren't limited by the Fourth Amendment.
What the court is saying is that until some being with a mind (let's use the term "person" from here on out) looks at the evidence, no search (as defined by the Fourth Amendment) has occurred. This means that if no person at Google or the NCMEC actually looks at the images, no private search has yet occurred and the police need to get a warrant before looking at the forwarded images themselves.
Re: No-knock warrants-- future substitutes?
I'm not even certain about that first case. There was a home with two(!) hostage situations that I could see from my bedroom window last year. Even then, the Michigan State Police announced themselves and ended up making entry by dumping a ton of tear gas in through the windows and rushing the perpetrator.
On a separate note, that landlord had a rough time with two separate tenants being held hostage by different people in the house he owned within 6 months of each other. Replacing all those windows twice couldn't have been cheap.
Re:
In Michigan, you are required to have your registration in the vehicle when it's in operation on a public road. One example is that, in winter, it's very easy for the plate to be partially (or fully) covered in snow and therefore to have either its characters or its annual tag covered and unreadable. In those cases, proof of registration is required to know if the vehicle actually has up-to-date registration. Anecdotally, every time I've been in a vehicle that was pulled over here in Michigan (this includes one time I was pulled over), the driver has been asked for license, registration, and proof of insurance.
Re: Re: Re:
US Senators are only required to be residents of the state they're elected from when they initially run. Members of the House, on the other hand, are required to maintain legal residency in their home state (but not the district that they represent) at all times. Hawley was, therefore, a resident of Missouri when initially elected but now lives closer to where he works.
Re:
This is true, Navalny has said some truly dreadful things. However, Putin is also a horrible person to have in charge of a nuclear power, and having someone stand up to him is not exactly a bad thing.
Re: Re:
I don't know about that. Without the Constitutions clause specifically allowing Congress to create intellectual property laws, the First Amendment's free speech clause would appear to prohibit Congress from passing a law that keeps someone from duplicating someone else's speech.
Re:
The article points out that even if he nominated someone today, it would take most of the rest of the year to actually get them confirmed. It also points out that Interim Chairperson Rosenworcel's term ends at the end of the year which will require another nomination and set of confirmation hearings. I had thoughts like yours after reading the title and before reading the article but, the article cleared up the issues for me.
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