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  • Jul 11th, 2019 @ 6:39pm

    Re: Account usage

    From my reading it's:

    [...] how the official describes and uses the account; to whom features of the account are made available; and how others, including government officials and agencies, regard and treat the account.

    AOC treats the @AOC account as personal. There may be overlap yes... but she is a Representative. The @RepAOC account is treated as the "official" account. Trumps administration treats his personal account as the official account, not the @POTUS account.

    The 2nd left it open to interpretation on a case by case basis ("fact‐specific inquiry").

  • Jul 11th, 2019 @ 5:06pm

    Account usage

    AOC may use the @AOC account as an extension, but has she ever stated that it's an official channel? Wouldn't the official channel be the @RepAOC account?

    For Trump, it has been said that his personal account is going to be used for official business (which should make it fall under the Federal rules while he's President yes?). I cannot find the same reference with AOC. So, if this guy is actually represented by her, and she has blocked him on the @RepAOC account, then that block should be removed.

    Or if it's stated that the @AOC account will be used as an official account then clear the block there.

  • Feb 24th, 2017 @ 8:29am

    Re: Ars Technica had some good coverage on this

    No, you have the fee either way.

    If it's your "primary outlet" it will cost you $7.45, but if it's an "additional outlet" it will cost you $9.95. As your primary, you get $2.50 off the $9.95 fee.

    The fee isn't a separate item on the bill, just rolled into the overall cost, so it appears you'll be getting a $2.50 credit on the bill.
  • Sep 21st, 2016 @ 12:51pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Missed the point

    No, I didn't mean to imply that.

    Our Gov way of helping is to bomb their cities, and then when people are fleeing looking for help, we (the people the Gov represents right?) tell those fleeing they aren't welcome and go back home.

    So, what is the solution? Do we the people accept that our foreign policy is causing some of this? Do we continue turn a blind eye when people we (as a country) put in power turn out to be tyrants and do things we think they should be kicked out of power for, just because it's in our _short term_ best interest that they are in power?

    Tell me, what is the solution to help them? Overthrow the leader again and hope this next one is going to be better than the last we helped who was a tyrant, but said what we wanted to hear at the time?

    Side note: We didn't put Assad into power, but in the 50's? we helped overthrow an elected president with someone who was a tyrant, and he did everything you said about "letting a tyranical government ...," just because the guy _said_ he'd recognize Israel, he was the choice.

    Then that guy got overthrown in another coup... and you have this continuing mess.
  • Sep 21st, 2016 @ 9:41am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Missed the point

    > We definitely should help, just not in the worst possible way.

    So, we should just continue to "help" by bombing their country to rubble, and ignore the displacement caused, and civilians killed by the consequences of these same helpful bombings?
  • Jul 15th, 2016 @ 3:55pm

    Archive

    Would this theoretical also bar the viewing of the site on archive.org or a Google cache version? Or would the CFAA fall only on the access of the actual web server?

    I would expect the access of the web server, but... now days, who knows:
    "The content is the same, so it's effectively the same thing!"
  • Jun 23rd, 2016 @ 9:03am

    Re: Their own fault?

    Yeah ... but I can't see anyone handling it much better than:

    "You want us to pay you to use the word Sky in a Video Game title, when you don't even make games? Are you crazy?"

    Okay... maybe there are people who would. But I don't know 'em.
  • Jun 22nd, 2016 @ 2:03pm

    Re: Their own fault?

    "Murdoch: Nasty letter - don't use "Sky" or we'll sue."

    No, it was...

    We're suing you.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClZ0gZMWQAAfb18.jpg:large

    The lawsuit was Withdrawn by Sky... Some settlement, Sky deciding they didn't have a case they could make on a Video Game (though I doubt that would deter them)... no idea.

    But they *were* sued ... it wasn't the threat of a lawsuit, it *was* a lawsuit. Looking at the date, that was filed about 5-6 months after the VGX awards in 2013 where the first No Man's Sky trailer was shown, and about a month before the 2014 E3 that most people see as the first "real" reveal.

    *Note:* The image was from a post online. Wish I knew the original source, but that's the extent I currently have.

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