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thesiniot

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    Comment #31933741

    That was before the Senate hijacked the normal nomination process in 2016. The court has been an illegitimate and partisan body ever since Garland's seat was denied.

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    Comment #31926973

    ...Until it gets hacked.

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    Comment #31915684

    They've been trying to do that for quite some time. It's no easy feat. https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

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    Comment #31901006

    It reminds me of that time the US Air Force designed an "open source jet engine". https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/201113... Their definition of "open source" …

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    Comment #31864393

    Actually, the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional was arbitrarily claimed by the court in 1803. It is not written down anywhere, except maybe the original federalist pape…

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    Comment #31857528

    It seems like there might be a periodic sine wave for media consumption, with price on the Y axis. When we sit at the trough, DRM is heavy-handed and media is expensive to purchase…

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    Comment #31850978

    Airlines and the FAA have way bigger problems than obnoxious vapers. In practice, you have to behave very poorly to merit any sort of serious response: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom…

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    Absolutely! But this article may focus too much on ethics. In practice, you usually need to demonstrate that you were harmed by an action to bring it to court. So we would need the…