So the government should not arbitrarily seize property from its own citizenry? I'm sure they will take that under advisement.
Judge: NYC Seizing Thousands of Cars Without Warrants Is Unconstitutional
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#12Is the lack of any page displaying with adblocking turned on intentional, or is it simply bad design?
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#13Is the lack of any page displaying with adblocking turned on intentional, or is it simply bad design?
It means you're using a bad ad blocker. Using uBlock origin it displays fine.
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#15What's the deal with all the Forbes links redirecting to welcome? How do I stop this? I tried checking the "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page" box in Firefox, but it doesn't appear to be stopping it. Presumably too many people are starting to use things like "Google Sent Me".
I just opened it twice. That seems to have solved the problem.
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#16What's the deal with all the Forbes links redirecting to welcome? How do I stop this? I tried checking the "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page" box in Firefox, but it doesn't appear to be stopping it. Presumably too many people are starting to use things like "Google Sent Me".
Can we just ban submissions from sites like this?
Here's a better, less Forbesy article that loads for me:
http://www.amny.com/news/taxi-and-limousine-commission-seizi...
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#17I agree 100% this is a perfect example of where we the people rely entirely on the judiciary to provide a remedy. That such an obviously illegal practice could continue for years unfortunately does not reflect well on any thoughts of swift justice.
It should be possible to get a temporary restraining order against the city in cases like this within days of the first contested case. It should be easy to demonstrate there is no imminent harm of telling the city, you have to stop doing this until we decide it's OK or not, and quite the opposite, cars are an essential and significant asset, and this policy placed a potentially massive burden on the citizens it effected.
In one of the examples, by the time the victim prevailed against the illegal seizure backed by zero evidence or investigation of any kind, they had already sold off his car, and offered nothing in return. A pretty large part of the population doesn't have a spare $2,000 in cash to get their own car back while the city makes them prove in front of a Kangaroo Court that they were driving their own family to the airport... Missing from the article -- is there any hope of any kind of restitution? Can the victims now pursue a civil case against the city?
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#18I was getting redirected to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ if I clicked the link on HN.
If I copy & paste the link to a new tab, then it worked for me.
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#20I was getting redirected to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ if I clicked the link on HN. If I copy & paste the link to a new tab, then it worked for me.
If I turn off Ghostery, the link loads for me.
They are probably trying to dissuade ad blocking. It might work better for them if they told you what was happening (instead of just sending you to a blank page).