Steam allows games that let people role play being a pervert on a Japanese train. I'm not sure they'll take action on this.
The British anti smuggling operations were largely ineffective before and during the war. Dutch tea wasn't particularly uncommon. Of the rich smugglers of Boston the most notable was John Hancock, who by all accounts was quite philanthropic with his wealth.
Really good write up summary of the event for anyone interested. There's also an audio version of it.
https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/04/episode-040-boston-tea-party.html?m=1
center/center
I like most of the changes he did but he really should have kept the original with this one.
America didn't really win either war but got independence
We call that winning when it comes to wars of independence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-history-patriot
Fun entomology fact: The modern understanding of the word is directly connected to the people of that continent. But for the success of the American revolution, you might be deeply offended to be called patriotic.
The overturn of Chevron is only significant in that courts, particularly lower appeals courts, won't be forced to accept agency interpretations on law. They still can if that's the better of the two. It's a big development in APA law but it is just on how laws get reviewed when contested.
Having not looked into the drug scheduling system much I can't say for certain on that particular topic. But I wouldn't be shocked if something like an interpretation on paraphernalia by the DEA got shot down.
If you want some good from the Loper Bright case keep in mind that it limits new presidents from coming in and appointing biased 'experts' to agencies to create new interpretation of law to aid their causes. This is a double edged sword. But I think with time we willl benefit from the end of the practice and we will settle in to a more stable set of administrative rulings that doesn't shift every 4 years.
They considered themselves to be Englishmen, and have the rights of one, even after the Battle of Bunker Hill for some time. Also you're thinking of Sam Adams, who was a brewer. But Franklin is pretty much dead on the money. Didn't even wear a wig just showed up all slovenly and slayed.
The blade was inside a sheath and could be released from the sheath with the press of a button.
And approached could simply be he was intent on walking past them on the sidewalk.
Brandish is a stretch nothing in that article noted an intent to intimidate others, it is simple possession of a tchotchke. Unless you count the author's flavor text.
4 months in prison for having a novelty pocket knife
To be fair they used to have a right acknowledged in the 1689 Bill of Rights
The problem with that is Korematsu v. US was decided in 1944 and is technically still the law as no subsequent cases have come up to overturn it.
He's been writing about it long before 2016 so I'd imagine so.
The Netherlands is set to top the Nato standard of spending at least 2% of GDP on defence this year, according to new figures from the organisation itself. In total, 22 of the 32 Nato countries will meet the requirement this year, the first time so many countries have done so, secretary general Jens...
TLDR: It may be unconstitutional in his opinion because of the Non Delegation Doctrine stemming from:
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress...
Basically Congress can't just go and let the Executive branch do their job. The Executive can't make new laws only enforce the existing ones.
Not speaking to policy but law, he's probably hinting that this is a violation of the non delegation doctrine.
To a degree yes, for that you'd ideally want a uniform barrel. But then again you don't have rifling, so you're already not on a great foot.
Depending on the algorithm I'd agree or disagree with you on that. A more complex designed one that was made to avoid certain words, prioritizes topics, and favor certain creators IMO is more indicative moderation and curation.
While a simple one that just highlights the best watchtime posts with weighting for most replies in the past hour wouldn't carry the same indicia of a choice being made, as in regards to any one upload.
That first example should probably qualify them as a publisher in Sec 230 IMO but the second example shouldn't be held to the same standard.
The distinction between a real person selecting works and an algorithm is significant in that the algorithm doesn't necessarily do so as a means of curating messages. An algorithm may just favor watch time, while a person choosing what to publish in a newspaper is making a cognitive choice regarding the message they want to send to their readers.
Trump v. US Decision Dropped
>Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.
>The President enjoys no im- munity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law.
How Would You Spec a Framework 13 for an Educational Use Case?
Currently looking at a DIY AMD 7640U, 1x16GB RAM, 250GB storage, 1 USB-C, 2 USB-A, 1 HDMI.
My use case will mostly entail note taking in class. I've got a built PC at home.
But I'm not a hardware guy, would I be better served w/ different CPU or RAM set up in your opinions? I've mostly picked bottom tier specs but is there anything in your opinions that is worth splurging on, all things considered?
Special Bullets to Blow Up Guns - Iskra Ammo (1970s-80s?)
These bullets were made to hide their carbide rear end inside the cartridge. They were designed to be given to the Afghans during the Soviet invasion to create barrel obstructions in enemy rifles.
Heard about them from this video (6:34). There doesn't seem to be much in terms of English language sources, from my brief searching, so if anyone finds more info please share.
https://youtu.be/Nwleh3lYjqI
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld ordinances in a southwest Oregon city that prohibit people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the city, Grants Pass, th
>Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch contended that the Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment, “serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges” to “dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy.” Instead, he suggested, such a task should fall to the American people.
>Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She argued that the majority’s ruling “focuses almost exclusively on the needs of local government and leaves the most vulnerable in our society with an impossible choice: Either stay awake or be arrested.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
This article was updated on June 28 at 3:46 p.m. In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The decision will likely have far-
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17027148
>In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws.
Quick explanation for those too lazy for links, and haven't see the posts with different coverages.
What's Chevron?
- Chevron was a judicial doctrine where upon review courts would have to accept any reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous law from gov agencies.
What's the Impact of it Being Gone?
- These agencies can still issue ruling but courts don't have to accept them in cases when there is another reasonable interpretation.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
This article was updated on June 28 at 3:46 p.m. In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The decision will likely have far-
>In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
The court’s press room is still buzzing this morning over Bloomberg’s scoop yesterday on the brief but mistaken posting of the court’s disposition in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, about emergency abortion care. But today, the courtroom will reclaim its rightful place as the c
Considering I made the post Yesterday about the Thursday & Friday rulings, I felt obliged to share that they added another additional day of opinions (July 1st).
A Vermont man arrested in 2018 for allegedly flipping off a trooper has settled a lawsuit against the Vermont State Police.
>MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont man arrested in 2018 for allegedly flipping off a trooper has settled a lawsuit against the Vermont State Police.
>In a lawsuit later filed by the ACLU, the group says that after he was detained and questioned, Bombard cursed and did give the trooper the finger. The trooper arrested him for disorderly conduct, a charge that was dismissed a year later.
Double Barreled Cannon (1862)
>...the 6-pounder weapon capable of firing a devastating round of chain-shot—two cannonballs connected by a length of chain. The idea was both barrels would fire simultaneously, sending the chain-shot hurtling among enemy combatants. Unfortunately, the first field test of the prototype proved a disaster. The barrels did not fire at exactly the same time, causing the chain-shot to fly wildly off target or the chain to break.
In the last five years, over 6,000 victims have reported more than $300 million in losses, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
>The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned of a rise in scams linked to Mexican Cartels targeting older Americans and timeshare owners.
List of Last 12 SCOTUS Cases of the Term to be Decided Tomorrow & Friday
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy
>Issue(s): (1) Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seeking civil penalties violate the Seventh Amendment; (2) whether statutory provisions that authorize the SEC to choose to enforce the securities laws through an agency adjudication instead of filing a district court action violate the nondelegation doctrine; and (3) whether Congress violated Article II by granting for-cause removal protection to administrative law judges in agencies whose heads enjoy for-cause removal protection.
Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
>Issue(s): Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent.
Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce
>Issue(s): Whether the court should overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
>Issue(s): Whether the court should overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency. [Sic]
Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
>Issue(s): Whether a plaintiff’s Administrative Procedure Act claim “first accrues” under 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) when an agency issues a rule — regardless of whether that rule injures the plaintiff on that date — or when the rule first causes a plaintiff to “suffer[] legal wrong” or be “adversely affected or aggrieved.”
Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency
>Issue(s): (1) Whether the court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s federal emission reductions rule, the Good Neighbor Plan; and (2) whether the emissions controls imposed by the rule are reasonable regardless of the number of states subject to the rule.
>Issue(s): (1) Whether the laws’ content-moderation restrictions comply with the First Amendment; and (2) whether the laws’ individualized-explanation requirements comply with the First Amendment.
>Issue(s): Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about whether, and how, to publish and disseminate speech — or otherwise burdening those editorial choices through onerous operational and disclosure requirements.
>Issue(s): Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), which prohibits obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, to include acts unrelated to investigations and evidence.
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson
>Issue(s): Whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.
>Issue(s): Whether the Supreme Court should stay the order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho enjoining the enforcement of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother, on the ground that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts it.
>Issue(s): Whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.
Bloomberg News has reported that the Supreme Court accidentally posted an opinion on the website indicating that the justices are poised to allow emergency abortions to go forward in Idaho. The court’s Public Information Office has indicated that the opinion in a pair of cases, Moyle v. United State
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16958292
Bloomberg News has reported that the Supreme Court accidentally posted an opinion on the website indicating that the justices are poised to allow emergency abortions to go forward in Idaho. The court’s Public Information Office has indicated that the opinion in a pair of cases, Moyle v. United State
[Oklahoma] state Supreme Court ruling against taxpayer-funded religious public charter school
>...the state Supreme Court ruled against allowing what would have been the nation’s first taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious public charter school.
Linked article mostly just covers the bare bones and a comment from the state AG.
If you want more flavor here's some different coverages:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/oklahoma-high-court-rejects-religious-charter-school-contract-00164843
https://apnews.com/article/public-religious-catholic-charter-school-unconstitutional-oklahoma-e4ef414605094313331a39cc645ede8a
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/06/25/oklahoma-state-funded-religious-charter-school-unconstitutional/74205802007/
https://okcfox.com/news/local/oklahoma-supreme-court-rules-st-isidore-charter-school-contract-unconstitutional-public-religious-funds-statewide-virtual-charter-school-board-constitution-establishment-clause-freedom-religious-practice
Direct link to the opinion:
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/oag/documents/news-documents/2024/june/1058190300-20240625-085757-.pdf
The "Bomb Lance" - For Hunting Moby Dick (1840s)
>the gun was loaded with 3 drams (0.187 oz or 5.315 grams) of powder to fire a 3 pound (1.36 kg) Bomb Lance for an effective range slightly farther than one could throw a hand lance.
>As the name implies, it explodes once it has embedded itself into a whale. The conditions of whale hunting in the arctic led to the invention of the bomb lance. There, the presence of ice floes provide cover for whales to dive under, making it nearly impossible to execute a hand lance kill before the whale can escape. With bomb lances, a well directed shot assures a quick kill.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/04/30/whaling-gun-bomb-lance/
Sylvia Gonzalez, a Texas city councilwoman, said officials violated the First Amendment by arresting her after she criticized the city manager.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16749379