Could be money laundering

Historically speaking, USSR / Russia, China, and NK have loved to talk up the capabilities of their kit, and these parades were a big part of that. They have frequently failed to deliver on all of their promised capabilities.

In the United States we have done the opposite. We don’t talk about our latest gen aircraft programs; we hide them out in the desert. When we do talk we remain cagey about what we have for years and decades, until long after we’ve started selling it to allies.

I understand that this parade will not show off our real capabilities (not at 25 tanks anyway), but I am saddened that the man feels like he needs to stoop to the level of the adversaries we’ve held for so long.

That’s how Yahoo originally worked. They gave up on the “directory” because they utterly failed to keep up with the expansion of the world wide web. Google with its automatic crawlers did a much better job of listing new websites.

The alternate exit she allegedly sent them to led back out to the same hallway where ICE was already waiting. An ICE agent rode in the elevator with the guy and his attorney from the sixth floor to the ground floor. ICE agent contacted his confederates from inside the elevator. They confronted the man while crossing the street in front of the court house. The man was arrested after a brief foot chase.

In NASA’s lessons learned database, there’s one where the probe made out all the way to its destination, but the pictures came back all black. Because they forgot to take off the lens cap.

Don’t even have to build new buildings in a lot of towns. Just renovate the Carnegie buildings that are still there.

Seizing a private dwelling for military use… That’s an act that’s so heinous it has its very own amendment. It seems like we’re speedrunning to get all 27.

Do you mean that the script was written by the family, and it was only “performed” by generative AI? That’s very interesting, and not something I heard anywhere else.

Legally speaking, this was a victim impact statement.

Convicted criminals have long had the common law right of allocution, where they can say anything they want directly to the judge before sentence is passed.

Starting a few decades ago, several states decided that the victims of crime should have a similar right to address the judge before sentencing. And so the victim impact statement was created.

It’s not evidence, and it’s not under oath, but it is allowed to influence the sentencing decision.

(Of course, victim impact statements are normally given by real victims).

There’s a third judge as well who has ruled on the “invasion” question. Hellerstein in SD New York, Rodriguez in SD Texas, and Sweeney in Colorado. They have all come to the rather obvious conclusion that the United States is not being invaded by a foreign nation or government.

These guys are in charge of FDA now. They can just start introducing Rx restrictions on the drug through the administrative process. They don’t need to rely on an obsolete statute and one wildcat judge in Amarillo.

Sheesh, imagine being that priest, doing daily status updates skipping about 23 levels of chain of command.

This Pope had a personal charity underling who would walk the streets of Rome and hand out cash to people who needed it. The money came from selling autographed indulgences. So I’m not surprised in the least.

TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages,

Wait so does this mean that someone in the admin who was involved in setting this up at least thought about complying with archive laws?

Yep, on the grounds that the dragon is not an allegation, a claim for damages, or a request for relief.

Hard to say for sure, but probably more “fine print” style notices on TV ads and billboards.

This could conceivably be used to prosecute dirty tricks-style campaigns. For example, many years ago there was an anonymous mailer campaign against the incumbent mayor in my city where a photograph of him was photoshopped to insinuate that had been beaten up, when he really hadn’t. That kind of thing might become the target of this if it becomes law.

It’s also possible that federal courts will step in and carve out some exceptions for obviously fake parody stuff. Texas law cannot override the first amendment.

1. The law applies only to office holders, candidates, campaigns, or to people who buy or sell political advertising.
2. People and platforms who post and distribute content without exchanging money are exempted.
3. All the big media firms: tv, radio, ISPs, Internet content platforms, and billboard operators are exempted when they just run someone else’s ads. The people who are liable are the ones who place the ads.
4. The requirement is to include a disclosure message when depictions of a public figure have been altered by technology: Photoshop, AI, deepfake audio, or whatever else. The content itself is not censored, it just has to be noticed that it’s artificial.
5. “Superficial” alterations are exempted from the notice message, for example, changing the color balance on a video.

Fine. Here:

“Because they were prevented from restocking, they are now out of food, but this condition need not continue if they are restocked.”. Is that good enough?

I know Paris. If you’re looking for a place to visit, I’d recommend the other Paris, in France.

Baby was deported together with parents and they were all released from custody into Honduras. So it’s not quite like they just chucked a two year old off the plane into a foreign land with nothing.

Thing is, by law the family has a right to have this child live with relatives in the United States. But ICE pulled a bunch of bullshit with limiting phone calls and the like to stop that from happening.

The Trump executive order on birthright citizenship is currently enjoined and not in effect in this country. Even if not, it’s not like it can go back in time and strip citizenship from a child two years ago.