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Comment Re:What was the mistake? (Score 1) 202

His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) online portal.

With a click more potent than Cupid's arrow, the solicitor "issued a final order of divorce in proceedings between Mrs Williams, the applicant wife, and Mr Williams,"

And why is a lawyer the one finalizing the divorce order?
Shouldn't that power solely lie with the judge (or the judge's staff)?

Comment Re:The schools have been graduating too many lawye (Score 1) 65

We are basically relying on a bottleneck created by the need to manually research cases in order to prevent a giant legal apocalypse

98% of Federal Court cases are settled https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22...
TFA also mentions that the same situation exists at the State level as well.

All it takes for your apocalypse to materialize is for X% of defendants to say "I want a trial"

Comment Re: Biggest problem is CCS vs NACS/Tesla (Score 2) 172

To wit, you get money/subsidies to install chargers, not to keep them running.

There's a lack of charger repairmen

There Aren't Enough Electricians To Fix America's Broken EV Chargers
https://jalopnik.com/not-enough-electricians-to-fix-broken-ev-chargers-1850915631

tl;dr: estimates are that the demand for electricians will grow over the next decade while the supply of electricians will shrink

Comment Re:Just follow the law (Score 5, Informative) 97

Just like a bank can't refuse to process a check because of who I wrote it too,

Chase closing accounts of porn stars: Report
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/2...

American banks regularly close the accounts of individuals who work in adult entertainment.
There's still check cashing stores, but that's not what you're talking about.

Comment Translation (Score 4, Interesting) 72

It is important to note that Section 230â(TM)s broad protection of Wikimedia projects and other online services does not leave litigants like Mr. White without options. Instead, the law simply requires that litigants direct their complaints at the individuals who made the statements at issue, rather than the forums where the statements were made.

So they want him to subpoena the IP address and sue the contributor who posted his image.

Seems like a fair compromise.

Comment Re:Greenwald is not leftist (Score 2) 374

As far as Glenn, I have a feeling that if he had a case the story would be printed already. Why? He'd basically print it and be right there, daring them to sue him. The fact he hasn't printed it says far more than his fluffy words of poutrage.

https://greenwald.substack.com...
Look at the timestamp of when he published it
Spoiler: It was before your condemnation

Comment Where do you get your information from? (Score 4, Informative) 195

Wrong. Many (probably most) conservatives want to greatly reduce the complexity of the income tax for many good reasons:

https://www.propublica.org/art...
Oct. 1, 2018

Starting in 2011, Republicans in Congress repeatedly cut the IRS's budget, forcing the agency to reduce its enforcement staff by a third.

The IRS is incredibly efficient at bringing in revenue. The more money you throw at the IRS, the more revenue they bring in.
So naturally, because of their ideological opposition to taxes, Republicans have been massively defunding the IRS since 2011.
Unsurprisingly, this creates massive deficits in the Federal budget, which is something that Republicans are ostensibly against.

Fully funding the IRS would close the budget gaps without any other action by Congress.
Republicans could have their cake and eat it too, without being seen to raise taxes.

Comment Re:Does SAT still reflect IQ? (Score 1) 224

Are we abandoning merit for racial and class quotas?

SAT 'Adversity Score' Is Abandoned in Wake of Criticism
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

Of course, they're only somewhat abandoning it. Even though they've ditched the monolithic "adversity score," the separate socioeconomic criteria are still being made available to schools as context for students' scores

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