Consider:

You own a business that the Government does not like.
The Government then starts a program, maybe one called Operation Choke Point that pressures banks to withhold services from YOU, thereby making it near impossible for you to do business.

That is pretty much the Government forcing you out of business, or censoring you, in effect, by using a third party.

And in case you wondering, it goes like this with the banks..."That's a nice bank you have there. It'd be a shame if we had to do a top to bottom audit. Who knows what we'd find, how much it would cost you, or how long it would take. But we could avoid that if you did us a favor..."

The Feds have been effectively censoring/destroying entire industries by getting banks to withhold services via Operation Choke Point.

Make you wonder what the Feds may have to hold over Google's head.

It's like a home owner who says the contractor didn't give him what he wanted. So he knocked a few holes in the wall, pounded in some 2x4s and a bit of plywood and Shazaaam! Remodel!

I've seen code written by "science guys".

It sucks. It is worse than suck. And to make it the ultimate suck, try telling someone with a PhD in anything that their code sucks.

Let's say the Feds set up an illegal surveillance program (what? never happen!).

They illegally spy on people but you don't know who. They may have spied on you, but you can't prove it.

So YOU can't file a lawsuit against the feds because YOU haven't been spied on.

Do you see how ridiculous "Standing" is in this situation?

What's more, the only *actual injury* she's sustained has been fixed already

So, if I take pot shots at you, miss and then say, "sorry, my bad", you are good with that. No need to involve the police?

And I'm saying the the Standing Rule needs to be looked at and revised. not tossed.

Wait...when did they start teaching US History and Civics again?

I thought they replaced it with Diversity or some bullshit like that decades ago.

Twelve, just in New York City.

When It Comes To The Constitution, Many Police Ignore it All Together.

Fixed.

The concept of Standing has to be the most abused notions in the legal system, especially with regards to the government.

You should not have to prove you have been specifically injured in order to make the government follow the law.

I always told my kids it takes longer to drive north because it's all uphill.

Interesting to watch their reactions over the years go from unquestioning acceptance, to cognitive dissonance. to enlightened disagreement, to "Daaaaaaad!!!", to "When are we stopping to dinner?'.

Bob set machine learning back a century.

In Carl Sagan's book Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway mathematically proved that Pi, calculated out to some huge number, had a series of 1 and 0 that when arranged in a raster, formed a circle, supposedly showing that the universe was not an accident.

While this is obviously fiction, is there any Mathematical equation, theorem, or any other aspect of Math that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up or otherwise cause you to wonder?

Neither did the express any outrage over those things being done in their name.

Not today, yesterday, nor, I suspect, tomorrow.

I hope she made the final list.

I think Lists are the real problem.

How many times have they found Lists in bad guy's pockets?

1. Steal some cash
2. Beat up old lady
3. Shoot up a crowd.
4. Go home and chill with some Jamaican...and not the kind with dreadlocks.