According to the IRS, barter income is the same as dollar income. So presumably they would need to pay tax on the fair market value of the car, which should be easy for them to do since they also list the cars in dollars.

They have direct access to extremely detailed market data about what customers search for and which designs they ultimately buy.

That's obviously an advantage that allows them to select which designs to copy far earlier than anyone else in the industry. If you stack on top of that the ability to dynamically adjust their prices so they're always undercutting the very products they copied... well, that seems to be reaching the point of anti-competitive practices.

Modification of cars should be limited, especially as autonomous cars roll out. You shouldnâ(TM)t be allowed to make unregulated modifications to your vehicle that might result in death or injury to other motorists. If you want to modify your car, fine, just keep it off public roads.

No, that doesn't follow logically. Hiring a criminal to obtain evidence is obviously a crime itself. Stolen evidence is inadmissible if the police were a party to the crime.

Think of it this way. If a thief robs a mafia boss but gets arrested as he flees the scene, any evidence on him doesn't magically become inadmissible. It would only be inadmissible if the police asked him to rob the mafia boss in the first place.

Because hiring a criminal to commit a crime is itself a crime (conspiracy) and that would make the evidence inadmissible. It would also put the police in legal jeopardy themselves.

The story about admin accounts is not true. https://www.reddit.com/r/Parle...

The archived data was all pulled through public APIs.

I don't see the conflict. They can both police content and be immune from prosecution for the content user's post on their website.

I'm not responsible if you come into my store and start threatening my customers with a gun. Your argument is that because I'm not responsible, I'm not allowed to prohibit guns in my store? What kind of sense does that make?

What did all of the court cases accomplish? A dumb plan is still a plan.

Why would this evidence be inadmissible in court? Law enforcement didn't collect it, it was just provided to them.

Anyways, are you seriously arguing that a judge would throw out incriminating evidence that was posted by a suspect to their own social media account??

This evidence is not inadmissible. Law enforcement didn't scrape it (and it's not clear that scraping it was illegal). They can do whatever they want with the archive of it.

Classic weak-man bully trash talking.

"If we really wanted to, we would have kicked your ass. We just didn't want to! Yeah, that's it."

noun: insurrection; a violent uprising against an authority or government.

Violent: check. Against an authority or government: check.

It was an insurrection, bud. Just because it was poorly led and an epic fail doesn't mean it wasn't an insurrection.

Trump is both malicious and incompetent.

He was hoping his "patriots" would capture Pence and Pelosi and delay the vote count, and when they didn't he threw them under the bus.

That plan is both awful and awfully stupid.

If you set up a robocaller blasting out calls to everyone telling them to gather for an insurrection, you better believe AT&T will shut off your phone service.

Parler agreed to the ToS when they signed up for AWS. They violated that ToS. Amazon terminated the contract.

It seems like Parler's argument here is that what AWS is doing is anti-competitive because Twitter *also* violated the ToS.

The obvious remedy would just be to ban Twitter too, but Twitter can reasonably argue that they are making a good faith effort to meet AWS's standards.

Furthermore, it seems like enforcement of Amazon's ToS is entirely up to Amazon. If they want to selectively enforce them, I'm not sure there's much of anything Parler can do about it. Maybe they have a case if they argue Amazon is discriminating against a protected class... but "Conservative" and "Republican" are not protected classes.