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Comment Re:Don't reduce this to mere slogans (Score 1) 414

It is nowhere near borderline "fighting words". The Brandenburg test, which requires that to be suppressed, the speech is directed towards inciting "imminent lawless action" and likely to produce such action, clearly marks it as protected speech.

But Harvard does not apply that standard to its students (and as a private university they don't have to); they punish students for racism, sexism and various other offenses against favored groups. This leaves them in a tough spot when they then don't punish students for calling for the destruction of Israel, because if they're not allowing that speech on free speech grounds, what grounds are they allowing it on?

Comment Re:What ingredient (Score 1) 121

Which raises the question on how the heck it can be causing that much cancer compared to stuff like bunker oil, diesel, gasoline, and kerosene(jet fuel).

It isn't. But those things were all made prior to the current EPA regulations and therefore aren't subject to them. Basically if we'd subject the already-in-use petroleum products to the rules new chemicals are subject to, we'd all be freezing in the dark by now.

Comment Re:Profits are high, economy's growing (Score 1) 121

Simple: the state is too powerful to stand against. How would you (or Alphabet) stop it from raising interest rates.

If Powell says he's not lowering interest rates until there are mass layoffs, and high interest rates are worse than mass layoffs for companies, it makes sense for companies to do mass layoffs to attempt to influence Powell. Though in Google's case, a Twitter-proportion reduction in force would probably be good for the company too, they've been warehousing engineers for a long time.

Comment "Restricted airspace" (Score 1) 64

So many people living in or near DC got a DJI drone, found out they can't use it anywhere within 15 miles of DC (that's right, the "restricted airspace" is the entire District and a good chunk of surrounding MD and VA), went online to figure out how to disable this misfeature, and then enjoyed their drones. Boo hoo.

Comment Re:Convieniently (Score 1) 27

Sure, it's playing poker with an unlimited bankroll. Even if they've got nothing they can make it too expensive to call. And if they drive the defendant to suicide... well, that sort of deterrence works even better than felony convictions and jail sentences. All it requires is a prosecutor with no morals... but I repeat myself.

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