So you're applauding Biden for placing a 100% tariff on batteries imported from China, right?

Right?

This, of course, is a lot of bullshit. It's being tied to a physical body which has to be fed and housed and clothed which enables crony capitalists to trap people for the purpose of profit. You're blaming victims in order to make yourself feel better, probably not just about your level of success but also for the source of your income.

Sure, if by "actively" you mean "with the aid of guillotines".

Most people can't afford to move even if they have a job. They're spending all their money just to have a roof over their head.

There was more manufacturing in red states, how did blue states export pollution to China? More of the big polluters were incorporated in red states, how did blue states export pollution to China? Most of the jobs left during republican administrations, and to the extent that any of them have come back, it has been under democrat administrations, how did red states export pollution to China?

The truth is that democrats and republicans (or blues and reds if you like) have been largely united in offshoring manufacturing, but to the extent that there is a difference, it has been more red than blue. You are absolutely lying.

Iâ(TM)ve grown up in brick houses, problems with mold are common because it is too expensive to heat in winter and AC doesnâ(TM)t exist in Europe. Meanwhile in the US there are wooden houses that are 300 years old in the South, I lived in a house that was over 120 years old and now live in one that is more than 70 years old, they donâ(TM)t last as long in Europe, all the housing Iâ(TM)ve ever lived in as a young person have been torn down due to structural and code issues.

We are currently using 66% of our fuel supply on transportation and 0.6% on electricity production, to convert that transportation energy to electric, you need to change swap those metrics which means building out the grid by 100x

Not only does Section 230 of the CDA have nothing to do with this case and vice versa, but it hasn't erradicated [sic] corporate responsibility. That's what corporations are for.

But how will they do the red scare when they've already done better Russian than Democrat?

Atari literally had their lawyers lie to the copyright office to illegally obtain a copy of Nintendo's source code. That's not reverse engineering at that point. That's something else. And the court correctly ruled that fair use exemptions don't apply when you're starting from an unauthorized copy that was stolen.

Unless you're talking about a different case, Panasonic didn't "end up losing millions to IBM". They settled out of court — and very quickly at that — to preserve their business relationship with IBM. We'll never now what might have happened had that case actually gone to court, but either way, given that Matsushita admitted to copying the BIOS (not reverse engineering it), that situation differs in more than just subtle differences.

BTW, I finally found the verdict in this case. It was apparently a jury trial. I don't find a link to the jury instructions, but the fact that it was a jury trial probably explains the bizarre findings. The odds of a jury understanding the ins and outs of copyright law enough to render a verdict that doesn't get overturned on appeal are not so great.

Yes, I've read a lot of them over the years. But that precedent has been pretty broadly upheld, to the point where most cases that initially appear to go against it have gotten overturned on appeal. This one probably will, too.

There's some serious irony involved there. For decades, the Republicans paid lip service to overturning Roe, but pretty consistently did little or nothing to actually advance that cause at the federal level. Then, suddenly, Donald Trump, the least Republican Republican in the history of the country, goes in like a bull in a china shop and chooses judges with the deliberate intent to sway the court on abortion, and the Republicans get their worst nightmare.

After all, now that they've done it, they have very little else to promise that they'll do for their voters. Their overall positions on everything else are terrible for the poor and middle class, and the only thing dragging those folks to the polls on the red side of the aisle was abortion. All that's left keeping the Republican Party going at this point is momentum and tribalism, and eventually that will fade.

Meanwhile, we're seeing the most racist, sexist parts of the Republican Party racing to find other things that they can overturn so that they can be bigoted without running into legal problems, and trying their hardest to bring the whole country back to the 19th century.

But those are national problems. This is the 9th circuit we're talking about — one of the most left-leaning circuits in the country, so you wouldn't expect precedent to be discarded unless there's a really, really good reason. Besides, this is a case that has nothing to do with politics. So normally one would expect binding precedent to be... you know... binding.

I'm assuming based on how this case started, that the wacko Reagan-era changes to the courts' interpretation of the U.S. arbitration act allowed this to be forced into arbitration, where an unqualified arbiter with inadequate understanding of copyright law was allowed to make a decision that should never have been allowed to be covered by arbitration in the first place, and because of the nature of binding arbitration, the courts then approved that decision perfunctorily, ignoring the flagrant illegality of the ruling. But I can't find the actual ruling, so that's just speculation at this point.

Either way, the very fact that binding arbitration could even play a role in something like this is just plain insane, and is prima facie proof that we need federal laws making binding arbitration illegal in all contracts of adhesion.

The structural integrity, insulation, moisture problems etc is actually worse with brickwork than the average American house with a wood or metal structure covered by plasterboard and vinyl siding. Modern brick housing is not ye olde stone builds.

The legality of this sort of reverse engineering was already decided by the ninth circuit in Galoob. That's binding precedent for this case. It should have literally been a one-day bench trial in which AimJunkies made a motion to dismiss and the judge granted it.

I just can't even imagine how this won't get overturned instantly on appeal. If they had sued on tortious interference grounds or something, then maybe, but not copyright violation. This ruling absolutely should not be allowed to stand, as it would overturn literally decades of legal precedent. Stare decisis is important.

A garage may have a single 15A circuit, but pulling 800W over that continuously is more than half the circuit capacity. But EVs need a bit more power than that, half an Tesla is 40-50kW. And many older houses share these circuits with other things as well. You really need a dedicated 30-50A circuit for a good charge and even those can take 8+ hours to go from 10% to 80%.