I am very disappointed in Trump, there is no reason to give Iran and Islam in general credibility by labeling it a civilization.

Clarence Thomas is another great example, George Bush was angry he was going to have to nominate a black man because he was as you might imagine kind of racist so he picked the most incompetent and corrupt black man he could find and rammed him through the Senate.

I think Judge C has had some of the most brilliant legal reasonings in the past century...thank God for him on the court.

I rate him second only to Scalia....

Maybe we should just cool it with the guilt by association stuff. Yes Bill was friends with Epstine, and sure Malinda left and it looks likely because he a philanderer; but we don't really have any direct evidence he is a child molester.

There are lot of people who were and are important in terms of contribution to our society, who may at some point associated with an unsavory character or two. This is the trouble, where are lines. Why wasn't Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers disqualifying? He knew or reasonably could have know his opinions and involvement with terrorism, isn't Obama a terrorist by extension? How about everyone involved in Harvey Weinstein movie? His transgressions were ostensibly an open secret in the Hollywood community, some the victims were likely underage so we are in the same space as Epstein there, yet almost none of these people are considered untouchables now? why?

Epstine made it his business to get into the business of literally anyone with money or influence he could. I think there is a big difference between asking:

how is it the guy avoided the trip to Federal-pound-you-in-the-ass-prison for as long as he did?
Who was complicit in protecting him?
Why?
When will we bring them to justice for perverting justice as was obviously the case?

and this desire of some to try to tar everyone they don't like who happened to have gone to the same dinner party once.. One is witch hunt the other is not. Gates might indeed be abuser, but if we are going to treat him like one, even in the court of public opinion someone should be able to cite some harder evidence, than has been turned up so far.

^^^ Someone with some points please mod this (#66081144) up!

They do point out that it varies by location, but really their number range is terrible. "classified a family of three earning $133,000 to $400,000 in 2024 dollars as upper middle class." From the HUD Section 8 income limits [huduser.gov], expensive places the lower end of that is considered low income, like San Jose 143,600 qualifies for Section 8, versus cities like Akron where 72,250 is low enough to qualify. Location, location, location.

You know, there is a TON of land and cities between the coasts,,,,,with tech jobs and reasonable costs of living....

You do not need to live in NYC or Silicon Valley or anywhere in CA for that matter to earn 6 figures and have. A VERY comfortable life and work in pretty much any industry you can name.

Indeed the The Commerce Clause has been so stretched as to place essentially nothing outside the bounds of federal law.

SCOUTS really needs to look hard at the individual precedents that have expanded that interpretation in light of that practical reality. Some or all of those have to be incorrect because there is no world where the 10th Amendment gets included, but the intent of Article:1-8-3, is as broad as supposed.

Red state AGs really should be shopping every case they can for opportunities to get in front of the Court while they have a small majority of justices that are at least slightly sympathetic to limits on federal power.

Aside from a very few outliers, like NYC or the like with ridiculous costs of living...across the vast majority of the USA, $133K - $300K+. Annual income is VERY easy to live off of.....

There are plenty jobs of all types with good pay in areas with reasonable costs of living....

Remember the US is a very large country....there's opportunity everywhere...and living outside of NYC doesn't mean the alternate is rural and on a farm...lots of smaller cities out there that are much nicer to live in, not only fiscally, but healthier and calmer too.

I'd say the better argument is that we should be evolved enough now to know that a highly successful capitalist economy is maybe not the best goal for human happiness, even if it does seem, empirically speaking, to produce the most powerful economies on the planet.

Well...I'm pretty happy,

But sure, you can say capitalism sucks...BUT, it sucks a whole lot less than every other type economy ever tried on earth to date.....

For the individual that is certainly better than Chrome, but from a perspective of does it give Alphabet, any less influence not really much better.

I come back to if we allow Chromium to become essentially the only online HTML Document rendering engine in use, Google makes all the rules. It is really to large a project for any entity not a large corporate to fork.

Just look at the whole plugin architecture(Manifest V2) stuff, Google got their way because the plugin architecture touches so much and nobody maintaining Chromium based alternative browser could realistically keep up with the mainline if they forked or tried to keep a patch set running.

Google basically unilaterally decided what web-plugins are allowed to do; and nobody was able to stop them.

Don't forget the children that don't eat, or miss out on a lot of opportunities because dad spend the money on whatever his version of a horse race happens to be.

I gambling should be restricted to private in person bets, between parties and it should be illegal to profit directly from any sort of book making or facilitation of gambling activities.

So if you and buddy you invited over to watch the game want to bet on the outcome with each other - legal

If you and some friends go the saloon/moose lodge and have a poker game at the table, while you order drinks - legal.

If the saloon charges you specifically for gambling use of the table, vs just requiring you buy a drink - not legal.

If the saloon wants a cut of the gambling - not legal.

  Market making is fine too, options etc on a commodity, and insurance - just fine, but there should have to be an underlying commodity that is actually being traded, or real property that is either impaired or not impaired in the life of the contract. An "event" alone is not a commodity. I can't sell you the results of presidential election (or if I can other things are very wrong). The idea these prediction markets are not 'gambling' is a farce. This judge is bonkers, and I hope this is over turned.

The trick with Iran if you want to be really America first about is not in the taking of the oil it is in the denying it to everyone else.

America is a net oil producer, we have a distribution problem that has us importing oil, while also exporting but we could 'fix' that, and probably would fix that given some time and a reasonable expectation that shipping anything via Hormuz was not going to be safe for the foreseeable future.

That would give America a tremendous economic advantage over the SE Asia, and event the EU.

I think it makes sense entirely to
1) Destroy all prospects of an economic future for Iran so the regime even though it will survive can't fund Hezbollah and others that interfere with our interests, because they'll all be too busy whoring for international food aide to do anything else.
1a) Declare victory and go home
2) Use DPA and any other legal means to keep domestic oil and gas, domestic.
3) Use (2) it advantage America industry down stream of oil and gas
4) Let the rest of the world figure out how to 'open the f***ing strait'

I am going call - homemade IoT stuff someone built themselves with a SBC or something out of scope.

What consumer or SoHo products can you point at that don't use the phone home model? I can't think of single one. Even stuff that really really should be able to talk to something local like my ecobee thermostats don't..

Let us also take DOS conditions out of scope, again if someone can send whatever packet that triggers a DOS on the device they are already on your internal network.

So the threat here if you smart lightbulb gets pwnt is that it could leave an attacker with place to maintain persistence after their foothold is fixed. IE the pwn your browser, gain persistence on your lightbulb, you patch browser, they maintain access to your internal network via the bulb.

Ok fine - but kernel exploits are *almost* *never* the issue there. It is nearly universally some defect in a listening service, not the IP stack itself. So that thing is getting popped via its bad telnet/web service regardless of the kernel is is running.

But what about local privilege exploits, those are frequently kernel issues. Once again does not matter for IoT devices, I don't care if you are root or bob on my light bulb. You bob can make outbound connections and give you are reverse tunnel to attack me thru just as well as root can. There are no authorization domains on my light bulb, you are me or your are not authorized the UID the kernel thinks you have is irrelevant.

Exactly Chrome and realistically Chromium is essentially malware. Geeks especially should consider it a civic duty to use basically anything else. Which pretty much leaves Firefox and Safari.

Browser diversity is critical to keeping the web actually open. Even if Chromium is open source, the reality is Google drives the project entirely. It puts them in a powerful position to gatekeep, and that is bad for all the same reasons it was bad when IE-5/6 ruled the web, nearly uncontested.

We don't want a web where the only standard is whatever chromium does.

I'd have preferred the mission to include a LOI and TEI as in Apollo 8, but testing the hardware with people on board even on a purely circumlunar trajectory accomplished a test of the craft and equipment in a safe way while at the same time bringing public attention to the program. Apollo 8 ran a lot of risks that today would be difficult to justify. So far, I have followed the mission a bit at a distance - not seen anything live - but I like what I see. As for the comparisons with Apollo 13, Jim Lovell recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his passing and he was obviously happy to have more astronauts following in his footsteps. I'd say with 500% accuracy that his feelings in the matter beat any opinion anyone else could have about it, because he was a Space Jock and you are not.

In what other industry can you say,
"We think our product is great/safe/reliable/... but no we absolutely won't stand behind it if anything goes wrong." and have that no impact the marketability.
I am not talking legal or anything like that, just purely from a sales and customer relationship perspective.

Just imagine a GM ad;

"The 2026 Silverado our most capable pickup ever!" - Read in deep dramatic voice
"Remember Chevrolote Silverado models are for entertainment purposely" -Read as the image fades to black in higher pitch at 2x speed.

  It would be scandal..but when Microsoft does it, hardly anyone even blinks.