“There is no evidence VanBuren committed an official act in exchange for money when he ran the license plate The term ‘official act’ is a term of art with a specific meaning under McDonnell,”

  Durrett said, referring to a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. From https://www.courthousenews.com...

Basically, since it was an FBI sting, and not related to an official investigation it wasn't illegal under the law he was charged.

It gets better...

“The question which should have been presented to the jury is: ‘Was it an official act?'” she continued. “Just asking the question, ‘Whose car is this?’ by running a tag isn’t an official act If he had influenced a matter under investigation, that would’ve been an official act.”

Police officer takes money in order to lookup a license plate to determine if the license plate belonged to an undercover officer. Since it wasn't an undercover police officer's plate it wasn't a matter under investigation. So it's perfectly legal.

The US Justice system is broken.

Such utter horseshit.

“There is no evidence VanBuren committed an official act in exchange for money when he ran the license plate The term ‘official act’ is a term of art with a specific meaning under McDonnell,” Durrett said, referring to a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. From https://www.courthousenews.com... Still horseshit.

I've got that beat. I've never even heard of Slashdot.

Sure buddy. The "Silent Majority" is far from silent, or a majority.

What's even worse, he made it ok to massively redirect vast sums of Congressionally budgeted money for completely different projects. See the military budget redirected to his wall project. The fact that none of the GOP could put two and two together and realize that it would quickly turn into single payer health care if a Bernie got into office was laughable. You reap what you sow. Fucking politicians.

Jesus, you are a fucking idiot.

Yes, nonsense was a bit harsher sounding than I intended. But a lot has changed since 2004 in terms of trying to not keep people within Google. If you were cynical, you would think that Google was trying to keep ad revenues down for the source sites.

They're not talking about the returned links. It's talking about the other nonsense that Google sprinkles on top. Like the definition of myocardial infarction.

Did you mean melanin? I can't see getting too much sleep causing that much of an issue

I cannot reiterate how true this is. There are a lot more of us than you would think.

Unskilled labor has another tool, more aggressive action such as the Luddites. It would have to get to the point where too many are out of jobs, and becoming truly desperate. Right now, the next cog/worker just steps in to replace the "defective" worker. Not sure why a "User Experience" designer thought they could do anything, if you're that against how Amazon treats its employees, why the hell would you work for Amazon. It's certainly not a secret how businesses treat their rank and file employees. It would certainly carry a lot more weight with me if they quit in protest over it, rather than being fired for violating vague internal policies.

Pretty sure that was the other Neal who didn't come out with the kickstarter sword fighting game.

He himself said he made approximately $25,000 selling sanitizer and masks, and had previously been making a six figure income selling things. I don't care if he makes a million flipping Elmos, no one needs Elmos. Dude was charging $80 for hand sanitizer. Take all those profits, plus an additional "you're a sociopathic fucktard" fee I don't think he needs to be sent to prison. Maybe a few hug and kisses by some covid-19 victims, which would be a suitably apropos punishment.

Second world refers to Warsaw Pact countries, i.e. heavily influenced by the Soviet Union (so it's a bit obsolete).