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Comment Maybe we should just cool it with guilt by assoc. (Score 2, Insightful) 52

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.

Comment Re: Not a fan of it but glad they won (Score 1) 78

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.

Comment Re:Say after me (Score 4, Informative) 57

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.

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