Because the government isn't as wasteful as portrayed, and "cutting waste" is generally code for "cutting programs I don't like" rather than being about efficency.
Also, there is an actual body responsible for assessing waste, fraud, and abuse. It's called the Government Accountability Office.
I have the distinct impression that Congress and both presidents didn't actually want to ban TikTok and just wanted to force a sale, and now that the company has refused to sell they're scrambling to deal with the consequences of their action.
Google spent a while thinking I was a bilingual Japanese schoolgirl and kept serving up ads in Japanese and for shojo manga.
Admittedly I did read Bamboo Blade as a result.
Secondly, in the US, we have things like the 1st Amendment that are actually designed so that Congress cannot pass a law that bans speech.
I would note that technically they, with the cooperation of state legislatures, can do that, they just need to amend the Constitution. So if it became a sufficently widely held belief that the First Amemdment is bad it could be repealed or altered.
I don't think that's terribly likely, but it is possible.
If they don't have any physical presence in Texas and have blocked access entirely, is there even anything Texas can do in practical terms? Would a federal court take up a state law case where the defendant has no presence whatsoever in the state and has not sent anything to the state? Does Texas have the practical ability to enforce a judgement in state court outside it's borders?
I guess they could attempt to squeeze via banks that have branches in Texas but I think that would get pretty deep into Commerce Clause territory.
Yes. Also we have the right to not use Twitter if we disagree with what speech they allow on their platform, and we have the right to complain about their decisions.
I tend to think Musk is a technical visionary and also a con man. He massively oversells his upcoming products and their production timelines but what he does deliver is still generally fairly impressive.
There is reputational harm to the pizza place, since customers mad about poor delivery may decide not to visit the resturant and leave bad reviews that discourage others from visiting.
The vaccines are expected to clear clinical trials 12-18 months after work began, so under current rules they'll be well inside patent during the mass vaccination campaigns.
Good lawyers stand up to judges sometimes; sometimes it convinces the judge and sometimes it preserves issues for appeal.
If you think the three letter agencies can't spy on an unencrypted satellite link you are very much mistaken
When I worked in telecom billing, there were between two and five layers of staging environments.
Because the government isn't as wasteful as portrayed, and "cutting waste" is generally code for "cutting programs I don't like" rather than being about efficency. Also, there is an actual body responsible for assessing waste, fraud, and abuse. It's called the Government Accountability Office.
Bluff Called
I have the distinct impression that Congress and both presidents didn't actually want to ban TikTok and just wanted to force a sale, and now that the company has refused to sell they're scrambling to deal with the consequences of their action.
Google spent a while thinking I was a bilingual Japanese schoolgirl and kept serving up ads in Japanese and for shojo manga. Admittedly I did read Bamboo Blade as a result.
Also it would be a bad thing.
Secondly, in the US, we have things like the 1st Amendment that are actually designed so that Congress cannot pass a law that bans speech.I would note that technically they, with the cooperation of state legislatures, can do that, they just need to amend the Constitution. So if it became a sufficently widely held belief that the First Amemdment is bad it could be repealed or altered. I don't think that's terribly likely, but it is possible.If they don't have any physical presence in Texas and have blocked access entirely, is there even anything Texas can do in practical terms? Would a federal court take up a state law case where the defendant has no presence whatsoever in the state and has not sent anything to the state? Does Texas have the practical ability to enforce a judgement in state court outside it's borders? I guess they could attempt to squeeze via banks that have branches in Texas but I think that would get pretty deep into Commerce Clause territory.
Yes. Also we have the right to not use Twitter if we disagree with what speech they allow on their platform, and we have the right to complain about their decisions.
I tend to think Musk is a technical visionary and also a con man. He massively oversells his upcoming products and their production timelines but what he does deliver is still generally fairly impressive.
They are why the service exists. No one would buy broadband without internet content, and they'd pay a lot less without the big streaming providers.
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Oxygen molocules are about 0.0005 microns.
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Because it will likely produce many false positives and false negatives.
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There is reputational harm to the pizza place, since customers mad about poor delivery may decide not to visit the resturant and leave bad reviews that discourage others from visiting.
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Or, for that matter, customers deciding they don't like the higher prices and reverting to going out to resturants.
Sell their stock at an IPO and leave the people who bought it holding the bag.
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Cookies are set and sent in HTTP, not Javascript.
Already long enough
The vaccines are expected to clear clinical trials 12-18 months after work began, so under current rules they'll be well inside patent during the mass vaccination campaigns.
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It's not like there isn't a lengthy public process during which people can warn them about any consequences the legislators didn't forsee.