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  • On the post: DHS Declares Abrego ‘Will Never Walk America’s Streets’ Hours After Judges Order His Release

    pyrosf ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2025 @ 09:50am

    Habeas Corpus

    At this point he's been ordered released, the only real power the judge has now is Habeas Corpus. The judge can then free the man in the court room. Should Habeas Corpus be ignored (or they arrest him as he leaves the court) its right back to the supreme court and they already got several smackdowns in this case over judge power. Habeas Corpus is one of the most basic judge powers so its not like the supreme court is going to rule it does not exist.

  • On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

    pyrosf ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2025 @ 06:32pm

    Problem

    The problem with your idea is that it technically exists. The states can always call a convention and amend the constitution. The issue is that red states would mostly follow lock step with Trump right now and nothing changes. The alternative is that blue and red states hate each other so much that we end up with bulkinization. Right now the math isn't mathing nearly enough. When hospitals close, other big ugly bill events happen the math might start changing but we're also in an era of propaganda that keeps red states voting against their own interests so its going to be a while.

  • On the post: Nintendo Loses After Trying To Oppose The Trademark For A Costa Rican Grocery Store

    pyrosf ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2025 @ 11:00am

    As a plumber named Mario (First and last name) I must do this!

  • On the post: The Trump Vengeance Tour Continues As He Sues Pollster For Being Wrong

    pyrosf ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2024 @ 11:56am

    Wont work

    The problem with Vexing litigation suits is they are only valid after the fact. So few have succeeded because so few try. You need someone who's abusing the system to the point you can tell a judge and get him to do something while having minimal case law on your side. Many states do not even have laws for this.

  • On the post: GOG Decides To Re-Focus In Part On Game Preservation Of Older Games

    pyrosf ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2024 @ 08:58am

    Many big game mods today ask for the origional game to get assets like graphics. ScummVM rebuilt the code base but kept the graphics and core logic from the game itself. So releaseing source code without graphics is sometimes doable. The real difficulty is when a game is made with a ton of libraries, some that may not have an offical source today, others owned by EA with no way to get them to lisense it out or release the lisense.

  • On the post: Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice

    pyrosf ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2024 @ 07:40am

    Its more

    So the supreme court changed things when they said Trump was immune to all acts taken as president. He can and will use the DOJ to hunt all people he hates (people who did not vote for him). Trump can actully hurt Bazos, like end all his gov contracts, toss him in jail, and use the power of the DOJ and courts to totally kill Amazon and any thing else Jeff owns. Others not making an endorcement have already had lawyers tell them how bad Trump is. How crazy he is, and that you need to hedge your bets because of whats going on politically. And Trust me, Trump feels any communication from a firm is a direct message from its leaders. He does not understand or care that say a newspaper is independent of its owner (since in fox land, its not)

  • On the post: Appeals Court Reminds Law Enforcement That ‘No-Fly’ Doesn’t Mean ‘No Drive’

    pyrosf ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2024 @ 12:30pm

    He'd be better off just slowly putting "Everyone" on the no fly list. Not only is this far to easy to do. But its so much more fun when Senators cant fly home, CEOs get denyed boarding, and other elites actully notice how broken the list is. Make sure you use a slow method, a process that involves paper files that people wont be able to later find, and drip feed first super common names before going to a few choice people at a time. That way they wont be able to just restore a backup, but instead infect all the other down stream systems for years.

  • On the post: Speculation: Patent At Heart Of ‘Palworld’ Suit Could Be For Capturing Characters With A Ball

    pyrosf ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2024 @ 08:07pm

    Gaming Industry History of this

    Shadow of Mordor has the Nemesis patent, some other game company owned the idea of a mini game durring loading screens. The games industry has managed to hord so many ideas that should be game systems and not pattentable as so many people could easily have come up with systems like this. Heck my D&D game in the 80s had the idea of BBEGs who killed earler partys coming back stronger and better (and with our gear). I doubt most any of the ideas would stand up, but its not something anyone wants to try.

  • On the post: Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-Abortion Content… If Trump Wins

    pyrosf ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2024 @ 06:25pm

    Fairly sure active jamming is against the FCC and will get found fairly quickly in all 50 states. Passive jamming is however legal as is paper medical records. Both prevent the cops from just taking things and prevent a lot of other issues.

  • On the post: Thanks Complicated Music Licensing Schemes: ‘Alan Wake’ Updated To Remove Bowie Song From Credits

    pyrosf ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2024 @ 07:16am

    Even Google has started not pulling down material under DMCA claims in some cases. Sighting abuse to silence a speaker, and other reasons, even fair use. To be honest, few are willing to sue Google.

  • On the post: First Amendment Doesn’t Quite Cover Students’ ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Shirts, Says Federal Court

    pyrosf ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2024 @ 12:36pm

    Limits?

    Limits were spelled out in the decision. Replacing text to convay the same meaning does not bypass the schools ability to limit speach when dealing with things that are disruptive to the learning process. Shirts with "F#@! Joe Biden" are not allowed, As such shirts with something that everyone agrees means the same thing reguardless of the words used are not allowed. All the court is saying is your not allowed to play the subsutituion game when you, and everyone around you knows the meaning of the subsutition. The same thing would happen if "I like Pickles" was ment to convay the person waring the shirt was gay. As long as the convayed message is innappropoate in the eyes of the school administration the result is the same if said message is innapproporate.

  • On the post: First Amendment Doesn’t Quite Cover Students’ ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Shirts, Says Federal Court

    pyrosf ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2024 @ 12:30pm

    Jesus Saves, everyone else rolls a Dex Save, obviously!

  • On the post: Deeply Unserious 5th Circuit Declares $8 Billion Rural FCC Broadband Subsidy Program ‘Unconstitutional’

    pyrosf ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2024 @ 09:18am

    Houston's Anti Homeless feeding law. This one was so bad Juries would not convict nor could they even sit a jury some times. The law makes it illegal to feed more then 5 people "in need".

  • On the post: Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Illinois Schools For Using Cops To Handle Normal Discipline Issues

    pyrosf ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2024 @ 11:24am

    Or you could ya know do a root cause analysis of the students issue and solve the problem. But I assume the root cause is mom and dad are poor and while your willing to demand all babys are born actual support for things like school breakfast and lunch are still going down the drain and our tax systems keep poor schools poor.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Says It’s Fine For Cops To Dick Around For Months Or Years After Seizing People’s Cars

    pyrosf ( profile ), 21 May, 2024 @ 03:14pm

    Which is obviously also illegal.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Says It’s Fine For Cops To Dick Around For Months Or Years After Seizing People’s Cars

    pyrosf ( profile ), 21 May, 2024 @ 09:49am

    Bribary Charges on the cops?

    I am trying to figure out how, if looked at in a differnt light, this is not Bribary. Cop pulls you over and says you did something wrong, but give me all your cash and I wont actully file the charge. Paying the cop is obvious bribary (with extra steps). Cops taking "Small sums that wont be challanged" is clearly cops taking bribs with extra steps.

  • On the post: Nurses Say Hospital Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Is Reckless

    pyrosf ( profile ), 02 May, 2024 @ 08:42am

    Personally, I would like the AI to do stuff like: Based on the reported symptoms this patient has the probibility of xyz diagnosis: 1- 30% 2- 40% etc. Give the human a starting point to go digging in and getting more information. Thats all its good for, and I dont need an LLM to do this kind of AI work.

  • On the post: Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates

    pyrosf ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2024 @ 12:03pm

    It costs 37k to 45k to put someone in Normal / federal Jail. This is just normal jail. Jailing people at the rates we are is just not worth the labor we get from them. I am sure firms are making some money here but the cost to the US to keep so many people in jail is crazy vs what we could use that money for.

  • On the post: One YouTuber’s Quest For Political Action To Preserve Old Video Games

    pyrosf ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2024 @ 08:58am

    Cybersecurity is all about liability and best practices. If you know that your app can run someones malware remotly you have a big heap of liability. The Gov wont tell you how little or how much liability risk you take, but the industry will destroy you if you ignore it to much.

  • On the post: Comcast, Paramount Eye Merger Because The Streaming Sector Is Completely Out of Ideas

    pyrosf ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 05:55am

    A lot of your legacy firms like IBM, Ford, GM, some could argue airlines, etc don't innovate much anymore. Their stock price is reflected in the fact they mostly just make slight updates and sometimes adopt new tech often made by someone else. Compared to say Tesla that for a while was bigger then the entire auto sector. Often times MBA types are told to sell cash cows (sections of a firm that are in maintenance mode) in order to chase growth in other areas of the firm. This is likely why you don't see it often.

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