Honestly, I think I'd trust Trump's 10 year old to handle pretty much anything tech related in the Trump administration over pretty much anyone Trump is likely to pick to fill those slots.
But judges don't even get much of a say on that when the defendant takes a plea deal, which is what happens in 99% of the court cases in the country.
The system does not protect against the people choosing a megalomaniac sociopath.Last I checked the people didn't choose Trump. Nearly 3 million more people chose voted for the other candidate over Trump. The unrepresentative electoral college is what chose him.
Except the payment is unlocking the first computer that was locked up.
AT&T and others should be careful what they wish for with their bold predictions that Net Neutrality will go away as an issue under Trump.
If the problems that caused the need for Net Neutrality get even worse under Trump, then many Net Neutrality supporters will probably decide Net Neutrality isn't good enough to fix those problems, and will push for something even stronger.
The most likely post-Net Neutrality candidate in my opinion is the idea of regulating ISP's (and probably cell phone companies to) like public utilities. Under public utility rules, the utilities are limited in what they can charge customers, and they actually make more money in expanding their coverage to new users, and not by getting their users to use more of their electricity/etc.
That's why you see the electric company (like PECO in Pennsylvania) at times be so helpful at helping you to reduce your electricity use, because there's no money in it for them for you using more of it.
No no, the for-profit prison system will be making more money then ever!
They'll just need to expand into more expensive drug test companies (where those after the biggest profits will fake 'profitable' results of course)!
Problem solved, justice is still sold to the highest bidder like before, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Don't worry, he'll be inviting HBO's lawyers to one of his kid's or grandkid's weddings, where he'll settle the lawsuit by agreeing to give them 'appropriate' compensation.
If anyone owns "Winter is Coming", shouldn't it be George R R Martin, who wrote Game of Thrones, and uses that slogan quite a bit in the books?
This is such an idiotic idea. Companies can put whatever they want in their terms of service. They'll be lucky if its flagrantly abused enough that the law is repealed. ("User agrees to tip us a minimum of $5 every month." "User agrees to let our CEO borrow their car whenever he's in town.")
Oh, so you're saying as the CEO of TotallyMadeUpSite.Com with millions of users I'll never have to buy or rent a car if I simply change my TOS thanks to CFAA?
Genius! I'll have my engineers locate a nearby user of our site with a Lexus!
And if they try to fight back I'll allege all their wealth are ill gotten gain due to violating my TOS, which will allow the police to use civil forfeiture on their property, and I'm sure they'll give me a nice chunk of the stuff they take!
So there's really no hidden backdoor or loophole to make things even worse in this bill?
Congress unanimously did something right?
Hey, Mississippi has got to keep their schools #50 in the nation somehow!
What better way to do that than to keep people uninformed about how their failing schools are being run?
I wish it would backfire in their face and get them classified as utilities to stop this kind of rampant abuse, but I highly doubt it. Just look at how much partisan politics turns people against their own self interests (such as Republican politicians supporting monopoly laws for incumbent ISP's, which screws their own residents out of more affordable/faster internet connections). All the splintering of the media and how the ISP's are the same people who own much of the media is making it much harder to fight against them to.
And your point? North Carolina's voter ID law was struck down as racially motivated. A federal appeals court that concluded that the state’s voting strictures “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.” Also your own article doesn't make it clear if those votes in dispute are already counted or not already in the vote totals. If they aren't being counted, then who's suing shows that the GOP doesn't expect those votes to help them. Also, given the complete lack of any evidence of voter fraud, the GOP's lawsuit is pretty much a baseless attempt to disenfranchise voters who they think won't vote the right way.
Any Business Law 101 college course will clearly state that a contract is unenforceable if it involves something illegal.
There's exceptions to this, such as if you unknowingly got tricked into violating the law (such as a moving company transporting a box full of illegal drugs, that had no idea what was in the box they were moving) then you can't get out of payment by revealing to the other party that it was an illegal contract.
But this case clearly does not fall under any of the exceptions to the rules of illegal contracts not being enforceable. The city would be on solid ground to declare the contract with American Traffic Solutions is null and void thanks to the state making it illegal.