Skip Navigation

FireTower

@ FireTower @lemmy.world

Posts
47
Comments
502
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

    Jump

  • That Fortnite case reached a settlement out of court (like most cases do).

    Also Japanese copyright law is much more strict and tightly enforced than it is in the states.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

    Jump

  • I haven't ment anyone who supports a post life of the author copyright protection yet. IMO ~20-30 years seems solid. Enough time to express your ideas and elaborate on them, but short enough where authors will be driven to make more than one IP. That's also more inline with what it used to be.

  • Fellas of Lemmy, what's your Every Day Carry (EDC)?

    Jump

  • Probably the most unique thing is a Garmin watch w/ a built in flashlight. Which as someone not willing to carry an actual flashlight because I know I'll never both to take it out of my pocket 90% when I need it I find very useful. More smart watches should pick up the feature.

  • Fellas of Lemmy, what's your Every Day Carry (EDC)?

    Jump

  • Sharing things you find useful in your everyday life so that others might enjoy them or recommend things that would better suit your needs.

  • Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreements

    Jump

  • Elected judges just make the dangers of populist factions like fascist even worse. That'd be a neat sighted decision.

    Judges are meant to represent the people. They are meant to represent the laws enacted by them.

  • 4th of July

    Jump

  • The British anti smuggling operations were largely ineffective before and during the war. Dutch tea wasn't particularly uncommon. Of the rich smugglers of Boston the most notable was John Hancock, who by all accounts was quite philanthropic with his wealth.

  • 4th of July

    Jump

  • [USA] With Chevron Overturned, Does That Limit DEA Drug Scheduling?

    Jump

  • The overturn of Chevron is only significant in that courts, particularly lower appeals courts, won't be forced to accept agency interpretations on law. They still can if that's the better of the two. It's a big development in APA law but it is just on how laws get reviewed when contested.

    Having not looked into the drug scheduling system much I can't say for certain on that particular topic. But I wouldn't be shocked if something like an interpretation on paraphernalia by the DEA got shot down.

    If you want some good from the Loper Bright case keep in mind that it limits new presidents from coming in and appointing biased 'experts' to agencies to create new interpretation of law to aid their causes. This is a double edged sword. But I think with time we willl benefit from the end of the practice and we will settle in to a more stable set of administrative rulings that doesn't shift every 4 years.

  • Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

    Jump

  • They considered themselves to be Englishmen, and have the rights of one, even after the Battle of Bunker Hill for some time. Also you're thinking of Sam Adams, who was a brewer. But Franklin is pretty much dead on the money. Didn't even wear a wig just showed up all slovenly and slayed.

  • Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

    Jump

  • The blade was inside a sheath and could be released from the sheath with the press of a button.

    And approached could simply be he was intent on walking past them on the sidewalk.

  • Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

    Jump

  • Brandish is a stretch nothing in that article noted an intent to intimidate others, it is simple possession of a tchotchke. Unless you count the author's flavor text.

  • Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

    Jump

  • 4 months in prison for having a novelty pocket knife

  • Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

    Jump

  • To be fair they used to have a right acknowledged in the 1689 Bill of Rights

  • Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA

    Jump

  • The problem with that is Korematsu v. US was decided in 1944 and is technically still the law as no subsequent cases have come up to overturn it.

  • Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA

    Jump

  • He's been writing about it long before 2016 so I'd imagine so.

  • Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA

    Jump

  • TLDR: It may be unconstitutional in his opinion because of the Non Delegation Doctrine stemming from:

    All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress...

    Basically Congress can't just go and let the Executive branch do their job. The Executive can't make new laws only enforce the existing ones.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine

  • Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA

    Jump

  • US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts

    Jump

  • You might want to reread the syllabus of the opinion. They differentiate between actions that may be official and ones that can't. About halfway down pg 4.

    The Constitution is the highest law of the land. If it explicitly says the president can do something any law stopping him from doing that would be unconditional and voided, at least as applied.

    Otherwise it would be like they amended the Constitution without going through the correct process.

  • US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts

    Jump

  • Just because national security is the domain of the Executive doesn't mean they can use lethal force on anyone they wish in any scenario they wish in lieu of effecting arrests for alleged crimes.