What sort of crack are they on that they think unauthorized use of an entire work for commercial gain is fair use? I think copywrite laws are ridiculous but that is a pretty low bar they are trying to set.

They should have to pay for their usage or retrain the model without it. Going to guess they would prefer to pay up.

By “controlled lending system,” do you mean the library? If so, it is ridiculously expensive for them to offer ebooks and audiobooks. One ebook costs $60-100 and they can only lend the licensed copy for two years. You would think audiobooks would be more expensive to do but publishers charge roughly the same.

It’s probably well past the statue of limitations.

My mom just constantly says “the weather has been weird lately.” You would think she would see a pattern after so many years.

Last time the rest of the country had a heatwave, I said “thankfully I live in Seattle.” Only a couple weeks later the temperature was over 100°F here for five days straight. So I’m going to shut my mouth this time.

*HIPAA

His father’s supplement business…that he partially owns.

Apparently the editor realized it was not a good way to phrase it and reworded it. To make the original headline clearer, it could have been “Woman shot dead by…”

The Southern Baptists had pretty rampant sexual abuse. It was happening at quite a few churches and victims asked nicely to maybe make a list so other churches would know not to hire the rapists. The church declined saying that Baptist churches are decentralized and there is no central structure to do that. In reality they had been keeping track of perverts for decades and shuffling them around when they inevitably got in trouble again.

Also, the Southern Baptists only exist because they were cool with slavery. Fuck them.

Poorly worded headline. I initially read that and thought she shot a dead person.

It has to be a part of their punishment. Even the state can’t enslave someone if it is not part of the sentencing.

A similar thing happened here in Seattle. A police officer, who had been fired from another department for reckless driving, decided it would be a good idea to go over 70 mph downtown without his siren on to get to a scene (an OD). Kevin Dave hit a 26 year old woman crossing the street and killed her. The police oversight board recommended he be fired. SPD and the union disagreed and gave him no punishment. Hell, they even joked about it. The city attorney fined him $5000 which he is delinquent on.

Let’s not pretend that most politicians go into Congress out of the goodness of their hearts. And let’s not be naive enough to think that rich people are immune from wanting more money which being a Congress person tends to help with.

So yes, ignoring the requests of a vindictive presidential candidate means a Congress person stands a good chance of losing their seat which means less money for them.

Prieto was a vendor at gun shows in Prescott and would trade firearms from his personal collection, using only cash deals or trades to evade the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the affidavit says, adding that this was corroborated through monitoring with the help of the source.

Maybe we should actually regulate gun shows…

The balance is to find fraud where it is worth it to. Going after Brett Favre may cost $100k but that could bring in $1 million. Meanwhile going after hundreds of poor people may bring in only $100k but cost $1 million. Not going after people like Favre means richer people will commit big fraud. Also, tackling a few cases of big fraud that is going to get a lot of publicity is going to be much more effective at preventing future fraud than going after 100s of people committing small amounts of fraud that nobody will hear about. An example of this is the IRS. Despite the bottom 50% of earners having almost zero chance of being audited, they still by and large pay the taxes they owe. That is because they hear about large cases of tax fraud being prosecuted (even though rates of that that are absurdly low).

So you are correct in that the rate of going after fraud for poorer people should not be zero but unless they are taking many thousands of dollars, it simply is not worth it to dig deeper into. And honestly I care very little about someone making $20k getting an extra $1000 that they should not have. That person could actually use that. Brett Favre’s fraud was 900x worse than that and his life would not be changed at all without that money.

Reminds me of when people were getting nostalgic for GWB because of how bad Trump was. Will Ferrell had to go on SNL to remind people of how terrible a president GWB was.

I see that he is an advocate of middle-out compression.

So he will be hired in the next county over.

That sounds like a failure of Democratic messaging which is unfortunately not uncommon. Every Democrat should be pointing out that Republicans killed an immigration bill that implemented what they wanted all because Trump asked them to. Immigration is one of the top issues for most voters (no idea why). I really wish Democrats didn’t suck so bad at marketing.

One other thing I often see that Democrats suck at talking about is inflation. Most of it has been from price gouging and Biden floated the idea of a windfall tax which was completely rejected by Republicans. Now companies are lowering their prices because people are not as willing to accept the supply chain and wage increase bullshit.

Gotta spend a dollar to recoup the penny you get back from poor people committing fraud.