Not a ban, as such, but our IT has been tightening security and is now requiring us to install a device management app on our personal phones if we want to be able to run Outlook or Teams on them. I told them that’s fine, I just won’t run the apps, which means it’s a lot harder for people to get ahold of me outside normal working hours. It’s pretty great, actually!
Ted is likely positioning himself for another presidential run in 2028. Part of that involves making statements that are broadly popular. “The government shouldn’t censor speech” is about the most non-controversial thing he could possibly say.
You’re kidding yourself if you think companies being online was ever about anything other than potential profit. At first it was just a way to reach a wider pool of customers. Like the yellow pages before. Then, once every company had an online presence, they started looking for new ways to monetize the connectivity.
I’m pretty sure they’re still looking for a permanent replacement for Pam Bondi. He should submit his resume!
Turns out her husband is pretty fucking awesome, too!
Ah, beat me to it. Yeah, the Spanish Flu, one of the most deadly pandemics in human history, was initially spread through US military bases. It’s literally one of the reasons why we make sure soldiers are vaccinated.
Reminds me of Steak-umm. Ground up meat trimmings formed into a loaf that is sliced thin before cooking. Frequently used in place of higher quality cuts in cheese-steak sandwiches. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it presented in such a depressing manner, though.
Ah… right. Because this only applies to the states that didn’t agree to the settlement. Welp. That is pretty disappointing. I would have hoped it would hit them a little harder. I don’t really care about what I’m going to get out of it (though I am in one of the states that didn’t settle), so much as the degree to which it hurts Live Nation.
I’m well aware that all of that is necessary to make the removal permanent. My point was that in order to get things moving, all it takes is a simple majority vote of a small number of people, which is much easier to accomplish than even getting a vote on articles of impeachment in the House. Which then, at best, kicks off a months-long process that might lead to removal, but would much more likely go nowhere. If they could show that even his cabinet has lost faith, it might even be much easier to convince congress that making the removal permanent is in their best interests, and it doesn’t even require a lengthy trial.
Well… based on a (conservative) sales figure of 500M tickets sold per year over the last 5 years, that’s a penaly of ~$4.3B in restitution. That doesn’t include potential punitive damages.
A 25th amendment action is arguably much easier. You only need a majority vote of the cabinet secretaries.
That’s absolutely the next step. They’ll charge them with human trafficking for purposes of child abuse. Just watch.
A little from column A, a little from column B.
Absolutely. And yet… they definitely want to be able to remove people from voting rolls.
Sure. But they already fired or demoted most of the military leadership that wasn’t on board with following absolutely any order, legal or otherwise. So now the “dilemma” falls mostly to lower-level officers and enlisted.
They have backup waste collection methods. It’s a lot less pleasant, is all.
In order to stabilize the milk they use in the milk chocolate bars and make them last longer on the shelf, they treat it with a process that converts some of the milk fats into butyric acid. That’s the vomit flavor. I’m sorry to report that it has probably always tasted that way, you just didn’t notice. They’ve been using the same process since the early 20th century.
Absolutely. I work from home so I used to run them for convenience, but kept notifications turned off. It was nice to be able to occasionally join a meeting from my phone. But if there’s an actual emergency (very rarely happens) they can call me.