I'm actually surprised they disciplined her at all.
There's several Supreme Court cases that have held that police have no duty to protect individual citizens even when they see them being attacked right before their eyes. This is simply logical conclusion to that policy.
So, good on Miami for imposing standards when they could have just copped out.
What we would consider "modern" police departments didn't exist until the late 1800s.
For example, Teddy Roosevelt professionalized the NYPD as police commissioner from 1895-97. He put phones in all police stations, established physical standards, and armed them all with pistols. I have to believe he would be disappointed if he could see what his efforts morphed into through the 20th century to today.
All this to say that, while we see how cops are and what they do as a fact of life, this is not how it historically worked and it's not what the founding fathers would have intended.
Wickard v Filburn
Ah yes: you grew this wheat for your own private use, but it's existence impacts the markets because now you won't be buying something that you otherwise might have bought, therefore it's "in or affecting interstate commerce".
A ridiculous argument that, taken to its logical conclusion, grants the federal government unlimited power over everything because every act or failure to act and every piece of property or raw material can potentially affect interstate commerce in some sort of six degrees of separation way.
America as the founders envisioned died in the Civil War, but the 20th century, particularly the New Deal saw the destruction of even the pretense that the nation consists of numerous sovereigns with a federal government that only exists for a few limited purposes and has no powers beyond those granted to it by the Constitution.
Having an unstamped machine gun is literally just an issue of taxation
I'm honestly surprised that people charged with violating the NFA haven't challenged the law as cruel and unusual punishment. 10 years in federal prison for failure to pay a $200 tax? Shit, they've got nothing to lose adding it to their defense.
And those lying assholes swore in Miller it was a tax measure, not an attempt at illegal federal gun control, so they could use fedgov's own words against it (they cared just a bit more about the appearance of complying with the Constitution then; now they don't even bother).
Apparently the fools on the pro-gun side argued only a point of minutia: that the P80 kit didn't fall under the definition of "readily convertible" to a firearm based on where the definition fell in the text. The ruling was narrow in that it held some kits meet the definition ("we'll know it when we see it"). They didn't even challenge the constitutionality of the law under Bruen's text/history/tradition test.
When you challenge a law, you list every possible reason you claim it should be struck down, because you never know which argument will be the winner, and you're stuck with the arguments from the original trial on appeal.
The Obamacare lawsuit was the model for how you do it. The Republicans threw every objection they could think of in the filing, which was a good thing, because they won on some obscure Medicare cost sharing rule instead of the primary argument that it was illegal for the feds to force you to buy insurance from a private company.
The court ate up the bullshit claim that the penalty was a tax, even though it was always called a penalty until they were defending it in court. It would have been game over right there if that was the only argument in the filing.
you think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?
Well, considering you make more in one movie than most Americans make over the span of an entire career, I think your perceptions of work, pay, and the need for job security are grossly distorted from those of a normal person.
Now, you may enjoy acting to the degree that you would do it for free, and I have no doubt that there are people in the world who love their jobs so much that they would work either for free or at the minimum salary needed to keep them fed and clothed, but most of us are here for the money.
As a rational actor who is occupying their time with something they do not enjoy so that they can get the money needed to live their life, if I had the opportunity to receive my paycheck without actually having to work for it, I would take it in a heartbeat. So would almost everyone else.
This is funny and all, but going there with the intention to start a fight is just stupid. You never know how far people will go, or who is armed.
This girl is fired up; she's gonna destroy a guy's life someday. Palestine flags and pronouns in the dating profile are a screening tool, kids.
LoL
As an aside, I refuse to buy games from stores that open them up and leave the case on the shelf. Every single one of those is now used and no one should pay full price for them.
The Red Cross is replaced with a red crescent or diamond in Arab countries as well, because they are offended by the cross as a symbol of Christianity- although it's not a Christian cross and was not founded as a religious organization.
Such tolerant and logical groups, these non-Christians.
IDK, it just sounded like some made up Eastern European name. Lots of movies make up countries like that.
LoL. I was going to post something similar. Apparently it's a Spanish city with a famous castle. TIL that a fake Marvel movie country has the same name as a real city in Spain.
Looks like they screened the movie there before it's US release, so it's listed as the first release date on the wiki.
This is all related to a concept of fairness that is ingrained in the human psyche.
I took a class once where the presenter handed someone in the audience a $1 bill and then handed the person next to him a $10 bill. When he asked the first person how he felt about the situation, he felt cheated even though objectively he was a dollar richer, and the fact that his neighbor was more fortunate had no bearing on that fact.
You also see this when people run red lights. Oftentimes I will see a car run a fresh red light, then the car or two behind him will run it too. "It's not fair that he gets to run the red light and I have to sit here".
If you import people from cultures with no respect for the law, those that already live here will chafe at the unfairness that they are still expected to be good citizens.
Yep, gave my mea culpa to m0r1arty when he pointed it out. Not sure what I was thinking.
While advocating violence here will get your post removed, I remain perplexed that more people don't go that route when a government or business systematically destroys their life (see also: child support and alimony).
It seems that a perfectly logical outgrowth of ruining someone's life is that you should expect them to take revenge, yet that doesn't seem to be part of the calculus of these entities that do it, and for the most part they appear to be correct.
That's one of the reasons they went after Luigi so hard: if the masses realize they can just kill the people screwing them over it will upset the entire balance of power.
De-banking is different than freezing funds. If you're de-banked, your existing accounts are closed and you can't open new ones.
While this makes life difficult to navigate, and almost impossible to navigate for businesses (which is why it's used against marijuana and gun dealers), nobody is actually seizing your funds. There are laws that govern how long a bank can hold on to your money if it closes your account, so you're getting your money back on that timeline at the latest.
In this case, it's a court order freezing his assets. There is a significantly higher bar to do that in the US, and as I said, only in exigent circumstances can they do it without having an actual court hearing where you're allowed to plead your side to the judge.
Oof, that's on me. I know Ireland is an independent country and don't know why I made that mistake. I must have been thinking Northern Ireland for some reason.
Ah, reason 1,000,001 why as bad as the US is, the UK is infinitely worse.
Apparently this guy's account was frozen by an ex parte request from the government. In the US the ability to go ex parte to the judge without any prior notice to the other party is extremely limited- like restraining orders for an imminent threat of violence, or serious crimes where evidence is presented that if you are notified of an investigation or court proceedings you will destroy evidence or flee. Certainly not for what appears to be an entirely civil matter.
It's just authoritarianism wrapped with a thin veneer of "democracy" over there.
What's crazy to me is that just yesterday I was reading articles that Ubisoft needed this to be a hit or they were in trouble. How could they not know it was going to flop? It's been obvious to the gaming community for months.
"Blue wizard shot the food!"
X-Men was better because it supported six players, but I felt the enemies were more monotonous- all the different colored foot soldiers with different weapons in TMNT beat out the sentinels in X-Men. I loved the ability to attack grounded enemies in X-Men though.
All in all, I would say TMNT was a better game. It certainly had more legs, spawning similar sequels up to the present day Shredders Revenge.
For superhero specific beat em ups, I would take Captain America and the Avengers over X-Men as well. It's got a very strong comic book feel, and the announcer yelling "America still needs your help!" when you run out of lives is classic.
There were two, but I only played the first in the arcade at the time. The later beat em ups like D&D really perfected the genre.
Underrated IMO. The only issue is that the controls don't feel as smooth as the others when I play it today. I didn't notice this at the time though.
Yes, about any of it. IDGAF about who owns a shitty mobile game, or the livelihood of "Youtubers".
I still can't get over how insane the world is where dipshits posting videos online are making more than people who work real jobs in the first place.
I guess European style straight swords are good to go?
Jesus, looking at this list is both depressing if that you have a government willing to jail or kill you for owning these innocuous items, and a window into how small minded politicians are.
"Zombie knife". LoL, it's like the retards got their hands on a BudK catalog and just banned anything scary looking.