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  1. Sep 2017
    1. Term limits will have the greatest impact next year in Michigan, where 68 percent of the state senators can't run for another term.

      Good riddance.

    2. “You can’t make a deal with somebody because everybody knows you’re going to be gone, so people don’t need to keep their word.”

      good point

    3. That constant churn, Richard suggests, has made lawmakers less cooperative.

      hmm

    1. whether SB 5 should be enjoined — as opposed to whether it remedies SB 14’s ills — was not an issue before the district court on remand."

      She still said it didn't remedy SB14's problem.

    2. qualifying photo ID to cast regular ballots by executing a declaration that they face a reasonable impediment to obtaining qualifying photo ID.

      if it does, why were people without ID only allowed to cast provisional ballots?

    1. The justices did not rule on the constitutionality of the provision, despite Rutledge’s request that they do so.

      gee, I wonder why

    2. (Churches, religious schools and daycare facilities, and religious organizations are exempt from the law.)

      This is some BS

    3. Peterson last week rejected a request from 17 state senators to investigate the State Patrol following an investigation that revealed that former State Patrol Superintendent Brad Rice had interfered with internal affairs investigations and violated the agency’s workplace harassment and equal opportunity policy.

      WTF

    4. Despite threatening to sue Trump

      sue him on what? Something other than DACA?

    1. The measure is broader than some state laws, because it covers patients with serious but not imminently deadly conditions, such as muscular dystrophy.

      Hmm

    1. In the aftermath of the litigation, seven of the banks involved have adopted arbitration clauses to their contracts.

      did they abandon the efforts to maximize the number of overdraft fees?

    2. two Supreme Court decisions, in 2011 and 2013, enshrined its use.

      ugh

    3. class-action lawyers, who tend to be Democratic donors.

      interesting

  2. Aug 2017
    1. The item was inappropriate and we've taken it down. We regret posting it in January," Noah Kotch, the editor-in-chief of Fox News Digital, said in a statement provided to CNNMoney.

      You didn't regret it until people called you out on it.

    1. March on Google claimed it received a threat to drive a car into the march. The specifics mirror what happened in Charlottesville on Saturday, when a car plowed through a crowd of counterprotester, killing Heather Heyer

      uh huh

    1. Fox 26 has learned charges were dismissed against the deputies on August 4th, the very day the case was set for trial and within minutes rapidly re-presented to a grand jury, with what the DA's office calls "new evidence" which must remain "secret".

      what the fuck

    2. We asked Harris County prosecutor Natasha Sinclair if "cavity searching" suspects in public constitutes a criminal offense."No one in this office stands by the search the way it was conducted. No one condones that. No one thinks it's appropriate. It should not have happened.However bad decisions, bad judgment may not rise the level of a criminal offense," said Sinclair

      are you fucking kidding me

    1. “On June 16, they did what they were told,” Ms. Southerland said. “They produced a new cost-benefit analysis that showed no quantifiable benefit to preserving wetlands.

      they should have refused to do this.

    2. without any records of the changes they were being ordered to make.

      pretty sure that's illegal

    1. Aitken says many firms conduct their own market surveys anyway. Still, for small businesses that can't afford such surveys, the new laws pose a more formidable hurdle, he says.

      they could just post a salary range on their job descriptions.

    2. there's nothing wrong with trying to save the company money."

      ugh

    3. onnecticut recently dropped the "salary history" prohibition from its bill to ensure gender pay equity.

      wtf, why

    1. WKBW used the same data we did and presented the same results, though the article notes there have been "no major changes in crime rate" since 2013.

      huh. I suppose this is to mean 'overall crime rate'.

    1. although the Sambians view the children as flawed males and they are often shunned

      sad :(

    2. he guevedoces were first discovered by a Cornell University endocrinologist Dr Julianne Imperato in the 1970s who travelled to Dominican Republic after hearing strange rumours about girls turning into boys.

      you mean discovered by white people. They were already discovered by their own people.

    1. Each line represents the percentage of people with a certain marital status, given their age

      this does not make sense

    1. The Joint Commission,

      what is this joint commission? A private accreditor?

    2. “The provision will adversely affect the collaborative efforts of accrediting bodies and healthcare organizations to improve patient safety and engage in continuous quality improvement,” the commission said in a June letter. “Ultimately, there will be increased patient harm and lower quality.”

      how???

    1. Unlike the academic year, when we can attribute any lack of daily progress to teaching and service, summer lays bare the reality that daily writing brings up all of our stuff.

      for most faculty

    1. "I think on appeal, or even not on appeal, those punishments are going to be close to nil," Shkreli said in his Youtube livestream after the verdict, referring viewers to sentencing guidelines.

      ugh

    1. you don’t need the boot camp certificate as a signal

      I'm not sure what a 'signal' is supposed to be here.

    1. Base 10 refers to the numbering system in common use that uses decimal numbers.

      I literally never knew this

    1. "I keep waiting for wage growth to jump because we're seeing tightening in the labor market by almost every single measure, but for some reason ... that hasn't happened yet," he said, adding that wage growth has declined for six straight months.

      "for some reason". Gee, I wonder why

    2. The Fed has hinted it wants to start unwinding its massive $4.5 trillion portfolio before year's end as it normalizes monetary policy.

      what's "unwinding a portfolio" mean?

    3. The Dow was coming off a record-setting session, having broken above 22,000 for the first time on Wednesday, propelled by strong earnings from Apple.

      I feel like we're heading for another crash

    1. Israel is the only country surveyed in the Middle East where relatively few people disapprove of Trump’s proposal to restrict entry to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority nations (32%).

      /facepalm

    1. this statement may also mean that lawmakers may look at other ways to improve cost recovery besides immediate expensing of capital investment.

      cost recovery for who? Businesses or the government?

    2. One could interpret this as a move away from the House GOP’s idea to allow companies to fully expense capital investments.

      yikes

    3. expensing.

      From Business Dictionary: "The treatment of an expenditure as an operating cost rather than a capital investment. For tax purposes, expenses are deducted from income immediately. Assets are depreciated, that is, businesses take a stream of deductions over the useful life of the asset."

      Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/expensing.html

    4. Republican lawmakers will no longer be pursuing this policy.

      I wonder why

    5. reform the corporate income tax by reducing the statutory tax rate,

      boo

    6. The House GOP’s plan, for example, would greatly increase the standard deduction and eliminate most itemized deductions

      do not want

    1. Expenses can be expensed as they are incurred, or they can be capitalized.

      this is not a good definition

    1. broadening the tax base

      I think this is essentially saying "broadening the tax base" will enable more tax dollars to come in because people have less ways of reducing the amount of taxable income.

    1. is stocked in university libraries around the world.

      love this

    1. Though Facebook doesn’t explicitly provide the tools to target people based on political opinions

      really, they don't? I seriously doubt that considering they explicitly provide tools targeting people on race and gender.

  3. Jul 2017
    1. Abortion rights were notably absent from the party’s new policy push announced last week, meant to unify the party around an agenda outside of opposition to Trump. That plan, called “A Better Deal,” focused on economic policy largely related to jobs, wages and reducing the burden on families.

      What the fuck

    2. Sanders

      Sanders isn't a Democrat

    1. Anyone threatening violence against Mr. Curry, he said, should be ashamed and, if possible, arrested. "I hope Dr. Curry is armed," he added, "so that if anybody shows up at his house threatening him, he defends his home and family by any means necessary."

      wait, so Dreher hopes that Dr. Curry does THE ONE THING HE CASTIGATED HIM OF PROMOTING?

    2. "However, paying a professor to share radical ideas on behalf of a university has nothing to do with free speech."

      yeah it does

    3. . "Presumably," he wrote, "the university thinks that advocating for the death of an entire group of people based on their skin color is something that correlates with their values."

      somebody didn't listen to the radio segment

    4. His take on the Trayvon Martin case was that Mr. Martin had "overreacted" to Mr. Zimmerman’s confronting him with a gun, and that black people had overreacted to Mr. Zimmerman’s just acquittal

      what the fuck

    5. iconoclasm

      "the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices."

    1. the majority of the files he took from the websites contained metadata, which deceived important information about employees.

      deceived? I don't think that's the right word for this sentence.

    1. The general rule is one usher for every 50 guests.

      where did this number come from?

    1. adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

      huh

    1. similarity emerges because educated or religious people tend to meet each other, not because educated or religious people actively select each other.

      I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between the two.

    1. He cited the University of Arizona, which is still an accredited medical institution, despite a similar Arizona law passed in 2011 that prevents public and tuition dollars from being used on abortion training.

      but doesn't require abortions to only be performed at hospitals.

    1. Most experts agree that what might seem like the “perfect compromise”–raising children in both religions and allowing them to choose their faiths as adults–usually doesn’t work. Rather, this approach generally leaves the child confused and ambivalent about religion altogether

      Is there a citation for this?

    1. “We welcome all varying views, and in fact you will likely find our views run very counter to many of the [racist] views we are being claimed to have,” they continued. “We encourage people to join us for breakfast and open up a productive dialogue about any issue.”

      Of course. This is the problem with white (I'm assuming) liberals.

    1. Template instances are also grouped by "scopes". The supported scopes are enterprise_{id} and global. Enterprise scopes are defined on a per enterprises basis, whereas the global scope is Box application-wide.

      The difference between 'global' and 'enterprise' is not clear here.

    2. Metadata associated with folders is not displayed in the Box web application.

      why not?

    1. Restaurant owners and workers who lobbied unsuccessfully for a "tip credit" that would count tips toward wages were among those left disappointed Friday.

      good.

    1. New York's Assembly Bill A3485 (in committee as this is written) prohibits taxpayers from claiming a tax deduction for a child not fully immunized.

      love iiiiiiit

    1. they "have an undeniable historical meaning," and that Texas had erected various monuments on state grounds representing key themes in the state's political and legal history.

      ffs

    1. Overall, Maine ranks 13th in the nation for child well-being, according to the report, which compares states on 16 indicators in the areas of health, education, the economy, and family and community.

      that seems pretty good

    2. Only one other state, North Dakota, saw increasing numbers of uninsured children between 2010 and 2015, the report found.

      hmmm

    1. "He was there at conception so he ought to be there through the whole process," Republican Representative Kim Hammer, the bill's primary sponsor, tells Bustle.

      Oh FFS

    2. make it illegal for a woman to have an abortion without communicating with the man who impregnated her — whether that be her husband, boyfriend, a casual hook-up, or a perpetrator of sexual assault.

      FFS

    1. you're going to end up the same way Obamacare did when they rammed it through with 60 votes. Only guess what? We don't have 60 votes."

      After over a year of hearings and hundreds of Republican amendments

    1. She was expelled in her sophomore year, partly, she said, for her anti-segregationist editorials as a member of the board of the campus newspaper.

      wow, talk about a violation of the 1st Amendment

    1. I think our company PoC stage is over? :-)

      I don't understand this? PoC as in People of Color stage is over? Wat?

    1. the scientific community would adopt a generally acceptable and enforceable ethical code for all conferences, make it part of every program, and announce these regulations at the beginning of every meeting, following the examples of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory symposia and Gordon Research Conferences.

      sounds like a code of conduct to me.

    2. I thus firmly believe that photographing posters, recording parts of talks, and posting other people’s data should be officially banned, and that people who break these ethical standards should be expelled.

      What if presenters don't mind if people record them or take pictures of their slides? Also, what about those who need to record for accessibility purposes?

    3. as researchers will begin to refrain from showing their newest data at meetings

      *may begin

    1. At least three years of direct experience providing research data services within an academic and/or research institution, or at least three years of experience managing diverse research data within an academic or research institution.

      so much for trying to recruit minorities

    1. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the committee chairman, put the panel “on notice” minutes later.

      you mean he allowed McCain to interrupt Sen. Harris in order to her on notice.

  4. Jun 2017
    1. the spiritual divinity of every person

      hmm

    2. to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so

      What does this mean? Permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do what?

    1. n a time when the value of introspection and transparency is at a premium, cutting a position designed to provide both smacks of self-satisfaction and a misreading of the current media landscape.”

      dayum

    1. The mummies used were from the New Kingdom and a later period, when Egypt was under Roman rule.

      So not the original Ancient Egyptians. What about the earlier ones?

    1. And Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said the CFPB should be funded by Congress, rather than the Federal Reserve.

      no. It's not supposed to be political

    2. citing that only government authorities should have access to the information.

      UH, WHY

    1. seemingly ignores these protections by allowing election officials to immediately remove voters identified as having registered in another state by the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck. This process, which finds a match based on first name, last name, and date of birth alone, has resulted in wrongful removals when used elsewhere.

      This is what happens when you don't include a metadata librarian

  5. May 2017
    1. The ban stems from the 2002 McCain-Feingold law, which prohibited unlimited and unregulated large contributions to party committees known as soft money. The high court on Monday affirmed without hearing oral arguments a lower court ruling that denied the Louisiana Republican Party’s challenge to soft money bans for state and local parties.

      Why is there a ban on state and local party committees and not federal ones?

    1. Gabriel later followed up with ICV2 to say that he also heard retailers and fans praise new characters of color like Ms. Marvel and Miles Morales. "And let me be clear, our new heroes are not going anywhere!" he added.

      yeah this guy is full of shit

    2. What we heard was that people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don't know that that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales.

      That is bullshit

    1. the Los Angeles Police Department has said that there has been a startling decline in reports of sexual assault and domestic violence from the city's Latinx residents since the beginning of 2017, out of fear that they might risk deportation by appearing in court.

      wow

    1. “We elected our first black president. That was a big deal. And because of that, we lowered the standard,” he said, and also attacked the media, saying that Obama, “was held to a very low standard because the media so loved him.”

      waat

    1. Perhaps not the home of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., the library’s part-time steward for the last umpteen years. Certainly not the International Spy Museum, which proposed building vast levels underneath and ill-fitting wings alongside the building.

      UHM THE SPY MUSEUM PLAN SOUNDS AWESOME

    2. “It proposes a lifestyle without attachments or clutter, where people—unburdened by the ‘fuzz’ of possessions—are free to chase down every desire. Like a nomad on the Steppe, movement, horizon, and conquest are the only concern.”

      no possessions other than Apple products anyway

    1. A biology exam at Roswell High School in Roswell, New Mexico, featured the following question: “Why are ni**ers black?”

      WTF

    1. A new liberal education core will also “provide all students with tools for understanding systems of power, privilege and oppression; for recognizing and overcoming cultural biases; and for understanding and appreciating the diversity of our local and global communities.”

      this is amazing

    2. “there’s a distinction between what our politics are and what policy should be.”

      not for vulnerable populations there isn't

    3. “I’m bothered by the very possibility that someone who teaches well, is an active scholar and engages in service -- in other words, someone who is doing what we’ve always reasonably expected of faculty -- might not fare well when being reviewed for reappointment, tenure, promotion, posttenure review, etc., because they were judged to not be meeting this expectation.”

      This is so privileged

    4. He said this week that his opposition centers on the “equity” piece, in that it seems to incorporate a particular, stereotypically progressive conception of social justice that he might personally share but that seems wrong for a public institution

      Why would writing societal injustice be wrong for a public institution?

    5. It defines equity “as the fair and impartial treatment of all individuals” and diversity as the “structural and power differences among people, including, but not limited to, for example, differences in race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, economic status or perspectives.” Inclusivity is defined as “valuing the perspectives and contributions of all individuals.”

      I think this conflates equity and equality. This definition of equity is more like the definition of equality. Equity is about righting the injustices of inequality

    6. in addition to teaching, research and service -- the three pillars of faculty work -- all professors “are expected to contribute to university efforts towards equity, diversity and inclusivity.”

      I love this

    1. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is willing to provide the US Congress notes on Russia's meeting with Trump where he reportedly leaked highly classified information

      omgggg

    1. There is a growing sense that Mr. Trump seems unwilling or unable to do the things necessary to keep himself out of trouble, and that the presidency has done little to tame a shoot-from-the-hip-into-his-own-foot style that characterized his campaign.

      NAH, REALLY? DID THEY EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO HIS CAMPAIGN?

    2. after Washington Post reporters informed them of an article they were writing that first reported the news about the president’s divulging of intelligence.

      huh, why would they do that?

    1. Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, has also said he does not want to be considered for the job, which became open when President Trump fired James B. Comey last week.

      Good

    1. In testimony to the Senate last week, the acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, said, “There has been no effort to impede our investigation to date.”

      that he knew of apparently

    1. “The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order,” Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters, adding, “It’s got to happen.”

      It's too late

    2. Mr. Trump’s disclosure does not appear to have been illegal — the president has the power to declassify almost anything. But sharing the information without the express permission of the ally who provided it represented a major breach of espionage etiquette, and could jeopardize a crucial intelligence-sharing relationship.

      This is some BS

    1. Amazon will no longer include such clauses in its contracts for the next five years.

      Why only for the next 5 years?

    2. These required any publishers doing a deal with Amazon to reveal the terms of the contracts they made with rival distributers.

      Whaaaat. Uh, what if part of those other agreements included non-disclosure clauses?

    1. When you return to Taylorsville on November 9, 2018, and fade from the public eye, I hope that you and your family will enjoy a lovely life together.

      LMAOOOOOO

    1. three key ethical principles for conducting research with human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.

      beneficence: action done for the benefit of others

    2. The project would not become research by virtue of sharing its results.

      ouch

    3. The project may be systematic, but is not considered research because the intent of the project is to improve the library's service to its patrons, rather than contribute to a body of knowledge.

      it could be both though.

    1. arguing that it's unconstitutional to prevent someone from doing math without the government's permission. He's getting support from the Institute for Justice, a national libertarian law firm.

      oh lord, libertarians

    2. Citing state laws that make it illegal to practice engineering without a license, the board told Järlström that even calling himself an "electronics engineer" and the use of the phrase "I am an engineer" in his letter were enough to "create violations.

      but what if that's his job?

    3. Järlström's research into red light cameras and their effectiveness amounts to practicing engineering without a license

      this is just petty

    1. You can use the up-arrow key to scroll back through previous commands and re-execute them by pressing enter. This allows you to quickly edit and rerun your program to make and test changes.

      ooh that's really nifty

    1. Tennessee has just passed the "Broadband Accessibility Act of 2017," which gives private telecom companies—in this case, probably AT&T and Comcast—$45 million of taxpayer money over the next three years to build internet infrastructure to rural areas.

      ugh

    1. Removing the president from office is something that happens in the Senate, and it requires a ⅔ majority. Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson both survived their Senate trials, and Trump — barring truly extreme revelations — is likely to do the same

      boo

    1. non-normative

      "A normative section is a formal part of the recommendation. It contains rules that everyone must follow.

      A non-normative, or informative, section contains additional information, advice and suchlike that isn't a formal part of the standard. That doesn't mean the information is less important, but it's not binding in the same way as the normative sections."

      https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46809/what-does-non-normative-mean-in-this-context

    1. the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas told its churches to disband all their Girl Scout troops.

      wow

    2. The decision is not because of the Boy Scouts’ policies on LGBT inclusion, the church said in a statement.

      uh huh

    1. passage of the resolution would have prevented the federal government, under any administration, from issuing a rule that is ‘similar’," McCain said in a statement.

      oh so now you're worried about that provision?

    1. Although Trump earned Klein’s vote, he worries that recent executive orders ratcheting up deportation plans and calling for a wall are putting a chokehold on an already tight pool of workers.

      You get what you paid for

    1. Ellison’s friendship with Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson in the seventh district would lead to “Muslim refugees coming to western Minnesota.”

      wtf. Also who cares if refugees are settled in that area? THEY NEED HELP

    1. Common Cause vice president Paul Ryan said in a statement on the complaint.

      that must be an awkward name to have

    1. especially Goldman Sachs.

      but then he appointed people from Goldman Sachs, so

    2. has also called for a "21st century" Glass-Steagall.

      It's literally called Dodd-Frank

    3. The Republican platform also backs restoring the law, which was repealed in 1999 under former President Bill Clinton.

      Since when? Ted Cruz wanted to take de-regulation back before the Great Depression.

    1. she may well be the best of the bunch.

      UHH

    2. She's not out to restore a lost imperial glory, nor has she advanced a program for colonizing the state and turning it into an instrument of her party.

      That she's made public anyway

    3. Brussels rules not so much with the consent of the governed as with the conviction that it alone is capable of properly balancing the continent’s manifold interests — which is precisely what ordinary democratic politics is supposed to be for. Is it so unthinkable to prioritize the latter threat over the threat of populism

      not really sure what this argument is supporting here

    4. Does anyone, at this late date, really believe that the EU is working?

      young people in Britain do

    5. it is not actually possible to do so.

      True

    6. It is not reasonable to exile the "national question" from politics entirely

      why not?

    7. rehabilitation

      I'm not sure what rehabilitation means in this article.

    1. building coalitions, focusing on the broadcast and avoiding prima donna behavior,” Maloney added.

      lolwut

    2. but also knew that Bill O'Reilly's removal from Fox meant no one was safe

      yeah, no one was safe from his sexual harassment

    3. the Murdoch sons, who are seen as “liberals”

      lmao

  6. Apr 2017
    1. Du never served a day in jail for killing Latasha Harlins. A jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter—a crime that comes with a maximum sentence of 16 years—but Judge Joyce Karlin let her off with a $500 fine, some community service, and probation.

      WHAT THE FUCK

    2. Du, who was working in the store, accused Latasha of trying to steal the orange juice, despite the money she had in her hand. This sparked an altercation captured on a security videotape. In the video, Harlins places the orange juice back on the counter and turns to leave. As she walks away, Du picks up a gun and shoots her in the back of the head.

      jesus christ

    1. he Board and its Director do recognize that there is a paucity of degreed librarians of color at EPL. This problem is not restricted to EPL; the entire public library field is grappling with it.  The latest available statistics from the ALA show that only 5% of all credentialed librarians are African American; only 3% are Hispanic. 

      "It's not OUR fault almost all of our librarians are white!"

    2. Indeed, the Library of Congress, founded in 1789, appointed its first African American director just last year.

      YOU MEAN THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT APPOINTED THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS.

    1. expression of interest on behalf of the Evanston Library in a genealogy collection the Winnetka Library was handing off.

      Why was she suspended for this??

    1. although it would have been smarter to pull it from the app entirely until a non-racist replacement was ready to ship.

      Yup

    1. the simulated sounds on MP3-based music files are not physically identical to the sounds on the original CD recordings.

      not technically wrong.

    2. Moreover, defendant argues, its activities can only enhance plaintiffs' sales, since subscribers cannot gain access to particular recordings made available by MP3.com unless they have already "purchased" (actually or purportedly), or agreed to purchase, their own CD copies of those recordings.

      seems legit

    3. so far as the derivative market here involves is concerned, plaintiffs have not shown that such licensing is "traditional, reasonable, or likely to be developed."

      wat

    1. Japan was steadfastly pro-US and has even begun echoing the language of Trump, who has said that every possible response to North Korea’s tests is on the table.

      The Japanese people tend to be very anti-military intervention, so hopefully they'll put pressure on PM Abe to cool it down a bit.

    1. sought to put on a layer of "truth in sentencing," requiring that the offenders would have to do 85 percent of the time that they're sentenced for no matter what—no matter if they participated in rehabilitative programming or what, so it kind of disincentivizes both the offender as well as the Department of Corrections from engaging the individuals in rehabilitative services.

      interesting

    1. Story made the extraordinary finding that Public.Resource.Org is engaged in "commercial" copying despite being a nonprofit, stating that the organization "profits" by "the attention, recognition, and contributions it receives in association with its copying and distributing the copyrighted OCGA annotations, and its use was neither nonprofit nor educational."

      That's not what the term profit means? What???

    2. he terms include agreeing not to make copies, and it even prohibits using the code in "newsletters" and "articles." 

      WTF????

    3. First of all, it's hardly "free," because anyone who uses it has to agree to onerous restrictions and two separate terms of use.

      Huh

    4. The OCGA is the only official copy of Georgia's laws, so that was the one citizens needed to be able to read.

      interesting

    5. states can hold copyrights and state contractors can make copyrighted works.)

      which is some bullshit

    6. the actual text of the laws, which were available to the public, and the annotations, which were copyrighted and owned by the state.

      If it's owned by the state, why isn't it available to Georgia residents for FREE?

    7. Malamud thinks reading the law shouldn't cost anything.

      Well yeah, it shouldn't

    1. we are returning to using sound science in decision-making — rather than predetermined results.”

      what evidence of predetermined results?

    1. Likewise, Rosalind Brewer, an African-American woman and Sam’s Club CEO, was called racist for advocating for diversity.

      ffs

    1. The European commission spelled out earlier this month that an independent Scotland would have to apply to join the bloc, a point reinforced by Dastis. “They would have to join the line of candidates at some point and would have to start negotiations,” he said.

      why tho?

    1. used the power of his position and with all of his GOP colleagues lined up behind him, to essentially change the rules of the Senate — to lower that threshold on Supreme Court nominations to end debate from 60 to 51 votes

      McCain's whole rant about changing this being "idiocy" was all bluster then. Go figure.

    1. "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."

      It is IF THEY'RE ENGAGING IN CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

    2. he bid to reconsider an agreement in Baltimore are the strongest signs yet that the Trump administration not only plans to scale back the number of new investigations it launches into unconstitutional policing, excessive force and other law enforcement misconduct allegations but also the likelihood it will seek to reopen agreements the Obama civil rights unit had already negotiated.

      this is some bullshit

    1. concomitant

      adj. "naturally accompanying or associated." n. "a phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something."

      This instance is an adjective.

    2. insurers in states that waived community rating couldn’t tell sick customers to take a hike, but they could jack up premiums enough to make insurance plans for these customers unaffordable or useless.

      Community Rating: "A rule that prevents health insurers from varying premiums within a geographic area based on age, gender, health status or other factors." https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/community-rating/

    3. the rating provision, but not the coverage guarantee for people with pre-existing conditions, would make the latter functionally useless.

      to what part of this does the rating provision refer?

    4. but when pressed on whether gutting the community rating provisions would allow insurers to charge people with pre-existing conditions more, he acknowledged that some sick people may be picking up the slack so that premiums of the healthy would go down.

      oh

    5. the key concession from GOP leaders that is likely to satisfy conservative House Freedom Caucus members—would allow states to waive not just the ten essential benefits that are required by the ACA, but its central risk-pooling provision, which prohibits insurance companies from charging sick customers more than healthy customers.

      wtf

    1. Insurance companies will sometimes retroactively cancel your entire policy if you made a mistake on your initial application when you buy an individual market insurance policy.

      wtf, why would they do that???

    1. There are not a lot of people complaining about white supremacy, and there isn't a lot of chatter about the surge of Islamophobia in the world. I understand the need to insulate oneself from upsetting topics, but insulation necessarily breeds insularity.

      So it sounds like a lot of the users of Mastodon are probably white

    2. mastodon.social bans Nazis. Not even implicitly, but explicitly.

      LOVE IT

    3. Peter Thiel will never partly own Mastodon.

      He'll probably find a way just out of spite

    1. Crossref and DataCite employ this method of linking. Data repositories who register their content with DataCite follow the same process and apply the same metadata tags. This means that we achieve direct data interoperability with links in the reverse direction (data and software repositories to journal articles)

      uhhhh what

    2. These were selected in consultation with DataCite and data working groups. They will provide the level of specificity requested by the community

      See, now this is interesting. Since when is DataCite advising on how to use these? It's not in the documentation for the DataCite metadata schema and the advice we got via email was not super useful for these.

    3. it was generated de novo as part of the research results

      if the software or data were newly generated as part of the research, e.g. you created the data or wrote the code yourself.

    4. For those generated by another project and then reused, we recommend applying “references” in the relationship type.

      interesting

    1. This law represents Kulanu as a nationalist socially oriented party that believes in a balance between national pride and human rights.”

      nationalist socially oriented? Wow. Really? REALLY?