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  • On the post: Kansas County Pays $3 Million Settlement For Illegal Raid Of Local Newspaper’s Office

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 11:19pm

    who pays

    So the taxpayers in that county get to pay the damages?
    Right. It seems appropriate that the voters who put those thugs into place get to pay the price for their choice. There is, however, the other side of the question. Between the victims of the thuggery who had their homes and livelihoods invaded or damaged, and the government which did the invasion, I should think the government better able to pay the price. Government may raise taxes and spread the burden. The individual victims do not have that option. Ultimately, then, it is a question of where the burden should fall. Either it falls on the individual victims, or it falls on all the taxpayers who put the thugs in place.

  • On the post: DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 10:59pm

    good question

    there is no statute of limitations on murder.
    Where there is not, there ought to be. Quick, where were you and what were you doing five years and two days ago?

  • On the post: September Arrest, Deportation Of Firefighter Shows The Administration Just Wants Brown People Gone

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2025 @ 10:53pm

    declaration of independence

    founded on the belief that “all men are created equal.”
    The belief was actually that all white land-owning men of a certain age are created equal. The whiteness and landedness were presumed at the time such that there was no need to expressly state it. There were some later amendments to allow some non-whites (obviously not to include Chinamen) to vote. Also, over time, they wound up allowing women, and persons not yet old enough to buy alcohol, to vote.

  • On the post: Formula 1, Others Oppose Arena Football One’s Logo Trademark Application

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2025 @ 08:41pm

    time for a new keyboard

    can’t use F1 in any iteration
    That is a shame. My keyboard has long had an [F1] key. Indeed, even before I got these keyboards, there were [F1] keys on what I did have. Someone better tell IBM to stop using that mark on the key caps.

  • On the post: Billionaire Covers Trump’s Army Tab While The GOP Continues To Keep The Government Shut Down

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2025 @ 12:11am

    modernizing the executive

    Those aren’t things that happened, except when Trump did and tried to do just that
    True. Prior presidents did make efforts to see that the laws were faithfully executed. Trump's failure to do so has led to some controversy.

  • On the post: UK Woman Threatens Trademark Legal Action Against Cookbook Over ‘Sabzi’

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 05:17am

    fairly common

    I’ve been speaking English for over 50 years and never heard the ‘well known’ term ‘Pho’ before.
    There are a lot of Vietnamese restaurants out there with names including "Pho". The nearest is almost a block away from my office.

  • On the post: UK Woman Threatens Trademark Legal Action Against Cookbook Over ‘Sabzi’

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 05:13am

    stll not convinced

    Call your restaurant or food, accurately or not, whatever you want.
    Like I said, I'm not sure she should actually win. But she has at least a colorable argument. She built up the fame of this term where no one else was using it, even publishing some sort of material related to the restaurant, and now someone is using it as a book title. I would be sore, too. A good trademark lawyer might tell her not to waste money suing, but there is a legitimate beef. And it may be that the trademark ought to be canceled, leaving her restaurant with its existing name, and its customers still knowing where to find it. Even combinations of English words can be trademarks. Rapid Gator party rentals might be largely descriptive, they are prompt to deliver for pool parties and to take back on Monday morning, perfect for unwanted kids. The Steak-n-Shake chain uses descriptive terms and gets away with it. I'd expect that they could have used the Albanian terms and also gotten a trade-mark, despite it being descriptive and somewhat generic. Which brings us back to the lady and her "Sabzi". It took on secondary meaning in her area. She developed that meaning. I am not sure she should win, but she does have a fair beef.

  • On the post: Pete Hegseth May Be The Defense Department Boss, But Top Officers Say He’s No Leader

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 04:59am

    doing a good job, too

    just who is Trump actually working for
    Trump acts as though he is a Russian asset. It may be time to go back and review the terms left over from the McCarthy era. * useful idiot * fellow traveller * asset

  • On the post: UK Woman Threatens Trademark Legal Action Against Cookbook Over ‘Sabzi’

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2025 @ 04:43am

    not convinced

    Indeed "Sabzi" may be the name of some foods, in a language which is not English. Nothing wrong with that. They speak a sort of English in the UK, and I imagine that "Sabzi" is not a word in the local vocabulary. A restaurant has used that term as its name, and is publishing recipes under that name. The name looks somewhat arbitrary to a non-Persian speaker. In other words, pretty nearly ideal for a trademark. She has a fair beef that someone is camping on the name. Maybe if the term becomes known for its meaning of spices or food it will suffer genericide. But for now, she has a beef. Not sure she should win, but I cannot dismiss it as being in the same league as "Pho", which is a term well known to English speakers to refer to a particular type of Vietnamese food.

  • On the post: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Ordered To Explain Why Personally Violated A Court Order On Force Usage

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2025 @ 04:28am

    who arrests for contempt

    [arrested] By whom, exactly? The FBI?
    The most likely arresting force would be the U.S. Marshall Service.

  • On the post: Billionaire Covers Trump’s Army Tab While The GOP Continues To Keep The Government Shut Down

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2025 @ 04:15am

    identifying the wrong problem

    why do we have debt ceiling process in the first place? The money has already been budgeted and contracts were signed based on the budget
    The debt ceiling is intended to slow down the growth of the Federal debt. There, answered an irrelevant question. The shutdown is not a result of a debt ceiling. The problem is that there is no budget, so in fact no ``money has already been budgeted''. Until they pass a budget, or at least a continuing resolution, there is no identied source of funds. It is also true that the budget process may be largely a series of empty gestures. Congress can pass laws specifying spending but we have seen the executive determine not to see that those laws are faithfully executed.

  • On the post: Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2025 @ 04:00am

    who says

    If reddit doesn’t want you to scrape, but you get it from Google (who is allowed to scrape), that doesn’t suddenly make it ok.
    If it does not make it OK, then something is seriously wrong. That would allow reddit to control the speech of third parties, such as Google or Bung. The same rule would apply to newspapers. If the Daily Stormer does not want me to have and share certain information about GOP activites, but the Daily Worker finds out and gives it to me, why should I not have the information from the one who wants to share? I would need a really convincing reason before I would grant reddit, or the Daily Stormer, control over the speech of other potential speakers.

  • On the post: Daily Deal: Raspberry Pi Pico W Ultimate Starter Kit

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2025 @ 05:30am

    what would be neat

    It might be nice if they told us what was in the kit. Or if the linked page told us what was in the kit. By that I mean more than just saying how many pieces are in there.

  • On the post: Trump Publishes Enemies List To White House Website, And It’s Just Democrats Speaking The Truth

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2025 @ 01:12am

    let us be more specific

    He shot at the van, not at specific individuals.
    Come, let us reason together. First step, consider what was actually done. Gunman shot at van full of detained darker-complected people. Normally, that would suggest that he was seeking to injure the darker-complected people in the van. That is, if we assume that injury is intended to be suffered by those shot at. I think that a relatively uncontroversial assumption. I suppose he could have aimed through the front windows if he had wanted to hit the operators of the van. That is speculation. He did not shoot where ICE goons were, he shot where the darker-complected people were. The theory that he actually intended to injure ICE goons is supported only by the flimsiest of (not actually visible to public) evidence. Is he anti-ICE because he is shooting rather than shipping? He is not in a position to explain his motives at this point. We are therefore remitted to looking at the acts, which acts were firing shots where darker-complected, restrained detainees should be expected to be. Rather than speculate that he intended a result other than what should be expected from his actions, I think it simpler to posit that he acted intentionally.

  • On the post: DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2025 @ 12:50am

    not much changes

    The rights we love to boast about were initially reserved for White male land-owners alone
    Some still are. We have special districts which are governed on a one-acre-one-vote plan.

  • On the post: Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2025 @ 04:49am

    removing entire states from US

    There is a federal law on the books that enables ICE to question anyone within 100 miles of the US border.
    To the extent that there is such a (mischaracterized and uncited) law, it would violate the US Fourth Amendment. There are court-manufactured loopholes, such as being out in public or law enforcement being in a hurry, but the language of the Constitution is pretty clear. As a matter of curiosity, is there any part of Rhode Island not within 100 miles of a coast or other international point of entry? How about Florida and Hawaii? So, if the US Fourth Amendment does not apply in those places, then are still states?

  • On the post: The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2025 @ 01:24am

    math can be tricky

    If you offer an average person that if they’ll accept a 100% surcharge, you’ll give them a 60% rebate, most will decline. Even though it would be a net win for them.
    Not so sure about that. Come, let us reason together, starting with a price tag of $50. 1. base price = 50 2. add 100% surcharge, 50 + 50 = 100 3. rebate 60% of that surcharge, 100 - 30 = 70 4. compare final price, 70 > 50 So, yeah, it is a net win. The victory goes to the vendor, not for the buyer. I can understand why some buyers might be reluctant to agree to your offer.

  • On the post: Donald Trump Immediately Returns To Threatening Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Speech

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2025 @ 12:43am

    correct

    It worked like a champ. Disney folded up like a wet paper sack in a windstorm. The problem was that they got some push-back, in fact more than they had allowed for, and determined to fold again as though the eye had passed over and the wind was now blowing the other way.

  • On the post: Trump Declares Everyone Who Doesn’t Kiss His Ass Is A Terrorist

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2025 @ 08:14pm

    traditional values

    hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality
    The Declaration of Independence, while it has little legal force, implicitly included the traditional U.S. values. All white land-owning males were considered equal under the law. The original Constitution preserved this, making some things more explicit. There was of course the 3/5 compromise, but those people were not allowed to vote. The anti-woke Trump Bible includes a copy of the U.S. Constitution, saving only that the amendments stop just before where the 3/5 compromise changed. Again, traditional values. Those bits about abolishing slavery and all people born here being deemed citizens were just ``woke'' extremism which have no place in the Trump Bible.

  • On the post: Hey, Nintendo: You Cool With ICE Using Your Pokémon IP To Recruit More Goons?

    Tanner Andrews ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2025 @ 05:08am

    new possibilities

    It seems to me that the recruiting material is a government work, possibly done for hire by an advertising firm. So if I wanted to copy bits of that, well.

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