The CEOs of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Under Armour, Nike, and ServiceNow all announced their departures today.
Posted on 10/20/2019 12:40:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
great piece:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3788142/posts?page=1
Elizabeth Warren’s Financial Berlin Wall
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 22, 2019 | Kevin D. Williamson
“....But Warren — in spite of being a plastic banana of titanic phoniness, an ass of exceptional asininity, an intellectual mediocrity, and a terrible campaigner on top of it all — seems the more likely threat. Sanders, who cannot resist that old Soviet liquidate-the-kulaks-as-a-class rhetoric, insists that “billionaires should not exist.” Warren has a ghastly imbecilic plan for that.”
The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly voted to approve a new measure that would allow copyright claims to easily be used for censorship in the United States.
The law, that Reclaim The Net and other digital rights groups have been campaigning against, is supposed to give rights holders an easy way to hold copyright infringers accountable by opening a new small claims channel.
While the bill has not yet been fully approved by the Senate, the CASE Act (Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act) was approved by the House with 410 votes to 6. The bill was introduced by Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries last year and was supposed to help artists, photographers, and content creators have a smoother way of receiving damages if their works are infringed.
Currently, all copyright claims must go through the federal courts and can be a more time-consuming process. This new bill outlines an easier way for rights-holders to be able to claim up to $15,000 for each infringed work.
“The internet has provided many benefits to society. It is a wonderful thing, but it cannot be allowed to function as if it is the Wild West with absolutely no rules,” Jeffries said back in September. “We have seen that there are bad actors throughout society and the world who take advantage of the internet as a platform in a variety of ways. We cannot allow it.”
But, while on the surface the bill may seem like a good idea for those unfamiliar with internet culture and with actual creators on the internet, digital rights groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), American Civil Liberties Union, and Reclaim The Net have increasingly warned that a system like the one proposed by the CASE Act could cost internet users thousands at the hands of copyright trolls just for sharing a meme and would encroach on first amendment rights.
The current copyright laws such as the DMCA has caused a catastrophic level of censorship online and the CASE Act seems set to make things worse.
It currently awaits a vote on the Senate floor.
https://reclaimthenet.org/case-act-approved/
While this is not strictly about memes, it is a very bad idea.
Very true.
A couple of doozy fakes.
These were posted on Oct 14-15, not sure exactly of locale.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1183799674462822401
It is pretty bad when you are trying to film a propaganda video about the war atrocities... and your ‘dead guys’ won’t stop moving.
https://twitter.com/Robin63362334/status/1183979107677175808
Another doozy.
Hey all.
Trying to get back to 100% with tech after some mechanical, tech difficulties. Got internet and new computer but still can’t post photos. don’t know why windows 10 will not post with the html I have always used. Ready to scream.
This is probably more than you want to know but this probably explains what I meant.
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-squarelaw.htm
You start with a certain amount of acoustical energy that radiates equally in all directions. The sphere of energy at one foot radius could be measured at a certain level. Twice as far away, the energy would fall to 1 / (2 squared) or 1/4th the level. Three times the distance away, would be 1 / (3 squared) or 1/9th the power level.
RADAR behaves the same way except it suffers the same degradation during its reflection, so the receiver gets the echo back at 1 (r ^ 4) so doubling a distance would have a 1 / ( 2 ^ 4) or 1/16 reduction. Tripling would have a 1 / (3 ^ 4) of 1 / 81.
A couple of doozy fakes.
These were posted on Oct 14-15, not sure exactly of locale.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1183799674462822401
It is pretty bad when you are trying to film a propaganda video about the war atrocities... and your ‘dead guys’ won’t stop moving.
https://twitter.com/Robin63362334/status/1183979107677175808
Another doozy.
Hey all.
Trying to get back to 100% with tech after some mechanical, tech difficulties. Got internet and new computer but still can’t post photos. don’t know why windows 10 will not post with the html I have always used. Ready to scream.
Wow! They spent $130,000 investigating the Smollett attack?????
So does everyone who gets attacked in Chicago get $130K spent on them?
If so, no wonder Chicago is bankrupt.
If not, why not? /s
I think all the real crime victims in Chicago should protest that their crimes were not investigated sufficiently and demand equal justice.
$130,000 to investigate the Smollett “attack”!
Is this the normal amount to spend on a police investigation?
If so, no wonder Chicago is bankrupt.
If not, why not? /s
Every person in Chicago who is a real crime victim should demand equal justice.
FEC rules are such that HRC has to announce within 15 days of receiving over $5,000. She had a big fundraiser on the 16th, so expect to hear about it on or before the 31st
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_TV
Court TV was on the air from 1991 - 2008.
Now it’s back. Hmmmm.
There is a business opportunity here!
nite
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