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For a long time, Senate approval was a rubber stamp. As the ability to legislate in Congress declined, Supreme Court nominees became a battle ground (see also “Robert Bork”). It would have been good to see him lobby not that he is able to get Merrick Garland, but that the process had been inappropriately politicized. That would have been a rebuke to both sides and maybe even a call for cooler heads to prevail. Just my $.02
I’m sorry I don’t have a constructive comment. But I think this is GREAT!
There was a time when I'd have considered your comment snarky. Now it almost comes across as sage political advice for the modern USA.
More to the point: Getting people killed could make the Russian government stop turning a blind eye to cybercrime.
Yes, generally putting critical access in the hands of foreign contractors, especially in third world or developing countries is a terrible idea. It has nothing to do with race. If you outsource to white Russian contractors in Russia you could be just as fucked.
The constitution means what the Supreme court says it means. Doesn't have to make sense.
Have you just awoken from a four year slumber?
It’s not like Mitch can singlehandedly control the whole senate.
DoJ absolutely can prosecute the managers who set up this scheme. Once a very white American SVP gets to spend a week in jail, the problem with outsourcing responsibility will be solved swiftly.
Yes...that’s how the government works. I’d recommend taking a civics course.

We thankfully don’t (yet) live in a country where New York, LA, and Chicago control everything.
These comments strike me as tone deaf. Have you seen California lately? It is democratically run and McConnell has done more harm? You can't be serious.
exactly. the search for a replacement SCOTUS is going to further unite the republicans for Trump.
They wouldn't in a direct democracy, but the US is intentionally not a direct democracy. So, no.
Yes, she a wonderful human and a brilliant thinker and writer. He take on Roe is nuanced and thoughtful and no bullshit (she doesn’t love it.)

I’m curious if they wait until after the election. Dangle it in front of their base as “we have to save this seat”.

Or maybe it’s actually a dis-incentive for republican turnout because RBG dying was a strong selling point for next term.

It will be interesting for sure.

EDIT:

I take that back. They will confirm before Election Day. They need a fifth judge for Trump to contest the election.
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And if he loses the election, he still has time to push through a quick nomination before he gets booted out and a new Democratic Senate is sworn in.
I created a personal user account on my work laptop. It keeps all of my personal and work accounts separate but reduces the effort needed to keep the environments in sync. I use different gtk, browser, and terminal themes to provide context between the accounts which helps keep things isolated
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In general, though, it's been seen as a core responsibility for activists and politicians to channel their constituents' passions towards productive ends. There've always been a lot of toxic people in the world - that doesn't have to lead to toxic politics.
That would be the interesting move!
Wow the MSM media sure has filled you with propaganda. Talk about overdoing it jesus.
Why are there two posts right next to each other with the exact same first sentence?

> This turn of events means a likely ossification of American policy for a generation.

This was also posted by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522964
Are the author's writing for your site, are you aggregating, or both? Either way, I bookmarked it. Seems like a very interesting product!
This. 100 times
Trump may try, but it will be interesting to hear the reasoning to rush it before November 4. If Trump is going to win, as he says he is, there is no need to rush.

I believe there is no precedent for the Senate confirming a Supreme Court justice in a lame duck session. If Trump loses to Biden and the Senate then confirms a Trump nominee in a lame duck session, that will probably be the end of the Supreme Court. I’d expect Biden and Harris to just stack the Court, and it to devolve from there.

Remember, there is no law requiring nine justices. Just a handshake agreement and precedent. FDR threatened the stack the Court unless he got his way. And who would ultimately determine the legality of stacking the Court? You guessed it, the Supreme Court.
The legitimacy of the court is long-gone--its nothing more than a political body. Don't like the precedent? Just overrule it and claim it was 'poorly argued'.

Especially funny, considering that Ginsburg was perhaps the most likely to vote based on how she thought the country should operate, and not on stare decisis or leaving issue to congress.
Yeah, right, most people don't have that kind of commitment so their job. It's not a good match for most people. Probably not something everyone should emulate.
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from April
The decision to not fill a seat in an election year has nothing to do with the constitution or laws.

The president nominates and senate confirms.
The short version: state in a react app is all over the place and not as easy to reason about as its advertising claims in addition to buggy libs all over the ecosystem, vue has actually achieved sanity by focusing on developer usefulness and how applications change over time.
There is no more fitting of an eulogy than what she stated for herself,

"Q. When the time comes, what would you like to be remembered for?

RBG: Someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability, and to help repair tears in her society. ‘To do something,' as my colleague David Souter would say, ‘outside myself.’ Because I’ve gotten much more satisfaction for the things that I’ve done for which I was not paid."

I made this in her honor, https://i.imgur.com/3OlCIum.png
This is largely the appeal of TikTok to many, for what it is worth.
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This will probably be downvoted, but I think it was incredibly arrogant and selfish of RBG not to retire when Obama was in office so that he could pick her successor. She knew she was getting old and had already had brushes with cancer. If she really cared about feminism and liberalism, why not let Obama appoint a younger justice to the court, someone who would fight for those values for years to come? It's not like there is a shortage of great choices.
Following the constitution is “bad faith”?
It's also completely orthogonal to her life's work. Why would you spend a lifetime dedicating yourself to democratic ideals, when you know that, if you pass, you would be replaced not only by someone who doesn't share those ideals, but by an individual whom would change the tilt of the court.
Even if Trump loses, they will seat a Federalist ideologue who is as young as they can possibly find so that the effects will be felt for 30+ years.
What is the requirement for synched audio? milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds,...

I'm currently working on devices that synchronises themselves wirelessly indoor over a large area and I'm now wondering if music could be an application I haven't though about...
This is why people buy them and turn them into eclectic houses. It's a fun idea. I'd never be able to sell my wife on it, but the boy in me likes it.
Thanks for the info. Sounds like you got a great deal on those 777s. How much effort does it take to go through one of those flips? I imagine relocation and storage might be a hassle depending on where they’re at.
True, but in 2009 the congress was acting in a fairly reasonable way, and Ginsburg had already been on the bench for 29 years at that point. It was major failure of Democratic leadership that at a time when they controlled all branches of government they failed to make any significant reforms, such as admitting new states, expanding the size of the House of Representatives, or appointing judges.
> Does the president only get to pick a judge if the senate is a majority from the same party?

This is the next logical step.
Although the justices being friends is inevitable, it is not desirable. The justices would be more representative of the people - and probably dispense better justice - if there was an uneasy compromise between them based on basic principles of precedent and law.

That isn't a very fun vision of life on the bench - and any system is imperfect - so I don't really advocate that. But the idea that these people are asserting their preferences over 300 million people and then getting all chummy in their spare time isn't a good thing. It is unavoidable though.
The fact that we're so fast to assign these values to people we don't know on the internet makes me sad at times. I get it, it's just how people are.

You bring up a good example, but I'd probably be in the category of believing guns are good for a democratic society (or at least so deeply entrenched that they can't get pulled out at this point). However, I also believe in some pretty strong gun controls and requirements for a more modern society. I'm not foolish enough to believe that people with guns could win a civil war in the day of modern weapons, I also don't think it's the most important civil liberty to protect for a free society. But it's a political pressure that can do some good, and there are very few practical means of getting rid of it, and I'd rather we focus on global warming while making reasonable changes to gun laws to minimize deaths where we can.

Every reader of this paragraph will have a different reaction to my personal level of hypocrisy when I send thoughts and take a moment of silence for the victims of any shooting. It's subjective, but without that context I assume a lot more would find my thoughts and prayers objectionable. I get your stance, there's a lot of the never my guns people on the internet, and a lot among politicians.

I've just personally been pushed by tribalism to not be able to talk to many people on the internet over my personal beliefs and share ideas. I enjoy the other side of every argument, but when people get attacked for their ideas they tend to shutdown and look for others who agree more.
Early noise on Twitter is that Biden’s response to a filled seat is an expansion of the court to 11 seats.

Not sure what the calculus is. If it’s unfilled, Biden will fill it. If it’s filled, he’ll expand the court. Not sure if that also depends on a senate flip, but I have a hard time believing the senate doesn’t flip during a Biden win.
Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid first introduced a filibuster for judicial nominees, and then ending the filibuster for judicial nominees when it was politically convenient for them.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/mitch-mcconn...

Do you think that might have affected the ability of the current president to successfully appoint a supreme court justice now?
Obama didn't assume anything. He was a senator for 12 years (federally for 4) and had plenty of experience by that point to know how partisan legislative bodies are and how members will die for their parties perceived glory. I don't believe for a second that in the aftermath of Clinton's impeachment & Gore's 500 vote loss in the state being governed by his opponents brother with tens of thousands of votes lost or miscounted that any prospective politician anywhere in the US would expect good faith from their opposition.

He was a great orator and liked using that come together message as an attempted bait to push popular support in his favor, though. It was also a great excuse for pushing an extremely conservative healthcare bill through congress as if it were some major achievement for his more progressive supporters.
Sure, but the question is can it render graphics competitively with traditional GPUs.
It might have been KWin and I misremembered.
> 2) if you fail to pay, the property is in the hands of the "not-" bank that will kick you out, you will STILL owe them, generally more money than was to be repaid for you to get the property
3) if the bank gets into financial trouble you will lose your house
4) there are none of the normal protections (such as maximum interest rates, limits on administrative fees, ... and technically 2) is also an example of lack of protections)

Then I assume 2 would no longer be a risk? Bank owned the property, if you failed to pay bank will sold it to someone else who can pay, bank will then return your money if it sold higher than the set price.

Point is 3 is a weak contract issue, when you made the purchase, the contract should be clear that bank can not seize the house unless you failed to pay. If the contract says bank can cancel the transaction however they want or whenever they have issue, no one would want to do business with them. Imagine accepting a project but we put the terms, we can cancel the project and not return your money if we have issues with it.

Again 4 is also a contract issue, we have to draft the contract to make it feasible for both parties. It is basically an installment, you buy $100k house for $100/month. That’s it, the values are clear, the monthly payment will not go higher or lower, you can even pay the remaining directly with hard cash on the next month if you want.
$10^7, rich enough to bankroll $10 million on a serious enough lawsuit project to have a reasonable chance of actually collecting upon.
It seems to me that widespread conflict is exactly what Trump republicans want.

Just this weeks' news: mass hysterectomies in ICE camps, Trump's tirade on rewriting school history books on slavery, overt mail service destruction, more anti-mask rhetoric, and the list goes on and on.

They're putting the pedal to the metal.
What makes it difficult are two problems:

- Dealing with NAT

- Security

Making a protocol for connecting to another machine and sending (or requesting) a file is easy. We solved that a couple decades ago.

But how do you do it when both ends are behind NAT? UPNP was supposed to solve this problem, but not everyone uses UPNP, and it's pain in the ass to deal with port forwarding, also, good luck trying to walk grandma through setting up a port forward on her router.
Awesome, would it not by highly ironic if Venus is where it turns out there is life and Mars is dead?

If so maybe I could finally have my Venus cloud cities and giant zeppelins prowling the Venus skies.
I've seen people who follow this line, and I respect it. It's when it bleeds over into the followers of those politicians that I get frustrated.
Canada's looking fairly decent at the moment, however similar threats and pressure from global bad actors to deal with including in political arena.
Identifying leaking well sites is getting a little more attention in the industry than the article suggests, at least for active wells. See, e.g., Kairos Aerospace’s work in the Permian Basin. You can get a peek at what they’re doing in Matt Gordon’s PyCon talk: https://youtu.be/WQkM3ppuhWo
I think you misunderstand how independents think. I'm not sitting on any fence; I have pretty strong political beliefs, which just don't align well with either of the major factions in modern American politics.
But it hasn't been followed in some time. The last president did nominate a replacement, and the Senate elected not to vote at all.
I'm an independent, who will be voting Democratic. The Democratic party is spineless, corrupt, and oddly radicalized in some ways. But at least they're not explicitly trying to undermine pillars our constitution and democracy are built on. The Republican party has shown they are enemies of a free America, opting to focus on wealth and power concentration.

To me, being independent means recognizing that both parties align themselves with some things I do not stand for, and some things that I do (though to be fair, the Republican party holds almost no views that I hold at this point). That doesn't mean I view them as equals, and that doesn't mean I'm on the fence. I'm throwing in with Democrats this time, but I'm very far from calling myself a Democrat.
Death comes for all, soon or late
And how can one die better, than holding powerful rank
For the envy of your peers, and the bounty of your bank?
IT system failure should never affect hospitals. This is strange (worked in IT hospital systems in Europe) most of the hospitals have IT disaster / recovery plan to operate during failures like this. And hospital admissions switch to classic paper based.
The courts are politicized i.e. partisan, but holding Gender Equality "activism" up as an example of this would be counterproductive. This would make anything other than extreme textualism sacrilege, although equality is in the spirit of the constitution if not the attitudes of those who wrote it (i.e. They owned slaves).

Being in favour of gender equality, is a political statement - politics is a catch all term for every heated interaction between people that (hopefully) doesn't involve guns. You have to have some political principles to guide your court.

Also relevant, the recent Trans rights supreme court ruling - makes some people uneasy (Politics!) but still absolutely the right thing to do (in vacuo or within the context of the CRA). I would link to it but Visual Studio has just starting rebooting my computer...
This is the most insane comment I've read in a long time, no offense to you personally. Being friends is orthogonal, and should be orthogonal to one's judgement and their duty as a judge.

The entire world would be a better place if they do not follow the argument presented here.
Are you trying to say that you don't believe in integrity?
65,853,514 to 62,984,828, about 2.1%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...
OK sure. :) I guess what I meant was, if you're setup for booting Pis, you can't also boot arbitrary PCs without extra work.
Yes and there is tons of case law on what the Senate actually needs to do and the result is "fuck all". The Federal government is designed to gridlock rather then forcing things to happen.
Too fucking soon.
I don't think anyone disputing that they can do it, the point is that it's hypocritical. And the Republican Senate didn't "not confirm" Obama's pick, they refused to consider him at all, arguably a dereliction of their duty under Article 2 of the US Constitution.
The republicans know how to win, and will do so by any means necessary. The democrats seem happy taking the high road to yet another humiliating defeat. This is why I'm done voting and pretending it makes a difference.
I have seen it with friends busy bashing each other on Twitter/FB but being able to reconcile on a Whatsapp group or a private meeting.

Its not that on Whatsapp groups some members of the group aren't entertained by a good fight and goad/encourage both sides. Its that when its private and social status and social signaling is less of a priority and people you trust/respect can step in and cool things down and refocus the conversation on solutions.

In the public square there are thousands of retards who will show up to encourage both sides to keep fighting. It benefits the platforms. Conflict is much more engaging than a boring conversation on lets work out the details.
They don't have lifetime appointments - they have appointments during "good behavior." Who's going to determine when they've started behaving badly?

I mean, the history of basically every country that has fallen into single-party rule is the story of good intentions, including the belief that people will listen to the constitution, not counting for much in the face of real-world political power. I'm not saying it will happen to the US; I'm saying it's naive to believe it can't happen.
That would be incorrect, unless you are talking about a regular federal judge and not a Supreme Court justice. In the latter case, it was a rule the Republicans changed in 2017 to benefit themselves.
So why wouldn’t the Republicans do the same thing next time they win an election? Or would the Democrats somehow guarantee that never happens again?
You usually slice it up along the fuselage and remove the wings, similar to how they left the factory in the first place. Then take it away in an operational 747 then shut it together again at the destination.
> Most Americans are perfectly okay with this because there hasn't been any serious effort at an Amendment to grant each citizen with similar amounts of power in the Senate.

This doesn't follow. There is no way to amend the Constitution by a national popular vote so the opinion of the majority of Americans is irrelevant to the question of any Amendment's passage.

A more likely reason such an Amendment wouldn't exist is that a majority of states favor the status quo, because most states are small and benefit from their current outsized representation in government.
A Supreme Court ruling directly against the 22nd Amendment seems even less likely to me than somehow getting enough votes in Congress and then 38 states to ratify a new amendment to nullify it. Which also seems incredibly unlikely.
I’m so glad Chris Nolan saved a few bucks so that he could release all that pollution for the sake of making a movie.
With all due respect, you're engaging in the same zealotry yourself here. Trump is an idiot, but his ramblings about disinfecting the lungs do not mean "30-40% of the country would drink bleach" or that his voters are "functionally illiterate".
Four. Whatever trump got plus one for Garland. Also make DC a state on day 1.
because someone is going to get a massive landslide.
You’re saying there’s no difference between, say, Denmark and Syria? You’d just flip a coin between Russia and New Zealand?
Due to a really old technicality in our electoral system, we keep putting people in the presidency that the American people didn't actually vote for. Both Bush and Trump were not elected by a popular vote.

The majority of American are being held hostage by a minority of voters with a disproportionate amount of political power.

These un-elected presidents have had such incredibly far-reaching influences on the American political landscape, economy, and infrastructure (setting aside the fallout of the neocon's foreign military adventures).
I’m guessing they both read a Vox article that used that word and thought it sounded smart?
What's crazy about that rant? Trump already has his reasoning for wanting a third term.

Two remaining lines of defense for the American people were (1) Elections and (2) the Supreme Court.

2 is now gone. Republicans (Aka trump) are working hard on 1.

By the way, what happens when election results are contested? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
Yes, that's what I said, and why I was asking!

What does the OpenPGP format bring to the table, BESIDES HAVING A COMMONLY AVAILABLE IMPLEMENTATION IN GNUPG?
> The US is at the point where 30-40% of the country would drink bleach and shoot their neighbor at the presidents command

It sounds like you may have succumbed to some of that disinformation yourself
Unfortunately, in a global world run mostly by the US, China and Russia, Europe won't be immune from these effects; in fact, it isn't, since such ideology is clawing through there as well. Moving away will work in the short run, but it will only delay the inevitable.

The only way the entire world gets through this is an equal amount of intelligent, thrifty democratic zealotry and luck. If we fall, it's only a matter of time until the entire world goes with.
Justice Harold Hitz Burton is tied for the record: 0 days. There was less than 24 hours between nomination and confirmation. He was at least the 10th to achieve this feat. McConnell will require exactly as many days as he deems most politically expedient.
trump's not that smart....

his russian handlers....now that's a different story....
Bacteria, yes. For human cold & flu? Not so much. Not unless the dirt is where humans congregate.
I thought FreeBSD died when Netcraft confirmed it.