If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
Presumably, Tesla knows which cars cameras took which photos, so pairing them up with the car owner wouldn't seem hard. Unless, that is, the owner takes seriously Tesla's claim that the cameras are there "to assist driving" and are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”
Reuters's list of examples included a lot of faces. I don't suppose anyone at Tesla or elsewhere in Elmo's organization have access to facial recognition software. No?
Poor conman and probably soon-to-be felon, Rudy Giuliani, now in bankruptcy court. He gets one homestead exemption from his creditors' claims. It's the state in which he officially resides, whose driver's license he carries, and where he votes. If that's NY and not FL, he's SOL. Sad.
The article suggests Giuliani may list his Manhattan condo for $5 million. He used to claim it was worth $6.5 million.
He wants to sell it so he can change his residence to FL. So, he's still a resident of NY. I don't think that would let him change which state's homestead exemption he can take advantage of. (FL's is much more generous; he should have moved there before filing.)
His lawyers laughably claim the defamation claim against him is unlikely to survive appeal. LOL.
“There’s going to be violence if he’s convicted but it doesn’t matter because once we start making prosecutorial decisions based on those collateral consequences, we’re done. Then the criminal justice system no longer operates,” Kirschner told me today.
Collateral consequences of a Trump conviction must take a backseat to enforcing the rule of law.
That we are even discussing fears about the social and political consequences of a Trump criminal conviction illustrates how far Trump has gone to corrupt the rule of law. It makes it imperative that the criminal law impose consequences on Trump, if he's convicted. Not to do so will wreak far more damage on society.
Over a year of home confinement, plus three years supervised release, and 100 hours of community service - of the court's choice - sounds about right.
Anti-Trump critics will say that's peanuts compared to the consequences for illegally voting in Florida or Texas. Sure. But it's an effective punishment for Trump and makes it harder for his zealots to realistically complain. (They'll complain if he wins.) If Trump abuses the arrangement, there's always Rikers.
Poor Harvard PhD Peter Navarro, lifetime beneficiary of wingnut welfare, having to mix with the general prison population for a few months. The nerve of the court system to subject him to such ignominy. /s
He should feel honored to share an experience he was happy to subject so many others to.
Elmo is such a clown, he's a 17-year-old with a Ferrari he barely knows how to start.
Elmo can't help himself: he needs to act out to cool his demons and blame someone else for whatever goes wrong.
But he also knows he gets a flood of press when he does something stupid, and that he can undo it out of the limelight. In many places, too, firing and rehiring the same people allows him to legally cut their wages and benefits. It's a sham, like Elmo.
Antifa is an idea, a position, not an organization. But Federal judge, Cormac Carney, seems as ignorant as the defendant. Granting a violent protester bail, the court slammed, "prosecutors...declaring that Robert Rundo’s “clear purpose” was to “battle Antifa and prevent Antifa from hurting people.”" Even if true, a big if, it doesn't excuse counter violence.
The court has prejudged the issue and should recuse. Good thing Carney plans to retire next month.
Clinton "may still possess" classified information is not a valid argument. First, in using "still," it begs the question. It also assumes that, were he to retain information, it would be wrongful.
Second, anyone might possess something: I might possess the Holy Grail. The odds that I do, however, are lower than my winning the lottery. More is needed.
Third, it's irrelevant. On its face, stopping one of a dozen speeding cars is not discrimination.
Cars tend to get totaled in floods, mudslides, fire, earthquakes, etc. Repairing damage is tricky, because you have to know the car well enough to anticipate what might be wrong with it.
I might also be a game of one-upmanship that's often played with medical insurers. When insurance companies decide what your car needs, what they'll pay for it, and who they'll pay to work on it, vendors have to play games to get paid market rates.
Trump allies suing to allow election officials not to do their jobs? LOL.
Refusing to certify an election without clear and convincing evidence in hand that the results are illegitimate should lead to the firing and official sanction of election officials.
Naturally, Trump thinks he'll lose, so he wants to reward officials who obstruct the vote to favor him.
In a conscious irony, Trump's lawyers ask the court to re-establish a SCIF - at Mar-a-Lago - so that his royal highness needn't travel outside his palace to view the USG documents he stole and refused to give back. And by "travel" I mean to another location in the SDFL, which is probably much closer to his lawyers' offices.
Another federal judge would laugh at the irony and observe that the current arrangement presents no undue burden. Judge Cannon? Meh.
The logical conclusion to the Supreme Court's Catholic majority going out of its way to reinstate Idaho's anti-trans law is that it approves of the legislation - and the viewpoint - and chose to protect it. The law and normal appellate process? Meh.
That this law represents a trend in Republican-led states is a bonus.
Trump is lying again, when he says the "real vote" is in November. His jury voted on his guilt on 34 state crimes. They found him guilty, because the evidence was considerable, and his demonstrated conduct was so consistent with the charges.
In November, voters will vote on something completely different. Their vote will have no bearing on whether Trump is a convicted felon. It will determine only whether the great entrepreneur becomes just another public employee again.
Good indicator Trump knows his legal defenses in his civil and criminal trials are batshit and won't keep consequences from his door or his pocketbook.
Trump's ego would demand deference and no consequences before an election, based on his "I'm very special" claim. He will substitute other excuses after the election, regardless of whether he wins or loses. No sentient being should agree with him.
"Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts.
BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies to distribute more than $100bn despite public outrage."
A hundred billion in a single year. The big five are virtually bribing their shareholders, which include the largest investors, into keeping them immune from serious regulation of them, their businesses, their pricing, and their profits. The world be damned. That's a problem that needs addressing.
"Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams"
It's a crime that oil producers are allowed to pump "produced water" - contain unknown chemicals in unknown amounts - into the ground, where it contaminates aquifers.
It would be another crime to allow them to release "treated" oilfield water directly into surface waterways. How long will oil companies practice the immunity that Donald Trump claims belongs only to a president?
"Robert Jenrick calls for nationality data scheme to prevent UK ‘importing crime’
"Ex-immigration minister proposes bill amendment to collate visa and asylum status of people convicted in England and Wales"
Big data loves every govt program to collect data, regardless of whether it improves policing or ANY policy. It improves their algorithms, their govt contracts, and their revenue, which is about all that Jenrick's scheme will improve.
