I felt like I must have misread the ruling after seeing all of the articles and comments.
Former presidents also have a “presumption of immunity” for their official acts while in office — but, the court ruled, there is no immunity for “unofficial acts.”
So chutkin is going to decide what acts were official acts and which were unofficial.
But "presumption of immunity" is a weird fucking phrase too because it makes it seem like you can prove they aren't immune? Like presumption of innocence--you start there and work the other way. So presumably(pardon the pun) you can start there with this and work the other way still?
I'd need actual lawyers to make this make sense.
But either way it didn't seem as "carte Blanche presidents can do anything" to me when I read it.
Federal ethics guidelines are $20 of value and it can't be a cash equivalent (gift card).
These clowns are so out of touch.
My issue: my work cell phone's service seems to be disconnected.
Ticket system drop down for issue:
<New phone set up> <Account deactivation request> <Phone transfer request>
So uh...?? I guess I'll just fuck myself because any of these options is routing a ticket to the wrong group or making my problem much much worse when they misunderstand my issue because "why would it end up in my queue if I wasn't supposed to just give you an all new number and wipe your old phone remotely".
As I was reading the article it just kept getting worse and worse:
More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.”
Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”
Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.”
What’s even more concerning about the results: 85% of companies engaging in the practice said they interviewed candidates for the fake jobs.
The way I read all of this and th decision is that they are saying that this law specifically only applies to bribery. They define it as a quid quo pro in advance of an act.
In this particular case, you can't charge the guy with bribery because it doesn't meet the definition.
That doesn't mean a "tip after the fact" isn't corrupt. That doesn't mean that's not in violation of some other law. It's saying that you can't apply this law to this case. This court is threading a fucking needle in an attempt to make this a state issue and say the Fed law can't apply.
Justice Jackson's dissent is amazing though:
Snyder's absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today's Court could love."
The Court's reasoning elevates nonexistent federalism concerns over the plain text of this statute and is a quintessential example of the tail wagging the dog," Jackson added.
Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions. Greed makes governments—at every level—less responsive, less efficient, and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve,"
He didn't. He wanted freax or something dumb. Someone talked him into Linux.
I flew on a 737 max 8 today, so I basically know how these astronauts feel.
This comment chain made me chuckle. It's such an "internet comment section" ..trope? I don't know the right word.
I know.
My response was to the previous comment.
In a non Tesla, if someone is locked in a car, what happens? There isn't some secret "let me in" button. You just break a window. This is a dumb story.
Then break the fucking window if it's an actual emergency.
...that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business
Not really though because still, if anything is in the barrel, it becomes a projectile.
Woah woah woah. Baldwin should be allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants with a prop gun. If an armorer gives him a gun on a set, why would he reasonably believe it was able to hurt or kill someone?
If an actor is given a prop pipe bomb, and he throws it at a cast member in jest and it explodes...because the explosive expert gave him a live explosive why the fuck is that the actors fault?
Why is is Alec's fault he was horsing around with what effectively should have been a toy. It should have been a fancy cap gun at worst.
“I guess I would have to say yes in the spirit of forgiveness, reluctantly. But if I had to be a smartass, I’d say her apology holds about as much water as my canvas bag.”
Lol
I switched the the snap package and it's been rock solid and pain free the entire time.
I welcome any and all comments on why snap is Satan.
Wait, so cool t shirts?!
It highlighted some pretty glaring weaknesses in OSS as well. Over worked maintainers, unvetted contributers, etc etc.
The XZ thing seems like we got "lucky" more than anything. But that type of attack may have been successful already or in progress elsewhere. It's not like people are auditing every line of every open source tool/library. It takes really talented devs and researchers to truly audit code.
I mean, I certainly couldn't do it for anything semi advanced, super clever, or obfuscated the way the XZ thing was.
But I agree, that the fact we could audit it at all is a plus. The flip side is: an unvetted bad actor was able to publish these changes because of the nature of open source. I'm not saying bad actors can't weasel their way into Microsoft, but that's a much higher bar in terms of vetting.
It's pretty hilarious when people act like being open source means it's "more secure". It can be, but it's absolutely not guaranteed. The xz debacle comes to mind.
There are tons of bugs in open source software. Linux has had its fair share.
Apex has been running smooth as butter (well, as smooth as apex can run :) ) for the last year or so on my PopOS machine. I haven't had to log into windows to game in about 18 months.
I noticed a few months ago that I would get errors / crashes, seeimingly randomly where 'pak' files wouldn't load. I'd get a wine-looking pop up with the message. I could fix it by Validating Game Files. Inevitably it would find corrupt or invalid files and redownload them and it would work again.
Something happened about ~4 weeks ago where it became much more frequent to the point where its now unplayable on PopOS.
I've done everything I can think of:
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completely removed steam and all my games from my system and retried with the deb package in the store. (no luck)
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completely removed that and my games and tried with the flatpak (same issues)
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I even, thinking my ssd might be failing, bought a new one, cloned my stuff over to that, etc (no luck, same issues).
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I just uninstalled the game again and am trying to redownload as I am typing this and it gets to the end, fails (corrupt update files), then puts me in a loop of validating, downloading, pausing download, etc.
All of my other games seem to work fine and update fine.
Apex works on my steamdeck. Apex works fine on this same machine on Windows 10.
I used inotify-tools to see if something was editing the files in between gaming sessions when it worked and when it didn't and nothing seems to be accessing let alone updating/writing to those files. So the corruption or whatever happens during use.
I have tried Proton experimental and literally every version back until it wouldn't even make sense to run. I tried the last 5 or so ProtonGE versions as well.
The thing is: Is this a Pop issue? Is it an Apex issues? Is it a proton issue? Is it a steam issue?
I don't even know where to post this 'issue' too.
For what its worth, I am happy to try and run this down and provide whatever logs may help. I could learn some auditd!
HALP!
<in the mean time I am going to tuck my tail and boot back into Windows so I can game for a bit>
Fighting fire with fire
Technology at its finest.