But that’s still not a high hurdle to clear. You get rid of pre-ticked boxes, put it in your standard TOS and EULA, and require the user to click “I Agree” to a nice contract where they do give their consent.

What civilizations are you talking about precisely?

One time I heard that Congress passes a ruling and The Supreme Court bills an executive order to the Electoral College so the President can sign a precedent omnibus into a judicial review so that the Minority Whip can take a law in front of the FCC to get it confirmed by the FOMC which has to be carried out by the…

I wonder if she even really understands what’s going on at Dakota Access Pipeline.

It sounds moreso like a parody title for a kid’s book that a nightmare universe Neoconservative SNL might come up with to make fun of gay parenthood.

You’ve just proved his point.

Which demonstrates that he might be smart. What demonstrates that he’s really pretty smart is that he understands that the mechanics of winning an election revolve around speaking to the voters who occupy the middle chunk of the bell curve in terms of everything from how politicized they are to how smart they are,…

Yep. When you stop and think about it, it’s really sort of amazing that America survived the great persimmon wipeout of 1819.

Yeah, but then, after next Tuesday your icon is either going to be that of a President elect with a wiener on his face, or of a guy who stirred up a bunch of shit to start his own television news network.

Evan McMullin is an open borders amnesty supporter. Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is okay with that. Indeed Evan supports the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage.

The point is that they don’t get punished not because they don’t care about laws. They care deeply about the law. It’s a great shield for doing extremely shitty things and then being able to say“Well, actually” and then sic your horde of lawyers on everyone proving that what you did may have been terrible but was…

Well, as a practical matter, the GOP had little choice in attempting to woo the religious right. At the point of guys like Nixon, they had the choice of either letting disaffected southern white Democrats drift off to form a 3rd party which would fracture their power base or attempting to weld together a platform…

You’re deeply confused about a great many things if you think billionaires don’t spend gigantic boatloads of money on lawyers.

I’m not misreading anything.

Facebook may be able to use it’s TOS to fit a lot of user data analysis in between the lines of “legitimate purpose”. They may or may not be able to fit this in there specifically, but all it would require is an update to their TOS to do it. Also, keep in mind that this information would not be directly related to…

In many ways the explosion of mental illness is directly related to the disintegration of civic society. Part of that is directly related to technology, specifically monetized engineered “social” networks taking the place of traditional social networks and participation in civic commons 

I think the elder Bushes are a perfect example of just how stupid the Republican party is. Not because they are dumb, but because pretty much the only reason he lost in ‘92 was that he struggled to get the Republican base out because of his willingness to compromise in order to get shit done and because he’d done a…

. The thing about nuance is that it’s really easy to sort of crush any possibility of it existing when you say things like:

If that’s shade then literally every simplistic invective ever thrown is shade.

What nuance? This article has none.