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6d ago
You can have a situation where the Court splits 4–2–3 or the like on a given case, where the 4 and the 2 may agree on the outcome of a case (and the 3 disagrees), but they do not agree on a reasoning. The case would be resolved as a 6–3 decision as to the outcome, but with no reasoning, as no opinion carried a majority.
When a fragmented Court decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of five Justices, "the holding of the Court may be viewed as that position taken by the Members who concurred in the judgment on the narrowest grounds".
That generally would be the two-justice opinion.
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14d ago
Even courts of law have fun sometimes.
Because Judge Reinhardt was no longer a judge at the time when the en banc decision in this case was filed, the Ninth Circuit erred in counting him as a member of the majority. That practice effectively allowed a deceased judge to exercise the judicial power of the United States after his death. But federal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity.
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8d ago
With the "analysis" part, I'm intentionally excluding Reuters/AP; analysis just isn't what they're trying to do.
Technically, Reuters does have an opinion section, Breakingviews.
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16d ago
The US's nonprofit Uniform Law Commission has developed a Uniform Parentage Act, which many states have adopted in some form. You may want to use it as a starting point.
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12d ago
IIRC, black Aragorn was one of the most egregious instances. I think there have also been some complaints about ugly (overweight) women in the art, but I don't recall any specific examples.
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22d ago
It's so dispiriting the possibility that all the problems in our community: crime, poverty, ignorance, are intransient. How are you supposed to deal with that without becoming utterly nihilistic?
The easy solution is to simply reject the idea of "our community". I happen to be an uppity big-lipped nigger myself. But I do my best to refrain from feeling any sense of community with the "urban youths". Rather, I exist primarily online, as a being with no face and no race. When I am forced to exist in meatspace, I think of myself primarily as a competent and diligent employee, not as a black person.
Individualism!
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27d ago
These files (many, many more are available at this link) always make me extremely angry. Why are people so obsessed with making them images rather than PDFs (or, even better, HTML files)? The 4000×4000 JPEG file linked above is literally four megabytes! Imagine how much smaller it would be if text were actually stored as text.
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19d ago
Arabs are an odd group since they're officially classed as "white" in the US census
They actually got their own category last week.
OMB accepts the recommendation to create a new minimum reporting category for MENA separate and distinct from the White category, and to revise the White category definition accordingly.
Middle Eastern or North African. Individuals with origins in any of the original peoples of the Middle East or North Africa, including, for example, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Israeli.
White. Individuals with origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, including, for example, English, German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Scottish.
Comment from a person who wrote a book on the topic
The most obvious problem is that "Middle East and North African" has never been treated in the United States as a race. Beyond that, while I support the notion of the government collecting more granular data about ethnic groups, the MENA classification will not do so.… Unfortunately, rather than addressing the problem, creating a new MENA classification will create a new arbitrary pseudo-race.
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24d ago
This CSS should work: h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:inherit;}
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17d ago
Google Flights indicates that round-trip prices from Abilene, Lubbock, and El Paso to Newark still are around 300 or 400 dollars.
If I could buy puts for countries, I think puts on Britain would have the most alpha.
Can't you just buy puts on a UK-focused index fund (Vanguard page)?
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24d ago
The point of the comment is that not all immoral sexual acts should be called "rape". I can imagine a framework where the 30-year-old has sex with a "consenting" 9-year-old, and then is prosecuted, not for "statutory rape", but for fraud—because he falsely stated or implied that there was little or no chance that the sex would result in physical harm to the 9-year-old, and the 9-year-old was too ignorant to know otherwise.
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10d ago
You need to escape the underscores. https://twitter.com/_Escapekey_/status/1748317807006118335
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14d ago
Zero to sixty in 18 seconds sounds inadequate for merging onto a highway with posted speed of 65 mi/h. Even the unmodified Mirage can manage an 11-second time.
Also, it's my understanding that obtaining parts for imported cars often is difficult and expensive. That goes double for imported cars that are 25 years old.
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14d ago
(1) Buy an ordinary fuel-efficient hatchback
(2) Have a body shop cut out the back half of the passenger compartment and weld the rest of the car back together
(3) Get a super-fuel-efficient two-seat car
Real-life example (pre-modification fuel-economy comparison)
Would you do it?
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20d ago
I did not find much in the way of documentation
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1mo ago
I think he's referring to the official Dragon Ball Z Kai series.
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21d ago
A search for "Burk ATF video" appears to turn up several relevant results.
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1mo ago
even Mitsubishi discontinued the Mirage
It's only a rumor that Mitsubishi plans to discontinue the Mirage in the US by 2025. Mitsubishi has not actually confirmed the news reports.
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1mo ago
Adjusting for shrinkflation is done in the "quality adjustment" step.
Sources of direct quality adjustment information include observable factors such as size or weight, manufacturers’ cost data, and hedonic regression models.
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26d ago
"the seller's agent" (in theory both parties' agent)
This practice, called "dual agency", is outright illegal in several US states due to the conflict of interest.
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14d ago
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14d ago
There are many very small cars to choose from, without any of the extra hassle and just as fuel-efficient as the end result of that hack-job.
Maybe in Europe, but not really in the US, I think.
And if all you want is to drive around yourself, no passengers and no cargo, then you may as well get a motorcycle or one of those scooter-sized cars that barely have an enclosed cabin.
Those aren't very convenient in winter.
Funny court opinion
Guy seeks to buy a gun
Background check is still pending, but he's allowed to take the gun home anyway
The background check eventually fails, so an ATF agent is dispatched to retrieve the gun
The gun buyer isn't at home, and his wife (with limited command of English) thinks the ATF agent is a robber and calls 911
Two local police officers arrive and tell the ATF agent to put his hands up
The ATF agent's response: "I'm a federal fucking agent!"
The police officers tase and handcuff him, and detain him for twenty minutes before verifying his identity
The ATF agent sues the officers, and the trial judge denies qualified immunity to them
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