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Citizenship in the era of Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/supreme-court-naturalization.html?_r=0In Trump's Justice Department arguments are not just wrong, they're also mean-spirited (and frequently stupid).
Drones, property rights, and airspace
While some on the ground may feel that their “airspace†has been invaded if a drone flies in or near their property, American law does not yet recognize the concept of aerial trespass. In fact, as the consumer drone age has taken flight, legal scholars have wondered about this exact situation. If a drone flies over private property, is it...
College affirmative action
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.htmlLee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus†to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race...
Hedgehog
Police report blames United passenger
http://time.com/4753613/united-dragging-police-reports-dao/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29A perfect example of wehy we need bodycams for cops.
Tesla’s future
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-tesla-short-sellers-20170424-htmlstory.html Lots of reasons to think it may not be that bright, but it’s hard not to love both the vision and the cars themselves. Hope that they make; afraid they won’t.
President Trump interview
https://apnews.com/c810d7de280a47e88848b0ac74690c83All his qualities are on display, so it's mostly disjointed, narcissistic, and full of lies and half-triuths. There's plenty of inappropriate bluster, too. Like everything he does it's a disaster, but he'll tell you it was great.Update: The AP has fact-checked the interview. The results are unsurprising.
Work
https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-workMany workers, in fact, have little sense of the legal scope of their employer’s power. Most would be shocked to discover that they could be fired for being too attractive, declining to attend a political rally favored by their employer, or finding out that their daughter was raped by a friend of...
United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies
A good legal summary of why United Airlines is screwed for throwing some poor shmoe off their airplane using excessive force. Hope it costs them millions. https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-134223391.html
United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies
A good legal summary of why United Airlines is screwed for throwing some poor shmoe off their airplane using excessive force. Hope it costs them millions. https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-134223391.html
Essays
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds
Random bits of news heartily deserving of extreme vitrolic commentary receive same for price of regular vitrol. My egg nog overdose comes early this year. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Y2K glitch in your PC. Dr. K gets his 60 Minutes of fame. At least he still does house calls. Opinion polls show this is a big plus. The most amazing thing about the current impeachment frenzy taking place in the nation's capital are those commentators (including, ahem, Vice President...
VUI: The New Paradigm
I talk. Computer listens. Computer does things. Finally somebody who cares what I have to say! 2001: A Space Odyssey a few years early. The latest in human-computer interaction, featuring the Macintosh. This story got me over 400 hits on the hit counter. Imagine what it was like for Steve Jobs in 1979 when he took his now-famous trip to Xerox' PARC research facility and discovered the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Here was the new paradigm in human-computer interaction...
What a Surprise
You couldn't write a novel that would be any more tawdry than what Bill Clinton has foisted upon America's 6 o'clock news. You wouldn't want to. Recommendation: Call your local HazMat team, this is a presidential chemical spill of epic proportions. President Clinton gave his version of an apology Monday night, finally admitting what the rest of America already knew: That he'd had an affair with a subordinate—an action that were he a business executive would get him fired...
Good Times, Bad Times on the Internet
A mea culpa regarding my computer virus rants over the years. I wasn't really that wrong since the latest represents an innovation in virus technology, but you can listen to me grovel anyway. Includes "bonus rant" on the First Amendment and free speech on the Internet. Good Times Ever since the "Good Times" e-mail virus hoax of a few years back, I've been telling everyone who needs telling that e-mail simply doesn't work that way. Even if somebody sent you a virus in an...