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What cases did the Supreme Court get wrong?
It's no secret that potential appointment of new Suprme Court justices were a major factor in the U.S.'s election of Donald Trump. So it might be worth pointing out that the current Surpme Court has failed to do what conservatives hoped and did exactly what liberals feared. The Supreme Court has not instituited a blanket ban on all racial and sexual discrimination, as conservatives and independents hoped, and instead relaxed restrictions on restricting abortion, which liberals feared. (https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-compromise-on-indiana-abortion-law-keeps-issue-off-its-docket/2019/05/28/18636792-814b-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html)
Gorsuch has shown himself to be willing to hand Apple a victory over obtuse procedural issues, but fortunately was voted down. Unexpectedly, Kavanuagh was the voice of reason here on the conservative side of the Court. (https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-against-apple-allowing-lawsuit-targeting-app-store-proceed/)
Still, while the Supreme Court has shown some improvement on the First Amendment in some areas, it has crushed the rights in others. For example, ruling that police are above the law when it comes to first amendment retaliation claims. (https://www.jurist.org/news/2019/05/supreme-court-rules-for-police-officers-in-first-amendment-retaliation-claim/)
Since Gorsuch took office, as well as Kavanaugh, what cases did the Suprme Court get wrong, and why? Comment below.
PS: Feel free to talk about cases besides the ones mentioned, as long as they are post-trump.
Trump is a yellow bellied coward, and nobody cares
Majority rule will not save us. There is not even the slightest hint of any change in support for these people. They'll all be reelected and able to collect their raise. This is a real pathology, an illness, a disease. Our evolutionary path is not leading to good fortune, but more like eternal conflict. Truly natural, but not human as they see themselves. From the aliens' off planet point of view, we are just ants and aphids that are wrecking the garden.
An Indecent Proposal
Congress will give themselves a raise, in the usual behind our back manner. It is agreed that the democrats will take the fall for bringing it up at this rather awkward time. Awkward to us, not them. Finely tuning the revulsion/attraction ratio is an artform of its own.
More Biden Bashing
Want to defeat Trump? Attack Biden
Anyone angling to be the Democratic nominee should espouse a real progressive agenda – just being “anti-Trump” isn’t enough
Biden campaign's self-inflicted error is one it can't really afford
It’s political malpractice for any modern campaign to lift words, intentionally or not, for its policy plans or website.
That’s especially true if you’re the early Democratic frontrunner. And even more true if your 1988 presidential campaign ended in a plagiarism scandal.
But that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, when Joe Biden’s campaign rolled out its climate plan — and admitted it forgot to give proper attribution.
“Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document,” the Biden campaign told NBC’s Garrett Haake.
Biden campaign confirms he supports controversial abortion rule (Hyde Amendment)
Planned Parenthood slammed Biden’s continued support for the Hyde Amendment in a statement to NBC. “The unfair Hyde Amendment makes it so that those who have the least end up having to pay the most to access abortion, and those who are service members or live on reservations are often left with no coverage for abortion care,” Kelly Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's executive director, said. “We encourage any candidate who doesn't recognize Hyde's impact to speak to the women it hurts most — particularly on women of color and women with low incomes — to learn more about the harmful impacts of this discriminatory policy," Robinson said.
[...] Biden voted against a 1977 compromise that allowed Medicaid to fund abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or medical safety of the mother. He then voted again in 1981 to remove rape and incest exceptions when they passed.
The ex-lawmaker also voted several times to prohibit federal workers from using health insurance on abortion services, with the only exception being to save the life of the mother.
I doubt that any of the current mudslinging at Biden is going to have an effect. Instead, it will take a few heated exchanges at one of the primary debates to cause a reversal. The first ones are scheduled for June 26th and 27th.
Previously: Joe Biden's #MeToo Adventure Continues
Joe Biden Parody Website Outranks Campaign Site
Colossus Telescope
http://the-colossus.com/sciencegoals.html
http://the-colossus.com/technology.html
I was trying to recall this telescope concept but it was very difficult to find as it gets drowned out by other ELTs. It is linked from the very bottom of this page. Go ahead and bookmark it.
This is another overlooked project: the Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometer (MROI). Except it is actually being built:
Telescope array will spy on spy satellites, star surfaces, and black holes
When it's complete around 2025, the $200 million Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI) will have the equivalent resolution of a gigantic telescope 347 meters across.
MROI's small telescopes can't match the light-gathering power of its giant cousins, so it will be limited to bright targets. But by combining light from the spread-out telescopes, it is expected to make out small structures on stellar surfaces, image dust around newborn stars, and peer at supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxies. It will even be able to make out details as small as a centimeter across on satellites in geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 kilometers above Earth, enabling it to spy on spy satellites.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope full operations begin in 2022. Extremely Large Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope will have first light in 2024. JWST scheduled for launch in 2021 or later. So astronomers will be shook in 7 years' time. It's the dark ages until then.
LSST will look for minimoons (temporarily-captured orbiters)
Earth's Minimoons: Opportunities for Science and Technology
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Don't expect any LSST results before 2022.
For those that prefer illegal links
Definitions are important.
Nonetheless; A bit for the other side of the brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lhMAOxLxw
I always hear "Money for Nothing" in the background watching this scene.
In particularly "the little faggot with the earrings and the makeup"
Yeah buddy, that faggot was my role model.
Movie scenes are rarely, if ever, perfect. If you can reply to this with a good cogent criticism of the fight choreography please do.
I spotted a few myself, but relatively minor, I consider it better than most films that came after it to say the least.
Why was Guthrie doomed in this fight? I can put it in a few words, a sentence fairly well, a few paragraphs with reasonable thoroughness surely; can you?
Music is notes in time.
What is it about music that captures the human heart?
Definitions are important.
Music is notes in time. Without notes, or without time, there is no music. Am I wrong?
I think I am right. And I think this is why this form of art is so powerful to us. Because...
Definitions are important.
Humans are naked apes who specialize in time-binding. From our most natural to our most artificial environments, this is one constant key to our success - and sometimes our fatal weakness. We do not exist only in the here and now. We remember deeply. We dream of the future. We remember the words of generations long ago turned to dust, and we dream of generations yet to come. Because of this, we could predict, and plan, and harvest nutrition our cousins could not. We expanded into climate change, as they shrank before it.
Anyway music is all about time-binding. Notes in time. You plot time on one dimension, and then you plot something else, usually pitch, or some approximation of pitch, on another axis, and you have music. You have a platform on which to imitate every distinctly human activity.
It's NOT "the universal language." It's not a language.
But it does share some pretty basic characteristics with every language.
Real abstraction is a hallmark of language, and music doesn't quite pull that off without language to supplement it. But our ears are (as befits a species with thin skin, little strength, no claws, and a poor sense of smell) actually very sophisticated, and we can appreciate a great deal of variation musically.
Harmonic scales, diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, a set of drums that don't really have any specific root pitch (but are nonetheless quite distinct to the ear) - all of those things are notes. But if you really want to push the definition of music to the limit, you play a single note for the whole track. Good luck with that. If you want to go one step further and prove I'm REALLY wrong? Play no notes.
Yeah, John Cage got me. Or I'm calling him out (well, sort of, if he were still alive and I ran into him I wouldn't 'call him out' I'd try to buy him a drink, but whatever.)
I think he was deliberately pushing things past the edge to show us where the edge is. Notes and time. That's where the edge is.
And time? Even that can be played with. For the most part, it's a convention so that multiple musicians can play together and not fall apart. If you're playing alone, or if your group is well rehearsed/tight knit, you can speed up and slow down at will.
But here's the important part. You, as a group or a solo performer, you project notes in time. You can bend your notes and you can bend your time - and the audience experiences that as a ride along with you.
Music is not a language, but it can be used to enhance and to *comment upon* language.
That last part is where it truly becomes transformative. Where the language says 'x' and the music says 'probably not x.'
Thoughts?
Democrats wanna win?
If they are serious, they will watch and learn from the mayor of Chicago. She is very presidential, exactly what they need.
And notice how pleased the reporter is, a bit of an editorial itself, and the chamber itself applauded her performance.
80 to 90 millions dollars, for what you may ask?
Heh, get this! It's for a super PAC devoted to a grassroots(!) democratic turnout...
In propaganda, the Russians are posers!
