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Zipperelli. posted:Schadenfreude for people in Texas who spent tons of money on hurricane prep: Harvey has been downgraded to Cat 1, and is expected to be downgraded again here soon. that'll show them for trying to feed their families
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JackMann posted:It's actually kind of murky whether or not he can pardon himself. There's nothing that explicitly says he can't, and legal experts have been debating it for years and years. It's possible that a president could indeed pardon himself for federal crimes. It would almost certainly be political suicide, though. He'd get impeached in a second, and the president cannot pardon in cases of impeachment. This is why Nixon resigned and had Ford pardon himself rather than testing it.
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Zipperelli. posted:Schadenfreude for people in Texas who spent tons of money on hurricane prep: Harvey has been downgraded to Cat 1, and is expected to be downgraded again here soon. First they take the jobs, then they take the weather.. wake up sheeple! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpA2RPIwfc  e: far better video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqijHC2O6f8 Slugnoid has a new favorite as of 13:36 on Aug 26, 2017 |
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Zipperelli. posted:Schadenfreude for people in Texas who spent tons of money on hurricane prep: Harvey has been downgraded to Cat 1, and is expected to be downgraded again here soon. Yes, just like it's safe to go outside when it's still storming but there's no more tornadoes!  Seriously, what is wrong with you.
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Sunswipe posted:Sounds like Star Citizen: The Webcomic. Nah, the main rewards (print books of the webcomic) went out within 6-8 months, he just royally hosed himself on stretch goals (original PDF stories, crayon drawings of your D&D party, your D&D character cameoing in the comic, 4 pdfs of monster minis, etc).
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sunken fleet posted:A few pages back but is this actually plagiarism? Like it doesn't look like it was traced or anything does it? Just similar poses. I don't know anything about art or copyright but those two pictures don't really look the same to me. There's a distinction between copyright violation and *plagiarism*, the two aren't the same. Plagiarism is about attribution, copyright violation is about permission. This is pretty clearly both. If you're writing an academic paper, and you lift quotes from a source and put them in your work without attribution, that's plagiarism. But it's also plagiarism if you don't directly quote from the source but instead paraphrase it. Even if you rework the quote into your own words, you still need to footnote or cite the original source. Plagiarism is passing someone else's work off as your own, and that's definitely the case here. Plagiarism isn't a crime, it's an ethical violation, and plagiarism can occur even when copyright isn't violated. Copyright doesn't just protect "the same," exact reproductions. This is what fanfiction runs aground on: if you write a new Star Wars story in the Star Wars universe, you are creating a derivative work and violating Disney's copyright even if you use not a single character from existing works. Your work is based on their copyrighted material, and you need their permission to do that. When Zeppelin settled out of court over "Dazed and Confused," it's because they were guilty of violating Jake Holmes's copyright, even though Zeppelin's version wasn't the same as Holmes's (Granted, it was bullshit that he waited until 2010 to bring suit, and don't even get me started on the Blurred Lines verdict). It's not just similar poses. Also, there's another Del-Mace variant of this one that really clinches it for me, because the stool she's sitting on is basically a composite of the stools in both Del-Mace works. Hell, some of the knives are even in the exact same positions *and angles*.    This is every bit as flagrant as Buckley's "gamer girl," but something that's supposed to end up on the NYT bestseller list is going to get way more visibility than some lovely webcomic.
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Beastie posted:I've been telling all my friends for years that John Ringo's Ghost series is the most insane thing in the world. Tom Clancy meets 50 Shades plus a pretty obvious self-insert. that thread
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Zipperelli. posted:Schadenfreude for people in Texas who spent tons of money on hurricane prep: Harvey has been downgraded to Cat 1, and is expected to be downgraded again here soon. It's still storming and still dumping feet of water. It's flooding in Texas you massive idiot
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EoRaptor posted:No consequences for white men. Nice.
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Grey Fox posted:Yep, that's true, and that just brings us to a whole other issue: 5th amendment protections. If a person has been pardoned for a crime, can his/her testimony be compelled (to convict/implicate others) since there would be no self-incrimination anymore? Correct! Specifically, it's been ruled that if you cannot be punished for your involvement in a crime because you've been granted immunity or a pardon (or were found innocent at trial), you must truthfully testify in any other criminal trials, on pain of obstruction of justice charges.
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Regalingualius posted:Correct! Specifically, it's been ruled that if you cannot be punished for your involvement in a crime because you've been granted immunity or a pardon (or were found innocent at trial), you must truthfully testify in any other criminal trials, on pain of obstruction of justice charges. It's not that simple. For example, the Presidential pardon power only extends to Federal crimes, not state crimes. In a situation where you've been pardoned for a Federal crime, you're still susceptible to prosecution for a state crime, and your testimony could incriminate you at that level, and you can't be compelled to testify in such a case. Works the other way, too: if a governor pardons you for a state crime you don't have to give testimony if that could incriminate you at a Federal level. Likewise, if your testimony could incriminate you in crimes you weren't pardoned for. Also, you can refuse a pardon to preserve your 5th amendment rights.
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Phanatic posted:It's not that simple. For example, the Presidential pardon power only extends to Federal crimes, not state crimes. In a situation where you've been pardoned for a Federal crime, you're still susceptible to prosecution for a state crime, and your testimony could incriminate you at that level, and you can't be compelled to testify in such a case. Works the other way, too: if a governor pardons you for a state crime you don't have to give testimony if that could incriminate you at a Federal level. Likewise, if your testimony could incriminate you in crimes you weren't pardoned for. So long story short, this pardon was incredibly poorly-timed, and means that since Arpaio accepted it he could be on the hook for other state-based charges going forward since he, thanks to Trump, just admitted that he was guilty of contempt charges based on the federal charges. If I'm right, that's some pretty good schaden. Ol' Sheriff Joe must be counting on him not lasting long enough to face those charges if he's going this far just to skip out on six-months in jail or the like.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:So long story short, this pardon was incredibly poorly-timed, and means that since Arpaio accepted it he could be on the hook for other state-based charges going forward since he, thanks to Trump, just admitted that he was guilty of contempt charges based on the federal charges. The state of AZ will be much kinder than the feds were.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:So long story short, this pardon was incredibly poorly-timed, and means that since Arpaio accepted it he could be on the hook for other state-based charges going forward since he, thanks to Trump, just admitted that he was guilty of contempt charges based on the federal charges. Nothing is going to happen to Arpaio. He was found guilty of contempt, he was pardoned for contempt, that is it. It is done. I'd have been happy for the corrupt bastard to die in prison, but the convolutions required to think he will face any criminal penalty at this point are beyond me. Interesting legal claim in this one: https://apnews.com/ff086209762b48389bf77a82e4235795/Priest-kept-child-porn-as-'revenge'-on-God-for-poker-losses quote:HONESDALE, Pa. (AP) — A New Jersey priest says he was trying to get revenge on God for poker losses when he collected computerized child pornography at his weekend home in Pennsylvania, according to his attorney and court records.
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Phanatic posted:Interesting legal claim in this one: That'll show Him.
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kazil posted:It's flooding in Texas Are all the telephone lines down? I'm trying to call my baby, and Lord I can't get a single sound...
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TKIY posted:Are all the telephone lines down? I'm trying to call my baby, and Lord I can't get a single sound... gently caress you, I was gonna make that joke.
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ekuNNN posted:
Though, in the end, there were still dog turds on the beach, just not talking ones.
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quote:Organizers were likely nervous in light of a similar demonstration in Boston, during which only a few hundred racists attended compared to thousands of counter protesters. San Francisco protesters were planning to organize counter protests, steal parking spaces, and even litter the rally’s route with dog poop.
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ekuNNN posted:Isn't stormfront also on Cloudflare? I wonder why they didn't take them down too, only the DailyStormer? Quoting myself to share some good news: White supremacist forum site Stormfront seized by domain hosts
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gently caress, I hate it when Nazis and corrupt cops get away with their poo poo. So, have a tweet about a supposed white supremacist getting his shoulder/neck snapped in a German suplex. This is pretty brutal. Edit: I'm a clod, this is thanks to Zyla from the Trump Thread. https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/901525565512925184
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Slime posted:don't need to have the rights to have an abortion if you only take it up the rear end, she's just playing by daddy's rules Up the bum, no babies
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:gently caress, I hate it when Nazis and corrupt cops get away with their poo poo. That's not a good sound.
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He went looking for a fight and got one, just not with the ending he'd have liked. gently caress him either way.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:He went looking for a fight and got one, just not with the ending he'd have liked. gently caress him either way.
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Strudel Man posted:How do you even know that? Man you white people are fragile, is it so inconceivable to you that an old racist piece of poo poo might pick a fight he thinks he's going to win?
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ekuNNN posted:Quoting myself to share some good news: You may now point and laugh with proper context.
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Glazier posted:Man you white people are fragile, is it so inconceivable to you that an old racist piece of poo poo might pick a fight he thinks he's going to win?
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Strudel Man posted:Charming. But not incorrect
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Glazier posted:Man you white people are fragile, is it so inconceivable to you that an old racist piece of poo poo might pick a fight he thinks he's going to win? nice racism
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Randaconda posted:nice racism Can be racist against white people, sorry.
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