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Rygar201 posted:Seriously Congress won't allow gitmo to close and Republican appointed judges made this ruling. At the end of the day Congress doesn't have the power to prevent the President from ordering movement of the troops (and the prisoners under their control). He is the Commander in Chief and has ultimate control over the military, Congress being able to take underhanded control of the military by micromanaging funding and cutting off funding for individual troop orders that they disagree with pretty much undermines the whole "commander in chief" bit. Can you imagine how that would go in an actual war? Republicans demand that Fire Base Charlie remain manned and cut off funding for allowing troops to retreat from that position? Much like the War Powers Resolution (actually, the exact same thing as the WPR), it is probably an unconstitutional approach, but there's little impetus for anyone involved to test it. Congress is happy to pretend they have a power and score some political points, and it's not a battle Obama is willing to have for the sake of a few dirty foreigners with no real power or leverage. The Supreme Court would punt on the matter as a political question, so nothing would be resolved anyway. Of course unwillingness to intervene for the weak and powerless on key matters like habeas corpus is a black mark on an administration, but it's also par for the course in politics. Similarly the FCC is an agency under Executive control and does have a fair amount of latitude in how they interpret the law (which services fall into which regulation category, etc). The rulings against net neutrality aren't under Obama's control, but how the agency responds to them absolutely is, and the FCC just knuckled under. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Kalman posted:Is it corruption when an IRS lawyer goes to a firm to practice tax law and gets their pay tripled? If they handled cases in which that firm was involved, then yes. I mean, if these were two law firms we were talking about here, a lawyer striking a sweetheart deal for the other guy and then retiring and immediately joining the opposing firm would be pretty unseemly. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 02:40 on May 5, 2014 |
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quote:The ongoing battle between Netflix and ISPs that can't seem to handle the streaming video service's traffic boiled over to an infuriating level for Colin Nederkoon, a startup CEO who resides in New York City. Rather than accept excuses and finger pointing from either side, Nederkoon did a little investigating into why he was receiving such slow Netflix streams on his Verizon FiOS connection, and what he discovered is that there appears to be a clear culprit. Verizon will probably claim that it's QoS shaping or something, but that raises the question of whether other streaming services are also getting throttled or whether this shaping is unique to Netflix. The shenanigans appear to have begun, though.
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