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I frequently go hunting with my Glock.

The story I'm hearing elsewhere is he pulled the alarm to delay the vote, as Republicans are violating their "72 hours to read the bill" rule they agreed to at the start of this Congressional term.

While I don't condone the actions, the result was a delay, long enough for representatives to read a bill they are voting on, which is something that should always be allowed.

Birth certifications and death certifications aren't universal. There's plenty of cases where someone doesn't have a birth certificate, or a death certificate is issued in error, while the individual is still eligible to vote.

And, as a general thought experiment: How many people live in the same state, much less voting precinct, when they turn 18 that they did when they were born? How do you track that?

In light of the fact that the US has no national ID, and the Constitutional ban on poll taxes, combined with the requirement individual states run their own elections, registration is the best option there is.

We need a way to ensure people are eligible to vote, and a way to ensure people only vote once. A big list of "people who can vote" is the answer.

That said: getting on the list should be easy. Removing someone from the list should be hard.

The "label" in question, from the article:

Yelp said it currently applies the following label to crisis pregnancy center listings: “This is a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Crisis Pregnancy Centers do not offer abortions or referrals to abortion providers.”

Paxton is mad that their preachy religious bullshit centers masquerading as abortion clinics are being called out for what they are.

But more importantly, this isn't about winning. It's about election-time performance art. Paxton wants to show voters he's still totally against abortion and please re-elect him.

In this case, the bank is just saying, "You're no longer our customer," and sending him a cashier's check for the balance / value of his accounts.

In other cases, where the authorities have seized the accounts, the assets are frozen. The bank will turn it over to the authorities (federal, state, whatever) where the monies will generally be kept in an interest-bearing account that keeps track with inflation or similar but otherwise remain inaccessible to the original owner until the legal matters are resolved.

The only time, setting aside simple banking errors, the Bank would keep it is if the Bank is owed money anyway. LIke say, Jones had a huge set of outstanding loans he'd refused to pay. The Bank would simply take funds from the deposit acocunts and use them to pay down the loan(s).

I was going to say, will I ever be able to buy one?

You're right, but the Org is also almost certainly a huge part of how he launders campaign money to pay off his ... Russian bankers.

Confirmed by the Senate. Republicans have been holding up the confirmation for quite some time. Biden nominated Anna Gomez in March of this year (link) and she was only confirmed by the Senate in early September.

Mirab, with sails unfurled.

All cool, but not what the FCC can do.

To pass laws, look to Congress. Remember to vote for the candidates you think will help accomplish those sorts of things.

Even in the US, the GDPR means companies have to at least pretend to care about data privacy,

A company I worked for a few years ago quite literally "noped" out of GDPR compliance by spinning off all its overseas business into a new company and walking away from the market entirely. That was a pretty big sign for me that the company was a piece of shit and when I started looking for a new job.

It starts with "F" and ends with "eeding national secrets to Russia."

For someone who isn't an expert and doesn't care, you sure seem to know something the rest of us don't, and are real invested in making sure we know.

Feel free to prove me wrong.

Dude is like grandma with 30 toolbars in Internet Explorer and mad at Compaq for making the Internet hard to see.

It's worth remembering that the WGA negotiation team is in a self-imposed media blackout during negotiations. Anything we hear is from the studios.

Look, there's one now!

Too soon.

They are saying, in no uncertain terms, that certain behavior is not allowed.

For when he does it anyway. So they Court can just skip the "I didn't knowwwww!" defense and punish him.