The statutory penalty in the US is on the order of $100,000 per infringement. "Statutory" means that the number is written into the law, and the aggrieved party doesn't have to establish or prove actual losses.
A real wealth tax could be devastatingly effective at reducing wealth disparity. It just takes some patience to let the exponential compounding effect kick in. Way, way less blood and lower potential for counter revolution.
I still believe the genocide Joe stuff was only heard strongly because it was pushed by the professional Russian troll farms. I know there are several real people on this platform that may hold the same opinion. But they're not nearly as loud after election day.
If this is what I think it is, the US called Russia on the hotline and received assurances that no Russians were in the area. So that's the way it must have been. Surely Russia wouldn't lie on the hotline??
GPL licensing on Linux has no effect on these sanctions.
Linux is a piece of software, owned by its individual authors and contributors, but published by Linus. Linus makes every decision about what is and is not in Linux.
Here's how the "sanctions" usually work: the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) publishes a list called the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. This list contains named individuals, businesses, and organizations that are not American (foreigners only. US Citizens are not supposed to be on the list). It is illegal for any US citizen or US business to transact business with anyone named on SDN. There are severe civil and criminal penalties for the US person if they're not doing due diligence to check their international contacts against the list.
Now how does this affect Linux? It doesn't affect Linux the project or any of the code. But it does mean that Linus the person can't accept contributions from SDN persons. Linus's lawyers have advised him that that would be a "business transaction" within the terms of the law.
Could Linus go in court make an argument that this sanctions regime violates his first amendment rights? Maybe. But I guarantee that would be a big hassle for him and Linux Foundation lawyers.
Could Linux the project restructure itself so that Linus the American is not making every decision on every contribution? Yes. But that would be a major change in organization.
And the records on the LKML seem to indicate that Linus and Linux leadership are at least politically indifferent to the sanctions in the first place, and possibly mildly supportive. So I doubt they'll go to any major effort to change things up.
Edit: And finally I want to be clear on this point... Nothing is stopping sanctioned SDN entities from downloading a tarball off of kernel.org and making their own sanctions-busting GPL kernel with blackjack and hookers. That all seems perfectly legal to me.
I'm not aware of anything that specifically prevents OPM from lying to the federal civil service (about the terms of a buyout offer) in an email. Or from making empty threats about "consequences" in ten days or whatever.
As far as I know, the President is legally entitled to control OPM pretty unilaterally. Like OMB.
A lot of hoopla has been made about Musk and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. But I'm not aware of anything that has been definitely illegal so far. (Unless he starts messing with legally mandated payments. BFS is basically just a fancy check printing house. All of the important fiscal decisions are supposed to be made in other government departments, offices, and Congressional appropriations.)
The only things I know about that are probably squarely illegal are the IG firings, and the EOs that are already in litigation. In the case of the IGs, I'm not sure if there any kind of substantial enforcement mechanism.
Agreed. With no suit or any other thermal management tech, it's going to be hard to survive anywhere just on thermal grounds alone.
However, let's say you want to mitigate problems with sunburn and climb to a higher solar orbit. I haven't calculated anything. But my intuition says you're no longer getting enough heat input, and you will end up freeze dried. (The dried part is a vacuum effect we were told to ignore.)
As an earthling, you have evolved over the course of billions of years to deal with sunlight at a distance of one astronomical unit. That's the distance of the earth's orbit. That's probably the most comfortable distance.
The Apollo moon missions used a so-called "barbecue" mode that rotated the capsules at three revolutions per hour. They did this during the 3-4 day coast phases to and from the moon. As far as I know this was able to mostly hold the interior temperatures in the "survivable" range.
Better known for other work.