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  • If you want to speak to morality, then why are you approaching this as guilty until proven innocent?

    It's one thing if there's a regular pattern of charges and accusations coming and getting dropped (eg Cosby, Weinstein). But this is not that?

  • And the model I saw proposed would grant them senior status and thus maintain pay as if they were actively sitting.

    Paying them to do nothing post term is a very very cheap solution to protect democracy.

    The problem is (even currently) they want more money than is being paid directly by the federal govt.

  • I think the trick with the term limits is the way this also has teeth. My understanding of one way the term limits thing could work is by moving justices to a senior status... Still technically appointed (and for life) but just not in the starting lineup.

    I would guess that if the above method is the approach, a binding ethics code could have as punishment moving a justice to senior status, effectively benching them.

  • As I understood how this would work is the next appointment will be "term limited". After 18 years they would assume senior justice status. This will do two things. First, allow for someone new to be appointed. Second, ensure they don't run afoul of the lifetime appointment status.

    Under the senior status, the most recent to leave the court can step in again as a sub after a death pending installation of a new "starter".

    So in one way yes, there will be many more justices... But there will be a starting 9, and more in a pseudo retirement. This will be a long road to get there, as they need to wait for the first vacancy, and then the next, etc.

  • For this context with Amazon though, prime is totally different in the EU than the US.

    There are few countries with Amazon (eg Germany) and thus for most the benefit is that prime only gets free shipping on smaller orders that wouldn't qualify normally, and faster processing in the warehouse. Maybe you get your shit a day or two earlier.

    In the US it's next day vs a week.

    Point being there are far fewer prime accounts in EU so Amazon likely doesn't care if they can't discount as "deeply" as in the US.

  • And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.

    I've long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.

    Windows ME, however....

  • I think the answer is closer to treating them similarly to automatic weapons. They are not banned completely, they are simply regulated with strict access controls.

    We don't have school shootings with automatic weapons, do we? (Note the Vegas bump stock skirted this ban specifically)

  • They don't. They have a shoot first, ask questions later mandate. There was retired USSS basically saying they're given the discretion.

    Nobody would be screaming for an agents head if they offed someone with a gun (bb gun or not) setting up on a roof with siteline to a president at a campaign event.