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  1. Considering the partisan political environment, they were monumental. And they're good for the country, broadly speaking. But, they're not going to deliver anything to the electorate in the short term. They'll be a distant memory by the time anything trickles down to the dumbshits.
  2. As observed by PJ ORourke 33 years ago.
  3. Thing is, what have Republicans ever delivered? Neither party has delivered effective or efficient government, or real help for the little guys. But the realistic Republican record is far worse. The truth is is that it begins and ends with messaging.
  4. I like the guy, or what I know of him, but that tux is just too damn small, and, it's made of velvet. That shit ain't right.
  5. True, re: Owens, but there is a California aqueduct, of more modern vintage than the LA Aqueduct, that connects NorCal water to SoCal. And, there might be a diplomatic problem if we really started suctioning water out of Canada. He's a fucking moron any way you slice it.
  6. See what happens when you get rid of civil servants in the DOJ? They should have used past tense in reference to the American Indians, but I think a more important aspect of that is that at the time of the 14th Amendment, Indian tribes were not subject to the jurisdiction of US courts or laws.
  7. Based on? Your birth certificate. And, again, place of birth becomes irrelevant under this analysis. Even us whiteys that get the papiere, bitte, are fucked like chuck if push comes to shove.
  8. Jesu Christo, dovetail this with current thinking on slavery.
  9. If we don't accept that a birth certificate showing birth in the US as proof of citizenship. hardly anyone except recently naturalized citizens has any proof of citizenship. Of course, for those of us with light enough complexions and speaking sufficiently 'murican English, that won't be a problem.
  10. Yes, and a birth certificate showing you were born in the US is a key component of that for those of us "natural born citizens." That document is no longer relevant under this rule and your Real ID ain't so real anymore. This is going to be colossally expensive, if nothing else.
  11. I suspect that to be true as well. However, it would seem to be readily achievable to train a system on just US patent documents and along with the existing classification system and bibliographic information achieve a pretty useful database and query system. It seems, though, that the current AI offerings more deal with finding related patents and families of patents and collating their prior art references than with actually locating a given piece of relevant prior art. An example of the lexicographer problem: We have a ton of Asian-originated US patents, which means they're translated from a pictographic language, which never goes well. I was reviewing a Chinese-originated patent that used the term "swallowtail" when referring to a "dovetail" structure. A translation issue that is an excellent example of the wild variation in language of patent specifications describing the same or similar structures. One major difference between the US and European Patent offices is that EPO divides responsibility for searching and examination, while US examiners do both. There's not much overlap in those skill sets. Under time pressure, examiners generate a fair amount of gibberish without AI and poor searches doesn't help that much. The worry at this point would be that pushing through the gibberish to get to the meat of the matter would extend patent pendency.
  12. Well, while he has oversimplified, Los Angeles has been pumping water from the Central Valley since the early 1900s. Check out William Mulholland. Central Valley farmers have been bitching about it for decades, which maybe indicates it's not so easy to get it from parts north. Regardless, there's no unlimited water anywhere. The most distressing thing about all of this is that Trump wants do disregard endangered species here and in many drilling situations. Also, the federal government has or should have almost no control over California's water, or any other state's. The hook here is preserving endangered species and their habitat. One argument you could make there is that we're all endangered species considering what we're doing to our own habitat. But that's not something they believe in.
  13. I can point out times when the US was among the least fucked-up places and wasn't leading the charge to a fucked-up place.
  14. Patent searching is where any benefit will be seen. The PTO has its own search databases and there are AI-driven search tools in the private sector. I'm not really sure how good or useful they are. They are quite expensive. Once AI searching has become more mainstream and proven, they'll probably adopt it for their search tools. I'm sure the PTO is concerned with examiners using "open AI" to formulate rejections and other patent legal correspondence. And that runs a huge risk of generating gibberish and the equivalent of seven-fingered humans and would be a disaster. And security of using commercial or free AI is a big concern. The difficulty with patents is that a "patentee can be his own lexicographer." The text descriptions of the same or similar structures or features varies tremendously across the spectrum. One of the best tools a patent examiner has is the ability to scan drawings once a search result is obtained/narrowed by text-based searching. I'm not sure how well adapted AI is to that.
  15. Another reminder that the adults are in charge.
  16. Another thing, the prospective nature (30 days from the date of the EO) of this is not going to fly on a constitutional interpretation thing. It either means what it currently means, or what they say it means. So it will be fully retroactive.
  17. Well, at least in theory, tariffs can drive manufacturing "back home" by making domestic goods price-competitive. And some industries, like metals and semiconductors, raise national security issues. Of course, doing that involves using carefully targeted tariffs. Like those against Chinese EVs.
  18. No idea what the law requires here in your jurisdiction, or what local practices are, but I suspect that he'll get a "shock" relatively short incarceration, followed by community supervision requiring a sober living for a more extended period.
  19. Before I bought my first/only Japanese car, I asked my Dad, a veteran of the PTO, whether that bothered him or not. I knew the answer would be "no," because he worked with people at Sony and developed the highest respect for Japanese. And he wasn't the type to personalize that sort of thing in the first place. Nevertheless, it was a Honda/Acura, and I checked to make sure they had no connection to wartime Japanese zaibatsu. Mitsubishi is obvious. Subaru was Nakajima. Nissan was extant during the war, but was not heavily involved in arms manufacturing. Toyota manufactured trucks during the war, but not much else. Mazda's predecessors built rifles.
  20. A whole bunch of disengaged people and their disengagement very likely includes religion, as well as the specific things you mention. And they're not narcissists either, just big dummies that woke up one day this fall and said life sucks because my job sucks and prices are too high. And Trump, as is his wont, managed to gather their attention just long enough to get them to vote. Further, I might retract my statement that christofascists are the but-for cause of Trump. Trump came out of nowhere in particular theo-philosophically and politically. He opportunistically aligned with Republicans. Only after he won power and complete obeisance from the GOP did the christofascists begin to work behind the scenes to further their agenda.
  21. The dignity paraphrase is plagiarized from you. And, yeah, @Pokoloco, I'm afraid this is where you are "at." Perhaps look at it this way: he has a deadly disease that will put him in an early grave if not stopped. Prison sentences pale in comparison to that, and, self-inflicted ass-kickings are the surest way to drive him to long term sobriety.
  22. Ant expresses an opinion. To use a possibly disgusting cliche, most of the posters here are "free white and 21" (and thus validly exercise free choice in your preferred world) and free to take or leave Ant's opinion, and yours, for that matter.
  23. Well, the concept of territorial jurisdiction is broad: you do crimes or civil wrongs here, you are subject to our laws governing them. Pretty much everyone located here satisfies that test. Diplomats are immune from our laws, both civil and criminal, and thus outside our jurisdiction in pretty much every conceivable way. And the history indicates that this guy's kids would not be citizens if born here.
  24. What he means is that if "subject to the jurisdiction [of the United States]" means what proponents of the EO say it means, then we can't validly prosecute aliens, or unlawful residents. But I'm not sure that's really right. There's "territorial jurisdiction," meaning subject to/must obey civil and criminal laws while residing or domiciled here, and "diplomatic jurisdiction," which means something like has allegiance or potential allegiance to another country. One thing is abundantly clear from the legislative history and that is Indians and foreign diplomats were excluded or intended to be, from its ambit. Indians because they were and remain subject to different laws, and diplomats because they are immune from the aforementioned civil and criminal laws.
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