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  1. For all the bluster, India is NOT going to do away with the Indus Waters Treaty. That would all but gaurantee a full on hot war with nuclear threat-- Russia and the US won't let it get that far. China might keep prodding Pakistan up that escalation ladder, but I'm not worried about it (I know I know, famous last words). Estimates are that the Indus water irrigates like 80%+ of Pakistan's crops and secondly reports are that India doesn't even have the technical abilities to divert the waters anyways (yet).
  2. Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain The agreement is the first since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners. Trump said the deal would remake the global trading system, even as he added that its details were still being finalized. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/us/trump-uk-trade-news
  3. But then again, Trump is a moron, so he might actually do something wildly illogical by somehow backing Pakistan (e.g. giving some concililatory or complimentary language like "Shariff is a great guy, Pakistan and I are friends") and condemning India and being in direct conflict to his aims in other areas and completely mixing signals. I guess.
  4. The US would NEVER back Pakistan or condem India. Where are you getting that from? Pakistan is backed hard by China. We are anti-China very adamently when it can be done via proxy and shadow like in this case. If anything we are tying up closer to Russia through all this because India's arms are heavily supplied and financed by Russia. IMO
  5. Yea how? I need to see some legal eagles to provide a technical analysis of the case to explain how this happened.
  6. So catching up on this thread. Looks like you got in trouble by the teacher. Haha. Better shape up!
  7. Ha. Meant $50 [more]/month!
  8. Also, TIL that there are some folks who didn't know that India + Pakistan + Bangladesh used to be one country less than 75 years ago.
  9. I didn't know "Paki" was a slur. TIL. To the guy who didn't believe India jets were shot down. Pakistan now says it’s downed five Indian jets (Delhi reportedly cedes at least three have “crashed”), and the two are now trading artillery along Kashmir. So that's fun, with nuclear foes starting to skirmish. Pushes can become shoves and shoves can become punches and punches can become an all-out brawl. That's the concern, not that there is a little dust up right now.
  10. In 2019, The New York Times estimated that as many as 75 percent of Catholics priests may be gay ‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/us/it-is-not-a-closet-it-is-a-cage-gay-catholic-priests-speak-out.html
  11. Groceries are $50/a month. Priorities?
  12. I went for spring break once when a friend went to ASU. It was college and it was spring break— hard to screw it up. Not sure how much fun it would be as an old, but report back and let us know. Also does anyone remember the horn fans poster who died at Rocky point on spring break in like 2001?
  13. That combined with an article I read that estimated 75% of the bishops are gay….
  14. India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir The Indian government said its forces had struck nine sites in Pakistan and on Pakistan’s side of the disputed Kashmir region. Pakistani military officials said that five places had been hit, in Punjab Province and its part of Kashmir, and that the strikes “will not go unanswered.”
  15. Bad news for Pope Pizzaballa, as the old adage goes, "You go into the conclave a pope and come out a bishop".
  16. Oh I thought her husband literally died. I think I get it now.
  17. Pierbattista Pizzaballa: relatively young at 60, he was always destined for buzz with a name like that. Say it out loud, and you’ll be transported back to that time you fell in love while strolling Cinque Terre. Fluent in Hebrew (though not Arabic), he’s Patriarch of Jerusalem and has focused on interfaith dialogue, the plight of Christians, and de-escalation (he offered to swap himself for the Hamas hostages ^^ This guy has my vote (wait, it doesn't work like that?)
  18. If you don’t mind going with some polka bums [uWu]
  19. Enshettification thread is that way —>
  20. And speaking of Andre3000 lol
  21. I pictured a Japanese woman.
  22. Apple’s intellectual property evaluation appears to have been a sham; that doesn’t mean that its intellectual property isn’t valuable, and that Judge Gonzales Rogers isn’t taking it (takings clause, below)(...Apple should have put forward an honest evaluation of its intellectual property value and used that to build a new commission number, instead of backing into a number that justified 27% which everyone agrees is the contempt and willful disregard of a judge's order (and there is a paper trail for that and perjury I believe). At the same time, most suspect it will fall to the Appeals Court — and perhaps the Supreme Court — to decide if a federal judge, using a state law, can compel permanent commercial access to proprietary infrastructure — backed by intellectual property — without paying for it, simply because the company acted duplicitously. Apple’s rate may be anticompetitive; it may also be the case that setting it to zero is equally illegal. And that is the crux of the argument and where many think the Judge overrotated on her ruling because she was irate about being disrespected. Links abound around the fact there are a number of pertinent Supreme Court precedents that have bearing on this argument: The controlling precedent for the Takings Clause is Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City; this, in contrast to the bright line precedent of Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, considers cases where the taking is only partial, not total. In this case, Apple still owns its IP, and can still monetize it through things like the developer fee, in-app purchases, etc.; however, Apple will argue that (1) the economic impact, (2) interference with investment-backed expectations, and (3) character of the government action will render this partial taking of the right to monetize IP used for web-based transactions illegal. Horne v. Department of Agriculture Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. held that forced disclosure of trade secrets (in this case, for regulatory approval) is a taking; this makes clear that the takings clause applies to something that is intangible and proprietary like intellectual property. Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid held that compelled access — even if it doesn’t result in compelled divesture — constitutes taking. In this case, just because Apple’s intellectual property is non-rivalrous doesn’t mean the company isn’t harmed by being forced to grant access to it. And this of course is all based on the "Takings Clause" of the 5th ammendment:
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