You're clearly not wrong, though you did jump over this phrase: "Sometimes the word is more or less synonymous with poisoning in everyday usage" before getting to the part you quoted. I guess Martin and I don't take the broader meaning and you do.

Water ingestion at high rates is certainly lethal, but it doesn't imply that water actually becomes toxic. Instead, blood levels of everything drop down, organs switch off and the person dies. If you insist, you can call it an overdose. Supposedly, most people who die after taking MDMA / XTC actually die of a water overdose.

I'm good with that, as well as I'm sure all the others not named "Netflix" are.

How about you let us "opt in" instead, so I don't waste my time, bandwidth, and electricity installing shit that I am going to want to immediately uninstall? Or are you counting on the fact that your software engineers are going to make the "opt-out" control impossible to find, and give big scary warnings that cause people to think twice so you can still maximize your data scraping?

Sounds like "opting out" of buying LG is still the right way to go.

And, actually, the Constitution goes out of it's way to explain in Article 1 that the legislative branch is where regulatory authority comes from, delegated to the executive to ... execute on.

So if Congress says it's an independent body, it's an independent body as declared by statute. And SCOTUS has upheld that independent agencies are a thing - see: Federal Reserve Bank.

So explain the FED then, and why it would be a good thing to have monetary policy be a political football.

Oh wait, they are an independent agency, as confirmed by SCOTUS, are they not?

It's all fun and games until you fuck with the money. Then we learn where the real laws are.

Well, if you go back to the summary, it does seem to imply that the head of MI6 thinks that python is the Russian of programming languages....

Well, it's Congress's responsibility to protect their turf. They delegated this regulatory authority to the administrative, so they get to conduct oversight of that authority.

Which means that if you want to actually see functional government oversight, DO NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN.

Then why post again?

Just have to get that last word in? Some psychological compulsion you should discuss with a professional?

The commissioners of the FED are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Every single federal judge is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

That clearly doesn't preclude independence of operation from the President. Or are you saying that monetary policy and the justice system should be beholden to an all-powerful leader who has no fucking clue what he's doing too?

In around a year, when the Congress shifts to the other party and actual government oversight begins again.

Seriously. Why talk about 8 browser extensions that are doing shady shit, and not actually NAME THEM.

What the hell has happened to this once-great site...

Good thinking! Without knowing more, this could have been the case. Moreso because the CEO actually sent the rejection.

Oh, there's a reason. And that reason is the names of the companies that have signed up - a bunch of Trumpy tech bros that want to loot the United States Treasury for every cent they can.

They don't give a fuck about long-term damage, because it's a smash and grab. The damage is someone else's problem.

Fine by me. And then when they get it sorted out, it will be just in time for Congress to flip and yank their funding.