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Comment Re:How does the FTC have this authority? (Score 0) 96

Given the current makeup of SCOTUS, I am not sure selling interstate roadsigns on a bus that is currently on an interstate in the process of crossing a state line would be considered interstate commerce. But I suspect that in the future we will look back at pretty much everything this current group decides and respond with a collective WTF!?!

Comment Re:How does the FTC have this authority? (Score 1) 96

The reach of interstate commerce is much broader than many think.

Famous case Katzenbach v McClung (1964)

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oyez.org%2Fcases%2F196...

Restaurant required to abide by federal regulations because they were part of interstate commerce (think the food that they received to prepare for clients, where the equipment they cooked and served the food on, where the employees and clients came from and where they went, it is a long list of ways that one can become part of interstate commerce)

Comment Re: So they're libeling... (Score 1) 192

No.

The former employer has no obligation to provide the information with a prospective employer, hence the absence of information would not amount to concealment. Although if you choose to provide information and someone then decides to take action based on the information the prospective employer could make the argument that they acted in dependence of that statement,

Comment Re: So they're libeling... (Score 1) 192

There is no legal upside to say good things about past employees, and yes there are some downsides.

If you claim someone is outstanding at X and the next employer disagrees they may think you intentionally lied to them, this could be construed as fraud.

If you say good things about some but not others, you create differences that could be explored by those not having good things said about them as potential discrimination.

Comment Re:Making a bad thing worse (Score 2) 55

Bullshit

At best code strives to be mathematically precise, but it rarely is. Errors abound all over the place, often related to misunderstandings of the functions that are being utilized or of the actual nature of what is being computed.

In reality this is not that different than the errors that creep into contracts and regulations.

Just because you manage to get an output by pushing data into code does not mean that this output is valid or a true representation of the intent of the programer much less the parties that have "agreed" to the code/contract.

Comment Making a bad thing worse (Score 1) 55

People are frustrated that contracts are hard to understand. Over centuries basic agreements that make up the legal framework for all the economic transaction we engage have become
Increasingly convoluted. In part this is to address the problems that have been experienced, some of it is people trying the tilt the playing field in their favor, and also there is an element of attorneys trying to make themselves important by gobing things up with cruft that is not meant to be understood.

So âoesome geniusâoe decided that we would just take this crap and toss it into a computer program that even less people can read, and thought this would fix everything.

We are truly doomed if this is what people think is going to âoesave usâ.

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