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Comment Re:Anything he doesn't agree with is a "threat" (Score 1) 217

>How is Trump able to twist the laws to rule by edict? Because enough judges are willing to either approve his end-arounds or at least delay decisions.

No, it's because Congress delegated the authority.

What the president was required to do was simply in execution of the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the lawmaking department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its expressed will was to take effect.

-Field v. Clark

Congress can take back the authority, but this one won't.

I suppose you can argue that the Supremes are your "enough judges," but that comes a bit late, it was decided over 100 years ago, long before Trump. The ability of Congress to delegate its powers is also the basis of all regulatory law. Congress didn't pass a law requiring headlights on cars, that's a law created by non-elected regulators in the Executive branch.

Comment Used vehicles... (Score 5, Interesting) 50

Even if a buyer of a new vehicle agrees, what procedures do they have in place to avoid collecting info on the purchaser of a used vehicle, who has never agreed to data collection? Even if they track registration/VIN info, that lags from the actual sale and may not reflect all sales, so might be associated with the previous owner. And how are they going to stop the vehicle from sending data? If they can remotely turn it off, they can probably turn it on remotely. Simply not recording the received data is insufficient.

Comment Re:Why is Microsoft not anti-competitive? (Score 3, Informative) 75

>making a mobile App you realistically would be cutting yourself out of the market if you chose to for instance only work on Android.

Bullshit. Android has about 70% of the worldwide market share for cell phones.

>>Microsoft has a monopoly over Xbox

>That's like saying your grocery store has a monopoly over a grocery store.

No, it's like saying Apple has a monopoly over iPhones. Or that GM has one over Chevrolets. But GM doesn't have a monopoly over vehicles, and Apple doesn't have a monopoly over cell phones.

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