Monday, October 01
Daily News Stuff 1 October 2018
Sorry, that's a complete lie. The shit hasn't just hit the fan, it's gone suborbital. But I'm taking a day off from that crap.
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Tech News
- The DOJ is suing California over their new net neutrality legislation. (TechCrunch)
I wasn't comfortable with the federal government regulating net neutrality, and for exactly the same reasons I'm not comfortable with the federal government preventing the states from regulating net neutrality.
More knowledgeable observers than I are citing Wickard v. Filburn as the constitutional basis for this. I was aware of that decision but didn't know it by name. It essentially rules that intrastate commerce is interstate commerce because if you are engaging in intrastate commerce you have removed yourself from the totality of interstate commerce which means that you are altering the scope of interstate commerce and can be regulated by the federal government under the Commerce Clause EVEN IF YOU NEVER ENGAGED IN COMMERCE IN THE FIRST PLACE because it would have impacted price stabilisation programs which as a libertarian-leaning Australian strikes me as fucking insane.
So a single farmer from Ohio growing wheat to feed his own animals in 1938 could decide the fate of the entire internet.
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molten is a minimal, extensible, fast and productive framework for building HTTP APIs with Python.
[Looks at code samples.]
You've turned Python into Ruby. That's amazing. I'm not even mad.
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If the Fed is citing Wickard v. Fillburn as precedent for their suit against California, this could be awesome--maybe that abomination will finally get struck down.
For those who don't know, during World War I, the federal government instituted caps on the amount of grain you could grow (wheat, IIRC, in this case) as a way of implementing price controls (artificial scarcity to drive the costs up). Wickard was a farmer who ignored the cap, growing extra so he could feed his cows. The government sued him, essentially wanting him to buy the grain. Their argument was essentially that buy not buying grain, which was sold nationally, he was affecting interstate commerce.
This is pretty much abused constantly by the government to reach into and control any economic activity and why today statists like Nancy Pelosi look confused when you ask them if there's any limits on what the Federal government can do.
For those who don't know, during World War I, the federal government instituted caps on the amount of grain you could grow (wheat, IIRC, in this case) as a way of implementing price controls (artificial scarcity to drive the costs up). Wickard was a farmer who ignored the cap, growing extra so he could feed his cows. The government sued him, essentially wanting him to buy the grain. Their argument was essentially that buy not buying grain, which was sold nationally, he was affecting interstate commerce.
This is pretty much abused constantly by the government to reach into and control any economic activity and why today statists like Nancy Pelosi look confused when you ask them if there's any limits on what the Federal government can do.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, October 02 2018 04:00 AM (Q/JG2)
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, October 02 2018 04:02 AM (Q/JG2)
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Yeah, if the end result is that Wickard v. Filburn got struck down, that would be good for America, and you could sucker Democrats into supporting it.
And no, haven't gotten banned on Twitter for nearly two days now.
And no, haven't gotten banned on Twitter for nearly two days now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 02 2018 04:25 AM (PiXy!)
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@RickC Re; Wickerd TAI Filburn..
That's my thought as well. I think that this could be very good and possibly intentional. It puts the 9th circuit in an interesting position. support Federalism or strike down a NN initiative.
That's my thought as well. I think that this could be very good and possibly intentional. It puts the 9th circuit in an interesting position. support Federalism or strike down a NN initiative.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tuesday, October 02 2018 04:36 AM (3bBAK)
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Sophie's choice would just be gravy.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, October 02 2018 09:14 AM (Iwkd4)
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