I'm not seeing the issue here. It did pass. Politicians aren't normally the type to take a moral high ground in issues. If there's money available for your state, you should take it.
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Facebook Messenger isn't E2E encrypted. If they wanted their messages immune to warrants they should have used one of a number of different methods available.
"Facebook turns over..."
After being forced to by a warrant...
Bitcoin dropped in value, but is still very high and actively traded. It's hardly in the dust bin.
From the title alone you can tell this article is going to be sensationalist because the law doesn't "ban" water breaks. That's not even a mistake it is an intentional lie to make it sound worse.
If that is human trafficking then every bus picking up illegals in Texas and taken them to the dozens and dozens of other places is also human trafficking.
A Baker should be able to refuse to bake a cake he doesn't want to make. He shouldn't even have to give a reason. Anything less than that is by definition forced labor.
I don't think it's a smart decision. I think discriminating for any reason makes business sense nor will it win you any allies, but it should be legal. Anything less than that is the government forcing you to work.
Teams would be very offended if it could afford the spare CPU cycles to read your post.
Agreed totally, precedence makes all the difference here. If there's two people had an established history of agreeing to deals via text with one word answers, it's hard to deny.
You should check out the song "Patches" If that's what you're interested in.