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Legally maybe, but that narrow definition is not how it is used in casual conversation and forum posts. In fact if you really want to be technical about it, I believe the word "stealing" is not legally defined. In law the word usage is theft, embezzlement, and etc. So the only real definition...

I agree with Thomas' reasoning on safe harbor. Safe harbor was never intended to imply a liability. The Sotomayor complaint that it should is reverse logic. If you want to show the law intends there to be a liability to isps you need to base it on a law that explicitly defines that, not on a...

I think that if they have no US offices or employees then they would be exactly as far out of US jurisdiction as any company operating out of Russia. Meaning to say - yes, but no. Think about how a space based company could sell services to US citizens when the gov tells banks they may not...

Which is why we have these devices in the first place. It used to be that it was an automatic no more driving for you. (on 2nd offense iirc)

Achually, if a datacenter in Russia is serving illegal content to US citizens the police cant do anything. OTOH the Russian based corp may have problems getting payments from the US after they are banned. I think its also possible that they could be blocked at the isp level. Same thing with...

If you have paying customers in the jurisdiction then the law has authority over you. And they dont need to confiscate your satellite to shut you down since they can just forbid the banks and credit cards from transferring any payments from the customer to your business. This is operationally...

Right. All they need then is an orbiting banking system and orbiting customers and they can be free from earthlaw.

How did the insurance company handle this? Id imagine they would not honor the local "everyone does it so what" rules. Do people just not even try to make insurance claims in such cases?

People keep saying that people said rocket reusability was impossible, but I dont remember anything like that. Its always been something we looked forward to and wanted to happen.

I think most people that arent actually homeless do have wages that may be garnished.

Sounds like its endemic in the population so if you were cured of it you would probably get reinfected.

I understand that when Trump told our navy to escort ships through the strait that he was told "No, if we tried that it would be a kill box". Its so rare to hear that anyone told Trump NO.

It takes even more to impeach. 2/3 ninjaed

Your tax dollars at work - cheating the constitution.

Damages are not a penalty. Damages are an estimate of actual loss by the plaintiffs. You cant just "increase it till it hurts".

IIUC for an appeal you need to put up a bond to cover it in case you lose the appeal, plus interest.

I can see how that would be an easy mistake to make, and disastrous. Some people in an emergency situation might instinctively try to slam on the brakes. How does the taking the foot off the accelerator method of braking distinguish between "I want to slow down now" and "OMG STOP YOUR GONNA...

I think it might be more efficient to mount thrusters on the bag itself instead of trying to tow it with a rope.

I think for it to be stable you must be assuming constant acceleration. Without that you dont have a pendulum. If there is pendulum action then when you stop accelerating it turns into two objects orbiting a center of mass.