Finally a tiny bit of justice. Ridiculous that it has taken this long, for so little justice.

It wouldn’t surprise me. If Shkreli was streaming it, at least one person was recording it.

Some countries make a lot of money from those domain licenses. Some are small enough that it could weaken or destabilize their economy.

Whatever happened to that Wu Tang album? I remember reading it was sold to cover debt and the buyer planned for a wider release but never saw any update anywhere.

And something about Shkreli livestreaming it at some point and a lawsuit about that.

You can buy premixed thermite online. Granted, you’ll show up suspicious when they start looking up sellers and their buyers.

As fucked as that situation is, it’s not the same situation.

It comes down to the fact that she did actually submit an illegal ballot. How that happened is where the shit is fucked up, but the base fact of a. Illegal ballot being submitted is there. In this case, he didn’t actually submit a second ballot, the poll workers didn’t give him one.

If he’s being charged for a crime that requires submitting two ballots, but he only ever submitted one, it’s pretty clear that he didn’t do the specific crime he’s accused of. Even if the context around it is extremely suspect, at best.

As much as no one wants to hear it, this is probably the right decision by the jury.

He didn’t actually vote twice. He never received a second ballot. The poll workers saw he voted previously and didn’t give him another ballot. I’m not sure about this state in particular, but the law is likely written explicitly about submitting multiple ballots, and that didn’t happen here.

His claim about just testing the system is probably a lie, but he claims that if he was given a second ballot that he wouldn’t have filled it out. We have no way of proving whether or not he would have, it didn’t happen. Our judicial system is based on what we can prove, and we can’t prove things that didn’t happen.

The lack of an actual illegal ballot being submitted, and his claim that if the poll workers messed up and he was given another one that he wouldn’t have actually submitted it, was deemed credible enough by the jury. He didn’t actually submit an illegal ballot.

Most other voter fraud cases involve multiple ballots, submitting ballots without voter registration, etc. and not a case where an illegal ballot was never actually submitted.

Like say the off year mark? Plenty of time after an election to find issues with the rolls and far enough away from the next for people to correct issues or register again if needed.

That’ll never happen, can’t disenfranchise citizens with that policy.

NASA aren’t the ones building things. They’re just the ones deciding what the requirements are after Congress gives them a fraction of what they need to accomplish the impossible.

It’s the likes of Boeing that are building and milking it. And they have never done more than the minimum required, and until competition from SpaceX at a fraction of the cost were experts at milking the Cost Plus contracting they essentially required to do anything space related.

NASA will never be in charge of building things on their own. Space too much of a cash cow for the Congress Critters to milk via the complexity and obfuscation of the government contract process. Thinking they would be able to bring anything in house is hilarious.

SpaceX has with their vehicles and options. They’re all more capable than the contact they were built under.

No, but they wouldn’t do anything beyond the exact specific minimums of the grant either.

They never purge these voter rolls AFTER elections do they? It’s always between the time they stop letting people register for an election and when that election happens.

Of course he is. He knows he’s going to lose and he wants to get the conspiracy theories going as soon as possible to look more credible.

Meh. SpaceX will continue on without him. Regardless of what he claims, he doesn’t run the company. Gwynne runs the company. He talks a lot of shit and focuses on a grand vision, but the engineers make it happen. At best, he’s like Steve Jobs without any of the charisma. Can’t do it himself, but is surrounded by those that can.

No, not everything needs to be nationalized. That’s a lazy excuse to solving problems and often just leads to different issues. Look at the fights we have for NASA’s current miniscule budget slice for a perfect example. Our government is dog shit at allocating and running departments like this, primarily because of politics.

Remember that neither NASA or the military actually build anything themselves, everything is outsourced to companies like SpaceX, Lockheed, Boeing, etc. So you’re advocating all of that to be brought into the government bureaucracy machine with no existing infrastructure to manage it, for it to be smothered to death by politicians trying to “prove” that government doesn’t work.

Instead, they just need to demand that Elon not have any decision making position at the company to continue getting contracts, blacklist him. As it is, daily SpaceX operations run without Elon. Gwynne Shotwell actually runs the company, regardless of specific titles. Elon doesn’t actually do the engineering work either, so while he may be involved in major decisions, it’s more the overall vision, the company would operate just fine whether he’s there or not. HE is the problem, not SpaceX as a company, and not the entire C-Suite team, just him. Get rid of him and the place runs just like it does now, works towards the same goals, and daily operations and contracts continue as normal,

To be fair here… The old guard still aren’t working on reuse even after SpaceX not only championed it but actually succeeded and proved reliability.

The old launch providers are still just throwing their shit away and still cost billions of dollars for launches.

The Commercial Resupply Service and Commercial Crew Programs have also achieved better standards than NASA had when they started them, and at much cheaper cost than the previous solutions.

Privatisation isn’t inherently bad, and importantly, the money is still being handled through NASA for oversight.

Call it what it is… human trafficking.

No one is paying attention anymore. No one cares. For those exact same reasons it was a failure. Trump was never actually in danger with this one.

Yeah the joke fits Tony’s IDGAF style of comedy where literally nothing is off limits.

And while in other context it would still be a bad joke, it wouldn’t be taken anywhere near as bad as at a political rally like this. It doesn’t come across as a joke at all given the other political rhetoric surrounding it.

The info I get from AZ only indicates whether my ballot was accepted which count batch it was added to.

As far as I’m aware, the way it works is they verify your signature on the envelope, then open and confirm the ballot is legible and add it to the count batch. At that point it becomes completely anonymous with every other ballot. Not all of those will end up being useable, some will have issues not caught earlier but that will be a very tiny percentage.