MachineShedFred

Well, the unilateral smackdown they just put on ad blockers with their monopoly position browser when they happen to also be the largest internet advertiser does appear to be market manipulation and doing customer harm in my not-professional opinion. I am not a lawyer.

You really don't have a clue.

Sure, you could have a team of people running those git commands against every repository you have and compiling an excel spreadsheet to create data visualizations for each and every engineer you've got on a team, and you might end up with something roughly where GitPrime was 3 years ago, and taking hours to do what it does in seconds.

Now scale it to 2,000 engineers for reports the CTO of Walmart can look at. Scale it to give insight at the team level.

You've basically said "oh AWS isn't anything special, you can do all of that with KVM."

I think this case is actually a really good one to look at, as there are clear 8th Amendment issues. He already was sentenced for the crime in question, but the asset seized has over 4x the value of the maximum fine for the crime he was guilty of.

How is that not "cruel or unusual" ? Also, it presents a hardship for his rehabilitation- he needs to have employment as terms of his release, and if he can't get to work because of the forfeiture of his means of transportation, that presents additional burden to holding up his end of the agreement.

He was handed a $40,000 penalty for a $250 crime because the law enforcement agency wanted to sell his Land Rover. How is that justice?