#federal properties

[div-divington]

Been binge watching X-Files recently and I've always wanted to make a fake Altered Item file cuz it seemed fun

It was fun.

#the paranatural property is that it imbues a simultaneous sense of scepticism and desire to believe #it basically sat in that office for a decade absorbing the emotional resonance of mulder and scully #and it projects a concentrated form of that on people who look at it #which the last bit of redacted text says makes it a useful tool for training FBC agents #cuz it makes them better investigators #cuz scully and mulder were at their best when they worked together :) and the poster gives somebody both their best properties #obviously this isn't very lore friendly #cuz if X-Files and Control existed in the same universe the FBC would never have allowed the X-Files to exist #unless they deemed it a useful tool ig #anyway #txf #x-files #x files #fox mulder #dana scully #frederick langston #federal bureau of control #control #control 2019 #control remedy #crossover #possible other anomalous property: the poster makes coworkers have very not-platonic feelings for each other #that they don't act on properly ever #and it drives everybody forced to watch crazy

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

#based #every state should do this #and the federal government #no chinese company associated with the chinese government or communist party #should be allowed to own any property in america

[rohirric-hunter]

Today at work I started talking about when the printing press was invented and I got told that, "didn't matter," and it was a, "useless fact," and I was honestly genuinely confused at this response before remembering that this is also how people responded to this sort of comment when I was a kid.

#but tell them about how all bat guano in the us is property of the federal government and thats 'cool' and 'interesting' #and they 'didnt know that' and 'will be telling their sister' #i wasnt interrupting a different conversation with the printing press thing btw #there was no conversation and we were all bored so i thought id make conversation #apparently knowing things about the printing press is worse than standing around in silence for 8 hours straight

[trappedinacomputer]

Cucurucho's cover's been blown, he had to make the entire bottom part of Bad's house an official Federation Office.

His office still has the bath tho and not a hint of actual paperwork in sight.

#qsmp badboyhalo #cucuhalo #hes gonna stamp “Property of the Federation” on Bad next

[themangledmess]

challenging all policy debaters to not fearmonger war and extinction next year ( IMPOSSIBLE!! 99% FAIL!! )

#the policy debate topic is intellectual property rights for the 24 - 25 seasons #how does one bring up war? nuke weapons? extinction? #trust me. policy debaters will find a way #“hey lets solve economic insecurity!” #“actually your plan to solve economic insecurity will result in the extinction of the human race and heres 5 mins of my speech covering why” #no. like actually just no. can we start saying 'nu uh' and looking the judge in the eyes and asking them if they can really believe the- #-obscure link chain they have saying that a federal jobs gurantee = extinction is valid?? #i despise fearmongering. i despise how it is common practice in debate. #i would challenge everyone to become a better debater by at least CONSIDERING the non-existential #think about what can actually be solved. think about how you could actually make change through debate. the answer is not fearmongering #hot take i know

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers.

The Court said the dispute could continue in state court for now, a move that could chill workers’ decisions to strike for fear that unions would now have to face potentially costly litigation in state court for misconduct during federally protected strikes.

The union argued that the case should be handled by an independent federal agency that investigates allegations of wrongdoing, and that the union should not have to face costly state litigation.

The case had been closely watched by supporters of unions who have witnessed the conservative majority in recent years chip away their power.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority that included two of the court’s liberal members, said that the Washington state Supreme Court had been too dismissive of arguments made by the business that it should be able to move forward in state court with a claim of intentional destruction of property.

She pointed particularly to the fact striking workers “abandoned fully loaded trucks” of cement “without telling anyone,” a move that could have destroyed the trucks had they not been unloaded in time by non-striking workers at the company, Glacier Northwest.

Barrett said that the “union’s actions not only resulted in the destruction of all the concrete Glacier had prepared that day; they also posed a risk of foreseeable, aggravated, and imminent harm to Glacier’s trucks.”

Because “the union took affirmative steps to endanger Glacier’s property,” rather than “reasonable precautions to mitigate the risk,” the conduct at issue is arguably “not protected by the” National Labor Relations Act, Barrett wrote.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh joined Barrett’s opinion.

Noel Francisco, an attorney for the cement company, said he was “pleased” with the court’s ruling. “Our client is entitled to just compensation for its property that the union intentionally destroyed.”

The ruling is a loss for the unions, but the majority maintained a test for future cases that the unions had argued should remain in place.

“Given the implications of the ruling, and the uncertainty it will create for when striking workers can and can’t be sued for damage to their employers (as Justice Jackson stressed in her dissent), it may seem odd that Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined Justice Barrett’s majority opinion,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“But compared to completely revisiting the court’s 1959 decision holding that state law generally doesn’t apply in these circumstances, the fact that Justice Barrett’s analysis rests on the narrow facts of this case – including the workers’ intentional misconduct and lack of effort to mitigate the damage – likely was enough to attract two of the three Democratic appointees, and too narrow for some of her fellow conservatives,” he said.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas agreed with the majority’s bottom line but would have gone further in their reasoning.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed a dissenting opinion joined by no other Justice, in which she suggested that the majority’s opinion “risks erosion of the right to strike.”

She said that the majority opinion would likely cause “considerable confusion” in the lower courts about what Supreme Court precedent requires, and she charged that her colleagues had failed “in multiple respects to heed Congress’ intent” that the National Labor Relations Board take a primary role in adjudicating labor disputes.

“In my view, doing that places a significant burden on the employees exercise of their statutory right to strike, unjustifiably undermining Congress’s intent,” Jackson wrote. She noted that “workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.”

LABOR DISPUTES AT THE COURT

Conservatives on the Court have diluted the strength of unions in recent years. In 2018, for instance, the Court held that public-sector unions aren’t automatically entitled to dues from non-union members.

Back in 2017, Glacier Northwest, a company that sells and delivers ready-mix concrete, was negotiating with Teamsters Local 174 when the company’s truck drivers went on strike. The workers left behind concrete in trucks, causing non-striking workers and managers to work quickly to remove the concrete so as not to damage the trucks. The trucks were saved, but the concrete went to waste and the company moved to sue in state court for damages that resulted from the strike.

A lower court dismissed the claims, holding that they were preempted by the federal National Labor Relations Act, a law passed in 1935 that established the legal right for workers to join labor unions and enter into collective bargaining. Under the law, labor disputes are resolved by an independent agency called the National Labor Relations Board set up to enforce US labor law.

In the dispute at hand, Glacier argued that the workers’ activity amounted to intentional destruction of property and did not fall under the scope of the NLRA because it doesn’t cover workers who fail to take “reasonable precautions” to prevent the destruction of an employer’s property. They said state courts are proper vehicles to decide tort claims.

The unions, on the other hand, said the workers had acted responsibly as evidenced by the fact that no truck was damaged.

The Biden administration supported neither party in the dispute, arguing that the lower court had erred, and the case should be remanded to the state court for further fact-finding.

#us politics #news #cnn politics #us supreme court #2023 #scotus #justice amy coney barrett #justice ketanji brown jackson #unions #labor unions #workers union #worker's rights #destruction of property #federal labor law #striking workers #federally protected strikes #Glacier Northwest #National Labor Relations Act #Noel Francisco #Steve Vladeck #right to strike #Teamsters Local 174 #National Labor Relations Board #biden administration #president joe biden

[b0bthebuilder35]

And we don’t even get any say in where our tax money goes.

#taxes #tax money #irs #internal revenue service #tax season #sales tax #income tax #property tax #personal property tax #government #state governments #federal government #spending budget #scam #scammers #scamming #robbery #it should be illegal #illegal #highway robbery #united states government #united states of america #USA #United States #America #american government #theft #bullshit #we’re being robbed #reality

[brookriver-mudlark]

it's a lovely day!

#darik and caira #flowers #original character #oc #oc art #he doesn't actually burn as easily as you'd think from his complexion he just gets a migraine if he's out too long #fun fact to my younger self: there is not in fact a law against picking california poppies #just laws against picking plants in federal/state parks in general or from private property without permission #california doesnt exist where this guy lives anyways so #brookriver art #art

[thecensusbureau]

FormerRes_C has made contact with the eggs in custody. Please escort him to Science and Medical for cryogenic freezing immediately.

Has made- No- Let xem meet them- Come on, everyone in this sector knows they're here. Let this one slide. You can't- I won't. I won't bring him there. You've gone too far already, and some of the newer additions don't even make sense on why they're there. I won't add to your frozen cemetery.

#federation answered #the federation #private property

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil’s Supreme Court to restart iPhone trademark lawsuit

The decade-long trademark battle between Brazilian tech producer IGB (formerly known as Gradiente) and Apple over the name “iPhone” will take longer to reach a conclusion.

IGB applied for the trademark of the name “iphone” in 2000. The trademark would only be granted in 2008, one year after Apple launched the first iteration of its now iconic smartphone. In 2021, the two companies ended a 20-session round of negotiations without a settlement.

This is a textbook example of how patent delays can be detrimental to businesses. A 2021 report ranked Brazil’s intellectual property regulator Inpi as the world’s slowest at granting patents, despite recent improvements.

Continue reading.

#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #supreme federal court #apple inc #intellectual property #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[antisocialxconstruct]

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#SIGHS VERY WEARILY..... coming up on a month unable to open my gd mailbox because the property manager gave me the wrong key #and keeps brushing me off and giving me some nonsense about needing to change the locks #but then doesn't contact me after the maintenance has supposedly been done #would it be appropriate to gently point out to him that withholding a tenant's mail is teeechnically a federal crime #:)< #(on the brighter side of things i found out yesterday the job i was hired for actually pays $21/h not $19.50... whoah!)

[screamingallium]

hmmmm bad i dont know if i'd describe your current self as "not crazy"!

#qsmp #qsmp liveblog #thomas talks #we need to remain calm he says as he is actively trying to explode federation property

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“LIBERAL LEADER IS OPPOSED TO AIMS OF C.C.F.,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 28, 1933. Page 1. ----- Socialism and Liberalism Are Antagonistic, He Tells Commons --- PRESENTS PROGRAM --- Bilingual Currency Resolution Talked Out - Charge of Stifling Discussion ---- OTTAWA, Feb. 28 - Socialism and Conservatism have something in common but Socialism and Liberalism are antagonistic in the opinion of Rt. Hon. W. L Mackenzie King, Liberal leader. Leaving no room for equivocation, Mr. King yesterday disassociated his party from the aims and ideals of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

At the same time be outlined a program he believed would solve the economic crisis in Canada. It was based on social justice and freedom rather than state control. It included freedom of trade, removal of restrictions to business, curbing of price-fixing combines reduction of interest rates and taxes and establishment of Central Bank.

The Liberal leader's speech may be the last word of the present session on the Co-operative Commonwealth resolution introduced by J. S. Woodsworth, Winnipeg Laborite and President of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Liberals Oppose C.C.F. Liberals were opposed to the aims of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, said Mr. King because it sought the abolition of private property and would establish state control of Industry for the benefit of particular class. The present Conservative Government sought to increase state control for the benefit of a few privileged groups. Both pursued the same methods and had this in common.

Liberalism on the other hand was opposed to any centralization of control. The future he believed, would see a more equable division of responsibility between the various groups interested in Industry, capital, labor, managerial ability and the consuming public.

[AL: The ideology of Canadian Liberalism on display - and of Mackenzie King era technocratic capitalism specifically.]

#liberalism #liberal party of canada #william lyon mackenzie king #parliament of canada #socialism #canadian socialism #prairie socialism #anti-socialism #co-operative commonwealth federation #state control #birth of the technocratic state #capitalism #capitalism in canada #private property #great depression in canada

[jhsharman]

Postal

Maybe someone thinking we need to add gritty realism to the idyllic streets of Riverdale. Splash the place with graffiti. Also, A loves B. Betty will be happy to see that.

Notable also, Betty's long boots are now shoes and socks.

#Archie Comics #Reggie Mantle #Jughead #Betty Cooper #Post office box #Graffiti #Vandalism on federal property #1969 #Gus Lemoine -- I think.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Moonies secretly bought the French Château de Challain-la-Potherie

The Château de Challain was purchased in 1948 by the town of Choisy-le-Roi in Île-de-France. The municipality sets up summer camps there and two hundred children went there every summer. However, the colonies stopped in 1970 and the château was sold in 1978 5. The new buyer, an industrialist from Saint-Leu-la-Forêt 5, was president of the International Federation of Esotericism and Naturopathy and he set up a club there, baptized “Vivid Waves”.

In 1989 the château was acquired by the European Property Management Company (SEGI) related to the Unification Church, known as the “Moon sect” 6,7. This company expanded the area and planed to make a hotel and a golf course 5.

The project was however abandoned and a real estate company took over the château in 1996 6. It was then estimated at around ten million francs 8, or nearly two million euros in 2016 9. The property had several other buyers before being bought by the Nicholson 5 family in 2002 10. This family is originally from New Jersey in the United States, where it owns a construction company. After nine months of work, the first guest rooms were opened. Since then, the château has been used as a top-of-the-range bed and breakfast 4. The establishment specializes in the organization of weddings and has an international clientele. Each year about twenty ceremonies are organized there.10

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Bo Hi Pak may have been involved in the project.

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Challain-la-Potherie

Le château de Challain est acheté en 1948 par la ville de Choisy-le-Roi en Île-de-France. La municipalité y installe ses colonies de vacances et deux cents enfants y partent chaque été. Les colonies s'arrêtent cependant en 1970 et le château est revendu en 19785. Le nouvel acquéreur, un industriel de Saint-Leu-la-Forêt5, est président de la Fédération internationale d'Ésotérisme et de Naturopathie et il y installe un club, baptisé « Ondes vives ». Le château est ensuite acquis en 1989 par la Société européenne de gestion immobilière (SEGI) apparentée à l'Église de l'Unification, dite « secte Moon »6,7. Cette société agrandit le domaine et projette d'en faire un hôtel et un golf5.

Le projet est cependant abandonné et une société immobilière reprend le château en 19966. Il est alors estimé à environ dix millions de francs8, soit près de deux millions d'euros de 20169. La propriété connaît plusieurs autres acquéreurs avant d'être achetée par la famille Nicholson5 en 200210. Celle-ci est originaire du New Jersey aux États-Unis, où elle possède une entreprise de construction. Après neuf mois de travaux, les premières chambres d'hôtes sont ouvertes. Depuis lors, le château sert de chambres d'hôtes haut de gamme4. L'établissement est spécialisé dans l'organisation de mariages et possède une clientèle internationale. Une vingtaine de cérémonies y sont organisées chaque année10.

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Château de Bellinglise, Compiegne (outside Paris) was bought by a Moon front organization. It may still be owned by them, but that is unknown.

Château Mauny was bought by the UC in France in the 1970s and was sold after a long tax evasion trial.

#Unification Church #château #UC property empire #Sun Myung Moon #Hak Ja Han #Family Federation for World Peace and Unification #scam #moonistes

[davidbrussat]

Providence Place: Still alive

Providence Place glimpsed between buildings in downtown Providence. (Photo by author) I don’t have any deep inside knowledge (or shallow inside knowledge) of whether the downtown mall in my town, Providence Place, is going down the tubes soon. Still, my friend Will Morgan, who is also a local architecture critic, a rival of sorts, thinks it is, or thinks it might be. So, since I have a…

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#Adrian Smith #Burj Dubai #Federated Properties #Friedrich St. Florian #GoLocalProv #Lincoln Almond #Providence Place #William Morgan