I would think that majority-minority districts would arise more naturally with smaller districts. Currently the average district covers over three quarters of a million people, more than the population of Seattle. Something like fifty thousand people per district would give the neighborhood of Harlem in NYC four representatives.
Tell them to present some evidence or go pound sand? (“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine.” -Tim Minchin)
Or, you know, destroy and deny existence of evidence that was previously abundant and considered obvious. Or move goalposts on what's considered "evidence" at all. Or manufacture mountains of data and statistics to simply drown out anything else.
“The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was listed on the NYSE on Sept. 4, 1901. Only 11 other companies have been listed longer than AT&T.“
Yeah, impressively wrong gp! 1984 was when they were broken up by Justice Department.
Isn't rail shipping far more expensive than, er, ships? Also, good luck getting anything from China to Europe via rail without going through either Iran (the Middle East) or Russia (not exactly on friendly terms with Europe at the moment, to put it lightly).
it's more expensive, but they are getting closer. 30+ days by ship vs 10 days by rail, insurance, inflation and other risks. It could be just 2x more expensive. For high and mid added value product it doesn't matter much.
I can imagine year 2060 when there is a magnetic rail link between Asia and Europe. Only some commodities like wheat go through Suez.
If they do something illegal and don't get caught they win.
If they get caught, but the fine is less than they made breaking the law, they win.
If they have to pay back the same amount of money, but can pay it years later, they win.
If the only punishment for bank robbery were paying the bank back if you got caught, we'd probably see a lot more bank robberies.
The Pinto Memo is a great exposition of this... $140M cost to retrofit a modification to the fuel system against a $50M "benefit to society" (ie. legal costs) saving 180 deaths and 180 serious injuries per annum.
Same for US hospitals and health insurance. They constantly make “mistakes” in their favor and the worst thing that can happen is that they have to pay what they are required to pay anyways.
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