NateNate60

I wasn't aware that you were a sovereign state or that I had any money deposited in your banks or that I do business of any sort with you.

You can sanction me by putting a permanent embargo on conversing with me by blocking me if you want

I hate that "confirmation bias" have become moo words with people nowadays.

The logic is pretty sound:

• A company that does business in the United States must comply with American laws.
• It is forbidden under American law for a company that operates from the United States to do business with Iran.
• The company, through its child, shipped oil from Iran.
• American authorities, enforcing American law, ordered the company to divert the ship and turn over the oil for confiscation because the shipment was illegal.
• Oil is confiscated.

I remark that sanctions do not require the approval of the United Nations. Under customary international law, it is an application of sovereign authority. Any country can apply sanctions and can do so in any way you like. What the USA has said is that "if you want to do business here, we forbid you from doing business with Iran".

The ship was not intercepted by the Navy. They served a court order on the company and the company turned the ship back and its cargo was seized

The legal grounds: The oil was shipped by a US company in violation of US law. American companies can't do business with an organisation that the US government has designated as a terrorist organisation. Thus American authorities siezed the ship and its cargo.

They are not. I do not refer to the package called "LibreOffice". If you search for "office" on the Windows Store, you'll see a bunch of LibreOffice clones that are not branded as such and are not free of charge or contain advertisements.

During "peak hours" certain unlimited plans are throttled to 480p. It doesn't always happen.

I watched a few episodes of a Beyblade anime with my younger brother and it felt a lot like a dry attempt to make a product more popular by thinking that they can just do a similar thing to Pokemon and get similar results.

I didn't think the writing was very good.

T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It's a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.

At least they didn't call it the "SwitchU"

I agree completely. I think this is the best solution to the AI replacing human artists problem. Big companies can't use AI to replace humans because if they do, whatever they make will be ineligible for copyright and everyone will be free to rip them off.

Real answer: Religion in the United States is protected by Amendment I of their constitution. There isn't much the Government can do without infringing on or appearing to infringe on this protection.