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TwiceHorn

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  1. I suppose, but it will probably let other shareholders sue the shit out of them and if he tries to sell a significant number of shares in a short period, well the share price is going in the shittter.
  2. Texas Medicaid covers only skilled nursing, not assisted living or memory care. About the only thing one can do with Medicaid beyond skilled nursing is jimmy up a home health care plan that probably won't cover 24/7,but would give family caretakers the ability to work and have some breaks.
  3. Yep fair points. The judgment is a bit punitive in nature if not explicitly so and the state is at least partially protected.
  4. There is some notion, evidenced by Texas rules, of limiting a supersedeas bond to some fraction of the defendants worth. We love to look at this as preliminary punishment for Trump, but that's not what it is. It is primarily there to protect the plaintiff pending appeal. And, truth be told, half protection is actually better than leaving collection to execution. Execution may be fun to watch, but for getting even fiddy cent on the dollar of judgment, it's not much fun for the plaintiff. And if the judgment gets reduced, it may be dollar for dollar. Also I don't think this necessarily foreshadows a reduction of the judgment. The court of appeals probably knows less about the judgment of the trial court than we do at this point.
  5. Knight and K are or were intense. Knight let his intensity get the better of him on several occasions. But they had the capability, demonstrated, to be good sports to their opponents and the press although both could be quite surly. Mulkey never lets up as far as I can tell.
  6. Hahaha yeah, long ago, I looked forward to OS updates on devices and app updates. Now they come with a sense of dread.
  7. What is kinda interesting is that what seemed to be a rather unique phenomenon relating to internet provided services or products is really just a near universal expression of entropy or something similar.
  8. Her sportsmanship, or complete lack of it, is astounding and virtually unparalleled in the world of sports. She never has a good word for an opposing coach or player. She's a sore loser and doesn't hide it. She’s arrogant and rude to opponents, officials, the press, and everyone in sight and defends the indefensiible from her players, who are generally dirty.
  9. This term butter biscuit is new to me, can you explain a bit of the etymology?
  10. So a guy that goes by Ace is nicknamed Boogie. I'd hate to see what a guy that goes by Boogie is nicknamed.
  11. Stock makes shitty collateral, see, eg, margin loans. Stock itself is not going to help Trump very much as its collateral value is less than half its current trade value if that.
  12. Sort of a general question. Do you guys make use of "skills areas"? There are several trails around town with various types of skills areas. I could use more skillz, but find them kind of boring and I guess I am not really sure what to do with them. I am not particularly interested learning to jump at my age, so those hold little interest. Also, any workout aspect (at least half of why I do this) gets repetitive, like running laps or doing sprints. There's a pump track at Katie Jackson that I think provides useful skills and is a workout, but it's in the midst of jumps and not well marked or delineated, so you start to get pumping and boom find yourself about to hit a gap jump. One thing I would like to do is get more comfortable with drops, but afaik, none of these skills areas have any sort of progression on drops.
  13. Well, if serious, this DWAC thing has a share value, based on pure speculation, that is mostly independent of TMTG except to the extent the speculation is based on acquiring TMTG. So like all speculation is stupid af. Then DWAC acquires TMTG and its share price becomes TMTGs share price along with it its shares. Then the reality of a shit acquisition target hits and the share price goes into the toilet. Meanwhile, the shares should be locked up from insider trading for six months while they assume what should be a realistic value,ie dogshit.
  14. Federal. This was contempt in a civil case.
  15. It is for attention horses.
  16. Well, in the scenario I envision, the government dismisses voluntarily to avoid going to trial on wrong jury instructions. The government doesn't have unfettered discretion to do that, it needs court permission. And, in some cases, the dismissal might be with prejudice (meaning can't be re-indicted). So this would be a last ditch strategery. Classically, "jeopardy" does not attach until the jury is sworn, meaning up until then, usually, any dismissal can be re-indicted. There's all kinds of dismissal types and outcomes, mistrials, voluntary, prosecutor misconduct, blah blah blah. The other possibility in the event of terrible instructions is a mandamus appeal, which is a kind of rare deal that I'm not even sure is available. Bad jury instructions, usually in a subtle way, are common in civil cases and a fruitful area for appeal. When you get stuck with shitty ones and you're the government in a criminal case, I'm not sure what you do.
  17. She seems to use a lot of anecdotes and stereotypes of dubious validity to prove her points, or actually generate outrage. Like her generalization about how US troops are treated for PTSD. Some of her points are probably valid to a degree, though. There is a lot of overindulgent parenting going on, but I don't think it is in any way exclusively a librul phenomenon or centered around polarizing ideas like gender identity or whether kids are getting good therapy.
  18. Theoretically, yes, but the vast majority of private-sector employees don't work in some competitive thunderdome. A whole hell of a lot of em just get by.
  19. That is some valuable perspective, right there.
  20. Agreed on reinventing the wheel. But, in this particular case, the wheel was never really invented in the first place because, again, we are looking at some novel legal questions. There's not much law on the interplay between the PRA and the courts and zero on the interplay between the PRA and Espionage Act. Not that either of these pose particularly difficult questions. She definitely seems overawed by the fact that this is the first presidential prosecution in history and seems to be wanting to find differences in this case and others that preceded it that don't really exist.
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