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  1. 4 minutes ago, Loco said:

    I think you're wrong.   He has a long history of threatening violence and projecting a tough guy image.  Heck he has the Proud Boys as his personal security.

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    Maybe so, but if you do a google image search you will note that it is the worst pic of her by far. And if you want to imply violence, and are an outrageous asshole, why not just draw it right on her.

  2. 9 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    All I know is that I wish I would have been in the gallery for that hearing.

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    Q:  Was that photograph chosen because of the crosshairs?

    A:  Absolutely not, you couldn't even see them on a phone.

    Q:  Why was that photograph chosen?

    A:  Uhhh  . . . . .

  3. 25 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    This is what I was interested in.  Watch the worm squirm.

     

    What's kind of comical about all that is that I am reasonably sure that the pic was chosen because it is the most unflattering pic of her in general circulation, rather than because of the crosshairs.

  4. Here I think is the basic rundown.  Icloud is not generally accessible itself.  It is a cloud backstop to individual apps like Mail or Photos or what have you.  In theory, what you see in an app is what is contained in iCloud.  This, however, is dependent on the app being signed into the appropriate iCloud account and that both devices have synced to the account.  The default iCloud account is defined in your system preferences.  Anything signed into that account (Macbook and iPhone) should show the same thing in their respective apps.  A device signed into a different account will not show the same things and an app that isn't actually signed into the iCloud account won't be synced.

    If devices with the same default iCloud account/Apple ID show different things, then there would seem to either be a connectivity issue preventing sync, or the app isn't actually signed into iCloud.  You can have an iCloud account that your are signed into, but have fewer than all the apps syncing to it.  Check your system preferences and the app individually to see that it is actually signed into the correct account.

    https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-transfer-photos-from-iphoto-to-photos/

  5. Here is some clarity on the Enron 401k issue. https://reason.com/archives/2001/12/27/enrons-401k-calamity.

    Employee contributions were matched with Enron stock that couldn't be sold until age 50.  That's shitty, but it was shitty long before Enron got shitty.

    So, a bit more than half of the contributions to an employee's 401k were not stuck with Enron stock, so an employee really should not have lost the whole thing based on Enron's demise.

  6. While she is cute and clever, I bemoan the fact that she is just entrenching politics by Twitter.  Some politicians should announce that they are boycotting twitter because adequate political and policy discussions cannot be had there.

    Like Warren, she's offering up ideas.  Unlike Warren, hers are fairly cracked, but it would be good if we could get the discussion back on ideas instead of personalities and vague principles. 

    Of course it would also help if POTUS was anything other than a personality.

  7. 31 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Sim Lake reduced his sentence due to a plea deal between the government and Skilling.

    I have no idea about his case.  But I clerked in the SD of Texas in the aftermath of Enron.  And I saw some prosecutions against energy company executives and mid level employees that just were sickening abuse's of power.

    It was because his "honest services" fraud convictions kept getting overturned, along with a "financial institution" sentencing enhancement.  It also freed a bunch of restitution money for distribution.

    In the realm of white collar crime, he got a pretty substantial sentence.

    Interesting to contrast the zeal with which the SD Tex went after him while SD NY sat on it's hands from 2008-2014.

     

  8. On 2/17/2019 at 7:22 AM, RPM said:

    We have any car dealers here? I'm raking up the miles on my commute car and looking for something in better shape. '12+ CTS, XTS or comparable 70K or less under $14K. Yeah, I'm a poors. Hook 'em me up.

    I have an 11 CTS Coupe.  It has been one of the best cars I have owned.  Still fun to drive, rattle and squeak free and the 3.6LV6 still hums.  Had to buy a water pump at about 85k, but that's pretty normal, I suppose.

  9. 1 minute ago, XYZ said:

    What about the people who run the corporation? Time behind bars? Nah, wouldn’t want to send corporate America the wrong message. They might get spooked thinking that the gov might try to apply the law to them also. Can’t have that. Gravy train and all that.

    I don't disagree.

  10. Just a general observation on the whole pretrial detention thing, because it's getting a lot of attention in other contexts.  The purpose of pretrial detention was originally to secure the accused's appearance at trial and was ordered only if the defendant appeared to be a flight risk.  The ordering of detention and posting of monetary or asset bail served this purpose: to secure the defendant's appearance at trial.

    Then, pretrial detention became de rigeuer for those deemed a threat to society, e,g, murderers, rapists, etc..  If that is the case, they should never be bailed, but they frequently are, mixing the original purpose of pretrial detention with this new purpose, in a really fairly indefensible fashion.

    Now, finally, we have pretrial detention for misbehavior.  And the whole federal criminal system is just biased against release before trial as a general proposition (75% of federal defendants are detained before trial, while 20 years ago, fewer than 50% were).

    Granted, orders of the trial court aimed at preserving a fair trial by limiting publicity or certain types of publicity need to be respected.  Monetary fines and 30-60-90 day imprisonments are probably adequate for that purpose.

    I know it's fun to root for Roger Stone to get tossed in the hoosegow before he's convicted, but let's not lose sight of how fucked up the criminal justice system really is.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

    Do you guys think she had deluded herself into believing she could bring this idea to fruition or did she know that sooner or later the jig would be up?

    I don't know.  I think she's pretty delusional all around.  You see it a lot in tech, an interesting idea that seems feasible at the outset, but when you get into the devilish details, it all falls apart.  Usually, though, there isn't a whole company built around the one idea.  It's one of several and there is management and esteemed colleagues to bring the inventor back down to earth.

    I sense that there is a lot of Theranos-type stuff, on a smaller scale, in SV.

  12. 10 minutes ago, retread said:

    ^ The fact that he's not in jail right now makes me more skeptical that these people will be brought to justice.

     

    4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Stone will end up like Manafort.  The wheels of justice will grind him into sawdust.  These guys ain’t getting away. 

    Hugo's dead right on this.  Her jailing him over one instagram post, no matter how indefensible, plays into the hands of the maniacs.  If he continues to serially fuck up like Manafort, he will be detained.

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  13. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    Does trolling require insincerity of a position? Bc sometimes folks get called that and I actually believe they are sincere in their awful positions.

    Yes, and more importantly an intention to "start shit."  Troll is being overused around here of late for unpopular posters/opinions.  Being dumb, objectively wrong, or even provocative does not constitute "trolling" under its conventional definition as a bannable offense.

  14. 19 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    I have listened the the podcast. Like TV news has done since it started, not much new reporting but adds sound to Carreyrou's book. Not to imply it is bad, but not a ton of new stuff. That being said, one dot I think it connected more was the role of her original mentor at Stanford, Channing Robertson, and the role he played. Given his CV, he should have called bullshit on day one. I inferred from the podcast that Robertson provided credibility early that got many of the early people on board - who would question a Stanford professor? Then everyone else was "if X is doing it, it must be okay." Then it just snowballed: credibility begot credibility. That plus the overwhelming desire to parade a hot chick around Silicon Valley as a genius a la the girl that fucked up Yahoo, and there you go.

    Yeah, I kind of wondered about Robertson, but I concluded that her "macro" ideas were plausible, even to him.  Further, I think most engineering professors, or professors generally, might be reluctant to shit all over a young, earnest student and perhaps even somewhat awed by her dropping out to pursue the idea while hiring gifted technologists like Ian Gibbons.

    Also, I looked him up, and he has a long history of expert testimony in litigation, but almost no experience (on his CV at least) in business.  So, he apparently got kind  of entrepreneurial with his "experting," and probably saw Theranos as another opportunity to feather his nest to his greater glory.

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