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  1. Has anyone checked out Whitehouse.gov? Just the landing page?
  2. Fair nough. My knowledge of such things is outdated. My law school roommate did insurance defense way back in the day that included a lot of car wreck cases. And I knew Brian Loncar somewhat well outside of strictly professional settings and learned some of the business from him. He may have been a schock jock, but from all of my interaction with him, he was a pretty authentic, sincere dude that cared about getting his clients their due. Then again, once you can fake sincerity, you've got it made. He was definitely a volume shop and employed a lot of adjusters/former claims reps that he said were quite profitable and did good work for their clients.
  3. Aren't car wreck firms a little cheaper than that if they don't have to file suit? Decades ago, the "multiples" In Dallas County, at least, that is what extra percentage over out-of-pocket medicals juries tended to award so insurers would come close to paying out pretty easily justified even a 33% contingency. Meaning, for OP and others, if you could submit legit out-of-pocket medicals of X, a Dallas County jury would award 2x+ plus property damage. So you'd still come out pretty far ahead with a skilled insurance negotiator from a PI firm. It is my understanding that the multiples have narrowed, so that may be less true than it was.
  4. It may well be dying, but it has more intrinsic value in the sense you just specified, than all the rest combined. There is some damned good discussion and information in here.
  5. Well, it's not really that dumb because a lot of right-wingers feel free to dog-whistle, at best, in DT alleged news threads. But they're afraid to come into CR and get pantsed in their counter-factual and otherwise ill-informed opinions. And then they whinge about their Fox news sound-bites not being given equal time or debated or some shit.
  6. Well, Fox is now considered "news," so what the fuck do you expect. Reaping, sowing, kinda how that works.
  7. Brisket is a really terrific writer, especially when it comes to these sorts of things. A lot of us know the rules like psycho grammar Nazis (ie me), but brisket has a real talent for conveying humanity and emotion. Also, the signs were there, but I didn't notice until now that Brisket was another only child, like me. The rift with his father I think is something all of us go through to a greater degree or another, but I think it's worse for only children. I never had the temerity to have a single, sort of hard rift with my father or either of my parents: I was too awed by them and frankly scared of them. It probably would have done me good to have a hard adolescent or teen rift instead of the kind of simmering, passive-aggressive rift that we had.
  8. That's actually about 1000x more empathic than I would have expected from him.
  9. Staying at rehab six months shows something. Even though he doesn't have a regular-type job to go to, he's a semi-famous performer guy, which bespeaks a good amount of humility to stay six months.
  10. I know you're gone, but what about 1/6 "protestors" and anti-abortion protestors? You good with the 1/6 pardons?
  11. His unemployment numbers are gonna go to shit.
  12. Cops come and try to snatch they crops.
  13. This can be a revelatory thing for a lot of people. And it's in tension with the notion that your feelings deserve respect. They do, but they often don't deserve action or even to exist for long. It seems absurd, but if you can reach a point where you can just dismiss negative and intrusive thoughts, like literally "go away," that seems to be a turning point. Exactly how you get there can be another thing entirely. For example, the last time I got sober, I finally got to a point where I'd walk by the cooler case full of beer and think "fuck you" instead of having cravings, or anxiety. It's a bit like observing something dangerous or repulsive, just "nope." This has occurred to a greater or lesser extent with a lot of negative thinking patterns. I guess a big part of it is just recognizing it for what it is. It's like you pick it up, examine it, and determine whether it's useful or not and discard it if not.
  14. Also, this is so, so important for the bereaved to bear in mind with elderly loved ones.
  15. Oh, Donald cares tremendously about public opinion, even if he's not standing for election.
  16. Femtosecond called and wants its money back.
  17. No no, I was told that the adults are now in charge. @realgreggym Fucking cunt.
  18. I use it all the time on everything. It's solid for functionality. There are some small differences between the latest docx and the default odt format, but if your docs aren't highly formatted, it should work fine. Mine are pretty highly formatted and it works pretty well, but, I send mostly PDFs of my files to clients because I don't want them editing in-document and creating versioning and metadata problems most of the time.
  19. Great obit, friendo. Sympathies.
  20. Federal conviction doesn't broadly preclude state prosecution under double jeopardy principles. But some states preclude a second prosecution by statute. The other issue would be statute of limitations. The crimes are 10+ years old, which would run a lot of limitations. However, some limitations are "tolled" for imprisonment (seems stupid to me, really easy to locate and serve) and for being outside the state.
  21. As most know, I spend an inordinate amount of time considering sentencing and what's right and just. I think a lot of internet crimes might not happen but for the internet. It make some people crazy. I also contemplate the seriousness of drug dealing. Setting aside the rectitude of the drug war, on the one hand you have someone engaging in a profit-making venture premised on the suffering of others. On the other hand, you have a crime often fueled by either addiction or economic desperation. The former, theoretically, is abominable and deserving of serious punishment. The latter strongly mitigates that. It's quite a dilemma.
  22. Pretty much exactly. I think the constitutional argument goes like this. ICA violates separation of powers because of the take care clause, which reserves enforcement to the executive, and spending of funds is included within enforcement. On the other side, spending/appropriations are reserved to Congress, and the House specifically. And the president already has veto power as a check on spending. And, prior to ICA, SCOTUS affirmed a congressional limitation in appropriations legislation on executive impoundment in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_v._City_of_New_York. So, we know how this should go. That doesn't mean that's how it will go.
  23. Well, I think a lot of this shit is going to turn out to be massively unpopular. But Trump is a genius at deflecting blame and dodging accountability. I think it comes home to roost on whoever replaces him.
  24. Another something that's coming for bigtech. They are likely going to have some problems protecting their AI "machines" because of weaknesses they have purposely introduced into US IP law.
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