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TwiceHorn

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  1. A lot of lawyers in high profile non political positions see themselves as exemplars of righteousness, or good behavior or something. And their colleagues have the same expectations of them. Kind of like Bozo prattles on about. The modern tech bro is someone who put a gloss on the personal computer and the internet, and didn't contribute much to our lives or this country. Maybe if you want to throw Kilby, Noyce, Moore, Hewlett and Packard, and Berners-Lee in there you might be onto something. Maybe even Gates and Jobs. But fuck the rest of those incel, spectrum, socially retrograde fuckers arriving since about 2000.
  2. Also strikes me that this does coal miners, the labor, a real disservice. Coal's been on the way out for 20-30 years and I guess that sucks for miners, but they've had a good long while now to adjust and GTFO out of pennsyltucky. This is at best going to give them 3-4-5 years to work their shitty jobs and not get on with it.
  3. I mean, I haven't had one in like 15 years, but ate em regular for probably 30 prior to that and they were always round.
  4. And it very well might be now that more of this is in the open that civil attorneys take up the victims' mantle. The evidentiary requirements of a civil case are less strenuous, and you don't have the ethical questions of bringing a case that needs discovery. And the negative publicity factor probably means defendants may be anxious to settle generously to stop the bleeding. That may be less than ideal from the public standpoint, but it's something.
  5. UTA doesn't get much credit as anything but a commuter school, but I was on campus recently and found it to be actually pretty vibrant. And that area of Arlington has some "color" for a place known to be generica. Probably not a bad place to get started, at all.
  6. Sex pest amuses me terribly as well. As does "political pervert." Also, at some point during my internet explorations, I came across white supremacist message boards expressing such vile and casual racism that I couldn't do anything else but laugh. I'm also known to laugh uncontrollably at gory horror movie scenes.
  7. That has been attempted, by individual plaintiffs, probably not particularly well-funded, on several occasions. They've all gone away, one way or another, through intimidation or payoff or some other means. There are sexual exploitation plaintiffs attorneys that more or less specialize in this kind of thing and shouldn't be daunted by the deep pockets of defendants, but for whatever reasons, this hasn't been much of a thing. And that itself may be a sign that it is extraordinarily difficult to find real evidence against these fucks, from a conspiracy of silence or whatever else is going on. And one of the problems that creates for a criminal case is that that victim/plaintiff is now "on record." And the slightest deviation in their current story from any previously on record can destroy their credibility in a criminal case. As a prosecutor, you really prefer to have a "blank slate" witness and/or victim. Long story short, if there were slam dunk, or even difficult but winnable civil cases out there on this, there's no shortage of well-funded, skilled civil lawyers to take their cases and do as you say. Just like the stock market is a vehicle for "price discovery," the plaintiffs bar exists as a vehicle for viable claim discovery.
  8. Sort of amusing story about a word "adopted" as a child. At some point when I was pretty young, like second or third grade, one of my friends apparently overheard a parent or their parents calling someone a "pervert." But what he heard was "perver," no t. He knew somehow that that was not a good thing to be, so my little friend group ran around calling each other "perver" for several months, until parents told us that was a word we shouldn't be using, but without detailed explanation. Consequently, all my life, I have found the word to be funny. When an actual pervert is probably not funny at all.
  9. Yeah, kids will take in that word without understanding it and just knowing it's wrong and naughty, and therefore fun to say. Of course, that also means that that they heard that word, which might well have come along with some nastier racist screeds and indoctrination. On the other hand, to know it's naughty speaks the other way.
  10. You can legitimately question Garland's judgment as to whether to engage in "political" prosecutions that might legitimize Trump's complaints and his second-term actions. I do that all the time. That was a legitimate concern, and Garland ended up on what appears to be the wrong end of it. Still, though, even had he acted more expeditiously, it wouldn't have changed the outcome. Any allegation that Merrick Garland was unethical or immoral is out of bounds, though. Any demand that a man who has spent huge chunks of his career as a federal judge at the trial and appellate level to chuck the rule of law and imprison or incapacitate Donald Trump by any means necessary is a nice fantasy, but ultimately delusional. And, again, that does not reflect on the person in question's morality or ethics. I think Holder during the Obama administration was kind of a dumbass, but again, not unethical or immoral. US Attorneys offices across the country are filled with civil servant child sex prosecutors who are foaming at the mouth to bring federal charges against far lesser offenders than Epstein and Maxwell, regardless of administration and AG. Had they been restrained from doing their jobs by higher-ups, for political or any other purposes, we would have heard about it by now. Just as we did from the 2008 Epstein mess.
  11. Yeah, no doubt. I don't have kids, so no dog in the hunt at all. I've done a good bit of mentorship over the years, though, at work and for friend's kids given that I have or had a somewhat unusual career path that is extremely hot right now or has been for a few years.
  12. I guess one thing to consider is this. For better or worse, MBA still seems to be a solid credential for any business-y pursuit. And the best MBA programs like to see a couple of years in the real world from applicants. So, it's a decision that really doesn't need to be made now, it can and probably should be deferred until after graduation. And, even the best-laid plans of an 18 year old can change, even if it doesn't manifest in a bunch of major-changes.
  13. Sometimes, I think that's a product of the school. A lot of ivy-types and pretenders eschew the BBA as too "professional," but deliver a very similar curriculum as "economics," or sometimes you see "economics and commerce."
  14. He's Paul Dano as Damien: The College Years.
  15. Smelled like Corey's ass.
  16. We can split and fuse atoms like the creation of the universe. Then use it to create steam like it's 1870. It's still a mighty handy way to move energy around. I think, though, that the Ford class uses electric propulsion. Still steam turbine gennies, though. Deets on that stuff are hard to come by.
  17. You may be closer to "on the ground" business folks, so I'm sure you know what's up. I have observed that, at least out here in the hinterlands, accountants often seem to be presented with and successfully seize upon small-medium business opportunities. Seems many of the very successful small-medium businesses I have represented were started by an audit CPA that took a CFO position with equity or were offered a buy-in or some such.
  18. Well, do remember that about half of Wall Street or more has an undergrad in English or art history or whatever and the MBA provides whatever financial/accounting/quant horsepower most of them have. That's probably changing to favor math, CS, and engineering undergrads, though. Still, I think the MBA remains the favored credential. And MBA programs historically disfavor BBAs.
  19. If you are going out in the ocean in a relatively small boat, you need a lot of power if you want to live.
  20. And that's fine, the implications are horrific for those people and they all should have avoided this guy like the plague. So, either they're pervy or have a complete lack of judgment, or both. That doesn't mean they could have been indicted here.
  21. Signifies a switch from the old days when a BA in economics usually meant you didn't get into upper division in BBA/McCombs. Or accounting ate your lunch. How many business classes can you eke into an economics degree these days? I'm guessing close to none.
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