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Kradek posted...

Man wtf the prosecution is really going to let the defense's representations of Cohen be the last lingering thoughts for the jury on Cohen? Wasn't expecting that.

I'd imagine they already have most of it baked into their closing arguments. They know Cohen is a piece of shit and they knew the Defense was going to go after it. You can't really defend the guy against being a piece of shit, so I'm going to guess closing arguments for the prosecution are going to hammer on the paper trail and that anything else about Cohen isn't particularly relevant here.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This can be used to lower your tax bracket to pay even less taxes and meanwhile the money is going to good environmental causes.

There is a common misconception around this, but that is not how tax brackets work. The tax rate on a bracket is only applied to the money in the range of that bracket, not all the money you earned.

Simple demonstrative example; there are two tax brackets, 10% for 0-100,000 and 20% for 100,000+
If you earned 150,000 dollars you do not owe 30,000 (20%) of that, you owe 10% on the first 100,000 and 20% of the 50,0000 making your tax bill 20,000. Doing things to lower the tax bracket does not change your actual rate you are paying on a dollar for dollar basis.

That's a female reproductive system!

You clearly don't know how to rich person.

1. Start a charitable foundation with myself as the sole head thereof.
2. Donate a bunch of money tax free
3. Spend that money on shit I like as part of the foundations "charitable" work.
4. Convince suckers in the public sector to donate even more money for me to spend.

It's really not even Musk, Tesla's just have such a shitty build quality that even with an amazing CEO doing all the right things no one should buy one.

Iyami posted...

Personally I call bs on that one. Making it exclusive to D+ is more Disney wanting all the Who bucks now it's on an upswing even though it's going to throttle the views vs having multiple avenues to view it.

We used to grab it on Amazon Prime video for example.

Who had been through several streaming locations( at least Max, Prime, and Netflix), but they were all much delayed internationally (unless you had BBC America I think) and did season drops after the seasons were over. This is the first time that a major streamer is getting them as they release so that is a big boon to the non British fans of Who.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Surprised the Saturn got so many votes

Guess we know which users only played a Saturn when they were kids

For overall quality of library it would hands down be the Saturn. N64 has really high highs, but a bunch of dog shit too. The PS1 just wins out by the library being incredibly expansive and having good enough games in genres that were just being invented.

Assuming each person only ever rides once and not multiple times.
The plane is more likely to crash the more trips, but I'd think we have to account for the population when the crash occurs, so we need to look at the growth of the population.

The total number of passengers at any given time is equal to the sum of all previous passengers plus 1.
So when the plan goes down just over 50% of total passengers will be harmed, except in the case of first flight crash, then it would be 100%.

I don't know that it would be 99%, but I think it would be more than 50 and I don't have the math skills to pull it off for this one. But due to the growth of population, the more flights taken the more likely you are to be on it and the more likely it is to crash.

wackyteen posted...

https://gazette.com/news/wex/the-republican-winning-an-indiana-house-primary-is-deceased/article_3d4fd04d-50de-580c-b426-92566e8e5504.html

H-how do you not know how they died? It's been 2 months. They should be buried by now. How is there no obituary? No coroner's report at least?

Like what is going on in Indiana?

I'm guessing had it been reported she died, then someone deemed undesirable by the IRP would have won. They kept the reporting down so they can pick a winner in private that will not be whomever would have won.

For $30 you can get a coaxial trace kit. You'll put a plug in both of the rooms you want to find and then go wire by wire in the image you posted testing them until you find one connected to it. Label that wire and then find the other. Then spend $2-5 on a male to male connector, you might be able to re-purpose one of the splitters, just make sure one is on input and the other on output.

You are in bad luck if you don't find a wire that matches both. This is not uncommon in homes that have undergone cable/satellite transitions and back and forth. I have coax wall outlets in my house that do not connect back to the cable source and it is infuriating.

People are really over-valuing the knowledge here. Scientific knowledge is important, but mostly useless without the skills for application of knowledge.

Compare it like this, I could go to youtube and watch hundreds of hours about rebuilding a car engine. That would make incredibly knowledgeable on how to rebuild a care engine. If I only knew it but had never done it, how good would I actually be at doing it.

Knowing everything won't necessarily make you great at using that knowledge to make the next scientific connection to the unknown. In fact you probably won't, because if you had that skill you would already be doing it.

Also, knowledge won't really help you get the perfect body. There is no scientific "right" way to get there, you'll be presented with a bunch of trial and error to find out what works for you the same as if you Googled it. And yet again that's the easy part, the application part is why people don't have perfect bodies.

Cory898 posted...

The judge should then levy a much higher fine than the law allows and claim judges should have total immunity from consequences on unlawful fines because otherwise judges would forever be afraid to pass large sentences.

Then he appeals and it is ruled a mistrial and he never faces even the tiniest of consequences. The judges have to be by the book beyond reproach, they must give him every chance and every bit of leash. It sucks watching, but it has to be this way for our institutions to survive.

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Clearly you have not heard about furry conventions.

Yeah, the phrase represents the supposition that when facing mortality people become religious.
There is of course nothing to back this up ( but you will find numerous false accounts of such and such famous atheist that found god on their death bed).

Even when it does happen I don't think you could actually call it finding religion as it is based on a transactional relationship or hedging bets and the whole point of religion is faith without guarantee.

solosnake posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bde42c5a.jpg

Half of those are from China and I'm sure very legitimate sales.

As to the stock price, while massively overvalued, most of the valuation didn't have anything to do with the cars, it was the batteries, the super-chargers, and "self-driving" capabilities promised and how that might affect the Trucking industry.
Their build quality has always been crap, it was not new to the Cybertruck, just that more people were paying attention now.

solosnake posted...

They are gonna have to slash the car prices even more before q2 is up in june. Gonna be a good time to get a cheap tesla

Funny, it's not possible to buy anything other than a cheap Tesla.

But mah freedom of press, how can we be expected to report the news if we don't have absolute immunity.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Why did Virtua Fighter stop at 5 and yet we have 9 tekkens? I remember VF4 being the highest rated fighter of its time.

As part of Sega looking back at older IP's they are at least considering re-launching Virtua Fighter as a modern competitor, so it may not be as dead as it appears.

A lot of people are saying things in this topic that have zero to do with Net Neutrality and I don't know why that is.

All Net Neutrality means is that ISP's are not allowed to engage in blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of traffic.

A good analogy is that an ISP is like the Post Office in this case. All your internet traffic is bundled into packets that are all the same size like a standard letter.and the ISP is responsible for delivering these messages back and forth between people.
Blocking would mean that I can send mail, but if I send mail to Phil they just throw it in the trash, blocking it.
Throttling would be where if I send mail to Phil they put it aside in a box and don't continue trying to deliver it until tomorrow.
Paid prioritization, is actually a thing the Post Office does (next day air, priority mail, etc), but the key difference is that those services have no impact on the regular post mail.

Paid prioritization is the most tricky, and also hard to directly relate to the Post Office because the ISP fear is that they combine throttling with prioritization to squeeze consumers. The Post Office is not going to be able to slow down the regular post in order to drive sales of priority.
For an ISP it is as simple as them deciding Phil get too much mail, if you want to mail Phil you need to pay us extra or it will take a long time to get there.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/71a01863.jpg

Everybody is all free market capitalism until their racist rants cause their job to see them as a liability instead of an asset.

pretzelcoatl posted...

I feel like this is delusional. Gun ownership is low on the left and they also seem to be the first people to claim that small arms don't work against the government.

To be fair, small arms won't work against the government if they have the full backing of the military. If the military is lock step with 2025 then settle in for the long haul because even if every armed civilian left and right wanted to stand against them they would fall. Best case for actual revolution is if the military splits in a close to equal factions.Even that is more likely to lead to regional factions and never a reformation of the US as a whole.

I don't think there is much fear of them saying a President has total immunity, I'm more concerned that they are willing to find a narrow ruling that says he is immune in all these instance. The old, we're not saying you are totally immune, but all this was fine.

divot1338 posted...

Its really a trade reciprocity issue more than anything.

Ill post again the list of all American media companies allowed to operate in China.

Im done.

Oh yeah, China bad, we should definitely be exactly like them, that will show them.

Too limp, so I just order them well done and then they are better than just about any other place.

CableZL posted...

Gag order hearing coming up. I'll happily allow Judge Merchan to beat my expectations, but I'm not gonna expect anything more than the $1000 fine.

I think it will be quite a bit more, but jail time is not going to be on the table for the first violation.

Family Guy, one more season and then it will go away

Amakusa posted...

A hung jury leading to a mistrial does not lead to double jeopardy because that result brings the trial to a standstill with no resolution. Double Jeopardy applies when there's a final resolution to the case. Their actual angle from that point would be to go after the judge or the prosecutor for procedural violations.

As it stands today, but you didn't read my whole post, but now I have time to source it so hopefully you can understand it better.

The foundation for retrial is from 1824, US vs Perez, which ruled based not on the Constitution but rather English Common Law that jeopardy does not attach until the verdict is rendered.

However, in Downum v US (1963), Crist v Bretz (1978), and Martinez v Illinois (2014), the Supreme Court has consistently held that the federal rule for trial by jury is that jeopardy attaches when a trial jury is sworn.

Should any of Donald's jury trials end in a mistrial or hung jury you can guarantee that he will take any attempts to re-try him to the SC and there is a very good chance he wins given which way they lean.

Amakusa posted...

No, it's not. Mistrials can be tried again. For one or both side(s) that can be detrimental to their case just as much as it could help them.

Well, maybe can be retried, it is about as settled as Roe v Wade was. The basing for hung juries and mistrials to be retried was on a ruling that decided that jeopardy is not attached until the verdict is decided. But more recent than that the Supreme Court has ruled jeopardy attaching when the jury is seated.

So should there be a hung jury or mistrial, fully expect a case before the SC on DJT claiming double jeopardy.

I wanna see his beans.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Youd never make it in the nba because you cant defend any of the players and your shot would get blocked most of the time

If you are taller than average you won't have any real problem getting a shot off, especially since you know you can't miss so you are only worrying about not getting blocked. Defense is a little more troublesome, but there are plenty of not great defenders in the league, so if you can get ok at playing your zone you are absolutely. Hell if it was somehow known you can't miss you could probably just get paid to be an end of game clutch shooter.

Tyranthraxus posted...

tbh not sure why I said 10 days but they are giving him time to correct, I just don't know how long. Here's the source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-supreme-court-temporarily-rejects-trump-s-175m-bond-paperwork-over-missing-details/ar-BB1l65pv

So that is around a clerical, hey you didn't give us all the things you were supposed to. James also filed a motion about whether the Knight Group is legally allowed to post the bond and Engoron has scheduled a hearing on that matter for April 22nd.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/05/possible-trump-bond-rejection/73216105007/

Whether failure to meet procedure or disqualification of Knight will give him another bite at the apple to post bond before James can start collecting assets is a big I don't know.

So instead we are going to vote for Trump who is in favor of ...*checks notes* ... genociding even harder.

Truly a moment of be quiet the adults are speaking here.

mystic_belmont posted...

Trying that in a civil suit is dumb, trying it for a criminal trial is insanity.

I think it is just that they know they have a losing case, so barring some bat shit crazy immunity hail mary all they have is trying to convince the populace that he is being railroaded.

voldothegr8 posted...

By law in most states objectively true. The merging lane must yield to the trough lane. Nobody is obligated to let those fuckers in. Honestly it's the over polite fucks who are gumming up the works letting them in.

Please name a state, because I couldn't find one.

If we ramped up pushing treason charges and backed those convictions up with the death penalty, would that be enough to get the loonies in line again or have we just gone too far?

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This is the real answer, unless you really really need a car and have no other way.
Like if you had bought 100k of an index fund 20 years ago it would be worth about 300k today. Future you would feel a lot more secure.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/23/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/

tldr; Middle-income households those with an income that is two-thirds to double the U.S. median household income had incomes ranging from about $48,500 to $145,500 in 2018

voldothegr8 posted...

In my state teaching that would contradict the law. The merging lane must yeild to the through lane. Pretty sure most states are the same. A few weird ones state neither have right away.

Do you mind saying what state, because a quick look didn't turn up any states where what you said is true, but I only looked at 5 states quickly.

Free flowing traffic, merge when clear.
Congestion, zipper at the merge point.

They really should make it part of the driver examination.

ClayGuida posted...

I'm still curious as to why his tax valuation is low but his credit valuation is high.

You pay taxes on what something is worth, not what you say it's worth. You can't tell the state or city that your home is worth $10,000 and expected to get taxed on that then turn around and leverage it as worth tens of millions. That's not how property taxes work.

If MAL is worth 18 billion, then his property tax in WPB should be astronomical, not lower than what I pay for a 1800 square foot house.

You don't tell the State what your property is worth for purposes of property tax, they tell you, and then you can argue with them if you think the assessor was too high. Trump's numbers though are business valuations, so the value of the property plus whatever income it can generate. So the State likely values all of his properties much lower than what he is using in his business valuations ( in of itself not unusual, local assessors generally undervalue properties against what it would really get on the market) and he has an outlandish sense of self worth and penchant for outright lying that drive his figure for income generated to astronomical proportions.

Those other business owners hand-wringing about they could be next is because it is pretty much standard to lie on all these things because they are derived from assessments and not facts, but Trump took it to a whole new level of bullshit. Hopefully not all of them are as crooked as him, but well...

Looks like another live service battle pass thing, I thought everyone hated those?

Maybe he should try referencing good movies?

ClayGuida posted...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/18/supreme-court-new-mexico-griffin-00147547

Make it make sense. Supreme Court rules that this guy can't run for politics but Trump can.

You can't really, but their reasoning will be that it is an election purely within the state. The problem with that of course is that a presidential election is also entirely within a state, there exists no such thing as a federal ballot.