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I didn't watch all of the Popok video (thx RTH!) but the story in the first part is that Popok thinks the appeals judges noticed an amount of the penalty that fell outside the statute of limitations which would reduce the corrected penalty to around the amount of the reduced bond, hence that figure....

Here's the beginning of the thread. Great read, and kaplan did not mince words. I was a bit surprised when he said 25 years because he clearly thought this was an egregious and unique case. Surprised low or surprised high? The ICP thread quotes the judge: Judge Kaplan: I know the Probation Departme...

One part of the redesign will likely be some sort of protective island around the pillars to hold ships off from colliding. Needs to account for the bow overhang over the bulbous bow, and for the sides flowing out over the kiel. They also tend to take down structures in harbours, think quay cranes....

Possible Canadian cultural awareness, numeracy, literacy, and critical thinking examination: Questions Q1: How many 1L bottles of maple syrup would it take to fill a typical ice hockey rink to the depth of the puck? Q2: Explain why many more bottles would be required to achieve this on a rink in Eur...

:snippity: hidden video :snippity: Your choice, but I am confident others here thought as I did: "oh there's a video of Donald Trump*, no explanation of content, topic, provenance, length, no way am I playing that!" Nevertheless, thank you for posting! I enjoy your contributions. :lovestr...

If, And it’s a huge if, he gets sent to prison, my guess is he’ll land a facility for elderly convicts in poor health. If Letitia James and her team get their act together, there should soon be some real estate that can be converted into appropriate residential accommodation. The Mierda Larda Penit...

Trump is a narcissist. Exactly so. And narcissism with onsetting dementia is not a foundation for any successful defense or mitigation of outcome. I spend enough hours with mildly or severely demented patients, some distressed, some contented, that I don't wish it on anybody. But Trump deserves and...

Trump really isn't that stupid — at least he wasn't back before he was so orangely obnoxious. Anybody, everybody, makes occasional slips or has "duhhh!" moments. But this chronic pattern is surely dementia rotting his brainlet, perhaps exacerbated by stress about his court cases and his no...

That's nasty! And one of those situations where the skipper and officers have very little time to work out what to do, awful. When designing fixed offshore oil & gas platforms a "push-over" analysis is sometimes required. The platform will be designed to withstand an accidental impact ...

Apple, lime, grapefruit, satsuma, orange or cherry level panic?

Robert Laity wins the entire fruit salad!

It [atheism]behaves pretty much as a religion. It has its Profits, clergy, fanatics and theology that must not be questioned. It has people who are really dogmatic and attack you if you bring up a fact that threatens their world view. If Atheism is not a religion it's doing a very good job of prete...

I like the opening sentence of the introduction: From 1789 to 2023, no former, or current, President faced criminal charges for his official acts— for good reason. Yes, "for good reason"—because they were not career criminals! The Orange Shitgibbon's argument seems to be "how could an...

Imagine if the President had similar powers in the USA! :o :hittingthefan: That'd be a neat trick. Since the President is also the head if the government (chief executive), the President would have to dismiss... checks notes ... the President. But dissolving the parliament, i.e. the senate and hous...

Those clowns are what they consider deserving? Out of a vast pool that’s what they came up with? The shortlist was Martha Stewart (woman, yes, also imprisoned fraudster), Elon Musk (prize asshole noted for his complete lack of leadership skills), Rupert Murdoch (promoter of lies and destruction of ...

The subtext is amusing, yes? There's the missing inference : "This Court has been unable to locate any treatise, statute, or holding from courts in this jurisdiction. or others, that supports Defendant's rationale … and you know that because if there were any you would have cited it. And surely...

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:21 pm Let's guess the age of the Tree / Volkswagen combo. I go for 60 years.

It's not a common dating technique for trees, probably because one doesn't often have the opportunity to compare dendrochronology with a VIN tag/plate.

bob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:34 pm The reply makes the expected argument about irreparable harm: That if the AG starts forcing properties to be sold, they'll be sold at fire-sale prices,

Does that argument have any traction in a courtroom? Or more practically, does it ever work?

Thanks for the clarification/reminder that the bond is for stay of execution, not for permission to appeal. So that negates any complaint that "unfair! we can't appeal!" which would seem unjust. We read in the affidavits that sureties rarely offer bonds over $100M. But I don't recall readi...

I agree. I don’t mean to be insensitive, but the plural/singular thing really bothers me. IOW do you say “they is” when talking about one person? Subject to correction by those more knowledgeable, my impression is that the rule in European languages is generally that the verb form matches the prono...

The affidavits (thx chancery :thumbsup: I hope you enjoy all 4919 pages of that document!) indicate sureties (the companies that might issue bonds) only accept cash, cash equivalents, or marketable financial assets as collateral security for the bond. In particular, that means they don't accept real...

bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:26 pm God bless the English language!

He did! Ask most RWNJs – God loved the language so much that he wrote his Bible in English!

They also don't think about how Citizens of different Nationalities can walk into the USA and get arrested. I'm sure they support the deportation of illegal aliens. … who by definition have not contracted to be stand under (or whatever the sovcit rubric is) the jurisdiction of US state or federal c...

Oh my! The pilot has an ejector seat!

That's even worse. What crime did she suspect had happened to get LEO involved? I wonder sometimes whether people make these obviously self-harming decisions because they're under crippling mental stress? When the rational part of the brain is squashed by stress, it's not going fulfill its role of ...

"… falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism." — no Mr Sadow, you shit-eating monkey to an orange organ-grinder, that piece of circus was an oily puddle of racist around a stinking turd of misogyny, and the justification of vigorously defending your despicable client in no...