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It could have been disingenuous. Maybe they knew the judge wouldn't go for it.
As for her not cooperating: would you rather SBF skate free?
I don't know what the case against SBF would have looked like without her, and I suspect you don't, either.
As for Diddy: a real, disinterested DOJ would say, "oh, you can testify against <people more famous than you>? Well, we might be able to cut you a deal."
Of course, if the DOJ is not interested in prosecuting those people, then no deal. If they think Diddy is already important enough and they can't let him slide, then no deal, or at least, a medium-stiff sentence.
Finally, two years in prison is not a picnic. See if you want to do it.
Cheer, cheer for old Pivnick Tech
We're gonna get it right in the neck.
Send a sound of Taps on high,
While Pivnick lays down to die, die, die.
What though the odds be great or small,
Old Pivnick Tech will fumble the ball.
While her undergrads get sick, and
Transfer to USC!
read https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Inventing inflated words to make something old sound like a fresh crisis is indeed debasement and pollution. I guess you don't know or care what that is.
So don't tell me what to say. You can keep doing it and I can keep calling it out, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
Companies that spend a lot of time defining their "company culture" are not going to have accomplishments. The "HP Way" only got codified long after it had emerged organically.
You can't explain it in terms of anything else, which was sorta my original point. Maybe he could have been more touchy-feely in his answer, but that wasn't his nature.
I'd love to have a real physicist explain this, but:
When we think of what a particle IS, we often think as though it were dirt, or a billiard ball, or something. As though there were some other substance of which it's made. At least I do.
But the definition is as low as you can go. It's hard to wrap your head around that. Unless you're trained to do so, I guess.
Stopping the deliberate debasement and pollution of our language. That's what I'm gaining. Or trying to.
Call it what it is ("traffic accidents"), and we can stop arguing. Other countries have fewer accidents? OK, that's worth talking about. I didn't "miss the nuance" because I'm not responding to that right here.
Or "bad road engineering" if that's what you want to talk about.
"Traffic violence" is not a thing. Call them "traffic accidents" as we always have, and we can move on.
And then, of course, bicyclists often run into other bicyclists, or into pedestrians. So now there's "bicycle violence"?
Soccer players often get injured, or get into fights. So there's "soccer violence"?
The smarter companies will say, "Good. More for me!"
Look at the quality. It's self-assessed, but you can look at a seller's ratings. You can also ask them questions and ask for a photo.
As for costs: there's no "strategy." Add it up.
> Python is Esperanto
No, it's not. Esperanto never caught on with ordinary speakers.
Language matters.
What was wrong with "traffic accidents"? People had gotten used to it so you had to invent something new?
The government is protected for speech related to its duties, in clearly spelled out ways.
we were talking about the law, as I recall.
> Anyway, a mall is a public space
malls have been held to be public spaces, but not the insides of the stores.
I predict a case about this will reach the Supreme Court in the next few years.
It should be straight-out illegal. Governments do not have "free speech" rights.
As for private citizens doing it: I think there are already sufficient laws about recording people without their consent. You can hire someone to stand on a corner and watch for a specific person to walk by, but a law prohibiting you from recording everyone who walks by is most likely going to withstand a court review. It's a question of scale.
However, if there's a city planning board hearing on your application to remodel your house, you're not entitled to a jury. The IRS can assess penalties without a jury. So it's not as simple as "you have a right to a jury trial." The PTO awarded your patent, a process that might have included multiple appeals, without juries. Not all administrative procedures allow juries.
I attended one day of the Apple v. Samsung trial in San Jose. Google had a "war room" (I assume Apple did, too), which was a suite in a hotel where we had meals brought in, and held all the work product. You can't risk sitting around in a restaurant and having people overhearing and bothering you. The war room has a guard outside 24x7.
Expert witnesses are transported there and housed, and paid anywhere from $300 to $900 an hour. Most of the legal staff don't live in that city and have to travel there. Partners in big law firms bill at $1000 an hour or so.
Big money.
Now I wish I knew Uncle Vanya better.
That WAS what you intended, right?
small claims courts don't have a jury.
If you're suing a giant company and asking for hundreds of millions in damages, they're for sure going to pull out all the stops. It's not My Cousin Vinny.