goodluckchuck

Where’s the coercive remedy?

Judges always mess this up. They act like their words have power. They issue one injunction, the party violates it in a flagrant manner, then the judge issues a new injunction.

You have to impose a coercive doubling fine, or something like that. Say $10 Million on day 1, $20 Million on day two, until compliance is secured.

Quality is also an undefined variable, because people may pay 10% more for an American made product that is of comparable quality, but they may also be willing to pay 110% more if the Asian counterpart is poor quality.

When you’re using the same exact photos, there’s no discernible quality difference.

A lot of the Supreme Courts decisions on commercial speech are obviously wrong and will be overturned sooner or later.

Clouds are all the same color. The darkness we see is the shadows from other clouds.

I think it’s global warming when it’s warming, climate change when things are different, and atmospheric stagnation where things haven’t changed.

I simply mean they probably knew the business didn’t have that 4 Million customers and they were probably content to buy a business that had 300k customers.

Would you have turned down an early opportunity to invest in Facebook, Reddit, Airbnb, etc, when they were in a fake it till you make it stage? It’s prudent to recognize that yes the business is cooking the books (after all we’re JPM, you don’t think we do some of that ourselves?) and yes they may also be a worthwhile bet.

Bad decision.

> Javice asked an “outside data scientist” to fabricate a list of customers when the bank asked for proof of Frank’s user data, -NBC

If they had 3 million fake accounts and didn’t catch the fraud, then they were in on it.

It’s a great deal. If the company does well, everyone wins. If it doesn’t, then you already know you can claim fraud.

At that point it’s not fraud.

Yes, the primary effect of the war has been to kill young European men, and both Russia and Ukraine… and now perhaps England and others are all too eager to see it happen.

Who are these allies you speak of? Mexico has been facilitating an invasion and I don’t really care about the drugs - people should have the right to do what they want - but that too has been killing too many Americans. Or Canada who has been tariffing our goods and then when invited to actually join the team… rebuffs our welcome with disdain?!

Also, I’m not really a big fan of the US’s military-industrial complex. They should be put in check.

The thing is you’re very confident in things you do not know. It’s much better to just not know. If you don’t understand, then maybe the other guy isn’t wrong… maybe you just don’t understand and that’s okay.

No, it’s Europe. Ukraine decided not to join the EU and the West supported a coup via the Maidan Revolution. The extent of that support? I don’t know, but at the very least we were verbally encouraging the violent overthrow of their government.

I’m talking about rhetoric and deterrence and values. When Putin was building up for war, the US was saying we’d provide money and “defensive” weapons. That’s basically an invitation. It’s saying we won’t do what it takes to win. That’s fine. If we don’t care enough to prevent it, then we can own that and let it happen without millions dying. Or, if we really won’t let that happen, then we can make that the reality and again save millions of lives.

I don’t understand how Europe seems to think that a world war among nuclear powers is the least-risky approach. If we keep fighting someone is going to start using them anyway.

Historically, an independent Europe has meant continental war after continental war, and Europe is again pushing for a continental war.

What are you implying? We had an election. People voted. What am I missing?

The war is the genocide. Putin’s invasion would have killed thousands, maybe tens of thousands and been over in a week. Western involvement changed that into the deaths of hundreds of thousands. What more effective means of self-genocide could Europe conceive? Germany cannot exactly round up a whole class of their own for slaughter again in their current political environment. The West (England, Germany, France, etc) caused WWI and WWII not Russia. Now we (America) should trust their vision to avoid WWIII? We should be clear who the problem is and stay out of it.

Eggs were getting expensive due to an egg monopoly raising prices, according to the egg monopoly. The H5N1 was just the reason given to the public.

It works for me.

Controlled hospital quality? I figure the best credentialed doctors go to the best hospitals, where patients receive a lot of other care aside from the MD.

Regardless of what is budgeted, if you have a contract then that can be enforced in federal court.

It’s not like TikTok is competing on the open market. They have massive financial backing irrespective of how much money they lose.

How cannot tell the picture contains the Eiffel Tower if the image is not decrypted?

From what the internet says, it didn’t go to the highest bidder.

I think both views are partially right. Yes, medicine has advanced. There are many areas where the treatments simply didn’t exist, even 20 years ago. There are different people involved with different incentives. However, that doesn’t mean that insurance hasn’t also had a negative effect on quality of care. The example that comes to mind the standard of care for back injuries. Treatment begins maybe with an x-ray to check for fractures, but then NSAIDs. If that doesn’t work, then physical therapy a couple times a week for a few weeks. Then patients may get an MRI a couple months later… after it’s too late to see bruising to the spinal cord. So, there’s almost never direct evidence that a herniation is work-related, and thus it isn’t covered by workers compensation. The path of escalation is designed to reduce costs, but starting with an MRI on day one is decidedly better for patient outcomes.

The underlying point of the manifesto is that insurers have corrupted medicine itself. Regardless of whether the care would be covered, the doctors were trained to diagnose and treat in a way that isn’t designed to cure, but to “care.” Sure, she had visits and specialists and diagnoses and it was largely incompetent, because incompetent doctors are cheap in a system where inaction has no real consequence.

Companies are people. People need to do stuff to justify their jobs. If they’re doing the same as everyone else, then it’s a safe change. Nobody thinks the changes are good for business, but they think they’re good for their own careers.

The leviathan is often arbitrary and capricious.

The child was kidnapped, by the police.

The cop was the danger.

What’s wrong with this? If I shop at Joe’s Grocery, then it’s no secret that I’m allowed to tell my county commissioner about the fact that Joe sold me a banana.

Are they saying that Joe can’t tell the county commission that I bought a banana?

This is all just stuff we learn. It’s basic freedom of speech.

Sure, if I paid Joe $2 to keep it secret because my wife thinks I’m allergic… that’s different.

Which, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Modern residential (and small scale commercial) construction is designed for a 30-50 year useful life. The structure may be worth renovating if the location / design remain relevant, but it’s not like there’s a huge amount of wasted value. A larger waste would be encouraging labor to be under-utilized.

Yeah. The archetypal “second amendment” weapon… the kind any regular American would need to hold his own was a musket, then a rifle, then lever or auto loader, then an M16. Now it’s a drone. A man or crew out in the country with AR15s are Don Quixote tilting at windmills with the advent of cheap drones.