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  1. Well I think there are signs of psychopathy that probably become fairly apparent in the criminal history of defendants. So you're not working off a single offense and sentence most of the time. And yeah I think property crimes should be treated pretty differently from those against persons.
  2. I tend to think 30 years should represent the upper bound for all but the most heinous felonies. One thing that seems pretty clear is that people start to "age out" of crime in middle age, and 30 years gets a teen or young adult pretty squarely there.
  3. In Texas, manslaughter and "sudden passion" murder are both second degree felonies, with a sentencing range of 2 to 20 years. So, to an extent, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
  4. The police report/arrest affidavit said something about finding it folded.
  5. Well, and has the most powerful economy on earth and the most valuable currency as a result. Start weakening those, and that debt may become a bit of a problem.
  6. The difference being that UT is getting it from both Trump and state government. I'm not sure what legal remedies universities have against this, if any. I'm not reading much about legal pushback on this.
  7. I feel naked without a pocketknife on me and have for a long time, going back to high school. I don't think carrying even a small knife was looked upon particularly favorably in my day, but it mostly depended on whether you flashed it around or not. This was before the days of metal detectors and at one of the whitest hs in the state. I likely would have been one of those depositing a knife on the table, unless I thought it would be confiscated.
  8. And, after all that shizz, expired for failure to pay second maintenance fee.
  9. That seems pretty unjustifiable, even under the constraints administrators are operating under today.
  10. I don't care if they do have a transactional group, those fucking Wall Street fucks like Skadden should all turn in their law licenses.
  11. The whole program has been obliterated, apparently, and recently too. Or maybe restyled without the "DEI" stuff. https://uthscsa.edu/biomedical-sciences/programs/certificate-pre-professional She was a researcher/student? Or an administrator? That's fucking disgusting.
  12. That's uber-petty. But here is something they did do. https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/former-national-security-officials-take-aim-at-trumps-biglaw-executive-orders-in-amicus-brief/ The brief, filed by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School and Susman Godfrey, takes particular aim at “the President’s attempt to invoke national security to justify this punitive, retributive, ad hominem Order.” Trump's attempt to create presidential power by encanting "foreign affairs" and "national security" over matters having little or nothing to do with either is probably the grossest abuse of his powers, notwithstanding its lack of effect on little people.
  13. On a related note, Dominion just won a judgment that Newsmax defamed them as a matter of law. Trump appointee McFadden enjoined the White House from keeping AP out of the press pool.
  14. Goddamn. They'd better. What did they do to draw Trump's ire?
  15. Ackshually probably engineering MANAGER. There is a difference. That she's a degreed engineer probably helps.
  16. Ohhhh, that was your federal job. interdasting. Examiner? And yeah it is possible to continue to prosecute an application without an inventor's signature, but the more important issue really is the assignment. Without it, the inventor could potentially license all your competitors, immunizing them from suit.
  17. Who is that sniveling cunt?
  18. So, there seem to be rumors afoot that companies and entities engaged in "DEI" could face adverse action from the EEOC. As we should already know, proving employment discrimination is extraordinarily difficult. @safe sex Trump's EEOC admits that a) DEI has no definition and as such not illegal; and b) you still have to prove employment discrimination under the existing legal framework. https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-dei-related-discrimination-work So, it will be interesting to see if the courts change the law to make proof of discrimination easier.
  19. The optics and the big picture for Whitmer are appalling. On a more micro or local level, I suspect she's trying to help (and secure the votes of) Michigan auto workers. And maybe thinks she can be a gauardrail that the cabinet and Congress have so far refused to be.
  20. That's just an example. The working conditions on assembly lines and hours are atrocious. And the management style, even for professionals like engineers and patent agents, makes Gunny Hartman look like a pussy.
  21. I have visited the Foxconn facility in Shenzhen, granted it's been 10-15 years. They were spraypainting computer chassis hanging from hooks in an open-air building with the windows and doors open. They might have had paper face masks. I have seen the nets on the dormitory buildings. It's bad.
  22. Well, I think it's accurate that the fear that Trump generates stems from two things: 1) his ability to deliver "the base;" and 2) more recently, his threats/ability to financially oppose through Musk and the funding apparatus. But 1) has been kind of hit and miss; a lot of Trump candidates have failed miserably even in red districts, but 2) remains a problem for those who buck the orange God. I am fairly stunned, though, by the law firms' anticipatory capitulation to something that is so clearly unlawful. As shocking as Trump's 2024 victory was, it was relatively narrow and likely based on "the economy stupid." So, I think it may be easily squandered.
  23. It depends on the state. Patent ownership is a matter of state law. The first place to find an obligation to assign is any employment agreement, but it's shocking how many technical employers omit that from their employment agreements. If there isn't such a clause in the employment contract, it's unclear. The state law where you worked or that purports to control the employment agreement might supply the answer. A very few states have a statute that controls. California has one, but it doesn't much clarify the situation. https://california.public.law/codes/ca_lab_code_section_2870 I have seen and participated in a few cases trying to force inventors to sign declarations and assignments. In the usual case, the obstreperous inventor finds the lawsuit unworthy of the cost of defense and the former employer can be persuaded that five figures or so directed to the inventor can be more worthwhile than directed to attorneys fees. As a point of information, though. If you are an inventor that has not assigned to your former employer, you are a co-owner of the patent and can license it to your employer's competitors freely without owing compensation. So it'a a potentially nasty situation for your former employer.
  24. I think more than being unafraid of consequences, he's too stupid and self-obsessed to foresee consequences. Also, that bit that bolverk posted about him controlling the media, but not wholly the public, may be spot on.
  25. This is where the rubber might actually hit the road. Trump for now controls the GOP funding apparatus and had guys like Musk and Thiel that can threaten to money-whip a primary opponent. But if others pull their contributions from the GOP apparatus, and redirect funds, they can counter that and Trump's stranglehold on the GOP may slip a bit, or even a lot.
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