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“The diligence and sophistication of those the defendant and his co-conspirators targeted during this scheme to defraud are not appropriate considerations at trial,” prosecutors noted. “Indeed, in proving a scheme to defraud, the government is ‘not required to show that the intended victim was actually defrauded.’ […] Nor should the defendant be able to use his and his co-conspirators’ own ruse against their victims by suggesting that, had they only asked certain questions or taken certain steps, they would have known that they were being provided false or misleading information.” [citations omitted] the sucker born every minute defense? well, ok then. on a lighter note... also, edit: and is good to know not every person from tennessee supports book burning... or is a gop law maker. HA! Good Fun!

unless is an extreme new home, is unlikely a wood foundation. chances are what you have is a raised foundation, which would explain the steps. raised foundation is having concrete footing and piers and is sometimes referred to as a crawlspace foundation in places other than the west. raised foundations has wood 4x4 posts and joists involved, but the actual foundation is gonna be concrete... unless you is sooperfancy and got space-age pressure treated wood which replaces the concrete elements. slab foundations is notoriously problematic in many neighborhoods o' the sacramento area. the most common reason for going with raised foundations is also why you have steps. for a slab you need grade the property flat(ish). no steps if flat, yes? however, grading property beyond small degrees is ill-advised if you got a whole lotta clay in the soil 'cause post grade, the water runs along the original clay layers. improper drainage is the most common cause o' foundation failure. this is also the reason why if you are adding a pool to a property in the area, is best not to go cheap, 'cause like slab foundations, for a pool you need go to relative extreme lengths to avoid significant/catastrophic cracks and leaks. HA! Good Fun!

we got an ex, call her kim, who still jokingly credits us with her marriage. we met her in college and managed to stay friends with her. kim ended up dating a serious football junkie and so she came to us for help 'cause, "didn't you play football?" ... serious? when we were dating, approx 1/3 o' our waking hours were dedicated to football and kim only had some vague recollection we played the sport? whatever. anyways, we got a hard time saying no to a serious appeal for help, plus we were also friends with kim's sister and mother (and yeah, am knowing that sounds weird) so were triple difficult to do other than acquiesce. so we explained cover 0-6 and the various man v. zone permutations as well as how a qb reads a defense before the snap. taught her how to identify the "mike" backer, which isn't always the middle lb, and why that is such an important aspect o' the qb read. etc. after more than a dozen hours o' the Gromnir Clinic, (we even had a film tutorial) kim knew a fair 'mount o' football, particular defensive side o' the ball. unfortunately, her newly acquired football acumen intimidated her beau and they broke up, but the next guy she dated felt same as you, that sports knowledge in a gf is sexy, and they got married and thus far have lived happily ever after. HA! Good Fun!

is apocryphal... unlikely true it were said by twain. however, am gonna admit the sentiment feels true regardless o' who first said. if you have lived some place on the left coast where there is a significant convection effect that draws in cold and fog, then summers often involve dreary and cold mornings with the sun not being visible 'til sometime after noon. the thing is, the afternoon burn off o' fog and damp don't always happen. HA! Good Fun!

the field of dreams game from last year were the only complete baseball game we has seen in decades. we gave up on baseball during the strike season in 94 and have rare looked back. 'course we got lucky the field o' dreams game were so good... can likely go w/o baseball for another quarter century. we do recall how watching a giants games during the summer at candlestick park while we were in college were one o' our worst baseball memories... 'cause o' the cold. got unexpected fog and wind while wearing a t-shirt and shorts? were embarrassing for a guy who lived through blizzards in the dakotas and chicago, but were a summer game at candlestick which emasculated us. HA! Good Fun!

since J. Barrett joined The Court there has been at least seven times J. Roberts ended up on the short side o' a 5-4 shadow docket decision and none o' those shadow docket decisions offered us a chance to "read the opinion." the only surprise is J. Roberts finally spoke up 'bout the manner in which the shadow docket is being abused. is not as if anybody is gonna confuse J. Roberts with the late J. John Paul Stevens-- J. Roberts is hardly going rogue by finally speaking up 'bout what should be an all too obvious abuse o' authority. please keep in mind it is not gonna be a surprise if this Court turns back the clock on voting rights by decades and finally ends roe v. wade. like it or not, there is legal arguments supporting both such conclusions, and in the case o' roe, is amazing The Court hasn't already addressed the relevant legal aberration which has managed to lurch 'cross decades, but the current state o' law is that roe is controlling precedent and section 2 of the vra is still a thing as o' 8 april 2022. clean water act? oh sure, has been law since 1972, getting bipartisan support at the time it were made law, but this Court don't mind undermining it by means o' a shadow docket decision with no opinion to justify the action. the shadow docket decisions which undermine existing statutory law and precedent w/o a written opinion to support is a shock the conscience level o' judicial activism. HA! Good Fun!

we did. and is amusing how quick we went from "every second post," to "the post." *chuckle* it was a, they are all bad post by sarex. context, yes? am not reading every one of your posts (lord no) and have been avoiding the ukraine stuff, but you did indeed claim that russians were avoiding civilian casualties when that were never really a thing save in russian-relative terms. if you later realized how bluderific were such an observation, then good for you. am nevertheless waiting for a link to all those posts, "every second post," where you condemn putin and russia. but feel free to whataboutism yourself deeper with imaginary ukraine posts from Gromnir... or are you speaking o' general embarrassing posts by Gromnir? *shrug* seems kinda off-topic, but have at it. HA! Good Fun!

edit: HA! Good Fun! ps have mentioned previous, but donkeys is just 'bout the most underappreciated domesticated animal evar. they are at least as smart as dogs and as likely to bond with humans. most got sweet dispositions and is quite affectionate, though they tend to be territorial, which makes 'em excellent guard "dogs" and they is fantastic at dealing with coyotes. growing up on a ranch, our favorite critters were our burros, and little in our experience over the years has changed that opinion.

*chuckle* oh, wait, you were being serious? okie dokie. can't recall last time you specific mentioned putin, much less an overt criticism, but your usual posts don't garner our attention so is possible we missed; too likely to embrace conspiracy nonsense for us to bother reading. we do recall the russians making "steady progress" and avoiding civilian casualties in your expert estimation, while simultaneous doing the whataboutism/false equivalency schtick we describe. oh, sure, we got an obligatory they are all bad actors post in there somewhere, but hardly the hyperbolic "every second post." history suggests your actual your future posts will focus on the evil western devils and the underappreciated successes and civility o' the russians on the battlefield, though am recognizing you likely have enough sense to not repeat your avoiding civilian casualties blunder anytime soon. but hey, if you don't believe the criticism applies to you, feel free to ignore it. a few recent replies in this thread already makes us look a bit like étienne eugène azam even if you believe you are somehow not deserving to be lumped in with our generalization. that said, am admitted curious to see how long it takes before your next nato/us are the real villains post, but am admitted not caring enough 'bout you specific to track such. HA! Good Fun! ps am not gonna get roped into a debate 'bout ukraine btw. we avoided pre-invasion, noting how board pundits were setting themselves up to look stoopid. when russia invaded, were a complete lack o' self awareness by many o' the redditt cellar trolls who, in spite o' being dramatic proven wrong, nevertheless blundered forward with new predictions... following same pattern o' failure as pre-invasion. the situation in ukraine is an unnecessary calamity and we got no desire to gawk at the wreckage.

am a bit surprised by @Theonlygarby concerns regarding the shield maze sword. is the only sword which fits what is being described... although it don't in fact fit the complaints. the sword ain't equipable in a weapon slot, which should be immediate apparent. is also impossible to bypass or miss the encounter. is hard to imagine one is playing wotr w/o awareness o' mythic paths, so one should be aware that forgoing an angel's sword won't cripple gameplay, yes? am s'posing there is the possibility o' a player making a reasonable assumption that at some point the shield maze sword would become capable o' being equipped then again, we didn't assume we were eventual gonna get deskari's scythe 'cause we saw it in the first moments o' the game, leading us to build the ultimate scythe haver... which is not a terrible idea regardless. converse, seelah does present us with the conundrum @Theonlygarby understandably mistakes as problematic, but not 'cause o' the shield maze sword. HA! Good Fun!

newsflash to putin defenders: if you thought the US and NATO were bad in january 2022, the events o' the past couple months don't make 'em less bad. *shrug* at this point you gotta expect the false equivalency, whataboutism, deflection and outright lies. is part o' the playbook. nevertheless, people have difficulty letting go o' a narrative in which they is complete invested. NATO & US = bad. ok, fine. the russian invasion o' the ukraine doesn't make NATO and US less bad, but somehow the defenders o' putin reflexive work hard to frame russian actions as a balancing equation. again, what happened in bucha, grozny and aleppo (just a few notable examples) doesn't make the US and/or NATO the good guys; is no need to constant fight that battle, but the putin defenders and the folks who has spent decades invested in the idea that the world's problems is all linked to western imperialism are unable to change tactics. is perfect reasonable and rational to see US as the worst o' the worst while simultaneous recognizing russian behaviors with the same suspicion individuals has previous reserved for the west. HA! Good Fun! edit: but, not bust. sheesh.

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Chief Justice Roberts joins with liberals to criticize 'shadow docket' as court reinstates Trump-era EPA rule "The majority's move, Kagan insisted, signals the court's view of the merits even though the applicants have failed to make the irreparable harm showing "we have traditionally required." "The emergency docket, she said, "becomes only another place for merits determination -- except without full briefing and argument." "The five conservative justices did not explain their reasoning for reinstating the Trump-era rule." ... for those individuals who held their nose and voted for trump 'cause they wanted a conservative Court, this is kinda the monkey paw result. in 2022 you got the s'posed limited fed power Justices collective making merit-based decisions on topics as diverse as epa rules, the franchise and free exercise o' religion, and is not as if the Court is taking a consistent federalist approach to state power neither. if a state wants to limit access to abortion or the right to vote, the Court now bends over backwards and in spite o' current precedent defers to individual states, but if is free exercise or an epa rule then the Court skews in favour o' fed authority? why? 'cause o' the relative importance o' issues to current conservative groupthink? a conservative majority has resulted in an acceleration o' judicial activism, which is so not what the libertarians and traditional conservatives were expecting when they applauded mitch mcconnel's machinations which resulted in a J. Gorsuch instead o' J. Garland. gonna repost a recent J. Scalia quote: The people know that their value judgments are quite as good as those taught in any law school--maybe better. If, indeed, the "liberties" protected by the Constitution are, as the Court says, undefined and unbounded, then the people should demonstrate, to protest that we do not implement their values instead of ours. Not only that, but confirmation hearings for new Justices should deteriorate into question and answer sessions in which Senators go through a list of their constituents' most favored and most disfavored alleged constitutional rights, and seek the nominee's commitment to support or oppose them. Value judgments, after all, should be voted on, not dictated; and if our Constitution has somehow accidently committed them to the Supreme Court, at least we can have a sort of plebiscite each time a new nominee to that body is put forward." --J. Scalia, planned parenthood v. casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) the shadow docket shenanigans by the Court should be garnering more attention. HA! Good Fun!

is worth remembering how the bullet bit were actually lifted from an old johnny carson show and the character o' raylan gives credit in a subsequent episode-- is actual kinda a creative way to recognize the source o' the bullet line... doing with the characters in the show in an organic way which advances narrative. overall is an excellent show and has loads o' signature elmore leonard dialogue. is one reason why the chadwick boseman episode is so disappointing. the supporting cast marshals is not used much in the show, but one o' the extreme few installments o' the show when rachel brooks is having a significant contribution is also one o' the more terrible offerings, in no small part 'cause o' the clumsy handling o' minority characters who is painful stereotypes as 'posed to meaningful characters. HA! Good Fun!

one obvious negative for justified is exemplified by the chadwick boseman episode. cringey is an understatement. is also a season five episode where a bad guy, boyd crowder, needs go to detroit. *groan* the show has questionable success integrating minority characters w/o making them caricatures. justified is best when it sticks to hillbillies and rednecks. HA! Good Fun! ps david foley were in the detroit episode. portrayed, as far as we could tell, a mid-level boss in the canadian mafia. serious. foley had a couple lines which near any actor coulda' delivered after which he were never seen or referenced again on the show. weird cameo.

literal first five seconds explains what is wrong with the english language. newspaper headline: ye olde time spelling bee in town again "ye" looks like it would be pronounced yee, yes? no. weird isn't the exception. for every spelling rule there is enough exceptions as to make having a rule comical. grammar is only slight less problematic as odd punctuation rules confuse even those who teach english and tenses ain't straight forward neither. explain lie v. lay in simple terms. then explain again when somebody picks up faulkner's as i lay dying and is justifiably perplexed. there is future tense and future perfect tense, but also contractions for future perfect which is used reflexive by native speakers but may be baffling to those less familiar with conversational english. kinda a mess. HA! Good Fun!

gotta admit, if as a teen we had a similar photo o' a parent working through the anger stage, we woulda' found ways to replicate it ad nauseum even with admitted far more limited early 80s technology. we did have photography as an elective in high school, so perhaps we coulda' managed to find a way to even garner school credit with the image. almost goes w/o saying we woulda' had the photo affixed to the outside o' at least one trapper keeper. etc. as a parent, you don't get take backsies. HA! Good Fun!

ff to ~2:00. scene recent came to mind. were a couple times we almost did the kirkland move while we were management, but we instead opted for straight-up and honest. as wacky as it sounds, somebody not so long ago tried this play on us, asking for our help in a not so transparent effort to get our buy-in on something they knew we would be reluctant to endorse. were a bit patronizing and not just 'cause the effort were so clumsy. more to the point, while has been years since we watched justified, am somewhat disturbed by how often a scene from the show comes to mind 'cause were relevant to something we experience(d)... sans the gunfire, emulex and southern accents. HA! Good Fun! ps we did not at all identify with raylan givens, though we do have a 10x stetson cowboy hat which we has had for decades, but is more than a bit battered and we only use when working outdoors as 'posed to using as a fashion accessory. (edit) the last few years, during the summer we use a straw (technical palm leaf) cowboy hat/sombrero when working outside. the stetson is water resistant (to a degree) but it also gets kinda hot.

so you do wanna split hairs? limitations v. problems? serious? fine. quibble away, but do so w/o our contribution. am also not sure what constitutes "major interest." no doubt you will wanna precise define what that entails given the gulf you see 'tween limits and problems. regardless, to paraphrase, "we never said there would be major interest." in any event, am certain even amentep sees the difference 'tween the potential appeal to authors and artists o' having access to the steamboat willie character o' mickey v. batman once they enter public domain. intentional false equivalency? those who wanna slap the image o' mickey on a backpack to sell is not gonna be the same folks wanting to do a batman story w/o needing pay for the privilege to do so while simultaneous being constrained by the continuity. and with each response, we get further away and say less and less. so it goes. HA! Good Fun!

wow, need wait an additional year for joker... after near a century? a whole year? well that ends the discussion. *shrug* and yeah, you did indeed observe how the inability to make use o' continuity and origin stories would be limits on a prospective user o' a public domain batman. is not as if somebody hypnotized you, so were also intentional. wanna quibble as to whether such qualifies as "problematic," then be our guest; am not gonna get into that level o' hair splitting. *chuckle* and folks accuse Gromnir o' indulging sophistry and semantics, eh? once again, the steamboat willie example is what makes mickey and batman different. mickey is recognizable as an image more than a character. the reverse is true for batman. the visual trappings o' batman has dramatic changed over the decades, but there is aspects o' the character which has become ingrained in the public consciousnesses whether you are a comic book fan or not. you brought up the origin story o' batman, yes? is gonna be a noteworthy % o' the adult US population aware o' the origin stories o' batman and superman, which is precise why the author o' a new batman story won't need to reexamine yet again. what is the origin story and history of mickey mouse? if there is a mickey origin story, how many people care? the character o' mickey is not consequential to the ip the way that the characters o' superman and batman is. when steamboat willie becomes public domain, there won't be a rush to remake steamboat willie stories and you won't be able to sell coffee mugs with an image o' mickey on 'em just 'cause steamboat willie entered the public domain. converse, anybody who wants to do a batman story and not a knockoff is gonna have relative free reign to do so, and they won't need pay the copyright holder or licensee for the right to try. for the first time artists and authors will be free o' the continuity. batman, the character, is a far different animal from the mickey character. HA! Good Fun! ps removed a repeat and added an "indulging"

gonna admit we were slight disappointed prince were wearing a blue jacket and hat in the video. edit: prince did wear a blue jacket during arguable his most iconic performance HA! Good Fun!

the entire continuity? this isn't serious is it? the entirety o' the continuity o' a comic book character which has been around for decades, a continuity which most people is unaware and even those who do know will roll their eyes when reflecting 'pon. the "entire continuity" o' dracula is one novel 'bout half the length o' your average wot offering. entire continuity o' robin hood is gonna be the ****tail napkin depth o' the ordinary hollywood pitch. recall you brought up conan, yes? most people got no idea o' the continuity o' conan (only one novels and a bunch o' short stories), and am betting even amongst those who do care, virtual none is invested in the continuity o' conan from the comic books. kinda looking at it bass akwards on the continuity thing too. if a 2022 author or artist wants to do a batman story they need respect dc and get oks from the powers that be for any batman story they might wish to do. the prospective artist need functional pay for the opportunity to use the batman character and they must also be limited by those folks who is given power to decide which aspects o' the continuity is too precious to be altered or even explored. am suspecting the main obstacle the continuity provides to doing a public domain batman is the fact that unless you are a serious comic book geek, is unlikely you know all the batman stories and therefore is a fair chance whatever new batman story want to do may already have been done. needing comb through the continuity to make sure you ain't ripping off copyright by accident is gonna be a necessary annoyance for anybody desiring to do a new batman. oh, and the iconic origin story is as you point out, known. is one aspect almost everybody knows already. the writer o' an aging batman story won't need explicit mention the trauma o' young bruce wayne. will be able to reference oblique to some kinda childhood trauma and is not gonna trigger trademark or copyright as is too vague, but audiences will know, just as they got a notion (often wrong) o' the origins and stories o' other iconic characters such as dracula. again, smallville did what you seem to think is problematic quite successful. sure, many iconic batman or superman stories and the weight o' their respective rogues gallery is gonna initial be off limits, but am thinking you way undersell the possibilities for those wanting to get in on the batman action once he hits public domain... and darkwing duck shoulda' been an indicator for you that perhaps you were reaching a bit to make a point which has now run pretty far afield o' the issues relevant to the politics thread. HA! Good Fun!

it is literal not possible for a US President to make crt mandatory in US public schools. is no mechanic to enforce such a decree. ain't even possible for Congress to do so, though they could incentivize such to the point most states would adopt whatever bruce imagines crt to be... 'cause am betting he never did figure out what it actually is, 'cause if he did he would then understand why it is not a serious concern that public school kids would be exposed to graduate level course work which seeks to explain the inertia o' systemic racism, legitimized and codified through a nation's laws and institutions. HA! Good Fun!

is a doomed exercise, but am suspecting the point is the qfolks and far right voters who support boebert believe disney deserves to be punished for their wokeness. somehow wokeness is a disease to be attacked with fire and fury... unlike fake diseases such as covid-19. southeners is done with fake pandemics, but wokeness, crt and rigged elections is not to be tolerated. disney wants __________. doesn't matter what ____________ is. regardless, it is the duty o' red-blooded and commie hating americans to prevent disney from getting what it wants, 'cause _________ deserves outrage and grievance... or somesuch. @Amentep conan is a good example 'cause the character is public domain and anybody can (and has) made movies and comics and whatever using the character. just as robin hood is not 'bout the green tights errol flynn wore, is doubtful batman is gonna be limited by trappings once famous authors and artist can do their take, particular in a digital age when self publishing and the internet makes DC far less essential for an artist or author with an established following. how many draculas has there been? how many frankensteins? herclues? thors? heck, particular for the comic geeks, a frank miller batman, regardless if is dc or not, is unlikely to get a "knockoff" label as you describe. again, am suspecting is gonna be the artists, authors, actors and directors who create the appeal as 'posed to the trappings which has changed in fits and spurts over the many decades. the appeal o' a dc specific batman is not gonna be particular strong once a few talented people make their own product. HA! Good Fun! ps please note smallville, hardly the best superman vehicle to grace modern media, existed for ten seasons on american tv while largely eschewing the trademark aspects o' comic superman.

correct. but again, the character is gonna be public domain. the stories is gonna be public domain. you point out the knockoffs but keep in mind the art for the superman and batman characters has also changed rather substantially every few years. ain't the art which keeps folks coming back to the title. frank miller or some other recognizable name decides he wants to make a batman story and publish it w/o dc? he can do that once is public domain. the author, artist, actors and directors is gonna be the potential appeal for public domain batman and not costume elements or the dc logo. heck, is not hard to imagine an older or younger bruce wayne who never dons the iconic costume in a movie or comic book series. wouldn't even be the first time such were done. would just need be done different. HA! Good Fun!