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It is posited that in fact it is clear - in the article no less!

In Mexico, Mr. Shen was implementing an audacious plan, according to people familiar with the matter: A network of trading companies could route hundreds of thousands of tons of aluminum from China to Mexico, where a plant would melt it for shipment to the U.S., evading trade restrictions and claiming North American Free Trade Agreement benefits.

Do you think it's funny that you titled the interview as you did and chose the first question to be "how conscious are you of being a female engineer as opposed to just an engineer"?

I do.

I attended a community college before I went to university. The computer science program was kind of a joke. They did remote classes from partnered state universities where the CC students would watch a live stream of professors at the state unis. I mostly took just Calc, Physics, and some other general requirement classes before transferring, but I did take one CS class. There was myself and two other students doing Intro to Programming (Java).

The same kids who were in Physics, were in Calc, etc. There were only about 20-30 of us. The majority of the student body was there to study Nursing and Law Enforcement.

I found I enjoyed the professors at CC more than most of my state uni professors. At CC, instead of having Physics in a 300 person lecture hall, it was a 20 person classroom. Same with Calc. All of the STEM-related professors at CC had their doctorates, where at state uni I had a bunch of grad students teaching - not that everyone wasn't knowledgeable enough.

This is nothing new. It's probably been going on since the advent of the judicial system. Would this be A-OK if the lawyers had taken the case pro bono? Or would we be crying about how good lawyers should have to charge people equally?

Seems to me that the billion dollar media conglomerates could have funded Gawker's lawyers to protect their ability to release people's sex tapes.

I guess it depends on how you define broke. Is our debt greater than 100% GDP? Yes is it. Is there any sort of plan to repay that debt in a lifetime? No, not really. A lot of people would consider that broke.

Any time there is a budget deficit, there is borrowing. The borrowing is done against future earnings by future taxpayers. Now it seems to me that if money is borrowed and not paid entirely back within a generation, then those who borrowed have essentially stolen wealth from their children and grandchildren.

And here I was thinking this article would provide evidence of "insane amounts of sales", but instead it references threads on reddit which are nothing but a couple of 2-sentence comments.

Am I out of touch expecting the author call a real-life business owner who is involved in the pokemon thing?

The cynic in me says this article is just some marketing ploy and does not belong here.

Is this different than the "unintended acceleration"?

I wonder what the answers were to "Why did we conceal our deadly (not for Toyota, but for their customers) mistakes?" and "Why did we actively deceive our customers regarding the safety of our vehicles?"

That might be why they wouldn't have American clients, but they do - 400+ American clients.

What that doesn't explain is why no American clients were listed in this "leak".

I'd like to know how they are identified. Is it just because they've checked a box along the way?

I'm relatively certain these people will not be required to submit a doctor's written diagnosis of whatever causes their total and permanent disability.

It will probably be more like the gov sends a form to a list of people (aggregated somehow), and if they fill it out and return it, then they get to legally avoid their loan obligations.

Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.

But one can understand the position.

It is perhaps understandable in a communist dictatorship, but how exactly is that understandable in a representative democracy? They act as representatives of their constituents, they do not work for anyone except their constituents. And 'work' is imprecise verbiage - they serve. Undermining the constitutional freedoms of the people they serve is far from an understandable position for any elected person.

Maybe you understand it because you accept sociopaths as your representatives?

You should take that number with a large grain of salt. Twenty years is more than likely the sum of the maximum sentences for each of the six charges.

Popehat has touched on this subject (how the media doesn't understand federal sentencing) from time to time.

https://popehat.com/2015/10/08/bad-reporting-on-matthew-keys...

https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...

https://popehat.com/2013/03/26/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-shitt...

https://popehat.com/2013/08/13/the-eric-holder-memorandum-on...