Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. So is maximum force response. If police had ascertained the situation for five minutes instead of getting into a forward posture, this probably wouldn’t have happened. They unnecessarily exposed themselves to possible danger (if it had been a hostage situation). They’ve reduced their response options to shooting the supposed suspect but if the hung back a little they could have discovered the person represented no threat. It was the cops themselves that put themselves in this position.
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  2. I had no problems understanding Steve’s presentation. It’s Civil Procedure and professional responsibility. Sure, it’s complicated stuff—which is why we turn to Steve to help explain it. If you had trouble following the material he presented, I suggest you watch it again. Make notes of whatever is still giving you trouble and ask about it in the comments. Steve is here to explain complicated topics, not spoonfeed you, but if you make a sincere attempt to understand (such as multiple viewings and writing things down), nobody will fault you.
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  3.  @jerradwilson  Holy crap, I didn’t notice it was 35 minutes long. It seemed like 15 or 20 minutes. I think if I didn’t understand something in this video, I would have given it a second listen, and kept a pencil and paper handy to take notes of what I wasn’t getting. I might it might not give it a third listen before posting my questions as a comment.
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  4.  @badgerpa9 No. An attorney representing a client in a land dispute would send an investigator to examine the county land records. If necessary, they would hire a professional surveyor to go out—that’s what’s called an expert witness. Your example is silly. In this case, the law firm failed to confirm the veracity of a request (for a gay wedding website) and submitted it to the court as a supplemental document—as a type of supporting evidence—to bolster their case. And it turns out that the request was bogus and fraudulently submitted because the law firm failed to verify the request. This is taking them at their word and giving them the benefit of the doubt. The firm’s statement might contain falsehoods—I’d be much more convinced if the spokesman made the statement under oath inside a courtroom. But if we assume the facts that the law firm admits are correct, they brought this on themselves. It’s dishonorable weak to blame others for their mistake.
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  5. That’s not accurate. The fair executive was offered just compensation: the original commission amount + whatever additional money would be needed to compensate for costs and inconvenience. That was made clear in the video. The executive’s real motivations were something different than greed.
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  6.  @MrTheDif  Not as much money as you might think. This is considered an administrative error and can be handled by mail. Sometimes it can be handled with a phone call to the court, depending on the court.
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  7. Reasonable costs (even paying someone to collate and copy documents) is built into most FOIA laws. Exorbitant or punitive costs could also open them up to a FOIA suit, which is why at the end of the day they only charged you $20 for the thumb drive—it probably took someone less than a half hour to find and copy a folder onto your drive. They were trying to frighten you off with the threat of exorbitant costs, obviously. You can easily shoot down threats by asking questions: how does the department enforce policy among officers and employees when the policy documents are so difficult to locate? How does it train officer in policy if the policy documents are unavailable? Are the documents spread among several custodians who jealously guard them from each other?
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  8.  @_PatrickO  I admire your ability to know the contents of the contract without having seen it. I admire your deep knowledge of contract law, especially contract law in different countries, without having studied it. It’s amazing to me how you somehow transform your uneducated opinion into legal expertise. Please tell us how that’s done.
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  9.  @Elliandr  Sue? They should press charges.
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  10. If the horse is potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, wouldn’t it be wiser to just put a lien on it? (which sounds like they eventually did, in effect).
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  11. Interesting story. Like the goat case, I feel somewhat puzzled in addition to being horrified. I mean, what a weird flex, right? Do you need someone to feel your muscles and tell you how powerful you are? I believe in following the rules, but I also believe there are times when judgement and discretion can outweigh the rules. There’s a weird sort of pride going on in the people you’re talking about.
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  12.  @wendwllhickey6426  That’s one of the issues. The company was notified it didn’t have the right to install the turbines, told to halt the work, and they went ahead anyway.
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  13. Just curious, how much did you pay for the mineral rights and how much for the property (surface) rights? If you don’t feel comfortable giving out that information, can you give us a percentage? Did you also acquire water rights?
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  14.  @M167A1  Did the employee claim he was a police officer? Or did he claim an authority he didn’t have (by detaining the trucks)?
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  15.  @gerardodwyer5908  The butthurt plaintiffs are the ones that are generating fees for the lawyers. And it’s quite possible that they’ll end up paying the defendant’s attorneys as well, because the suit is that frivolous. The defendant gets more fame and possibly damages as well. I have to wonder if it’s the police union paying for the plaintiff’s attorneys, because this sounds like the dumb sort of thing a police union would do out of blind zealotry. I’m not anti-police, I’m anti-stupidity.
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  16.  @Allangulon  Did you watch the video? The rights holders contacted the company. The company refused to enter into an agreement with the rights holders.
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  17. Conversely, the prosecution can get in big trouble if it is later found to have withheld exculpatory evidence—even if it was inadvertent. So it’s best to give the defense everything from the investigation, whether it seems relevant or not.
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  18.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Even in right-to-work states, a legal employment contract prevails. At will employment laws do not automatically apply if there are terms and conditions in the contract that spell out termination. Absent a legal contract, the state employment laws are the operant laws. Marvin and Patrick are substituting their opinion for expertise. I doubt they have experience as employers or as an employee hired on contract. Of course, this doesn’t mean Musk has to let the contract employee work. He can have someone else do her job and let her sit in her office doing whatever. What he cannot legally do is take away pay or benefits or otherwise unilaterally break the contract. I joined a company where one of the managers and the owner had a dispute. The manager had a year left on the contract, so the owner still had to pay his salary and benefits until the end of the contract. The owner did this while relieving the employee of his managerial duties. Every day for about three months the guy showed up, went to his office and read the newspaper. The owner finally got sick of having him around. I wasn’t privy if the owner paid off the balance of the contract in a lump sum or just told the employee to stop coming in while continuing to pay him, but after a few months, we stopped seeing him. I later was also terminated, but as an at-will employee, so I didn’t get to sit around and get paid for doing nothing. 😂 Honestly, the owner was an SOB and I wasn’t sad to go.
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  19.  nunyabidness3075  The downside is that you’re paying more for your land than you would if simply bought the surface rights. In some cases it will be worth it, in other cases it won’t.
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  20. This is what they will use to nail the sheriff. They might get him on abuse under color of law, lying to judges to obtain the warrants, etc., but it’s the misappropriation of public funds charges that will be most clear cut and not subject to interpretation. There’s no wiggle room.
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  21.  @MasterMalrubius  What police departments were defunded? Once you’ve named a few, which ones of those cut officer training and just put untrained officers out on the street? I think you’re making things up or repeating bullpuckey that someone else made up.
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  22. If he allows a public right of way to be established across his property, it will objectively lower the value of that property. The plaintiff is a dick, but he’s within his rights and this isn’t necessarily a trivial suit. Imagine your neighbor made a practice taking a shortcut through your backyard without seeking your permission. Maybe it’s to go to the store and maybe other people start using the short cut. Being an easy going guy, you let it happen. Perhaps the path is behind some bushes so it doesn’t affect your privacy. In some locales, if it becomes established as a customarily used public path, it could become a right-of-way. Then when you try and sell your house to someone, the potential buyer says, “look here, the records show that you’ve got a right away running through the backyard. I’ll offer you 80% of what you’re asking.” This is how trespassing can reduce the value of a property if left unchecked. It’s objectively on the minus column.
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  23.  @minealsomine9663  You’ll be fine if you keep your nose clean, avoid any and all appearance of wrong doing, and avoid any connection to legal entanglements of any kind. With any luck, you won’t be subject to any court orders because a court will never order you to do anything. If you don’t trust to your luck, maybe go live in the woods and shun contact with people.
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  24.  @OgamiItto70 The laws he allegedly violated have to do with witness tampering and intimidation. Such laws fall broadly under obstruction of justice. The timing is key here. If he had waited until after the trial, witness intimidation or tampering wouldn’t be an issue.
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  25. Yes, we who watched the video know that.
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  26.  @matirion  But the “intended for disposal” argument falls apart if an individual intends to give the unwanted material to another. What about used furniture that the owner wishes to get rid of? Does that become property of the state? What if it’s broken? Should a handyman be prohibited from fixing it and repurposing it? If the answer is “the state owns it”, Goodwill and the Salvation Army are in a lot of trouble. They’ve been breaking the law for years.
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  27.  @ohsweetmystery  No, but it needs to be amended. There is good justification for such laws. However, there is also clearly abuse of the qualified immunity laws. The solution is to take away the ability to abuse the law while still protecting government from frivolous law suits and individuals from doing their jobs in a lawful manner. What you are recommending would bog down governments and eat up budgets.
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  28.  @NightStalkers-hx3dq  They acted on information without checking it, and then they acted unlawfully. Was the animal stolen or wasn’t it? If it was, it’s evidence in a criminal case. You do not return it to the owner until the case is resolved. If the answer is, “we’re not sure because there is a dispute over ownership”, you do not merely return it to the person claiming it was stolen. You hand the animal to the court, as Steve outlined. The Sheriff’s office did not act according to law in this case, and they own a share of the blame. Law enforcement does not judge matters of ownership. They do not judge enforceability of contracts. They do not get to award pet custody. Judges have the authority to do that an not the police. You get the point? Even if the assumption had proven to be correct, the Sheriff’s department acted contrary to law.
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  29.  @FallGuyManiac  They didn’t realize the full nature of their mistake at the were notified of it by the plaintiff’s lawyers. According to one account that I read, the defense attorneys didn’t send documents, per se. They sent a link to a file server that contained the data that was on the phone. The file server belonged to a previous attorney on the case. If this is true, it’s possible that Jones’ attorneys didn’t know what was on the server. If this is what happened, it would explain why Jones wasn’t warned.
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  30. Apparently it was the townspeople that defeated the pay raises, not the elected leaders.
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  31. The real problem here isn’t the flaw, but the thin skinned governor trying to escape responsibility. Vulnerabilities exist. Sometimes they exist for years before being discovered. Back in 2011, many organizations were playing catch up. Some organizations didn’t have human resources specifically devoted to security or a security mindset. The correct response would be to accept responsibility and outline the steps taken to mitigate the mistake and steps being taken to prevent future vulnerabilities. Praise should have been given to the reporter and newspaper for holding the story until the flaw could be fixed. That could have been the end of the story. The governor might have taken a small hit for one day, but I doubt most voters would really understand the issue. The governor could even have parlayed the incident into a political positive: “we made a mistake, we took action, and by golly, we will not let this happen again! Hooray for us, being responsive to a crisis!”
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  32.  @tissuepaper9962  don’t forget constantly picking up the pool poop.
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  33.  @Belgarath1966  from one account, the attorney wasn’t even in possession of the phone/files. The attorney had a link to a server containing the files. The server was owned by one of the previous attorneys. It’s possible that the attorney did a cursory check of the files, saw material they had already produced, and didn’t really know what was in all the files. That would have been the mistake: Incorrectly assuming you knew what was on the server before sending the link.
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  34. I think it’s likely that the governor just went off on his rant without consulting anyone with any expertise in the matter. The people that could have corrected him didn’t know a correction needed to made until after the damage was done. After that point, how much effort would YOU make for a politician with such a flawed moral character?
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  35. The most basic remedy is to vote the governor out of office at the next election. No need for litigation or impeachment.
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  36. I registered “Tuna Casserole Monday” in the hopes that I could license it, but so far there’s been no interest. I think you really need alliteration, or it doesn’t work.
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  37. Every two years. How long until you’re the legal voting age?
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  38.  @coop5329  He doesn’t need to resign to refuse an immoral order. He can just refuse it. When his department disciplines him, he seeks aid and defense from his union. The police unions are often willing to bend over backwards to support bad cops—maybe they can support good cops once in a while.
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  39. Was it a bank or a savings & loan corporation (or other quasi-banking business)? I would doubt your story if it was a bank because the FDIC took over regulation of banking and deposit insurance in 1933, but did not regulate the savings & loan business. The main differences between the two for the average consumer was that a S&L offered higher interest rates, couldn’t offer checking accounts (until the 70s), and were a relatively riskier form of investment than a deposit in a bank savings account. A S&L could operate LIKE a savings bank but was outside the banking system. I’m not saying you’re lying, but your timeline makes no sense if it was a bank that failed. You’d have to be over 100 years old. If it was a S&L such as George Bailey’s financial institution in It’s a Wonderful Life, it would fit your timeline and your age.
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  40. The excavation of soil and the anchoring of the turbines interferes with the tribe’s right to exploit the mineral rights. Sorry, you lose.
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  41. Thanks for this, Steve. I’m going to consult an attorney before I get into a game of slugabug or front hand/back hand. This vid also brought to mind the joke about the two gentleman who decided to settle a dispute with a ball kicking contest. The gentleman who kicked first immediately concedes the contest after delivering a mighty kick to the other gentleman’s junk. The version I heard was a hunter who killed a deer or goose or some such on the property of a farmer, and the farmer recovered the animal before the hunter can. The farmer then proposes the contest and goes first.
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  42.  @mjr1093  That’s not true about structural issues. A building can have major structural issues that need to be addressed expediently that don’t require immediate evacuation. The point is not to wait until the building is at the point of collapse before addressing issues. I am certain that you know nothing about engineering. Nor does your argument about this being a cover for rent increases. If they owners want to raise the rent, they can simply raise the rent. There is no rent control in Colorado, so no need to use a repair loophole to remove tenants and raise the rent. The owner will actually lose all revenue from the building during the repair period by evicting everyone at once.
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  43. Hahaha, you gotta be kidding.
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  44.  @princessmarlena1359  Yeah, I have zero interest in HOAs, Condos, or Townhouses. I retired to Mexico. People have asked me why I don’t buy a house here because they’re relatively cheap (even in this pricey tourist town). $200/month rent is why. Actually, it’s less than that, about $191.
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  45.  @marksadventurechannel8471  that makes you a decent person, doing the right thing when you’re wrong. That said, it’s better to just never be wrong. I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken.
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  46. I had an acquaintance who couch surfed for about a month in the winter. He was a good guy, didn’t make a mess, helped with chores and expenses. He even offered to kick in money for rent, but we turned him down. We were sad to see him go when he moved on to his next couch. His basic lifestyle at the time was to live indoors during the winter months and in his Lincoln Continental during Spring, Summer, and Fall. He worked at a temp agency and took weeks off to travel in Spring and Summer. I think it was a 70s Continental. I kinda admired his lifestyle choice and adaptations. I took note of his couch surfing practice of being more of an asset than a liability and not overstaying his welcome (we would have happily took him back the following winter). Later I was able to put his techniques into practice when I was temporarily in need of a couch.
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  47. Copy machine was broken, so they had to transcribe the documents by hand. 😉
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  48.  @Scott34750  The judge wasn’t even angry on behalf of the defense (not completely, anyway). He was angry at the piss poor job the prosecutor was doing as “The People’s” representative and as an officer of the court.
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  49.  @wojcikrc  lol, Steve asked us to avoid politics in the comments, and to stick to the topic, which is civil procedure and professional responsibility. Just couldn’t resist, could you? Perhaps you’d like to share your opinions about the Covid vaccine, the 2020 election, and the events of January 6th? Just kidding, please don’t.
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  50. Investigators usually question witnesses about the circumstances. Was there an argument, was there a history of disputes, were fighting words uttered by any of the participants? So if you and someone in a bar wanted to go outside and spar, you both would want to engage in some dialogue loudly and clearly in front of witnesses. “Hey friend, would you like to go outside and spar for a bit?” “Why certainly! I was hoping you’d ask. Are there any stakes?” “Winner buys the next round.” “Sounds good, friend.” Everyone in the bar hears this exchange of words, and you got yourself a defense.
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  51. Which state Supreme Court justice made this argument?
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  52.  @Hatbox948 Every four years. Thank you for your interest in the United States of America.
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  53.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Harley might make more money on clothing, accessories, and licensing. It’s been a “lifestyle” company for a couple of decades.
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  54.  @OptimiSkeptic  You seem like an intelligent person, so I’m going to ask you to reconsider your use of “Third World/First World”. The terminology has nothing to do with whether a country is industrialized or not. The schema is from Cold War politics in which the First World was the Western Democracies, the Second World was the Communist bloc and countries aligned with the Soviets and/or Chinese communists. The Third World was those nations that did not wish to take sides in the Cold War, whether or not those countries were democratic. The First/Second/Third world descriptors are so obsolete that many people don’t even know that the Second World was part of it or what it was! The sentences in question are about the Rule of Law. Why not just lead with that? Some countries follow the rule of law, some do not. I think you’ll find that those that do not tend to be authoritarian countries. Economic development or geopolitical alignment aren’t germane. Anyway, thanks if you read this far. I hope you’ll consider my request in the future when you want to use “Third World” or “First World” as shorthand. Sometimes slang hits perfectly, other times it muddies our thinking. The misuse of First, Third World is one of the latter.
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  55.  @mikepalmer1971  no, it’s not.
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  56.  @christopherg2347  That’s the most important thing. But even if there is nothing for which they arrest you, you can still complain and get the cop into trouble. You can literally make a federal case about an officer engaging in prohibited behavior.
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  57.  @DaZeroHero  Yeah, the sports exception starts about 2:45. Context and circumstances matter here. Did the conduct take place at a boxing gym or martial arts studio? Did the consenting individuals have a history of participating in martial arts? If yes, this would support the defense. If no, it could be part of rebutting the consent defense. Other circumstantial factors could come from other witnesses: did the participants have an argument before the fight? Was there a history of antagonism between participants? Another factor that investigators would look at is the seriousness of the bodily injuries. They might look at the conduct of the fight in terms of norms of sport. Was one participant of a purported boxing match kicking the other while he was on the ground? Is there indication that one or more participants go too far? (There have been successful prosecutions of MMA fighters for assault.)
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  58. No to the first part of your suggestion. Yes to the second part—which is what a newspaper should be doing as a matter of course. Litigation is long, expensive, and takes more work than penning a few incisive editorials. If successful, what result might be achieved? Monetary damages less than the cost of litigation? Vindication? Vindication in the court of public opinion is better payback.
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  59.  @Alaninbroomfield  OK, Ivan.
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  60.  @beastlyshotzful  You mean attorney’s fees. There’s different ways these can be awarded. They can be assessed punitively by a judge if the defense acted in some way that deserves a penalty. But they can also be awarded by a jury, especially if they are included in the plaintiff’s demand.
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  61. It’s possible. Such things have happened often enough. But it would be nice if you had actual evidence before you make an accusation.
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  62.  @georgedunkelberg5004 HEY IS THIS A CASE OF LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION? THERES AN UPPERCASE LETTER SHORTAGE GOING ON, BUDDY.
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  63. I’m not a big fan of subscription software, but I don’t think it’s right to prohibit companies from using a subscription model.
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  64.  @christopherkidwell9817 That’s false. The fact that writing in a name on the ballot makes your vote insignificant (you are throwing away your vote) is not the same as an election worker or official literally throwing your ballot away. You’re confusing metaphorical language with literal language. Or perhaps you’re just making stuff up, which is worse.
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  65.  @regulator18E  I must have told tracey a billion times to stop with the hyperbole.
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  66. Atsa spicy meatball.
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  67.  @SylviaRustyFae  You realize that a disciplinary action against the defense attorney doesn’t have to be done on the spot? Indeed, it would be wiser to wait for the trial to conclude before entertaining such an action—then there would be no argument that it was prejudicial to the client.
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  68. Ten times the value is not a reasonable ask. Presumably, having just packed their belongings, the couple knows what they lost. It’s perfectly valid to make a list after the fact if they didn’t create an inventory at the time they packed. If there are very expensive big ticket items, they’ll need more documentation to establish worth. You can include inconvenience in the ask, but if you want a settlement you’d best keep it reasonable.
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  69.  @equallawandorder5393  What’s wrong with you? Do you have to turn everything into politics? You must be a real joy to be around.
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  70.  @anonymouse14  Liability, yes. Criminal charges, probably not. U-haul has a good mens rea defense here, and any prosecutor would think three times and then opt not to prosecute. Mens rea is intention, and it would be quite easy for the defense to prove that no one at Uhaul intended to steal. For a civil case to recover monetary damages, it’s equally clear cut that Uhaul is liable, since their negligence led to the loss of the client’s property. Any jury would award damages. Unless Uhaul is very stupid (always possible with big corporations), they would want to settle this quickly and not argue about a reasonable ask (between full value and 150% or perhaps 200% of value, depending on how high). There might be several rounds of offer/counteroffer. Probably the couple would want to settle this sooner rather than wait for the matter to come to trial. But if they are willing to wait, they might get a bigger payoff at trial. If it was me, I’d start negotiations with the company before retaining an attorney. I’d have my minimum acceptable offer in mind based on value of the lost possessions and the inconvenience of replacement. A lot of times you can get a fair settlement quicker if you DON’T retain an attorney, and you won’t be on the hook for the attorney’s contingency. Once you hire attorneys, the company won’t talk to you and everything is done between your attorney and theirs. If I was offered anything like 150% of fair value, I’d be satisfied. Less than 125%, I’d probably seek legal assistance. That said, if one is too angry and emotional, it might be better to hire an attorney from the get go, and let them handle the case.
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  71. KGO has been hitting the misappropriation of public funds angle on this story. Airfare, hotel, meals, and the “investigating” officers were paid overtime. The county supes are asking questions, so this ain’t over.
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  72. The district attorney? Police departments don’t make prosecution decisions.
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  73.  @TheSimba86  They didn’t. They began demanding a leasing agreement to permit the work back in 2013. Sorry, you lose.
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  74. How many wheels does a miscarriage of justice have?
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  75.  @HamRadio200  Look up the actual case, “bro”. The victim received serious burns from boiling hot coffee. The truth of the case has been distorted by those who want to make product liability cases look ridiculous, and you fell for it.
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  76. The Colorado State Supreme Court has ruled that rent control is unconstitutional, and the legislature has not been able to pass any rent control laws that would supersede the ruling. Therefore, the property owners do NOT need to use a loophole to raise rents. Therefore your argument has no basis. If repairs weren’t necessary and the owners wanted to raise the rent, they could just raise the rent. They don’t need justification.
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  77.  @teilanittv  Good point. But you know there’s a good crowd of lawyer-haters here that won’t have any of it. They’ll damn half of any group of professionals for being subpar, and damn the other half for being elitist. Their underlying issue is that they hate expertise.
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  78. The exchange didn’t occur before the jury, so this won’t impact the jury. And really, the jury’s opinion of the penalty won’t be formed until both sides rest and the jury retires for deliberation.
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  79. No, it’s really not BS.
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  80.  @jimgarofalo5479  Thank you for mentioning the effect of cold on batteries. I think people greatly oversimplify right-of-repair issues. I have a problem when “right of repair” interferes with my right to buy the best product that fulfills my wants and needs. I have a problem if the “right of repair” interferes with a manufacturer trying to supply me with what I want.
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  81. Are you sure about that?
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  82. ⁠ @watcherofwatchers  When this happened to you and you took the manufacturer to court, did you make an additional demand for these other costs (in terms of time and emotional pain and suffering) that you bore? Hopefully you were able to document them to provide the jury with evidence. The court system cannot really make you whole. It can only make a rough approximation. It cannot give you your time back and it can’t make you unsuffer whatever frustration you felt. Hopefully you had realistic expectations when you embarked on your lawsuit.
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  83. Try to watch the video before posting ignorant comments.
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  84. It depends on how deep you are excavating. How deep do you need to remove dirt to build a basement? The company needed to excavate deep holes to install piles capable of anchoring the turbines. This infringes in the rights holder to exercise their rights in the future. Worse, they used the material excavated to construct the foundations. That’s the part that qualifies as mining. The worst case scenario for a home builder is requesting and paying for a permit to excavate a basement. The company refused to do this. They basically told the rights holder to go to hell.
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  85. Disbarment is a pretty heavy penalty if it was unintentional, but certainly the lawyer who submitted the fraudulent document should be sanctioned.
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  86.  @thatguyrich9822 It’s your standard 1911. Technically it’s semi-auto, but one of the things it’s called is 45 automatic.
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  87.  @wojcikrc  I thought people like you liked to do your own research. Why are you asking someone else to do your work? Do you lack a sense of personal responsibility? Minh didn’t make an extraordinary claim. The default judgement and the reasons for it are well known to anyone following the case, even at a superficial level.
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  88. Roy Botty
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  89. It’s mostly dentists and accountants that buy Harleys. I think doctors and lawyers not so much.
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  90.  @Carahan  Key Party
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  91. Not everybody makes this distinction, but it’s important to distinguish between right-to-repair and ease-of-upgrades. Add-ons that can negatively affect the original equipment could void the warranty in some cases and I have nothing wrong with that. However, it’s a different matter they are unrelated to a warrantied repair.
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  92.  @jillian7636  Apparently the townspeople approved her raise, but refused everyone else? Is this one of those towns where the citizens “hate big government” and think they can get the benefits of town services without paying for them?
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  93.  @easternwoods4378  That depends on if there are jobs in this small town. Maine is kind of like the Mississippi of New England.
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  94.  @khernandez7903  There will be a critical examination of how the law applies to the case, and as Steve outlined in the video, the case will fall apart on summary judgement.
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  95.  @robertchaplin The usual reason is bad loans and investments beyond the institution’s ability to absorb losses. It can even happen that the bad loans or investments aren’t bad long term, but a market downturn causes the bank to have insufficient funds for daily operation. The SVB failure was due in large part to a short term investment in a relatively safe long term investment, T-Bonds. Short term, they were underwater and would have to liquidate at a loss to have sufficient cash on hand to operate. This in turn caused depositors to withdraw their funds en masse (a run on the bank) which compounded the liquidity crisis. The bank had insufficient cash on hand to see it through changing market conditions.
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  96. Basically.
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  97. The land was leased from private owners. The private owners didn’t own the mineral rights. So you can’t blame the tribe for that.
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  98.  @GraytechOne  And when they were notified that the needed an accommodation from the tribe’s mineral trust, they told the tribe to take a hike.
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  99. It’s a good idea to investigate and to have a watchdog agency. The redevelopment board might be completely honest, but it’s better to check.
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  100. A lot of the commenters didn’t watch the video, don’t understand the law, and prefer to base their opinions on “common sense” bereft of facts and logic. I really don’t know why they watch law related channels. Perhaps it’s a way of fueling their need to feel outraged.
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  101. Where did it all start? That time he stole a couple of parking validation stamps was the start of his slide down that slippery slope.
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  102. Easy defense: Thank goodness you found it! I’ve been looking for this everywhere! What, you’ve never lost your shit?
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  103.  Ben Dover  The good old S/M defense? To win, you’d probably have to show a history of engaging in the hobby of S/M. Let’s look at a case of suspected domestic abuse. It’s not unheard of for the victim of the abuse to defend the abuser—there are laws on the books that allow prosecution anyway although such cases can be very difficult to win if the witness doesn’t cooperate. There are also going to be situations where the victim has been intimidated into claiming there was consent in an ordinary assault. This could apply to the domestic abuse and the S/M situation, too. I don’t know for a fact, but I think one factor would be the level of injury. Visible marks, cuts, and scrapes would be one level. Broken bones, fractures, and the like would be a more serious level. I think that in some situations, prosecutors would bring charges against the top for S/M activities if they resulted in serious bodily injuries, such as fractured or broken bones, even if the bottom claimed consent. They would be looking at circumstantial evidence as well as victim/witness testimony. Investigators might ask the neighbors if there was a history of domestic fighting. There might be hospital records from previous incidents.
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  104.  @jamessimms415  Last I heard, he worked for a tailor as a pin cushion.
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  105.  @rodshoaf  On what legal basis could you compel him to pay back travel expenses or the builder’s legal costs? If you are going to require someone to do something, there has to be a foundation in the law.
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  106. It’s not clear what depth limitations, but they exceeded the volume and they put the excavated material to use as construction material (such as breaking rocks into gravel to help make concrete). Turning your foundation holes into an impromptu quarry fits the legal definition of mining.
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  107.  @kevinbarry71  This is a good point. I’ve imagined a humorous scenario. The lawyer describes the problem. The client freaks out, but the lawyer reassures him, “All I have to do is object, and the evidence will have to be excluded.” Then, later, “no objections, your honor”. 😄 The lawyer never told the client whether or not he would object, only that he could. I don’t think it happened like that, but it’s funny to think it might have.
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  108. What about the guy who was so lazy he didn’t use internet search engines to satisfy his curiosity. Instead, he’d just post his questions in comments, hoping someone would answer him. It’s a true story. The guy did it again 7 hours ago.
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  109. When did they switch from three days? My college roommate took the bar three times in the 90s. He was so down on himself after failing the second time. I’ve never seen him like that before or since. But he got over it, spent months reviewing and prepping, and got it done. He’s still practicing as public defender, and I guess he’s coming up on retirement.
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  110. Maybe he was asked directly and answered honestly? Have you done this before? “Yes.” How many times? “Ten times in the last year.” Maybe this is the hidden bizarre behavior: that the attorney told the truth and admitted guilt for his disgusting “prank”. What kind of people are we if we consider honesty to be unusual? Do you really believe that honesty negatively impacts a lawyer’s ability to represent clients?
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  111. What if they went rogue?
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  112. They used the materials to make the concrete, which saved them the cost of buying the materials off site and shipping them to the site. Reducing the cost of the project means more profits. This is not materially different than if they sold the building materials they extracted.
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  113. That’s why you want to ask for a print out of the warranty service history. That should indicate whether the car is a lemon, regardless of whether or not it was a lemon law buy back. Steve mentions this.
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  114.  @miniskunk  That’s incorrect. Your knowledge of the law is incomplete if not entirely lacking.
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  115. Good for you! I worked for a used bookstore (not in the U.S.) While I was on vacation, the owner cut wages and I wasn’t informed. I worked for a week at the lower rate without knowing it. On the next payday, I was an amount $30 short and that was when I was informed of the pay cut. When I said this was a breach of our agreement, she said “take it or leave it”. Fortunately, the bookstore let employees take home books as a perk. I informed the owner that I just wouldn’t return the books. She looked up the list of the books I had borrowed and wanted to negotiate (instead of promptly paying me the money owed). I declined her offer to open negotiations and kept the books. 😂 It’s not as good as your story. But I’d rather teach others expensive lessons than have to learn expensive lessons.
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  116. Can any of us claim to have never lost our shit?
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  117.  @billbeckman2480  a Winnie the Pooh horror movie? Meh, I’m fine with the Winnie the Pooh war movie mash up, Apocalypse Pooh. (It a real thing and it’s on YouTube.)
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  118. I always ask if the server prefers cash over my adding it the total and paying with my CC. In many cases they don’t care, and in some cases they get their night’s tips paid in cash before they go home. I used to wait tables when I was in college. I always kicked down 10-20% to the busboy assigned to my tables. I often had the same guy and he was attentive to customers. A good busboy does more than clear dishes.
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  119.  @nicholas_scott  You’re right. There wasn’t even a World Wide Web before 1991 or 1992. Few people even had internet access, nor were the majority of computers networked. It borders on ignorance to judge by current standards. The main issue here isn’t the incompetence of the website developers. It’s the moral character and intelligence of the governor. The website flaw was corrected, but you can’t fix stupid—although you can vote the stupid person out of office.
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  120.  @exigy.  In this case it wasn’t building permits that the company failed to secure. It was permission (permits) from the tribe’s mineral council that the company failed or refused to acquire.
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  121. You’ll have to watch Steve’s other videos on the story to understand the ins and outs of the case.
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  122. Nah, not George Orwell. Philip K. Dick. Don’t tag every dystopian idea as Orwellian. It demonstrates that you don’t understand Orwell
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  123. No, it’s not the same. A chatbot is part of the Air Canada website, and that is why Air Canada is liable.
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  124.  @Serai3  You’re not interacting with the brightest people. Steve Lehto is great. Not all his subscribers are, though.
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  125. You should get prison time for making dumb comments.
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  126. Is that a problem? You go to the mineral council and ask for an excavation permit for your planned construction. They tell you how much and you pay it. You don’t tell them to go to hell and build anyway. Or if you’re unaware of the requirement, you pay up when they inform you. It seems like normal construction business processes are throwing you for a loop.
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  127. @Invalid Characters I lose more and more faith in our education system.
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  128.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Good point. The pugnacious doubling down on his error is not something you can ignore.
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  129.  @kenadams3385  You sound like the hard working guy that needs to be reminded that you can’t work if you’re injured. This one time, put your health and safety ahead of your demanding schedule. This is the advice you would give to a brother or a friend. Give it to yourself and then follow it! 😄
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  130. It depends on the tribe’s and the mineral council’s motivations. If it’s purely about the money, the tribe might contract with another company to operate the wind farm. If they really don’t want the wind farm there, the wind farm company will have posted a removal bond as part of the building process.
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  131.  @nicmart  You’re assuming that each judge has perfect knowledge of all judicial activity in his or her state going back for several years. I think that is assuming way too much.
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  132.  @lonnywilcox445  Buy that wood (or do the salvage) asap. Put the wood into storage (with ventilation; there’s a ton of videos on how to store and/or season wood). No room? Make room. Old wood of this sort is a limited resource and it’s in demand. If it’s old growth redwood, it could be very valuable (i.e. profitable). Do your due diligence, of course, like you would for any investment. But that’s the point. You might have just stumbled across a neat little investment opportunity. There is a market for reclaimed redwood.
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  133. You misunderstood. There is a law governing the conduct of assault, and there are parts of the law or other laws that provide for the legal exceptions, such as sports. “Mutual combat” is covered by the criminal statute since there is no exception for it, although you could try to use it as a defense.
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  134. It seems to me that he didn’t put up a defense at all because he admitted his guilt. If that’s surprising, it’s because you’re shocked when someone is honest. The pooping-in-a-can is the weird and unacceptable behavior here, guys, not the telling of the truth.
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  135.  @jamesalinio5277 Don’t be silly.
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  136. A company is not always liable for what a customer service rep tells a customer. However, a company is liable for information published on its website, and that includes the misinformation given by the chatbot.
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  137. If it flies, floats, etc, it’s also cheaper to buy used. I’d still avoid high maintenance models, though. For the guy who mentioned motorcycles, every year thousands of guys who fantasized about having a motorcycle their whole lives buys a bike only to realize the reality doesn’t match their expectations. This is why there’s tons of good deals on used bikes, even ones that are recent models. And during economic downturns, the motorcycle is the first thing to go. The dentist that lost money on the stock market or the worker who has his OT cut both face belt tightening. The easiest luxury toy to liquidate is that bike they bought new but hardly used. There’s also seasonal variations in those parts of the country that have “real winters”. Spring, Summer, and Fall are the riding seasons. The beginning of winter is (on average) the best time to buy a bike. If I wanted to rent a motorcycle (say for the summer), I’d buy one used and then sell it when I was done. The “rental cost” is the difference between the buy price and the sell price. You might even break even. You might even make a profit. If the bike is already used, the depreciation should already be built in to the price. I suspect the above rules of thumb hold true for RVs. People buy them new, are disappointed, and then are willing to unload them at the end of summer, even if they haven’t had any problems.
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  138.  @acfiv1421  That guy waving his arms and shouting at you that the bridge is out is probably a nutcase. 95% of people screaming, waving their arms, and running around are crazy, so it’s OK to ignore it and and continue driving across the bridge. Get yourself a letter opener and open your mail before trashing it.
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  139.  @katehobbs2008  Yes, but it would have taken the cops 5-10 minutes on the phone to discover that this was a civil dispute, not a criminal case. So 50% a malicious person making a false report of stolen property and 50% lazy or incompetent policing.
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  140. No.
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  141. I don’t think I’d want to purchase a home in a HOA community, but I think that (probably) the majority of them aren’t that bad. We hear about the nightmares, not the well run HOAs. However, I wouldn’t want to get locked into even a well run HOA because you never know what might happen in the future. My parents bought a vacation beach house in an HOA, and AFAIK they never had problems. It was going to be their retirement home someday. But when my mom died, my dad sold it. It was less than a mile inland on a terraced hill with a great view of the Pacific Ocean. There was a private parking lot near the beach, but we kids usually just walked on the footpaths that wound through the community. I have no idea what the monthly fee was, but it couldn’t have been cheap. The HOA took care of all the front yards, the aforementioned footpaths, the community center, and the security guards.
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  142. What does Apple need to watch out about? There was an issue with cracked screen replacement that they have addressed.
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  143.  @artstrology  Thank you!
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  144.  @sporkbot  That’s not true. Please familiarize yourself with the law before making ignorant false assertions. The victims of a crime can decide whether or not to press charges. The D.A. makes the ultimate determination. For example, a victim can decline to press charges and the D.A. can decide to charge the alleged perpetrator with the crime anyway. Or the victim might press charges, but the D.A. might conclude that there is insufficient evidence to get a conviction and not charge the alleged perpetrator with a crime. There are various possibilities in between these two results.
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  145. ⁠ @ianbelletti6241  What if there is a public right of way or an easement on the property?
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  146. Steve isn’t a fan of turbines. 😉
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  147.  @Chris_Garman  check Ali Baba.
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  148. Your claim is not in evidence wrt this case against Apple. Not yet, anyway. If you can dig up such evidence, by all means present it.
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  149.  @Vykk_Draygo  You’re right, I’m so dumb and you’re so smart. I should be more like you. When you tally up your internet score at the end of the day, make sure you give yourself an extra 5 bonus points for besting me with such wit. That should give you a score of one million and five.
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  150. I would hope that your hypothetical developer would acquire permissions, permits, and leases from ANY and all rights holders. If they didn’t, they’d be pretty stupid developers. You can’t just “art-of-the-deal” your way through this.
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  151. Who’s a good lawyer? 🐶
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  152.  @tcolondovich2996  It might or might not have been upheld, but the point is that the decision would be made in court by a person appointed to make that decision, not by the police acting on a potentially false criminal report. The legitimacy of contracts is NOT within the purview of the police. They do not have the power to render judgement over contractual disputes. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Department really screwed up on this case.
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  153.  @tcolondovich2996  you’re arguing facts not in evidence. You’ve exceeding the known facts of the case, trying to stretch it to fit your point of view. Here’s the main fact that you have not been able to overcome: the goat in question was NEVER deemed to be the property of those that reported the theft. Furthermore, the sheriff’s department could have determined that there was a controversy over ownership by ASKING QUESTIONS. The department assigned a detective to the job. Isn’t that part of a detective’s job description, to ask questions. I would be shocked if the Shasta Sheriff’s Department has never encountered a false stolen property report. Do they not have a procedure for determining if a case is legitimate before they start seizing property? I’ll let your other factual errors slide. The main one is egregious enough: you seem to think police have the competence or have the authority to judge ownership issues.
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  154. That’s not “win-win”. One side (the company) lost. When you say “win-win”, that means that everyone benefited from the outcome.
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  155.  @tstodgell  They didn’t bring in sand and gravel because they were ignorant of the law.
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  156. It’s not. The company was notified by the tribal mineral council (co-administrator of the mineral rights) that they needed mining permits to proceed with construction. The company ignored them.
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  157. That’s what you get for signing a contract without reading it. That was a really dumb move on your part, wasn’t it.
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  158. The Devil made me do it.
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  159. Watch the video and find out.
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  160. The company had leased the private property, which gave them rights to build on the surface, so I don’t think the company is liable for that. It depends on the leasing agreement.
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  161. Cool. You’ll end up giving him the property when he sues you and you might also be incarcerated for assault and battery. Personally, I’d call the police, but you’re free to be as dumb as you want to be.
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  162. If the materials saved the company construction costs, how is that materially different from profit?
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  163. Watch the video and you’ll learn the answers to your questions. I hope that’s not too hard.
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  164. Apparently you also have trouble watching the video, because your opinion seems a huge stretch for someone with the knowledge of the facts and law that you would get from watching it.
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  165. I think there is a couple of other arguments that the tribe used or could have used, but this was the most clear cut violation.
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  166. No. Did you watch the video before commenting?
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  167. Yes, everyone has the right to due process. Accused people “get off” on due process technicalities, but that’s not an indication of a weakness in the system or of unethical defense attorneys. It’s an indication that due process is a bedrock principle of justice and the rule of law. I think the ideal is that defense attorneys serve “in the interest of justice”. Doing their best to defend their client with the rules is “in the interest of justice”.
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  168. Watch the video. It answers your question.
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  169. Did you even watch the video?
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  170. How hard would it be for them to create their own passport with a scrap of paper and a crayon? No, you deport them because they don’t have a valid visa.
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  171. No.
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  172. Those liberal judges in the People’s Socialist Republic of Wyoming are at it again. Just kidding, obviously. This is clearly a case of woke voters electing a DA that would release criminals onto the streets. Still kidding. But seriously, how much you want to bet she was elected based on the promise to investigate election fraud in other states?
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  173. I don’t want to take sides, but from the information that was related to us, the sheriff did nothing wrong. The driver had been ticketed, the police officer’s business was done and he could return to his other duties in his jurisdiction. The sheriff wasn’t interfering with the ticketing nor an arrest. The sheriff was within his rights (and possibly within his responsibility, as you suggest) to talk with the driver. If there was a jurisdictional problem that invalidated the ticket, it could be resolved in court. The police sergeant didn’t need to resolve it there on the highway by arguing or threatening to arrest the sheriff.
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  174. One of the limitations on use is 5,000 cubic feet per year. I’m not 100% about depth limit for non-mining purposes (such as building a basement), but if a builder’s proposed basement exceeds the depth limit (if defined) or the volume limit, they request a permit from the mineral council and pay for it. I imagine that the depth required to anchor a wind turbine must be pretty deep in that part of the country. They’d definitely be going into stable subsoil.
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  175.  @graceyee9067  Building a slab for a house doesn’t impinge on mineral rights. The court’s decision relied on the definition of mining, but interference with the right to exploit subsurface minerals (which the company did by excavating and pouring the anchoring foundation did do). Basically, the company refused to negotiate for a lease (or permit/permission) with the mineral rights trust. They thought it would be cheaper to fight it in court. I’ll speculate it was because they didn’t hire attorneys with expertise in mineral rights.
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  176.  @thomassoderstrom6369  It’s similar to paying for a building permit. Let’s say you’re the builder of tract housing. If building basements impinges on the mineral rights, you pay for the permit and tack on the cost to your house price. There might be a set price or you might need to negotiate for permission to excavate however many basements you want. Have you ever tried to build a house without building permits in a jurisdiction that requires permits? Your construction will be halted and if you continue anyway, your house will get torn down and you’ll likely pay a fine.
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  177. Turns out he plays for the Houston Astros.
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  178.  @ianbelletti6241  It’s also the contractor’s job to understand the limits of legal construction. Do you mean it’s not the legal responsibility? I’d agree to that.
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  179.  @ianbelletti6241  Interesting point. I’ll concede it. 😅
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  180.  @shawnsmith9512  You know, you could easily clear up your befuddled understanding by watching the video?
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  181. Watch the video.
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  182. Imagine hearing a lot of ruckus and people shouting. You go out to look and see a bunch of police who begin shouting commands. You might not realize they’re shouting commands at you. Why should you? You were just at home, watching TV, reading a book, taking a nap, or whatever. But something’s definitely up! Maybe the neighbors? You take out your self phone to record the goings on, and . . . Jesus Christ, that’s scary.
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  183. That’s the case in most jurisdictions, but it’s not the issue in this case.
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  184. Not applicable to devices that charge off of USB chargers. This has been the standard for a dozen years.
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  185. The case of “The Cleveland Bomber” has been solved!
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  186.  @johnhouchins3156  Their ability to exploit their mineral rights would also be affected by the deep turbine foundations. This all could have been avoided if the company simply paid for the mining permits. They didn’t understand the law and thought it would be cheaper to fight it in court.
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  187. I admire the confidence you have, posting your opinion with no knowledge of the case or law, which you could all learn from watching the video.
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  188. Steve already answered that question in the video. You might want to watch it before posting any more comments.
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  189. The Pinkerton, eh? Sounds like the YouTuber got railroaded.
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  190.  @Eidolon1andOnly  Please name the multitude of crimes. Or just a few of them.
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  191.  @christopherparisho5844  Can you cite a specific law that was broken?
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  192. Cool story. You left out the part where you go to prison and lose the house.
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  193. This could be the plot of a 80s porn movie about a swinging condo building.
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  194.  @nozrep  Mercedes builds buses and trucks. You might look into one of those as your starting point.
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  195. So if you watch the video, you can avoid getting your crack all sandy and irritated.
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  196. Charged with what? Please cite a specific law.
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  197.  @markalexander832 if we’re talking about literal pie, that’s sad. I love pie. 🥧
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  198. The next sheriff can investigate if he wants. And local press can do their own investigation to make the sheriff want to.
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  199. No, you don’t. Watch the video.
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  200. I don’t think it was insured or that he filed an insurance claim if it was. The thing they really nailed him on here is that he hired a helicopter transport company to retrieve the wreckage from the crash site without NTSB clearance, perhaps even before he reported the crash. Then he cut up the wreckage into small enough parts that they could be disposed of in nearby dumpsters and trash receptacles. And that’s pretty sus in itself, but he was also disposing of wreckage some distance away from the airport/hangar facility. That’s destroying and concealing evidence, and that’s a serious crime that even outweighs his other crimes. The Feds might have been able to piece together a case from all the circumstantial evidence if there wasn’t an obstruction charge, so I don’t agree that your strategy is a sure fire way to avoid a prosecution. But I would agree that the cover up is worse than the original crime. But in your strategy’s favor, the feds might have decided that the expense and effort wasn’t worth it for the other stuff if they didn’t have the obstruction charge. That’s basically what they did by letting him plead guilty to obstruction. Anyway, I don’t think you’re 100% wrong, either.
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  201. I don’t want to imply that Shasta County is full of Nazis, but it is full of Ku Klux Klan.
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  202. Are you suggesting that violence is the solution?
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  203. Hillbilly Obi-wan Kenobi: This isn’t the porch you’re looking for.
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  204. Nice blade runner reference.
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  205. If you think that’s asinine, did you realize that a majority of the commenters on this video didn’t watch the video and are making dumb comments like yours? That’s asinine!
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  206. I bet the law dates back to the Black Death, when England was severely depopulated.
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  207. If you don’t have a cite, I’m going to assume it’s just another urban legend and you fell for it.
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  208. Don’t they read contracts?
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  209. he’s not speaking to your specific situation. What you want to do is talk to a lawyer licensed to practice law in your state.
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  210.  @uraldamasis6887  It is possible, but super unlikely in a used car scenario. The way it would work is this: the original purchase contract (or the rebate agreement) could include “pass-thru” language stipulating future contracts between you, the original buyer, and future buyers. To sell the car, you’d need put in clauses that waive the right to sue (and the manufacturer would obviously provide the mandatory clauses). Those contract clauses would pass thru to any future sales. You’re not so much waiving the rights of future buyers as it is requiring them to waive their rights as a condition of buying your car. TLDR: a contract can control and specify the terms and conditions of future contracts between the buyer and subsequent buyers. Sounds ludicrous, right? But there are precedents for such pass-thru agreements in the armaments industry, where contract language defines future contracts with third parties. Let’s say a German tank manufacturer sells some tanks to the Italian government. The Italian government is contractually restricted from exporting those tanks to other buyers without approval from the German manufacturer. Let’s say there’s two potential buyers in third countries: the government in Myanmar and an arms broker in Spain. The manufacture has the contractual right to reject either buyer. Maybe they don’t like Myanmar’s human rights policies, so they say, “No, Italy, you can’t pass the tanks to the Myanmar government. But you can sell to the broker in Spain if they sign a pass-thru agreement that controls to whom they can sell the tanks, that gives us ultimate approval over the sale.” This is to avoid the broker turning around and selling the tanks to Myanmar. These sorts of pass-thru agreements are real. They have affected countries trying to send war fighting equipment to Ukraine, delaying the shipment. It’s unrealistic that a car dealer could make buyers sign such a contract, but it is possible. The export can even be mandated by the government of the country where the manufacturer is located, defined by export control laws of that country, which adds another layer of approval.
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  211. I like Garfunkel & Oates. It’s an actual duo, look ‘em up.
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  212. There are laws governing the behavior that define it as criminal conduct. The question is are there laws that carve out exceptions to the criminal law? At around 2:40, Steve discusses the common sports exception using the example of boxing, but you might have difficulty claiming that a mutually agreed upon fight was merely participating in a sport. But even so, your argument that mutual fighting is legal because it is not covered by the law falls flat. It most certainly is covered by the law unless there is a law that delineates an exception.
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  213. I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
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  214. They’ll be forced to disgorge the profits if that’s necessary to pay for the removal. If they just walk away, there’s nothing to stop the mineral council from contracting with another company to operate the wind farm. The wind farm company screwed itself by ignoring the rights of others.
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  215.  @thisismagacountry1318  How many damn troll accounts do you have? I hope you’re keeping track, because I’ve lost count.
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  216. How do you survive against such outrageous malfeasance? I think I’d rather die than do a kindness to my neighbors or let them do a kindness to me. All I’m saying is that mistakes have to stop and there has to be major consequences for the mistake makers!! I’m not willing to live in a world where people just accept that mistakes are made. 😉 (But honestly, doesn’t that sound like the tone of some of the comments on this video? Not yours. You sound same and reasonable.)
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  217. Thank you for restating the content of the video.
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  218. This is just speculation, but I suspect that Bullhead City has many false Christians and false conservatives that rally behind the idea of Christian Nationalism.
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  219. That’s great that you’re involved in drafting, but you really should watch this video that contains the facts and the pertinent law.
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  220.  @omargoodman2999 Mortar? I didn’t even know her.
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  221. Did you come up with that youself? It’s so insightful.
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  222. Without watching the video first, I’m going to hazard a guess: they loved each other very much and made little bailiffs and court reporters.
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  223. Watch the video. You obviously didn’t listen to the sounds that came out of Steve’s mouth.
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  224. There’s a larger concern here. If the company goes out of business, how many robos are going to lose their jobs?
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  225. Imagine you own a junk car, it’s parked in front of your house and you wish to sell it to a salvage company! This could get really absurd very rapidly. “You cannot sell county property, but at the same time you must pay fines for abandoning a vehicle in front of your house.” 😂
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  226. You don’t think that’s a little heavy? Why not just impose the death penalty if you want an absurd resolution?
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  227. I guess you could watch the video and clear up those questions of yours.
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  228. Keep wondering about those charges and lawsuits. Don’t do any research to find out. Just keep wondering. WRT the community’s morale, we will keep beating them until morale improves. Are you sure you’re American? We don’t usually talk in terms of the “morale of the community”. That sounds like something a person from a collectivist country would say.
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  229. If you want answers to questions, do you need to watch the video? Try it! Then you don’t have to be in the dark.
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  230. And I suppose you think you could do a better job? If you think you can, run for office. That also goes for if you think you can fake it better.
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  231. I have an incredible investment opportunity for you all! 😉 Just kidding! On a more serious note, I was thinking early today how the phrase “taking the fifth” has entered the non-legal lexicon, to mean “that’s none of your business”, “that’s a private matter”, or just plain, “I’d prefer not to say or discuss it”. I find this worrying because it could be an indication that potentially criminal behavior is becoming normalized. Or information/answers that should be a matter of public record is being concealed. Recently, the January 6th committee played a taped deposition of Michael Flynn taking the fifth when asked if he believed in “the peaceful transition of power, either morally or legally”. I found it pretty wild that either answer to that question, yes or no, could be self-incriminating. It wasn’t normal to me, but it at the same time seemed unsurprising these days for an official or ex-official to refuse to answer questions about basic American Democracy.
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  232.  @ebr-fan1117  You have to consider how such laws could be abused by anyone disgruntled by a politician or official. How would courts accommodate a huge increase in frivolous cases, for example? How would politicians and officials get any work done if they were constantly responding to frivolous cases? We’d need to expand the courts to handle the increased volume, hiring more judges and court workers. We might need to build new courthouses. You’re asking the public to bear an even greater burden because you think someone is not doing their job properly. There is also already a remedy in the case of elected officials. You replace them at the next election.
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  233.  @artstrology Good on you re:Monsanto. I’m not against genetically modified organisms, but I’m 100% against Monsanto’s predatory business practices (which exploit their ability to modify organisms and call it intellectual property).
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  234.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  I’d argue that you don’t need those administrative skills to be a lawyer, UNLESS it’s your practice. Does a law firm want all of its associates and partners to be able to run the firm? No, they want people to do the work for which they were hired. The managing partners might hire an office manager for day-to-day operations of a non-legal nature. They might hire a comptroller. But nobody else needs management skills (unless their duties require them). Administration and management skills are not a requirement to be a competent lawyer. Doing your job competently is a requirement (obviously). The job of a district attorney is to represent “the people” in prosecuting crimes. If no crimes are being prosecuted, there’s a problem. If there are not enough prosecutors because the DA fired them, that’s incompetence. It’s like chopping your hands off. If you did that, you would not be competent to do any job that required the use of your hands. Fortunately, the DA could have gotten new hands. Unfortunately, she chose not to or was unable to get new hands. That is incompetence to be an attorney. I bet that she’d still have her license if she had resigned and said, “I can’t do this job, this is too much responsibility, someone else take over,”. I suspect the former-DA Manlove was some wacky conspiracy-believing right wing nutjob, and she got elected on that basis. It would be very interesting to see her work history.
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  235. Did elected officials make this decision, or was it career officials and/or appointed officials? Unless you can show that the elected officials made the decision, voting all of them out of office as a first step seems like a kneejerk reaction.
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  236.  @idristaylor5093  He is recommending political violence. You know, the T-word.
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  237.  @JH-pt6ih  “local control” by a contractor who presumably has contracts statewide?
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  238. That depends on the lease between the company and the (surface) property owners, no?
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  239. “Every judge and every prosecutor” don’t match the description.. they match your projection.
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  240. This was the appeal. Did you even watch the video?
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  241.  @jplayzow  He doesn’t want a democratic government. He wants someone to impose their will on him.
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  242. Did it specify at what point in the “putting it in the trash” process that private ownership is lost? I assume it means when the receptacle goes out to the curb and hopefully that is defined in the ruling.
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  243. Do you know what would make a terrific TV show? HOA vs SovCit cage matches.
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  244. It’s possible that the council just wants them removed. If it’s just about the money, the company can negotiate with the council for the mining permits/leases. Which they should have done in the first place instead of telling the council to go to hell.
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  245.  @DustinDonald-cz9ot  You might not classify rocks, gravel, or sand as mining, but you have very little knowledge in the area while also having a lot of unsupported opinion.
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  246. Most likely it isn’t a criminal violation but an administrative one. It would still be a case, but it wouldn’t be handled by criminal prosecutors unless a criminal statute was broken. It might also be a civil case, but again, that wouldn’t be handled by a criminal prosecutor like a DA.
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  247. I don’t draw that lesson at all. The lesson I draw is that there are some bad regulations that are then stupidly enforced. Your “lesson” doesn’t differentiate between bogus regulations/laws and regulations/laws that have justifiable reasons.
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  248. Doesn’t the car have the right to a public defender? 😬
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  249. Right? This is the type of guy that cheats at everything. I wouldn’t play checkers with him. I’d count the change twice if I bought a stick of gum from him. And their usual excuse is “everyone does it, I’d be stupid not to”.
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  250. Who has standing to bring such a suit? Any citizen? What if the government settles with a plaintiff? Should any citizen be allowed to bring a suit against individuals any time the government pays plaintiff’s fees and costs, no matter the circumstances? This is just for a start. Which individuals do you sue? What if there is an agreement with the government to indemnify employees subject to these costs? When you get into the details, there are a lot of unforeseen consequences. You have to make sure you aren’t incentivizing behavior and policy you want to avoid. I think your scheme would lead to too many problems to count.
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  251. You mean sell the same property they intended to but just put the correct address on the contract/transaction paperwork?
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  252. Were arrests 2-4 for FTA? What’s going on with that? If she failed to appear and was arrested (#2) why was she arrested two more times?
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  253. Did you watch the video?
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  254. If that many data providers are putting a road where none seems to exist, I have to wonder if there’s not an old easement or a right-of-way on the property of which the property owner is unaware.
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  255. The law in California overrides that.
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  256.  @deconteesawyer5758  their OS X (operating system (or whatever number they’re up to) is based on Darwin, an open sourced version of BSD. Their closed source sw is built on top of that. They did not pioneer closed source operating systems, not by a long shot. I know it’s fashionable to bash apple. I know you can boost your geek cred by pointing out their shortcomings. But I’d be surprised as hell if there wasn’t an OS out there that would scratch all your itches*. So why moan about Apple using closed source SW that millions of people want? Can you not accept that not everyone wants what you do? Can you not accept that Apple products are what some other people want or need? It’s funny. The dicks have gotten smaller, but the dick measuring contests are more important than ever. *and if there is not, what stops you from creating it yourself?
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  257.  @tarotbullnews9999  How deep do the pilings go? That’s tornado country, so I imagine the excavation was also pretty deep.
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  258. If they had done that, it would have negated the tribe’s mineral council’s strongest argument. That doesn’t mean the tribe doesn’t have other legal arguments, but they are less clear cut.
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  259. Mannheim Steamrollers. 🧐😂 That was terrible! 😡 😭
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  260. Apparently you need to post a removal bond to cover the cost of removal, before starting construction.
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  261. Did you watch the video? It seems like you didn’t or that you had your volume turned off if you did watch it.
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  262. One hundred odometers is only 1/10th of a kilo-odometer. Edit: Dig the shirt!
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  263.  @nightwheel  What are you talking about? Could you stick to the facts instead of wandering off into baseless soeculation?
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  264. Isn’t the lemon pound cake song about one of the cops conducting the raid encountering some lemon pound cake in the kitchen? It’s been a while since I saw the video, but if I recall the cop looks at the cake with the intense hunger one only sees in the eyes of a starving cop looking at a donut.
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  265. “You’re going to jail!” “No, you’re going to jail” No, u
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  266. When the mineral rights and water rights are separated from the surface rights, it makes the surface rights cheaper. If you want all the rights, you pay more (and likely have to negotiate separate deals with all the rights holders, assuming they are willing to sell).
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  267. So, you don’t want to keep your house and you want to go to prison? Cool story.
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  268.  @robrobinson8597  Agreed. It’s not just Roe. The majority on the court has been imposing decisions that are radically constructivist in the supposed attempt to “reconstruct” the supposed original intentions of the framers of the Constitution. The Trump appointees are not acting as judges, but as ideological advocates trying to game the system. I never thought it would come to this. I don’t say this lightly, but Biden needs to appoint more justices. A year ago I would have opposed this idea.
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  269. Did any of the ethical violations involve cashmere sweaters?
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  270. No it doesn’t.
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  271. In addition to the issue of ownership, I am curious about the scale. How many tons of vegetable waste a month are we talking? I’m willing to bet it’s less than a half ton per month, which would be negligible in terms of energy generated from incineration. The local government is going after a trivial amount of “lost revenue”.
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  272.  @mwwhited  What System on a Chip features are you unhappy with? Is onboard RAM one of them? Should technological advancements be stopped because you want to upgrade your RAM, or should everyone else be penalized so every manufacturer gives you what you want? Right-to-repair is a different issue than “ease of upgrading”. Some phone vendors maintain compatibility with their older models when they update the OS. I know of one phone vendor that supports phones for 6 or 7 years, and even then release security patches for older OSes no longer under development.
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  273. The second thing you wrote.
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  274. If I ever feel compelled to buy an RV, I’ll buy a boat instead. 😂
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  275. Steve isn’t a fanboy.
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  276. 100% correct. In fact, the first amendment right to vote for Rod Blagojevich extends to all voters in any state in any election.
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  277.  @GreyMaria  Yes. But your “symbolic” vote or protest vote or whatever you want to call it is your decision. It still gets counted. The election workers don’t throw it away. It’s the same thing if you vote for an obscure third party candidate with very long odds. They still count your vote, even if you “threw it away” by not voting for a major party candidate.
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  278. Watch the video and learn the difference.
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  279. It’s frikkin’ scary but ICE loses track of people all the time. They’ve lost children when they were separating families. I vaguely remember one case that I think was in San Diego, where they picked up one kid (either a citizen or someone with a legal right to be here), but him alone in a detention cell in the ICE facility, and promptly forgot he was there over a four day weekend. He died of dehydration. ICE is such a terrible organization that a sub-agency (Homeland Security Investigations, which investigates the really bad stuff related to bad people in the country illegally) has repeated tried to get itself separated from ICE to be merged into another HS agency or to be its own independent agency. They have a recruiting/retention/morale problem because investigators don’t want to be a part of ICE.
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  280.  @rposton919  How so? Are you confusing right of repair with ease of upgrading?
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  281. The real crime here is your misuse of an apostrophe S.
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  282. Copyright. But your point stands.
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  283. Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) is a subsidiary of Hasbro. I don’t know about the rest of Hasbro, but WOTC is an unethical company that has a history of acting in bad faith.
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  284. Your house can be removed if you post a comment or question without watching the video.
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  285. Ewe, gross!
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  286. There was a time that there was no best practice, and even after network security had matured to the point of having best practices, it took many years to educate IT professionals, and even more to educate the people that managed them. The real flaw here is not the website, but the governor. And there is already a corrective mechanism in place that we call elections.
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  287. Some don’t. Some very good lawyers needed to take it more than once to pass.
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  288. Watch the video.
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  289.  @thisbushnell2012  I’m trying to imagine a society based on your modest proposition.
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  290. The subscription service will be an option, not a requirement. Apple wants to sell more phones and ancillary services. A subscription service is just another avenue for consumers.
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  291. So is the trademark Taco Tuesday or Taco Twosday? The second would seem to be a valid trademark.
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  292. MFR stands for manufacturer, guys. I know what you’re thinking.
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  293. They avoided paying for the construction materials they would have had to buy and bring to the site. They profited from extracting the materials.
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  294. Get Jomboy to do a lip reading.
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  295. Gentrification is bad for almost everyone except developers, unethical local politicians/zoning commissioners, and wealthy newcomers. I get how a uhaul business would be an eyesore in a gentrified downtown. If the city leaders and the developers want to gentrify, they should be willing to buy the business or pay move it to a location agreeable to the business owner and make any improvements required.
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  296.    No. That is stupid. If your iPad is within the warranty period, get it repaired. If it’s not, see if it’s worth repairing or replacing. If it’s not worth repairing, Apple offers free recycling of their products. The only thing forcing you to throw it in a landfill is your spite.
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  297.  @Shock_Treatment  How old? What do you use them for? What version of windows to they run? What sort of work do they do?
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  298. Zero surprise that you’re a Gary Newman fan. 😂
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  299. Why is that more disgusting than other aspects of the case? The village has liability insurance and police officers have a union. If the insurance company wanted to make the police officer bear part of the burden, they could have tried. But this case is small potatoes and I doubt it’s worth their while. We also weren’t privy to the settlement negotiations. It’s possible (and likely) that the village/village’s insurance wanted to settle at that figure and the police officer defendant did not. So the village said, screw it, we’ll just pay it and get this over with. Sorry that your sense of what is proper was offended by this case. It’s a terrible thing when one’s feelings about justice are offended.
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  300.  @why6212  No, I made a smart comment. You need to wrap your dizzy brain around a few simple facts. Throwing people in prison willy nilly is not only stupid, it leads to more of the same abuse of power as the OP supposedly hates. Or worse. It’s a criminally stupid comment. A more intelligent comment is, “the board should be investigated”. Another might be that the board should have greater oversight because it’s acting like an overbearing bureaucracy. Throwing people in jail without due process or cause is the sort of dumb crap you see in dictatorships like you see in Iran or Russia. If that’s one you want, you need to examine your priorities.
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  301.  @alphagt62  Likely it is a “smart meter” that collects usage data and sends it directly to the utility.
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  302.  @sonictech1000  If you’re worried, watch the entire video so you can learn the facts and the law. I suspect that will allay your fears.
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  303. Did you actually watch the video? If so, watch it again, but this time also listen.
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  304. No. Which you would know if you watched the video.
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  305. They don’t even have to do that. They need better quality control so these cars don’t make it out of the factory without being fixed.
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  306. His revenge will be getting paid to be an expert witness when the families/estates of the victims sue the company for willful negligence.
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  307. My grandfather graduated from Southwestern after doing his undergrad at Oxy.
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  308. Do a search for “Boston dynamics auralnauts horror”
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  309. No, the surface rights were owned by private owners. Did you watch the video before commenting? You might give that a try and avoid embarrassment.
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  310. I think it has more to do with the aging Karen population.
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  311.  @lward7788  The question is how many times have YOU tried to change that led you to the conclusion you are powerless? How many times did you organize with others to enact or change a law, and got knocked down? I suspect that the answer to both questions is zero. Nobody here is suggesting that the process is easy. But it is not out of reach here as it is in many places in the world, where the people are powerless to make changes to the laws or enact new ones. You sound like a person that never believed in democracy in the first place.
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  312.  @veramae4098  Oh, goodness. He was quite good early on, but Campbell’s gone off the rails over the past six months. Sadly, he’s shut down criticism from experts for errors he’s made in his videos—even from experts who he’s previously had on his channel. He’s tried to support his theories with retracted studies. That might sound like an innocent mistake, but then he didn’t link to the paper on the publisher’s site. He used a link to the study that didn’t carry the retraction notification. You trust John Campbell at your peril. He’s no longer a reliable source. He’s not open to correction.
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  313. The company should have negotiated with the mineral council before they built anything. They could have agreed to profit sharing and if the council wanted too much, the company could have decided to build elsewhere. It’s really simple. Now the company is on the hook for removal of the structures.
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  314.  @dougjones9493  Apparently they had to post a bond equal to the cost of removal.
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  315. Colibrí is Spanish for hummingbird.
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  316.  @thatguyrich9822  Thank you for making that correction. 😁
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  317. When I was a kid, I had to go through the trash looking for a retainer before the trash truck arrived. My parents insisted I do it, so I suppose I can blame them. Regardless, it is now clear to me that my career as a Juvenile Delinquent can be traced back to that day. Also, I now feel a lot better about throwing trash out the car window. I wasn’t littering, I was transferring property to the local government.
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  318. Did you know that you can clear up your ignorance on this situation by watching the video?
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  319. What’s it worth? The jury will decide!
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  320. As compared to what?
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  321. Then how did the law get passed in the first place?
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  322. Then move to Michigan, you big hippy!
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  323. The video answers your questions. I don’t know, maybe watch it?
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  324. Maybe the horse is a mare? Perhaps the horse will also be a bridesmaid. Of the horse is a stallion (hopefully it isn’t a gelding), perhaps she plans to marry the horse? How old is the girl, anyway? I’m also curious if the daughter has a husband (or wife) picked out, or if this is just her plans for a wedding after she finds her one true love. This could be a filter to avoid marrying a non-lover of horses. “If you want to be my lover, you gotta get with my horse,” sang the very wise Spice Girls. Or words to that effect. I might be paraphrasing. I do picture a Cowboy (or Cowgirl) Wedding. The couple would both be on horseback. The priest would be on horseback. If you squinch up your eyes and use your imagination, maybe you can visualize what centaur marriage ceremonies must have been like before centaurs became extinct. Anyway, both the Cowboy (or Cowgirl) and the Bride would have guitars slung on their backs. When it came time to exchange vows, they’d unsling the guitars and sing their vows to each other. Think Dale Evans and Roy Rodgers. I don’t think the priest would have a guitar. That would be too much. 😉 At the end of the ceremony, the newly married couple would ride off into the sunset, while the wedding party discharged shotguns and revolvers into the sky.
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  325. That was covered in the video, if you had bothered to watch. Your definition doesn’t match the legal definition in this case, which is unambiguous.
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  326. I think the 4F Fair executive should be learning a lesson. I’d like to see her original report of stolen property.
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  327. Wrong video.
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  328. ⁠ @fredflintstone8048 Two things should be done by an outside agency. One is to check that there isn’t a pattern of the police using their powers to harass people or abuse their powers and discretion as political favors. The second thing is to stop this police abuse from becoming a pattern. That means some form of consequences. I’m not part of the outrage brigade that wants to throw everyone in jail, but there should be consequences for the police.
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  329. If she had concealed the crime in any way, then no. Did she lie about it to her previous employer? Apparently, from the story, she was forthcoming about the matter.
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  330. Good luck with that.
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  331. So you want to interfere with property rights? If I own the surface rights, mineral rights, and water rights of a property, it should be within my rights to unbundle those rights as I see fit, and sell or lease them to others. This benefits society as a whole, because it makes property less expensive—you just buy what you need. You don’t have to pay extra for mineral rights you don’t need. Some people want the peace of mind and will pay for extra rights. That’s also their right.
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  332. Did you watch the video? It answers your questions. You could watch it or you could continue in ignorance. Your choice.
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  333.  @miniskunk  Not according to the laws regulating mineral rights in this case. Sorry, but you really out to watch the video before resorting to your “common sense” based on lack of information.
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  334. I wouldn’t have been surprised that 90% of Steve’s audience is naive, but I suspect the number is higher.
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  335. That’s not the issue. The issue is that the company violated the rights of the mineral rights holder.
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  336.  @gregb6469  it is illegal to impersonate The Batman. 😉🙃
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  337. Possibly. It would have undercut the Tribe’s strongest argument, but it’s not the only argument that the tribe could make.
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  338. How does it feel to discover that your dad would be considered a dangerous criminal in Florida? 😂
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  339. The reparation is removal of the construction and legal costs.
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  340.  @Mark_87  Not really. Look up “mens rea”. There’s no criminal case here. This is negligence and human error causing a tort, plain and simple. People make mistakes, and the company is liable for those mistakes, but there wasn’t criminal intent (according to the story). If a prosecutor could prove criminal intent beyond reasonable doubt, there might be a criminal case.
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  341.  @Lessenjr  It doesn’t mean “at random”, it means according 1) choice or decision based on whim or desire rather than on system or reason.
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  342.  @Allangulon  The nation of India has nothing to do with this case. These people with the mineral rights aren’t dot-on-the-head Indians, they’re Native American Indians. No wonder you’re all over the comments posting nonsense. You don’t know your rear end from a mining operation.
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  343.  @july8xx  or the junior level lawyer (the underling) thought he was being put on the hook to protect more senior lawyers, and it didn’t have anything to do with his feelings about the client.
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  344.  @FireMageLayn  I’m thinking along your lines along with, “I’m not going to be disciplined by the Bar to protect one of the partners. I spent considerable time and money on my law school education. Why risk it? I can always get a job at another firm that puts a higher premium on ethics and professional conduct.”
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  345. I think there are other arguments that could be used (and might have been used in court), but this was the strongest argument that won the case. It’s seems very clear to me the company unambiguously violated the rights of a rights holder.
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  346. This falls under the Slugabug exception. See the Supreme Court case Mom vs Sally and Bobby, where the court reversed the lower court decision that “if you kids don’t knock it off, I’m pulling over and you can walk home”.
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  347. Why is it hard to understand that securing rights, permits, and permissions is a normal part of large scale developments? People are acting like this is bizarre, and it’s not. What is strange is that the wind farm company refused to secure all the necessary permissions, deciding to fight it in court rather than pay money to all the rights holders.
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  348. Yes, that is a good argument. The argument that won the case was that the wind farm company had engaged in mining operations during the construction of the wind farm.
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  349. You can go to iFixit if you want to go the cheap route. Apple is doing exactly what the “right of repair” asked—providing the specialized tools that they use. You apparently want something, but you don’t want to pay for it or look into how to do it yourself. You could save yourself a lot of righteous indignation by just take it into the non-Apple repair shop while not actually having to lift a finger to educate yourself. Or maybe the whole point of this exercise is for you to feel that juicy and ripe indignation.
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  350.  @som3oneMw  Thank You, Matt. I think these are people that get high on self-righteous indignation and false grievance. First guy doesn’t even want to go the non-authorized route to save money, but is completely unaware of his actual DIY options. He’s not interested in putting in the effort to learn how to fix his phone, he just wants to be mad. It’s like a drug for some people.
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  351.  @leepiper4621  This is true. Thank you for pointing it out. But if we are going to reform policing, we need to be precise about who does what so we can make the right changes. Prosecutor agencies need reform as well, but it’s an entirely different type of reform. I wish more of these commenters had taken basic U.S. civics.
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  352.  @YouMakeItHappen  That’s not the point of my comment. My larger point is really that if you don’t know how the system works, who does what and what legal mechanisms they use, you won’t be able change or reform the system. If there is fraud, it will be harder to detect if you don’t understand how the system works. All it takes is a basic civics class to get a grasp on the nuts and bolts of the legal system. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you just might end up with worse.
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  353.  @Dan.Solo.Chicago  Correct, according to the original comment. But the original commenter says that Chief decides who gets prosecuted, and that is incorrect. And they make the strong implication that the Chief is also the arbiter of facts, which is also incorrect. District attorneys don’t work for small town PDs, and the chief of police isn’t their boss. If the chief of police is also the judge, you’ve got bigger problems, mixing together the judicial branch and the executive branch.
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  354. 😂 I followed this case at the time, and I thought he would get nailed for destroying evidence. This result couldn’t happen to a nicer more deserving guy.
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  355. Tell us all about your extensive experience with copyright and native Americans.
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  356. My HOA fined me form thinking about loud music.
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  357. Watch the video and be enlightened.
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  358. In high school, we used to get In-n-Out Burger bumper stickers, and we’d cut out the B and the R.
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  359. I’m sorry to inform you this, but criminal defendants don’t just get compensated when their cases get dropped. Also, I think you’re exaggerating when you say, “The police nearly destroyed his life”.
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  360. Unseating the local government seems absolutely crazy as well. Did local elected officials enact the policy? Are they involved in the daily operation of waste disposal? Probably not. That doesn’t mean elected officials shouldn’t be pressured over this absurd enforcement, but “throwing the bums out” over this issue seems like a huge overreaction. Sadly, it’s apparently a common reaction.
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  361. Perhaps the newspaper and reporter could bring a civil suit, but why? What result could they achieve that couldn’t be more effectively achieved with the power of the press? Are you thinking monetary damages? How much harm to their reputation occurred, and how much is it worth monetarily? I’d say none at all, but even if there was, its monetary value would be very small. If you feel that the governor should have some consequences for making false statements, that’s what elections are for. Just because you can sue doesn’t mean you should sue.
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  362. Did you even bother to watch the video?
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  363. Good old Tom! Tom, if you read this, thank you and have a great day! If you’re not the Tom mentioned in the video, just have a great day. 😄
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  364. Watch the video and you’ll have less need to ask dumb questions.
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  365. The purpose of the law is not to address the moral shortcomings of corporation executives. What sort of legislation are you proposing that would “end corporate greed”?
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  366. Her job is to prosecute criminal cases, but the workload is such that a DA needs hands, i.e., assistant and deputy DAs, to do the work. Imagine if your job required you to use your hands. Now imagine you intentionally chop them off. You are no longer competent to do your job, and should resign.
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  367.  @J4k7193R  I have questions about the scale of operations, and how much revenue is being lost due to the composting activities. How much compostable material does this woman gather each month? What amount of energy revenue would this represent to the waste disposal company? After these questions are answered, we can then talk about externalities like air pollution one one hand, and lessening demand for chemical fertilizers on the other. Once we know that, we can come to a determination of what the vermiculturalist’s activities are costing local government, damaging society, and impeding the generation of electricity.
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  368. This letter from the FAA is an emergency revocation of the Private Pilot License (PPL). It is intended to immediately prevent Trevor Jacob from putting the public at risk by his piloting of an aircraft. AFAIK, there has been no hearing before an administrative judge and no final disposition of the case.
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  369. What are the local laws regarding right-of-ways and how they become established? The plaintiff might be worried that he will lose some property rights if a right-of-way is established. A parcel that is impinged by a right-of-way might be objectively less valuable.
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  370. Watch the video.
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  371. I’ll just say that even if you can sue doesn’t mean you should sue. A newspaper has a powerful weapon in its editorial pages before needing to litigate. A lot of people are quick to recommend litigation when it’s not the wiser course. And litigation is not easy or cheap.
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  372.  @richardtodd6843  Your first point is very good. There’s a difference between having an axe to grind and the normal adversarial/keep-em-honest position of the press towards politicians. Engaging in unnecessary litigation might even get the reporter removed from reporting on political stories. It turns the story into something beyond straightforward reporting—which I guess is fine if you’re writing a Hunter S. Thompson type piece about your legal battles with a politician.
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  373. Have you considered taking the addd step of watching Steve’s video?
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  374. Probably if there are repeated instances of non-compliance, leading to fines, and then refusing to pay the fines. This doesn’t mean it will rise to criminality, but that it could.
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  375. Birds aren’t real.
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  376.  @ianbelletti6241  We’d have to look at the plan or plat to determine if the easement was established. We also don’t know if there is a public right of way established sometime before the current owners took up residence. We don’t have a full report with all the relevant details.
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  377.  @moogs  How about you be quiet when the adults are talking?
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  378.  @rustyshackelford3371  get back to your pocket sand
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  379. That might be difficult to apply eminent domain if a sovereign nation or different political entity owns the mineral rights, as is the case here. The state of New York cannot seize property in Texas under eminent domain.
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  380.  @mballer  it’s always a conspiracy with you people. Don’t ascribe to malice what is clearly incompetence.
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  381.  @mballer  Yes, you blamed the programmer’s incompetence on “the deep state”, a conspiracy theory. As far as who “you people” are, did that hurt your feelings? The “you people” in this case refers to adherents to the alternative reality of conspiracy theories. What did you think it meant? If you’re not a conspiracy nut, and meant “an out of control government bureaucracy” or “big government”, say that instead of using the vocabulary of lunatics. If that’s all you meant, we might actually be in agreement. If you misspoke, my apologies.
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  382. Invisible ink wins again!!
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  383. That’s so funny! Did you think of that yourself?
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  384. Why don’t you enumerate the damages to the builder and monetary value of the damages? Then we can see if it would be sufficient to establish a retirement fund.
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  385. Don’t believe everything you hear about California. It could be you’re listening to political nutcases with an agenda.
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  386. The answers to your questions are in the video that Steve recorded and posted. Have you considered watching it?
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  387. But why? What actual harm did the reporter or newspaper suffer? The obvious remedy here is to vote the governor out of office at the next election, rather than run to litigation at the first opportunity. If the newspaper wants to fight back, they have plenty of arrows in their quiver before resorting to the litigation arrow. It’s less work and less expensive to publish editorials and analysis pushing back on the governor’s unfair and unfounded criticism.
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  388. The issue isn’t so simple. For example, I want a water proof or resistant phone. I can buy one from a variety of manufacturers. I want finger print ID secure my phone. Again, available from a variety of mfgrs. I currently have such a phone. If I want to replace the battery, it’s only $30 if I take it to the mfgr’s retail store or send it in. I can opt to repair that battery myself for around $15, but in opening it up I might ruin the water proofing seals. I’ve bought older used phones and replaced the battery. I even had a fire once because the battery was difficult to remove and the battery package tore. Honestly, it’s worth the extra $15. Plus, I don’t have to worry about the seals. I don’t have to worry about something happening to the finger print cable. And I’m going to be a little pissed if phone manufacturers are prevented from making phones with the features I want, to make it easier for some 10% or less of consumers to repair their own phones. I don’t want my phone’s manufacturer to use larger components to make repairs easier, or bigger cases so there’s more room for the DIYer to work with. I have been doing self repairs and DIY all my life. Usually, I like buy a quality product that will last, take care of it, and if necessary, do maintenance and repair. But I don’t want a worse product so some other DIYer has any easier time of it. If there was really a big market for DIY friendly phones, someone would be filling that demand. Probably someone is. But please don’t limit my choices for your right of repair. Please don’t restrict mfgrs’ ability to innovate with stupid rules. Make well thought out ones so I can still get what I want, and a DIYer can repair their own phones.
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  389. Watch the video. It will answer your questions.
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  390.  @jaredkennedy6576  I’ve got a really great orthopedic surgeon, but you’ve probably never heard of him.
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  391. One of the great joys of reading the comments on Steve’s videos are watching the uneducated and ignorant vigorously express their opinions on subjects far outside their area of expertise. “Criminal charges need to be brought . . .” If only your sense of righteous indignation alone could help you figure out specifically which charges need to be brought. Sadly, it won’t. To figure that out would require taking the time to learn something about criminal law. That would require effort and not give you the same emotional satisfaction as wagging your finger disapprovingly.
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  392.  @TheNicii  Whether the contract was voidable is something that should be resolved in civil court. In the meantime, the cops can take the goat to the court and say, “here, you hold on to it until the matter is resolved”. (Or they could have said, “we located the goat at the Napa Goat Center and they’ve agreed to take custody of the goat until the matter is resolved”. The police do NOT decide whether or not a contract is voidable or legitimate. That’s not within their authority. So those were at least two of the mistakes the Shasta County Sheriffs made. The course of events suggest that the county fair official made a false report. I would say that the sheriff’s detective that took the call made a mistake by not questioning the official about her report of a crime. That’s the third mistake, and I hope they prosecutor is looking into the false report (if one was made). This isn’t a case where the sheriff’s hands were tied, and the deputies had to follow the law. This is a case where, among other things, the sheriff’s department made very bad decisions and didn’t follow the law. They used “self-help”. The problem is compounded by the department not checking the report and not questioning the person making the report. Isn’t that what a detective is supposed to do? “What were the circumstances of the theft? Where was the goat stolen from and who stole it?” Are these not questions that normally get asked when there is a report of stolen property? I’m not going to give the sheriff’s department a pass here because “they were just doing their jobs”. They did their jobs poorly and not according to the law. I don’t think they’re the main culprit, but they are not far behind.
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  393.  @TheNicii  I’ll agree to your stipulation while maintaining that the cops could have done a much better job.☝️ 😸
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  394.  @madmaximilian5783  or in this case, they could have kept the goat under civil asset forfeiture. At least then the goat might still be alive.
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  395.  @brt5273  If the pet goat was stolen property, wouldn’t the goat be held as evidence while the case was being investigated? Or why would it be returned to the people reporting it stolen if it was decided by the sheriff’s criminal investigators that no crime was committed?
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