Why would they hide it? Who’s going to do anything about it?

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/man-fired-from-microsoft-after-22-years-becomes-goose-farmer-see-viral-linkedin-profile-5586211

This guy in the article was a lawyer, but not an immigration lawyer. His sister is an immigration lawyer, according to the article.

I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.

There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.

I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).

I think it’s fair to say that not enough was done about the coup attempt, but there were hundreds of cases successfully prosecuted. That’s not ‘nothing’.

Oil being priced in dollars is a primary driver of why other countries need to buy dollars. I’m worried we’re about to find out what happens when OPEC decides to start allowing oil to be traded in euros or yuan.

Isn’t a much simpler answer that China started dumping bonds, and they’ll dump a lot more if the tarriff situation isn’t resolved soon?

As a real estate investor who’s mortgaged to the max, Trump wants high inflation to increase the nominal value of his properties, and low interest rates. China has extensive US bond holdings and at least some ability to drive up 10 year rates by selling those bonds. Trump doesn’t want higher rates, even if you only consider his direct, personal situation.

https://www.tesla.com/insurance

When it comes at you, it doesn’t seem to be livin’

Why can’t they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who also has the initials ‘J. G.’

No, every single member of that chat should have pointed out that the communication violates multiple clear, long existing federal laws about how communications about federal government business is to be conducted, especially about military operations, and refused to communicate via signal instead of approved channels.

All of them violated multiple laws.

Trying to make it seem that they’re not actively breaking all the laws around record keeping for government business.

There’s no excuse for this.

American Airlines will ask you to remove devices from your checked bags is you tell them that you have batteries in your checked bags. Airlines are allowed to have more strict rules than what the FAA allows.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/baggage/restricted-items.jsp

Please remove batteries from devices in your checked bags and put them in your carry-on in separate plastic bags.

When you enter the US, you have to claim your checked baggage as part of the process of going through customs, then re-check your bags if you’re continuing on a domestic flight.

If you have a device in your checked bag:

1. you’re violating the safety rule about not having lithium batteries in checked luggage.

2. if you’re asked if you are travelling with a phone and you lie and say you don’t have one, then if they search your bags and find it, then they’ll have strong evidence that you lied to a federal officer, which is a crime.

The judiciary could shut this down pretty quick by referring DOJ lawyers who attempt to enforce this inappropriately for disbarment.

I’m sorry, the preferred nomenclature is ‘African-Amercan’

My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.

Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he’ll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can’t self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that’s his plan and nothing else really matters to him.

What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He’s willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.

The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they’re able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.

There’s going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We’ll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.