Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

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Uh Gen X predates rap.

I regret to inform that you too will get old someday and want to go out in public. I'm sorry you had to find out his way.

Would you accept that toilet paper as collateral?

Remember the judgement he's fighting was for overvaluing assets. So you are going to take stock in a company that lost 28 million dollars on only 3 million of revenue, and believe that it's worth 500 million six months from now when it can finally be sold?

Also I think assets need to unencumbered to be pledged and the stock is encumbered.

Not the board, it has to be part of a regulatory filing and disclosed to potential stock purchasers.

It would have to - that was the length of a film reel. I think Birth of a Nation was the first non-serial multi reel film to be shown in 1915.

I see you've found my publication record.

None of that is liquid though. He's locked into the holdings for six months while the stock freefalls from the IPO. If the majority stockholder is going to be selling shares during the initial offering you bet your panties that has to be disclosed.

Sure! That's the great thing about being a private citizen. You can live your life, go on shows, go on private vacations etc. Because it's your life and you can choose how to live it.

If you are taking on a role of state leadership you don't get to do those things.

You have a privileged role with access to roles, and wealth, and information, but the trade off is that your life is not your own. Your health and relationships and connections are a matter of national interest. So you don't get to slip off for a weekend without telling people where you're going. And you don't get to hide medical diagnoses and medical treatment.

If you want a private life you pull a Harry and Meghan and tell everyone to get lost. But she has chosen her path and her health is a matter of state. So no, she is not entitled to privacy on the matter.

Answer: they aren't. It's an influence operation.

I'm outraged that the article skimped on Mr. Shatner's other acting accomplishments including the titular cop on T.J. Hooker, and whatever his name was on Boston Legal. That was the lawyer show that wasn't Ally McBeal. Or L.A. Law.

You gotta vote. The courts won't save you. The ballot box will.

I used to refer to one my friends as my "heterosexual life partner" when introducing him to people.

It's all good. The generations thing comes from the boomers as well, the huge number of babies that were born in the post-war period and that covered a lot of countries. They needed a name and everything else just formed around them.

I won't deny that someone born in 1946 had a very different experience than someone born in 1964, but from a programmatic view they all benefited from growth in programs and services aimed at children and youth. Those programs underwent a dramatic change in the 1970s as they became means tested or mothballed because of the small number of children.

Again, this is anecdotal, but I switched schools every two years before high school. Every one of them closed because there weren't enough children in the catchment area. They were built because of the baby boom, and my Jones siblings walked to schools in the neighborhood because classes were full. I was bussed from Grade 1 onwards. And so on.

I'm not an American. Federal grants still exist in Canada as well, but the eligibility criteria changed and the program was no longer universal by the time I went to post-secondary. As I said that was an example and there are many. I also had to deal with the height of the AIDS epidemic. The first case report in the literature was 1981. And lead contaminated water was never an issue in our jurisdiction.

If you are a millenial you don't have any lived experience from the period, so why do you question mine? I was part of the "baby bust" as they originally called it and programs and services that were available to my older siblings were not available to me.

No it's not. My older siblings are part of Jones and with just six and eight year gaps they have had very different experiences than X. My favorite example; there were still government grants for university when they went through. They worked odd jobs during the summer knowing that grants would pay full tuition and residence. Government backed loans paid the rest. By the time I went through the grant program had been dismantled and loans were partially privatized. And I graduated into the aftermath of Black Monday.

Did he put the other shoe back on after losing both socks? WTF is going on here?

Back in the old days (hangs onion from belt) we could smoke in the office. I knew a 3 pack a day smoker - Canada so 25 to a pack. The only way he could manage to do it is that he always had one in his hand. If he didn't, he lit another one. That meant that he'd often put one down to do something, forget about it in the ashtray, and light another. I occasionally saw him with 3 going at once.

You mean it isn't dead yet? Huh.

Because cocaine was not a widely distributed drug in the 60s. It was another 15 years before it was being moved in significant volume.