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I can see it since you mentioned it, but if you just showed it to me and asked what I thought it was I would probably have said a cat.

Considering he is only 24 I'm not sure if that is better or worse than the death penalty.

pionear posted...

I think the poster meant overall in Trial history not this particular case...I think one of the Tobacco lawsuits had a Higher number
EDIT: Some of those are settlements so it might be another one for Judgement awards

https://finlegal.io/news-blog/what-are-the-5-biggest-class-actions-of-all-time

I actually just misread what it said, it said 'the second big judgement' not 'the second biggest judgement'. It was late.

"Verdict is second big judgment against Infowars host over promotion of the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened"

Wait, almost a billion dollars is only the second biggest judgement?

Lokarin posted...

Mysteriously; as soon as Elon Musk needs funding he starts posting pro-china and pro-russian propaganda...

weird, eh?

Except he shouldn't need funding because he had secured it before he even made an offer to Twitter.

Was there one before Among Us?

OmegaM posted...

And you're not guaranteed any particular card; you get 4 boosters of 15 random Beta cards each for $999. I'm not sure who's going to want to buy it at that price.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/celebrate-30-years-magic-gathering-30th-anniversary-edition-2022-10-04

I missed that bit the first time around, $999 for four packs of non-legal cards. Who the hell would pay that?

Lokarin posted...

weird, i thought shatter was 1 blue, 1 colourless... but it's one red...

I mean it makes sense, not sure why I thought it was blue

I mean, historically a ton of the best cards in the game have been blue so the odds were in your favor.

Lokarin posted...

I don't know MTG that well, since I only played a tiny bit during 4th edition...

Can't you use Shatter to break Black Lotus before it can tap?

Black Lotus is a sacrifice rather than a tap and I'm pretty sure they can sac in response to you targeting it. The main point of the Black Lotus though was to hit really early combos so even if it did work you'd have a very narrow window to pull it off assuming you even had a land down.

The reprints are non-tournament legal though, so it really isn't that big a deal. Any place you could play the reprint you would probably be able to play a proxy for it.

adjl posted...

That doesn't sound like it'll help people without iPhones, but otherwise it sounds more or less like what I suggested.

From what I understand of how they work, they only work if they are in the vicinity of iOS devices to start with.

"AirTags are not satellite navigation devices. AirTags are located on a map within the Find My app by utilizing Bluetooth signals from other anonymous iOS and iPadOS devices out in the world. To help prevent unwanted tracking, an iOS/iPadOS device will alert their owner if someone else's AirTag seems to be with them, instead of with the AirTag's owner, for too long.[12] If an AirTag is out of range of any Apple device for more than 8 to 24 hours,[13] it will begin to beep to alert a person that an AirTag may have been placed in their possessions.[14]"

adjl posted...

Like to stalk people? Yeah, people will basically reverse pickpocket one onto a person they want to track and follow them home. Car thieves can do a similar thing and stick one on a car they want to steal while it's parked somewhere, track where it is, then steal it when it's least secured.

I think the only way to really prevent it is to have them communicate with every phone with which they aren't paired in a certain radius and trigger an alarm if there's something suspicious about that proximity (i.e. the unpaired tag has remained within a 3 foot radius of the phone despite the phone moving more than 50 feet). That probably wouldn't be terribly hard to program, but requires the person to have a smart phone and also raises some significant privacy concerns because it basically means a given tag is communicating with every single phone at all times, so it's perhaps not ideal.

It looks like they did make some updates to deal with that:

"AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking. If someone elses AirTag finds its way into your stuff, your iPhone will notice its traveling with you and send you an alert. After a while, if you still havent found it, the AirTag will start playing a sound to let you know its there."

Yellow posted...

So now he has to sell his Tesla stocks making him culpable of fraud, or will he work out something else?

From what I understand it's not illegal to pump your stock up, but it is illegal to sell at the peak, and tesla is way overvalued.

He sold a large number of shares before he even proposed the deal and he is financing a big chunk of it:

"Musk assembled $46.5 billion to fund his Twitter takeover, with his own assets backing two-thirds of that amount. Musks portion includes a giant $12.5 billion margin loan secured by his equity stake in Tesla Inc. (TSLA). The remainder comes from bank financing secured by Twitters own assets, a classic leveraged buyout arrangement."

JigsawTDCII posted...

cringe. Theres literally a link in OP

hypnox gonna hypnox

There is a link, but it doesn't say anything about a judge forcing him to buy and the trial in question isn't even schedule to start for another two weeks.

I'm betting under. I just don't know that there is that much fandom for non-game content for Mario Bros. I've played all the games and I don't think I've ever thought, "I wish there was a movie about this."

Half a meatball parm sandwich for dinner...I didn't sleep a heck of a lot last night so I was kind of low energy and didn't do anything for breakfast or lunch. Fortunately we ordered food for dinner.

BlackScythe0 posted...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/trump-sues-cnn-defamation-punitive-damages

So... he is welcoming CNN to do discovery against him related to all his efforts to overturn the election and the court will force him to turn over documents related to the big lie... The lawsuit has absolutely no merit, but it stands to be very damaging to him.

I think if Trump has proved anything its that he isn't very good at turning over documents.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Extremely pertinent point. I guess Conservatives happen to be flute experts instead of guitar experts! Or maybe it's something else entirely, hmm!

Not that I don't think it is related to something else entirely, but that guitar wasn't owned by the government or related to a US president, so it wouldn't have been a lot harder for them to make an case for being upset to start. The actual guitar manufacturer that loaned it to them was pissed however.

Revelation34 posted...

If it's in a museum it should stay in a museum unless the artifact was revealed to have been stolen.

Well good thing it is in a library then.

So mostly the issue seems to be that it was James Madison's flute and it was in the care of the Library of Congress who loaned it to her to play.

Dikitain posted...

Valorant is a porn game isn't it? You kind of expect that from those kinds of games.

Or am I thinking of something else?

You are thinking of something else, Valorant is Riot's hero shooter.

captpackrat posted...

That is a stupid robot for industry. This is much, MUCH better:

Yeah, there is very little point in humanoid robots in the majority of use cases.