Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The legal thing is the main reason. I drink mostly in social situations, and it'd be hard to light up with the people I work with (well, some of them anyway). Harder still to do it in a bar or club.

That, and convenience, which is really the legal thing in disguise. I want to get drunk, I go to a bar or a store and buy some booze. Drugs are not so readily available, or so I hear.

And Atkins. Let's not forget Atkins. Yes, most alcoholic beverages have carbs. But you can control it a little better and make some choices in advance. It's a lot harder to keep yourself from diving into the potato chips when the munchies hit. Or so I hear.

personally, I find most comfort in pharmaceuticals. They're cheaper, more reliable, easier to control dosage, and the docs prescribe me more than enough to keep me mellow.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Maybe I should borrow some of your pills, oh Paragon of Mental Health.

Your mental health is a lost cause. I was speaking of your physical health. I think a giraffe at the local zoo in my hometown died when it was unable to take a shit for several weeks.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Cut to size.

I like that too, but again, too big.

ETA the glasses make it clear that that is a SPINSTER cow.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm not really sure what we're debating, other than the last couple of tidbits, but wouldn't how the information is required to be treated by the House (or Senate) be relevant to determining whether it was "public" or not for purposes of determining improper trading? I mean, if the Wall St. J. is on newstands at 4:00am, can't you start trading on information therein at that point, regardless of whether you might have had earlier access to it?

Yes. If it's been published, its no longer non public info.

efs

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
What's the statute of limitations for a political bumpersticker after the election has been lost?

Until the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry" stickers are out.

ETA: Curse You, Mr. Hand!

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Specifically, I'm concerned with this language: "A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same." Apparently, I've moved from user to dealer. Tex. Penal Code § 43.23 (f)

...With intent to promote them? As in, vibrators are fun, everybody should own at least three, but less than six, or as, my new firm will be known as RT & Vibrators?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm surprised neither one of you has suggested that only first hand observation by a disinterested third party of personal use of the devices in question would do.

That's pretty clearly promotion, if you ask me.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I'm not convinced that there weren't some violations of securities laws as well, but even making that assumption, I believe (though this isn't my specific area of expertise) that the insider trader laws have been expanded by some courts to cover information received through a source, other than the issuer, if the discloser had a duty to keep it safe and the person trading on the information new that duty had been breached.

That's correct. U.S. v. Winans. The case concerned the writer of the WSJ's Heard on the Street column.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Matt Yglesias in TAPPED (which has links):

• GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, AND MORE BAD NEWS. The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released an update (PDF) to their "Progress or Peril" report measuring reconstruction in Iraq. The bad news is that on four out of five metrics -- governance, services, health care, and education -- Iraqis believe things are getting worse. The good news is that on four out of five metrics -- security, governance, services, and education -- CSIS believes the situation is objectively improving. (Those figures only run through October and don't take into account the recent surge in violence.)
  The bad news again is that even in those sectors where CSIS thinks we're improving, we're nowhere near the "tipping points" they've identified where progress becomes a self-reinforcing virtuous circle. Indeed, the only category in which we're not in the "danger zone" where one worries about a self-reinforcing process in the other direction is the governance and participation indicator. If I'm right that a majoritarian government will do little to calm the fears of Iraq's minority groups -- groups that together constitute about 40 percent of the population -- this may not wind up doing us very much good in spurring progress on other fronts. The rapid deterioration of Iraq's health care system along with epdidemiological data indicating a large increase in mortality among the Iraqi population should be regarded as very disturbing in light of the humanitarian arguments that have been presented on behalf of this war.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
There were 23 songs on their first album.

(my IQ - SS's IQ)/2= 23

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
(my IQ - SS's IQ)/2= 23

OMG! # dark, stiff hairs sprouting from the small of my back = 23! Circumference of my upper arm = 23!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
OMG! # dark, stiff hairs sprouting from the small of my back = 23!

so the electrolysis is almost complete?

[Fugee]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I like that too, but again, too big.

ETA the glasses make it clear that that is a SPINSTER cow.

I saved it to my hard drive and cropped it to just the spinster cow head but can't figure out how to post it here for you.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Fugee
I saved it to my hard drive and cropped it to just the spinster cow head but can't figure out how to post it here for you.

I have no idea either, but thank you! Someone will tell us eventually.

ETA Hank, the diet is going better than the electrolysis.

[Hank Chinaski]