Objectively intelligent.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

He's like David Brooks, a simp. Vanilla, dull witted, insight for the clueless.

What is significant is that someone as studiously inoffensive as Friedman would take even a slightly aggressive position about reopening the economy.

If I wrote a book in 2020 about how the internet will change the world it would be more timely than The World is Flat.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

made and was paid on a BI claim years ago, but we had serious property and equipment damage from a freak occurrence. And even then it was tough.

Look, I know you're trying to get everyone erect here talking about BI claims, but...

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I had a call with someone yesterday who, during the call, sent me a draft complaint and said on the call they'd be filing it Friday if I didn't do what they want.

Yeah, dude, threaten to shoot me with your fingers. Go ahead.

I'm guilty of this. Not really as a threat, but more to show the other side that this could get expensive, and that my demand is probably going to be the same (and likely will go up) after we complete fact discovery (when you ask to mediate). So it's almost always going to be cheaper to settle now. That being said, if I say I'm going to file, I always do. It's never a bluff.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/bill...ng-hilton.html

Now, what says his nemesis, Icahn?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Can't even buy S&P puts or borrow S&P shares to short.

I was told we didn’t need all the business credit lines. I was told there’s no need to bank with small local banks who’ll be more forgiving if this goes Thunderdome. “Go with a big one that has a great app!”

Well, I’m not feeling like I knew something special. But I am feeling like I’ve runway. And I am shocked at how many people have none.

My colleagues who don’t know how to work out obligations (it’s significantly about judgment-proofing the owners) are now playing distressed debt counsel and sending out invoices for this work.

If they’re working for small to mid sized businesses, they might as well wipe their asses with those invoices.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I'm guilty of this. Not really as a threat, but more to show the other side that this could get expensive, and that my demand is probably going to be the same (and likely will go up) after we complete fact discovery (when you ask to mediate). So it's almost always going to be cheaper to settle now. That being said, if I say I'm going to file, I always do. It's never a bluff.

In normal times I understand the threat. But telling me that at a time when courts are effectively closed and not hearing cases that if I don't do X by Friday you will file is... kind of silly. Sure, go ahead, file, run up your bill, and maybe, maybe, you'll get a hearing in late April or early May by which time I'll have mooted the whole thing and you'll look silly.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I had a call with someone yesterday who, during the call, sent me a draft complaint and said on the call they'd be filing it Friday if I didn't do what they want.

Yeah, dude, threaten to shoot me with your fingers. Go ahead.

I have lawyers wanting our docs for depos. Uh, he's an emergency medicine doc in the middle of a pandemic, and you want to know his availability in mid-April?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Sell/short. This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Wall Street are who is buying because Wall Street thinks it understands stimulus. This is beyond Wall Street's ken and you should take advantage of it.

By coincidence, I sold some on the Monday things were started dropping (just freeing cash for home improvements that are not happening now). But I chickened out and sold less than I was thinking about.

Now planning to sell some more as soon as the pass the stimulus bill.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

In normal times I understand the threat. But telling me that at a time when courts are effectively closed and not hearing cases that if I don't do X by Friday you will file is... kind of silly. Sure, go ahead, file, run up your bill, and maybe, maybe, you'll get a hearing in late April or early May by which time I'll have mooted the whole thing and you'll look silly.

Yeah that's pretty bush league of him. In my experience so far, most lawyers are actually acting like human beings as a result of all of this.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I have lawyers wanting our docs for depos. Uh, he's an emergency medicine doc in the middle of a pandemic, and you want to know his availability in mid-April?

I think we are dealing with the same idiots. Defendant wants original path from hospital. Defendant complains to us and we are like “ Just a thought but the hospital may be a little busy right now. “

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I have lawyers wanting our docs for depos. Uh, he's an emergency medicine doc in the middle of a pandemic, and you want to know his availability in mid-April?

Well, except for the PI guys.

[Hank Chinaski]

So saw an analysis of why Michigan has like 500% of the cases that Ohio has. Testing might be part of it- but otherwise one main difference.

The Governors of the two States acted pretty much lock step on shutting stuff down. But we had our primary election and a week or so later Ohio cancelled theirs. Making people vote to tell Bernie to stand the fuck down kills people. The day Ohio cancelled I know other states had theirs- like Illinois.

Last I heard Bernie is "considering" stopping his run- which means he is "considering" killing more people.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So saw an analysis of why Michigan has like 500% of the cases that Ohio has. Testing might be part of it- but otherwise one main difference.

The Governors of the two States acted pretty much lock step on shutting stuff down. But we had our primary election and a week or so later Ohio cancelled theirs. Making people vote to tell Bernie to stand the fuck down kills people. The day Ohio cancelled I know other states had theirs- like Illinois.

Last I heard Bernie is "considering" stopping his run- which means he is "considering" killing more people.

There are ways to vote without making people stand in lines. If all of this prompts more states to make it easy to vote by mail, that would be a good thing.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

There are ways to vote without making people stand in lines. If all of this prompts more states to make it easy to vote by mail, that would be a good thing.

Part of me misses going to the polling place, seeing the volunteers, getting that sticker. But on the whole, vote by mail is a winner.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So saw an analysis of why Michigan has like 500% of the cases that Ohio has. Testing might be part of it- but otherwise one main difference.

The Governors of the two States acted pretty much lock step on shutting stuff down. But we had our primary election and a week or so later Ohio cancelled theirs. Making people vote to tell Bernie to stand the fuck down kills people. The day Ohio cancelled I know other states had theirs- like Illinois.

Last I heard Bernie is "considering" stopping his run- which means he is "considering" killing more people.

Bernie's quitting. He's got other important things to do, like short the market and then announce he's going to hold up the stimulus bill.