Counterpoint: Is is plausible that he'd be that successful at insider trading when he has failed at every other endeavor he has turned his hand to?
Depends on your definitions, I suppose. You could argue that engaging in blatant market manipulation and insider trading from the Oval Office for 16 months and only netting $750M in profits represents a failure. Someone more competent could have made a lot more.
Unless you use amplitude modulation on the "lazer" and bounce it off the ionosphere.
[Apollo shakes his fists at space going worshipers who ignore him, packs bags for space trippin']
Phat Lazer Beats was that other thug in Mos Eisley.
[settles back in big blue comfy couch and grabs for–]
"Oh, never mind"
"Finger Quotes"
Should it matter? The founders weren't gods, they did their best for their time. They made mistakes, and times have changed.
It really should matter. If we can just decide the text means whatever we want it to mean, what's the point in writing it down?
Amend the constitution, make it illegal.
Yes! This is the way. Unfortunately, our system is so dysfunctional we can't even pass normal laws now, much less enact and ratify constitutional amendments.
What will the SEC do? It will settle the cases out of court and set up a $1.776 billion fund to pay to friends who have been accused.
Surely not that. That would be dumb. And awful. And utterly corrupt.
Sigh.
Is WHO willing to admit Taiwan is a place, yet?
A master's degree in my personal experience simply denotes someone who was willing to pay an exorbitant amount of $ for 2 more years of "school time" (I'm not going to say learning) in exchange for the ability to claim a "higher" degree.
Aside from my own experience, I know many people with masters degrees. None of us can point to anything meaningfully learned in those 2 (or more) years. It's a ticket punch for cash.
Setting aside my own knowledge from inside, I have worked with *many* MBAs over the years. I've generally found them to be highly talented at presenting themselves and their ideas as brilliant, no matter how intrinsically stupid either may be. I've yet to meet an MBA that was successful, that (in my opinion) wouldn't have been just as successful without the MBA. Most MBAs I've known are merely the business equivalent of highly polished turds.
Note I'm not hashing on academics; I wouldn't say this about PhD's who have to work fairly-to-incredibly hard and demonstrate meaningful knowledge to earn that degree. I generally admire PhDs.
Will it catch the president, who has been on a rampant insider trading and market manipulation spree for his whole second term?
What about congress?
What will the SEC do when it flags top politicians? I think all of us know the answer to that question.
Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab countries to Europe and Asia.
Make sure you all meet in one place to discuss it some more
College in 2026 is all about the feelings.
Facts are so 20th century.
In the United States, simply keeping their cars running after the manufacturer died is a fairly substantial set of crimes. Since they have admitted to conspiracy by forming an interstate group to do it, major Federal organized crime laws have been broken.
Is it? What crimes, exactly? They might be defeating some copy protection, but the entity that owned the software is defunct, so no one has standing to sue.
We abandon the boring things that work in favor for the new exciting crap that doesn't.
We also have the PhD system that literally requires coming up with novel new things, or at least pretending to.
And that's where we get our education grand poobahs from
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
