Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
On the other hand, I'd probably demand firepower before I agreed to become a teacher. Maybe an automatic grenade launcher or some big bazooka thing. Plus kevlar. (Not good with kids...)
It's just completely ridiculous.
Try as I might, just cannot picture my school teacher niece with a gun on her hip ...
American voters support stricter gun laws 66 - 31 percent, the highest level of support ever measured by the independent Quinnipiac University National Poll, with 50 - 44 percent support among gun owners and 62 - 35 percent support from white voters with no college degree and 58 - 38 percent support among white men.
Today's result is up from a negative 47 - 50 percent measure of support in a December 23, 2015, survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll.
Support for universal background checks is itself almost universal, 97 - 2 percent, including 97 - 3 percent among gun owners. Support for gun control on other questions is at its highest level since the Quinnipiac University Poll began focusing on this issue in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre:
67 - 29 percent for a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons;
83 - 14 percent for a mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases. It is too easy to buy a gun in the U.S. today, American voters say 67 - 3 percent. If more people carried guns, the U.S. would be less safe, voters say 59 - 33 percent. Congress needs to do more to reduce gun violence, voters say 75 - 17 percent.
Stricter gun control would do more to reduce gun violence in schools, 40 percent of voters say, while 34 percent say metal detectors would do more and 20 percent say armed teachers are the answer.
"If you think Americans are largely unmoved by the mass shootings, you should think again. Support for stricter gun laws is up 19 points in little more than 2 years," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2521
Which seems like a pretty clear mandate for doing sensible things.
But "... 20 percent say armed teachers are the answer." Geebus.
I often give thanks (so far) to have been born when & where I was.
Most of history would have been a hellhole for most people, by comparison.
They should be confiscated from people who own them, given that now there're an estimated five to ten million of them out there.
No small task. How many of those owners have deluded themselves into believing that owning an assault rifle is a God-given right worth maybe dying for?
If the *good* folks give up their AR-15s then the only people owning them will be the baddies, and there'll be nothing in the way eg of Hillary staging a coup and putting commissars into every household forcing people to eat their vegetables.
A lot of people in the rest of the world increasingly think of Americans as a sick joke for this kind of stuff. Also for being fat: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365
It's sad.
Perhaps they're still trying to figure out what exactly they will become the Uber of. They'll figure something out, probably.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/so-youve-decided-to-write-a-blockchain-energy-whitepaper
Trump worse than Buchanan? That's a big call ...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/19/opinion/how-does-trump-stack-up-against-the-best-and-worst-presidents.html
If you haven't seen it, 538 did an excellent series of analytical articles and data on gun deaths: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
Personally, this article was most interesting: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths-mass-shootings/
Here in Australia, there's a simple common narrative: After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia) we banned automatic weapons and required a "good reason" (not including self defense) for gun ownership. No mass shootings since. Everybody else, including the US, should do the same. Hilary, for example, used this message during her campaign.
But the US is very different from Oz wrt guns, and the message perhaps too simple to be useful.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
More plausible; less funny.
And much of it has apparently been verified by now.
Including the ummm micturation incident with hookers in the hotel room? I thought that one was too good to be true.
I've donated you all my ClemRands.
Doesn't mean you have to marry me or anything, though.
What's a "Community Contribution Award" & why did I get one?
The "Learn More" hyperlink is borked.
I have a recurrent dream in which my sister walks up a wall and then across the ceiling, upside-down.
The simplest explanation is of course that she can do this in real life. She denies it, but I expect she's just scared of being taken to a secret govt facility & experimented on.
Looks pretty up to date. Shows her joining two CO biotechs in Dec 2017, and moving from full prof to adjunct prof at Texas A&M and adjoint prof at UC Colorado Springs in the same month.
Maybe she moved back?
It's like the OTCMarketPlace of ideas - not very good ones and maybe not much of a "market" but nevertheless ...
Not necessarily. I don't know how much they made from converting debt into shares and selling them - perhaps they made a nice profit?
Newell-Rogers doesn't mention VG on her LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-karen-newell-rogers-6b36a613/
She does mention a couple of other biotechs she's involved with.
Doubt she has anything to do VG these days.
Got it, thanks.
But fwiw in Vivint's case, no S-1, rather an S-4, for a registered exchange offer (offering registered debt securities in exchange for unregistered), which also brings them under the 1933 Act.
Can't it also refer to companies which were never required to file but choose to do so? I'm thinking particularly of private high-yield deals where sometimes the loan agreements have filing as a condition or covenant, presumably to ensure better reporting etc.
Eg: APX Group Holdings, d/b/a Vivint Smart Home, a fairly sizeable Blackstone-led high-yield deal (which actually has registered some debt securities recently but even before then was filing the normal reports, voluntarily).
Its file number has the "333" prefix which I thought, perhaps mistakenly, as the mark of a "voluntary filer". https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&filenum=333-191132-02&owner=exclude&count=40
Defunct, it seems. Their former accountants, KWCO in Texas, sued VGLS and Medbridge for non-payment. They later dismissed the case against VGLS, presumably because it's defunct & not worth suing; continuing against Medbridge.
Keledjian registered a new VG Life Sciences Inc in California back in Oct (VGLS is Delaware) - dunno what he's doing with it.
Tks for that.
FWIW, I read that as saying there are 6.6M coins now, with current value of about 50 BITC or ~$350K.
Top 5 wallets have about two thirds of that - developers? ADVFN insiders?
Is this info available anywhere?
- Hard limit to number of coins or is it open ended?
- Number of coins created/owned and major owners?
Thankee.
Is there any info re how many coins they will issue, or is it all open ended?
Are they doing an ICO? Everybody else is.
While being OK with everybody else making "go get yr shinebox" jokes.
A tough gig.
True. He'd have to work on being funny, though.
That's what I was thinking.
Tho I guess he can find stuff to do in NJ while he's still gov, like shut down some more bridges or enter pie-eating competitions or something.
Tks, I found that poking around after posting the Politico thing.
Chances that Bannon is actually mental and/or substance-dependent, like many pennyscammers?
Also: chances of Trump actually turning up here if people mention him enough, like a pennyscam CEO? (I guess a long shot, given the small audience, but maybe he'd send Giuliani or Christie or somebody).
Coming back here after quite a while, I no longer see pics in people's posts, which eg makes Paulie much less entertaining.
Using Chrome.
Is there anything obvious I should try?
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/stephen-bannon-stock-market-trump-231915
Steve Bannon in pennyscam world - I hadn't picked up on this before - is this stuff well-known? Curshen, Otto, SinoFresh ...
Next up: Trump picks Gabor Acs to head the DEA!
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/stephen-bannon-stock-market-trump-231915
Steve Bannon in pennyscam world - I hadn't picked up on this before - is this stuff well-known? Curshen, Otto, SinoFresh ...
So both Fields & Latorella have now finished their sentences, and still no further action from the court on restitution & so no further action on the appeals. Ridiculous.
Still no 10-K filed. I guess they probably don't have anybody to complete the filing, now that the MedCap people have all left. Will they ever file again?
The press commentary all seems to suggest that Mossack Fonseca were the major player in haven-hijincks. I guess that might be true but there are certainly many other players as well. It'd be fun to know what they & their clients are all doing right now - and which authorities have the smarts to be watching them.
On US M-F clients: www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/06/panama-papers-americans-with-past-financial-crimes/82704788/
The consortium has so far identified more than 200 people with U.S. addresses who own companies in the leaked data from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Some appear to be retirees purchasing real estate in places like Costa Rica and Panama, according to the consortium. But there are at least a few Americans in the leaked files who have faced charges for serious financial crimes in the U.S.
Benjamin Wey - the China-play R/M wizard.
Igor Olenicoff, the Russian-born billionaire and commercial real estate mogul
Robert Miracle, of Bellevue, Wash., was sentenced in 2011 to 13 years in prison and three years of supervised release for mail fraud and tax evasion for his part in a $65 million Ponzi scheme involving an Indonesia oilfield.
John Michael “Red" Crim was convicted in Philadelphia in 2008, along with two associates, for being part of a plot in which he recruited investors to use phony trusts to cheat the IRS out of $10 million in revenue.
The consortium also reports Jonathan Kaplan, a former Massachusetts executive implicated in a bribery scheme more than eight years ago, was among those whose names who surfaced in the papers.
I would have thought this was pretty big news: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1091326/000101968716005617/vglife_8k-040116.htm
The resignation of the company's president & CEO & director, and the CFO & director, both reps of the company's main funder. Plus their people who were seconded into various roles at VG.
No explanation of why they all resigned, but obviously not good news.
I think Revolv only ever sold a few units but it's still a dumb PR screw-up for Nest, which seems to be in a bit of a muddle generally.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-most-explosive-anecdotes-from-a-new-expose-of-nests
Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota etc as international tax havens ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states
Rothschilds, and also "boutiques" like Cisa Trust based in Geneva.
Ancient history, but Cisa was the agent for mysterious investors in the old Telynx scam; from other hints I think they were probably minor Saudi royalty of some kind.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=2938642
It moves!
In January, after several years, the judge got around to explaining his reasons for dismissing one of the complaints against Fields. He also denied various motions to acquit, for a new trial etc.
Now the court is finally going through the restitution determination process.
Sorting these elements was a pre-condition for the appeals by prosecution and defence to proceed.
Meanwhile, Latorella's stretch finished in February, and it looks like Fields is in some kind of half-way house thing before his time finishes in August. IMO, disgraceful that this stuff wasn't handled in a timely fashion.
In his January ruling, the judge says that after due consideration, Fields' allegations of various types of badness against the prosecution were either irrelevant, de minimus or handled sufficiently at trial.
Previously he'd said he would consider whether the allegations were sufficient to warrant formal notification by him to the judge in O'Riordan's trial. After consideration:
I do not find the allegations sufficiently supported in evidence establishing a prima facie case of misconduct on which action by me may be based. Consequently, I decline to take further action than my
disposition of the defendant’s motions. In particular, I
decline to make a formal reference to Judge Wolf or any other
judicial officer or entity suggesting that there is a prima
facie case in the record before me of independently actionable
misconduct by Wild. This determination, of course, does not
foreclose the defendant or his counsel from further marshalling
a record and continuing to pursue the matter (as the record
suggests they previously have, see Doc. 427-1 at 2 (June 18,
2013 Letter to Attorney Pollack from Department of Justice))
before Judge Wolf or some other responsible person or entity.
Perhaps Fields will attempt to make more of these issues in the appeal, once it finally gets under way again.
Had a look at this for the first time in a while, and what do I see: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1091326/000101968716005617/vglife_8k-040116.htm
Tynan, Odell and their people resigning as of April 1 - and Haig back to being CEO.
No details on why they're jumping ship.
The annual report is delayed, as always.
What they don't have yet is a sense of self. That, I think, would be something to worry about.
For me, an interesting question is how something can have a meaningful sense of self without glands. And if it could, how would conation arise? Why would it care enough about anything to do anything?