NewLineCinema
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NewLineCinema
1yr ago
Yeah, none of that is a denial of due process. Judges can rule in default if civil defendants fail to meet their obligations.
They did not. Jones declined to offer a defense, and then when a jury was empaneled only to address the amount of damages, he decided at that point he would bother. Which isn’t how civil suits work.
He ducked depositions and refused to hand over material requested by the court. In the real world, which is admittedly not where Jones mentally resides, pulling shit like that will lead to less than maximally generous pretrial rulings. But this does not equate to a denial of due process.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
Please explain how Jones’ due process was denied.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
Jones also declined to put on a defense in certain suits, refused to turn over data when ordered to by a court, etc.
If it wasn’t already clear to him, he has since been made aware that trying to “boycott” a lawsuit brought against you is not the best legal strategy.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
I have had no issues with the Prospex solar models in terms of functionality. I keep them in a small watch box on my dresser with a glass lid and they’ve never run out of juice. There is a tiny alignment issue with the sweep hand on the chronograph, that I’m sure I’m the only person to notice, but that comes with buying gray-market JDM Seikos off eBay.
So what's in everybody else's drawer and on your wrist?
I like a watch as a piece of masculine jewelry, but lost patience with mechanical watches. Wear a white-dial Grand Seiko 9F most days with the OEM straps in brown and black (leaving the bracelet it came with in the box). Picked up JDM Seiko solar-quartz Prospex diver and chronograph models for the weekends. And keep a quartz Hamilton Ventura for when I get dressed up in the evenings — swapped the fake lizard skin strap it came with for a real one. I forget the model, but I also have the larger version of the F-91W that Casio came out with a few years back for skiing, yard work, etc.
Maybe in a decade or so I’ll buy that solar Cartier Tank. But lots of other expenses stand in the way.
Found a Credor tank and a pre-TAG, Heuer diver for the missus on eBay.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
If you feel like you know what you’re doing, you can find great winter coats (for category No. 1 above) on eBay. Filter your search for pre-owned and accepts returns (maybe you eat shipping costs but aren’t stuck with something you aren’t fully happy with). If you have an old coat that fits well, take its measurements.
Men’s coats were often made with thicker wool in prior decades, which is a plus for Wisconsin’s climate. I picked up a dead stock, ‘80s, full-canvassed, gray herringbone, wool top coat, as well as a dead stock, ‘60s, brown, half-canvassed, Harris Tweed raglan, both originally from independent men’s stores out East, for between $100-200 each. For that price, you will be hard pressed to find anything of similar quality, new. Just pay attention to the measurements provided in either the photos or item description. Some eras, like parts of the ‘80s and ‘90s, you’ll likely fit into a size down (say a 40R instead of your usual 42R).
You can certainly dress a top coat down, easier if it isn’t solid black unless you’re going for that monochromatic look, and raglans are on their own a step more-casual.
My best find was for my better half. Someone had listed an as-new women’s ankle-length, MiUSA, double breasted, camel hair, Brooks top coat as a trench coat (perhaps because of the color), for just $100, when it surely cost four-figures even before adjusting for a couple decades of inflation.
Lewis has written 19 books. Three were made into movies.
I’m still waiting to see Ken Leung play Brad Katsuyama on screen.
Edit: …and only one of those three films is about not-sports.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
Roughly a fifth of the prison population is in on drug charges.
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
Pretty much anyone who wades into politics and culture-war issues, and has some level of name recognition, gets called various names online. But by whom? Randos on Twitter? D-list freelancers on Ghost? Daily Beast-level progressive pundits? The NYT?
NewLineCinema
1yr ago
This. SDNY is where very ambitious lawyers go. They plan to then go into electoral politics, or to change teams and make a ton of money as Former Prosecutors representing the types of folks charged with financial crimes. The media attention on SBF surely has them salivating.
Tangent: as someone who enjoys books on financial scandals, remembering reading about a very hungry Rudy Giuliani when he went after Michael Milken, while watching hair die drip down his face in the parking lot of a landscaping business, was wonderfully tragic, in the original theatrical sense.
There were some ways around this. One example that comes to mind is the previous use of detachable shirt collars and dark three piece suits. The latter didn’t show stains as well and the former allowed men to wear the same shirt multiple days in a row while only having to swap/clean their collar.
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