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Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 05:37 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
A demand for payment can be answered by a...

A demand for payment can be answered by a proposal to structure payments, but as you say, there's no requirement for the plaintiff to accept the proposal. In most normal cases it's to the...
Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 05:30 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No stay means he'd be immediately liable for the...

No stay means he'd be immediately liable for the full amount. Payment terms can be negotiated between the parties, but that's not part of the judge's order, nor a requirement.

Typically when this...
Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 04:30 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
The appeal goes forward as a matter of right. But...

The appeal goes forward as a matter of right. But there is no stay on enforcing the judgment while the appeal unfolds.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts Yesterday, 03:33 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Catch-22, which I haven't read since I was a...

Catch-22, which I haven't read since I was a teenager. I forgot how hysterically funny that book is.
Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 03:30 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Bond security takes an ordinary lien priority,...

Bond security takes an ordinary lien priority, which may be a second or third lien position. Depending on New York law, a seizure pursuant to judgment could jump to the front of the line.
Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 03:28 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
How ironic that Trump cannot secure a bond with...

How ironic that Trump cannot secure a bond with properties in a case he lost for wrongly giving the value of property he was using to secure financing.

If the properties he wants to put up are...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Yesterday, 10:26 AM
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Posted By JayUtah
Indeed, it's hard to imagine better evidence of...

Indeed, it's hard to imagine better evidence of bad faith. At this point in my life I'm used to inflated job titles and diluted credentials. If you want to call yourself a "mathematician" because you...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Yesterday, 09:43 AM
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Posted By JayUtah
This is not trivial or snobbish. A big part of...

This is not trivial or snobbish. A big part of having credibility (individually or collectively as a profession) as <insert profession here> is whether people who already have unassailable...
Forum: USA Politics Yesterday, 08:42 AM
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Posted By JayUtah
The sheer audacity. The whole point of an...

The sheer audacity.

The whole point of an appeal bond is to ensure the value of the judgment is available if the judgment is upheld. Trump's obvious attempts to move those assets to shield them...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 17th March 2024, 01:18 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Onion-on-the-belt story shipped for irrelevancy. ...

Onion-on-the-belt story shipped for irrelevancy.



No.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 17th March 2024, 09:46 AM
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Posted By JayUtah
Basic integral and differential calculus are...

Basic integral and differential calculus are generally applicable, just like a sharp knife is useful in many otherwise unrelated pursuits. But just because both slicing potatoes for chips and carving...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 17th March 2024, 09:15 AM
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Posted By JayUtah
Straw man. What makes it so is your abject...

Straw man. What makes it so is your abject failure over hundreds of pages and thousands of posts to demonstrate even one iota of scientific thinking. You are scientifically illiterate. This is not an...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 16th March 2024, 10:34 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
You are still not a scientist.

You are still not a scientist.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 16th March 2024, 05:38 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No. There is more to science than arithmetic. ...

No. There is more to science than arithmetic.



I am part owner in a business. Science is our business, and I am one of its scientists. I know science. I know business. They are not the same...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 16th March 2024, 04:24 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Opinions formed in ignorance exist, but don't...

Opinions formed in ignorance exist, but don't deserve attention or respect.

Your version of "discussing the issues" means accusing experts of wrongdoing because they didn't do it the way you think...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 08:28 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Straw man. You claimed enough competence in...

Straw man. You claimed enough competence in physics to be able to endorse arguments that rely heavily on specialized physics and engineering knowledge. You offered the claim of "five years" of study...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 08:20 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Restating your misconception does not...

Restating your misconception does not rehabilitate it. You have accused people of insulting you. There is mechanism in this forum for dealing with insults. That is the appropriate remedy, not "polite...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 08:02 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
If you feel you're being insulted, report the...

If you feel you're being insulted, report the post for moderation. Otherwise do not suggest as much for rhetorical effect.

I am not insulting you. As near as I can tell, Steve is not insulting...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:59 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Where on the page is that stated? The page you...

Where on the page is that stated? The page you refer me to is provided by the U.K. government and establishes categorical equivalences for qualifications required for jobs. I have never disputed that...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:46 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
This is not a general argument. People’s...

This is not a general argument. People’s attitudes toward you in particular need not resemble in any way their attitudes toward others. Feel free to contest the insinuation and/or provide contrary...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:38 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Asked and answered. It is being applied to you as...

Asked and answered. It is being applied to you as a descriptive term, along with evidence to support the conclusion.

Your frantic attempt to transform it into a sweeping, prejudicial value...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:35 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Those are for employment. They do not establish...

Those are for employment. They do not establish academic equivalence.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:33 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
How so? Just because you can't image a...

How so? Just because you can't image a non-denigratory use for a phrase doesn't mean others can't. The author of the phrase has repudiated your insinuation that he used it maliciously. That ends the...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:31 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Straw man. Nobody has done that. No...

Straw man. Nobody has done that.



No one has offered it as an insult, cheap or otherwise. It's being applied to you and only to you as a descriptive statement. You're the only one speaking...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:28 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
That wall of text describes a system by which...

That wall of text describes a system by which academic credentials may be assessed from country to country according to meta-property estimate of equivalence. It does not support your claim that a...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:20 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
To be descriptive.

To be descriptive.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:04 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
It's not appropriate to assume that's how he...

It's not appropriate to assume that's how he intended it, or that he intended it to apply to anyone but you. You don't enjoy the presumption that you are operating with a sound mind, and it's not...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 07:01 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Restating a claim does not rehabilitate it. You...

Restating a claim does not rehabilitate it. You gave the Official Secrets Act as the reason the allegedly true cause of the fire was being suppressed and lied about. You cannot support that claim....
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 06:57 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Like or dislike is irrelevant; he is disagreeing...

Like or dislike is irrelevant; he is disagreeing with the proposition that vocational certificates are, as you claim, the equivalent of academic degrees.

It isn't an "official situation" until you...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 06:50 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Which web pages? Show us. You keep...

Which web pages? Show us.



You keep straining to think I'm upset. I'm laughing at you frantically trying to hand-wave up yourself an academic degree you don't have. It's not a fact just because...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 06:40 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Wow, this has nothing to do with what was posted....

Wow, this has nothing to do with what was posted. You're just reaching out frantically to shame a poster according to some imaginary evil you've pasted on him.

You cannot demonstrate critical...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 06:37 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Another single-sentence dismissal. You can...

Another single-sentence dismissal.

You can either cite to the actual parts of the Official Secrets Act that give authority to your claims, or you cannot. I guess it's about time to conclude that...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 05:24 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Correct, I say from the perspective of having...

Correct, I say from the perspective of having earned a living both in academia and in the professional world.

While certificate-granting institutions like to say their courses are the equivalent...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 05:07 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Similarly, claims to have studied business and...

Similarly, claims to have studied business and industry up, down, around, and through don't seem to have equated to being able to discuss the Official Secrets Act at any level other than hand-waving...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:45 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No, this is not a JayUtah problem. When...

No, this is not a JayUtah problem. When challenged regarding your knowledge of eyewitness testimony, you offered up something that sounded like relevant academic qualifications. Piercing the fog of...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:40 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No, I asked for an example of how it could apply,...

No, I asked for an example of how it could apply, and a lot of other things.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:27 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Straw man. The question is whether the...

Straw man. The question is whether the firefighters on the scene, or anywhere, were or are prohibited from talking to the press by obligations under the Official Secrets Act. You say they are, but...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:24 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Equivalency judged by whom? Is either of...

Equivalency judged by whom?

Is either of those pseudo-Master degrees in psychology?
Is either of those pseudo-Master degrees in an experimental or physical science?
Is either of those...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:22 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Irrelevant; you were not in a degree-granting...

Irrelevant; you were not in a degree-granting program of study after your bachelor's degree. Further, as has been belabored, you did not study psychology after graduation. You studied accounting. The...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:14 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
And they are the quintessential authority...why? ...

And they are the quintessential authority...why?



No.

You rested your claim to be a scientist on having obtained a bachelor's degree in a field containing "science" in the name. You were...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 04:08 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
None of this answers my questions. I...

None of this answers my questions.



I am not interested in your uninformed opinion.



Cite to the section of the Official Secrets Act that would make disclosure of the vehicle type...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:56 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
They still mean things. Every time you're asked...

They still mean things. Every time you're asked to defend some claim or insinuation to expertise, in which you've used these terms, it quickly becomes clear that you intend them to mean something...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:51 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Did she invoke the Official Secrets Act to make...

Did she invoke the Official Secrets Act to make that happen.



Yet somehow you still manage to know about it. When it happens, is it because the Official Secrets Act was invoked?
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:49 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Indeed, that sort of evasion is why we are...

Indeed, that sort of evasion is why we are appropriately suspicious about any of Vixen's claims or insinuations of appropriate background. "I only answered because you asked me," is highly...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:46 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No, do not simply continue to imagine. ...

No, do not simply continue to imagine.

Explain how the Official Secrets Act protects information for such purpose as the political policy advocacy you say is at heart of this conspiracy.

Cite...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:27 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No, this is not a both-sides issue. Everyone else...

No, this is not a both-sides issue. Everyone else here is arguing in faith that is reasonably good and reasonably apparent.

You are the only one in this thread performing such stunts as writing...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:18 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Be that as it may, it in no way obligates...

Be that as it may, it in no way obligates firefighters to conceal the true source of a fire because the Official Secrets Act compels them to respect such a lobby or its interest.

You've...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 03:08 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
Asked and answered. That's not what that means. ...

Asked and answered. That's not what that means.



The basis of your rebuttal to him was a claim to expertise that turned out to be misleading, as all such claims from you ultimately are.


...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 02:51 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
No, I will not indulge your imagination. ...

No, I will not indulge your imagination.



Irrelevant.

First, I have read the Act. Cite to the portion of the Act that presents the criteria for "damaging" disclosure that applies to your...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 15th March 2024, 02:45 PM
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Posted By JayUtah
The links I present above refer to the second...

The links I present above refer to the second time we asked you for your qualifications in physics. The first time was in the previous chapter of the thread when you assured us you had the requisite...
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