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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 20, 2023, 11:45:56 PM »

I took a look at that document:

"A number of state courts have censured bargains conditioned upon a witness's agreement to testify in a particular manner and have overturned the resulting convictions on both due process and policy grounds."

A deal can't be made to testify in a particular manner. So such deals are made with nothing more than a hope or assumption that the truth is in your favor. These deals are not an agreement for the witness to "flip" or "turn against" anybody.

Did you see this part?
"Currently, about ninety percent of all criminal defendants plead guilty, and an unknown but substantial percentage of these defendants agree to testify against their co-defendants or co-conspirators in return for prosecutorial leniency. If the accomplice does not testify fully and truthfully, the prosecutor may refuse the leniency promised in the bargain. Courts sanction these "traditional" accomplice plea agreements and recognize them as a proper exercise of prosecutorial authority."

So, yes, prosecutors can and do make deals to flip accomplices all the time.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 20, 2023, 10:52:47 PM »

Where does it say that Powell agreed to turn against Trump or testify negatively against Trump.

Such plea deals are a common strategy used by prosecutors to get accomplices to testify against the real target (in this case, Donald Trump).

ACCOMPLICE TESTIMONY UNDER CONTINGENT PLEA
AGREEMENTS

In a criminal case the prosecutor will often make a plea agree-
ment with an accomplice of the defendant. Under these tradition-
ally sanctioned agreements the accomplice receives a reduced
sentence in return for full and truthful testimony during the defend-
ant's trial. In recent years, some prosecutors have further condi-
tioned the accomplice's reduction in sentence upon the defendant's
indictment or conviction or the prosecutor's satisfaction with the ac-
complice's testimony.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 20, 2023, 08:57:44 PM »

She pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and is receiving no jailtime and almost no punishment except for probation and a relatively smallish fine. For comparison a traffic violation is a misdemeanor. She was initially charged with seven felonies. Looks more like she essentially won her case, tbh.

I suppose that depends on how you define "win".  The charges that she plead guilty to are a bit more serious than a traffic ticket and will probably cause her to get disbarred..

Attorney ethics rules in Texas require disbarment for "serious crimes," a category that includes "any misdemeanor involving theft, embezzlement, or fraudulent or reckless misappropriation of money or other property; or any attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation of another to commit" such a crime.

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Flat Earth Projects / Re: A simple, cheap project that has probably never been done by Flat Earth Research

« on: October 11, 2023, 05:34:39 PM »

The following experiment has truly never been done before and it would truly settle the "debate" if done right:

Actually, it has, yet the debate continues.
https://wiki.tfes.org/LIGO_Curvature_Compensation

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing

« on: October 09, 2023, 10:59:56 PM »

Speaking of Hysteria...

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Died Suddenly

« on: October 09, 2023, 02:30:43 AM »

But there's A LOT more since the mass vaxx, and steadily on the rise year after year.

There are also a lot more chemical additives and preservatives in processed food and all sorts of nasty chemicals in the environment than there were back in the day.  But that couldn't have anything to do with what's going on now, could it?  Nah.  Gotta be the vaxxes.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing

« on: October 07, 2023, 05:18:00 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 03, 2023, 08:50:03 PM »

Actually the lenders are victims because of the way that Trump overvalued his assets in order to get better interest rates, thereby denying the banks the potential income from the higher interest rates that he should have gotten.  Also, the taxpayers of New York are victims because he undervalued his properties for tax purposes, thereby denying the city and state of tax revenue.  Inflating your value to get better loan rates and deflating your value to pay less tax is fraud, pure and simple.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies
"Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax."

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Flat Earth Media / Re: New line-of-sight sea level signal transmission record

« on: October 01, 2023, 02:46:53 AM »

I have no involvement in the TROPPO LoRa project, so you would be better off asking the authors of the paper that I cited.  I'm sure that they would be more than happy to answer any reasonable questions that you have about tropospheric LoRa propagation.

That has nothing to do with the 830 mile line-of-sight test, LIAR.

Maybe not that particular test, but they do have experience with a number of other long distance line-of-sight tests.  I would think that the principles would be pretty much the same.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: October 01, 2023, 02:15:52 AM »

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/29/yes-the-biden-impeachment-hearing-presented-evidence-of-corruption-lots-of-it/

mounds of damning evidence now piling up by the day, including the release on Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee of reams of text messages and emails between Hunter Biden, his uncle James Biden, and a colorful array of foreign oligarchs, business associates, and bagmen.

hey which one of those is joe biden

I know the evidence against Joe is coming any day now, and I'm sure whatever it might be it will be damning.

I'm sure that the My Pillow guy is working on it and will deliver a massive data dump that will put the whole Biden family, all of Burisma and most of the Ukrainian government behind bars forever.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: September 30, 2023, 05:24:14 PM »

all of the news outlets are acknowledging that an impeachment inquiry has begun

What? You mean this guy on Twitter is lying? Surely not!

Nah.  He's just using a different definition of "blacked out" than most of the rest of the English speaking world.

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Flat Earth Media / Re: New line-of-sight sea level signal transmission record

« on: September 30, 2023, 04:35:05 PM »

It sounds like they were lucky enough to catch an exceptionally long  tropospheric duct.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02802.pdf

ABSTRACT
With the growth of LoRa deployments there are plenty of anecdotal reports of very long wireless links, well beyond the line of sight.  Most reports suggest that these links are related to anomalous tropospheric propagation. We developed a platform to study tropospheric links based on TheThingsNetwork, a popular LoRaWAN-based infrastructure.

Absolute nonsense.

Do you realize what line-of-sight at sea level means? It means it has nothing to do with the troposphere which is claimed to be at an average height of 8.1 MILES above sea level.

Would you please post the specifications of the antennas used?  Line-of-sight does not necessarily mean highly directional.

Not nonsense to you? Post the math that make it work in this case. But remember that nothing is pointing up to the troposphere, that only happens in your imagination.

I have no involvement in the TROPPO LoRa project, so you would be better off asking the authors of the paper that I cited.  I'm sure that they would be more than happy to answer any reasonable questions that you have about tropospheric LoRa propagation.

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Flat Earth Media / Re: New line-of-sight sea level signal transmission record

« on: September 29, 2023, 09:59:26 PM »

It sounds like they were lucky enough to catch an exceptionally long  tropospheric duct.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02802.pdf

ABSTRACT
With the growth of LoRa deployments there are plenty of anecdotal reports of very long wireless links, well beyond the line of sight.  Most reports suggest that these links are related to anomalous tropospheric propagation. We developed a platform to study tropospheric links based on TheThingsNetwork, a popular LoRaWAN-based infrastructure.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: September 29, 2023, 09:42:00 PM »

The Tweet is claiming that the big television networks are not covering it.

That depends on what level of coverage you're looking for.  If you want wall to wall coverage, then you're out of luck, but all of the news outlets are acknowledging that an impeachment inquiry has begun.  But, then again, what do you expect when even a number of Republicans are saying that there doesn't appear to be much of any evidence of wrongdoing?

I would also suggest that there is a difference between a "coverage blackout" and "just not bothering to cover it".

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: September 29, 2023, 09:32:37 PM »

This joke of a partisan judgment claiming that there were inflated property values will be appealed and isn't going anywhere. For example, the judge in this case valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 Million.

What a property is worth and what it would list for are not always the same.  If someone wants to pay $300 million for a property that Trump paid $10 million for, then that that's up to them.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: NASA’s Latest Moon Actors

« on: September 27, 2023, 10:15:22 PM »

You do realize that this is essentially the same thing as saying that "GPS proves the curvature" like ichoosenonsense claimed, right? It's all done on paper from a mathematical model of the ball Earth. In reality no one has measured the curvature. Ever.

Do you realize that a mathematical model of the ball earth can make predictions can can be verified in reality but won't work on a flat earth?

This is an unfortunate comment because it shows that you haven't looked at the material that your globe-defending friend provided.

It explains that you can project the imaginary ball's curvature onto a flat plane no problem by using the so-called "Snake Projection" method, and it is mathematically valid.

Please explain why projecting the image of a round earth onto a flat surface should invalidate any predictions that a round earth model would make.

  It may not be possible to measure the curvature to your satisfaction, but it is possible to verify the consequences of that curvature.

You mean that you are personally satisfied that it exists, which is different.

No, I meant what I said.  Personal satisfaction has nothing to do with it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: September 27, 2023, 08:58:19 PM »

It looks bad but the box checked is "non-final disposition" so dunno what that means overall.

Mr. Kise also asked whether the ruling meant that Mr. Trump would have to sell assets including Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street, a downtown commercial property, or whether they could be managed by an independent receiver who the judge said would oversee the dissolution of the canceled companies.

Justice Engoron did not provide a clear response. After huddling with his law clerk, Allison Greenfield, he told Mr. Kise that he appreciated his concern and understood the question.

“I’m not prepared to issue a ruling right now, but we will take that up in various contexts I’m sure,” he said. He granted Mr. Kise’s request for 30 days to devise a plan for implementing the order.

I think that it means that they're not quite sure what it means overall either, but they'll figure something out eventually.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: NASA’s Latest Moon Actors

« on: September 27, 2023, 08:47:40 PM »

You do realize that this is essentially the same thing as saying that "GPS proves the curvature" like ichoosenonsense claimed, right? It's all done on paper from a mathematical model of the ball Earth. In reality no one has measured the curvature. Ever.

Do you realize that a mathematical model of the ball earth can make predictions can can be verified in reality but won't work on a flat earth?  It may not be possible to measure the curvature to your satisfaction, but it is possible to verify the consequences of that curvature.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: September 26, 2023, 12:44:27 AM »

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Any Dubay reconciliation possibilities?

« on: September 20, 2023, 08:18:42 PM »

Reconciliation generally implies that there was some sort of relationship to begin with.  To the best of my knowledge, there has never been any sort of relationship between Eric Dubay and either of the TFES sites, other than Eric accusing TFES (and just about anyone else claiming to be an FE'er) of being controlled opposition, or something to that effect.

I remember signing up for one of his sites some years back and being permabanned within a day or so before I even made a post.