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I'd imagine his reasoning (sound or not) is that he has a docket to manage and doesn't want to delay and move hearings if he can avoid it.

Haha this guy is actually really, really good at the voices.

That's a lot of generals in one family. An officer with 40 years in as an officer is almost certainly a 3 or 4 star general. Unless they peaked a career at e-8 or e-9 and went OCS and retired at company grade.

The thing to remember is that domesticated dogs are mostly what we want them to be. Many older breeds have centuries of selective breeding behind them, focused on making them better, nicer and more obedient pets. It makes sense that this intentional evolution has led to dogs with more qualities we like (such as liking…

Yup. Her money, her time, her face, her pain, her story.

How many officers in the US military for more than 40 years do you know? Are you secretly a civilian secretary for the Joint Chiefs? Even those guys are not always 40-year guys.

Can you cite that statistical claim?

Whoa thanks for pointing out the CC

I don't think your point is hard to understand, but I think you're putting a little too much faith in formal rules and far too little in practical realities. If a university says to a student "break all contact with a fraternity or..." and lists a stack of potential consequences (housing, scholarships, access to…

What was unclear about go fuck yourself with a brick? I hope you don't think I'm going to engage with you intellectually. I'd likely have more stimulating and thought-provoking conversations with a plastic gecko. I promise if that turns out to be true, I'll mail it to you and you can enlist it as a tutor.

Did the universities sign on to this "unanimous agreement"? I guess the school could prohibit a student from contact with a fraternity, even if it couldn't force the chapter or national org to strike a name from their membership rolls. A contact ban is effectively forcing someone to withdraw from a frat, though, and…

Do you mean the school doesn't have legal jurisdiction over the fraternity? That may be true, although it certainly doesn't have to be - if the fraternity is on school property, for instance, or receives any funding from the school.

What's the basis for your assertion? If a school puts in their housing contract or school policy that the college can bar students from participating in any student organization including Greek Life, what keeps them from enforcing that? I've actually witnessed that happen, so I know it isn't impossible.

Schools can and do bar people from participating in student organizations, and the GL organizations fail to comply at the risk of losing their access to campus and ability to recruit.

De Beers has enough diamonds in its vault to support demand for a thousand years, and they could spend that time lab-creating another million years worth of supply. The reason diamonds cost so much is that diamond companies (mostly De Beers) simply store —forever— most of the diamonds they mine.

Um, but they are placed in gold settings. Which are really, really soft. So the diamond will be fine, but you'll probably lose it when it gets knocked out of its setting!

It's more involved than that. De Beers creates high prices by simply not putting the vast majority of its diamonds on the market. A De Beers mine sends its output principally to De Beers vaults, and most diamonds will never leave. There are dramatically more high quality diamonds in storage than there are for sale,…

One thing you should have mentioned but didn't - regardless of how much of the market in sales that De Beers controls, it has an enormous (literally mountainous) stockpile of rough diamonds in its possession. The vast majority of quality diamonds it mines go into storage, not on the market. The point is to create…

That doesn't really matter, as thousands of men around the country have discovered.