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Location:Baton Rouge
Biography:Parthenogeneically brought into the world fully grown and fully armed.
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Registered on:9/2/2010
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[quote]90 F-16s could grant them air supremacy.[/quote] I doubt it, but if they can freeze the lines and extract sufficient toll Russia would probably seriously engage in peace talks. ...

re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed

Posted by Athanatos on 4/2/24 at 9:06 am
The last full rate sheet I saw for an insurance defense firm was from 2021 and it started at $195 and went up to $255 for attorneys. The paralegal was billed out at $145. Since then I have more often seen legal bills for experienced New Orleans litigation attorneys billing high $200s and low $300...

re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed

Posted by Athanatos on 4/1/24 at 3:40 pm
[quote]works. Assume a non-BR or New Orleans defense firm. [/quote] I would assume an insurance defense firm would be billing more than $150. I used that number for a rural law office. $150 is a shite rate for a lawyer in Louisiana when diesel mechanics charge almost as much. ...

re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed

Posted by Athanatos on 4/1/24 at 1:11 pm
I don’t think that looking at people who simply have law degrees is enough. You need to evaluate positions that require the use of a law degree. I would be shocked to find a significant number of practicing Louisiana attorneys working in the private sector for less than $100k a year after ten years ...

re: Life as a Lawyer Advice Needed

Posted by Athanatos on 3/31/24 at 6:43 pm
Average is obviously not a good metric. The question is better presented as what’s a reasonable salary range for law school graduates in the top third of their class with between one and ten years experience working for a firm with more than 10 attorneys. Those attorneys are generally all making mor...
I’ve never flown Delta long haul business but I prefer KLM to Air France. ...
Two women and six bags? Were they planning on coming back?...
Plastics in the ocean are a problem worthy of addressing. Stop being a fat slob and eating takeout all the time and you won’t use so much plastic. ...
Yeah, that’s definitely an expression. Heard it all my life. ...

re: Asbestos siding removal

Posted by Athanatos on 2/12/24 at 6:35 pm
After the next hurricane, rip that stuff with with day laborers and be done with it. ...
Then you take the train to the periphery and pick up your car for the days you want to drive somewhere. Parking your car at a hotel probably costs €50-100 anyway. ...
Rent and RV and stay in the parks. [link=(https://www.blacksford.com/yellowstone-rv-rentals)]Blacksford RV[/link]...
When I saw who was missing, I said to myself, there is no way that guy goes down like this. His prior resourcefulness is too well documented. ...
I’ve seen it. It works, and you don’t need a huge crane to try to lift the whole thing. ...
[quote]It’s going to take them a long time to get that sunken ship out of the way so they can reuse that docking spot to load/offload materials[/quote] I think they could use those same cranes with drop knives (thick steel plates pointed like a knife and dropped from a height) to cut that into p...
[quote]But here's the cold reality: In 2010, when Yanukovych was elected, Ukrainian trade looked like this: Exports: Russian Federation $13,432M (26%), Turkey $3,027M (6%), Italy $2,412M (5%), Belarus $1,899M (4%), Poland $1,787M (3%). Imports: Russian Federation $22,198M (37%), China $4,700M (8%), ...
People complain about the Lake City armory because their bullets are used by civilians, but it’s exactly this dual market that enables them to stay tooled up and ready to meet government demands. This should be the standard to follow as much as possible. Obviously it wont work for 155mm shells, but ...
Isn’t the purpose of the defense production act to spur production? It’s almost inconceivable to me that the US (and Europe) can’t send more shells than Ukraine can shoot after two years of war. As the Arsenal of Democracy, our production ability is shameful. How technically difficult is it to m...

re: Nippon Steel acquires US Steel

Posted by Athanatos on 12/18/23 at 9:21 am
Hopefully they make some additional investments in US steel production. The US is overpaying on steel since the trump tarriffs. ...