NEW YORK – “I’ve never any seen anything quite like it, not even during the height of Laurel/Yanny controversy” said Joanna Gambolputty, a public opinion analyst at the Hogwash Institute for Humbug Research. “The very same people quick to condemn not just the use but even the ownership of firearms are all suddenly celebrating shooting someone in cold blood with a silenced pistol. Their principles don’t seem to be fixed but rather depend entirely who is being wronged and why. It’s as though as soon as they hate someone, anything goes.”
Meanwhile, Hugh Jass, chairman of the National Association of Corporations, insisted that the government must do more to protect helpless CEOs. “The true test of a democracy is how well it protects the most vulnerable members of society, such as CEO murdered in this heinous crime. All across this great land, old people strut confidently down the darkest alleys, yet somehow massive wealth does nothing to shield people from violent crime. It’s a utter travesty, like that time I saw a shirt untucked at an exclusive golf club.”
Elsewhere, Tucker Carlson expressed his outrage while fly-fishing from a lake in Central Park. “What I and absolutely no one else is doing here is perfectly legal, OK? Of course I have enough money to fly-fish anywhere on the globe whenever I want, but where’s the fun in that? Is this America?! I thought this was America. What I’m doing is totally different from what other annoying, irresponsible celebrities and rich people do. I’d never trash a hotel room like a rockstar, I have standards, you know?”
Recent polls have been mixed with roughly a 50-50 split among Americans who think it’s legal or should be legal shoot CEOs, though a strong majority still agree that money is good. Interestingly enough, the same respondents voiced concerns about not having enough money of their own, wanting more, and being unwilling to have less especially as the result of taxation or inflation. Others suggested that perhaps an annual festival whereby all crime, including murder, would be legal for 24 hours would help tackle problems such as social tension and wealth inequality.
“It would also decrease the surplus population”, agreed Professor Malthus of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. “Of course, such goals would be better reached through Canadian breakthroughs in life-ending care”, he continued.
Other less prominent thinkers and groups were more direct in the condemnation of murder, even if the victim was a rich health insurance NCO. “We have a large body of evidence that the so-called Don’t Kill rule benefits all in spite of its apparent cost-benefit ratio”, said an anonymous protester dressed as the Grim Reaper in Times Square. “It’s high time the Supreme Court consulted the secret parts of the Constitution written in invisible ink. Won’t someone please think of the children?”
Tucker Carlson fly-fishing in Central Park:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fQvBL1R5nNs
I think enough of them have come out of the closet. The rest are closet commies who rejoice in the murder of anyone ‘rich’. I think the sick little fuck who did this said it didnt really matter that much who he murdered as long as it was ‘the rich’, preferably an insurance person.
Want to know what someone is made of? Ask them their position on this murder.
What happened to my frozen dick storm?
It fell off due to necrosis
Frostbit. What UnCivil said.
Shriveled up into little nipples.
Bzzzzt. Not satire.
Depends on what the company does.
OTH, green planet savings vehicles versus Elon Musk.
I especially love the cognitive dissonance this inflicts on the left.
The left is cognitive dissonance. That is why debating/ talking to them at all is a waste of time.
Agreed. Leftists have gone so far out most of them cannot be recovered.
I STILL have Sloopy’s earworm going on.
“one two three four five”
Try some Motley Crue. It usually works.
Better.
Last night I was watching Karoline Leavitt give a statement. I dont remember what she said, it doesnt matter.
Ya’ know those psychologists that teach cops how to tell if people are lying or not? It would be interesting to give a few of them 30 seconds worth of Leavitt, Jean-Pierre, Earnest and Jen Psaki. Who is lying?
Look at their bearing, tone of voice, eye contact. inflection etc. It is wildly obvious that the only one believing what they are saying is Leavitt.
No matter how good a professional liar is they are still a liar and it shows.
Psychopaths are almost always nearly undetectable liars.
Nearly…until you hold them up next to an honest person…then it pops out to you.
Some people need killin’. Just as long as we can decide on the target list democratically.
I will make out the list
I think the NYT just published a list that they tried to attribute to OMB.
Speaking of Tucker Carlson, isn’t he a doubleplussungood crimethinker and a nazi?
Why TF is Hizzoner taking to him?
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-trump-mayor-adams-tucker-carlson-interview-biden-migrants
Hizzoner has actually tried to have a reasonable relationship with OMB.
His party loyalty put him in a bad spot.
So you just do whatever the Administration tell you to, Eric? The mayor of New York City is just Joe Biden’s personal bitch? Is that how it is, Eric?
You will note all the FedGov investigations he is now under.
Bonus for kicking the investigations off while he was in DC trying stop the flow.
That’s what the party expected. Some dipshits at the top dictated policy, and everyone else had to go along without questioning. But that was fine, the real problem was people on X calling out their failures.
No, he spoke up anyway and then got raided by the FBI. He’s still dealing with the charges.
Yeah, he wasn’t silent, much more respect for him now that he’s under investigation… He was either naive or brave.
Yes…?
5th Column guys discussed this on the last ep (or last public ep I think). Speaking of which conspiracy theories actually wind up being true…Sounded like it was a lot more complicated than this article makes it out too.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/us-news/how-sabrina-carpenter-got-caught-up-in-eric-adams-corruption-probe/
Gigantiello, who also serves as an FDNY chaplain, maintained he and his team were “not aware that anything provocative was occurring in the church” and asked for forgiveness.
Damn, dude got paid.
Speaking of cognitive dissonance
Now, those kinds of climate change studies are more personal for Hamlington as his family navigates the future.
“The climate scientist side of me thinks maybe it’s not a good idea to rebuild,” Hamlington says. “Obviously this could happen again.”
At the same, Hamlington says it’s tough to think about leaving a community his family loves, one where his neighbors have lived for decades.
“If enough of us move developers will come in, put in apartment buildings and this will never be the same,” he says.
That internal conflict is playing out in communities across the country, as climate-fueled disasters like hurricanes, storms and floods get more intense. Scientific studies show the risks are getting drastically higher in some places. But how should those communities react?
“How do you deliver a message that is so hard to hear about where someone has lived their whole life or the community they grew up in, that it has now become unsafe because of our changing climate?” Hamlington questions.
A heart rending tale of a “climate scientist” whose house tragically burned down in California. It were the global warming wot dunnit.
Now he must fight the noble fight against filthy greedhead developers to save his community by creating and enforcing top down rules for climate-aware development which will reproduce the feel of a community which developed organically over the course of a hundred years or more.
In high school we had a physics teacher who, when teaching us about momentum and force and all that, pointed out this is why he’s got a pickup truck in the parking lot. In a collision he was more likely to win. That guy believed what he was teaching.
If this climate guy really believed what he was preaching, there was no way he would live in coastal California. If the fires didn’t get him the rising oceans would.
And he’d be applauding the idea of his low population density house making way for high density apartment housing in it’s staid. Instead, he seems not cool with that idea.
Because fires have never happened in LA before. Except for when they have.
This quote was interesting: “The edge of town is categorized as high risk for wildfires but Hamlington’s neighborhood isn’t because it’s farther away from the hills. Still, powerful winds drove the fire far inland, lofting embers that ignited homes.” Far inland? Altadena is inland. The fire came down from the mountains, and the wind was blowing toward the sea, not inland. I suppose the writer meant “into urban areas”, or maybe the writer just couldn’t be bothered to look at a map.
“The climate scientist side of me thinks maybe it’s not a good idea to rebuild,”
These desperate times require bold solutions, like herding all 330 million of us onto a flat, earthquake/tornado-proof piece of land in the middle of the country. Or we could adapt to our environments by doing things like allow existing reservoirs to fill as a fire management tool.
Everyone moves N Dakota
From the morning thread, they had someone about how regulation and a slow moving government combined to drain the reservoir.
The crazy thing is, they drained it because of a tear in a floating cover, maybe to prevent more damage, but it took them over a year to fix it. This is sadly typical once something needs to be contacted out – the purchasing process for local entities is painfully slow.
Sometimes a year just to put someone out to bid.
And lids weren’t even required until recently.
health insurance NCO?
New MOS in the Army. 69W
Spends 295% of time filling out forms.
In triplicate, with a typewriter and carbon paper.
Flashbacks to typing out messaging system forms where you had to stay within the box for the machine to properly read.
Isn’t the 69 CMF MWR???
69J field whore
OT – Gustave
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdez4gdmkmo
OT:
Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still can.
https://www.wired.com/story/subaru-location-tracking-vulnerabilities/
Bonus:
Bypassing 2FA
We tried the simplest thing that we could think of: removing the client-side overlay from the UI.
After removing the client-side overlay, we clicked around and the whole app seemed to function normally. All of the buttons worked, and were returning server-side data.
That’s some brilliant coding there.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru#bypassing-2fa
It just never ends. Make Automobiles Dumb Again.
How will I know when to buy eggs of my fridge doesn’t do it for me?
You buy them, and TP when your neighbor pisses you off, like we used to do back in the before times
????
See, this is why new cars suck.
“allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories”
Why would this even be a function? So, so dumb.
Thank you. I keep seeing the ads touting remotely locking/starting a car from a phone app, and I just twitch.
Especially seeing what passes for “security” for most end users.
Capitalism.
I’m not suggesting it as a defense, but explanation. It allows you to collect revenue after the sale in an annuitized fashion for a “service” .
And “the kids” love these shiny high tech services.
Not just kids; my 60+ year old BIL loves the gadgets — a kid at heart.
BMW- “We’ll charge them a monthly fee to be able to enable the heated seats that they already paid for!”
As humans continue to burn fossil fuels, Hamlington says the climate will keep getting hotter. That means more communities will face worsening disasters. But there’s still time to avoid the worst outcomes if climate change can be slowed down by cutting fossil fuels. Countries that signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 have committed to reducing planet-warming pollution, but so far, the world is not on track to meet the accord’s goals.
Come, heathens, her the Lord’s word and obey.
There is still time to save this guy’s rebuilt mansion if the rest of us make enough sacrifices.
Narrator: It can’t. Even if “the earth is cooking” (and the jury is out on that, given that the data is shit), the Sun laughs at puny humans thinking they can “change” it.
Mike Hunt was unavailable for comment.
https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
PONick, some of those names are made up
Are woodchippers and helicopter rides still ok?
Only because we do not have official Unworders.
You know you are in for a treat with NYT when this is your lede.
The private jet took off from the Caribbean island of Antigua in April carrying three highly combustible tanks of compressed oxygen and a terminally ill cancer patient.
Problem is that O2 itself isn’t combustible. But the word sounds cool! And scary!
A Start-Up Claimed Its Device Could Cure Cancer. Then Patients Began Dying.
Two U.S. companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators.
Paywall:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/exthera-cancer-blood-filtering-device.html
Oh no! Out of reach of American regulators!
The tanks are combustible? Perhaps made of magnesium.
Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? What a country!
I understand that modern Porsches are superior in every way, but watching this stud drive an 87 Ruf is a thing of beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSMCfPASImQ&t=4s&ab_channel=OptionAuto
Naturally I’ve already watched that. And I’m not really a Porsche guy.
Bring me my brown pants!
The way he’s passing reminds me of the old racing games.
Not in every way. Computers with wheels will never be as fun to drive as good analog cars.
I’m going to admit that I’m torn on this guy’s murder, and I’m still not certain Luigi isn’t a patsy for…somebody. I don’t know.
WE know that government regulations have hamstrung the insurance companies and that what they lobbied for—Obamacare—didn’t pan out nearly the way they thought it would. Thus, they have to nickel-and-dime patients to stay in business.
HOWEVER. Insurance companies would not hesitate to figure out a way to make those government regulations work for them and they were already doing that anyway and people were already fed up before Obamacare came along. They’ve ALWAYS denied people coverage for illegitimate reasons, decisions based on some desk-riding NP or RN who are invested in denying coverage. Maybe their quarterly bonuses depended on it. I don’t know.
The day before he was killed, Aetna had decided to pay for X number of minutes of anesthesia and the patient had to pay for whatever overage they had. The day AFTER he was killed, they reversed that. It sent a message. Some people aren’t going to take it anymore.
A dude was not murdered. An entire industry was put on notice.
I feel like this is a Matt Dillon vs Old Man Howard situation.
We’ve got two assholes: health insurance companies (embodied in one CEO) and the murderer.
The insurance companies, who are pressured, ALSO do asshole things and people were already completely powerless before Obamacare.
Luigi. Because cold-blooded murder is bad.
And you know, some people really DO just need killin’. Maybe just not this particular guy.
I’m going to admit that I’m torn on this guy’s murder
FWIW, I am against walking up behind an unarmed person and shooting them in the head.
Valid.
Luigi is a GoodFella
against walking up behind an unarmed person and shooting them in the head
When I was younger I would’ve absolutely agreed, these days I find my agreement a bit more conditional.
Other than in self defense, or other equivalently defined circumstances, the problem with the “some people need killing” idea is that there is probably someone out in the world thinking that about any given person.
What Jarflax says.
None of us are competent to decide who deserves and who doesnt.
Except me. I am qualified. My moral credentials are flawless. My compass infallible.
I’m certain I’m on *someone’s* list. Being a Living Human puts you on *many* people’s lists, perhaps with ‘Just kill a stranger’ on their mind.
Outside of obvious combat and self-defense reasons, even the biggest asshole deserves a trial. (Not if they fire back being arrested, etc, true.) The show of a trial is highly facetious, oft farcical in its silliness. “Presumed innocent, huh. Fucker filmed himself eating his family.” Ha, “The show must go on.” It’s important for our social primate structures to have *some* foundation. What we’ve got (had?) is the best we’ve come up with, yet.
What would replace it would be far worse. Down that road, madness lies.
This for me is one where I fully agree that the murder was abhorrent and wrong in every way. And so is the glee expressed by the crowd celebrating it.
But I do understand it.
And that is the moral quandary I find myself in. So I mostly don’t participate in opining.
I mostly feel the same way I feel when I hear the news stories about drug dealers knocking each other off in a turf war.
Sucks that it happened, sucks that this is the world we live in. The murderer should rot in jail. Carry on with life.
I only “understand” it in that same way I “understand” why anyone commits a premeditated murder.
You can hate on insurance companies all you want but one of the main factors driving the cost of medical care is cheats. How many billions of dollars is Medicare/aid scammed out of every year? Repeat that for every private insurance company. It is their duty to cut down on that.
Health insurance would cost much more in a world in which a stranger can decide that you’re a bad person and gun you down in the street.
Health insurance would cost much more in a world in which a stranger can decide that you’re a bad person and gun you down in the street.
Not if we teach marksmanship in schools. Life insurance on the other hand…
watching this stud drive an 87 Ruf
He needs to take that car to the dealer and have his stability control fixed. It’s a little tail-happy.
Also, why am I having to explain the math of a bleed to a print cover designer? When you have bleed, the document has to be bigger than the specified trim size because it has to be TRIMMED to that size.
🤦♂️
None of my handful of cover artists had any issues with the concept.
why am I having to explain the math of a bleed to a print cover designer?
Maybe you hired the wrong one?
I didn’t hire her. My client did. I’ve had to school this particular person in the most efficient methods for producing PDFs before.
The problem is, most of these people are print designers from WAAAAYYYYY back and are still using old-school methods that print-on-demand printers DON’T use. For instance, both Lightning Source/Ingram and Amazon KDP will give you a cover template PLUS bar code if you use their online template generators. This particular designer and ones who are set in the Old Ways™ still calculate cover templates by hand, and my client is asking (again!) about buying barcodes from Bowker (who sells ISBNs). It’s an upsell that people don’t need.
So I explain to the cover designer that she can just go [here] and put in the dimensions and get a cover template. I explain to my client that the printer provides the barcode if she already has her ISBN. Neither one of them does what I said to do. Designer calculates her template by hand and asks me why my interior doesn’t fit. My client buys the barcode from Bowker and asks Designer to put it on the cover, but the Designer doesn’t know where it should go (Amazon tells you where to put it and Lightning Source/Ingram lets you put it anywhere you want).
I sigh and download the templates and send them. Everybody’s happy.
This is the fifth book I’ve done for this client and we go through this every time. THIS time it’s complicated because she has graphics that run off the edge of the page (bleed). I have tried COUNTLESS times to explain the concept of bleed. Each time, my client comes back to me and says, “This was rejected because the bleed size isn’t right!” Well, come to find out, she was picking the TRIM size (the size the book is trimmed to) the same as the document I was sending her. NO. THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID. We have been going around and around and around about this for the last 3 weeks WHILE my mom’s in the hospital, then home with me, and I’m like, WHY CAN’T YOU PEOPLE READ WHAT I’M TELLING YOU?!
I’m very clear in technical instructions. Bullet points, succinct language. I can parse the websites’ explanations and rework them and explain them. I can do it a second and third way, even. I don’t know how much more succinct and clear I can be.
🤦♂️
I just give my artist the template and he has no problems keeping the details in the good area, blocking out the space where Amazon says the barcode goes, leaving me space for the blurb, and putting the titles in the right spot.
Reading technical instructions is hard. Why can’t you tell me what I need to know when I need to know it.
Uffda.
That’s just it. She didn’t know you can just go fetch a template and then after I told her where and how to do it, she still didn’t do it that way and wondered why it wasn’t working.
Mojeaux:
The reason that a lot of troubleshooting steps include “reboot the machine” is that’s something the tech on the other side can generally confirm happened, which you cannot do when you tell someone to stop process/application X.
I don’t know how much more succinct and clear I can be.
Im liable to start taking screenshots and drawing arrows and circles in MS Paint when it gets to that point.
1) click this button [image of circled button]
2) select “auto” from this drop down [image of drop down with arrow to correct option]
That’s just it. She didn’t know you can just go fetch a template and then after I told her where and how to do it, she still didn’t do it that way and wondered why it wasn’t working.
Have you never read the comments on a posted recipe? I made this only I substituted tofu for the eggs, left out the butter, and it turned into a rock 1 star out of 5
I make docs like that all the time for work. Circles, numbered steps, the works.
I don’t use Paint because I want to keep my sanity. Instead I use a screenshot tool like Greenshot or ShareX.
I have done this so many times I now have pamphlets for things. Yet…a new one always pops up.
PicPick is fabulous.
Price it as a service. You provide the instructions at no charge, but in this case they ignored you and you did it for the client. I understand this a repeat customer, but no need to do free work all the time.
Speaking of tail-happy
It’s that time again.
Beautiful music!
It keeps getting better. Trump joins the Davos meeting virtually, tells them all to fuck off, then point straight at the Bank of America CEO and warns him to stop debanking conservatives.
Good times lads!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14318173/Trump-unleashes-Bank-America-CEO-face-blocking-supporters-using-bank.html
I saw that. I love how just just casually throws it out there.
To be fair, the banks only did that because Joe told them to.
Not that they’ll ever admit it. But I expect them to quietly stop doing that, if only for the next 4 years.
“The climate scientist side of me thinks maybe it’s not a good idea to rebuild,”
I get the impression a lot of the “climate activism” community opining about the fires are not-so-secretly gratified by the opportunity to gloat about about the danger of uncontrolled development.
“The climate scientist side of me thinks maybe it’s not a good idea to rebuild,”
Who could have seen that coming? I would say the chances that climate activists are responsible for at least some of the fires is zero.
You know who else is not-so-secretly gratified by the opportunity the fires present? Newsome, other pols and land developers (Black Rock).
In fact that greasy fuck Newsome was dancing with glee about it just a couple of days ago.
Cue my environmental scientist ex-boss who always complained about traffic and sprawl, but lived 50 minutes from work, out in the exurbs…
Bro. Go buy an apartment downtown.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-challenge-trumps-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship/story?id=118005855
That was both quick and expected. On to the next court!
Why I argue that he picked a fight he will lose when he could’ve just changed a policy with the same effect.
Tie up all of #Resist’s legal resources on flashy but meaningless nonsense, then drop actual policies?
Exactly right. That was the purpose.
Fine, let’s get it over with. Get SCOTUS to clarify that citizenship is not automatically conferred on children of illegals.
https://x.com/ThomasEWoods/status/1882514889245389208
Woods on birthright citizenship
Now do the second amendment and it repeated and emphatic meaning expounded on by its authors. Every gun law and regulation on the books are not laws but crimes committed against the people of the United States.
A path for denying dangerous criminals their inalienable rights is firmly established by the constitution. Speaking of which, are any of the Jan6 pardoned individuals still incarcerated at this moment?
Lol
“BMW has announced they are leaving X.
This historic event marks the first time a BMW has signaled before lane departure.”
https://x.com/PatrioticPizzas/status/1882427199774695844
Spectacular!
Bazinga!
That is Iowahawk level.
What porn site has less than 1/3 of its content not harmful to minors
Article
Nickelodeon?
You mean the feet???
Or Ariana grande?
What porn site? Hell, what site of any sort?
Glibertarians.com is certified family-friendly.
The hair is up for some family fun
Who determines what’s harmful to minors?
the same people who said we should use latinx instead of latino/a to include everyone
while Latino/a (including myself, a Latino man) hated It and didn’t like a bunch of white people deciding what they wanted
Where I live and play you would be laughed at in the worst way if you said Latinx, other than sarcastically,
SD! Tall Cans!
The Minor League?
Wood Chipped Wednesday:
Nah. Let me decide, and I could get behind it.
And look, you Latinx people are just too lazy and ignorant to understand, that’s why you need proud strong allies like the white QUILTBAG progressives to tell you what’s best for you.
OMWC.
Pornhub is frantically uploading the whole sesame Street catalogue right now.
https://www.ft.com/content/ab6c045d-0b1f-42ea-81cb-2d0523262540
“The 15-month war has devastated Gaza more than any previous Israeli offensive. Palestinian health authorities say that about 47,000 people have been killed since Israel launched its onslaught in response to Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack, which Israeli officials say killed 1,200 people.”
Here’s some advice…….don’t kidnap, kill and rape people especially people who have a much more organized and powerful military then your terrorist organization. The sad part is that everyone is blaming the Israelis for this calamity as opposed to blaming Hamas for being murderous pieces of shit.
Buckle up, Buckaroos!
Declassified, with redactions. Bet on it.
Rooms full of lawyers going through page by page blacking out anything any single lawyer thinks could conceivably be sensitive in any imaginable way. Maybe 1 word in 20 visible.
The 14th amendments says what it says. The 2nd says what it says, to wit: “shall not be infringed.”
Fuck this living Constitution bullshit and “no right is absolute” nonsense. You want to end birthright citizenship? Amend the Constitution.
Uhhh… the 14A, having passed right after the 13th, was understood when it was passed to be intended to grant citizenship to blacks in order to overturn Dred Scott v. Sandford.
It was only a subsequent SCOTUS decision 30+ years later, U.S. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649 (1898), that the 14A was interpreted to grant “birthright” citizenship – and even that interpretation seems to be getting read a bit broadly. A LOT of this should wind up focusing on what effect the word “domicile” has.
In my view, Trump’s new EO has a very, very good basis, but it’s really just his interpretation of what the 14A means, which is entitled to some deference constitutionally. The Executive is, after all, a co-equal branch of government to the judiciary, not a subservient branch. Marbury v. Madison claimed for the judiciary the right to declare “what the law is”, but it’s not clear that some of modern interpretations of Wong Kim are really reading it correctly.
It’s hard to imagine that what was intended by 14A’s ratification was that a transient Kenyan/Ghanayan/Chinese/British/Norwegian couple passing through the US without any legal status and had a kid suddenly bequeathed their child US citizenship by fortunate accident of being here when mama gave birth. Wong Kim mentions that the couple had “domicile” here – and domicile usually means that there was a present and firm intention to make a place the permanent home/residence, even if that later changes.
In any event, I’m glad that the argument is being had and I hope that Wong Kim is clarified or overruled. But this is in no way a spurious constitutional action by Trump. He’s attempting to challenge the liberal (left) consensus that Wong Kim seems to have created. Read the opinion and the dissent by the Chief Justice. It’s not at all clear that the dissent doesn’t have the better and more correct interpretation of the 14A.