...FOREVER. I doubt I'm alone in this feeling.

Why invest my hard earned money in a totally corrupt and unstoppable scam? I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid.

What a wild day that'll be, post MOASS when millions of new rich AF Apes all say peace out to the exchange for good... AT THE SAME TIME. Whatever they invest in can thank the corrupt NYSE for their new business.

SEC regulation d says that you can't hold a private offering for your company for fundraising if you or the other people involved have a "relevant criminal conviction, regulatory or court order or other disqualifying event".

Now my question is, when it says relevant, does it mean the criminal conviction is related to regulation d or does it mean you have any conviction and its relevant because it happened recently? Furthermore, does "relevant" apply to the regulatory or court order or other disqualifying event too? Or does the word just refer to the court order?

Let's say I wanted to raise the maximum of $1 million from my friends and family. For this example, let's say that NONE of them are accredited investors, so I am limited to 35 individual "non-accredited" investors.

Here's a BUNCH of questions:

1. Would a facebook post be considered a public solicitation, if my security settings are such that only people whom I have friended are able to see my posts?

2. Would a password-protected donation website violate any measures of D(504)? For example: posting on my facebook a link to make an investment in my startup via a personal wordpress site using THIS THEME?

3. Regarding the theme, I could ask generic questions to pre-qualify my friends as "accredited" or "non-accredited" and limit the "non-accredited" investors to a total of 35.

In my mind this does not constitute public solicitation as my facebook is private and I have had contact with all my facebook friends. Additionally, the crowdfunding page would be password protected, again, ensuring they are my friend. And THOUGH it uses a "crowdfunding" theme, it is not technically crowdfunding, but rather a method for them to invest outside of handing me a check or getting killed by paypal fees (Dwolla charges 25 cents.)

Would this scenario be in violation of SEC Rule 504?

NOTE: Yes, yes. I know I should talk to a securities lawyer, but I'm curious if anyone else has attempted or secured funding in this manner.

Something like, "Citizens must watch Hocus Pocus on Halloween or incur a $50 fine" or "A person who is rude to waitstaff shall be made to work a busy lunch shift at the establishment at which said waitstaff is employed", etc!

Concerning statewide regulation of persons approaching controlled intersections who are not operating motor vehicles.

Transportation Legislation Review Committee. An existing statute allows a municipality or county to adopt an ordinance or resolution specifying that a person riding a bicycle, electrical assisted bicycle, or electric scooter may make a safety stop, rather than a full stop, under certain circumstances when approaching an intersection that is controlled by a stop sign or a traffic control signal as follows:

• When approaching a stop sign, if it is safe to proceed, the person may, after slowing to a reasonable speed of 15 miles per hour or less, or 10 or 20 miles per hour or less if so specified by municipality or county for a particular intersection and marked with appropriate signage, and yielding the right-of-way to any traffic or pedestrian in or approaching the intersection, continue through the intersection without stopping; and When approaching an illuminated red traffic control signal, the person must first stop at the intersection and yield to all other traffic and pedestrians and then, when safe to do so, may proceed straight or make a right turn through the intersection or, subject to specified conditions, make a left turn onto a one-way street only.

• The bill amends the statute to make the substantive requirements described above uniform statewide for most persons approaching a controlled intersection who are not operating a motor vehicle. Such persons include pedestrians (approaching a controlled intersection with a stop sign) and operators of low-speed conveyances, as defined in the bill (approaching a controlled intersection with a stop sign or a traffic control signal).

The regulation of persons approaching controlled intersections is declared to be a matter of mixed state and local concern, and the amended statute is thus declared to supersede any conflicting local ordinance or resolution but not to affect the validity of any nonconflicting local ordinance or resolution that regulates the conduct of persons approaching controlled intersections. The bill does not create any right for a pedestrian or the operator of a low-speed conveyance to travel on any portion of a roadway where travel is otherwise prohibited by state law or a local ordinance or resolution.

This is the #1 piece of FUD I’ve seen for the last 12 months and it’s just been blown to bits. I’ve been all-in on GME since Jan 20, 2021 and every week I see a post or comment either begging for or asking why not has a long whale just come in and blown up the hedgies positions (implying that because it hasn’t happened, the squeeze isn’t real).

It’s because they’re not allowed to do so by the SEC due to mArKeT mAniPuLaTioN.

Charles Gradante in his awesome tirade explains that retail, since we’re all just individual investors, were (and are) able to just keep buying and buying more shares and calls, which Melvin and other hedgies hedged by buying more shares, hoping the buying would eventually stop, but retail just kept buying more and more as the hedging raised the price more and more, death spiral infinity loop to Oort Cloud.

We were allowed to do it because the SEC can’t act unilaterally on millions of people simply buying a stock and options on that stock, it’s completely legal and normal market activity. So instead, the market makers, Shitadel especially, used their influence and power to get brokers to turn off the buy button.

Then the SEC and Congressional Finance Committee launched BS investigations that completely avoided talking about the real issues and instead talked about RETAIL needing to be regulated, rather than rightly pointing the finger at the market makers who abuse their privileges to swing the market to their whim and advantage.

So, at least from all this, we can finally put to bed the FUD idea that the squeeze isn’t going to happen because otherwise long hedge funds would just have blown up the whole situation by now. We now know they’re not allowed to and we simply have to continue holding, buying, DRSing, and also playing smart options (far-dated near the money or in the money calls) because THAT is the exact recipe that led to last year’s sneeze, and will ultimately lead us to the short squeeze.

This January, the end of this month, we’re heading into the same conditions as last year but with a fraction of the liquidity, which means the price is WAY more volatile on MINISCULE volume. We’re seeing 10% upswings and downswings on less than 5 million volume. Do you not realize how fucking insane this is?

Last year, that 10% price swing would take 50 million volume or more. If you were around last February, you remember that we used to forecast “slow days” by measuring if we got less than a million volume in the FIRST M

My wife and I have two fantastic sons. We would like to add a 3rd member to our family and would love to experience having a daughter. Unfortunately, gender selection is illegal in Australia.

Sperm sorting is simply removing the sperm of the gender prefer, and then inseminating you with it. About 90% accurate. So there is still some chance involved.

In countries where it’s legal, what issues arise from gender selection. It seems like a mostly unspoken topic. Except by extremists.

Most people seem to think that by choosing the gender, your expecting them to fit a pre determined stereotype. I guess to some degree that is true. But watching children grow to become their own person is part of the excitement. Tomboy or princess, we wouldn’t care.

CTC, LLC. Chicago Trading Company - Hedge Fund

I was looking at this company a few weeks ago before the 6/30/2021 13F filings were posted on the SEC website. Originally, I thought I wasn't reading it correctly or someone had made a minor mistake. Nonetheless, I still found it kind of weird because the difference between the filing format of the 12/31/2020 13F and the 3/31/2021 13F was noticeably different.

December's 13 F filing was very neat, clean, and gave you all the information without needing to dig for it. The font was all the same color right at the top they gave you the compliance officers name and displayed the portfolio value (probably proudly, like fuq yuh check dis big dick energy out, we return more than your dad does when he said he is going to the gas station for cigarettes). Below the portfolio value total, you have a Holdings Table that shows all of their positions, and again it was really easy to look at and read and interpret. They were holding such stocks as Apple, Amazon, SPY - you know your typical blue-chip powerhouse stocks. But there were also some stocks that you would probably consider to be “Reddit stocks” such as NIO, Palantir, and Tesla. A+ folio in my book, Cathie Wood vibe almost. Whatya know, they were holding the ARK ETF TR :).

Recap:

Reporting Period: 12/31/2020

Portfolio Value: $3,114,929,000

Filing Format: Normal, not weird

So moving on to the March 13 F filing - Immediately upon opening it, I thought I was looking at a different form type than the one I was previously looking at a few minutes ago. So I went back to the December form and double-checked.

December: SEC FORM 13F-HR

March: SEC FORM 13F-HR

Ok, same form. Why does March look like someone made this with a computer running a crayon-based operating system, printed it, faxed it over to themselves, scanned it as a PDF and finally uploaded it to the SEC website (compared to December)? Maybe it is not the same company?

December: Form 13F File Number: 028-13225

March: Form 13F File Number: 028-13225

No, it is the same one… well what the frick then. Now there is a blue font, the formatting is all over the place and I don’t see where their Holding Table is. Oh wait, I found it. A tiny little button marked as “form13fInfo_20210401.html” hyperlinks you to a separate window.

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Again, blue font and is not formatt

I've learnt some tricks I'd like to share in case others find them helpful. My little (3yo in November) was at the shops with us the other day and he wanted to touch something he wasn't allowed to touch, he started to get upset when we said no and started to cry and get worked up, I said to him "take a deep breath" and he took a long deep breath and calmed down. Not an exciting story I know, but you should have seen the look of shock on the face of the shop assistant when they saw my toddler calm from a potential tantrum within seconds.

Anyway these are the tricks I've learnt to be able to get my little boy to regulate his emotions:

1: We never yell. My wife and I never lash out in anger and frustration at my boy or each other. My toddler has no hope of regulating his emotions if his parents don't. 2: Time aways: this is my version of time out. When he is getting really worked up about something I say "let's have a time away" we walk off into another room together, and then I say "let's take some deep breaths" and then I start doing deep breaths, he eventually joins in. Then I say "I understand you want... BUT..." Then I explain why he can't have something. Then I get him to give me a couple more big breaths and then we go back to where we were and continue on. 3: Always be consistent, if we say no, that never turns into a yes just because of a tantrum. This means tantrums never last more than a minute because he knows a 30min tantrum won't get a different response. 4: Natural consequences to all misbehaviour: early on I would have to sit with him for 30 mins until he finally picked up all the stuff he just threw over the floor. Now because I never allow him to get away with it he picks the stuff up straight away.

And that's pretty much it. It doesn't sound like much but I saw this little boy a couple months ago trying to do something which wasn't going how he wanted, he started getting a bit upset, then I saw him take a deep breath unprompted and calm himself down and keep playing! The little guy is 2yo! I've never seen a 2yo do that before! I was shocked and just really excited to see my little man able to regulate his big little feelings :)

Please note this post isn't meant to shame anyone or anything like that. None of us are perfect or in the same situation, and the very fact that y'all are here to support one another and share your parenting experiences says a lot of positive things about every parent here! :)

I don’t know if this is a common issue or a bug or what, but on My Team I have maxed out all the R&D as have all the teams, nobody has upgraded anything in over a season and a half. In addition before that, most of the teams had maxed out their R&D and only aerodynamics was changed for the next season, needless to say everyone got back to their original spot fairly quickly. I’m currently at Japan (full season) and hoping that I’ll get a message saying about new tech regulations, and lots of them soon.

Has anyone else had this issue?

> Prior to joining the SEC, he held positions as a Chief Counsel at NYSE Euronext and as an associate at the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York.

 

> Milbank, 'Not a Wall Street Firm Anymore,' Takes New Name

 

> Then, on Sept. 17, Milbank learned it had beaten out at least two competitors to be selected as counsel to the unsecured creditors committee in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. In a flash, 30 lawyers were put onto the assignment—a number that’s likely to double. “It’s crazy busy now,” Immergut says.

 

> In addition, a Wall Street law firm, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, is being drawn into the battle. Milbank has been hired, at more than $1 million a month, to represent the creditors committee in its negotiations with Enron.

 

> The firm's present name dates from 1962.[1] For decades, the firm's biggest clients were the Rockefeller family and the Chase Manhattan Bank.

 

> The firm was responsible for the legal work on the building of Rockefeller Center, and its offices can still be found in the One Chase Manhattan Plaza building, renamed 28 Liberty in 2015.[2] After World War II the firm advised new commercial and industrial developments.[1] Milbank created hedge funds and other investment vehicles for financial clients in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and capitalized on the growth of international business, finance, and technology transactions in the 1990s.

 

> [On Monday, E*Trade announced that it had hired Goldman Sachs to advise a newly created special committee of three independent directors tasked with evaluating the company's strategic options--including a possible sale of the company--in response to Citadel's demands. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy global litigation practice leader Alan Stone is advising the special committee, according to a lawyer involved in the matter.](https://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2011/08/

One of the top lawyers in the Ripple (XRP) camp, Stuart Alderoty, recently lashed out at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Twitter. According to Alderoty, the SEC would deliberately try to delay the lawsuit between themselves and Ripple as long as possible.

Ripple lawsuit

Ripple, meanwhile, has been embroiled in an infamous lawsuit with the US SEC for over a year. The SEC accuses Ripple of selling securities in the past without the necessary licenses. At the moment, Ripple is hopeful that the lawsuit will soon come to an end and the judge will finally issue a ruling. However, Alderoty lashed out at the SEC on Twitter. He believes that the SEC does not want the court case to end any time soon.

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Gary Gensler

In the series of Twitter messages, Alderoty responds to a message from SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. Gensler revealed why, in his opinion, enforcement of rules is one of the SEC's most important tasks. Soccer without referees would turn into an unfair occupation in no time according to Gensler. If teams don't have to worry about penalties and enforcement of the rules, things will go wrong. The same goes for the markets, according to Gensler.

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Alderoty argues that the SEC is guilty of "regulation by enforcement." That by simply initiating a lawsuit against an entity they are trying to control certain markets. This is also why, according to Alderoty, the SEC does not seem to be in any particular hurry in the lawsuit.

Ripple's CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, still seemed convinced in November of last year that the lawsuit will end this year. In addition, he is hopeful that the judge's ruling will also be in Ripple's favor.

Anyone else despise Reg D as much as I do?

EDIT:

GG SAID PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE EXTERMELY CRITICAL ON THESE:

https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed.shtml

• See the Items from Today Dec 15.
• See Blue Arrow "Submit Comments on:....."

IT TAKES 5 MINUTES TO SUPPORT THESE REGULATIONS!!!GIVE THEM NO REASON TO SAY OTHERWISE!!!

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IT TAKES 5 MINUTES TO SUPPORT THESE REGULATIONS!!!GIVE THEM NO REASON TO SAY OTHERWISE!!!

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Watch it here:

https://www.sec.gov/news/upcoming-events/open-meeting-121521

Open Meeting Agenda - December 15, 2021

ITEM 1: Rule 10b5-1 and Insider Trading

Office: Division of Corporation Finance

Staff: Renee Jones, Erik Gerding, Felicia Kung, and Sean Harrison

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to Rule 10b5-1 and new disclosure regarding 10b5-1 trading arrangements and insider trading policies and procedures, as well as amendments regarding the disclosure of the timing of certain equity compensation awards and reporting of gifts on Form 4.

For further information, please contact Sean Harrison in the Division of Corporation Finance at (202) 551-3430.

ITEM 2: Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization

Office: Division of Corporation Finance

Staff: Renee Jones, Erik Gerding, Luna Bloom, and Steven Hearne

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to modernize share repurchase disclosure, including more detailed and more frequent disclosure about issuer share repurchases and requiring issuers to present the disclosure using a structured data language.

For further information, please contact Steven Hearne in the Division of Corporation Finance at (202) 551-3430.

ITEM 3: Money Market Fund Reforms

OFFICE: Division of Investment Management

STAFF: Sarah ten Siethoff, Brian Johnson, Angela Mokodean, Thoreau Bartmann, Penelope Saltzman, Blair Burnett, David Driscoll, Adam Lovell, James Maclean, Keri Riemer, and Viktoria Baklanova

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to certain rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

For further information, please contact Brian Johnson or Angela Mokodean in the Divi