Barnyard96 said:
aggiehawg said:
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I may be wrong, but my understanding is that fines are a penalty intended to make people not want to commit whatever infraction led to the penalty and that disgorgements are the state taking back the money that was gained by illegal activities. So really, two different things, not just mere semantics.
You are wrong.
Your poor hubs. You ever let him win?
Yes, quite often in fact. He has his strengths, retired firefighter, can work on any appliance, car, tractor etc. He's former Air Force as well. He knows the planes between that and being Aircraft Fire Rescue for years. His Dad was a a load supervisor (over the load masters) during Vietnam and was missile maintenace on the Titan II and aircraft maintenance before that. The Hubs was a sponge for that stuff and remembers it today.
He also has a better musical memory than I do. We often just play songs on our computers and dare each other to name the band and name of the song. He beats the crap out me, unless we are talking classical or operas. I have the advantage there.
Now, if we are talking legal matters, that is a different matter, except for one time when we were first dating.
He had been divorced for over a decade and would tell me horror stories about how he was treated in court over property division, child custody, child support and the like and I doubted him. Then he brought me a four inch thick file and told me to read it. He was right about that. His ex had a brother who was a lawyer in East Texas who was strategizing and acting as her counsel. Dog pile. The Hubs ultimately got some revenge however. He was testifying in East Texas for a child support modification, again, and her brother asked the wrong question, "When was the last time you smoked marijuana?" The Hubs replied, "That would have been with you in our garage in 1985. You brought the pot, don't you remember?" I think that one even was reported in some bar journals under the Wish I Hadn't Asked That sections.