Brinkmanship

  

An aggressive negotiation tactic, whereby one party pushes the other almost to a “deal breaker” point (i.e., “the brink”).

Paul was driving down the road on a two-lane street when he noticed another car coming at him...in the same lane. Knowing he was in the right, Paul decided he would stay his course and trust the other driver to recognize they were in the wrong lane.

To Paul’s surprise, the other car did not show any sign of switching lanes, demonstrating a level of brinkmanship that caused Paul to swerve into the other lane at the last second, making an obscene hand gesture. Unfortunately, the gesture was lost on the other driver.

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like when you in tone ironically so sue me and they do or at least they can

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well this phrase consent to service of process is a legal acceptance of

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whatever given state that is when you consent to being served lawsuit papers

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you they don't have to hunt you down in the woods or wait for you to show up at

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to do well all they have to do is send what's called a process server basically

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himself serving you papers ie handing you an envelope stating that you are

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being served well the state had to require this consent because too many

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contracts and other omissions that finally force the government to say

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enough if you want to do business in our neck of the woods then you'll consent to [Government working demanding consent]

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