The Thread

[dtravel]

Driven crazy by statistics tithe.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: dtravel

Driven crazy by statistics tithe.

Gotta love those spreadsheets...[:'(]

[Mike Scholl]

The bad lawyers are trial lawyers and politicians. They should be taken out behind the barn and shot. Most other lawyers are ok.

By "trial lawyers" I mean ambulance chasers and class-action junkies, not prosecutors and defenders (although some of them are weasels too).

ALL lawyers are verminous scum. They take something simple like "don't steal" and by the time a dozen or two of them are finished, (and more often than not the taxpayers have been charged through the nose)
the thief is back on the street, or being treated at public expense for his "problem" (whatever it was), or counter-suing his victim for causing him "mental anguish" by putting locks on his house. The USofA has more lawyers than the rest of the world and less justice than many "Third World" nations. Remember the horrible stink and crys of "brutality" that filled the ABA and our newspapers when that idiot American kid didn't think the laws of Singapore applied to him while he was there? Half a dozen smacks with a bamboo cane is "barbaric"..., but Enron and Arthur Anderson bilking thousands of families out of their retirement savings is a "white collar crime" to be punished with fines that won't amount to 5% of the money stolen and a few months in a minimum security facility that a "Boot Camp Marine" would call easy livin'. Bar-B-Quing those clowns as a Super Bowl Halftime show wouldn't be excessive. To paraphrase Ambrose Bierce, a "Lawyer is one skilled in circumventing Justice".

[Big B]

ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

The bad lawyers are trial lawyers and politicians. They should be taken out behind the barn and shot. Most other lawyers are ok.

By "trial lawyers" I mean ambulance chasers and class-action junkies, not prosecutors and defenders (although some of them are weasels too).

ALL lawyers are verminous scum. They take something simple like "don't steal" and by the time a dozen or two of them are finished, (and more often than not the taxpayers have been charged through the nose)
the thief is back on the street, or being treated at public expense for his "problem" (whatever it was), or counter-suing his victim for causing him "mental anguish" by putting locks on his house. The USofA has more lawyers than the rest of the world and less justice than many "Third World" nations. Remember the horrible stink and crys of "brutality" that filled the ABA and our newspapers when that idiot American kid didn't think the laws of Singapore applied to him while he was there? Half a dozen smacks with a bamboo cane is "barbaric"..., but Enron and Arthur Anderson bilking thousands of families out of their retirement savings is a "white collar crime" to be punished with fines that won't amount to 5% of the money stolen and a few months in a minimum security facility that a "Boot Camp Marine" would call easy livin'. Bar-B-Quing those clowns as a Super Bowl Halftime show wouldn't be excessive. To paraphrase Ambrose Bierce, a "Lawyer is one skilled in circumventing Justice".

I don't hate all lawyers... oh wait, ....ya - I do hate all lawyers.

[rtrapasso]

i wonder how many lawyers are cowering out there, trying to hide from the Wrath of The Thread!!!

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: dtravel

Driven crazy by statistics tithe.

Gotta love those spreadsheets...[:'(]

*glare* Just for that, I'm no longer telling you anything I find out.

[DuckofTindalos]

Especially have to love the way that it only takes one wrong character in the data entry phase to throw everything out of whack...

[dtravel]

In this case I don't think its data entry errors. Its trying to determine a modifier of maybe +0.5 in something that already varies from 1 to something like 20 or 30.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: dtravel

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: dtravel

Driven crazy by statistics tithe.

Gotta love those spreadsheets...[:'(]

*glare* Just for that, I'm no longer telling you anything I find out.

ah, are we crunching THOSE numbers? i thought maybe you were doing something for work or a course or some such...

[rtrapasso]

It's quiet here tonight...

Too quiet...

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: dtravel

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso



Gotta love those spreadsheets...[:'(]

*glare* Just for that, I'm no longer telling you anything I find out.

ah, are we crunching THOSE numbers? i thought maybe you were doing something for work or a course or some such...

More like realizing that I need a huge freaking boatload more numbers to have any chance of figuring out any of it. Too many factors that supposidly affect repairs and random die rolls playing WAY too big a role for it to be "only" complex.

[rtrapasso]

Ode to Wake Island Redux:

Hope’s dashed to the floor
And shattered Speedy's dreams
Invading Wake Island
Can make a player scream

(bridge 1)
That walk in the park can become a bad dream
Penguins are laughing and mocking my schemes
This is the only escape from it all:
Imitate the Leopard seal mating call!

(chorus)
Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
(Waiting for Speedy)
Oh, Wake Island is waiting

We don't need a plan
We've got nerves of steel
Speedy's troops retreated
Tell us what’s deal.

(bridge 2)
You’re bombing, you’re shelling, a freefire spree
I never want this to happen to me
Don't try invading, you're wasting your time
Wake Island’s waters are heavily mined!

Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
Oh, Wake Island is waiting
Waiting for Speedy
(Waiting for Speedy)
Oh, Wake Island is waiting

That walk in the park can become a bad dream
Penguins are shooting and firing at me
This is the only escape from it all:
Bombing those penguins until they fall.

[RUPD3658]

Early morning working overtime tithe....[>:]

[fabertong]

Sunday Morning off to work tithe.......and it looks to be a beautiful day. Alas.

[DuckofTindalos]

Sunday Morning Tithe... Just have to finish that damn Business Law paper...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Sunday Morning off to work tithe.......and it looks to be a beautiful day. Alas.

early Sunday morning gotten out of bed by the Schnauzers tithe...

Working on Sunday is the pits!! Is this some sort of big project consuming all your time??

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Sunday Morning Tithe... Just have to finish that damn Business Law paper...

Hey T, in my biz law class they combined law and ethics...as if one had anything to do with the other. [8|] It was the only class that I could really say was largely a waste of my time in my program.

[DuckofTindalos]

Waste of time for me as well, but that's mainly because it's been the FOURTH time I've studied it...

[niceguy2005]

Fourth biz law class. Were you a lawyer in a former life?

The problem with our class was that it didn't delve into either law or ethics on any substantial level. All of my other "intro" biz level courses (accounting, finance, etc.) I thought were very good, but not that one. They should have made ethics its own class and ratcheted up the level to which they delved into biz law. From what I saw, a LOT of the students could use some formal ethics training. Of course, that was pre-Enron, post-Enron I think the school did overhaul its ethics training.

[DuckofTindalos]

Had law in high school, went to "real" law school for a year (big mistake; it was straight out of high school), then had it as part of the first degree I took, and am now having it again.