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Smart Money Picks 10 Rising Careers
jonathanjo writes "Smart Money announces the ten hot jobs they see rising in the next decade. Among them, many familiar to slashdotters (wireless engineer) and several of those are of dubious ethical value (data miner, IP lawyer). "Forensic Accountant" even made accounting sound cool! But why oh why did I give up on being an Adventure Travel Guide to be a web designer? D'ohh!"
IP Lawyer...
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Sheesh, enough with the lawyer bashing already.
What? He's dead already? Okey dokie... *Puts down sledge*
(Sorry - that one was just hanging there. I had to.
Lawyers are just people like the rest of us with a job to do - sometimes their clients are wrong, sometimes right.
I'm sensitive to a lawyers plight - at times they have to defend the undefensable, and do a good job of it. That being said, I'd rather they try to get the minimum penalty for thier clients when they know they're guilty, rather than allow criminal behaviour to go un-punished. Justice and all that.
Next time you're up against the RIAA in court, I'd like to see you decline a lawyer on the grounds that the job is of "dubious ethical value".
As long as my attourney is in it to prove my point, not just take my money, he's not of "dubious ethical value" at all. That goes for the one on the other side of the argument. Anyone who believes in thier cause and is willing to argue with reason it's merits, is not of questionalble character. The ones that just prolong trials in order to get thier new yacht are.
I know it's oh so trendy to constantly attack the legal profession, but really. Grow up.
When I see that the legal profession is only interested in justice, and not money and power, I'll put down the sledge, mmmmkay?
Soko
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In many judicial systems, the jury has the main responsibility of determining guilt, based on their evaluation of permissible evidence. Your idea is flawed at least in the following ways:
Agreed - trail by a jury of the accuseds peers is the best way known. Note however I never said anything about a lawyer determining the outcome of such a trial.
First, you are replacing the judgement of a dozen jurors with the judgement of one or two lawyers. This creates more room for prejudice of all sorts, and essentially makes it impossible to prosecute a lawyer who pleads his client to a more severe punishment than necessary. The lawyer just has to say: "I honestly thought he was guilty."
No, I am not. If the accused says to his attourney "Ya, I butchered the ol' lady. Get me off.", the attourney's opinion (IMHO) is now tainted anyways. If it isn't, that attourney is not interested in justice, only collecting his fees. If it is tainted, he should be looking to make sure his clients rights are still thouroughly protected, murdering scum that he is.
Second, these lawyers are permitted to see a range of evidence - including illegally obtained evidence - that will color their judgement. Jurors are simply not told about these illegal evidence, and so it will taint them less.
Again, a given. An attourney should still not allow illegal evidence against his client, since that means it would be open season on everyone. This goes back to protecting the rights of the accused, not whether or not the accused is guilty. Some one needs to be there when the cops don't play fair, too. It's a shame that it sometimes means a murderer walks away scot free.
Third, it will greatly reduce the things that a client tells the lawyer, because they will fear what the lawyer might think. This is detrimental to justice because some of these facts might actually exonerate the client.
Hunh? Your logic is flawed in that you make the erroneous assumption that I believe lawyers should determine guilt or innocence. I don't - only that they shouldn't lie or mis-direct the truth in order to facilitate a miscarriage of justice.
For this and other reasons, lawyers must be required to act entirely on their client's best interests, not on their personal judgement of the client's guilt or innocense.
...and to hell with the best interests of society at large, it seems. That is why lawyers aren't held in terribly high esteem anymore - most seem more interested in what's best for their clients, and by extension themselves, than in what's best for society at large. They need to win - lady justice be damned. IMHO this "Winning at all costs" attitude is the root cause of Mr. William Gates IIIs "popularity" around these parts, BTW - if he played fair, we would likely get along better. The justice system should not be a game, where one "wins" - it should be about divining the truth and dispensing justice.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Overratted?!
/. karma - only real karma applies to me and what i do - but this is obviously a broken system, and if its to remain broken like this fine - but stop calling it karma - as karma is universal law, and by no means broken (or capped).....
anyway the point I wanted to make with this post:
I was at 50 karma for the past several weeks... posted many o' comment in that time... and recently posted several (recently=today) in which I was modded up... but being at the cap 50 - I remained there. then this overrated mod comes in - and deducts me -1 to 49....
but on a previous post (within the same hour) I get +2 or something.... but since I was already at 50 - it doesnt count?!
I dont give a rats ass about
c'mon pater - you think you're so smart. make a better alternative to karma!! and OS it!!!
it's very simple, when you're at 50 then any new points are discarded (not secretly added on and only 50 displayed)
it's not like you're suddenly going to drop under 25 and lose your +1
btw. if you're not concerned then shut up
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