The population as a whole has been very quickly moving south ever since the invention of the air conditioner which was less than 100 years ago. You don't have to move NYC, but if 5% of the population moves North or South each year it doesn't take very long for the town to be gone.(Look at detroit. It's basically a ghost town) If the average temperature raised 1 degree a decade (which is faster than even the alarmists are claiming), that gives plenty of time for your children to grow up and decide to settle somewhere with slightly better temperatures or move to places with better employment (look at the boom in north dakota where they can't build the houses fast enough)
Top priority: prepare an easy and painless way out.... Better do it early and be ready for later, with a plan simple enough to execute when the illness already has a significant effect (but before it makes me forget I have that option).
It would take a little bit of thinking but the best solution if you really wanted to do this would be some sort of dead man's switch that exploited your forgetfulness. i.e. a drawer that explodes if you open it. A bottle of soda in the fridge that is poisonous, etc... You could easily have multiple booby traps in your house rigged to go off if you forget they are there. As long as you were of sound mind, you would know not to trigger them but how to do this safely without accidently endangering a caretaker would be the tricky part.
This is better than carbon monoxide, because nitrogen is completely inert and doesn't leave a hazardous scene for those who are present/recovering your corpse.
Wouldn't a room full of pure nitrogen be just as dangerous to the person recovering you if they also will continue to breath normally until they black out and die as well?
Alzheimer's has been a multi billion dollar graveyard for Pharma over the past ten years - and Solanezumab isn't looking too healthy. Best of luck to Merck and TauRx.
I think the issue is that they are trying to solve a complex aging issue with a pill. It's like being able to solve old age with a pill. There are certain things that can help. Taking an aspirin can reduce the chance of a heart attack and a different pill might lower blood pressure but you aren't going to find a single pill to cure heart disease either. Until we figure out a way to eliminate the signs of aging and the way the body starts to break down, most of these "cures" are nothing more than stopgaps. Then again, if the average person only has alzheimers for the last 20 years of their life maybe a stopgap is all we need.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
This sounds like a long time ago someone was sold on the idea that a firewall that scans all network traffic for malware would be a very good thing, and part of the requirements for that would be installing the root CA so the HTTPS traffic can be decrypted and scanned for malware
Even this is given them alot more credit. My guess is that it was simply someone lazy who wanted to prevent a warning message appearing for a non-trusted certificate. The odds of this actually ever being used at a school for a man-in-the-middle even to remove malware is close to nil. The fact that it was immediately removed attests to this. The current administration probably doesn't even know why it was added so instantly removed it when someone complained and will probably add it back in a week when someone else complains about an untrusted certificate.
Everything you do requires a little bit of faith. You've never been to the moon nor done the countless experiments that our science is based on but you trust it and have faith in it because you trust the people and books relaying the information and although a single person could never verify every experiment they could randomly pick one and verify it if they wanted. That's why we have peer review, etc... I have faith in the scientific process and faith that for the most part the books are not being manipulated by someone with an agenda which is why I can read a science book and for the most part trust it without replicated every experiment. That being said it is good to question and verify when you can and even more important when said scientific doctrine is considered unquestionable. The most glaring case in recent history is that the "standard procedure" for treating a heart attack victim was actually worse than doing nothing and the exact opposite of what you should do. It took a long time to prove this though as it's very hard to do an A/B test with dying patients and not do what is considered "best practice" just because you think it might not be. That's one of the reasons most guinea pigs for new procedures tend to be very ill people who have already exhausted all the known "best practice" procedures.
You can use freepbx which makes asterisk fairly simple, and use a carrier like flowroute who will provide you all necessary config info. You can even buy a device from most SIP providers which you can hook your POTS phones up to, if you don't want to think. I have a rtp300, but I'm having problems with it. But I also have a PoE SIP phone and some android phones, which have pretty good SIP support.
You're either making a joke or have never delt with "normals" much. I count probably a dozen words in that sentence that would make a normal's eyes glaze over. There is no way the average person is going to do that. To give you one example, my dad called me once because all his applications disappeared. Come to find out he had maximized a program. Once I showed him how to hit the X to close the window he was fine. Most normals I know can't or are at least too scared to hook up a computer. They have even been color coded for at least a decade. Freepbx will never be mainstream with normals.
Why do you say "whined"? It sounds like several people probably had valid cause for complain. I certainly don't want random assholes buzzing me with their drones or RC aircraft, or getting in the way of manned aircraft.
I would mostly agree with this except that he was presumably doing this on university property at a request of the university so even if he was buzzing people this is something that needs to be taken up with the university not with the FAA or the police. Laws for drones probably need to be completely rewritten. If he is low enough to the ground to "buzz" people then in my opinion he would fall into a vague "university airspace". Likewise if someone is flying over my house low enough to "buzz" me at my house, then are in my "air space" aka "personal space". There should probably be some minimum distance that every property owner is allowed to claim as their own personal airspace. Just like you can't walk through my backyard without my permission you shouldn't be able to fly through my backyard without my permission or some sort of relationship with me. A UPS driver gets temporary permission to walk through my yard and a public sideway gives temporary permission to walk through my yard but otherwise it's mostly considered my yard.
I have no idea why this is scored a -1. This almost perfectly describes me as well. I don't own any cds, mp3 players, etc.. Interestingly enough my mother can play the piano but she also never listens to music of any kind and never has to my knowledge. We've actually had conversations about it and she for some reason feels weird about it. I can go months without listening to music. I can't listen to it at work as it disrupts my concentration. I will occasionally turn the radio on on long car trips to keep me awake but after about an hour I get overstimulated and have to turn it back off again. I do enjoy the lyrics of certain songs the same way someone would enjoy listening to a poem or reading a short story but the music itself does very little for me. For the record, I took the survey and was in the 10s and 20s for most of the scores so definitely outside of their standard deviation.
I never even get to the interview stage for jury duty. The first question on the mailed pre-questionaire asks "has a close family member ever been sued for personal injury?" My dad owns a few dump trucks and tractor trailers so of course people have tried to sue him pretty much every time any of his vehicles have been in an accident whether it was their fault or not. This seems to limit the pool severely though as they are basically eliminating practically all small business owners and their families right off the bat. Several other questions are equally as broad. It's amazing they find anyone who can honestly answer those questions and still be a juror. I also question the "jury of peers" problem. If it's a malpractice suit is it a jury of the doctor's peers or the patient's peers? Patents specifically state it's suppose to be someone with similiar expertise in the field but I don't think courts work that way even in patent cases.
Guys, we have another one! You, go with them. We have a nice padded cell for you, with a lot of beautiful volcano posters.
This coming from someone with a bizarre scripture in their signature. Did you even look at the video? My guess, based on your signature, it would probably be something you could possibly agree with.
Who's to say the original poster isn't making a joke? Also, who's to say that the passage doesn't have a similiar basis that has been lost in translation. Check out "Was god a volcano": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Stop and go traffic is among the most accident prone situations.
This might be true. But accidents are not all equal. You are MUCH more likely to die or seriously injure someone while driving at high speed than in slow stop and go traffic because of both the speed of collision as well as reaction time.
With no government, paper money has no value, and corporations have nothing to pay employees. The root of it all is money, and that's a creation of the government. If the government went away, everything would fall apart because of that simple fact; people would have to move to some other form of currency, and corporations would mostly cease to exist unless they control something that can be used as currency.
I actually agree with most of what you say except for this part. Money is a creation of the government only because the government has laws and a military saying it is so. Without the government, corporations can easily create their own currency. Without a government a "walmart gift card" would probably be worth more than government issued money. Same with a "taco bell certificate", etc... You don't need a government to create money, a store of wealth, or an incentive for people to work.
I guess I should have been more specific that I was saying that tongue in cheek. You're right, they come down very quickly on that. The secret service is actually pretty good at their job. When I was in high school someone emailed a joke threat to the president. He didn't think it was very funny when they showed up at the school and started questioning him. Likewise I know someone who did try to spend counterfeit money. Needless to say she quickly ended up in prison in a matter of days. They traced it back pretty quickly. It only took a couple of hops back to find her.
Transfers from 1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, and 3 -> 4 need not involve a bank at all.
In theory this might be true but in practice cash is very tracable. US currency has serial numbers. You get your money from the bank. You buy food at a restaurant. The restaurant deposits it in the bank. There might be an extra hop or two if you're lucky but the number of hops without passing a bank is minimal. If you don't believe me, try to pass off a counterfit bill. The secret service is extremely good at tracing backwards the route it took to get to the bank and can usually do it in only a couple hops. Smaller bills might get passed back and forth a bit more but even a place like walmart rarely gives back $20 bills as change except for a tiny bit of cashback but the majority goes straight back to the bank.
That's why downloading movies from TPB is perfectly legal but redistribution without permission is not.
Downloading from TPB can still get you in trouble if you are using a normal bittorrent client. Bittorrent does tit for tat swapping so unless you set it to leach mode (which will all but kill your transfer speed) then by just using bittorrent to download a movie you are helping to distribute it.
It's insane to try to prosecute the downloader. My 6 year old loves to watch youtube videos. Alot of the words she knows how to spell like 'dora' and 'mickey mouse' are copyrighted. How is she (or her grandma or anyone else) suppose to know that video A is ok to watch but video B (which youtube is still getting ad revenue from) is copywrited and illegal. Honestly half the time I can't even tell. I assume that full length movies on youtube (yes there are quite a few, my kids stumble upon them all the time) are illegal but youtube does a terrible job of enforcing it on all but the most popular movies and there is tons of gray area as I'm assuming some of the shows like the disney ones are probably actually licensed but then again even some of those have poorer quality and might be bootleg. Prosecuting the downloader especially if the provider is someone like google or youtube is like prosecuting someone because walmart sold them a bootleg dvd.
Yes, that helps. Your reaction time is about half of that distance and stopping time is the other half so if you stop at the same rate as the car in front of you then you "only" need 150 feet between every car. Now if you use a computer and eliminate the reaction time as well then you could in theory eliminate rear-end collisions but because of the same reason you stated rear-end collisions are alot less dangerous than many other types of collisions that would be harder to eliminate.
Great in theory but that bubble is extremely large. At 60 miles per hour the safe stopping distance is over 300 feet. I've never been on a busy highway where cars are spaced at least 300 feet apart. And even if you do solve that problem you still haven't solved lane changes or even worse oncoming traffic where you pass within a few feet of each other at a combined speed of over 120 miles per hour. That's one of the reasons planes are so much safer than cars. There are far fewer of them and they can separate themselves both vertically and horizontally by thousands of feet.
I would never trust a "testing" account 100% and there is always more than one way for something to break so you're never going to eliminate fake testing accounts. That being said I doubt developers make up a large percentage of the "fake" accounts and I bet there are more "duplicate" accounts than fake accounts though. It seems like alot of kids create multiple accounts, abandon old accounts and create new ones, etc...
Given the vast distance between stars, saying that most of the matter in the universe is dust between stars seems reasonable to me. Isn't that like saying there is more dust floating in the air than there is in concentrated dust bunnies in your house? Another example would be saying there is alot more water vapor in the air that what you see concentrated in the clouds. I didn't do the calculation but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to think there is more matter between us and the neared star than there is concentrated in our sun's mass even at the extremely low densities of space which according to google is about 1 atom per centimeter. Why do we need to introduce dark matter to get the math to work out?
every trial is a crap shoot. You could have the best case in the world, and one stray off topic comment completely prejudice a jury against you.
Why even have a trial then if every trial is a crap shoot? Why not just flip a coin and save the expense? How do you ethically even practice law? The system really is completely broken if the verdict isn't based on facts. In a perfect world you should be able to have the same trial a dozen times with a dozen different juries and always get the same verdict. Obviously juries make mistakes but if you can't reliable say that there is a 90% plus probability of the same verdict a second time thru the system then we need a better system.
Taxpayers will pay for that free representation. You aren't going to get millions of people to work for free.
I never said anyone should work for free but rather the losers should reimburse both sides.
Anyway, let's say the school turns over a list of graduates for the last 5 years without having to go through any time consuming discovery -- they just cough it up free (we're dreaming right?).
As I said, the system is broken. Any reputable school would gladly turn over the last 5 years graduates no questions asked. Most school probably have it published on their website along with job placements, etc... If I was the judge and a school hesitated in giving over all their
customers to a trusted third party then I would immediately assume they were guilty. As a legitimate school, I would gladly turn over my records to a trusted third party. Why should I care if they waste their time calling and verifying my students? If I'm legitimate then it should be something else I can advertise on my website that placement records were verified by a third party. The fact that discovery is allowed to be time consuming is rediculous. It's one thing if it's records they don't have but every school should have enrollment and billing information that can be printed at the touch of a button.
If it costs more than $15k to sue someone for $15k in the courts then the entire system is broken. In my hypothetical ideal system, both parties would get free representation, they would each spend 4-5 hours preparing their claim, present it to the court and the losing party would pay damages plus attorney fees for both sides. Problem solved. Total bill to losing party $15k plus a couple thousand to the lawyers on each side. It's insane to think that you can't spend 3-4 hours getting sworn statements from a half dozen students and be done with it.
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The population as a whole has been very quickly moving south ever since the invention of the air conditioner
which was less than 100 years ago. You don't have to move NYC, but if 5% of the population moves North
or South each year it doesn't take very long for the town to be gone.(Look at detroit. It's basically a ghost town)
If the average temperature raised 1 degree a decade (which is faster than even the alarmists are claiming),
that gives plenty of time for your children to grow up and decide to settle somewhere with slightly better
temperatures or move to places with better employment (look at the boom in north dakota where they can't
build the houses fast enough)
Top priority: prepare an easy and painless way out. ... Better do it early and be ready for later, with a plan simple enough to execute when the illness already has a significant effect (but before it makes me forget I have that option).
It would take a little bit of thinking but the best solution if you really wanted to do this would be some sort
of dead man's switch that exploited your forgetfulness. i.e. a drawer that explodes if you open it. A
bottle of soda in the fridge that is poisonous, etc... You could easily have multiple booby traps in your
house rigged to go off if you forget they are there. As long as you were of sound mind, you would know
not to trigger them but how to do this safely without accidently endangering a caretaker would be the tricky
part.
This is better than carbon monoxide, because nitrogen is completely inert and doesn't leave a hazardous scene for those who are present/recovering your corpse.
Wouldn't a room full of pure nitrogen be just as dangerous to the person recovering you if they also will continue to breath normally
until they black out and die as well?
Alzheimer's has been a multi billion dollar graveyard for Pharma over the past ten years - and Solanezumab isn't looking too healthy. Best of luck to Merck and TauRx.
I think the issue is that they are trying to solve a complex aging issue with a pill. It's like being able to solve old age with a pill.
There are certain things that can help. Taking an aspirin can reduce the chance of a heart attack and a different pill might lower
blood pressure but you aren't going to find a single pill to cure heart disease either. Until we figure out a way to eliminate the
signs of aging and the way the body starts to break down, most of these "cures" are nothing more than stopgaps. Then again,
if the average person only has alzheimers for the last 20 years of their life maybe a stopgap is all we need.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
This sounds like a long time ago someone was sold on the idea that a firewall that scans all network traffic for malware would be a very good thing, and part of the requirements for that would be installing the root CA so the HTTPS traffic can be decrypted and scanned for malware
Even this is given them alot more credit. My guess is that it was simply someone lazy who wanted to prevent a warning message appearing
for a non-trusted certificate. The odds of this actually ever being used at a school for a man-in-the-middle even to remove malware is close
to nil. The fact that it was immediately removed attests to this. The current administration probably doesn't even know why it was added so
instantly removed it when someone complained and will probably add it back in a week when someone else complains about an untrusted
certificate.
Everything you do requires a little bit of faith. You've never been to the moon nor done the
countless experiments that our science is based on but you trust it and have faith in it
because you trust the people and books relaying the information and although a single
person could never verify every experiment they could randomly pick one and verify it if
they wanted. That's why we have peer review, etc... I have faith in the scientific process
and faith that for the most part the books are not being manipulated by someone with an agenda
which is why I can read a science book and for the most part trust it without replicated
every experiment. That being said it is good to question and verify when you can and even
more important when said scientific doctrine is considered unquestionable.
The most glaring case in recent history is that the "standard procedure" for treating a heart
attack victim was actually worse than doing nothing and the exact opposite of what you should do.
It took a long time to prove this though as it's very hard to do an A/B test with dying patients
and not do what is considered "best practice" just because you think it might not be.
That's one of the reasons most guinea pigs for new procedures tend to be very ill people who
have already exhausted all the known "best practice" procedures.
You can use freepbx which makes asterisk fairly simple, and use a carrier like flowroute who will provide you all necessary config info. You can even buy a device from most SIP providers which you can hook your POTS phones up to, if you don't want to think. I have a rtp300, but I'm having problems with it. But I also have a PoE SIP phone and some android phones, which have pretty good SIP support.
You're either making a joke or have never delt with "normals" much.
I count probably a dozen words in that sentence that would make a normal's eyes glaze over.
There is no way the average person is going to do that. To give you one example, my dad
called me once because all his applications disappeared. Come to find out he had maximized
a program. Once I showed him how to hit the X to close the window he was fine.
Most normals I know can't or are at least too scared to hook up a computer. They have even
been color coded for at least a decade. Freepbx will never be mainstream with normals.
Why do you say "whined"? It sounds like several people probably had valid cause for complain. I certainly don't want random assholes buzzing me with their drones or RC aircraft, or getting in the way of manned aircraft.
I would mostly agree with this except that he was presumably doing this on university property at
a request of the university so even if he was buzzing people this is something that needs to be
taken up with the university not with the FAA or the police. Laws for drones probably need to be
completely rewritten. If he is low enough to the ground to "buzz" people then in my opinion he
would fall into a vague "university airspace". Likewise if someone is flying over my house low
enough to "buzz" me at my house, then are in my "air space" aka "personal space". There
should probably be some minimum distance that every property owner is allowed to claim as
their own personal airspace. Just like you can't walk through my backyard without my permission
you shouldn't be able to fly through my backyard without my permission or some sort of
relationship with me. A UPS driver gets temporary permission to walk through my yard and a
public sideway gives temporary permission to walk through my yard but otherwise it's mostly
considered my yard.
I have no idea why this is scored a -1. This almost perfectly describes me as well.
I don't own any cds, mp3 players, etc.. Interestingly enough my mother can play
the piano but she also never listens to music of any kind and never has to my knowledge.
We've actually had conversations about it and she for some reason feels weird about it.
I can go months without listening to music. I can't listen to it at work as it disrupts my
concentration. I will occasionally turn the radio on on long car trips to keep me awake
but after about an hour I get overstimulated and have to turn it back off again.
I do enjoy the lyrics of certain songs the same way someone would enjoy listening
to a poem or reading a short story but the music itself does very little for me.
For the record, I took the survey and was in the 10s and 20s for most of the scores
so definitely outside of their standard deviation.
I never even get to the interview stage for jury duty.
The first question on the mailed pre-questionaire asks "has a close family member ever been sued for personal injury?"
My dad owns a few dump trucks and tractor trailers so of course people have tried to sue him pretty much every
time any of his vehicles have been in an accident whether it was their fault or not. This seems to limit the pool
severely though as they are basically eliminating practically all small business owners and their families right off the
bat. Several other questions are equally as broad. It's amazing they find anyone who can honestly answer those
questions and still be a juror.
I also question the "jury of peers" problem. If it's a malpractice suit is it a jury of the doctor's peers or the patient's peers?
Patents specifically state it's suppose to be someone with similiar expertise in the field but I don't think courts work that way
even in patent cases.
Check out "Was god a volcano"
Guys, we have another one! You, go with them. We have a nice padded cell for you, with a lot of beautiful volcano posters.
This coming from someone with a bizarre scripture in their signature. Did you even look at the video?
My guess, based on your signature, it would probably be something you could possibly agree with.
Who's to say the original poster isn't making a joke?
Also, who's to say that the passage doesn't have a similiar basis that has been lost in translation.
Check out "Was god a volcano": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Stop and go traffic is among the most accident prone situations.
This might be true. But accidents are not all equal. You are MUCH more likely to die
or seriously injure someone while driving at high speed than in slow stop and go traffic
because of both the speed of collision as well as reaction time.
With no government, paper money has no value, and corporations have nothing to pay employees. The root of it all is money, and that's a creation of the government. If the government went away, everything would fall apart because of that simple fact; people would have to move to some other form of currency, and corporations would mostly cease to exist unless they control something that can be used as currency.
I actually agree with most of what you say except for this part. Money is a creation of the government only because the government
has laws and a military saying it is so. Without the government, corporations can easily create their own currency. Without a government
a "walmart gift card" would probably be worth more than government issued money. Same with a "taco bell certificate", etc... You don't
need a government to create money, a store of wealth, or an incentive for people to work.
I guess I should have been more specific that I was saying that tongue in cheek.
You're right, they come down very quickly on that. The secret service is actually
pretty good at their job. When I was in high school someone emailed a joke
threat to the president. He didn't think it was very funny when they showed up
at the school and started questioning him. Likewise I know someone who did
try to spend counterfeit money. Needless to say she quickly ended up in prison
in a matter of days. They traced it back pretty quickly. It only took a couple
of hops back to find her.
Transfers from 1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, and 3 -> 4 need not involve a bank at all.
In theory this might be true but in practice cash is very tracable. US currency has serial numbers.
You get your money from the bank. You buy food at a restaurant. The restaurant deposits it in the bank.
There might be an extra hop or two if you're lucky but the number of hops without passing a bank is
minimal. If you don't believe me, try to pass off a counterfit bill. The secret service is extremely good
at tracing backwards the route it took to get to the bank and can usually do it in only a couple hops.
Smaller bills might get passed back and forth a bit more but even a place like walmart rarely gives back
$20 bills as change except for a tiny bit of cashback but the majority goes straight back to the bank.
That's why downloading movies from TPB is perfectly legal but redistribution without permission is not.
Downloading from TPB can still get you in trouble if you are using a normal bittorrent client.
Bittorrent does tit for tat swapping so unless you set it to leach mode (which will all but kill your transfer speed)
then by just using bittorrent to download a movie you are helping to distribute it.
It's insane to try to prosecute the downloader. My 6 year old loves to watch youtube videos.
Alot of the words she knows how to spell like 'dora' and 'mickey mouse' are copyrighted.
How is she (or her grandma or anyone else) suppose to know that video A is ok to watch
but video B (which youtube is still getting ad revenue from) is copywrited and illegal.
Honestly half the time I can't even tell. I assume that full length movies on youtube
(yes there are quite a few, my kids stumble upon them all the time) are illegal but youtube
does a terrible job of enforcing it on all but the most popular movies and there is tons
of gray area as I'm assuming some of the shows like the disney ones are probably
actually licensed but then again even some of those have poorer quality and might
be bootleg. Prosecuting the downloader especially if the provider is someone like
google or youtube is like prosecuting someone because walmart sold them a bootleg
dvd.
Yes, that helps. Your reaction time is about half of that distance and stopping time is the other half so if you stop at the
same rate as the car in front of you then you "only" need 150 feet between every car. Now if you use a computer and
eliminate the reaction time as well then you could in theory eliminate rear-end collisions but because of the same reason
you stated rear-end collisions are alot less dangerous than many other types of collisions that would be harder to
eliminate.
Great in theory but that bubble is extremely large. At 60 miles per hour the safe stopping distance is over 300 feet. I've
never been on a busy highway where cars are spaced at least 300 feet apart. And even if you do solve that problem
you still haven't solved lane changes or even worse oncoming traffic where you pass within a few feet of each other at a
combined speed of over 120 miles per hour. That's one of the reasons planes are so much safer than cars. There are
far fewer of them and they can separate themselves both vertically and horizontally by thousands of feet.
I would never trust a "testing" account 100% and there is always more than one way for something to break
so you're never going to eliminate fake testing accounts. That being said I doubt developers make up a
large percentage of the "fake" accounts and I bet there are more "duplicate" accounts than fake accounts
though. It seems like alot of kids create multiple accounts, abandon old accounts and create new ones,
etc...
Given the vast distance between stars, saying that most of the matter in the universe is dust between stars seems reasonable to me.
Isn't that like saying there is more dust floating in the air than there is in concentrated dust bunnies in your house?
Another example would be saying there is alot more water vapor in the air that what you see concentrated in the clouds.
I didn't do the calculation but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to think there is more matter between us and the neared star than
there is concentrated in our sun's mass even at the extremely low densities of space which according to google is about 1 atom per
centimeter. Why do we need to introduce dark matter to get the math to work out?
every trial is a crap shoot. You could have the best case in the world, and one stray off topic comment completely prejudice a jury against you.
Why even have a trial then if every trial is a crap shoot? Why not just flip a coin and save the expense? How do
you ethically even practice law? The system really is completely broken if the verdict isn't based on facts. In a
perfect world you should be able to have the same trial a dozen times with a dozen different juries and always get
the same verdict. Obviously juries make mistakes but if you can't reliable say that there is a 90% plus probability
of the same verdict a second time thru the system then we need a better system.
Taxpayers will pay for that free representation. You aren't going to get millions of people to work for free.
I never said anyone should work for free but rather the losers should reimburse both sides.
Anyway, let's say the school turns over a list of graduates for the last 5 years without having to go through any time consuming discovery -- they just cough it up free (we're dreaming right?).
As I said, the system is broken. Any reputable school would gladly turn over the last 5 years graduates no questions asked. Most school
probably have it published on their website along with job placements, etc... If I was the judge and a school hesitated in giving over all their
customers to a trusted third party then I would immediately assume they were guilty. As a legitimate school, I would gladly turn over my
records to a trusted third party. Why should I care if they waste their time calling and verifying my students? If I'm legitimate then it should
be something else I can advertise on my website that placement records were verified by a third party. The fact that discovery is allowed
to be time consuming is rediculous. It's one thing if it's records they don't have but every school should have enrollment and billing information
that can be printed at the touch of a button.
If it costs more than $15k to sue someone for $15k in the courts then the entire system is broken.
In my hypothetical ideal system, both parties would get free representation, they would each spend
4-5 hours preparing their claim, present it to the court and the losing party would pay damages plus
attorney fees for both sides. Problem solved. Total bill to losing party $15k plus a couple thousand
to the lawyers on each side. It's insane to think that you can't spend 3-4 hours getting sworn
statements from a half dozen students and be done with it.