I could be totally wrong. Maybe a subpoena is a direct request from the US attorney which bypasses the judge and the court altogether. I doubt it though.
I don't practice in that jurisdiction, and I don't practice criminal law, but I know around here attorneys can issue subpoenas on their own. The judge has ultimate authority though, so you can move for a protective order if you object to the subpoena.
It's a verb and an adjective. A fiduciary is someone who's legally required to put your interests in something ahead of their own; it generally arises out of a contract. Like if you own a restaurant, and hire a guy to manage it, that guy is a fiduciary, and has a fiduciary duty to run the restaurant with your interests in mind.
Ok so what happened here? Imagine if today the Sahara was drying up. The media and politicians would be saying the world end is near and everything is going to dry up and be burnt like a twig. Yet here we are 10,000 years later still alive...
...except for the millions of people who have died from starvation because of the desertification of Africa. Few people claim the human race as a whole is going to end--but continuing global warming is going to create a great deal of death. Why not minimize that now if we can?
And they will go up against the NYC hero (Guiliani, though mainly because everyone else on the republican ticket looks old).
I hope Giuliani gets the Republican nomination. He will miss out on a sizeable chunk of the far-right fundamentalist vote because he's not far enough to the right. And speaking as a New Yorker, the guy's appeal fades the more you get to know him; before 9/11 he was running like a 30% approval rating, and he frequently comes off as a vindictive bully whose tendency to shoot his mouth off gets him in trouble. If he gets the nomination I foresee his poll numbers to be high in the beginning, then get lower and lower as the campaign goes on.
You had The child versus the Bore
I LIKED Gore. I was excited about the prospect of him winning. Smart as hell, intellectually curious, and unlike most politicians he was willing to actually educate himself thoroughly on issues.
OS X is NeXTSTEP 5, and has been in development since the mid-late-80s.
Well as an operating system as whole, a lot of Linux is GNU and XFree86, and has been in development just as long. And the scale of NeXTSTEP development is dwarfed by Linux development. If you were to compute the number of man-hours that went into developing NeXTSTEP and OS X and let's even throw in the Mach kernel, I'm sure it would be far, far less than that of Linux, and the end result is a comparable OS that surpasses Linux on several fronts.
I first used Linux in 1993; it's a much fuller experience now, but honestly after 14 years of development I would expect there to be a much more massive change. Windows 3.1-Windows XP is a much bigger jump. The fact that Linux still surpasses Windows is more of a result of a) how bad Windows started out, and b) Microsoft's poor management of the development process. But just because MS mismanages a closed, proprietary development process, doesn't mean that such a process is fundamentally worse than an open source process.
I think that one of the reasons a lot of Linux zealots come down so hard on OS X is it's a very obnoxiously obvious example of a mostly non-open source project being very successful.
I read through most of that article, then suddenly realized I a) don't play EVE, b) don't know anyone who does, and c) don't really care too much. Why was I reading it? I don't know.
I've heard that law is starting to get offshored... makes sense, a lot of law work doesn't require physical presence (really it's just court appearances that require it), and Indians can learn US law as easily as USians can.
Wouldn't surprise me. The one major advantage lawyers have is we have a hell of a lot more clout in the legislatures than say, automotive workers or software engineers, so we'll probably be more successful staving off the offshoring thing.
I say they only slightly overreacted. It was a report of a possible bomb in a very public location. Several very public locations. There was no record of what the devices were, and they should not have been there. Their cartoony look could have been an attempt to get someone to play with them to guarantee a kill. They reacted decisively to neutralize any possible threat.
What people seem to be missing is that the displays were put up in several cities, and only Boston freaked out like this. If the NYPD, who collectively have a lot more experience in actual terrorist threats, didn't freak out, then maybe the Boston PD did something wrong?
Asimov writes:
"I get it," said Adell. "Don't shout. When the sun is done, the other stars will be gone, too."
100% incorrect. Stars are born right now that will last billions of years longer than the sun. Stars don't die out all at the same time.
To my surprise (and right on time), down came the blast of cold air. Soon after was the promised snow/ice.
I remember when a year and a half ago one of the hurricanes was in the Gulf of Mexico, heading almost straight west, and the meteorologists all insisted that the hurricane would make a complete 180 degree turn and head back east and smack into Florida. I didn't believe them. On more than one occasion I publicly stated that this was ridiculous.
Some parents don't care, and others take a "social" position of telling their kids to become something "popular" like a Lawyer. I have a god-daughter who is a straight A student, and she is already thinking she wants to be a lawyer. The last survey I heard in So. Cal. was that about 2 out of 3 lawyers there would pick another occupation if they "knew what they know now" and could do it over again.
I went into law because it was one of the few reasonably lucrative careers that played into my strengths--history/philosophy/social science geekery. Most of the other professions are for the more scientifically oriented, and while I was a decent sysadmin, I like to think I'm a pretty good lawyer (well, in terms of my time in the profession).
I hope mass baby boomer retirements will ensure me of decent-paying jobs for the next decade, but if you're a kid now the law isn't necessarily a safe profession anymore. There is an oversupply of lawyers, and way too many law schools, and it's already pretty hard to get a job out of law school. I imagine it will be far worse in a few years if you're just starting out.
If I had to do it again, starting at the beginning of college? Pharmacy. GREAT career: the hours are good, the pay is very good, and since we're a nation of prescription drug addicts you're set for life.
Nursing's pretty safe too in terms of job security and decentness of pay, though I've heard the actual work isn't too fun.
While I agree with most of what you said, federal district court decisions, while not binding precedent, are useful. So I would classify them as being significantly more valuable than "don't mean much", though obviously they're still just persuasive.
I see them cited frequently, especially in support of issues of law that haven't been determined at an appellate law. Judges tend not to like to go out on limbs, if you can show them where another judge did something similar, it can make them feel more comfortable about ruling.
If someone just reads some "holy book" and happens to agree with most of what it says, fine, more power too them. I'm not going to disagree with them just because they got the idea from religion; but I'm not going to agree just because of the source either.
Actually, that I can understand! The problem with fundamentalist Christians is the vast majority of them believe in a mishmash of ideas that incorporates the worst ideas from the Bible while leaving out the best ones. Throw in a bit of nationalism, anti-environmentalism, capitalism, and xenophobia (none of which the Bible supports), and you've got the average fundamentalist Christian.
I don't care how cool a web application is, there is just something fundamentally wrong with having my productivity depend on someone else's servers.
You're spot on about the Microsoft thing, they've been fantasizing about this for years. Every once in a while they try and drum up support for it, and fail miserably.
My problem isn't about relying on someone else's servers, it's that something seems fundamentally wrong about being drained of money indefinitely. Maybe it's psychological rather than economic, but I'd rather buy something and own it.
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I could be totally wrong. Maybe a subpoena is a direct request from the US attorney which bypasses the judge and the court altogether. I doubt it though.
I don't practice in that jurisdiction, and I don't practice criminal law, but I know around here attorneys can issue subpoenas on their own. The judge has ultimate authority though, so you can move for a protective order if you object to the subpoena.
It's a verb and an adjective. A fiduciary is someone who's legally required to put your interests in something ahead of their own; it generally arises out of a contract. Like if you own a restaurant, and hire a guy to manage it, that guy is a fiduciary, and has a fiduciary duty to run the restaurant with your interests in mind.
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Ok so what happened here? Imagine if today the Sahara was drying up. The media and politicians would be saying the world end is near and everything is going to dry up and be burnt like a twig. Yet here we are 10,000 years later still alive...
...except for the millions of people who have died from starvation because of the desertification of Africa. Few people claim the human race as a whole is going to end--but continuing global warming is going to create a great deal of death. Why not minimize that now if we can?
A chance to use a Futurama quote that I never would think would come up on slashdot...
"I thought you were some outer space potato man."
Walmart employees get benefits?
And they will go up against the NYC hero (Guiliani, though mainly because everyone else on the republican ticket looks old).
I hope Giuliani gets the Republican nomination. He will miss out on a sizeable chunk of the far-right fundamentalist vote because he's not far enough to the right. And speaking as a New Yorker, the guy's appeal fades the more you get to know him; before 9/11 he was running like a 30% approval rating, and he frequently comes off as a vindictive bully whose tendency to shoot his mouth off gets him in trouble. If he gets the nomination I foresee his poll numbers to be high in the beginning, then get lower and lower as the campaign goes on.
You had The child versus the Bore
I LIKED Gore. I was excited about the prospect of him winning. Smart as hell, intellectually curious, and unlike most politicians he was willing to actually educate himself thoroughly on issues.
OS X is NeXTSTEP 5, and has been in development since the mid-late-80s.
Well as an operating system as whole, a lot of Linux is GNU and XFree86, and has been in development just as long. And the scale of NeXTSTEP development is dwarfed by Linux development. If you were to compute the number of man-hours that went into developing NeXTSTEP and OS X and let's even throw in the Mach kernel, I'm sure it would be far, far less than that of Linux, and the end result is a comparable OS that surpasses Linux on several fronts.
I first used Linux in 1993; it's a much fuller experience now, but honestly after 14 years of development I would expect there to be a much more massive change. Windows 3.1-Windows XP is a much bigger jump. The fact that Linux still surpasses Windows is more of a result of a) how bad Windows started out, and b) Microsoft's poor management of the development process. But just because MS mismanages a closed, proprietary development process, doesn't mean that such a process is fundamentally worse than an open source process.
I think that one of the reasons a lot of Linux zealots come down so hard on OS X is it's a very obnoxiously obvious example of a mostly non-open source project being very successful.
Linux is still playing catch-up to Solaris.
I thought Linux was playing catch-up to OS X (which considering how much longer Linux was in development, is kind of sad).
How am I supposed to get to these seeds in a post-apocalyptic world?
You get to fight for them inside the ThunderDome.
I read through most of that article, then suddenly realized I a) don't play EVE, b) don't know anyone who does, and c) don't really care too much. Why was I reading it? I don't know.
I've heard that law is starting to get offshored... makes sense, a lot of law work doesn't require physical presence (really it's just court appearances that require it), and Indians can learn US law as easily as USians can.
Wouldn't surprise me. The one major advantage lawyers have is we have a hell of a lot more clout in the legislatures than say, automotive workers or software engineers, so we'll probably be more successful staving off the offshoring thing.
I say they only slightly overreacted. It was a report of a possible bomb in a very public location. Several very public locations. There was no record of what the devices were, and they should not have been there. Their cartoony look could have been an attempt to get someone to play with them to guarantee a kill. They reacted decisively to neutralize any possible threat.
What people seem to be missing is that the displays were put up in several cities, and only Boston freaked out like this. If the NYPD, who collectively have a lot more experience in actual terrorist threats, didn't freak out, then maybe the Boston PD did something wrong?
Asimov writes: "I get it," said Adell. "Don't shout. When the sun is done, the other stars will be gone, too." 100% incorrect. Stars are born right now that will last billions of years longer than the sun. Stars don't die out all at the same time.
It sounds like Adell is wrong, not Asimov.
So says a British "subject". At least we're citizens.
To my surprise (and right on time), down came the blast of cold air. Soon after was the promised snow/ice.
I remember when a year and a half ago one of the hurricanes was in the Gulf of Mexico, heading almost straight west, and the meteorologists all insisted that the hurricane would make a complete 180 degree turn and head back east and smack into Florida. I didn't believe them. On more than one occasion I publicly stated that this was ridiculous.
I ate a lot of canned food that week.
Some parents don't care, and others take a "social" position of telling their kids to become something "popular" like a Lawyer. I have a god-daughter who is a straight A student, and she is already thinking she wants to be a lawyer. The last survey I heard in So. Cal. was that about 2 out of 3 lawyers there would pick another occupation if they "knew what they know now" and could do it over again.
I went into law because it was one of the few reasonably lucrative careers that played into my strengths--history/philosophy/social science geekery. Most of the other professions are for the more scientifically oriented, and while I was a decent sysadmin, I like to think I'm a pretty good lawyer (well, in terms of my time in the profession).
I hope mass baby boomer retirements will ensure me of decent-paying jobs for the next decade, but if you're a kid now the law isn't necessarily a safe profession anymore. There is an oversupply of lawyers, and way too many law schools, and it's already pretty hard to get a job out of law school. I imagine it will be far worse in a few years if you're just starting out.
If I had to do it again, starting at the beginning of college? Pharmacy. GREAT career: the hours are good, the pay is very good, and since we're a nation of prescription drug addicts you're set for life.
Nursing's pretty safe too in terms of job security and decentness of pay, though I've heard the actual work isn't too fun.
I wish I had "tenure" at my day to day job.
This incident illustrates the precise reason tenure exists.
The proper analogy would be making you pay recurring costs for the actual operating system on your phone.
While companies like eMusic sell these same songs without DRM, Apple FORCES them to take DRM.
That's just Apple "Thinking Different".
Yep, I spent 3 months working with Notes, and it seemed like an eternity. Great idea, amazingly bad execution.
If they'd turned up on time, were cordial with their colleagues and performed better, they'd never have been caught.
If they were like that, they probably wouldn't have gone into IT...
While I agree with most of what you said, federal district court decisions, while not binding precedent, are useful. So I would classify them as being significantly more valuable than "don't mean much", though obviously they're still just persuasive.
I see them cited frequently, especially in support of issues of law that haven't been determined at an appellate law. Judges tend not to like to go out on limbs, if you can show them where another judge did something similar, it can make them feel more comfortable about ruling.
If someone just reads some "holy book" and happens to agree with most of what it says, fine, more power too them. I'm not going to disagree with them just because they got the idea from religion; but I'm not going to agree just because of the source either.
Actually, that I can understand! The problem with fundamentalist Christians is the vast majority of them believe in a mishmash of ideas that incorporates the worst ideas from the Bible while leaving out the best ones. Throw in a bit of nationalism, anti-environmentalism, capitalism, and xenophobia (none of which the Bible supports), and you've got the average fundamentalist Christian.
I don't care how cool a web application is, there is just something fundamentally wrong with having my productivity depend on someone else's servers.
You're spot on about the Microsoft thing, they've been fantasizing about this for years. Every once in a while they try and drum up support for it, and fail miserably.
My problem isn't about relying on someone else's servers, it's that something seems fundamentally wrong about being drained of money indefinitely. Maybe it's psychological rather than economic, but I'd rather buy something and own it.