No, I'm not. I don't want their money. I don't want their power. I don't want their problems. I certainly don't want their personalities. I think it's very sad to characterize success by money. And I'd rather be a person who my friends would like to hang out with rather than someone who created a business entity that brings in a lot of pieces of green paper.
As for your statement that they have had "more influence" on my life than just about anybody else that's just absurd.
Ellison is a narcissist, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. Those types usually never are introspective enough to realize what miserable people they are, and they're surrounded by enough sycophants that it seems on the surface that they aren't lonely.
So by that logic, the bugs in any of the dozens of games that use the Unreal engine are Epic's fault? Obsidian is the developer, they took the contract for the game and agreed to timeline, it's their responsibility to get the game out.
If the bugs are in the engine itself as designed by Epic, discovered years ago, and still never corrected, as was the case for the Fallout engine? Yes, it would be their fault. How can you argue otherwise?
Used to be that way, but right now Tier 1 is meaningless. Now you'll probably get a job if you went to Harvard or Stanford, with Yale still probably ensuring you have a job. The legal market is bad to the point of surrealism.
To a certain extent; I'd extend the top school list down more, though. Like Vanderbilt is first-rate, has a strong alum network and great academic reputation nationwide (no, I didn't go there). USC probably not worth the money, even if you want to be the next Spielberg. SMU is way too expensive unless you're staying in Dallas and need to rely on the alumni network.
I would not lump University of Phoenix together with even obscure state schools. I would always take the state school over UoP.
They're looking to have him testify, not putting him on the rack. It's not really that big a deal, unless you have something to hide. Yes, it's stressful, yes it's unpleasant, but if you're going to be the CEO of a large company you have to be able to put up with that stuff.
Seems a little silly, the proper approach is to file a motion to quash the trial subpoena. It's a pretty simple motion and would be a lot easier than hiding your CEO.
Health care reform in general was a "deal killer" for many republicans. I am disgusted with both parties right now but when it comes to at least trying to compromise the democrats at least make an attempt. The republicans (or, more accurately, the right wingers who came into power in the 90's) decided they were entitled to a permanent majority for the rest of American history. Whenever they lose power their main goal is to get it back, whatever the cost. It seeps into every single thing they do. If you look back on American political history, this is actually a new thing, it used to be that both parties realized they wouldn't always be in power, and acted accordingly.
If you had actually looked at the website you'd see that it actually links to other news sites; I selected this article to link because it compiles those articles, not based on itself.
I'm not "selecting" the cases I'm looking at. I'm looking at every case that has impacted me in any way, and suggesting that everyone else in the discussion do the same.
Yes, you ARE "selecting" the cases you're looking at; you're looking at cases where you were a class member. You fit a very specific profile. You are more likely to be class members in certain cases more than others. How on earth could you make the enormous logical leap that what you experience must be the norm without looking at the dataset as a whole. Why do you think what you experience has to be the norm? Each of your other arguments flows from this false assumption.
Really? So you claim you've done a handful of more-legitimate class actions, and you think that overturns the common view of what class-action cases "are"?
More importantly, I've had to read extensively cases on the subject, and yes, just because a view of an esoteric subject is common doesn't mean it's right. Just because 95% of people believe something doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
Tell you what: enlighten us. What are class actions?
Class actions are just regular civil cases where, due to the number of parties, are more efficiently dealt with through a process where named plaintiff(s) or defendant(s) serve as a proxy for the unnamed ones. The type of civil case doesn't matter. It could be a suit for injunctive relief (rather than money damages), money damages, or a mix of both.
Despite the slashdot consensus, it is not always a lot of individuals against a large company, the lawyers don't always make a lot of money (or any money) if they win, and the class isn't always just a plaintiff class. There could be one plaintiff and a class of hundreds of defendants, or vice versa, or classes of both.
Then we can all dig through our records for records of class action settlements that affected us, and see what percentage conform to your description vs. the/. concensus. I can already tell you which one covers 100% of cases that have affected me.
Have you ever heard the term "selection bias"? What you're doing is a textbook example of that.
It's a big challenge for Obama - he's more "ideologically pure" than Clinton was, so we'll see if he's willing to compromise at all to get anything done for his side. If he wants to be reelected, he'll have to run to the right.
Ideologically pure? The man has offered so many concessions while in office that it's become ridiculous. He really thinks he can win over the paranoid right with his charisma, but he's just not really that charismatic.
The weird thing is so many people conflate the economy and the national debt, as if there is a direct correlation between the two. The weirder thing is in response they vote in the party that has historically run up the deficit more often. The weirdest thing is the Republicans have said they won't touch social security, medicare, or military spending, which constitutes the bulk of this country's financial obligations; the rest is comparatively small, and if you eliminated everything else except spending on those things it wouldn't change too much.
IAAL who's done a fair amount of work in class actions* and you are right and the person you are responding to is wrong.
* no, not class actions like this, and no, not class actions where the plaintiffs only get a coupon or something (actually in a lot of them a lot of individual plaintiffs got a lot more than I ever did out of them); slashdot's consensus about what class action cases are is really, really off-base.
Heinlein was a classic narcissist. He had an engineering and math background, and believing himself to be the apogee of human existence, decided that what he knew was what people should know. Of course that narcissism made 80% of his novels wish fulfillment fantasies featuring himself as a veiled main character, which in turn made them pretty lousy books.
The same people who will scream at judges for being "activist judges" tend to be the same people who then scream at judges for following a law they don't like.
Great, as a lawyer it's great to know that you're going to try and kill me for the actions taken by another lawyer who I don't know, have never met, and is handling a case that I would never take. You're also going to kill the lawyers who presumably tried to stop this from happening, the other side of the lawsuit.
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No, I'm not. I don't want their money. I don't want their power. I don't want their problems. I certainly don't want their personalities. I think it's very sad to characterize success by money. And I'd rather be a person who my friends would like to hang out with rather than someone who created a business entity that brings in a lot of pieces of green paper. As for your statement that they have had "more influence" on my life than just about anybody else that's just absurd.
Ellison is a narcissist, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. Those types usually never are introspective enough to realize what miserable people they are, and they're surrounded by enough sycophants that it seems on the surface that they aren't lonely.
So by that logic, the bugs in any of the dozens of games that use the Unreal engine are Epic's fault? Obsidian is the developer, they took the contract for the game and agreed to timeline, it's their responsibility to get the game out.
If the bugs are in the engine itself as designed by Epic, discovered years ago, and still never corrected, as was the case for the Fallout engine? Yes, it would be their fault. How can you argue otherwise?
The question is, where do you run the call center out of?
Used to be that way, but right now Tier 1 is meaningless. Now you'll probably get a job if you went to Harvard or Stanford, with Yale still probably ensuring you have a job. The legal market is bad to the point of surrealism.
To a certain extent; I'd extend the top school list down more, though. Like Vanderbilt is first-rate, has a strong alum network and great academic reputation nationwide (no, I didn't go there). USC probably not worth the money, even if you want to be the next Spielberg. SMU is way too expensive unless you're staying in Dallas and need to rely on the alumni network. I would not lump University of Phoenix together with even obscure state schools. I would always take the state school over UoP.
The funny thing is Harvey Mudd is one of the best colleges in the country. For some engineering disciplines probably beats out Harvard.
More applicants, more money. Higher education is rapidly turning into a scam, anyway, they just want to bleed more application fees out of people.
They're looking to have him testify, not putting him on the rack. It's not really that big a deal, unless you have something to hide. Yes, it's stressful, yes it's unpleasant, but if you're going to be the CEO of a large company you have to be able to put up with that stuff.
Seems a little silly, the proper approach is to file a motion to quash the trial subpoena. It's a pretty simple motion and would be a lot easier than hiding your CEO.
Health care reform in general was a "deal killer" for many republicans. I am disgusted with both parties right now but when it comes to at least trying to compromise the democrats at least make an attempt. The republicans (or, more accurately, the right wingers who came into power in the 90's) decided they were entitled to a permanent majority for the rest of American history. Whenever they lose power their main goal is to get it back, whatever the cost. It seeps into every single thing they do. If you look back on American political history, this is actually a new thing, it used to be that both parties realized they wouldn't always be in power, and acted accordingly.
If you had actually looked at the website you'd see that it actually links to other news sites; I selected this article to link because it compiles those articles, not based on itself.
I'm not "selecting" the cases I'm looking at. I'm looking at every case that has impacted me in any way, and suggesting that everyone else in the discussion do the same.
Yes, you ARE "selecting" the cases you're looking at; you're looking at cases where you were a class member. You fit a very specific profile. You are more likely to be class members in certain cases more than others. How on earth could you make the enormous logical leap that what you experience must be the norm without looking at the dataset as a whole. Why do you think what you experience has to be the norm? Each of your other arguments flows from this false assumption.
Really? So you claim you've done a handful of more-legitimate class actions, and you think that overturns the common view of what class-action cases "are"?
/. concensus. I can already tell you which one covers 100% of cases that have affected me.
More importantly, I've had to read extensively cases on the subject, and yes, just because a view of an esoteric subject is common doesn't mean it's right. Just because 95% of people believe something doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
Tell you what: enlighten us. What are class actions?
Class actions are just regular civil cases where, due to the number of parties, are more efficiently dealt with through a process where named plaintiff(s) or defendant(s) serve as a proxy for the unnamed ones. The type of civil case doesn't matter. It could be a suit for injunctive relief (rather than money damages), money damages, or a mix of both. Despite the slashdot consensus, it is not always a lot of individuals against a large company, the lawyers don't always make a lot of money (or any money) if they win, and the class isn't always just a plaintiff class. There could be one plaintiff and a class of hundreds of defendants, or vice versa, or classes of both.
Then we can all dig through our records for records of class action settlements that affected us, and see what percentage conform to your description vs. the
Have you ever heard the term "selection bias"? What you're doing is a textbook example of that.
Boehner? Are you kidding me? Boehner distributed campaign distributions from tobacco lobbyists to his fellow congresspeople. On the House floor. Right before a tobacco vote. I mean, there are a lot of people in Congress who are basically corporate shills, but Boehner is easily one of the worst. He's basically a lobbyist in congressional clothing.
It's a big challenge for Obama - he's more "ideologically pure" than Clinton was, so we'll see if he's willing to compromise at all to get anything done for his side. If he wants to be reelected, he'll have to run to the right.
Ideologically pure? The man has offered so many concessions while in office that it's become ridiculous. He really thinks he can win over the paranoid right with his charisma, but he's just not really that charismatic.
The weird thing is so many people conflate the economy and the national debt, as if there is a direct correlation between the two. The weirder thing is in response they vote in the party that has historically run up the deficit more often. The weirdest thing is the Republicans have said they won't touch social security, medicare, or military spending, which constitutes the bulk of this country's financial obligations; the rest is comparatively small, and if you eliminated everything else except spending on those things it wouldn't change too much.
IAAL who's done a fair amount of work in class actions* and you are right and the person you are responding to is wrong.
* no, not class actions like this, and no, not class actions where the plaintiffs only get a coupon or something (actually in a lot of them a lot of individual plaintiffs got a lot more than I ever did out of them); slashdot's consensus about what class action cases are is really, really off-base.
Huh? Where on earth did you get the idea that a Federal judge in California can't approve a class that includes people outside of California?
Lawyers: $8M HR Consultants to teach "Privacy policy Education": Some token amount Actual users who got @#$%ed: $0
The settlement agreement states that class attorneys are going to seek 25%. Where are you getting your $8M number?
Huh? Who said it was causation? The article expressly said it was correlation.
Man I hope not.
Heinlein was a classic narcissist. He had an engineering and math background, and believing himself to be the apogee of human existence, decided that what he knew was what people should know. Of course that narcissism made 80% of his novels wish fulfillment fantasies featuring himself as a veiled main character, which in turn made them pretty lousy books.
The same people who will scream at judges for being "activist judges" tend to be the same people who then scream at judges for following a law they don't like.
Great, as a lawyer it's great to know that you're going to try and kill me for the actions taken by another lawyer who I don't know, have never met, and is handling a case that I would never take. You're also going to kill the lawyers who presumably tried to stop this from happening, the other side of the lawsuit.