I was under the impression that a refusal to take a breathalyzer in most states landed you in jail until your blood was drawn. That's how it is here in MN.
In Minnesota it is a separate crime to refuse to a blood, urine, or intoxilyzer 5000 test after being read the implied consent advisory. This is almost exclusively done at a place of detention. If you give them the finger they charge you with refusing to take the test. They can not forcibly take blood without a warrant unless there is an accident involving a fatality (or one of the other few exceptions). Minnesota law says if the test is lawfully refused then a test must not be given. IANAL but i suspect they would have to adjust this statute in order to force blood draws on people who refused, at least in Minnesota.
Perhaps its time to just accept the tyrannical police state and dismiss the false claim of an impartial judiciary and replace the police with street judges.
A Domain name is personal property, a court order taking it from someone without notice of the opportunity to respond to a complaint violates the second principle of natural justice, Audi alteram partem, a important backbone to our legal system. The concept of Audi alteram partem is extremely sacred in common law and requires the other side at least the opportunity to be heard before any action is taken. This is reinforced by several portions of the US Constitution and endless relevant case law. Any action, in any common law court, requires notice to be given and a reasonable time to respond to the allegations prior to and decision made by a court. You cant take someone property in absentia without at least giving them reasonable notice. PERIOD.
SGU will be dead latter this year thanks to its move to Tuesday night. Whenever TV wants to kill a show they start moving around its schedule.. Every scifi show i can think of started on Friday and ended up on some odd ball weekday, before DVR's i couldn't even find them sometimes.
SGU is a big budget show for Scyfi, they want to spend the money on wrestling... Once SGU is done, all ties i ever had with Syfy will finely be severed. In the famous words of dick cheney, go fuck yourself.
your analysis of the entomology of the word 'gay' is ridiculous, you clearly pulled that right out of your virgin ass, please consult a dictionary before making such wild claims that there is some link between the homosexual use of the word gay and living a happy lifestyle. It was a pejorative retasked to insult homosexuals from the start.
All you need is a $700 USRP radio with the $275 RFX900 transceiver daughterboard and your are in business.
The software is quite simple to get operating with several step by step how-to guides around the net. As for all that effort in setting up a tower, ham's do it in an afternoon all the time and don't spend all the cash you speak of. As for the license, experimental licenses are cheep and easy to obtain. One could run license free in the 900mhz ISM band (USA) that overlaps 900mhz GSM used elsewhere in the world and keep the power down or crank it up to 1500 watts and call it amateur radio on the same 900mhz band with a easy to obtain license.
Its not a glitch, I received this email from sun after submitting a ticket that i was unable to download the firmware for my workstation on 04/09/2010:
Hello,
As of April 5th customers now need either hardware warranty or a 'system' level contract to download firmware, drivers, etc from either SunSolve or the Download Center.
Sincerely,
Sun Web Team Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-
When trying to download the current bios and driver iso for my Sun Ultra 24 it says i am not authorized. Please advise.
11. Robbery. 12. Burglary; housebreaking or any similar offence. 13. Larceny. 14. Embezzlement. 15. Obtaining any property, money or valuable securities by false pretences or other form of deception.
I suspect this will not end well.
Sadly for the the employees left in the lurch, I don't see any of the offenses listed as extraditable committed or theft of any kind (IANNL). The head of a company, we will assume with the consent of its share holders, removed it's property from offices that it controlled. The employees have no right to this companies property or a right to dictate their actions except through lawful process.
The employees have a civil claim for their contracted wages, they should pursue those claims, perhaps with the assistance of a competent attorney. I suspect that this internet crybaby routine will only ensure they don't get paid. Frankly they got what they deserved for working without pay and not receiving an equity stake in the company/work. Chasing the CEO with a video camera and the police when they should have called an attorney likely sealed their fate.
This is a old lesson, people fall for it all the time, welcome to the club. The sooner you move on with your life the happier you will be.
Excel does have some nifty stuff hiding in it, but most never see it. i do some crazy financial stuff in calc with no issue, there may be some areas were excel is better, but they don't matter to rank and file users. Many of the insane things i see done in excel really belong in a different environment. R or C perhaps, there are many options.
I have also done 500+ page documents in writer and found it to work much better then the word or wp. Regardless of a feature comparison, the main reason i ran to open office was the ribbon interface in office.
And don't give me crap about open office solutions. It took most of these people 10 or 20 years to just get by with Office, you really think they are going to want to essentially re-learn everything? $2000 is only relevant if the people are actually fairly computer savy, which pretty much everyone everywhere is not nor do they care to bother.
I have converted several MS Office users to Open Office, they have never complained. It usually came down to one simple issue, $339.99 or free, pick one, they are the same. This is my experience with office workers, executives, and my 60 year old mom. There is almost no relearning, no one complains especially when the boss says thats how it is. If you disagree perhaps you should give open office a try, its not the same piece of crap you installed 10 years ago....
AP piece says 0.015 mg of LSD, or 15 ug, a ineffective dose of LSD. 60-100 ug is common for street doses. Perhaps the AP misread the law and its 150 ug, a more realistic number compared to the other amounts.
If TWC's claim that MTV, etc are trying to take them for 3x the carriage fee they previously paid and they win this game of chicken this sets a very concerning stage for an even more runaway cable bill regardless of the provider. The big evil cable co's are in a better position to negotiate then the upstarts, even the likes of Verizon, if they loose, we all loose.
I am glad they are taking a stand, my cable bill has gone up enough in the last few years all I need is every cable network demanding 3x the fees after MTV got it. This may be a rare occasion were the cable co's are doing something good for the customer.
Also I was quite annoyed by the non stop crawl message on Spike last night telling me to call some TWC 800 number to bitch at them. You think they could have done this without blocking part of the picture.
I agree with your sentiment but would like to point out that spelling has nothing to do with intelligence and is quite an ignorant position to take. It may be a indication of a successful English education, but I wouldn't pin that on intelligence either.
Take those with Dyslexia for example, they almost always have IQ's in excess of 150, comprise some of he best Scientific, Political, Business, Art, and Military minds to have ever exist and all will struggle with spelling.
Doesn't the oil companies have land NOW that they are not drilling? Why don't they drill those FIRST before they complain about drilling in other areas. This argument has become popular recently with then anti-drill crowd and is easy to understand. IAAOM (I am a oil man) and can offer insight to this aspect of the business.
When a oil company large and small wants to search for oil you follow a simple process. The first thing you do is pick were to look with the help of your geologist, then you go lease a big pile of land from private owners of the government. This process is done with very small payments to the land owner for a period of 5-10 years with large royalty payments if oil is found on their land, 5-10% of the revenue of the project.
Once you have a sufficient amount of land in the area you want to explore you should then do a few check shot seismic surveys to verify your original seismic data, I have had several were the large scale seismic data was off by 50 ft (enough to screw it all up). Then you drill a few test wells, at the cost of $3-5MM a piece with all the costs up to this point.
If the test wells work out well you then start drilling all the land you previously leased and plop a few hundred wells in if you have the land/formation to do it. If the test wells do not work out you may keep the test wells on line at very low production in hops to offset some of the costs in drilling them, otherwise its a loss. If thats the case you wait your 10 years for your leases to expire and try to find a new area to explore.
Also their are oil company's whose sole business is to lease land wholesale, they lease entire towns all over oil producing areas and then re-lease it to oil explorers and big oil company's. This is a big business with big returns for their investors. I can assure you that if Exxon or another major has a lease they have tested it and found it uneconomical if they are not producing on it. An uneconomical field is not something a major can afford with their low profit margins (even though the dollar figure appears high.) In fact thats the reason there margins suck so much is the amount of unsuccessful exploring they do. Small independent producers can make 70-80% margins and the majors are stuck with 9% margins with todays priced.
Just run phone quality twisted pair (cat 3) if you have adjacent land or can get permission from any adjacent land owners. Just buy low cost VDSL Ethernet bridges, they can be obtained for less then $200. Also 2000 ft of cat 3 can be obtained for less then $200 (just bridge two 1000ft spools vdsl doesn't care).
Then go aerial, affix the cat 3 to a wire (for support) and put a 10 ft pole every 10 meters or so. Aerial is most likely the easiest to install, maintain, and upgrade. It also allows for the running of coax for a future cable tv install that will require additional amplification to reach your fathers house.
The nice thing about running cat 3 is vdsl has a nice upgrade path to 100 mbps and beyond.
This women is basically a online troll, as much as we may not like her or think she is evil she is no different then any other online troll.
This case is scary because next people will be arrested for trolling/. or others due to there violation of a civil agreement between the site operator and the user, that is clearly a civil matter between the two.
Also it is important to note that the girl who killed herself approached her parents in a state of emotional breakdown after the "breakup" and her mother couldn't care less, thats why she went up stairs and hung herself in her bedroom. To get back at her MOTHER for not caring about her horrible life as hanging yourself in the home in a place readily to be found (such as bedroom or garage) by a family member is about punishing them, its a calculated decision to show them what they have done.
If anyone should be charged it should be the MOTHER because she actually had a DUTY to care for the girl unlike the troll....
Also if his parents have not filed a probate action they should immeasurably. Once you die your all of your property transfers to your estate, then the court appoints an executor. In most states the order appointing an executor will be enough to get you access to his hotmail, university, and myspace accounts as they are the estates property. This is the right way to do this and I would not tell anyone you are asking for access why you want it as it is frankly none of their business and the executor has the legal right to it and to appoint you to help.
Internet over HSSM, High Speed Multimedia radio (ham 802.11), is not prohibited by Part 97's rule prohibiting commercial activity. If you were to encrypt or engage in commercial activity on the HSSM link in question you would run afoul of Part 97. The act of sharing a Internet connection over a Part 97 802.11 device has clearly been endorsed by the ARRL's HSSM working group. There are several discussions on the ARRL site and elsewhere on the internet about this and proper operation procedures for HSSM. Check it out, lots of old geezers like you are sharing there internet connection over HSSM to avoid paying to dsl or cable and they are perfectly within there rights to under Part 97 rules.
I have IBM type M's and pop one in the dishwasher every month. After about a week sitting in the basement they are dry, ready to use, and look brand new. I have done this for the last 10+ years and never had a issue. Just put the keyboard in facing down and use the cool dry cycle with regular liquid detergent. Works great. I have also done this with non-buckling spring keyboards with good results (new cheep ones.)
Now if they could only fix ps2 emulation on the PS3, PS2 Final Fantasy, that came out a few weeks before the PS3, looks like crap even at 480p on the PS3. Now I have to keep my PS2 connected so I can finish the game with usable graphics. Very anoying....
Blu-ray was never designed for these next gen audio formats and it is stupid to put them on blu-ray movies. From the article I get the impression that the author has not used or fully understands the format. Most blu-rays have either dolby digital, dts, dts-es, or uncompressed PCM audio. The PS3 supports the uncompressed PCM audio and it sounds much better then any TrueHD track on my hd-dvd player. Also uncompressed PCM does not require any special new hardware to work. TruHD and DTS-HD only exist to band aid high quality audio tracks onto a low capacity disk (hd-dvd). Blu-ray wins the audio way outright because of the ridiculous amount of space it has available to it and its use of uncompressed PCM audio tracks.
This type of stuff happens all the time, There was a case where the judge gave the verbal ruling in the form of a rap in a case between two rappers, "Bailey thinks he's entitled to some monetary gain,/ because Eminem used his name in vain./ The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact,/ they're an exaggeration of a childish act./ "It is therefore this court's ultimate position,/ that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3204318.s tm
And dont forget our favrote Federal Judge, Samuel Kent in Texas who in BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073 001.shtml said "Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact -- complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words -- to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions."
Judge Kent wrote in Smith v. Colonial Pen, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html, "...Alas, this Courts kingdom for a for a commercial airport! The Court is unpersuaded by this argument because it is not the Court's concern how the Plaintiff gets here, whether it be by plane, train, automobile, horseback, foot, or on the back of a huge Texas jackrabbit, as long as the Plaintiff is here at the proper date and time" Earlier in the order he talks about the three week long covered wagon trip from Huston to Galveston being free of bandits.
I can not spell, I admit that. I am far to trusting of spellcheck as well.
Proper word use and spelling are not the same thing.
For the people who say get with the times, this is the same as the media calling "hackers" criminals who will steal from you or shut down the power grid for kicks.
Decimation is the Roman Army practice of executing every tenth man in a unit to ensure discipline. This is usually done to deal with rebellion or crowdedness. I was unaware they every tenth dinosaur was executed. I get annoyed when this word is used incorrectly, I would use obliteration or some other word instead.
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I was under the impression that a refusal to take a breathalyzer in most states landed you in jail until your blood was drawn. That's how it is here in MN.
In Minnesota it is a separate crime to refuse to a blood, urine, or intoxilyzer 5000 test after being read the implied consent advisory. This is almost exclusively done at a place of detention. If you give them the finger they charge you with refusing to take the test. They can not forcibly take blood without a warrant unless there is an accident involving a fatality (or one of the other few exceptions). Minnesota law says if the test is lawfully refused then a test must not be given. IANAL but i suspect they would have to adjust this statute in order to force blood draws on people who refused, at least in Minnesota.
See MN SS 159A.51 and 169A.52 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=169A.51 & https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=169A.52
Perhaps its time to just accept the tyrannical police state and dismiss the false claim of an impartial judiciary and replace the police with street judges.
A Domain name is personal property, a court order taking it from someone without notice of the opportunity to respond to a complaint violates the second principle of natural justice, Audi alteram partem, a important backbone to our legal system. The concept of Audi alteram partem is extremely sacred in common law and requires the other side at least the opportunity to be heard before any action is taken. This is reinforced by several portions of the US Constitution and endless relevant case law. Any action, in any common law court, requires notice to be given and a reasonable time to respond to the allegations prior to and decision made by a court. You cant take someone property in absentia without at least giving them reasonable notice. PERIOD.
SGU will be dead latter this year thanks to its move to Tuesday night. Whenever TV wants to kill a show they start moving around its schedule.. Every scifi show i can think of started on Friday and ended up on some odd ball weekday, before DVR's i couldn't even find them sometimes.
SGU is a big budget show for Scyfi, they want to spend the money on wrestling... Once SGU is done, all ties i ever had with Syfy will finely be severed. In the famous words of dick cheney, go fuck yourself.
your analysis of the entomology of the word 'gay' is ridiculous, you clearly pulled that right out of your virgin ass, please consult a dictionary before making such wild claims that there is some link between the homosexual use of the word gay and living a happy lifestyle. It was a pejorative retasked to insult homosexuals from the start.
All you need is a $700 USRP radio with the $275 RFX900 transceiver daughterboard and your are in business.
The software is quite simple to get operating with several step by step how-to guides around the net. As for all that effort in setting up a tower, ham's do it in an afternoon all the time and don't spend all the cash you speak of. As for the license, experimental licenses are cheep and easy to obtain. One could run license free in the 900mhz ISM band (USA) that overlaps 900mhz GSM used elsewhere in the world and keep the power down or crank it up to 1500 watts and call it amateur radio on the same 900mhz band with a easy to obtain license.
Its not a glitch, I received this email from sun after submitting a ticket that i was unable to download the firmware for my workstation on 04/09/2010:
Hello,
As of April 5th customers now need either hardware warranty or a 'system' level contract to download firmware, drivers, etc from either SunSolve or the Download Center.
Sincerely,
Sun Web Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-
When trying to download the current bios and driver iso for my Sun Ultra 24 it says i am not authorized. Please advise.
Australia has an extradition agreement with the U.S.
The offences that are extraditable include:
11. Robbery.
12. Burglary; housebreaking or any similar offence.
13. Larceny.
14. Embezzlement.
15. Obtaining any property, money or valuable securities by false pretences or other form of deception.
I suspect this will not end well.
Sadly for the the employees left in the lurch, I don't see any of the offenses listed as extraditable committed or theft of any kind (IANNL). The head of a company, we will assume with the consent of its share holders, removed it's property from offices that it controlled. The employees have no right to this companies property or a right to dictate their actions except through lawful process.
The employees have a civil claim for their contracted wages, they should pursue those claims, perhaps with the assistance of a competent attorney. I suspect that this internet crybaby routine will only ensure they don't get paid. Frankly they got what they deserved for working without pay and not receiving an equity stake in the company/work. Chasing the CEO with a video camera and the police when they should have called an attorney likely sealed their fate.
This is a old lesson, people fall for it all the time, welcome to the club. The sooner you move on with your life the happier you will be.
Excel does have some nifty stuff hiding in it, but most never see it. i do some crazy financial stuff in calc with no issue, there may be some areas were excel is better, but they don't matter to rank and file users. Many of the insane things i see done in excel really belong in a different environment. R or C perhaps, there are many options.
I have also done 500+ page documents in writer and found it to work much better then the word or wp. Regardless of a feature comparison, the main reason i ran to open office was the ribbon interface in office.
And don't give me crap about open office solutions. It took most of these people 10 or 20 years to just get by with Office, you really think they are going to want to essentially re-learn everything? $2000 is only relevant if the people are actually fairly computer savy, which pretty much everyone everywhere is not nor do they care to bother.
I have converted several MS Office users to Open Office, they have never complained. It usually came down to one simple issue, $339.99 or free, pick one, they are the same. This is my experience with office workers, executives, and my 60 year old mom. There is almost no relearning, no one complains especially when the boss says thats how it is. If you disagree perhaps you should give open office a try, its not the same piece of crap you installed 10 years ago....
AP piece says 0.015 mg of LSD, or 15 ug, a ineffective dose of LSD. 60-100 ug is common for street doses. Perhaps the AP misread the law and its 150 ug, a more realistic number compared to the other amounts.
Mine is running 2.6.25. I am running the jesusfreke release, i believe its the same kernel version as the t-mobile release.
If TWC's claim that MTV, etc are trying to take them for 3x the carriage fee they previously paid and they win this game of chicken this sets a very concerning stage for an even more runaway cable bill regardless of the provider. The big evil cable co's are in a better position to negotiate then the upstarts, even the likes of Verizon, if they loose, we all loose.
I am glad they are taking a stand, my cable bill has gone up enough in the last few years all I need is every cable network demanding 3x the fees after MTV got it. This may be a rare occasion were the cable co's are doing something good for the customer.
Also I was quite annoyed by the non stop crawl message on Spike last night telling me to call some TWC 800 number to bitch at them. You think they could have done this without blocking part of the picture.
I agree with your sentiment but would like to point out that spelling has nothing to do with intelligence and is quite an ignorant position to take. It may be a indication of a successful English education, but I wouldn't pin that on intelligence either.
Take those with Dyslexia for example, they almost always have IQ's in excess of 150, comprise some of he best Scientific, Political, Business, Art, and Military minds to have ever exist and all will struggle with spelling.
When a oil company large and small wants to search for oil you follow a simple process. The first thing you do is pick were to look with the help of your geologist, then you go lease a big pile of land from private owners of the government. This process is done with very small payments to the land owner for a period of 5-10 years with large royalty payments if oil is found on their land, 5-10% of the revenue of the project.
Once you have a sufficient amount of land in the area you want to explore you should then do a few check shot seismic surveys to verify your original seismic data, I have had several were the large scale seismic data was off by 50 ft (enough to screw it all up). Then you drill a few test wells, at the cost of $3-5MM a piece with all the costs up to this point.
If the test wells work out well you then start drilling all the land you previously leased and plop a few hundred wells in if you have the land/formation to do it. If the test wells do not work out you may keep the test wells on line at very low production in hops to offset some of the costs in drilling them, otherwise its a loss. If thats the case you wait your 10 years for your leases to expire and try to find a new area to explore.
Also their are oil company's whose sole business is to lease land wholesale, they lease entire towns all over oil producing areas and then re-lease it to oil explorers and big oil company's. This is a big business with big returns for their investors. I can assure you that if Exxon or another major has a lease they have tested it and found it uneconomical if they are not producing on it. An uneconomical field is not something a major can afford with their low profit margins (even though the dollar figure appears high.) In fact thats the reason there margins suck so much is the amount of unsuccessful exploring they do. Small independent producers can make 70-80% margins and the majors are stuck with 9% margins with todays priced.
Just run phone quality twisted pair (cat 3) if you have adjacent land or can get permission from any adjacent land owners. Just buy low cost VDSL Ethernet bridges, they can be obtained for less then $200. Also 2000 ft of cat 3 can be obtained for less then $200 (just bridge two 1000ft spools vdsl doesn't care).
Then go aerial, affix the cat 3 to a wire (for support) and put a 10 ft pole every 10 meters or so. Aerial is most likely the easiest to install, maintain, and upgrade. It also allows for the running of coax for a future cable tv install that will require additional amplification to reach your fathers house.
The nice thing about running cat 3 is vdsl has a nice upgrade path to 100 mbps and beyond.
This women is basically a online troll, as much as we may not like her or think she is evil she is no different then any other online troll.
/. or others due to there violation of a civil agreement between the site operator and the user, that is clearly a civil matter between the two.
This case is scary because next people will be arrested for trolling
Also it is important to note that the girl who killed herself approached her parents in a state of emotional breakdown after the "breakup" and her mother couldn't care less, thats why she went up stairs and hung herself in her bedroom. To get back at her MOTHER for not caring about her horrible life as hanging yourself in the home in a place readily to be found (such as bedroom or garage) by a family member is about punishing them, its a calculated decision to show them what they have done.
If anyone should be charged it should be the MOTHER because she actually had a DUTY to care for the girl unlike the troll....
Also if his parents have not filed a probate action they should immeasurably. Once you die your all of your property transfers to your estate, then the court appoints an executor. In most states the order appointing an executor will be enough to get you access to his hotmail, university, and myspace accounts as they are the estates property. This is the right way to do this and I would not tell anyone you are asking for access why you want it as it is frankly none of their business and the executor has the legal right to it and to appoint you to help.
Internet over HSSM, High Speed Multimedia radio (ham 802.11), is not prohibited by Part 97's rule prohibiting commercial activity. If you were to encrypt or engage in commercial activity on the HSSM link in question you would run afoul of Part 97. The act of sharing a Internet connection over a Part 97 802.11 device has clearly been endorsed by the ARRL's HSSM working group. There are several discussions on the ARRL site and elsewhere on the internet about this and proper operation procedures for HSSM. Check it out, lots of old geezers like you are sharing there internet connection over HSSM to avoid paying to dsl or cable and they are perfectly within there rights to under Part 97 rules.
I have IBM type M's and pop one in the dishwasher every month. After about a week sitting in the basement they are dry, ready to use, and look brand new. I have done this for the last 10+ years and never had a issue. Just put the keyboard in facing down and use the cool dry cycle with regular liquid detergent. Works great. I have also done this with non-buckling spring keyboards with good results (new cheep ones.)
Now if they could only fix ps2 emulation on the PS3, PS2 Final Fantasy, that came out a few weeks before the PS3, looks like crap even at 480p on the PS3. Now I have to keep my PS2 connected so I can finish the game with usable graphics. Very anoying....
Blu-ray was never designed for these next gen audio formats and it is stupid to put them on blu-ray movies. From the article I get the impression that the author has not used or fully understands the format. Most blu-rays have either dolby digital, dts, dts-es, or uncompressed PCM audio. The PS3 supports the uncompressed PCM audio and it sounds much better then any TrueHD track on my hd-dvd player. Also uncompressed PCM does not require any special new hardware to work. TruHD and DTS-HD only exist to band aid high quality audio tracks onto a low capacity disk (hd-dvd). Blu-ray wins the audio way outright because of the ridiculous amount of space it has available to it and its use of uncompressed PCM audio tracks.
This type of stuff happens all the time, There was a case where the judge gave the verbal ruling in the form of a rap in a case between two rappers, "Bailey thinks he's entitled to some monetary gain,/ because Eminem used his name in vain./ The lyrics are stories no one would take as fact,/ they're an exaggeration of a childish act./ "It is therefore this court's ultimate position,/ that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3204318.s tm
3 001.shtml said "Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact -- complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words -- to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions."
And dont forget our favrote Federal Judge, Samuel Kent in Texas who in BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document07
Judge Kent wrote in Smith v. Colonial Pen, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html, "...Alas, this Courts kingdom for a for a commercial airport! The Court is unpersuaded by this argument because it is not the Court's concern how the Plaintiff gets here, whether it be by plane, train, automobile, horseback, foot, or on the back of a huge Texas jackrabbit, as long as the Plaintiff is here at the proper date and time" Earlier in the order he talks about the three week long covered wagon trip from Huston to Galveston being free of bandits.
Judge Kent also wrote a great one in Republic of Boliva v. Philip Morris http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/obiwan4.html
I can not spell, I admit that. I am far to trusting of spellcheck as well.
Proper word use and spelling are not the same thing.
For the people who say get with the times, this is the same as the media calling "hackers" criminals who will steal from you or shut down the power grid for kicks.
Decimation is the Roman Army practice of executing every tenth man in a unit to ensure discipline. This is usually done to deal with rebellion or crowdedness. I was unaware they every tenth dinosaur was executed. I get annoyed when this word is used incorrectly, I would use obliteration or some other word instead.