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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

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Educate her to move her out of the shiney lights mindset.

 

Educating her in tech-goodness would be like..hm, her trying to educate me in wool-types and knitting styles.

It's possible, not really interesting to my point of view, and would take a long time, with the bare minimum sticking in the mind... :lol:

 

I mean, the last time she got a laptop.. she walked along the countertop at the store looking at them.. and going "oh, the graphs on this are prettier then the graphs on that one, will this do what I want it to?"

 

So what were you saying your sister looked like?

И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,
И његова сва изгибе војска, 
Седамдесет и седам иљада;
Све је свето и честито било
И миломе Богу приступачно.

 

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How do you like the g2x? I'm thinking about getting one soon but I've never had a smart phone and I'm scared.

 

It arrives tomorrow and I'll let you know.

 

If you're really scared of getting one then you can have my old (last year) phone because it's most likely going to end up in drawer in my desk.

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Saitek make glowing peripherals of all sorts. Just get her some of that.

 

I don't know if it was prolonged exposure to beer and red wine, but my very lovely Saitek keyboard died recently.

 

My friend in the IT world swears by very cheap keyboards, so I have a

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

 

The biggest marketing coup people with business administration degrees ever managed to pull was convince people that it's the lawyers who are greedy. Kind of like how people don't kill people, guns kill people.

You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that?

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I dunno, lawyers tend to be greedy bastards, a lot like bankers, MBAs, or generally any kind of Suit. :)

 

Just remembered I need to get a Father's day present. Whoops, so better hit the mall after work.

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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The biggest marketing coup people with business administration degrees ever managed to pull was convince people that it's the lawyers who are greedy.

:)

 

Particularly true of the people with the business administration degrees who specialize in marketing. There are some noble reasons to want to become a lawyer, and a great many attorneys do conduct their affairs with a high degree of integrity. And some business administration specialization is always going to be necessary to keep large institutions running smoothly. But I can't really see anything even resembling integrity in marketing-related fields. The attitude of those entereing those particular businesses seems to be "You know what's awesome? Selling out. Also, influencing other people to sell out along with you!"

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

Except divorce lawyers. Even you have to admit they deserve a beating. Anyone who takes such cruel delight in the ruin and suffering of their fellow human beings deserves bad things.

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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Unfair comparison though, weak riot. No deaths, no major injuries. Can't do anything right in this country :lol:

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

Except divorce lawyers. Even you have to admit they deserve a beating. Anyone who takes such cruel delight in the ruin and suffering of their fellow human beings deserves bad things.

Eh, I think the malice comes from the divorcee's not the lawyers.

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

Except divorce lawyers. Even you have to admit they deserve a beating. Anyone who takes such cruel delight in the ruin and suffering of their fellow human beings deserves bad things.

Eh, I think the malice comes from the divorcee's not the lawyers.

... and spending a lot of time with people like that. Of course, anyone who actually chooses to specialise in divorces... Yeah.

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Been reading Schein's Process Consultation Revisited. Very interesting, and a lot of "oh, I hadn't thought about that!" situations. Wonder if I'll ever be able to put any of this stuff to use, or if it'll just make me more bitter, being subject to people who don't grasp even the faintest notions of what leadership is.

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I have to admit, I find it interesting how your brain can link music to certain memories.. and how years later you can hear that tune and get the total flashback and emotion of the original event...

 

And on the seperate note.. good god its been grey and drizzly today. I'm missing the scattershot sun. The cloud cover has been lingering awhile..and had to miss the lunar eclipse the other night due to hazey clouds.

"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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So what were you saying your sister looked like?

 

I wasn't.. :ermm:

 

I sense you're being protective.

И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,
И његова сва изгибе војска, 
Седамдесет и седам иљада;
Све је свето и честито било
И миломе Богу приступачно.

 

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I just ate way too much cinnamon bread. Pardon me while I roll myself outside for a nap in the sun now.

“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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Watching Jesus Christ Superstarr on Youtube, no idea why. The 2000 version is truly epic though, M. Bison as Pilate ftw.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Beat up a lawyer instead, it's alright - they have no souls.

Hey, man, we have souls.

 

The title to them may or may not be clouded by remainder interests subject to contractual conditions subsequent, but nearly every lawyer I know still retains present possessory rights of enjoyment of that particular asset.

Except divorce lawyers. Even you have to admit they deserve a beating. Anyone who takes such cruel delight in the ruin and suffering of their fellow human beings deserves bad things.

Eh, I think the malice comes from the divorcee's not the lawyers.

You might gain a new perspective on that one day. I hope not. My wife and I were heading for a fairly peaceful split until she got that miserable money grubbing parasite of a lawyer.

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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Yeah, there's a bit of a perverse incentive in play for divorce lawyers. Lawyers in private practice are sometimes criticized for prolonging disputes in order to rack up more billable hours. Generally, the lawyers who do this are dumb, because their long-term best interests are served mostly by having happy clients, and clients generally don't like it when negotiations take longer than they should. But this feedback loop is pretty weak for divorce lawyers, simply because repeat customers aren't a big part of their business plan.

 

That, and the people who excel areas like that tend to be people whose strongest skills lie in manipulating people's emotions.

 

(I don't particularly like dealing with angry or sad people, so I avoided just about every non-mandatory topic in law school that would involve dealing with emotionally fraught clients. Never took Family Law, Wills & Trusts, or any criminal law classes beyond the one required one.)

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Stayed up too late fiddling with tech-beat music. Which was silly, since I'm an utterly terrible composer. But when you're awake, sometimes you'll do anything to pass the time. Speaking of which...

 

Watching Jesus Christ Superstarr on Youtube, no idea why. The 2000 version is truly epic though, M. Bison as Pilate ftw.

I loved the concept album, the 1st film was "ok" (not a huge fan of it tho...) - so I had to buy that 2000 DVD. The guy playing Jesus was terrible imo but yeah, Pilate was awesome. I also personally liked Annas. That bald guy with the strange creepy voice. lol. He blew the Annas from the '73 film away.

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“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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Hm, somehow I seem to have pulled one of those muscles in the neck/shoulder region. Quite a few shoulder movements, and pretty much all head movements now send out rather annoying spikes of pain.

"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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