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  1. 7 hours ago, Lobwedgephil said:

    Lol, lawyers don't start out idealistic, they go to law school thinking about the money. 

    While there is a great deal of truth to this, there is also usually at least a latent bit of idealism.  They're going to do great things!  Be intellectually challenged!  Play 3-D chess with other brilliant lawyers!

    And, of course, it has been 25 or more years since you could go to law school and count on money when you got out.  Now it's probably 75-25 against making over 100K coming out. For the last 10 years, it has been delusional/idealistic for the average law student to even assume having a job.

    And those who go to law school aiming for public service/DA careers either did not have money in mind or were delusional/idealistic.

    I'm not making this shit up, this is why there is a huge dissatisfaction with legal careers and a substance abuse rate double the rest of the population.  The NC Bar and UNC have done some very in-depth studies on these issues.

  2. I'm a bit of a contrarian in that I have had uniformly good service from USPS and will choose first class delivery whenever available.  Considering its low cost, I get less agitated if it is a day late, but it rarely is.

    Whenever I order something from Amazon or someone else and get a tracking notice that it's DHL Global Mail, I groan.

  3. So I have noticed shipping services like DHL Global Mail/Ecommerce and various "Smartpost" services used by online vendors.  Apparently, they are specially "tailored" for "ecommerce" vendors, and the implication is that they are super cheap or otherwise easy for vendors to use.

    They are slow as fuck.

    They use the mail (USPS) for "last mile" and are actually timely once the package hits the USPS, but may take a week or more to get to USPS.

    Because they are slow as fuck, they must be cheap as hell or somehow really easy to use.

    Can anyone explain how these work?  Are these the type of things where private business is getting balls deep in USPS?

  4. Serious answer.  To one degree or another, lawyers start out fairly idealistic.  The practice of law, with harsh realities of tedium and business or dealing with human nature (depending on civil vs. criminal, to some extent) or both, frequently dashes that idealism to pieces, turning an idealist into a cynic.  A couple of things then happen, often both.  One is that it just becomes about winning.  Another is that one deludes oneself into believing one does "God's work" or some other form of (self) righteousness.  That can be a toxic and dangerous combo.

    Add in the fact that everyone you deal with is some form of law enforcement or the enemy (librul defense lawyer turds) and you get an echo chamber.

    It becomes very difficult, personally and institutionally, to admit error.  It takes more character than a lot of people possess.

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  5. I remember the shitshow surrounding that poster and that he passed away not too terribly long after.

    I seem to recall that someone came and posted of his death without connecting the dots.

  6. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Thanks.

    What types of interference would be off limits?  Could I set up a mister that sprays deer urine across the doorway so nobody would cross the threshold?  (Only half kidding.  At some point it just has to be within the business' rights to seek some kind of relief.  Hell, I'm offended that Academy sells A&M gear, but I'm not going to try to stop them.)

    Well, the problem here really is the nature of the relations interfered with.  It isn't a contractual relationship it is at best a prospective customer relationship.  In Texas, the classic tortious interference is inducing a party to breach their contract with another party.  As mentioned, it could also be a contract not-yet-entered, but sure to be, but for the interference  See, e.g., Pennzoil v. Texaco.  And if the interference is privileged by being protected by the 1st Amendment (this is Canada, aint no such thing), then even if a sure contract were breached as a result, then tortious interference wouldn't lie. 

    As SKJ said, this situation isn't really addressed by tortious interference.

     

    Probably the most apt traditional tort would be the protestors creating a private nuisance that interferes with the restaurant's business.

  7. 29 minutes ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    Can you post statistics on this?

    I would counter with 

    http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/

    ...as soon as you abandon traditional culture that got civilization this far (marriage) you return to chaos.

    That is an ENTIRELY different argument.

     

    And brisket and I agree far more often than we disagree.  Like 95-5.  I think he may be a tad unhinged about the state of affair represented by Trumpworld, but I can't say definitively that he's wrong.

  8. If you dont like the stats, then you don't like the facts.  You choose to live in fear.

    There are hordes of kids running the worst neighborhoods in the country wholly unsupervised by their parents or any adults and they aren't being abducted or mass murdered.  They are becoming gang-bangers, though, but that was predictable.  Using the stats.

  9. Yeah, stranger danger is a myth.  And they've already been held accountable with prison sentences and prison records.

    The general public does not have the tools to deal with the information they can glean from the sex offender registry.  The authorities do, to a certain extent, but they already have that information.

    Any purpose such registries serve is false security and whatever infinitesimal bit of good they do is far outweighed by dehumanizing people.

    A key fact is that the federal legislation creating the federal sex offender registry is named after the child of the host of Americas Most Wanted, for fucks sake.  And Adam Walsh wasn't molested and apparently was abducted and killed by a serial killer who wouldn't have been on the sex offender registry anyway.

    Shit, why don't we just have a murderer registry?  Or a DUI registry?  The fuck?

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  10. 13 hours ago, XYZ said:

    Is “whole hog” what others in the old “alcoholic” thread called “spiritual malady”?

    Pretty much.  The "whole hog" addict is characterized by having an indefinable, but strong unease when sober.  Such that they will weather repeated withdrawals, get their lives together temporarily, yet still return to their drug of choice, no matter how well things are going or the objective evidence piled up that indicates that using that substance is a personal disaster. Further, upon returning to use of the substance, it is extremely immoderate and simply cannot be moderated. As opposed to the physical addict, who just needs to get past withdrawals and they're fine.

  11. For the longest time, I just stuck with the sports boards at HF.  Took the 3:16 description about wrestling literally.  Missed so much other greatness, but I think I caught up before it went away.

  12. 19 hours ago, SKJ said:

    Tortious interference doesn't describe this situation. It works in a much different way.  

    Say you and I have a contract where you buy my dick drawing service. Thujone comes along and steals your business from me because he offers dicks at a cheaper rate. You violate our contract to buy dicks drawn by thujone. Thujone knew you were contractually obligated to buy my dicks, but went ahead and talked you into violating our contract.

    I could sue thujone.

    It's probably more clear in a situation of pro sports management.

    If someone had convinced Prince that his record company was using him as a slave, like maybe the Nation of Islam or some other entity... Then Prince refused to then fulfill that contract, then they could then have sued the Nation of Islam

    Yeah, in Texas at least, its better to have a full-on contract that is interfered with.  It can apply to "prospective" relations, but have to prove that the prospect was pretty good, which is tough.

     

    And the alleged interfering behavior can't be "privileged," as protesting might well be.

  13. And of course it's not just our collective fearfulness, it is the grotesque willingness of politicians to prey on that fearfulness to enact laws and policy of dubious value just to curry favor with the electorate while ignoring serious problems that the electorate doesn't understand or give a rip about.

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  14. 38 minutes ago, NOMAAA said:

    friend did.  about 10 years later they are back.

    Yeah, I had a friend do the deviated septum thing probably 35 years ago.  It came back after about 7 years.  I actually deformed my nose slightly by rubbing on it as a ringmeat kid, including deviating the septum.

  15. Branthebuilder on here (or at least shag) is a neuro and there's another poster that is a neurological PA that are both pretty knowledgeable.  I think his username started with a C and I want to say cotton-something or other.  Superhero had a relatively recent thread about seizures at the old place that both posted on.  Also Ruffian has seemed knowledgeable on matters neurological.

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