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blar posted:Hey guys I found the perfect job for getting out of the legal field. Bookbinder I - 40 hours a week at $40/hr. I went to law school and now I am literally printing money (third new page in a row biatches)
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HiddenReplaced posted:I'm just going to go up the chain of the Dept. of Ed. until someone discharged all of my loans.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I went to law school and now I am literally printing money Time for me to move. . . .
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Any UCLA Law students here? We're borrowing one of your professors, and I'm curious if any of her old exams might be in your password-protected archive.
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Ugh where are all the posts. I joined the Fitocracy lawgoon group. Let's do this bros.
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Lilosh posted:Any UCLA Law students here? We're borrowing one of your professors, and I'm curious if any of her old exams might be in your password-protected archive. Which professor?
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Ugh where are all the posts. Football
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nm posted:Football My beloved Ravens 
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:My beloved Ravens 
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Ugh where are all the posts. Link? I've considered joining this "exercising" thing kids are doing. CmdrSmirnoff posted:My beloved Ravens Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I tivoed the game.
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Nero posted:Which professor? Stout. Do you have access to the exam archive?
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Lilosh posted:Stout. Do you have access to the exam archive? Unfortunately they apparently do not allow graduated UCLA students access.
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So a month or so ago, we got on the topic of FONTCHAT and I was roundly mocked around these parts for suggesting that attention to fonts, layout, and overall design was important and worth the extra effort. Last week I started reading a new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. It's written by a Nobel laureate who has spent decades studying the science behind human judgment, decision making, etc. The main thesis of the book is that human thinking is divided into two processes: System 1, which is fast and intuitive, and System 2, which is slow and critical. The author describes a concept known as "cognitive ease", which, put simply, says that there is a direct correlation and causation between the degree with which you present information in a pleasing manner and the probability that the target will believe you because the answer you suggest seems "intuitive". Page 65 posted:Experimenters recruited 40 Princeton students to take [a test]. Half of them saw the puzzles in a small font in washed-out gray print. The puzzles were legible, but the font induced cognitive strain. The results tell a clear story: 90% of the students who saw the [test] in normal font made at least one mistake in the test, but the proportion dropped to 35% when the font was barely legible. ... Performance was better with the bad font. Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1. In other words, if you file a motion that is poorly typeset and difficult to read, the reader's brain is scientifically more likely to switch into a more critical mode of thinking. Page 70 posted:We have learned a great deal about the automatic workings of System 1 in the last decades. Much of what we now know would have sounded like science fiction thirty or forty years ago. It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth.... I highly recommend the book. It's fascinating. And again, I am certainly not suggesting that you can brainwash a judge into believing nonsense. The best font in the world won't make a judge believe that 2 + 2 = 6. But, on the margins, where a legal or factual issue is in a gray area, it appears that there is some benefit to caring about your choice of font, pagesetting, etc. 
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BigHead posted:Link? I've considered joining this "exercising" thing kids are doing.  Sorry if I spoiled something but I can't imagine how you could go 6 hours post game without hearing how it finished. It WAS a hell of a game though and well worth watching. Exercise.
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10-8 posted:FONTCHAT
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BigHead posted:Link? I've considered joining this "exercising" thing kids are doing. The steeler are going to the superbowl, hate to ruin that. Edited so as to be less of a douche nm fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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Second draft of comment now 40 minutes late and counting
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:
Hey thanks for the link. And no need to apologize, it's my lazy rear end family that had to work all day today that made me save it until super late to watch. Too bad about the Ravens and 49ers. Pats vs Giants is so predictable as to be unexciting no matter what the outcome is.
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Kahneman owns, behavioral psychology/economics owns
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Great news guys! Three of the top five are law firms! http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/pf/jobs/1201/gallery.best-companies-pay.fortune/2.html
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10-8 posted:In other words, if you file a motion that is poorly typeset and difficult to read, the reader's brain is scientifically more likely to switch into a more critical mode of thinking. Counterpoint - 5/5 law clerks did not get their JDs from Princeton Corollary - law clerks typically decide merits based on captions and the conclusion paragraph
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Also for all you Dukies ahahahahaha http://www.diddukewin.com/
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The fun thing about being a kickboxer in your off-time is that you get to appear at court with a black eye sometimes. Like I am today!
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Petey posted:Kahneman owns, behavioral psychology/economics owns Behaviorism in psychology is an embarrassment (it denies the existence of unconscious mental processes because they can't be directly observed), but behavioral econ and behavioral L&E do indeed own. Ersatz fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46101025/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.Tx2g-G-XSVo (Edit: Court opinion here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf ) So SCOTUS agrees, unanimously, that a GPS tracker is a "search" for the purposes of the Fourth Amendment. Anyone actually surprised by this?
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Not really. Even Supreme Court Justices need to feel secure from being followed around for four months while they shack up with their clerks.
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quote:Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that the government's installation of a GPS device, and its use to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitutes a search, meaning that a warrant is required. For some reason I feel like referring to Justice Scalia as Associate Justice is slightly insulting to him. At least, I giggled when I saw it, and I pictured him in a blue Best Buy associate's polo shirt that they wear in their stores. Also, I am always surprised when the Supreme Court puts out any opinion that isn't 5-4.
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I'm a bit surprised, but only because recently the court has been completely backwards with respect to understanding technology. Good for them for taking the time to figure it out.
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I bet it's because Justice Thomas saw Linguica's satellite capture of his sleeping during Obama's inauguration. And Justice Roberts doesn't want people seeing his bald spot. So that's what they associate with GPSes.
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Bathing Jesus posted:I'm a bit surprised, but only because recently the court has been completely backwards with respect to understanding technology. Good for them for taking the time to figure it out. It didn't help that the U.S. admitted during oral argument that the police could track all the justices around for four months if they had a hunch.
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MoFauxHawk posted:I bet it's because Justice Thomas saw Linguica's satellite capture of his sleeping during Obama's inauguration. And Justice Roberts doesn't want people seeing his bald spot. So that's what they associate with GPSes. LOL (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I just got some good news today - I got a spring externship at freaking ! 
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amishsexpot posted:I just got some good news today - I got a spring externship at freaking Louis Vuitton! I'm surprised you can get academic credit for working in a garment sweatshop. Are you attaching buttons or zippers?
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Wow, looks like you did manage to combine fashion/design and law together! Congrats, amishsexpot!CaptainScraps posted:The fun thing about being a kickboxer in your off-time is that you get to appear at court with a black eye sometimes. Like I am today! We have a criminal docket room that's just for domestic violence related crimes. It's always the best when I walk into court with my legs all bruised up from rock climbing or whatever. "No, your honour. I'm not a complainant. I swear I bruise easily and I was just out playing sports this weekend." Penguins Like Pies fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 24, 2012 |
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amishsexpot posted:I just got some good news today - I got a spring externship at freaking Louis Vuitton! Congrats! How'd you go about getting it?
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entris posted:I'm surprised you can get academic credit for working in a garment sweatshop. Are you attaching buttons or zippers? The ironic thing is that I would be totally happy attaching buttons or zippers for LV since I'm a closeted designer anyway. Hahaha. Thanks guys! I got it just by submitting my resume to an informal externship call. I had no idea they were one of the employers! Ahhh! I need to get some nice work clothes. Like, now.
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Penguins Like Pies posted:We have a criminal docket room that's just for domestic violence related crimes. It's always the best when I walk into court with my legs all bruised up from rock climbing or whatever. "No, your honour. I'm not a complainant. I swear I bruise easily and I was just out playing sports this weekend." Are you implying that you wear shorts to court? amishsexpot posted:The ironic thing is that I would be totally happy attaching buttons or zippers for LV since I'm a closeted designer anyway. Hahaha. Is there much work in closet designing? I would think The Container Store has that industry locked up. 
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amishsexpot posted:The ironic thing is that I would be totally happy attaching buttons or zippers for LV since I'm a closeted designer anyway. Hahaha. Are you the one that break their butt in your office? I have trouble keeping track of all you people. entris posted:Are you implying that you wear shorts to court? No, she just wears short skirts and 4" heels.
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Penguins Like Pies posted:We have a criminal docket room that's just for domestic violence related crimes. It's always the best when I walk into court with my legs all bruised up from rock climbing or whatever. "No, your honour. I'm not a complainant. I swear I bruise easily and I was just out playing sports this weekend." The people at the courthouse LOVED me. Tons of random people were coming up to ask about it. "Hey bro, did you win?" "Man, you should see the other dude." "You hosed him up bad huh?" "Nah, he's fine, just really scary." They already had lawyers though
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