The idea was that the memory problems are from studying for/taking the bar. If only I'd gone on that bender, maybe I'd remember my parents' faces! 
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Is the bar a solid week of 8 hour tests, that to pass you have memorize thousands of pages of questions and answers for? Because if it isn't lawyers complain about it too much.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:27
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BrandorKP posted:Is the bar a solid week of 8 hour tests, that to pass you have memories thousands of pages of questions and answers for? Because if it isn't lawyers complain about it too much. The true horror of the bar is in how arbitrary it is - it's not that they test everything, it's that they don't test everything. Didn't study the fine details of worker's compensation law? gently caress you, that's one of your essays. It's also a test administered to a cohort inclined to complain loudly and binge drink, which means it is an excuse to complain loudly and binge drink.
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nutranurse posted:My whole problem with the movie is like wtf are they gonna do at the end? So the snow is melting, so what, it's still really loving cold, arctic levels of cold if a polar bear can just amble around like that. And what about repopulating the world, are there any other loving survivors out there or is the future of mankind really left up to some young Asian woman and the little black kid she's now suddenly charged with? The train thing is meant to be somewhat absurdist. As for the rest: I interpreted the ending of that movie as being "humanity is hosed." I don't think there's any repopulating or realistic "future" of mankind to be had. That train was humanity's last hurrah.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:32
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Why would you ever take the DC bar? Doesn't DC accept reciprocity with every other state? Take the bar in a low threshold state instead.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:37
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Wyoming bar. Practice Cow Law.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:38
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How does the bar compare to other standardized tests?
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Aug 11, 2014 17:43
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The Warszawa posted:The true horror of the bar is in how arbitrary it is - it's not that they test everything, it's that they don't test everything. Didn't study the fine details of worker's compensation law? gently caress you, that's one of your essays. USCG licenses are still worse. There is a randomized pool of questions for each section often unrelated to or outdated from good practices, or worse that are only answerable if memorized. Deck side guys have essays and navigational plots that if they fail they fail the entire thing for. And the people taking the test are from a profession not merely inclined to complain loudly and binge drink, but for whom that was part of the traditional job description (sailors). Seriously a stack of books foot and a half high that consist only of multiple choice question like these (http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Engineering-Workbook-Third-Edition/dp/0963846744) that have to be memorized because they will be selected from randomly. Plus the dozens of actual real professional texts that one should read, apart from memorizing the questions.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:45
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Cheekio posted:How does the bar compare to other standardized tests? Awful and soul crushing. It took about 5 years off my life, at least. All for the "privilege" of charging people for legal advice.
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I can explain it this way. I took and passed the FE without having to study or prepare just rolled in passed it. USCG exams were hard with six months of classes dedicated only to preparing for the test followed by two weeks of do nothing but study for the exams after a four year education that is primarily oriented towards enabling one to pass the test. Better you don't even get your diploma if you fail. Edit: I got so drunk afterwards that I ran back from the village to Penn station at a full sprint because I thought I could beat the subway. Once at Penn station I convinced a classmate that this was a good idea and that he should do the same. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Aug 11, 2014 17:54
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Thanatosian posted:The train thing is meant to be somewhat absurdist. It's also an ongoing comic book series isn't it? So there's probably answers there.
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pressuring jrodefeld about race is one really good way to deal with libertarians, but everybody arguing with him on theory is really just conceding the discussion to an area he feels safe in the best way to short-circuit libertarians, austrians, ancaps etc is to keep the discussion in practical, real-world scenarios and historical examples, because that poo poo never actually works in practice of course the dude just ignores problematic posts so i guess that's just pissing in the wind anyhow
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Aug 11, 2014 18:05
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Zeitgueist posted:pressuring jrodefeld about race is one really good way to deal with libertarians, but everybody arguing with him on theory is really just conceding the discussion to an area he feels safe in What if we got everyone to only present him with the real-world stuff? This is why we need some kind of governing body for D&D.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:07
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Where's his libertarian thread? There's only one poo poo rated thread on the first page and it's the monsanto one. Also I've long found it funny that there has never been a purely gold rated thread in D&D.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:08
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zoux posted:Where's his libertarian thread? There's only one poo poo rated thread on the first page and it's the monsanto one. Here it is. All threads are fiat threads.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:10
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What if we got everyone to only present him with the real-world stuff? This is why we need some kind of governing body for D&D. well dammit if people just did what i wanted them to
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Aug 11, 2014 18:10
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zoux posted:Where's his libertarian thread? There's only one poo poo rated thread on the first page and it's the monsanto one. Political cartoons thread has been gold before, and the Brian Boyko thread was for a while before people started taking it seriously.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:10
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didn't "The perfect debate" or whatever go gold?
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Aug 11, 2014 18:11
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Thread voting should be public.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:12
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Just like union ballots 
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Aug 11, 2014 18:12
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zoux posted:Wyoming bar. Practice Cow Law. Just write "the 10th amendment" in crayon as your answer for every question.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:14
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Joementum posted:Just write "the 10th amendment" in crayon as your answer for every question. I'm watching Longmire and I kinda want to move to Wyoming and be a sherriff's deputy.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:15
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The Brian Boyko thread was gold, bringing everyone together.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:15
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zoux posted:Thread voting should be public. Like everything else only mods can see, it's intensely boring. Most threads only get a dozen or so votes. There are also people who spend their time voting one on every thread.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:25
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zoux posted:Where's his libertarian thread? There's only one poo poo rated thread on the first page and it's the monsanto one. Do you mean perfect 5.0 average or just all the bars gold? Plenty have been all gold, but the 5.0 is kind of silly since random lurkers or people who hate SA vote poo poo 1. The Truth About Gaza has 2 1 votes and one of them is from someone with "lurker" in their name. The rest are all 5s.
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Joementum posted:Like everything else only mods can see, it's intensely boring. Most threads only get a dozen or so votes. There are also people who spend their time voting one on every thread. Yeah and I want to know who these weiners are. XyloJW posted:Do you mean perfect 5.0 average or just all the bars gold? I mean the latter.
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Can you see people voting the same on the same thread over and over again?
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It's just a cry for help, constantly telling the mods that none of these threads fill the void within them.
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made of bees posted:Can you see people voting the same on the same thread over and over again? You can only vote on a thread once.
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I know it doesn't do anything, but you can still click on the bar every time you view the thread, presumably there's someone trying it.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:31
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I only ever vote threads by accident when I fat finger the bar on my ipad. Unfortunately it's almost always one and then I have to go back and vote it five so mods/admins if you see a thread vote from me it were and accident.
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It just shows a list of names in descending order of their votes. And, yes, there really are people who choose the 2-4 options for some reason. 
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Aug 11, 2014 18:36
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Can votes be changed later on? Also, what determines whether a thread ends up in the goldmine, or in comedy purgatory?
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Hedera Helix posted:Can votes be changed later on? Lol you think there are rules to this poo poo. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655464 Also the Oliver piece on payday owns loving crushed.
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I don't vote in D&D threads because what's the point? My vote doesn't count anyway 
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Anyone fancy meeting up after this event tiaThe National Press Club posted:Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and anti-tax activist Grover Norquist plan to speak at a National Press Club luncheon Sept. 4 on issues where they feel the left and right can come together. You won't have to pay, if you show up with a signed pledge.
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The Warszawa posted:The true horror of the bar is in how arbitrary it is - it's not that they test everything, it's that they don't test everything. Didn't study the fine details of worker's compensation law? gently caress you, that's one of your essays. What's the average pass/fail rate for US bar exams? It feels like US lawgoons bitch even more about the bar than my German peers do about our first and second state exam combined.
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Gail Wynand posted:lotta people in the Middle East thread who don't know poo poo about Iraq and can't be bothered to look at a map or wikipedia
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Randler posted:What's the average pass/fail rate for US bar exams? It feels like US lawgoons bitch even more about the bar than my German peers do about our first and second state exam combined. Depends on the state, but New York (one of the more popular destinations) has an overall combined pass rate of 64%, but if you limit it to people who attended accredited law schools in the U.S. taking it for the first time (your prime bitching demographic) it's 85%. The volume of bitching has more to do with the population than the actual test, though it doesn't help that the test has very little to do with anything you study in law school in the U.S.
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