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Saipan had more warning for this one than they did for Soudelor, which tore them up in 2015. But if this is the death knell for the money laundering project that’s been powering the whole Commonwealth for a few years, then they are extremely screwed indeed.
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Late to the party, but folks badmouthing Netflix should check out The Night Comes for Us. Has lots of cast members of The Raid and it’s basically the same movie of obscene violence with some beautifully shot set pieces in between.
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Oct 25, 2018 01:21
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Guam only got winged again, so we're fine. Tinian got the worst of it, with Saipan immediately nearby getting p wrecked as well. The early pics out of there look bad, but not horrific.
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mastershakeman posted:That announcement is insane. Aren't they doing a tolkien production too? Seeing as Malazan is my favourite series of fantasy books bar none I agree, though I also kind of think that Tokelau All Star posted:I love Malazan but I gotta feel like its unadaptable. The most TV friendly way would probably just be just starting at Book 5/6 and follow the Bonehunters and Letheras/Edur to Book 7, but even that would be five seasons and a thousand characters while still leaving out like 85% of the saga. yeah, how the hell would they do that without butchering the entire thing? Honestly, there's just so much and really none of it can be cut. Well, maybe most of book 8. But other than that. Also anything Ian C. Esslemont has ever written. blarzgh posted:Audible had a 2 for 1 sale which netted me the Anniversary Edition of "Elantris" which I enjoyed, and during the foreward his author friend described doing classes and workshops with him for years and years, and how one teacher asked him, "Ok, so you have this magic princess who's traveling to this forbidden kingdom but what is happening? What is this story about?" and Sanderson was like, "Its about this magic princess who's traveling to this forbidden kingdom why can't that just be what its about??" Sanderson is loving crazy but in the best goddamned way. The only criticism I feel I can validly make on him is that his very last book in the Stormlight series was a bit high in scope and low in actual content (it dragged on and nothing really happened) but I guess that's the curse of a middle book in a fairly tightly guided pentalogy. With regards to his massive productivity he may be one of the truly greats though. Anyway, going on a trip to Sweden today to learn more legal stuff. There's a ski resort thing and a supreme court judge is going to give us lawyering lessons. Should be good, and if it isn't there's a bar.
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Story: Out of state lawyer comes into state for some reason (I think a conference). Gets pulled over in my county for texting while driving. Flies back out and proceeds to file notices and motions attempting to gum up the entire process, but notes in his notices that he has no intention of coming back to the state because it's not "economically feasible." Tries every procedural trick he can to get this traffic ticket thrown out, which the office intern/law student (who handles half of the simple misdemeanors and tickets) dutifully responds to. Guy gets a "discovery order" (which in simple misdemeanor land only obligates us to provide the reports and any other evidence we intend to present). We put the dash-cam video on file in our office for him to request, but he has to pay $8 for it for printing and shipping out of state, which he doesn't pay. He never gets a lawyer and never comes back, defaults on the ticket, and is now appealing because we: A) violated Brady and B) violated the discovery order. Regarding Brady, he just keeps asserting it's exculpatory, it isn't. It lines up with the trooper's report, that he claims he was accessing GPS, the trooper sees an e-mail app open on the phone, guy audibly protests. The guy has a factual dispute, necessitating trial. Regarding the order, we did disclose all discovery as required by law, and no order can obligate us to turn over something that legally we aren't obligated to. And in any event, the video was available, he never made moves to retrieve it or hire his own in-state attorney. This is pointed out in the Appeal Resistance by our intern. The out-of state lawyer is now threatening to go to our state board of examiners and make sure these "factual inaccuracies" are made part of the intern's bar application. This dude, who has a VERY expensive office location in an East Coast city, has spent at least 10 hours on a $60 ticket, including conversations with me, another attorney, letters to the elected county attorney, and a formal complaint against the state trooper (which was summarily rejected). gently caress this profession some days.
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Oct 25, 2018 15:04
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Pook Good Mook posted:This is pointed out in the Appeal Resistance by our intern. The out-of state lawyer is now threatening to go to our state board of examiners and make sure these "factual inaccuracies" are made part of the intern's bar application. This dude, who has a VERY expensive office location in an East Coast city, has spent at least 10 hours on a $60 ticket, including conversations with me, another attorney, letters to the elected county attorney, and a formal complaint against the state trooper (which was summarily rejected). gently caress this profession some days. remind that rear end in a top hat that threatening sanctions for litigation advantage is unethical and then report it to the licencing board of his state edit: or threaten to leak the entire story to above the law evilweasel fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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Oct 25, 2018 15:11
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Sounds like he's trying to help the intern by keeping him from making a horrible career choice
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Oct 25, 2018 15:12
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evilweasel posted:remind that rear end in a top hat that threatening sanctions for litigation advantage is unethical and then report it to the licencing board of his state That was my position. The First Assistant County Attorney's directive at this point was for the intern to e-mail him, cc'ing the 2nd in command, and telling him that any further communication should be sent to her. I legitimately hope he pushes his luck.
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Oct 25, 2018 15:16
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cross-posting this brief in the russian troll farm case. every filing these people have done has been nuts but this is even better by far https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1055478106960609280
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Pook Good Mook posted:This is pointed out in the Appeal Resistance by our intern. The out-of state lawyer is now threatening to go to our state board of examiners and make sure these "factual inaccuracies" are made part of the intern's bar application. This dude, who has a VERY expensive office location in an East Coast city, has spent at least 10 hours on a $60 ticket, including conversations with me, another attorney, letters to the elected county attorney, and a formal complaint against the state trooper (which was summarily rejected). gently caress this profession some days. Up until you wrote “East Coast” I was convinced this story was about Avenatti.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:24
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Firm emailed me to schedule second interview. I asked again about travel reimbursement. They said they do not normally but will check.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:24
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I got hit up by a recruiter this week who gave salary info upfront. Same job title I have now. 14% raise with chance to bonus on top of that. This is also in-house so I don’t see how a bonus is in play? But whatever. Also Day 1 benefits, no 90 day wait. How bad is it to leave one in-house for another in-house after only six months?
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Oct 25, 2018 18:31
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Lots of in house firms have a bonus structure that mostly depends on how well the company is doing and secondarily based on performance.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:06
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Meatbag Esq. posted:Lots of in house firms have a bonus structure that mostly depends on how well the company is doing and secondarily based on performance. Huh.
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Oct 25, 2018 20:24
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Meatbag Esq. posted:Lots of in house firms have a bonus structure that mostly depends on how well the company is doing and secondarily based on performance.
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Oct 25, 2018 20:25
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Lol Im underpaid!
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Oct 25, 2018 20:40
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Yes, and those bonuses can often be material, especially if you’re getting options and things like that. I’ve seen in-house bonuses of 25%+ (in one case more than 50%) of salary (and that’s for stuff below GC, where the bonuses start getting close to C suite levels).
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Oct 25, 2018 21:17
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In unrelated in house news, I spent today teaching a beginner’s thriller to the rest of the group here in preparation for our ultra competitive Halloween contest. I’m also underpaid... though the above isn’t why.
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Oct 25, 2018 22:16
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You dumb ignorant millennials. You think there would be a Marvel Universe if it weren’t for Return of the Jedi? The prequels were trash but a broken clock is right twice a day. 
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Oct 26, 2018 01:26
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Jedi is a total mess but it's entirely worth it for the throne room and Ian mcdiarmids sneering delivery of So be it...Jedi
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Oct 26, 2018 01:32
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I recognize ESB as a superior movie but ROTJ has always been my favorite. Jabba’s palace, green lightsaber, the Sarlacc pit fight, the speeders on Endor, It’s a Trap, the throne room. It’s all the best of Star Wars in a single flick.
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Oct 26, 2018 01:42
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Star Wars also inspired one of the best spoofs in cinema history.
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Oct 26, 2018 01:44
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Star Wars also inspired one of the best spoofs in cinema history. https://youtu.be/ccfbw2RJ3ow ?
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mastershakeman posted:Jedi is a total mess but it's entirely worth it for the throne room and Ian mcdiarmids sneering delivery of So be it...Jedi It’s not really much of a mess. It also has the best lightsaber duel of the series.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I recognize ESB as a superior movie but ROTJ has always been my favorite. Jabba’s palace, green lightsaber, the Sarlacc pit fight, the speeders on Endor, It’s a Trap, the throne room. It’s all the best of Star Wars in a single flick. My hot take: ANH is actually the best Star Wars movie. ROTJ is fun and ESB has some great drama but at the end of the day, the first movie had inspired cinematography and told a classic story. You could end Star Wars with that movie and it would still be great. It's almost miraculously good given the circumstances surrounding its filming.
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Oct 26, 2018 02:19
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Hot Take: the best James Bond movie is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service despite the bad James Bond. It’s the only one they effectively re-made (Casino Royale). For Your Eyes Only and The Living Daylights are underrated.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:21
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SlyFrog posted:Yes, and those bonuses can often be material, especially if you’re getting options and things like that.
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Oct 26, 2018 03:50
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Oct 26, 2018 03:55
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Look Sir Droids posted:Hot Take: the best James Bond movie is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service despite the bad James Bond. It’s the only one they effectively re-made (Casino Royale). Best James Bond concept is Goldeneye because of the N64 Game. Favorite James Bond film is Diamonds are Forever because it has the “Baja!” Line and it manages to make Circus Circus into a glitzy casino.
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GoldenEye is the best Bond film, followed by Goldfinger, Casino Royale, From Russia With Love, and in no particular order On Her Majesty's secret service, License to Kill, Thunderball, and The Man with the Golden Gun I'm something of an expert
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No the best one is definitely skyfall………
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Look Sir Droids posted:It’s not really much of a mess. The Ewoks are dumb. The idea of a technologically inferior group beating he stormtroopers is fine, but the Ewoks are too inferior for it to be believable. The original celebration scene was better, though, despite what nerds say. Even with the emporer dead the power structure of the empire wouldn’t collapse instantaneously. Therefore a local celebration would be the appropriate thing to show. Coruscant wouldn’t be celebrating. It would be ground zero for an immediate power struggle. Also, Luke standing half in light and half in shadow while Vader figures out who Leia is, with the resultant beat down by Luke, is among my favorite movie scenes ever.
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At Equal justice works staying in an attorney's baller mansion wondering why everyone on here is always so taciturn about the legal field 
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Mansions get drafty.
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I honestly am unsure because I'm in a luxury swedish ski resort in a suite the size of my apartment getting fed gourmet food on my company's dime, because it's a "conference" where we get "education". Bunch of supreme court judges making jokes for five hours and then it's drinks! The resort bar has a massive fireplace and a whisky wall. I mean it's still not worth it but I'll be damned if I'm not gonna enjoy it.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:At Equal justice works staying in an attorney's baller mansion wondering why everyone on here is always so taciturn about the legal field A friend of mine worked in the career office of my school 10 years ago and is helping me touch up my resume a bit. We were talking on the phone this morning about starting state wages, and they’ve dropped about $10k/year from what they were then, and there’s nothing but downward pressure on those already depressed wages.
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TheMadMilkman posted:The Ewoks are dumb. The idea of a technologically inferior group beating he stormtroopers is fine, but the Ewoks are too inferior for it to be believable. Ewoks are the JarJars of the original trilogy. As with the evil JarJar fantasy, I'd love to see evil Ewoks wrecking both the empire and the rebellion. They could have done a tie-in with Gremlins! And yes, the special editions are all abominations.
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