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20 May 2007, 8:25 am
Democracy in action. (hattip MM). [read post]
15 May 2007, 1:29 pm
The Anonymous Lawyer book is out now, and it's funny. Is it deep? Not really. It is true? Well, unfortunately, too true I'm afraid. I hope at your big firm, the people you meet are much nicer than those in this book. But forewarned is forearmed. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 8:48 am
This study suggests race video games cause riskier driving behavior. I don't know why people drive the way they do, but I want them to stop. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 9:35 pm
Interesting suit over defamatory Wikipedia article. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 5:26 pm
(It may take me a while to get back into the swing of post titles.) In any event, this appears to be a highly amusing case, so much so it may even be worth reading. Supreme Court says Congress must pass law for X to be the case. Congress passes law saying "X". Lower court says "X is the law." Of course, there is a dissent: "X is unconstitutional!" I love it when things are simple. Maybe Congress should make laws instead of the… [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 4:55 am
Interesting post by my colleague Adam Kolber here. Reacting to both his post and some of the comments after his post, I want to make the following points: Several commentors make the point that there should be something better than natural language search, maybe Google should enter this market, and so on. Well, there is something better than natural language search now for law. If you look at this you can see that the Precydent algorithm, which is network based, like Google… [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 6:29 am
Three of the KIms, the SF family lost in Oregon, have been found, but the dad is still missing. He was a senior editor at CNET. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 1:48 pm
I've been really busy lately, and here's a big part of why. Just don't want RC readers to think I'm neglecting them. It's a new legal search engine, and you can visit it here. Remember, though, this is very much the pre-Beta version. Feedback will be gratefully welcomed and carefully studied. Keep in mind this is working on an incomplete and none too clean database of 20,000 US Supreme Court cases only. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 1:36 pm
Professor Rappaport writes below about the practice of waterboarding. I wanted to put in my modest contribution, but only get around to it now. I feel like I have some insight into what waterboarding feels like. There are various "submissions" as they are called in the various grappling arts which involve basicly suffocating your opponent. This is to be distinguished from chokes, of which there are many, and work by cutting off the blood flow to the brain. … [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 7:29 pm
I know what she means. I still think the biggest mistake RR ever made was choosing Bush I as VP. If he hadn't, a lot would have been different. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 10:47 am
h/t Paul Rahe [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 4:02 pm
Excellent. [read post]
13 May 2012, 2:59 pm
Americans mostly like them. Though most Americans don't have that much contact with rich people. Just saying. [read post]
9 May 2012, 8:41 am
Cool BBC broadcast on life and art in an Antarctica research station. The description of the extraordinary diving conditions under the ice shelves I found especially intriguing. Reportedly some of the best diving conditions in the world -- no currents, exceptionally clear water and widespread giganticism among sea critters. Very cold but you wear a dry suit and it's no worries. Another item for Bucket List Prime (Things I will probably never get to do but would love to).… [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 10:30 am
It's all in good fun I suppose but I can't be the only person who finds it dismaying. Various celebrities and the DC political elite gather to beam at each other, tell a few jokes and bask in the glow of each other's fame. Meanwhile, money is raised for some good cause or other, an afterthought. Who are these people? Ephemeral (one devoutly hopes) celebrities who've made pots of money starring in stuff you are embarrassed to watch along with politicians the best… [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 12:27 pm
It comes to some of us naturally, but it's also fun. Many sites will allow you to use a long passphrase which is more secure and easier to remember than a long password. A passphrase is a random series of short words such as "pass empty cow stars come hither" -- that one is lamentably non-random, however. You generate a random passphrase by rolling dice and then looking up words according to the numbers rolled, as explained here. The guy who put together this site is truly… [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 1:00 pm
Very cool website. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 3:28 pm
Lottery fever is sweeping the nation. I guess that's fine. For most people it's a harmless source of amusement. I think most people would not buy lottery tickets except that they cannot really conceptualize the vanishingly small probabilities involved in actually winning. Some commentators have tried to inform folks. You have a better chance of being struck six times by lightning and surviving each, one said. A greater chance of being killed by space debris… [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 9:51 pm
Words fail one. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 12:14 pm
Well I visited my internist this morning and got official permission to stop taking (the generic of) Zocor I have been taking and try instead diet, exercise, fish oil and artichoke extract. Lest this sound like I am visiting Dr. Bob, Internist o' the Hills, I am a patient of a very fancy, large multi-specialty clinic in San Diego, which has such things as a special valet entrance for plastic surgery patients who don't want to be seen by the masses. So high end medicine,… [read post]
