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HAH! They hired Chemerinsky after all.
Sep. 17th, 2007 12:01 pmhttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci18sep18,1,3851560.story?track=rss&ctrack=4&cset=true
UCI reenters the reality-based community.
UCI reenters the reality-based community.
HAY GUYS REMEMBER ACADEMIC FREEDOM?
Sep. 13th, 2007 11:47 amUCI UNHIRES LIBERAL LAW SCHOOL DEAN
The Chancellor thought the Regents would block it, so he said, and that the fight would somehow tarnish the new law school. Chancellor Drake, that's your job. You are supposed to argue with the Regents on behalf of UCI. What is it, exactly, that you DO here?
Also, UCI is not Orange County University. It is an internationally known research institution and member of a statewide University. It doesn't have to have a major in John Wayne or a Disneyland Institute. And don't let Donald Bren tell you what to do because he gave you $20 million and you named the law school after him. What's he gonna do, take it back?
Don't worry, Mr. Chemerinsky. We'll visit you on Sakhalin Island.
Bonus points: Chapman says they'll hire him in an instant. And not just Chapman, but the Chapman legal dean, who's a rightwinger and debates Chereminsky weekly on the radio. Oddly enough he'd very much enjoy having his debate opponent working in his office. Viva Chapman!
The Chancellor thought the Regents would block it, so he said, and that the fight would somehow tarnish the new law school. Chancellor Drake, that's your job. You are supposed to argue with the Regents on behalf of UCI. What is it, exactly, that you DO here?
Also, UCI is not Orange County University. It is an internationally known research institution and member of a statewide University. It doesn't have to have a major in John Wayne or a Disneyland Institute. And don't let Donald Bren tell you what to do because he gave you $20 million and you named the law school after him. What's he gonna do, take it back?
Don't worry, Mr. Chemerinsky. We'll visit you on Sakhalin Island.
Bonus points: Chapman says they'll hire him in an instant. And not just Chapman, but the Chapman legal dean, who's a rightwinger and debates Chereminsky weekly on the radio. Oddly enough he'd very much enjoy having his debate opponent working in his office. Viva Chapman!
The LJ mess over censorship gives me flashbacks to AOL in the 90s.
I used to do "remote staff" work for AOL, semi-volunteer stuff. A few years were spent on the chat patrol, and later I had a full-time job for another company that included a lot of message board and chat management. I was doing this work in some way or another from 1990 to 1995.
During this time, AOL grew from a small business to a huge one. In parallel, the community of users started as a town and ended as a nation. It all happened way too fast. Growth rates of dotcom companies and online communities are a cliche now, but this was the first time, and no one knew what to do or even what was happening.
The community standards of discourse, including what was out of bounds in public communication, suffered. People with limited social experience and no background in language or youth culture suddenly had to make decisions about what was appropriate in chat, on message boards, everywhere. Staffers were supposed to chide people who broke the rules or knock them offline, but the rules kept changing. Meanwhile, so many people were pouring in that the variety of possible problems was disorienting. It was hard to get any consensus about community standards when the community was doubling in size every month. The lists of unapproved words and phrases and activities grew long and ridiculous. I wish I still had some of those lists.
Nervous chat monitors and board supervisors were presented with social and linguistic issues beyond their knowledge. GLBT people were booted for discussing their lifestyle outside GLBT forums. Discussions about the role of drug use in society were knocked offline for "drug use promotion." The rules were applied inexpertly and unevenly, and some staffers appeared to make up their own. The flood of teenaged users brought a whole new set of problems: minors mixing with adults, incomprehensible teen culture, suicide threats.
The situation was handled poorly. Years of arbitrary decisions, ignorance, dissembling, and prejudice went by. By 1994, anyone on "chat patrol" was completely snowed under with constant reports of rule-breaking. It was impossible to catch up and clearly pointless to try.
In the end the problem was solved with money. The company had grown so much that they hired good attorneys, professional senior managers, and more people inhouse to deal with community management issues. Bad behavior that presented a legal threat was still pursued, but they wisely gave up most attempts at regulating discourse in a gigantic community.
LJ is right at that breaking point. They've become huge, and there's no village any more. Large groups within LJ have their own community standards, and don't appreciate regulation from outsiders who don't understand the context of discussion. Pranksters and civil libertarians will test the limit of any rule. Outside pressure groups will demand the impossible, and news media will report on anything that looks odd and give it a lurid tabloid spin.
People who enjoy blogging and are good at computers can build services like LJ and make them a roaring success. These aren't necessarily the right people to manage a community the size of a city. They will be inconsistent, arbitrary, socially inept, prejudiced, anxious, and worst of all ignorant.
LJ needs some people with professional expertise in communities and the law. They need one or more attorneys with a very good understanding of the civil and criminal liabilities of a company like this. And they need a sociologist or its near equivalent who can grasp the nature of LJ's culture and subcultures without reflexively applying standards that don't make sense.
Most of all they need to be consistent, which is the first thing the attorney or sociologist is likely to tell them.
With luck it won't take three years the way it did for AOL.
I used to do "remote staff" work for AOL, semi-volunteer stuff. A few years were spent on the chat patrol, and later I had a full-time job for another company that included a lot of message board and chat management. I was doing this work in some way or another from 1990 to 1995.
During this time, AOL grew from a small business to a huge one. In parallel, the community of users started as a town and ended as a nation. It all happened way too fast. Growth rates of dotcom companies and online communities are a cliche now, but this was the first time, and no one knew what to do or even what was happening.
The community standards of discourse, including what was out of bounds in public communication, suffered. People with limited social experience and no background in language or youth culture suddenly had to make decisions about what was appropriate in chat, on message boards, everywhere. Staffers were supposed to chide people who broke the rules or knock them offline, but the rules kept changing. Meanwhile, so many people were pouring in that the variety of possible problems was disorienting. It was hard to get any consensus about community standards when the community was doubling in size every month. The lists of unapproved words and phrases and activities grew long and ridiculous. I wish I still had some of those lists.
Nervous chat monitors and board supervisors were presented with social and linguistic issues beyond their knowledge. GLBT people were booted for discussing their lifestyle outside GLBT forums. Discussions about the role of drug use in society were knocked offline for "drug use promotion." The rules were applied inexpertly and unevenly, and some staffers appeared to make up their own. The flood of teenaged users brought a whole new set of problems: minors mixing with adults, incomprehensible teen culture, suicide threats.
The situation was handled poorly. Years of arbitrary decisions, ignorance, dissembling, and prejudice went by. By 1994, anyone on "chat patrol" was completely snowed under with constant reports of rule-breaking. It was impossible to catch up and clearly pointless to try.
In the end the problem was solved with money. The company had grown so much that they hired good attorneys, professional senior managers, and more people inhouse to deal with community management issues. Bad behavior that presented a legal threat was still pursued, but they wisely gave up most attempts at regulating discourse in a gigantic community.
LJ is right at that breaking point. They've become huge, and there's no village any more. Large groups within LJ have their own community standards, and don't appreciate regulation from outsiders who don't understand the context of discussion. Pranksters and civil libertarians will test the limit of any rule. Outside pressure groups will demand the impossible, and news media will report on anything that looks odd and give it a lurid tabloid spin.
People who enjoy blogging and are good at computers can build services like LJ and make them a roaring success. These aren't necessarily the right people to manage a community the size of a city. They will be inconsistent, arbitrary, socially inept, prejudiced, anxious, and worst of all ignorant.
LJ needs some people with professional expertise in communities and the law. They need one or more attorneys with a very good understanding of the civil and criminal liabilities of a company like this. And they need a sociologist or its near equivalent who can grasp the nature of LJ's culture and subcultures without reflexively applying standards that don't make sense.
Most of all they need to be consistent, which is the first thing the attorney or sociologist is likely to tell them.
With luck it won't take three years the way it did for AOL.
It's not just that they insisted on violating the law and the Constitution. It's not just that they tried to pressure the Attorney General to approve it when he had already refused. And it's not just that they did it while he was ill and not acting as Attorney General.
They did it at night in his hospital room, causing the acting Attorney General and the director of the F.B.I. to go lights-and-siren through the nation's capital and run upstairs to the hospital room and stop them.
And then tried to refuse a witness to the discussion afterwards.
And then, after Ashcroft had walked over the whole deal, they got what they wanted anyway because Gonzo got the job.
How close are we to a coup, anyway? Who's got five bucks on it?
Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/washington/15cnd-attorneys.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
They did it at night in his hospital room, causing the acting Attorney General and the director of the F.B.I. to go lights-and-siren through the nation's capital and run upstairs to the hospital room and stop them.
And then tried to refuse a witness to the discussion afterwards.
And then, after Ashcroft had walked over the whole deal, they got what they wanted anyway because Gonzo got the job.
How close are we to a coup, anyway? Who's got five bucks on it?
Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/washington/15cnd-attorneys.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
FOLKS WHEN WE SAID WE WERE GOING TO SCREEN ALL THE IMMIGRANTS FOR CRIME STUFF WE MEANT THE MEXICANS AND BASICALLY MEXICAN-TYPE CRIME AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THESE WHITE PEOPLE BEING DEPORTED WHEN ALL THEY DID WAS BURGLARY AND GUNS AND KNIVES AND ARSON AND REGICIDE AND HARASSMENT OF POSTAL INSPECTORS AND REGULAR OLD HOMEGROWN TERRISM? THAT'S RIGHT I SAID NO ABORTION CLINICS ON OUR NATION'S MOON!
Wider immigration net catches legal residents
Non-citizens accused of crimes are being affected by broader local enforcement of law.
By JEFF OVERLEY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
She hails from a well-to-do family with a hilltop home in Orange. She's a mother of two who made a decent living in cosmetology and studied in college to be a teacher.
Sharon Denise Lee might not be the sort of person people had in mind when local law enforcement bolstered immigration screening efforts in recent months.
But the 46-year-old, who came to the United States from England when she was 19, now sits in county jail, awaiting deportation because of several run-ins with the law, including commercial burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia.
( but wait there's more! )
Wider immigration net catches legal residents
Non-citizens accused of crimes are being affected by broader local enforcement of law.
By JEFF OVERLEY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
She hails from a well-to-do family with a hilltop home in Orange. She's a mother of two who made a decent living in cosmetology and studied in college to be a teacher.
Sharon Denise Lee might not be the sort of person people had in mind when local law enforcement bolstered immigration screening efforts in recent months.
But the 46-year-old, who came to the United States from England when she was 19, now sits in county jail, awaiting deportation because of several run-ins with the law, including commercial burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia.
( but wait there's more! )
The shoes.
Mar. 15th, 2007 08:20 pmI had a mission. It seemed simple. My task was to acquire and ship a pair of shoes to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mendel.
Acquisition was easy; about five clicks of ecommerce.
Then I discovered that shipping a pair of shoes to a friend in Canada is... fraught. It's not expensive. Nor is it physically difficult. However, the bureaucracy involved is nearly Slavic.
First I tried to do this via FedEx. They had a reasonably priced shipping option, and their website promised a step-by-step process for getting the customs declarations and shipping labels right.
The actual process resembled a "choose your own adventure" script in which failure might result in international arrest warrants for fraud, smuggling, failure to comply, cavalier attitude towards generally accepted procedures of international commerce, and yeggery. Deep in the middle of Adventure #3 I found myself faced with a screen in which I had to choose whether the shoes were "ornamental" in some way or "shoes, leather sole, fabric upper, pointed, ballet, en pointe, intended for legitimate artistic purposes." I imagined a bad click resulting in poormendel forced to pirouette on a pair of city walking boots under pain of permanent fugitive status on an Interpol warrant.
I gave up on FedEx. Their process "concluded" without any ability to schedule a pickup. Apparently I hadn't finished, but there was no clue why.
The United States Postal Service was more promising. In fact, their procedure was honestly step-by-step, and the rates again very reasonable! I happily clicked through a few screens, entered my information, and was presented with a PDF which I printed. No joy. The PDF printed without addresses and strangely truncated. I had mistakenly clicked "okay!" and charged my credit card before I saw that the printout was very much not okay. Oh God! What to do now? Once you've printed out the damned thing you can't do so again without doubling the charge, which then becomes less than reasonable.
Fortunately the EZ-Print-O-Matic system had dropped a turd on my desktop which turned out to be the PDF itself. I opened it with Adobe Reader instead of the Mac's "Preview" program and it printed out just fine. Whew! I now had the five required copies of the label/customs declaration, prepaid postage, the package itself, and a false sense of confidence.
eyeteeth and I arrived at the post office today and found it nearly empty! no line, friendly staff. Hopes were high. Unfortunately, I had failed to throw out the first, bad printout of the label and had brought it with me instead of the second, good printout. The postal lady couldn't do a thing with the first printout because it was so badly truncated that there wasn't enough information for her to fill out a real one. She sadly told me I'd have to bring the real one or she couldn't ship.
Ordinarily I would have cursed God and died, rushed home, found the proper paperwork, and gone back to the Post Office. But I had to feed theeyeteeth and myself, and had to get her to the airport. This was no time to admit defeat. Off we went to Cafe Zinc to eat well, and from there to the airport.
Problem: the mailing date on the forms was fixed at today. What will happen? Tomorrow I will try to contact "customer" "service" at the USPS and find out if I have completely failed and missed my "window" in which case I'll start over. With luck this will be no problem. Then I will be able to mail the package.
As Art Spiegelman titled his story of Maus after the war, and now my troubles began. Or rathermendel's troubles. If or when I ship the package, will he receive it? Will the broker (Canadian for "bandito") give him the shoes? Will the shoes arrive? Will they be approved by Canadian Customs, or rejected as somehow dangerous or economically rapacious or otherwise un-Canadian? Will mendel be forced to dance a sequence from Swan Lake for Mounties to avoid transportation to the Baffin Bay Correctional Work Institute?
You my readers will be the first to know. Pray for us.
mendel. Acquisition was easy; about five clicks of ecommerce.
Then I discovered that shipping a pair of shoes to a friend in Canada is... fraught. It's not expensive. Nor is it physically difficult. However, the bureaucracy involved is nearly Slavic.
First I tried to do this via FedEx. They had a reasonably priced shipping option, and their website promised a step-by-step process for getting the customs declarations and shipping labels right.
The actual process resembled a "choose your own adventure" script in which failure might result in international arrest warrants for fraud, smuggling, failure to comply, cavalier attitude towards generally accepted procedures of international commerce, and yeggery. Deep in the middle of Adventure #3 I found myself faced with a screen in which I had to choose whether the shoes were "ornamental" in some way or "shoes, leather sole, fabric upper, pointed, ballet, en pointe, intended for legitimate artistic purposes." I imagined a bad click resulting in poor
mendel forced to pirouette on a pair of city walking boots under pain of permanent fugitive status on an Interpol warrant. I gave up on FedEx. Their process "concluded" without any ability to schedule a pickup. Apparently I hadn't finished, but there was no clue why.
The United States Postal Service was more promising. In fact, their procedure was honestly step-by-step, and the rates again very reasonable! I happily clicked through a few screens, entered my information, and was presented with a PDF which I printed. No joy. The PDF printed without addresses and strangely truncated. I had mistakenly clicked "okay!" and charged my credit card before I saw that the printout was very much not okay. Oh God! What to do now? Once you've printed out the damned thing you can't do so again without doubling the charge, which then becomes less than reasonable.
Fortunately the EZ-Print-O-Matic system had dropped a turd on my desktop which turned out to be the PDF itself. I opened it with Adobe Reader instead of the Mac's "Preview" program and it printed out just fine. Whew! I now had the five required copies of the label/customs declaration, prepaid postage, the package itself, and a false sense of confidence.
eyeteeth and I arrived at the post office today and found it nearly empty! no line, friendly staff. Hopes were high. Unfortunately, I had failed to throw out the first, bad printout of the label and had brought it with me instead of the second, good printout. The postal lady couldn't do a thing with the first printout because it was so badly truncated that there wasn't enough information for her to fill out a real one. She sadly told me I'd have to bring the real one or she couldn't ship. Ordinarily I would have cursed God and died, rushed home, found the proper paperwork, and gone back to the Post Office. But I had to feed the
eyeteeth and myself, and had to get her to the airport. This was no time to admit defeat. Off we went to Cafe Zinc to eat well, and from there to the airport. Problem: the mailing date on the forms was fixed at today. What will happen? Tomorrow I will try to contact "customer" "service" at the USPS and find out if I have completely failed and missed my "window" in which case I'll start over. With luck this will be no problem. Then I will be able to mail the package.
As Art Spiegelman titled his story of Maus after the war, and now my troubles began. Or rather
mendel's troubles. If or when I ship the package, will he receive it? Will the broker (Canadian for "bandito") give him the shoes? Will the shoes arrive? Will they be approved by Canadian Customs, or rejected as somehow dangerous or economically rapacious or otherwise un-Canadian? Will mendel be forced to dance a sequence from Swan Lake for Mounties to avoid transportation to the Baffin Bay Correctional Work Institute? You my readers will be the first to know. Pray for us.
I've known Samy a long time, maybe eight years. He's a computer genius. At age 15 he was running the L.A. Perl Users Group. I got a conference room for him at my job and he ran the whole thing, even though his mom had to drop him off there. He finished high school early and got emancipated. At 16 or 17 he was living in his own apartment, making good money at a technology job. I didn't see him often, but it was always a pleasure. Unlike a few other computer geniuses I've known, he was personable and sociable, even charming. And Samy is an idea factory. He would pop up, say hi, and show me something he'd done. It was almost always a "holy shit" moment of surprise and admiration for me. More than once he'd figured something out that was potentially Very Big, but he never sold his hacks and to my knowledge he never did any harm.
In October, 2005 someone gave me a link to Samy's website. On that page, a surprised and a bit frightened Samy recounted his adventures with Myspace. With his usual flair for amusing and instructive hacks, Samy had created a software worm that caused anyone who visited his myspace to have "Samy is my hero" put in their profile. And anyone who viewed their site got the same thing. Exponential growth occurred. Five hours later a million profiles were infected. Six hours later Myspace.com was down.
At the time I was working for Myspace's parent company. We joked about the hero hack, and we figured they'd probably either fix the hole and hire him, or pretend it didn't happen.
They did neither of those things. They filed a civil suit, and pressed criminal charges. This week it was announced that Samy had pled out and been sentenced to three years probation, an undisclosed sum of "restitution" to myspace, and restrictions on his use of computers and the internet (employment purposes only) for an undisclosed period.
I think Samy got a raw deal. I'm sure that Myspace and the prosecutor turned the downtime into a cash figure from lost ad revenue, because in my experience the D.A.'s are not interested in computer "crimes" unless they involved large sums of money or national security. It's my opinion that Myspace needed a security success to offset their more lurid and frightening image as a haunt of murderers and sexual predators. Samy is neither. He's just a smart kid who made the classic Robert Tappan Morris worm mistake.
I hope they don't find a way to nail him during his probation.
In October, 2005 someone gave me a link to Samy's website. On that page, a surprised and a bit frightened Samy recounted his adventures with Myspace. With his usual flair for amusing and instructive hacks, Samy had created a software worm that caused anyone who visited his myspace to have "Samy is my hero" put in their profile. And anyone who viewed their site got the same thing. Exponential growth occurred. Five hours later a million profiles were infected. Six hours later Myspace.com was down.
At the time I was working for Myspace's parent company. We joked about the hero hack, and we figured they'd probably either fix the hole and hire him, or pretend it didn't happen.
They did neither of those things. They filed a civil suit, and pressed criminal charges. This week it was announced that Samy had pled out and been sentenced to three years probation, an undisclosed sum of "restitution" to myspace, and restrictions on his use of computers and the internet (employment purposes only) for an undisclosed period.
I think Samy got a raw deal. I'm sure that Myspace and the prosecutor turned the downtime into a cash figure from lost ad revenue, because in my experience the D.A.'s are not interested in computer "crimes" unless they involved large sums of money or national security. It's my opinion that Myspace needed a security success to offset their more lurid and frightening image as a haunt of murderers and sexual predators. Samy is neither. He's just a smart kid who made the classic Robert Tappan Morris worm mistake.
I hope they don't find a way to nail him during his probation.
Are you playing a GAME with me, sir?
Jun. 10th, 2006 12:26 amIn the course of digging up Bree's court files I found all kinds of weird crap, including a lawsuit where the defendant was a painting and other delights. The one that really got me, though, was the Order Denying MAAF's motion to preclude the French phrase "Quel jeu doit-on jouer vis-a-vis des autorités de Californie?" as used in Mr. Simonet's notes from being translated as "What game must we play with the California authorities?"
The whole thing, which is only five pages and a delight ,is here on my server in .PDF form.
This judge has entirely too much fun.
The whole thing, which is only five pages and a delight ,is here on my server in .PDF form.
This judge has entirely too much fun.
Someday they'll all be President
Mar. 25th, 2006 11:26 pmIt pisses me off when people post warnings about DUI enforcement online. They say stuff like "take a cab tonight if you're going towards $TOWN" or "they're running a checkpoint at Newport & Flower, pass it on".
How about just not driving drunk? Ever? It's not hard to avoid. You'll be helping your friends the best possible way by not killing and maiming them.
If you can afford to go out and drink but you somehow can't afford to cab it home then you're just being a fucking sociopath. Stay home and drink, okay? Helping the other sociopaths mow us all down isn't nice.
How about just not driving drunk? Ever? It's not hard to avoid. You'll be helping your friends the best possible way by not killing and maiming them.
If you can afford to go out and drink but you somehow can't afford to cab it home then you're just being a fucking sociopath. Stay home and drink, okay? Helping the other sociopaths mow us all down isn't nice.
Defense lawyer/supervillain/accused bailbond fraudster Joseph Cavallo is included in a lawsuit by the Jane Doe victim in the Haidl Gang-Rape Case. He's responded as expected; with threats and hints of blackmail. Meanwhile, it's clear that L.A. Times' columnist Dana Parsons has completely and permanently disgraced himself with his coverage. I know that columnists are more "personal" in their approach than daily news journalists, but letting your seething misogyny ruin analysis of a gang rape case that highlights the bizarre world of Orange County wealthy teens and reveals corruption and collusion all the way to the top of County government is... lame. But back to Cavallo. Clearly, if he's included in this lawsuit, then that little bitch is going to find out what happens when you fuck with Joe Cavallo! Why, he's going to tell the ENTIRE SCHOOL what a SLUT she is, and she'll never get to have lunch with the popular girls again! Dude, she was raped with a Snapple bottle and she's after blood. I don't think you can do much worse to her now. Go ahead and release your terrible revenge upon the town of Springfield.
Attorney vows SoCal sex assault victim will regret suing him
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:50 a.m. March 20, 2006
SANTA ANA – The attorney for one of three young men sentenced to prison for the videotaped sexual assault of an unconscious teenage girl vows that the victim and her family will regret naming him as a defendant in a $26 million civil lawsuit.
“They're going to rue the day they brought me into this case,” said Joseph G. Cavallo, who represented Gregory Haidl, son of a former Orange County assistant sheriff.
Haidl, 20, and co-defendants Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner, both 21, were sentenced earlier this month to six years in state prison stemming from the July 2002 incident.
The civil lawsuit filed in December by the victim, now 20, names as defendants her attackers, Cavallo and two defense investigators, John Warren and Shawn Smigel.
The victim, known only as Jane Doe, alleges that Cavallo and the investigators harassed and intimidated her by staking out her Rancho Cucamonga house, improperly obtaining her medical records and revealing her identity, among other things.
“We're taking these people to task about what they did,” said her attorney, Sheldon Lodmer. “They crossed the line in terms of appropriate legal defense.”
Cavallo said he did nothing wrong. He denied Jane Doe's claim that investigators screamed out her name at her new school and said they had to stake out her home to serve her parents with court papers.
He characterized the lawsuit as “revenge” and said that during the civil trial, his defense will include bringing up new information about Jane Doe's past.
“By the time I get done with Jane Doe, the case won't be worth $10. I know more about Jane Doe than her lawyer and her family,” Cavallo said.
Haidl, Spann and Nachreiner were convicted last year of 15 felony counts for sexually assaulting the then-16-year-old victim with lighted cigarettes, a pool cue, a Snapple bottle and a juice can as she lay nude and unconscious on a pool table at the home of Haidl's father, who was not present.
During the criminal trial, Cavallo and other defense attorneys portrayed the victim as an emotionally troubled, promiscuous, would-be porn star who faked unconsciousness on the tape.
Lodmer said he anticipated Cavallo would attack his client.
“I'm sure he will use this opportunity, and she's ready to stand up to it,” Lodmer said.
lol & order
Feb. 22nd, 2006 04:17 pmIt's funny to put "lunch" instead of "love" into pop songs. I think Henry Rollins turned me on to that. It's even funnier when you spend 4 straight hours doing that in Tijuana while waiting for your friend's car to be reupholstered, but you'll have to trust me on that. Hey! You've got to hide your lunch awaaaay. Etc.
A new discovery is law -> lol. This is especially good when applied to pompous speeches, or in this case anguished Bible passages. From the Book of Romans, Chapter 7, verses 22-23 (NIV):
A new discovery is law -> lol. This is especially good when applied to pompous speeches, or in this case anguished Bible passages. From the Book of Romans, Chapter 7, verses 22-23 (NIV):
For in my inner being I delight in God's lol; but I see another lol at work in the members of my body, waging war against the lol of my mind and making me a prisoner of the lol of sin at work within my members.Lunch is the lol, folks.
West Side Story
Jan. 4th, 2006 01:30 pmSo, the city next door to me has a half-assed thing going on where they want their police department to enforce immigration law. This is a terrible idea. It means more work for the cops, more risk to them from freaked-out illegals, and near total loss of any leads they might otherwise get from people with bad immigration status and good information. Plus, any illegal pulled over for a minor traffic violation is going to floor it and run now. And so on. This is right on the heels of the city closing the job center for day labor, as though by removing the official and clean and regulated place for workers to find work they can make the "problem" go away. Have they been to the parking lot of the Home Depot lately? Now, as they voted in the new rule for local policing, they had a demonstration and disruption at the council meeting.
Costa Mesa is a divided city. The east side is wealthy and mostly white, and the west side is poorer and mostly brown. It's not as poor as Santa Ana, but it's not an episode of "The O.C." either. To put it in street terms, you can buy pot and coke in Costa Mesa but you need to go to Santa Ana for heroin. White Costa Mesa mostly dislikes the Hispanic immigrants on racial grounds and tries to hold them down and away. Brown Costa Mesa mostly just tries to hold down a job and get the kids through school.
The po'folks I know from West Costa Mesa are mostly upwardly mobile, hard-working, conservative family people. They're in Costa Mesa because it's the best ghetto in the county and their kids go to better schools and have less risk than in Santa Ana or points north. The only reason they're shat on by the city government is race. In every other way they're what that city has always been: lower middle class workers, small businesses, and middle-of-the-road Babbitt conservatism.
I noticed that the protester who was arrested calls himself "Coyoti Tezcatlipoca". Nice. One problem I've noticed with the hardcore Mexican-American protest crowd is their in-your-face Mexican patriotism. When there were demonstrations near my job in L.A. about the Belmont school issue, for example, the marchers had a huge Mexican flag and waved little ones, and the Mexican national colors were everywhere. One small problem: the neighborhood was almost entirely Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan. The locals didn't appreciate the Mexican invasion, and there were some minor dustups and a few ripped-up flags. It's strange to see the activists making the same mistake that those in power do and equating "spanish-speaking immigrant" with "Mexican". The best part was the (local) Salvadoran activist council walking carrying the huge Mexican flag banner. A coworker of mine at the time who was a Mexican citizen told me that story and spat in the wastebasket next to her each time she said "Salvadoran". No love lost there.
We can't all get along. Sorry, Rodney.
Costa Mesa is a divided city. The east side is wealthy and mostly white, and the west side is poorer and mostly brown. It's not as poor as Santa Ana, but it's not an episode of "The O.C." either. To put it in street terms, you can buy pot and coke in Costa Mesa but you need to go to Santa Ana for heroin. White Costa Mesa mostly dislikes the Hispanic immigrants on racial grounds and tries to hold them down and away. Brown Costa Mesa mostly just tries to hold down a job and get the kids through school.
The po'folks I know from West Costa Mesa are mostly upwardly mobile, hard-working, conservative family people. They're in Costa Mesa because it's the best ghetto in the county and their kids go to better schools and have less risk than in Santa Ana or points north. The only reason they're shat on by the city government is race. In every other way they're what that city has always been: lower middle class workers, small businesses, and middle-of-the-road Babbitt conservatism.
I noticed that the protester who was arrested calls himself "Coyoti Tezcatlipoca". Nice. One problem I've noticed with the hardcore Mexican-American protest crowd is their in-your-face Mexican patriotism. When there were demonstrations near my job in L.A. about the Belmont school issue, for example, the marchers had a huge Mexican flag and waved little ones, and the Mexican national colors were everywhere. One small problem: the neighborhood was almost entirely Salvadoran, Honduran, and Guatemalan. The locals didn't appreciate the Mexican invasion, and there were some minor dustups and a few ripped-up flags. It's strange to see the activists making the same mistake that those in power do and equating "spanish-speaking immigrant" with "Mexican". The best part was the (local) Salvadoran activist council walking carrying the huge Mexican flag banner. A coworker of mine at the time who was a Mexican citizen told me that story and spat in the wastebasket next to her each time she said "Salvadoran". No love lost there.
We can't all get along. Sorry, Rodney.
threepunchstuff has a good roundup of O.C police blotters today. I want to put orange dots on people's garages now.Oh, Gary..
Bonus points for: "One of my colleagues recognized him immediately", "Nguyen Van Phuc".
Max sentence is 5 years there, but I imagine the Vietnamese prison <-> Western Nation prison correspondence is like dog years.
Bonus points for: "One of my colleagues recognized him immediately", "Nguyen Van Phuc".
Max sentence is 5 years there, but I imagine the Vietnamese prison <-> Western Nation prison correspondence is like dog years.
IT'S THE ART POLICE!Only in Italy would they have enough to protect and the will to care.
The TPC have recorded over 630,000 thefts in the past 30 years. They have recovered more than 185,000 art works and more than 450,000 archeological objects. They have confiscated over 60,000 fakes during the 1990s alone.
They're serving in Iraq now too, trying to hunt down missing Mesopotamian artifacts.
Good Morning, Indiana!
Oct. 4th, 2005 09:59 pmIf this bill passes, only married people will be able to use "assisted reproduction" in Indiana.
Draft of the bill is here:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf
Draft of the bill is here:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf
Just go ahead and read these guidelines and sign here.
1. I hereby acknowledge that big fat uncut Brazilian cock may be pushed into my quivering lips, and that I am responsible for knowing the appetizer of the day.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0915051hooters1.html
Best employee handbook ever!
1. I hereby acknowledge that big fat uncut Brazilian cock may be pushed into my quivering lips, and that I am responsible for knowing the appetizer of the day.
...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0915051hooters1.html
Best employee handbook ever!
From Automotive Digest, a charming story. ADP Dealers Services (a division of the payroll giant) was caught surreptitiously taking data from auto dealers and selling it to Carfax, the automotive data company. The rest of their summary of an Automotive News story not available to nonsubscribers is below. I'm glad that they are aware of the sensitivities.
Situation
1. ADP Dealers Services admits taking data from dealers; sold it w/o their knowledge
2. Says repair and maintenance records taken after hours, then sold to Carfax
3. ADP says it's stopped pulling data due to dealer complaints
4. Won't say how many dealers involved in action from Dec through March
5. Experts say dealers need to have lawyers review all contracts w/ vendors
6. Some dealer groups want states to require dealer consent before vendors pull data
Significant Points
1. At issue is who owns data on dealer computers
2. But automakers and vendors often have access
3. Dealers worry about identity theft, privacy lawsuits
4. ADP furnished Carfax w/ VIN data, not protected by federal privacy laws
5. ADP competitor, Reynolds & Reynolds, sells data to Power Information Network
6. But contract promises to get dealer's permission
Says
"And they're taking our information and selling it to other organizations. Every dime of that money (paid to ADP) needs to be returned to the dealers." -- David Farris, owner, Farris Motors
"While the goal of the program was in the best interest of dealers and consumers, a better job should have been done thinking through potential dealer concerns and communicating to dealers the rationale and advantages of the program." -- Kevin Henahan, senior VP marketing, ADP
"Privacy is a huge area of concern. We are aware of the sensitivities." -- Mark Feighery, spokesman, Reynolds & Reynolds
Web Source
http://www.autonews.com/article.cms?articleId=54175
http://www.adp.com
http://www.carfax.com
http://www.reyrey.com
Situation
1. ADP Dealers Services admits taking data from dealers; sold it w/o their knowledge
2. Says repair and maintenance records taken after hours, then sold to Carfax
3. ADP says it's stopped pulling data due to dealer complaints
4. Won't say how many dealers involved in action from Dec through March
5. Experts say dealers need to have lawyers review all contracts w/ vendors
6. Some dealer groups want states to require dealer consent before vendors pull data
Significant Points
1. At issue is who owns data on dealer computers
2. But automakers and vendors often have access
3. Dealers worry about identity theft, privacy lawsuits
4. ADP furnished Carfax w/ VIN data, not protected by federal privacy laws
5. ADP competitor, Reynolds & Reynolds, sells data to Power Information Network
6. But contract promises to get dealer's permission
Says
"And they're taking our information and selling it to other organizations. Every dime of that money (paid to ADP) needs to be returned to the dealers." -- David Farris, owner, Farris Motors
"While the goal of the program was in the best interest of dealers and consumers, a better job should have been done thinking through potential dealer concerns and communicating to dealers the rationale and advantages of the program." -- Kevin Henahan, senior VP marketing, ADP
"Privacy is a huge area of concern. We are aware of the sensitivities." -- Mark Feighery, spokesman, Reynolds & Reynolds
Web Source
http://www.autonews.com/article.cms?articleId=54175
http://www.adp.com
http://www.carfax.com
http://www.reyrey.com
It's not your planet, monkey boy!
Jul. 4th, 2005 12:10 pmThe Eros Project wants its parking fees from NASA. The Eros Project is at the forefront of the critical issue of "Property Rights in Space." The Eros Project is primarily sponsored by BeefJerky.com.
