The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

A resit? Bad luck, that'll really mess your grade up

I can't get a distinction.  But I think I can still get a commendation (I checked ages ago).  Aside from that it's just pass or fail.

[Tonitrus]

There are a fair amount of Mormons in my line of work.  All of them seemed to be alright (including being among the Warhammer-tards mentioned elsewhere  )...nothing like what you guys are getting panty-twisted about.

[CountDeMoney]

There are a fair amount of Mormons in my line of work.  All of them seemed to be alright (including being among the Warhammer-tards mentioned elsewhere  )...nothing like what you guys are getting panty-twisted about.

Well then, be sure to enjoy your Robo-President in his widdle wobe and swippers. 

[Sheilbh]

There are a fair amount of Mormons in my line of work.  All of them seemed to be alright (including being among the Warhammer-tards mentioned elsewhere  )...nothing like what you guys are getting panty-twisted about.

My aunty's a Mormon and, God bless her, she's a fucking loon.

[Eddie Teach]

There are a fair amount of Mormons in my line of work.  All of them seemed to be alright (including being among the Warhammer-tards mentioned elsewhere  )...nothing like what you guys are getting panty-twisted about.

This is a Christian nation, dad gum it! 

[Tonitrus]

There are a fair amount of Mormons in my line of work.  All of them seemed to be alright (including being among the Warhammer-tards mentioned elsewhere  )...nothing like what you guys are getting panty-twisted about.

Well then, be sure to enjoy your Robo-President in his widdle wobe and swippers. 

Uh no, the dog-on-roof thing (among generic politician hate) ruled him out long ago.

[Ideologue]

Only two exams left and I'm done.  So far I think I've passed 2 comfortably, probably passed a third, I'm borderline on a fourth and had an enormous catastrophic collapse on the fifth.  Which was weird because it was the one I felt most prepared and comfortable with when I went into the exam room.

A horrible three hours.  So I'll be resitting that in August.  Only EU and Public to go!

I wonder if taking EU law in 2012 is like taking Soviet law in 1989. : /

[Sheilbh]

Only two exams left and I'm done.  So far I think I've passed 2 comfortably, probably passed a third, I'm borderline on a fourth and had an enormous catastrophic collapse on the fifth.  Which was weird because it was the one I felt most prepared and comfortable with when I went into the exam room.

A horrible three hours.  So I'll be resitting that in August.  Only EU and Public to go!

I wonder if taking EU law in 2012 is like taking Soviet law in 1989. : /

  Yes

It wasn't a choice, it's a core subject.  But it has annoyed me that one of my favourite areas of law may well end up not mattering at all in a year or two.  Ironically my exam's on the day they announce the Greek election results

[Ideologue]

Well, I think my feelings on what a Goddamned shame it is that Germany, Greece, and capitalism have decided to utterly ruin European unification are a matter of record.  If not, I feel that it: sucks.

[Tonitrus]

I dunno...if European unification cannot survive kicking out a weak link like Greece to the curb...was it ever truly viable?

[Ideologue]

You think?  Somehow the U.S. gets by OK even though the good states have had to subsidize the bad states for something like a hundred fifty years.  I blame Germany for their unwillingness to recognize that with the great power to profit off of poor states' shittiness comes great responsibility.  That is, a great responsibility to keep the money flowing to their less well-developed neighbors in order to avoid a breakdown of all they've worked for.

But instead they've embraced the false god of austerity, just like the UK.  Certainly, with such idiots in power, a fragile thing like the EU could never prosper.

It's just very sad to me that the great integrationist experiment is likely to end up a failure, because the so-called responsible countries--for whatever reason--didn't realize that national integration requires the rich sectors to uplift the poor, which has been a rule of every stable national enterprise since rapine and exploitation (of fellow metropolitans at least) went out of style following the French Revolution.  Now, generally, this also requires a greater degree of central control.  Perhaps Europe's core problem was definitely trying for an economic union before they had forged a powerful political union.

Or perhaps their core problem was admitting any loser country that happened to be on the continent of Europe and wanted in.  That was kind of dumb too.

[Tonitrus]

Well, my thinking is, for example...we could kick out Mississippi, or Alabama, or West Virginia (or all three)...and I don't think the effect on the U.S. would be that big.  So why is booting Greece causing an "ZOMG EU WILL THE COLAPSE"?

[Ideologue]

My understanding is that in the event of a return to the drachma, Greece will inflate its debt away, forcing its creditors to accept losses, which in turn will put pressure on the Good EU Countries to bail out those failing loser private enterprises, because capitalism is for poor people, which may prevent them from doing other things like propping up Bad EU Countries like Spain, who may be forced to pull out of the Euro to [there's a word for this, and I just can't remember--numerate, something like that] their debt in pesos or pieces of eight or whatever Spain's currency used to be.

It may be the case that if a U.S. state--let's say Alabama--started printing its own money, and for some crazy reason was not immediately turned into a parking lot by the U.S. Air Force for daring to attempt to fracture our unbreakable union of free republics, U.S. banks that had purchased Alabama bonds, or perhaps Alabama municipal bonds which would now be payable in Alabama scrip, would be in trouble.

[katmai]

Don't beat your ex next time you fucking punk douche.
What a little pussy.

Deputy chief of Las Vegas police says star boxer Floyd Mayweather isn't being mistreated
By Kevin Iole | Boxing – Fri, Jun 15, 2012 12:19 AM EDT

Rapper 50 Cent (L) and attorney Karen Winckler accompany Floyd Mayweather to jail (AP)Jail is clearly not a place for persons with discriminating palates or world-class athletes who need to push their bodies to the limit. Superstar boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., also known as Inmate 01363917 in the Clark County Detention Center, is Exhibit 1-A for both of those points.

Mayweather, who in 2011 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence charges that he beat up the mother of three of his children and threatened his son, is in the middle of serving a 90-day sentence. On Monday, through his attorney, Richard Wright, he complained of the treatment he was receiving in the jail and sought to be released and serve the remainder of his time on house arrest.

On Wednesday, Judge Melissa Saragosa denied the order. Mayweather is scheduled to be released on Aug. 3, assuming he has good behavior.

Saragosa pointed out that most of Mayweather's issues inside the jail are self-inflicted. A doctor he hired to examine him said he wasn't eating properly, wasn't drinking enough water and was suffering from a lack of exercise.

On Thursday, John Donahue, the deputy chief of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the Detention Services Division, released a 2 1/2- minute video in which he painstakingly refuted Mayweather's complaints, point by point.

Dr. Robert Voy, a prominent Las Vegas physician, said in a statement to the court on behalf of Mayweather's request for house arrest that the fighter is consuming only 800 calories a day. But Donahue pointed out the CCDC was in compliance with American Correctional Association standards and was offering Mayweather at least 2,800 calories per day.

    The nutrition part, we're maintained by ACA standards, which we're accredited by, the facility is. We're required to have him, a minimum, of 2,800 calories a day. He is getting that. He is choosing not to eat all his food. He's picking and choosing between cookies and some other snacks that he has available to him. He's not eating the food that's being given to him.

[Lettow77]

 I've said this before, but France is the centre of civilization in the west. It makes me happier thinking that I exist in the same world as places like Marseilles, Florence, Toulouse and Venice. There sure are a great number of places that are, each of them, gems beyond measure; inevitably they are found in Europe. It will be a relief to see America's unwholesome dominance of the Western tradition come to an end.

I would spin a conception of reality in which Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond were heirs of the more fraternal traditions of Western Europe- lassitude, hierarchy and elan, with a focus more on enjoying life than 'succeeding' in it.

To some extent this is a lie; but there is something to it. Certainly, my forebears were happy to imagine themselves the spiritual successors of the imagined age of Ivanhoe, and claimed a cavalier patrimony. It fills me with an almost religious joy to once again love my South, and realize I never truly stopped loving it- only that its existence was eternally ethereal and has only the most tenebrous connections with the South-that-is, alike to how dismal Macedonia is only in its imagination party to the glory of Alexander, but the everlasting deeds of his arms are in no way diminished by their lack of currency at the present stage.

History is the beautiful story of man- similar to memory, the sufferings of wars, hardship and disease are but dull aches, while the flowering of cultures and the great heights of tranquility, ambition and achievement reached by the aspirant resonate deeply in the collective consciousness. It is in the spirit of man's incredible procession up to now that I have a great confidence in the future.