Unfortunately the Supreme court has become more and more pro-corporations, which means that buying a car or getting a job is a lengthy one-sided legal contract likely waiving your right to trial by an elected judge, trial by jury, choice of forum/law, and arbitration costs that are significantly higher than if you were to go through a regular court. Of course the company has already picked the venue and arbitration company that is most favorable to them.
Justice Stevens reads the fine print
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#22> ... is fully and fairly notified about the existence ... I'm not a lawyer, but recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) where the character Elle Woods on her first day of Harvard Law School was sent out of a class for being "unprepared", that is, not having read 41 pages on "jurisdiction" or some such. Well, Ms. Woods might have responded to the professor that she did nothing wron…
> recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) OT, but what do you mean? Is youtube showing full movies now, or was this a pirate upload?
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#23Related to the opening of this article – it is interesting to see how one can get completely soured on certain products or experiences because, by virtue of their profession, they see the dirty underbelly of how things in that industry actually work. Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someo…
One of those hypotheses is easily testable: bridges can collapse and you will hear about it. And yet.. it rarely happens? There was one in Italy and one in the US recently but, to a decent approximation, it’s a non-issue. Maybe we should have more trust in people and their work. Maybe our bridges are fine, our food is kosher, but what’s rotting on the inside is society, eaten alive by cynicism and distrust.
There was very nearly one in central London a couple of years back (Hammersmith) and it’s still closed to traffic.
But nearly is good, the situation is being rectified before it turned into a disaster. From the noises coming out of TfL this was a little close for comfort though.
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#24> ... is fully and fairly notified about the existence ... I'm not a lawyer, but recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) where the character Elle Woods on her first day of Harvard Law School was sent out of a class for being "unprepared", that is, not having read 41 pages on "jurisdiction" or some such. Well, Ms. Woods might have responded to the professor that she did nothing wron…
> recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) OT, but what do you mean? Is youtube showing full movies now, or was this a pirate upload?
YouTube now has maybe several dozens, maybe more, of full movies available to watch for free "with ads". Where they got the movies, I have no idea. If click around enough at YouTube, can get a Web page that lists just movies, all or nearly all for free and the rest "for rent".
In my experience, the operation of downloading a movie, or any video being played in a Web browser, at least with the software tools I have, to a file is touchy, slow, unreliable, etc. but at times works, but I was able to download, from somewhere, Sargent York. Also I was able to buy on DVD the original King Kong.
Both of these two old movies show, at least to my eyes, that the basic craft of drama, story telling, and, really, movie making was plenty advanced by the time of those two movies (the 1930s). For "York" busy movie music composer Max Steiner in places was plenty dramatic.
From such old movies, I have liked the examples of the basic craft of movie making with simpler and easier to understand movies that don't do nearly as much as a lot of more recent movies with special effects.
My guess is that most of what is important in making a movie popular is the basic craft and not the rest, and in my judgment the craft has not improved much since the best work of the 1930s. Maybe this observation is just Film School 101. Yes, current computer based special effects are amazing, but that is only an indirect approach to the main goal of the basic craft, insight into humans. Having at least some understanding of the "basic craft" is somewhat relevant to my Internet startup.
Sure, in school I was a STEM field major and refused to take literature seriously. But at times literature tries to address a serious subject -- humans. Literature does not always do well with that subject, but neither do the STEM fields.
To my eyes, sometimes literature, ..., and movies actually do well in some respects with humans, at times good enough to take seriously in the goal of understanding humans.
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#25Seeing the domain and the title I was wondering at first what the article had to do with typography.
Mr. Buttericks guide on practical typography is an must read for everyone in print- and webdesign: https://practicaltypography.com/
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#26Related to the opening of this article – it is interesting to see how one can get completely soured on certain products or experiences because, by virtue of their profession, they see the dirty underbelly of how things in that industry actually work. Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someo…
As a developer, I was shocked when at a friend's house saw that Alexa not only operated lights, but door locks and blinds. Or when another friend takes hands off the steering wheel to test lane keep assist. I don't think I can trust any software at that level.
I agree with the IoT stuff, would never trust or want that...
Taking hands off steering wheel. Depends on where done, but straight or slightly curving highway with no significant other traffic sure. Why not try how well it works, just be ready to grab and correct if needed.
I even try how well my car goes straight line in similar conditions...
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#27Related to the opening of this article – it is interesting to see how one can get completely soured on certain products or experiences because, by virtue of their profession, they see the dirty underbelly of how things in that industry actually work. Someone who has read cruise contracts in detail will never want to go on one. Cooks with experience in commercial kitchens never want to eat at a restaurant again. Someo…
One of those hypotheses is easily testable: bridges can collapse and you will hear about it. And yet.. it rarely happens? There was one in Italy and one in the US recently but, to a decent approximation, it’s a non-issue. Maybe we should have more trust in people and their work. Maybe our bridges are fine, our food is kosher, but what’s rotting on the inside is society, eaten alive by cynicism and distrust.
The experts probably know which bridges to avoid. Those likely have sufficient number of visual clues of things like discolouring, cracks and so on.
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#28> ... is fully and fairly notified about the existence ... I'm not a lawyer, but recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond (recently for free at YouTube) where the character Elle Woods on her first day of Harvard Law School was sent out of a class for being "unprepared", that is, not having read 41 pages on "jurisdiction" or some such. Well, Ms. Woods might have responded to the professor that she did nothing wron…
> I'm not a lawyer, but recently I did watch the movie Legally Blond I’m going to use this whenever I give a legal opinion on the internet.
Even better, a bootleg of the musical theatre adaption
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of those hypotheses is easily testable: bridges can collapse and you will hear about it. And yet.. it rarely happens? There was one in Italy and one in the US recently but, to a decent approximation, it’s a non-issue. Maybe we should have more trust in people and their work. Maybe our bridges are fine, our food is kosher, but what’s rotting on the inside is society, eaten alive by cynicism and distrust.
Bridges are usually massively over-engineered for safety.
Not over, just engineered. That's what safety is. I don't mean to be snarky, the built-in buffer is part of what makes it safe.
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#30Unfortunately the Supreme court has become more and more pro-corporations, which means that buying a car or getting a job is a lengthy one-sided legal contract likely waiving your right to trial by an elected judge, trial by jury, choice of forum/law, and arbitration costs that are significantly higher than if you were to go through a regular court. Of course the company has already picked the venue and arbitration c…
There has been some minor progress on this front. Arbitration agreements are no longer enforceable if you are sexually harassed or assaulted:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4445...
A 20% of the house voted no on it and several Congress critters said in hearings that arbitration agreements are fine because they “voluntarily entered into”. So a lot of Congress people unabashedly serve corporations.