Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

Post by lores » Fri, May 02, 2025, 8:47 AM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #49

perihelions wrote: post #37

- "The whole story would be far more humorous were it not from a case in which Perrone represented a woman who claims that she nearly died after being incarcerated and not given proper medical care. Perrone must now refile his complaint in that case—without the cartoon dragon." That should be more offensive than cartoons. In a just world. It's not as if the victim had the luxury of many choices of law firms, or any c…

The world has gone from substance to optics. You see it in every industry or field.

Post by fc417fc802 » Fri, May 02, 2025, 10:17 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #53

thinkingemote wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is like my great grandpa scolding us at the dinner table for laughing and talking It's more like a non-familial, formal dinner setting. Think about a job interview where the CEO and interviewer take you and another interviewee to dinner in a fancy restaurant. You turn up in jeans and sneakers with your buddy and you laugh and crack jokes together, the other interviewee turns up in smart clothes and talks soberly. I…

Surely you are aware that a lot of the people on this site interview in their jeans

Post by spiffytech » Fri, May 02, 2025, 11:48 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #32

wiradikusuma wrote: post #4

Also, sometimes we (developers) like to use wacky data for testing purposes. For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user, and my QA likes to upload cat pictures when testing uploads/images. We do it so it's obvious it's test data, and also we're lazy to think of more "real" data. Just say some users expect real(ish) data for testing. I had a client who was totally not happy when he saw Batman and Superman in th…

For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user I can't remember the details, but I've heard a story multiple times about a fake-sounding name being used in testing -- I think US military payroll? -- and causing problems when a real person had that name. Can anyone here remember this? In any case, "batman" is just about plausible enough that it could be real. I tend to use names like "Mr. Testy Testalicious" which…

Post by rascul » Fri, May 02, 2025, 11:55 AM UTC

_bin_ wrote: post #38

demarq wrote: post #26

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I see what you are saying about there being different standards. I would follow up with, if the shoe was on the other foot, do you believe that a lawyer with tattoos and or purple hair should be allowed to practice? We may never agree? But I think that we should be more tolerant of individuality than prejudice.

I disagree with the way the bar associations are currently constructed as state-sanctioned monopolies. Since they're technically the ones who determine who is "allowed to practice", that's a hard question to answer. I'd be comfortable establishing a stronger dress code for courtrooms - wear business casual or some such - but dyed hair and tattoos aren't easily fixable mistakes if you get called to court, so they have…

Post by JCattheATM » Fri, May 02, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC

cess11 wrote: post #23

rootsudo wrote: post #7

I get why furries are called that — they’re into human-animal caricatures with fur. What do you call someone who likes dragons? Scalies?

People who are into dragons are furries, it's not a literal term. Their furry subgroup is usually called scalies, which besides dragons and snakes include people who are into things like salamanders and other amphibians. I'm under the impression that such taxonomies are less important to these in-groups than whether you're just into the aesthetic or get off on it sexually as well.