FreeflyChile

wow. thats very impressive!!! makes me feel really really bad about the shape im in now hahahhaa!

thanks to everyone! yeah, the biggest feeling was one of relief....i am so happy i don't have to study for it anymore. if by the real fun you mean studying for the real bar -- then yeah, this summer will be full of fun. Though i have to say, i can't imagine the bar will be harder than the patent bar. longer, yes. harder, doubtful. now, are there any patent attorneys on here that practice in chicago and can hire me to start in sept? i need a job!!

I PASSED THE PATENT BAR!!! hardest test i ever fuckin took! damn glad thats over.... gettin drunk, wanna get drunker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

does anyone here play ps3 online at all?

closest i've come is several times i've had a knot form on one of my brakes so that all i can do is either fly half brakes or turn left (it always seems to be the left brake that gets the knot). every time it seemed to fly stable in half brakes so i landed it that way.

So i take the patent bar exam in about oh, 11 hrs... it's 3 am and i have been tired all day from 2 weeks of 5-6 hr study days, and studied all day today...and im wide awake. from everything i have seen, it's probably the hardest exam i've ever take - will probably be harder than the real bar, actually. I'm going to need some sleep, hopefully soon, and a lot of luck to pass this!

The people in the tavern must have been armed. Had guns been outlawed, no one in the bar would have been carrying and the tornado would have killed them all without them being able to defend themselves, but the tornado, armed with strong winds, saw that their combined power outweighed its combined power, and it moved on to destroy anti-gun people.

just wait long enough for the land to be redeveloped and push the low income people away from the city. it's what is happening in other areas....

Within 2 years of graduating law school i'd like to get a porsche cayman (later in life, a 911). if not that, then a 350z.

i'd love to be a med-mal lawyer on that show! talk about easy money...

i like the robot chicken where vader calls the emperor to tell him the death star was destroyed

I think FallingMarc told me about it in 2001 or so, then we met at Skydive Illinois with Val, Medic, and Sunshine for some jumps, which i think were weathered-out. after that, it's been a great way to avoid paying attention in classes and work.

thats great it starts with an earthquake....blabdlbadfhaudfodbdofo fdifiahfi ... LEONARD BERNSTEIN! its the end of the world as we know it...

that car accidents are usually followed by the car exploding. i'd love to be a lawyer on a show like that ... the products liability money you could make.....

if the image is stretched it's likely that the image they were using wasn't originally widescreen, but was stretched to fit the screen. a lot of widescreen tvs let you stretch a normal tv signal to fit a screen, either by stretching the whole screen equally or stretching the sides (leaving the center unstretched) to fit the screen. if that's the case, thats really a poor way of showing how good widescreen hdtv can look.

Im sorry, but i still love boston legal. may be waaaay exagerated and inaccurate, but it's funny as hell!

isn't ammo that kills a cop by literal definition "cop killing"? since you started the thread, i'll ask you this question, though anyone else please feel free to answer: it appears to me that part of the pro-gun argument is that taking guns away from everyone will only take the guns away from law-abiding citizens, and that criminals will be the only ones to have access. my understanding of this point of view is that since this country afforded people the right to have guns long ago, it went down a path that can no longer be reversed. so my question is: if you were to start your own country, brand spankin new, and you had no worry of your government going all tyrannical on you, would you then still give your citizens the right to have guns? in this hypothetical, no one has guns from the start.

i have a rawa and the only time i've had it get a few notches looser is when i have extremely hard openings. i know, thats not useful, but i also want to see the security thing that the other poster was talking about. also, bill self can suck my ass.... Go ILLINI!

By campus do you mean campus buildings or the campus area? Just curious because where i went to school, people didn't really leave campus as i understood it to be to party.

No, i don't think someone already licensed goes to college and becomes instantly irresponsible. I think the college environment, at least as I experienced it, lends itself to situations where people would do things they normally wouldn't do, or that they won't do later in life. I'm just wondering whether permitting concealed weapons in such an environment will make things better or worse. Again, I understand that there are people who own guns that treat that right with the respect it deserves and take measures to ensure safety and responsibility. Those are not the type of people who I would be concerned about.

Well, I wasn't really trying to argue for or against it. I was trying to just voice my concerns or thoughts about it, and i wanted to see what people proposing this thought. I think you're right in one sense, that if you are allowed to carry everywhere else, you should be allowed to carry on a college campus. Isolated in and of itself, that logic of "I can do it elsewhere that is public, why not there" makes sense to me. At the same time, Im not so sure it's a good idea because of the type of behavior that goes on in college. I just wanted to see a response that addressed those thoughts. Personally, I think the gun debate is an interesting one. Usually, I don't engage in them because they turn into shouting matches that really don't do much for me as far as getting new information or points of view. I thought your original post seemed level headed and thought provoking to where i posted about it, and was curious if anyone else had the same thoughts about people carrying guns on college campuses that i do, or if perhaps someone who would advocate this could address my concerns in a way where i could understand the other side of the argument.

maybe im not making my point of view clear. im not saying that its legal or not to carry while drunk. im concerned that even if it is illegal, it will happen. it's not legal for someone to have been drinking while under 21 either, but in colleges it happens all the time. so im concerned that just as people are relaxed towards drinking laws as they apply to other things (such as underage drinking or drunk driving), people would also take lightly laws that prevent drinking and carrying. im aware that there are people here who are probably very responsible in the way they handle their weapons. im guessing that those are the same people that voice their opinions as to the gun debate. i can respect that. im just saying that i dont think their sense of responsibility can be imputed to everyone else, especially in an atmosphere that lends itself to, and in some instances encourages, irresponsibility.

Well, even if its illegal to carry into a bar, bars are not the only places people get tanked on campus. I guess my concern with this is not with the people who are truly responsible and understand their responsibilities, and also can be trusted even when under altered states. It'd be the fringe people who are able to get a gun, but then later either dont have or lose the discipline and the ability to think clearly. On a related note, and this is my own curiousity, not meant to start anything.... there's been discussion that if someone close to the situation that happened at VT were carrying, the toll wouldnt be as heavy. my question is, are there any studies to show how many people (as a percentage of population, actual numbers, whatever) that dont carry would if they were allowed to? do we know if any of the people that were in those classrooms would have been packing if they had been allowed to? i guess i just think that the only way that point of view has any persuasive effect for me is if there is a way to know for sure whether anyone there would have been armed had they had the option to be.

I don't have a problem that someone who is properly trained in using guns and all that should be allowed to carry it. I personally dont like it, but if the constitution gives people to right to carry guns, then fine. My problem with the concealed guns in college is that, in my opinion, college is a place where people make mistakes that they can learn from. For example, it's a place where a lot of people drink for the first time, or at least do things they normally would not do because it's really the first time they are out from under their parents' wing. And if someone gets a ticket for being underage in a bar, or gets so drunk that they get into a fight, then so be it. The ticket might sting, but it's nothing too great in the grand scheme of things. My biggest concern is that even people who have the proper training and discipline while sober, may not be as such while drunk. Now i know there are people that carry outside of the collegiate world that get drunk, and it doesnt result in mass shootings - i just think that the college party atmosphere is a controlled chaos where there is a tolerance for making mistakes and learning from them. Now, it is scary to think about what might happen if one of these people that are a perfectly disciplined person while sober loses control while drunk, and is armed to boot. Another concern regarding guns in college for me is that security in the dorms as far as the individual rooms was a joke. Additionally, you have the roommate issue. Granted, i know that most people that are 21 in college are no longer in a dorm situation, but i think there are still times where a person owning a gun may not always be able to monitor the security of his own room (whether it be to ensure his roommate doesnt have access to the gun or whether it be that his room is secure enough so that someoen else finds it). i think it's an interesting topic for debate, and i think there are pros to each side, but it's a dicey issue because college is not like "real life" and so sometimes real life rules shouldn't necessarily apply.

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