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Me, too. For all she gets, I'm still waiting for her to show us her tits.

He probably saw your thread on the Google conspiracy to censor the lunar landing anniversary and figured you were wack.

Those are classic.

No, no; it's everyone.

Just curious - do you have prior experience as his customer? If so, how'd those turn out? If not, did you check him or his business out in any way prior to sending money?

Yep. Can't argue with that. Sorry, but as a blanket statement, it's partly correct, partly deficient and partly pure speculation. Please see my posts #s 6 & 12. They are well written.. great points. But, I still can't argue with what he said. I don't argue with "people need to exercise common sense, basic safety precautions and also take responsibility for their actions and be accountable for their actions". I do argue w/the other 2 points.

Yep. Can't argue with that. Sorry, but as a blanket statement, it's partly correct, partly deficient and partly pure speculation. Please see my posts #s 6 & 12.

Rough year for stupid lawn mower operators. It's a lot like doing up your chest strap. There are times when you just need to PAY ATTENTION. Agreed! It's also like one or more features (take your pick) that genuinely make sport skydiving gear safer today than sport gear was, say, 35-40 years ago. In each case, a system is an integrated whole comprised mainly of both equipment and operator. Each needs to be as safe as possible.

I've spent a good chunk of my career handling - on both defense and plaintiff's sides - product liability/injury claims involving machinery, including lawnmowers. Sometimes the accidents can be prevented (or their severity reduced) mainly with better safety design (really!), sometimes they're mainly the result of operator error and/or carelessness, and sometimes the cause is a combination of both. Both as a lawyer and as a "suburban kid" (and now a suburban dad) who's now over 50, I'm very aware of how mowers and lawn tractors used to be designed, and what safety features are now included that didn't exist, say, 40 years ago. Even hedge clippers are safer now, having "dead hand" switches and a shield/guard between the grip and the blades. They're all still very serious machinery, but safety features have made them measurably safer than they used to be. The accidents linked in the OP both seem to me to be cases almost entirely of operator error. And the drowning case really isn't a "lawnmower" case per se, for that matter.

I'll put this politely. Assuming your bona fides (for the sake of discussion), it was imprudent judgment to so very publicly discuss your boss's son that way just 2 days after your hire.

Would you be so kind as to enlighten me about this "thug" profile? Exactly what characteristics identify someone as a "thug"? I'd like to be able to identify any "thugs", should they happen to wander into my neighborhood. Don I don't know where you live. You might look like someone I'd want to pay attention to if you were walking down my street. Here's a little exercise...try a google images search on 'thugs' and see what comes up. That's a good place to start. Even google knows the difference. Wow! You're right!

It's been just 4 days since you started This Thread saying you were thinking about applying for the job, and basically asking what it was like. What's up? What's up? The troll-fu is weak on this one. And yet, it's still found plenty of food. You only despise her because she lends truth to the lie about blondes. Please stop.

It's been just 4 days since you started This Thread saying you were thinking about applying for the job, and basically asking what it was like. What's up?

No they don't, unless you mean specifically lung cancer and specifically in relation to cigarette smokers. For everyone else they're still increasing your risk for a variety of wonderfully charming mouth and throat cancers. It's really a shame that great shit like a good cigar or a great hum job can produce cancer. At least with wanking you only go blind.

I'm comfortable that I've already adequately addressed this. You're just left to decide if you're going to be part of the right 50%.

Well, they're wrong, John. Gee, that was easy. Again, the reporter is not given a free pass; rather, the tool through which Freedom of the Press is exercised by The People (the reporter, or his publication) is immunized from being rendered effectively impotent. Op. cit. A further point is to observe that are several other relationships that US and/or various US states' laws immunize from non-voluntary sworn testimony, at least under certain circumstances, for example: attorney-client, clinician-counselor, clergy-penitent, spouse-spouse. I'd put reporter-confidential source in that general category, too.

Sorry, but although that that may often be the case, I'm not sure it's always the case. Sometimes I see it, so I hit "quote" just to look at the imbedded codes, and I don't see anything wrong; so the problem seems to be in the display, and not the markup tags. I don't have a specific post to link as an example at my fingertips, but I'm pretty sure of this. But for discussion's sake, let's say I did miss a tag error on the occasional example I looked at. There's still the user-friendliness issue that Unku suggested. Anyhow, I hope you take all this simply as folks trying to be constructive members of the team, because that's how it it's intended. We do appreciate all you do.

I find it laughable that every other day in here some drooler with ODS gets in a bash at Chicago or Illinois, when it's utterly obvious that the real reason why that's done, over and over, is because that's Obama's adopted home turf. Hey, guys, we get it - you hate Obama. Time to grow up, get a life and talk about issues. The rest of us are moving along.

If you only read a transcript you'd miss the subliminal cuts.

Not so much the Constitution as much as "Shield Laws" which vary from state to state and not all states' have them. One view of shield laws is that they add to the privileges granted by the US and/or state constitutions. Another view is that those constitutional privileges already exist, but are worded very broadly, so the shield laws are designed to clarify the existing privileges by adding more specific language, in order to remove potential infringers' ability to exploit the vageness or ambiguity. I, as well as the 2 federal judges who sided with the reporter in this case, subscribe to the latter view.

...which is why cowboys are so terrifying. I've made my point, multiple times now. I'm done.

Does it always devolve into a discussion about killing your co-workers, or has someone been reading too many BOFH stories again? Pssst... The third "option" was to designed to bring attention to the first two.

Reasonable? I suppose. Practical? Open to opinion. Tell you what, if that gains traction, I propose we call freeflying formations "free radicals".

Sounds like all conceivable options are either ineffective or are basically foreclosed. Seems that the only remaining options are: live with it, leave, or kill her.

Seriously? You actually took me literally? OK, whatever.