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posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 9:23 PM on September 28, 2008

Thank you very much, Silvertree. Just to clarify, I wouldn't try to complete my master's program in 9 months, just apply to dotoral programs after having been in a master's program for 9 months. I'd be hoping to finish my master's program in 1.5 years (starting spring of 2009 and ending BEFORE the Fall of 2010 when my PhD program would start).
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 7:57 AM on August 26, 2008

Excellent, thanks for the advice everyone!
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 5:57 AM on August 19, 2008

Two things:

1. Give them interesting bits of real legal and non-legal writing.

2. Have them practice in class. Have them do as much writing as they possibly can, and give them feedback on as much of it as you possibly can. Have them give each other feedback.

3. Please don't waste your time giving boring lectures to the class, which is very easy to do in a subject as dry as legal writing can be. You can tell if you're... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:12 AM on August 2, 2008

Whoops, that was three things. Heh.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:12 AM on August 2, 2008

I wonder if you've really investigated all the options for living in Big City A without a terrible commute. Even if, for example, Big City A was New York City, a very high cost of living area, there are places in Brooklyn, Queens, parts of New Jersey, or even in Manhattan where two could live relatively cheaply if you don't need a trendy area or a gorgeous apartment. I know a public interest lawyer who is living on a relatively low salary just fine in Spanish Harlem. There is certainly no need... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:06 PM on July 30, 2008

Great answers, thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 10:41 AM on July 30, 2008

Definitely consider divorce mediation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:35 AM on July 20, 2008

Thanks. Foci, I think that will work, but is there any easy way for me to change the query without having to edit the code every time? Any easy way to just change the query by altering the URL for instance?
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 3:15 PM on July 18, 2008

Thanks! I think I can change the search engines myself now going from your code... but very helpful!
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:32 AM on July 20, 2008

You, I, and everyone else are only blips of existence. We have no inherent importance to the universe.

All assumptions, of course. We have no way of knowing this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 11:00 AM on July 12, 2008

They're the best inferences we can make given a body of collected evidence.

No, I don't think there's enough evidence to even come close to a valid inference. We don't know where we came from, or what (if anything) happens after death. We don't know the origin of the universe, if there is one. We don't know why there is something rather than nothing.

There's no way with our tiny knowledge caught in a vast web of ignorance... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 5:24 PM on July 12, 2008

I think the really interesting question here is: why do you want to feel differently? Why, indeed, do you want to do anything differently? Why not just accept your feelings and behaviors as they are, including your sleeping a lot and reading old books?

I think your internal mental reply will be something along the lines of, "I want to be happier, and being active and interested in new and exciting ventures is the path to that." But then the question is: do you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 12:01 AM on July 12, 2008

Well if you're interested in a settlement, and the other side is amenable, you might also consider a good mediator, perhaps at the American Association of Arbitration. Their point is to generally to get parties to a settlement, and they are quite cheap compared to the costs of going to trial.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 12:06 PM on July 1, 2008

Yes, I think asking on other forums has got to the best means (a Google search is a quick start, though not always very accurate). I would suggest trying to find a larger board on a "parent" topic at a place like Big Boards and then going there and asking for more specific discussion places.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 5:40 PM on June 9, 2008

Thanks for the thoughts!
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:56 PM on June 8, 2008

Thanks so far, everyone!

Pastabagel, that's a good point. I guess I am trying to capture works that were relatively more recent and my boundary is not super-sharp... books that were published between 50 and 63 years ago would not be too far amiss :-).
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 2:30 PM on June 3, 2008

Thanks everyone! Very helpful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 1:36 AM on June 1, 2008

That made me laugh.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 10:58 AM on May 21, 2008

There are several issues here:

1. Where you want to go.
2. Which fields of study can get you there.
3. Whether you can enjoy field B.

Though these are interrelated, they also have some independence from each other.

You need to think widely about (i) what kinds of vocations you might enjoy if you could do anything you wanted to, (ii) what areas might use Ph.Ds in field B, (iii) what areas might use... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:29 PM on May 20, 2008

I wonder if the decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court or not...
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 1:00 PM on May 20, 2008

Very helpful -- thanks! I'll post here if and when I get a resolution...
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 7:32 AM on May 20, 2008

Fun meeting you all!
posted to MetaTalk by shivohum at 7:31 AM on May 5, 2008

The SR-60s are the best value in the under-$100 range, with all the openness/fragility caveats people have already mentioned. You do not need a separate amplifier with them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 6:53 PM on April 21, 2008

Mugabe has been a rat-bastard for a while now, at least since the 1982-84 timeframe

Agreed. From my limited reading, Mugabe seems to have been a vicious, paranoid thus (albeit a very well-educated thug) from the start. It's very sad that he was charismatic and ruthless enough to come into power and help devastate the nation.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 11:54 AM on April 18, 2008

Put more broadly (and yes, I know, Libertarians will argue this--let's take it as read that I understand and categorically disagree with your arguments, so no need to go on about them), we pay taxes, some of which revenue goes to helping the weaker. Logically, those who are incapable of making rational healthcare decisions are weaker in some sense. Follow that to its conclusion.

Yes, the conclusion is that the government pays, and also exerts... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 7:58 AM on April 16, 2008

ATTENTION LIBERTARIANS: NO ONE IS BUYING THIS ARGUMENT ANYMORE

SHOUTING DOESN'T MAKE YOU MORE PERSUASIVE. IT'S GOOD FOR KINDERGARTENERS THOUGH.

Anyway, this trend is already happening, as you can see in bans on smoking and trans fats. You can see it in organ donor situations, which are not market-based (since you can't buy and sell them) & deny organs to people who are alcoholics or otherwise abuse their bodies... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 8:44 AM on April 16, 2008

You have much less "freedom" because you are tied to a massively inefficient system that is trying to deliver a service that the vast, vast majority of people in this country consider essential.

Yeah, maybe. I'm just pointing out that if the government is going to give everyone free health care, you can be certain there are going to be strings attached, just like every other government grant, be it public housing vouchers, welfare, or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 9:26 AM on April 16, 2008

Except, you know, in every democratic polity that's ever put a single-payer or nationalized health care system into place. But apart from all of them ever, yeah, this is a real danger.

I already talked above about the fact that in Canada you can't legally seek private medical care, and how this exerts pressure on you to take care of yourself, since you may be waiting a long time for many procedures in Canada.

In France and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 11:15 AM on April 16, 2008

There are no Exercise Police forcing you to jog, anywhere.

Actually, yes there are. Mandatory military service in countries like Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Norway come to mind. Yes, of course they are instituted for other reasons too, but I'm sure public health benefits are on the short list of reasons of why they maintain these programs.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 12:21 PM on April 16, 2008

But I can seek private care and pay whatever I want for it. Why would that be illegal?

According to the New York Times, "Accepting money from patients for operations they would otherwise receive free of charge in a public hospital is technically prohibited in this country, even in cases where patients would wait months or even years before receiving treatment.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 12:27 PM on April 16, 2008

I understand that you don't think the WOD is necessarily good, but it really doesn't have anything to do with the cost of addiction to society.

Well, sure it does. The idea is that drug addicts are a weight, a burden on society. The (maybe mistaken) thought is that they are bad workers, bad drivers, bad parents, bad citizens. They injure their bodies (which needs to be paid for), are unproductive, and their judgment is screwed up. So the naive War on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 12:32 PM on April 16, 2008

You know, I was taking you half way seriously until this point.

I assure you that if they bring a draft back to the US, public health will be one of the reasons for it.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 12:34 PM on April 16, 2008

(I mean the draft as a concept of mandatory military service, not necessarily going out into the field and fighting battles).
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 12:35 PM on April 16, 2008

Are you high? This would be a spectacularly stupid thing to do to lower health care costs -- take a population that's almost entirely healthy, and put them in much greater danger of the single greatest risk they face: accidental trauma. Not to mention that this clever public health plan misses a few people. Such as "women." And "pacifists."

Physical education classes in grade school also expose kids to "accidental trauma.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 1:30 PM on April 16, 2008

Physical education classes in grade school do not employ firearms, formal hand to hand combat, large power tools and other heavy machinery, automobiles, trucks, other heavy vehicles, helicopters, military transport aircraft, or explosives.

And these are super-duper-dangerous to train with.

A plausible story, but I don't think it's true. I took an (admittedly quick) look at unintentional mortality statistics at the World... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 2:37 PM on April 16, 2008

Sorry, the numbers I gave are only for males.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 2:38 PM on April 16, 2008

I like the idea of running for state rep. But you might want to take a course or two in economics (or read a reputable economics book from a conservative point of view, like "Free to Choose"), so you learn other points of view & see that situations aren't as black and white as you think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:28 AM on April 16, 2008

I think the simple answer, based on my vast experience with this topic is: you can't (easily). It's a lot of work and bears uncertain results: you're better off discovering and pursuing what you actually like. Instead of trying to make sport x lovable, find sport y that you like better.

If you have no choice but to do something, then of course you should try to find those aspects in it that you most enjoy and focus on those. But that's tricky, so you're better off seeing... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 9:07 AM on April 14, 2008

Interesting, but I'm not sure who this really helps. Few are going to attend Boalt over Yale as a result, because graduates of the latter will continue to be the more valued among employers...
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 9:55 AM on March 26, 2008

Did anyone other than me think this is a horrifically bad piece of writing? Every other sentence seems to contain a non-sequitur; ideas don't seem to follow from each other; tangents abound. Examples:

I can recall that day in the 1930s when a “news” (sic) magazine appeared in Washington, D.C.; it was called Newsweek: meant to be a counterbalance to Time Magazine’s uncontrollable malice.

What uncontrollable malice? This seems... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 11:19 PM on March 22, 2008

Don't go to law school unless you are certain you want to be a lawyer. It will saddle you with debt and you'll be pigeonholed into legal jobs it will be difficult to escape. Nor does law school teach you "how to think like a lawyer" in a way that you couldn't pick up from reading some books.

I would say take a risk; try something that you think you enjoy (even if it's NOT a burning passion) and see where you can run with it, perhaps start a business around it,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 10:40 PM on March 22, 2008

The only caveat I would say is if you don't think you can or would do the necessary work. No point in being the guy who failed out of a top 10 law school. Go there, spend the 3 years, and do what it takes to succeed.

Not much need to worry about that unless you're truly irresponsible. It practically takes effort to fail out of these schools.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 11:02 PM on March 22, 2008

Hrmm, thanks...

This is a bedroom window, a triple-window setup where to pull either of the side windows open, you push them towards the center, and they are right in front of a center window.

I don't see any ventilation ducts or gaps in the wall, either, though maybe they are small and I'm just missing them?

Perhaps there are gnat eggs that I'm missing in the tracks for the windows? I try to clean all the dust there up, but maybe I haven't been successful...
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 8:24 AM on March 4, 2008

I'm assuming the tracks are metal, are they damp at all?

Hrmm, I could check -- it's possible. You think there are eggs there I'm my wet paper towel is not picking up?

GilloD, thanks for the disgusting story! The weird thing is, they're really just on or around the windowsill and the floor underneath. And the floor is clear. They're nowhere else in my room... so it's got to be something in that area, and there are no containers I can see near there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 9:58 AM on March 4, 2008

So I don't really get the whole "ethical" question there.

There's a perceived conflict of interest. Where someone might judge a case where they have a personal stake, they are ethically supposed to recuse themselves. That's the argument, at least.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 2:31 PM on February 26, 2008

But that's unrelated to the article, to McCain, and to my point.

Your point was that Obama should not be blamed when two noncontroversial candidates could be confirmed and a quorum formed. The Republicans may or may not be willing to do that. Thus, whether or not that is feasible given the political environment, arguably Obama should not be the lynchpin holding the status quo in place. You may not agree with the point, but it is a colorable argument.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 4:07 PM on February 26, 2008

My point is that, if recusing himself, Obama should not be withdrawing decisions long made.

It's a good point. But there's a question about whether the hold is a "decision[] long made" or is a continuous sort of decision, akin to, for example, jailing a journalist for contempt for refusing to reveal a source. No one would suggest that once made, such a contempt order should not be withdrawn if the judge suddenly suffered a conflict of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 9:49 PM on February 26, 2008

"From a psychoanalytic point of view, the kiss is a revealing sequence containing a personal history. The way a person kisses and likes to be kissed shows in condensed form something about that persons's character. In what Freud saw as the individuals' biphasic sexual development, kissing, as a relatively late version of oral eroticism, links us to our earliest relationship with ourselves and other people. It is integral to the individuals' ongoing project of working out what mouths are for.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum at 6:13 AM on February 22, 2008

Thanks so far for the answers -- very helpful!

any type of music? want to sit and watch something or get up and dance? neighborhoods? vegan or pulled pork eating? specify a bit more and we can help.

I guess I'm thinking participatory and fun for a reasonably-sized group, but not so much dancing. I've heard of live-band karaoke, for instance. That could be interesting. Or just strange music groups with strange audiences that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum at 6:05 AM on February 22, 2008