This sounds vaguely like Cleopatra 2525, albeit a lower-budget and more explicitly lesbian version.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:03 PM on September 7, 2008

There's an STA travel agency in Oakland that helped me plan a great trip when I was a student.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:19 PM on September 1, 2008

What do you mean when you say you don't have worker's comp? If you mean you weren't injured on the job, that's one thing, but nearly everyone who posts on AskMe will be in a jurisdiction with some statutory form of worker's compensation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:54 AM on August 4, 2008

There are a lot of questions raised by this post and hopefully you can unravel some. The biggest question is the procedural history up to this point. She's going to have exhaust her state court options and she'll probably have had counsel for quite some time by then. If she's unhappy with a trial verdict, she can't just jump to SCOTUS. Your post makes me wonder if there's even been a conclusion trial, to be honest.

The Supreme Court doesn't just throw out state laws... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:25 AM on July 17, 2008

*er, conclusion of her trial.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:25 AM on July 17, 2008

and finally, there are no prosecutors in civil law suits, so your friend wasn't exactly prosecuted. Nor is there such a thing as a probable win at the Supreme Court. Like I said, the odds of getting cert granted are so small and the process so long, it may be time to think of other options. IANYL, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:27 AM on July 17, 2008

You can't get Westvleteren outside of Belgium and even there it can be hard to find. I think the closest I've found that's available is the St. Bernadus 12, but it's a loaded question and there's little agreement on the issue. If you're adventurous and willing to pay, you can often get Westvleteren on eBay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 8:04 AM on July 10, 2008

Alan A Dale?
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:52 AM on July 7, 2008 marked best answer

PS: it starts at 1:24 on that clip, they're dressed like Robin Hood, and I'm fairly certain that's it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:57 AM on July 7, 2008

So if this is just an idle speculation kind of question, I can give you a pretty straightforward answer: no. This is not an IP question but a contract question and it's possible in almost every jurisdiction to sign an NDA that trumps whatever marital privileges you might think exist (mostly against testifying, etc). In short and in general, you can sign an NDA that prohibits you from talking to your spouse about your work.

If this is something that you need a real... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 8:17 PM on June 30, 2008

Coffee Obsession has two locations, Falmouth and in Woods Hole. It's probably the best independent coffeeshop on the cape if it's not too far. I'm a huge fan.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 12:44 PM on June 30, 2008

Most employers don't really care. Some judges will want FedSoc credentials, but honestly, any big firm will not care. These things are important for you to have something to talk about during an interview (but remember that these interviews can be hard to get at many schools). Small firms may like that you're involved in various activities, but that matters on the whim of the individual and will not likely be something you can predict. In short, only do things that you care about and only do... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:12 AM on June 24, 2008 marked best answer

For a contrary position, 1L just isn't that big of a deal. People inject all of this concern and significance into the experience which ultimately becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's not that hard, it's not that much work, it's nothing that a moderately thoughtful person can't handle. Hyping it up is not going to get anywhere and creating odd totems of highlighters and brieftaking is just going to make it worse. Maybe some people need this sense of dread and importance, but honestly,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 3:49 PM on May 8, 2008

As someone who has spent a good chunk of his life involved with protest movements, civil disobedience, grsasroots organizing, and the like, I have to say this: you need to scale back. If this is something that you ultimately feel so strongly about that you want to get involved, regardless of your information level (which is important) you should not go and try and be superhuman. Organizing is hard, galvanizing people around an issue, no matter how trendy (or how bad their understanding of the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:12 PM on May 4, 2008

If you're serious about educational reform, you probably ought to steer clear of T4A. If this isn't immediately obvious to you, you would definitely befit from spending a few years doing other things and thinking about it. Go West young man.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:34 PM on April 28, 2008

Millionaire by the Mekons. Best answer. End of story.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:37 PM on March 27, 2008

Slip opinions, as mentioned above, is what you're looking for. These were early advance sheets that were rushed out before the opinions were collected into reporters by West.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 4:32 PM on March 22, 2008

As I law student hanging out at a party with Anthro PhDs this weekend, this came up a few times. There is almost no presence in legal education and the little interdisciplinary work that is done is usually done by Anthro professors w/o a legal background. This is surprising, given recent hiring trends in legal academia, but it does not seem to have been picked up. A lot of interest seems to resolve around the intersection of human rights law and field work, especially in post-conflict... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:30 AM on March 17, 2008

According to the USDA, corn is the number one staple crop followed by rice
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 9:57 PM on March 3, 2008

It's nothing that wasn't already present in a more toned-down form in Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents. If you want a more long-term view with some good discussions of what these countries ought to have been doing, check out the work of Ha-Joon Chang, especially Kicking Away the Ladder and his new book, Bad Samaritans.

But yes, from the little of what I've seen, it's more or less on point.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 1:01 PM on January 25, 2008 marked best answer

Is it my place to blow the whistle?

Legal question aside, this is a tough question that has no easy answer. Some people might weight the impact it would have on her family, whether your wife will become villified by those who do not believe her or who refuse to believe her, whether the person has reformed his behavior, the damage it might cause your wife to have a public trial, whether you could live with yourself if it turned out you could have... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:06 AM on January 24, 2008

You're probably better off knowing a lot more about what you want to do than vague generalities, or law school and the legal world is going to be pretty awful for you. If you want to do something very specific, than you can do some research and figure out how to use your law degree to that end. If you just want to generically fight for civil liberties, you're going to face a very harsh reality. Legal education does not really prepare you for activism and law degrees are very expensive ways to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:26 PM on January 3, 2008

I think a lot of posters are going awfully easily on the MIL here. Something substantially similar happened in my family (there's a long and kind of obvious history of Christians of various stripes trying to "save" Jewish children through deceptive practices) and it seems that there is only one reasonable response. Your MIL is a Jew-hater whose self-righteousness places your and your children's safety into jeopardy. It's time to manage a way to completely cut her out of your life... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 9:56 PM on December 27, 2007

I have to say I'm really appalled by the number of people who come in here with no background knowledge of the regularity of this betrayal and insist it's not that big a deal, or that it couldn't have really happened this way, or that this is an abberation. As I mentioned before, this is a trauma that has affected a significant number of Jewish families in this country and that the Catholic church (while others are implicated, none to this degree) has a very disgusting and recent history of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 12:00 PM on December 28, 2007

And for all the charges of antisemitism flying around this thread, there are just as many anti-Catholic statements. As there any data on the number of these surreptitious baptisms of Jewish children? Or is everyone relying on unsubstantiated stories about this?

There is no equivalence here. Jewish communities never kidnapped Catholic children in America to take them off to boarding school. I cannot make this clear enough. Up until close to the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 12:04 AM on December 29, 2007

So I took Contracts with Charles Fried, who has taught this subject for perhaps 200 years or so. This came up in conversation once, and his response was simple: "I have no idea, probably because it's a hard C." If there was anyone alive for when this abbreviation was decided (or contract law was written) it would have been him. My guess is that this is just that simple. Looking for a deeper reason might be futile. And without consideration. Oh God.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 2:19 AM on December 15, 2007

This really doesn't matter at all. 1 year of work experience is very low on the "soft factor" list. As long as you have something to put on your resume, you'll be fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 8:48 PM on November 6, 2007

David Hayashi was sentanced to one year unsupervised probation for harassing a dolphin (which was later overturned by the 9th Circuit in US v Hayashi). That's the closest I could find.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:15 AM on July 10, 2007 marked best answer

I was at a small Obama event where someone asked such a poweful question that I was amazed. It was: "when you are elected president, what will you to stop the genocide in Darfur." He gave an ok answer (I think he lost the support of some people for not giving a better one) but that's one he better know. Be direct, aggressive, and don't mince words.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:43 PM on April 10, 2007

allterrainbrain has it right. Depending on where you live, you will have different rights as a tenent and depending on your financial situation, you might be able to contact a legal services bureau in the area to help you find out what your rights are. If you live in a fairly progressive part of the country, there will be solid laws that will allow you to stay in possession of the apartment while you negotiate this stuff. If you live in Arkansas, they can send the police to arrest you if you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 9:21 PM on March 13, 2007

Falling waters is great if you can commandeer a car. There's always Kennywood, which is surprisngly fun and cheap for an amusement park of its caliber. The weather might not be nice enough this time of year (if it's open, of course). I once took a partner on a field trip to Cleveland for a night to walk around and see the city (if you can get over the rivalry it's a nice place to sight see). We had a great time and got to see the Rock and Roll museum of history which was a blast.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 12:11 AM on March 11, 2007

I had a few friends in that program and got an MPhil myself from Cambridge. To be honest, if you're paying full-price it's just not going to be worth it. It's a year off, lots of fun, and there's almost no sueprvision so you can do what you want. It's a pricey vacation without a scholarship and it won't really help you much in getting into a PhD program in the states. It can help you get into the 3-year PhD at Cambridge if you score high enough on your papers to get funding.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 7:42 PM on March 6, 2007

It's hard to ship alcohol as many states either outlaw out-of-state shipments or have bizzare policies that make it nearly impossible. For example, The Green Grape above does not ship to Washington State. It seems like the poster is interested in shipping something there and not necessarily buying something there, so I would recommend finding a Washington liquor store with an online store that does instate shipment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 3:15 PM on January 8, 2007

lover
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 9:12 PM on January 6, 2007

I researched this last summer and found no similar term in the English language - the closest I could find was "lover".

I agree. Just think of the parallel to "oh that's not my wife, that's my mistress. Don't tell my wife"

"That's not my husband, that's my lover. Don't tell my husband. Or the UPS man."
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:53 PM on January 6, 2007

It's not entirely clear that Josephus actually wrote about Jesus. There is significant controversy regarding the passage i nquestion, which wikipedia does a predictably bland and uninsightful job of covering without significant bias.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:52 PM on January 5, 2007

Ambrosia Voyeur is right (and perhaps understated?). Smoked Salmon is the way to go. Spread some creme fraiche, slice some tomatos and red onions if you like and sprinkle in some capers as well. It's like a French version of a bagel.

Some people prefer chives, black pepper, and lemon juice instead of tomatos, red onions and capers. Doesn't matter, so long as you have good lox you really can't go wrong.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 1:05 AM on December 31, 2006

Miranda doesn't apply if he's not being questioned and it sounds like they're delaying an indictment. Malor's almost right, depending on local jurisdiction he can be held without charges for that long before they choose to indict. Flarbuse's point that for all extensive purposes he's under arrest does apply for interrogation purposes (if he talked now w/o Miranda or asked for a lawyer and was denied one as the interrogation continued, his testimony would be excluded), but that doesn't mean... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:47 AM on December 30, 2006

Regarding the cell phone issue. He's probably in a holding cell if he hasn't been arrainged and it's likely he made the call either from the police car while the officers searched the rest of his vehicle or before they processed him. There's a small chance he's in an actual cell, but that's pretty uncommon without an arraignment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 2:19 PM on December 30, 2006

Right, but there's a grey area in here where he could be brought to the station and not be considered "under arrest." Also, Miranda only covers admissions made to the police that are to be entered into a trial. In many situations, police just won't bother. If the police aren't going to interrogate you, then you don't have a right to an attorney (or a phone call) for minor offenses before you are arraigned.

Yeah yeah, all intents. I make that mistake all the time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 3:50 PM on December 30, 2006

I think it's valid, if a little outdated. Here are two other examples.

I resign the office of Secretary of State (CA)

I resign the office of President (US Deaf Gold Association. Seriously)
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 1:04 AM on December 29, 2006

Sadly, this appears to be a valid search under the 4th amendment. None of this is legal advice, but it seems like a pretty straightforward problem.

A police officer is allowed to search the passenger compartment of a stopped vehicle and containers inside (excluding the trunk) incident to a custodial arrest. However, a police officer cannot perform this search without consent if he/she is only issuing a citation. Yet, most cops will get around this by offering people... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 5:58 PM on December 26, 2006

delmoi: The police have to ask permission or get a warrant, if they didn't ask then it's illegal. But probably they did ask, and your friend didn't realize he could say no. That's how it usually works.

Yes. As I mentioned above, the police probably offered to arrest the friend and then search his car (you don't need a warrant for a search incident to an arrest) or to search with the friend's position. Either way, you can't really say no if you've been pulled over for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:19 PM on December 26, 2006

Nope, but thanks. It's not an upbeat song like that, closer to jazz.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 7:07 PM on December 10, 2006

I did some research into AoL when my unversity was thinking of expanding it's alternative health programs. They seemed culty but mostly harmless to me and the above descriptions are exactly right. There is some value to the type of breathing they do, but it's not what they claim and the lines they feed you are mostly pablum.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:03 PM on December 6, 2006

I take it cadjez works with d3o some capacity, which is totally fine. Thanks for the perspective and welcome to the filter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:32 PM on December 5, 2006

Take the W. Law school admissions is obnoxious like this, but GPA >>> strength of courseload. They don't care about a W.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 11:34 PM on December 2, 2006

Well, horribly cheesy will eliminate many songs, but Oh Hannukah comes to mind.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:33 AM on November 29, 2006

Oh man, I forgot Mi Yimallel. I third that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 10:44 AM on November 29, 2006

So I only recently became a big Waits fan, but have loved Dylan for just about as long as I've had taste. There's something so expressive in Waits' voice and the best way I can sum up the two is by referencing Roland Barthes' essay The Grain of the Voice

Barthes thought that there was meaningful singing (Sinatra) that was thin and withotu depth and then there was singing that made meaning (Elvis). There's a physicality in grain, a richness that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen.spaulding at 6:59 AM on November 29, 2006