You'd think they could crosscheck against actual citizens instead of leaving it up to the recipient, though.

Come, come now. That makes SENSE. When has LA ever done ANYTHING that made sense?

Think, ita.

Takes too much time; they don't cross-check anything.

The INS has my SSN. In theory it needs to take no human time whatsoever to scrub one list with the contents of another. Now, it being government and all, I can see their computer systems being disorganised enough that the theoretical simplicity disappears, but it's still annoying. I wonder where the break-even point would be; how much money would be recouped from postage and phone system expenses.

You don't have to be a citizen to serve, I thought.

I wasn't eligible, as a permanent resident. But I had to fill out a form and listen to a phone message and mail the form off to prove it.

Tim, of course you can call me noise.

Obviously I'm supportive and conflicted about the strike. Good luck with the jury duty, I have to report for it in about a month.

I was wrong; at least in federal court I guess you have to be a citizen.

I'm not at all surprised that they don't cross-check databases. They wait until people don't show up to check on whether they are qualified to serve, rather than checking the entire roll. And I wouldn't be remotely surprised that CIS, SSA and the judiciary do not play well when it comes to databases.

Oh, Michael Eisner [link]

Meanwhile, speaking out in opposition of the strike Wednesday, former Disney chief Michael Eisner called the protests "insanity" and "too stupid" while warning writers they were giving up real income in the hopes of securing digital revenue that studios do not yet have.

"For a writer to give up today's money for a nonexistent piece of the future, they are misguided, they should not have gone on the strike," Eisner said at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money conference in New York. "I've seen stupid strikes, I've seen less stupid strikes, and this strike is just a stupid strike."

How can studios not have digital revenue? Where does the money people pay to iTunes and the money the advertisers pay for those commercials I sit through on NBC.com go?

That uncertainty video linked a little bit back begs to differ, huh? Pondscum.

Advertisers have nowhere else to go

Except for the internets.

Ok. Who turned on the italics?

Speaking of which, Topic!Cindy, this is probably the best video I've seen about the issue - [link]

In LA County, part of their jury pool comes from those who recently registered for unemployment.

I was surprised that it took me so long to get called. I lived in Virginia for almost 10 years. The entire time, I was registered to vote, had a VA driver's license and a car registered in Virginia. I didn't get called until a year and a half ago. At first, I assumed that they cross checked the jury pool with licensed attys, but when I finally did get called, the summons said that being a practicing attorney was not an automatic strike.

In DC, they have such a problem with people not showing up that you tend to get called as lot.

They wait until people don't show up to check on whether they are qualified to serve

Really? I mean, I didn't have to go to the bother of telling them?

Practically speaking.

I've been called several times, and gotten selected as a juror once and an alternate once, even as a licensed attorney.

One of the times I was selected, the man who vacated my jury seat right before I was called was a partner in the law firm I was working at in the time, and the plaintiff's counsel used up his last peremptory challenge on him. The man's face just completely fell when I said where I worked.