I'm not sure duty of care fits up there in a positive tort, but I always had trouble putting together the elements of a tort. I'm impressed you still can.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
bon bon - May 06, 2003 4:28:39 pm PDT #1240 of 10289
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Wolfram - May 06, 2003 4:35:12 pm PDT #1241 of 10289
Visilurking
Nah, I made all that up. The most important things to remember about the practice of law is to write with conviction and always cover your ass. ;)
Trudy Booth - May 06, 2003 5:41:52 pm PDT #1242 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My favorite legalese is "Upon information and belief".
Wolfram - May 06, 2003 6:09:46 pm PDT #1243 of 10289
Visilurking
My favorite legalese is "Upon information and belief".
We use, "upon knowledge, information and belief." Because we get paid by the word.
Consuela - May 06, 2003 6:11:39 pm PDT #1244 of 10289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
::coughNattercough::
Noumenon - May 06, 2003 11:53:09 pm PDT #1245 of 10289
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
So Nutty's a tongue waggling tort tart?
Tonguetwisting is subject to several of the same statutes, so stop speaking so silly!
The non-nattery part of my post got posted in Bureaucracy instead.
Hayden - May 07, 2003 8:48:22 am PDT #1246 of 10289
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
We use, "upon knowledge, information and belief." Because we get paid by the word.
We recently revised our affadavit language to strike the phrase "to the best of their knowledge and belief" as redundant. I mean, what else can a person attest is true?
(note for attorneys: this was based on case law in Texas.)
Liese S. - May 08, 2003 12:05:01 am PDT #1247 of 10289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Not to interrupt the tort and tongue-waggling, but...
I would object to truncation of the process. We voted on a week as a reasonable length of time for process. I waggled my own personal tongue in the direction that a week was too short, but alas.
Because I knew we had a few more days until vote, I was putting off reading the whole of this thread and discussion, until I was ready to decide and had time. Whereupon I would have read, and declaimed all your opinions as bunk in favor of my One True Opinion. Truncation would have preempted my Opinion and would have negated the recently established process timeframe.
However, I can empathize with those who would withdraw a proposal, and since we have put the onus of phrasing on the proposer, it seems hardly fair to deny them a graceful exit. Still, the idea that a proposer could deliberately evade an impending defeat and moratorium for nefarious purposes seems problematic. Not DXM. He's not nefarious, just his penguin.
As for this particular issue, it seems to me that I would like to see it go to a vote with an overwhelmingly negative post response, just to see us disprove our vote yes tendencies.
Liese S. - May 08, 2003 12:05:35 am PDT #1248 of 10289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Because if it didn't disprove our vote yes tendencies, then I'd say we've got a problem in the process.
§ ita § - May 08, 2003 12:12:07 am PDT #1249 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I really don't get this "vote yes" tendency theory. I see it as a statistic with a ridiculously small sample, and even if it is a tendency, it could be because people with their finger on the pulse of the community are crafting well-written proposals.
What's the big?