cp702

True (5>2). The person below me is in the Western Hemisphere.

It could very well be nothing -- your leg is not a completely solid thing, with no give beneath the skin.

A lot of tasks that used to be done by associates have been replaced by technology: law involves a LOT of sifting through tons of papers, cataloging them, and cross-referencing things, all of which can now be done using technology. The video's discussion of that is pretty much right. Now, the ultimate thing lawyers are most paid for is *not* document review, it's actually giving legal advice and/or arguing in trials (not all fields of law involve going to court very often). The video briefly touches on drafting documents (automation helps by keeping better track of drafts like through Word's "track changes", but isn't actually *making* the substantial changes) and predicting the outcome of a particular course of action, but doesn't go into much depth about it - that task tends to be hard, in a way that robots are worse at than most people think (and incidentally, there are legal barriers to using a robot for this commercially -- the practice of law is restricted to licensed attorneys, and there are regulatory hurdles [e.g. liability for malpractice] that have to be overcome before it can actually see use; the same applies to the practice of medicine). But lots of the low-level tasks are already being/have been replaced with computer programs. There's also been a big change happening in law with law school no longer being the near-guarantee of a middle-class legal job that it once was -- there are now far more law school graduates than there are legal jobs, and so graduates now face a similar issue to people finishing undergrad where there aren't many jobs that will let them pay off their debt. The top end of the legal profession salary- and job security-wise, large law firms (aka Biglaw and/or white shoe firms), are also changing: it used to be much easier for an associate at a big firm to become a partner, whereas now it's much, much more competitive; instead of being mostly just "associate" or "partner", lawyers are increasingly getting promoted from an associate to another salaried position, instead of actually becoming true partners (part of this is that these firms are also in financial trouble, because clients are less and less willing to spend lots of money for what amounts to training young associates).

I get the UN to send you a very strongly worded letter. My hill.

I'm Niko. You're dead. My hill.

Do you have a ScriptHook.log, or AdvancedHook.log, or ScriptHookDotNet.log? Upload all of them that you have.

Would that be the West Edmonton Mall subs? (that's the result I get for "Canadian mall submarine" in Google) In that case, that's not actually related to what anyone else means when talking about submarines in a naval context. Novelty tourism submarines in an indoor lake at a mall look like this: is not actually what anyone ever means when talking about submarines in a naval context, which is more along the lines of this (in this case, HMCS Windsor):

Apparently, though they have 33 commissioned vessels, only 17 are in active service and ready for deployment (the others are in repairs/maintenance, or are being modernized). That includes just one destroyer (HMCS Athabaskan; Iroquois and Algonquin are being repaired, source), some number (possibly as many as six, not sure) of the 12 frigates are in a modernization program (the schedule was ships entering every 6 months, and then an 18 month refit and 18 months of trials, source), five of the twelve coastal defense vessels have been taken off active service for budget reasons (source), only one out of their four submarines has completed weapons testing and fired a torpedo (another ran aground and is awaiting repairs, a third has a brokendiesel engine and is in drydock repairs, a fourth is in trials now, having had a deadly fire on the transfer trip from the UK to Canada and having been laid up until the beginning of this year, source). In short, they have 31 warships commissioned, but substantially fewer actually ready for service.

No, I'm pretty sure the pharmaceutical industry is mostly US-based. A quick search confirms: For drugs approved by the FDA from 1998 to 2007, fully half (117.6 - the fractional is because drugs are discovered collaboratively, so there's partial credit) were discovered in the US, while Japan just discovered 23 (note: the FDA is a US agency, but since the US is about half of the world pharmaceutical market and the FDA doesn't care what country an applicant is from, that doesn't distort things that much, certainly not enough for the given effect). Japan doesn't have some fundamental tech superpower - they have fairly advanced technology, especially in a few fields, but are substantially less developed in others (just about every country follows this model, incidentally). But they have substantially less money to throw around than the US, and in fields where a lot depends on how much money you have to throw around, it shows. As far as basic research goes, incidentally, the US is so far ahead it's not even funny: the US has a ton of top universities doing research, and loads of grant money to do it with. The US also has a ton of investors, making it much easier to start a small company with high capital costs (the US lead in medication derives largely from universities and biotech firms).

I'm not sure that's right -- sources I find seem to say 20/70 uncorrected and 20/20 corrected, and LASIK being allowed after 2007 (unless you mean it's technically allowed but in practice, with the competitive nature of the job, corrected vision makes you unlikely to get it). It is certainly not correct for the RCAF (which is the relevant one here), though in any case talking to a recruiter would probably get the best info. I'm not sure that's right -- sources I find seem to say 20/70 uncorrected and 20/20 corrected, and LASIK being allowed after 2007 (unless you mean it's technically allowed but in practice, with the competitive nature of the job, corrected vision makes you unlikely to get it). It is certainly not correct for the RCAF (which is the relevant one here), though in any case talking to a recruiter would probably get the best info.

That's a really, really bad backup plan - many of the things which would disqualify you from being a fighter pilot disqualify you from being an airline pilot. It works if you fail to convince the RCAF that you're officer material (fighter pilots are officers, not just pilots); if you don't adapt well to the military; and if you don't pass a military flight physical but still pass an ATP physical, but the physical required to fly scheduled commercial passenger service is not "are you physically fit" -- there are a *lot* of medical conditions that would disqualify you. And the airlines would most likely require you to do a lot of flying on your own dime to get the needed experience. What happens if you can't be a pilot? It's something you need to be prepared for, not because it's particularly likely, but because if you pin all your hopes and dreams on being a pilot and *can't* be one, you're hosed.

Also, I suspect the Canadian Forces might be able to help you pay for college (it looks like they require pilots to be officers, who must have a college degree). But definitely talk to a recruiter.

That said: Don't become *too* invested in one single career field, no matter the career field. Sometimes it just doesn't work out the way you wanted it to; this can happen on either side (you might get your dream job and realize it's missing the "dream" aspect, or you might get some bad luck and not be able to do the job). If you're too wrapped up in a job as the only thing you'd ever be willing to do, either of those can be a huge problem. For instance, I'd love to be a pilot, but have a medical condition that means I cannot pass a flight physical. If I were determined to be a pilot no matter what, then that would be something I wouldn't really be able to recover from; it's important to realize that even if your chosen field doesn't work out for whatever reason, there are still awesome things you can do.

Antibiotics. Bacterial diseases are not much of an epidemic thread in the developed world, as they tend to respond to some antibiotic or other.

Clan ads are not allowed on the fora. Nothing to see here! This topic has been closed by LCPDFR.com staff. If you feel that this topic has been closed in error, please report this post.

Are they recruiters for your local military? If so, you should probably listen to them. If not, ignore them.

Frankly, wouldn't be a huge issue in the US. Ebola only spreads by contact with bodily fluids, so it's not that hard to contain spread in a developed country (where people are more likely to understand and obey isolation and quarantine). It wouldn't be nice, but it'd be manageable.

Ask a lawyer. No one here can give legal advice, you have to ask an attorney licensed to practice in your state. Advice from a web forum is never a substitute for advice from an attorney who knows the laws of your state, who has an attorney-client relationship with you, and so who knows the details of your specific case.

"Awesome assault"? Pa seems to not license bounty hunters at all; same with Hawaii, which is how a convicted murderer (Duane Chapman, aka Dog) is one. No firearms, no taser or other stun device, no armor except while working and with a written declaration from your employer that you need it for your job (shouldn't be hard to get). And you can't do it unless you get hired by someone (or if you become a bail bondsman yourself, but then your main job is paperwork), and you might have a hard time getting hired ( Chapman was hired by his wife, avoiding these issues) but there's no reason it's inherently impossible. Now, if your friend wants to do by his because he thinks it's like being a cop, that's a very bad idea -- there are massive differences between the jobs (e.g. Bounty hunters don't have nearly as much protection against a lawsuit as police officers), and if your friend acts as though he is a cop, he'll go to jail. Period.

Incorrect: The NYC Department of Health and Hospitals Police is a law enforcement agency, and its officers are sworn peace officers, not security guards.

MA agencies *definitely* don't all use the Boston PD scheme: there are a handful that do, but most city agencies appear (according to policecarwebsite.net) to run black-and-whites.

This as well: don't leave parts of the question unaddressed. It might help as well to come up with some fairly generic examples in advance: things which you have some idea how you'd adapt them to a bunch of topics. You don't really need all that many, since you only need 3 examples on the test and they really don't have to be the most connected to the topic, and having potential examples in mind beforehand saves time on the test.

And who are you to decide who is and isn't allowed here? Or who should be able to play LCPDFR? If you're fed up with NYPDDetectiveODonnell's posts, feel free to ignore them; there's an ignore list in your profile for exactly this reason. Don't try to act as if you get to decide if he can be here or not. The fact that someone is on a community based around a game mod where the player turns into a cop *suggests* that they're more likely to respect the police than the average person, but that's by no means a requirement to be here. So long as NYPDDetectiveODonnell follows the rules of this site, we don't have a problem with him being here, and there is no rule saying you can't criticize or disrespect police. On the other hand, it is against the rules to tell a member that they aren't welcome on this site anymore (unless you're a member of staff acting in an official role); "I don't like your type, get out of here" doesn't work if you aren't in charge of who's allowed here. Making posts saying cops are trigger happy is perfectly allowed here; ordering other members to leave is not. If these rules change, we'll let you know.

As this thread is becoming a debate thread, I'm moving it to the politics section and adding a debate tag.

The SAT essay really doesn't measure your ability to write a good essay. It measures your ability to write something that at first glance has the appearance of a good essay. The graders are paid by the essay, and don't spend much time on them; your essay should then have a very easily identifiable structure, with examples plainly spelled out such that the graders can tell you wrote a properly structured essay (i.e. intro paragraph, 2 or 3 example paragraphs, conclusion) with as little effort as possible. It's not a time to be very creative (this is in contrast to, say, AP essays: those are graded to a rubric, but graders are actually allowed to spend time on them and you actually do have to write a decent essay for a good score).