A lawyer/accountant/psychologist/judge creates problems and circumstances that he knows you will have to pay him extra to get out of. Ask anyone who has gone through a divorce or bankruptcy.

I have nothing to hide, but then I really know that getting cooperation from the Chinese as requested by the West is really going to be a pain in the ass. Well, its about time that I start being a pain in the ass, for up to know, that was a privilege and right of the elite.

Yea, sort of missed that. Got that now.

That there is a universe out there where Sarah Palin is President.

Maybe two super-massive black holes passed close to each other and spun these off?

Sex , drugs, and rock 'n roll.

And got completely different results!

However we are current pursuing efforts at mind reading and using minds to control devices using a feedback device which measures activity in regions of the brain. 50 years ago, this would have been considered bunk, so there obviously has been some progress.

> A divorce lawyer doesn't just get hired into a corporate law position.
I think the situation is that if I were to say well, "I need a divorce lawyer specializing in divorces of a white woman and white man with 2 children in their teens, both couples working and making between $30K-$100K [each] who own 25% of a house whose market value is around $300K and whose reasons for divorce are that the man has been cheating on his wife."
There are strategies in a divorce that work better if the couple makes more or if the children are younger.

I have had so many job applications rejected because they were looking for 3 years of C# and 2 in MS-SQL while I had 5 in C++ and 2 in Java and 3 in IBM DB SQL all on Windows.

Next story, some Jewish archaeologist will claim to have found Jesus's body!

Will it be possible to identify his tomb after all these years? How are we sure that even if we find such an ornately decorated tomb, that Khan is the one buried there, instead of some relative or whatnot. I don't know, but many cultures have superstitions about their corpse in the afterlife, so that might be a motivation to "hide" the real corpse?

There are lots of services that one gets from the government which come with all sorts of catchs. Obviously you never read your student bullitin and talked to people who were expelled. What right did Brown University have in expelling Amy Carter?

That we haven't found Martians!

As many species are going extinct, the "common cockroach" is flourishing and multiplying.

After quoting a time schedule and costs, my previous manager once told me that "[He] doesn't know how to do that task nor understand the technical issues but doesn't think it should take or cost that much!" I guess if you can buy MS Word for $700, that is the ball park for any software task. I wish I had told him that he needs to buy a copy of MS Word and his problem is solved.
Unfortunately, most workers in the US revere top level executives as some sort of business geniuses. Call me "anti-business", but I believe most were lucky that they got in when the going was good and managed to hold on. I remember reading about William Penn (who at one time owned the land which became Pennsylvania). He leveraged himself too much and went bankrupt and died penniless. Since that time, our bankruptcy laws haven been changed to protect the wealthy and given them a chance to "reorganize" and keep "creditors at bay" until they get their finances in order. A case in point is Donald Trump who should be working selling hot dogs on 57th since the mid-1980's. Listening to him for half an hour on his "reality show" makes me want to puke. It would be good if that was his occupation, but his show was just a way to stay in the limelight for a bit longer.