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**TheLady** · 12-20-2005, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Cfw828

Got here with time to spare and finished my final...now hopefully I passed :P

It actually wasn't so bad. I got here in about an hour and 15 minutes which would have taken about a half hour more if I were to take the train. Sure, it was a pain in the ass, but I got here and that's what's important. Now that I've done it it doesn't seem so difficult. But for others, it sure as hell won't be the same thing.

Yeah, but I think the media is hyping things up. I don't think it is as bad as they are saying. They take the worst case, some guy who has a 5 hour bike ride or something and make it seem like that's everybody. most people either took car pool, or stayed home and did some Christmas wrapping. It's not really any sort of chaos.

Good job with that final!

procrastinator · 12-20-2005, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cfw828

Got here with time to spare and finished my final...now hopefully I passed :P

It actually wasn't so bad. I got here in about an hour and 15 minutes which would have taken about a half hour more if I were to take the train. Sure, it was a pain in the ass, but I got here and that's what's important. Now that I've done it it doesn't seem so difficult. But for others, it sure as hell won't be the same thing.

Your school didn't postpone the finals? Ours that take place on days when the strike is in effect, which for now is just today I guess, are postponed til the first week of January. I thought all CUNY schools would have the same policy.

Well, at least you got it over with.

Cfw828 · 12-20-2005, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by procrastinator

Your school didn't postpone the finals? Ours that take place on days when the strike is in effect, which for now is just today I guess, are postponed til the first week of January. I thought all CUNY schools would have the same policy.

Well, at least you got it over with.

If there's one thing I've learned in my four years of being in a CUNY school is that I:

Can't
Understand
Nuttin'
Yet

THEY probably don't even know what they're going to do lol.

procrastinator · 12-20-2005, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cfw828

If there's one thing I've learned in my four years of being in a CUNY school is that I:

Can't
Understand
Nuttin'
Yet

THEY probably don't even know what they're going to do lol.

I definitely would have to agree with you on that point. It'd be nice if they had one plan for all their schools, to at least show the students that there aren't a bunch of morons in charge of our educations.

DhammaSeeker · 12-21-2005, 11:18 AM

"A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said."
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/fe...ap2407524.html

TearsofShadows · 12-21-2005, 12:46 PM

LOL..You dont hear that everyday! XD

**TheLady** · 12-21-2005, 05:18 PM

Woman files restraining order agsint David Letterman; says he sent 'thoughts of love,' talks of 'code words'

Laughed out loud reading THIS ONE

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Originally Posted by CNN

Lawyers for David Letterman want a judge to quash a restraining order granted to a Santa Fe woman who contends the CBS late-night host used code words to show he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host....

Nestler's application for a restraining order was accompanied by a six-page typed letter in which she said Letterman used code words, gestures and "eye expressions" to convey his desires for her.

She wrote that she began sending Letterman "thoughts of love" after his "Late Show" began in 1993, and that he responded in code words and gestures, asking her to come East.

She said he asked her to be his wife during a televised "teaser" for his show by saying, "Marry me, Oprah." Her letter said Oprah was the first of many code names for her and that the coded vocabulary increased and changed with time.....

For the life of me i cannot figure out what judge granted this obviously crazy woman's request. This should have been thrown out, and the woman should have been given a full psychological evaluation.

Cfw828 · 12-22-2005, 12:02 AM

Evboard Party 2008: Somewhere in Canada.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10561253/

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Canadian court lifts ban on ‘swingers’ clubs
Group sex among consenting adults not a threat to society, it says

OTTAWA - Group sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Wednesday as it lifted a ban on so-called “swingers” clubs.

In a ruling that radically changes the way courts determine what poses a threat to the population, the top court threw out the conviction of a Montreal man who ran a club where members could have group sex in a private room behind locked doors.

“Consensual conduct behind code-locked doors can hardly be supposed to jeopardize a society as vigorous and tolerant as Canadian society,” said the opinion of the seven-to-two majority, written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

The decision does not affect laws against prostitution because no money changed hands among the adults having sex.

‘Bawdy house’ proprietor's appeal
The court was reviewing an appeal by Jean-Paul Labaye, who ran the L’Orage (Thunderstorm) club. He had been convicted in 1999 of running a “bawdy house” — defined as a place where prostitution or acts of public indecency took place.

Labaye — who is still running L’Orage despite his earlier conviction — said he was relieved, and would now go ahead with a new venture with backing from a group of Florida investors.

“We hope clients will be more calm. This will probably lead the way to a good future,” he told reporters, saying he was looking at adding a Jacuzzi and a swimming pool.

Labaye said he had about 2,000 regular clients who paid around $20 ($17 U.S.) a year for a membership card.

Lawyers for Labaye and the owner of another swingers’ club in Montreal argued that consensual sex among groups of adults behind closed doors was neither indecent or a risk to society.

The Supreme Court judges agreed.

“Criminal indecency or obscenity must rest on actual harm or a significant risk of harm to individuals or society. The Crown failed to establish this essential element of the offense. (Its) case must therefore fail,” McLachlin wrote.

In indecency cases, Canadian courts have traditionally probed whether the acts in question “breached the rules of conduct necessary for the proper functioning of society”. The Supreme Court ruled that from now on, judges should pay more attention to whether society would be actively harmed.

Deviant, maybe, but not dangerous
This seemed to ensure there could be no repeat of Labaye’s original conviction for causing “social harm” by allowing degrading and dehumanizing group sex to take place.

The judges said that just because most Canadians might disapprove of swingers’ clubs, this did not necessarily mean the establishments were socially dangerous.

“The causal link between images of sexuality and anti-social behavior cannot be assumed. Attitudes in themselves are not crimes, however deviant they may be or disgusting they may appear,” the judges said, noting that no one had been pressured to have sex or had paid for sex in the cases the court considered.

“The autonomy and liberty of members of the public was not affected by unwanted confrontation with the sexual activity in question ... only those already disposed to this sort of sexual activity were allowed to participate and watch,” they said.

They also dismissed the idea — raised during Labaye’s original trial — that group sex was dangerous because it could result in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

“Sex that is not indecent can transmit disease while indecent sex might not,” they ruled.

Ghetto Fabalus · 12-22-2005, 01:13 PM

On the news earlier this morning they were talking about a councilman from a nearby city who died yesterday in a collision with a drunk driver. BUT BEFORE YOUR HEARTSTRINGS GET PULLED...

Turns out he killed a woman via drunk driving himself back in the early '90s. OH, BUT THEN HE TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND + FOUND GOD + GAVE LECTURES. And never touched a drink again.

Karma = a bitch. =/

Jane · 12-22-2005, 09:15 PM

I've been waiting for an article to pop up on the internet about this, but I haven't seen anything as of yet. My dad is a store manager at a Linens 'N Things in Mayfield, OH. Two weeks ago he had five managers in his store. (Now this store is known for being in a bad area and there's a lot of theft and it's got a bad economy, etc.) One of his managers was on the brink of being fired, for just sucking at his job, and so he quit. My dad was down to four (including himself).

A few days after that, another one of the managers found out that he had cancer and needed surgery. He is not due to be back at work until after the holidays. Down to three.

Just two or three days ago (I can't even remember now), the police and a few investigators came into the store and confronted another one of my dad's managers. She was accused of stealing money. She admitted that every Wednesday night she would go through the register transactions for the day, choose one and take a couple hundred dollars. She admitted to stealing around $20,000.

The police handcuffed her and escorted her out of the store. My dad was called in the rest of the week to take over her shifts for her and to settle the employees down. One of the investigators told my dad that usually when someone admits to stealing a certain amount of money (in this case) it's usually double that. So they're probably looking at more than $40,000 in stolen money and merchandise.

She's been in the store for almost three years and for the past two years my dad has had an awful time with inventory. It's been - REALLY bad; he told me last year's was ten times off of what it should have been. My dad was also telling me that one of the people that came to take his inventory from the company was asking him questions about it - and my dad's inventory had always been fine before then... it just decided to go crazy for a couple of years. The guy from the company told him it was coming from inside the store, but my dad never thought it was one of his managers.

Ever since she was arrested they've found out that she's been responsible for a lot of things including stolen donations that were supposed to go to the funeral for the death in the family of an employee, stolen donations that were meant for Toys for Tots (or whatever it is), and a whole range of other things. She's handled all of those donations and certain things like that before (in addition to collecting money for items that employees had wanted to purchase from catalogs for the holidays and pocketing the money), and whenever she'd gone out to purchase something for the store... like for a party, she would spend more than her budget and take the money from the store.

My dad has two other managers besides himself left - and one of them is in the hospital recovering from surgery. HOW CRAZY IS THAT?! What shitty luck 'round the holidays, y'know?

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12-22-2005, 09:15 PM	#210 (permalink)
Jane Member of the Banned TEMP BANNED Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 3,463 Points: 1,588.59 Bank: 478,610.02 Total Points: 480,198.61 Donate	I've been waiting for an article to pop up on the internet about this, but I haven't seen anything as of yet. My dad is a store manager at a Linens 'N Things in Mayfield, OH. Two weeks ago he had five managers in his store. (Now this store is known for being in a bad area and there's a lot of theft and it's got a bad economy, etc.) One of his managers was on the brink of being fired, for just sucking at his job, and so he quit. My dad was down to four (including himself). A few days after that, another one of the managers found out that he had cancer and needed surgery. He is not due to be back at work until after the holidays. Down to three. Just two or three days ago (I can't even remember now), the police and a few investigators came into the store and confronted another one of my dad's managers. She was accused of stealing money. She admitted that every Wednesday night she would go through the register transactions for the day, choose one and take a couple hundred dollars. She admitted to stealing around $20,000. The police handcuffed her and escorted her out of the store. My dad was called in the rest of the week to take over her shifts for her and to settle the employees down. One of the investigators told my dad that usually when someone admits to stealing a certain amount of money (in this case) it's usually double that. So they're probably looking at more than $40,000 in stolen money and merchandise. She's been in the store for almost three years and for the past two years my dad has had an awful time with inventory. It's been - REALLY bad; he told me last year's was ten times off of what it should have been. My dad was also telling me that one of the people that came to take his inventory from the company was asking him questions about it - and my dad's inventory had always been fine before then... it just decided to go crazy for a couple of years. The guy from the company told him it was coming from inside the store, but my dad never thought it was one of his managers. Ever since she was arrested they've found out that she's been responsible for a lot of things including stolen donations that were supposed to go to the funeral for the death in the family of an employee, stolen donations that were meant for Toys for Tots (or whatever it is), and a whole range of other things. She's handled all of those donations and certain things like that before (in addition to collecting money for items that employees had wanted to purchase from catalogs for the holidays and pocketing the money), and whenever she'd gone out to purchase something for the store... like for a party, she would spend more than her budget and take the money from the store. My dad has two other managers besides himself left - and one of them is in the hospital recovering from surgery. HOW CRAZY IS THAT?! What shitty luck 'round the holidays, y'know? End. Last edited by Jane : 12-22-2005 at 09:20 PM.

12-21-2005, 11:18 AM	#205 (permalink)
DhammaSeeker Closer to Fine Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 33 Posts: 2,312 Points: 15,897.53 Bank: 18,781.09 Total Points: 34,678.62 Donate	"A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said." http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/fe...ap2407524.html

12-21-2005, 12:46 PM	#206 (permalink)
TearsofShadows Doin' it doggy style! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Look behind you..I'ma creepin' yo @zz! Age: 20 Posts: 1,351 Points: 627.81 Bank: 140,843.35 Total Points: 141,471.16 Donate	LOL..You dont hear that everyday! XD

12-22-2005, 01:13 PM	#209 (permalink)
Ghetto Fabalus Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a field of... no wait, a hollow... in a stranger's... GRR THEY'VE ALL BEEN TAKEN! I'll settle for Minnesota, I guess. Age: 23 Posts: 932 Points: 613.65 Bank: 179,309.59 Total Points: 179,923.24 Donate	On the news earlier this morning they were talking about a councilman from a nearby city who died yesterday in a collision with a drunk driver. BUT BEFORE YOUR HEARTSTRINGS GET PULLED... Turns out he killed a woman via drunk driving himself back in the early '90s. OH, BUT THEN HE TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND + FOUND GOD + GAVE LECTURES. And never touched a drink again. Karma = a bitch. =/