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Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Breaking: Money Discriminates Against the Blind" Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:34 PM

3:22 -- agreed. The amount of tax money we're talking about spending on this is significant, especially in a recession. Various governments (federal, state, city) already manage to find a way to spend roughly 40% of my salary -- they certainly don't need any new ideas!!

I agree with the suggestion to add brail or something similar (different textures for each denomination). It would also cost money, but not as much, and it's a much more logical solution. Different sizes will only help people if they're either very good at handling money and with a very good physical memory, or if they have a bill in every denomination so they can compare which one is bigger than another. But if we're talking a difference of, say, an inch between a one dollar bill and a twenty dollar bill... I mean, can all of you tell just by feeling something whether it's 2-1/2 inches or 3-1/2 inches??

Well, maybe the ladies can.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Lawyer of the Day: Loren Elliotte Friedman" Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:44 PM

See, this is what happens when you let white guys become lawyers. They should stay in the kitchen where they belong!

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "The bar exam is stressing you out. How do you spell relief? O-R-G-Y." Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:36 PM

6:08, gays are the best gay-bashers around. Ever heard of Ted Haggard?

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Stanford Law School Approves Grade Reform: Rejoice?" Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:43 PM

This system is far superior to a traditional system. Grading is so subjective -- it has much more to do with how well you think like the professor than how well you actually understand the law. I shouldn't get a lower grade than someone else simply because he is as wierd as the person teaching the course.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Transfer Students: Second-Class Citizens?
(And an open thread on the transfer application process.)"
Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:17 PM

I was top -5% at a law school so prestigious it doesn't exist in your dimension.

Try and prove me wrong!

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "How Not To Succeed As A Summer Asssociate" Monday, June 2, 2008 12:59 PM

Some of these are absurd. I've seen *partners* make typographical errors not just in memoranda, but in pleadings. On MULTIPLE occasions.

Also, who puts a summer in charge of a filing??????? WTF!!

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "How Not To Succeed As A Summer Asssociate" Monday, June 2, 2008 1:28 PM

I think Y is hilarious. A summer who had the balls to pull a prank on some of the attorneys automatically gets my vote.

What kind of uptight firms do people work at that practical jokes are some kind of no-no? It's not like he put a black mamba in a partner's drawer or something.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "ATL Caption Contest: Lady Justice" Wednesday, June 4, 2008 8:06 PM

Gerald began to experience a sinking feeling as he realized that God may have taken his request to turn him into a "pussy magnet" a bit too literally.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:06 PM

I agree with the other commenters -- Lat, you're being a hypocrite.

And, yeah, a guy who is entertained by the idea of women being cows is kind of a creep, and I really doubt he'd be objective. Of course everyone likes porn. But there's porn that's about sex or porn that caters to specific acceptable fetishes and such *that don't harm anyone*, and then there's porn that's about degrading entire groups of people (e.g., women, blacks, Jews, etc.) And THEN there's porn that can only titillate those who are sick enough to get off on the sexual abuse of someone incapable of consent (e.g., children, animals). Where the fuck is PETA on this one??

Somehow I doubt the Founding Fathers meant for the First Amendment to protect someone's inalienable right to distribute images of people sexually abusing animals.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:06 PM

3:12, did you intentionally misinterpret the First Amendment point? The relevant part was not "images," which would have been clear to someone with half a brain. The First Amendment also doesn't protect distributing images of naked children posed in a sexually seductive manner. The fact that they are images is hardly the end of the discussions. Just because the First Amendment protects some images, does not mean it protects ALL images.

Those of you who favor the sexual abuse of animals: as to your (very stupid) arguments that, "hey, we abuse them in other ways, and that's legal," assuming the correctness of your premise, so what? We allow some abuse of animals, so we should allow any and all abuse of animals? Two wrongs make a right?

Also, aside from cruel methods of killing animals (something whose legality is questionable at best anyway) and similarly cruel things done to animals at commercial farms (again, even to the extent it may be legal to hook cows up to machines that will milk them dry, that doesn't mean it isn't abuse), what sorts of animal abuse do you think are legally condoned in our society? Many jurisdictions have now banned the sale of foie gras because it involves force-feeding geese. By your reasoning, hey, it's food, shouldn't the geese enjoy it? Why don't you go to Chicago and explain why the sale of foie gras must be allowed?

Do you seriously not get that using for sex a living being who is incapable of consent is immoral and illegal? You seriously don't see what's wrong with fucking your jack russell terrier in the ass??

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:11 PM

"PLAY HELD AT FORD THEATRE!!!!!!!


(president lincoln assassinated)"


AWESOME.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:15 PM

4:11, actually, yeah, please go ahead and do that. Be sure to hump it lots and lots, and make sure it's a dry old splintery tree. You and your dick just go have a grand old time with that wooden pussy.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:22 PM

4:17, it should have been obvious, but no, that was not my point. The point was that something that is arguably LESS abusive to animals than rape is outlawed -- the point was to refute those who, bizarrely, seem to think any kind of abuse of animals is both morally and legally a-ok.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:29 PM

4:22, thanks for making the first *reasonable* argument in favor of bestiality. You have a fair point, but you are also assuming that those of us who oppose bestiality do not also oppose other forms of cruelty to animals. Speaking only for myself, I can already tell you that assumption is faulty.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:30 PM

Or, rather, the first reasonable argument against those of us who oppose bestiality. Yours, however, isn't quite an outright justification of bestiality.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:36 PM

4:33, you're just jealous of my hamster graphic.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "An L.A. Jury + Hours of Hard-Core Fetish Porn + Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Presiding = Total Awesomeness" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:39 PM

4:35 and 4:37, so you're saying that you always, in every situation no matter what, are able to prevent yourselves from getting an erection? And that every time you get an erection you have consented to sex with whomever or whatever happens to be around at the moment (including, say, your buddy Jim)?

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Judge of the Day: Alex Kozinski" Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:52 PM

Interesting change of tactics...

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Is There Any Way to "Fix" The Electoral College?" Thursday, September 4, 2008 2:34 PM

Well, this idea at least has truthiness to it. May as well just come out and admit that the voices of the rich are the only ones that *really* count for anything, instead of this silly charade we're still calling "representative democracy." It's so cute how we kept the name even when we decided to stop doing it.

Posted by Gaius Baltar in "Breaking: Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized (Again), But Released" Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:46 PM

9, I'll need to run some tests to confirm that.