Still Hating America.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It seemed to do fine. The only concern that it had in the FDA process was the "promotes pomescuity" factor that held up the Plan B over-the-counter approval. Fortunately, Merck's drug was approved during the gay marriage amendment debate last summer, so the religious right's attention was diverted at the time. Glaxo has a drug in clinical trials that will apparently do the same thing.

Summary of the drug and related proposed legislation. I imagine that the brouhaha in Texas is a factor in the bills in other states being withdrawn.

That WSJ report SEC Chick found suggested there may not have been adequate testing on the pre-teen group they're focusing on here - have you seen anything on that?

For me, FDA approval is a minimum threshold; I don't want to ingest something, or have my kid ingest something, unless it meets standards well beyond the FDA's (unless, of course, it's alot of fun).

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Adder
No need for the edit, I'm not sensitive. But I know plenty of my colleagues who have easily billed legit 2000.

Now, those who get over 2500 or so, yeah, I am skeptical.

My high is 2887.

[Replaced_Texan]

Dear god, I thought Ty was joking.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It's always bullshit. 2500 presumes a person worked 6.85 hours a day without taking a vacation day for an entire year. Nobody's done that.

Trial is probably the best pure measure of what an actual "billable" hour is. You can't fuck around while you're in there. You have to think for 7 hours straight, every day (assuming lunch hour off). Even the time you;'re standing around waiting is time you have to think about other stuff coming up. The longest case I single chaired was five days. That involves, considering motions, meetings and prep before and after the hours you're in court about 10 pure, truly billable hours per day. If you do that for five days, you are jelly for at least two days afterward.

The human mind doesn't do 6.85 pure billable hours per day 365 days a year.

A 2500 hour year is filled with dead time the biller billed for anyway, or belongs to a lawyer who travels an incredible amount of time. You can't think that much. And if you are, your client doesn't deserve the service he's paying for because at that rate of use, your mind is giving him at best 70% effort, and you're likely to fuck a lot of things up.

Seb, I love you like a presumably male internet pal I have never met, but you are high. I bill like muthafucker, 24/7. I billed 88 hours on my last 2 week vacation.

It's why I make the big bucks and am so bitter and hateful........

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It's 200/month for a full year. Not easy. I worked on a merger where I billed 300 a month for several months straight. It was exhausting, and not something I'd want to do. But it was "easy" in the sense that there was so much work to do that the hours added up. Not all of it was full engagement--for example, the daily meetings and conference calls with multiple lawyers, the travel, etc., all was billable. For the rest of the year I needed to bill about 150 to hit 2500. Instead I said fuck it and billed about 100 hours/month.

I don't have much tolerance for such stuff, but I know others do, so I could see someone doing that for a full year.

edited to fix irrelevant math error.

I once billed 270 plus for 7 months straight. Not much sex during that period though.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Dear god, I thought Ty was joking.

The remarkable thing is that there actually were $4b from the UN oil-for-food program to give them back. I had thought it had all gone into the pockets of UN officials.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Seb, I love you like a presumably male internet pal I have never met, but you are high. I bill like muthafucker, 24/7. I billed 88 hours on my last 2 week vacation.

It's why I make the big bucks and am so bitter and hateful........

You're going to hell, you know that.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Speaking of disconnect - and raping clients for that matter - any of yours have any idea how many hours you guys have billed over the years while posting tripe on these Boards?

2. These bastards are lucky I am not cracking the whip on their sorry arses.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I just wonder why he didn't include himself in the question.

The answer, inevitably, for most people here will be "far fewer than Penske's".

Are we on break?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
So I have this problem.

The Republican governor of our state went ahead last week and issued an executive order mandating that girls going into sixth grade be innoculated from HPV.

This order happens to be a cash cow for Merck, since the vaccine goes for about $300 a pop.

Merck and the governor are tight enough, though I don't think that the $6,000 in Merck gave last year is enough to sway this sort of decision, to raise eyebrows on the issue.

Republicans are pissed. Pissed, I tell you. There are angry letters being written as I speak. You see, vaccination will promote promiscuity* and if girls get the vaccine then they'll think that it's ok to go out and have sex 24/7, because they're now protected from a sexually trasmitted disease that causes 70% of cervical cancers.

What is the age of consent in Texas?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't know how he sleeps at night.

A bottle of wine and a couple of popped nuts and I'm good for a cat nap. 90 minutes, a quickie before I shower and I'm billing again.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
What is the age of consent in Texas?

Sebby is keeping a 12 year-old's crotchless jeans as some sort of trophy or something; perhaps you should be asking about Pennsylvania?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
uh, I've read some of your "greatest hits" from back in the day, you know. (I might have even been a lurker when they were originally made.)

My really good stuff was all back at Yahoo. The OB. When I was OBE. All lost in the purge, sad to say.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I heard slave wrote some sweet posts back in the day. could charm the pants right off a sock, I heard- can't remember who told me that.

slave slept with paigow?!~!?!? Cite please?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Spanky
Because when I argued for the exit exam yesterday, I was accused of not moving beyond the Republican talking points. ergo, if I was solely using Republican talking points, and he made the same argument as me, he must be using Republican talking points.

In addition, Democrats are under a lot of pressure from the CTA and the CTA hates the exit exam. I have heard representatives from the CTA testify a lot, and almost everything in his speech ran contrary to what they want.

The exit exam, and many of the reforms on education that have passed, all have to have Democrat support in California. That is the problem. Every time a Democrat legislater steps out of line the CTA tries to make them pay and they have big bucks and can turn out armies of precinct walkers.

Like I said, some of the fixes to the education problem in California are obvious to most people (like the Exit exam) but you have the CTA throwing their entire weight against them.

It appears that the CTA's control over the Democratic party was never so ironclad as you believe.