Objectively intelligent.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

You don’t know any teachers or people peopled by colleges, right?

On your other post, we will see but I’d short the idea that this will result in massive permanent changes.

No. None. I live in a cave, on Mars.

School teachers will not be furloughed (at least not here). They threw a fit when NJ suggested making them work for the summer. Professors will lose loads of jobs. But they've not grasped that reality yet. They expect Big Education is coming back just as it was before because they've had such a stranglehold on consumers, and had such pricing power, for so long. They can't conceive of a reality where they don't get tenure, paid sabbaticals, and raises year after year. Those are worries of the lowly adjuncts.

ETA: Regarding your last point about how things will stay the same, here's Scott Galloway on the popping of the education bubble: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...f-college.html

You can hear Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss it in depth on Pivot, their podcast (which is very entertaining and almost always fucking awesome): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000474333555

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Commuting to work that can be done at home? Over.
Expensive commercial office palaces? Over.
Flights to Cleveland for a half day depositions? Over.
Wasting money on ugly corporate casual clothes? Over.
Expensive leases for parking adjacent to corporate offices in cities? Over.
Team building meetings through which everyone daydreams? Over.
The server farm in the mail/supply room (and the guy who charges $2k to fix it every time it glitches)? Gone.
Unnecessary court appearances which can be conducted by phone and only serve to fatten defense counsel's wallets? Over.
Value of "face time"? Dropping rapidly.

This new world is an introvert's (or misanthrope's) delight. And I think it might be far more egalitarian. Removing the office removes a lot of the political games which allow less talented people to move up the ladder.

It's also a fantastic development for the environment. Imagine the increase in air quality accruing from a decrease in commuter traffic.

However, I do not like my basement workout. Old school iron free weights definitely increase strength more effectively than machines. But they require I remain in my home, which exposes me to being interrupted by family. I went to the gym to get away for an hour and a half. (I also can't shoot the shit with judges or local business people in my basement.)

If my people get hauled downtown to prove up medical records when they can just zoom in going forward, I'm going to be really pissed.

Also, it's going to be really hard going forward to get my docs to agree to go to trial for anything when they can zoom instead.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

All four grandparents?

No. You all know my real name. My fam invented a car company, but sold to GM

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Commuting to work that can be done at home? Over.

$320 a month plus a subway filled with pantsshitters. Over.

Flights to Cleveland for a half day depositions? Over.

Sad, yes I will eventually burn through my million miles (spread out over numerous programs -- dick move) but it is kind of nice to finish a dep and go right to the basement.

Wasting money on ugly corporate casual clothes? Over.

Every Friday over the last three years the NY Mets gave away a free T shirt. I never missed a game or a Tshirt. My wife absolutely excoriated me "MORE T-SHIRTS???" But guess what I have worn for the last three months every day?

Team building meetings through which everyone daydreams? Over.

No longer playing the role of Stanley Hudson -- Icky Thump!

Unnecessary court appearances which can be conducted by phone and only serve to fatten defense counsel's wallets? Over.

Thank goodness the judges I regularly appear before have bought into the virtual appearance/"on submission" approach.

Value of "face time"? Dropping rapidly.

I set the tone already. I sent an email saying "I am taking the Google shift Do. Not. Expect to see my face until 2021. It is over. "

This new world is an introvert's (or misanthrope's) delight. And I think it might be far more egalitarian. Removing the office removes a lot of the political games which allow less talented people to move up the ladder.

It's also a fantastic development for the environment. Imagine the increase in air quality accruing from a decrease in commuter traffic.

However, I do not like my basement workout. Old school iron free weights definitely increase strength more effectively than machines. But they require I remain in my home, which exposes me to being interrupted by family. I went to the gym to get away for an hour and a half. (I also can't shoot the shit with judges or local business people in my basement.)

Start early. Before they know what's going on.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

If my people get hauled downtown to prove up medical records when they can just zoom in going forward, I'm going to be really pissed.

Also, it's going to be really hard going forward to get my docs to agree to go to trial for anything when they can zoom instead.

Already started. Right at the start of the pandemic we had a doctor who was to be deposed by some people in WA when WA was the first cluster. The WA lawyers expected to get on a flight but he gave a healthy and hearty "Hell no" and the dep proceeded virtually.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Testing glitch.

This article supports your theory and pretty heavily discounts mine.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

This article supports your theory and pretty heavily discounts mine.

Dude, we ain't neither of us got no theory. I'm a mechanical engineer that never once had a bio class. I can't have a theory, just have a hope that you can't get it again. Mathematically the ship thing seemed too explainable by the margin of error. And plus, if people were getting reinfected at some high rate, we'd know for sure. But that isn't theory, it's reasoned hope.

I got one theory in this: I can run without a mask and not infect people, especially if I stay away from them. Oh, wait, one more, my other theory is my practice is fucked for the foreseeable future.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Commuting to work that can be done at home? Over.
Expensive commercial office palaces? Over.
Flights to Cleveland for a half day depositions? Over.
Wasting money on ugly corporate casual clothes? Over.
Expensive leases for parking adjacent to corporate offices in cities? Over.
Team building meetings through which everyone daydreams? Over.
The server farm in the mail/supply room (and the guy who charges $2k to fix it every time it glitches)? Gone.
Unnecessary court appearances which can be conducted by phone and only serve to fatten defense counsel's wallets? Over.
Value of "face time"? Dropping rapidly.

This new world is an introvert's (or misanthrope's) delight. And I think it might be far more egalitarian. Removing the office removes a lot of the political games which allow less talented people to move up the ladder.

It's also a fantastic development for the environment. Imagine the increase in air quality accruing from a decrease in commuter traffic.

However, I do not like my basement workout. Old school iron free weights definitely increase strength more effectively than machines. But they require I remain in my home, which exposes me to being interrupted by family. I went to the gym to get away for an hour and a half. (I also can't shoot the shit with judges or local business people in my basement.)

most of us are married. But i need my kids to meet people to fuck so I can have grandkids. what about that?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

No. You all know my real name. My fam invented a car company, but sold to GM

A lot of names got Americanized along the way. Not mine, but lots.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

A lot of names got Americanized along the way. Not mine, but lots.

Si. Lots of people with my last name hit Ellis Island as Vecchios.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Dude, we ain't neither of us got no theory. I'm a mechanical engineer that never once had a bio class. I can't have a theory, just have a hope that you can't get it again. Mathematically the ship thing seemed too explainable by the margin of error. And plus, if people were getting reinfected at some high rate, we'd know for sure. But that isn't theory, it's reasoned hope.

I got one theory in this: I can run without a mask and not infect people, especially if I stay away from them. Oh, wait, one more, my other theory is my practice is fucked for the foreseeable future.

I wear a gaiter so that I can pull it up so folks don't feel uncomfortable. Running with a wet gaiter is right up there with waterboarding. But I have dropped my HR a bunch and picked up my pace.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

I wear a gaiter so that I can pull it up so folks don't feel uncomfortable. Running with a wet gaiter is right up there with waterboarding. But I have dropped my HR a bunch and picked up my pace.

HR means what? Also does your firm need a guy (me) who is willing to do only the high excitement deps and court time, and pass the boring shit off? I may have some bandwidth to work my poetry for your clients!!!

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

HR means what? Also does your firm need a guy (me) who is willing to do only the high excitement deps and court time, and pass the boring shit off? I may have some bandwidth to work my poetry for your clients!!!

1. Heart rate.
2. There is a very steep learning curve. Let's say 7-10 years. It will be over by then.
3. All deps are defending deps of sick old people or asking questions of not sick old people who worked for a company who may have made something that contained something. So thank you but you're overqualified.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

1. Heart rate.
2. There is a very steep learning curve. Let's say 7-10 years. It will be over by then.
3. All deps are defending deps of sick old people or asking questions of not sick old people who worked for a company who may have made something that contained something. So thank you but you're overqualified.

I'm good friends with one of the people you guys are attacking. Way up the food chain there.

Small world. I've shot the shit about those claims with this person over drinks.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

most of us are married. But i need my kids to meet people to fuck so I can have grandkids. what about that?

Why? So you can pay more tuitions? It's not like your kids will be able to afford to pay them.