Morning flotsam
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ciroccojFirst off, here's what Chris got when he did the quiz:
You are The Amazing Maleeni!!!!! You are a murder
mystery in the making... you use unusual tricks
to get away with robbing banks.
What Funny Episode of X-files are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Read an interesting article on Yahoo news today:
Other Opinion: People the world over wish upon the same stars, Amarillo World News
By Greg Sagan
Opinion
Those of us who take an interest in space exploration witnessed a remarkable event a week or so back. Two astronauts and a cosmonaut returned to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft,landing in Kazakhstan in what was once the Soviet Union.
Other items from the world news include Japan's upcoming test of a small, reusable, unmanned shuttle in Sweden; China's plans to fly a manned orbital mission later this year; and scrutiny of NASA's budget for our own shuttle missions to see if these flights are adequately funded.
The world has definitely turned.
In the 1950s and '60s - half a century ago - the two players in space were also political antagonists competing with each other for scientific accomplishment and public opinion points. We had our astronauts and launch vehicles and worldwide tracking facilities; they had their cosmonauts and launch vehicles and worldwide tracking facilities.
Anyone who suggested then that the two countries pool their resources would have been ignored. Such ideas, which even then would have been economically sound, were politically untenable, and neither side wanted to live with the ignominy of having their space heroes sharing a ride in someone else's bus, so to speak.
But it's beginning to look like cooperation is the way to go.
Exploring space is dangerous work. Exploring it for more than a few days at a time is not only dangerous, it's also expensive. To explore space well, to learn all we can about our celestial neighborhood and its possibilities, and to keep man's incessant bickering from spilling into extraterrestrial domains takes a few more steps in our political and intellectual evolution. It's time we stopped treating space exploration like a testosterone-laden sporting event and started treating it like the ambitious, species-wide exploration challenge of our history it so clearly is.
America's space shuttle is a marvelous thing. I've heard it described as the most complicated machine man has ever built. The shuttle itself has performed flawlessly - the two we've lost were destroyed by failures in the stuff bolted to them. If not for design inadequacies in the giant fuel tank and solid-rocket boosters, the shuttle would have a perfect safety record.
But the shuttle is getting old, technology is moving swiftly on, and replacing the shuttle with something even more capable would put it in direct competition with the International Space Station for funding, which is self-defeating.
Looking a bit farther to left and right we also notice that other countries have people and technology that can contribute significantly to manned space exploration, that these other countries also lack the economic strength to go the whole distance alone without forcing austere choices on their populations, and that many of these countries yearn for the satisfaction of seeing their own flags in space.
Can't we take advantage of this?
There are many ways to unite the world. One is to make the United Nations the ultimate law of all lands, a political development for which absolutely no country is completely prepared. We can unite the world under a single religion - if we kill everyone who doesn't accept it. We can unite the world in commerce, but we would still have to solve the problems of poverty and trade imbalances. Or we can all eat the same foods, wear the same clothes, watch the same movies and dismantle all borders.
But it seems to me a far better way to bring us all a bit closer together, close enough, at least, to make interdependence a more desirable alternative to mutual annihilation, is to tackle something bigger than all of us in a way that leaves the political institutions and economic arrangements of all countries intact.
Not every country borders an ocean, so not every country has an equal interest in understanding the alien world of water.
But every country sees sky, and no one with more than an ounce of romance and a teaspoon of curiosity can look at the stars and not extend the reach of imagination toward them. Agreeing to make human migration from this planet a goal for all nations and peoples would give every person in every generation a tangible reason for living, contributing his talent, and perpetuating our species.
Such a goal would produce another strong drive as well.
It would give those of us who remain on Earth a compelling reason for living together in peace. If nothing else it would be a gesture of respect toward those who do explore space to have somewhere in their endless desert a real home to which they can always return.
Greg Sagan can be contacted in care of the Amarillo Globe-News, P.O. Box 2091, Amarillo TX 79166, or letters@amarillonet.com.
And now, because my life is just this exciting:
Property
ADR readings
At School:
At Home:
Later Edit: Oh and I had a weird little prison flashback this morning. Walking to the law building, I looked up and a guy in dark jeans, pine green jacket, and white running shoes was walking in front of me. Looked exactly like the Kingston Pen inmate uniform from when I worked there. I swear I almost ran ahead of him so I could turn and look for his name & number ID label on the front of his jacket. Weird.
Even Later Edit: I am so bored, I think I just might cry.
You are The Amazing Maleeni!!!!! You are a murder
mystery in the making... you use unusual tricks
to get away with robbing banks.
What Funny Episode of X-files are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Read an interesting article on Yahoo news today:
Other Opinion: People the world over wish upon the same stars, Amarillo World News
By Greg Sagan
Opinion
Those of us who take an interest in space exploration witnessed a remarkable event a week or so back. Two astronauts and a cosmonaut returned to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft,landing in Kazakhstan in what was once the Soviet Union.
Other items from the world news include Japan's upcoming test of a small, reusable, unmanned shuttle in Sweden; China's plans to fly a manned orbital mission later this year; and scrutiny of NASA's budget for our own shuttle missions to see if these flights are adequately funded.
The world has definitely turned.
In the 1950s and '60s - half a century ago - the two players in space were also political antagonists competing with each other for scientific accomplishment and public opinion points. We had our astronauts and launch vehicles and worldwide tracking facilities; they had their cosmonauts and launch vehicles and worldwide tracking facilities.
Anyone who suggested then that the two countries pool their resources would have been ignored. Such ideas, which even then would have been economically sound, were politically untenable, and neither side wanted to live with the ignominy of having their space heroes sharing a ride in someone else's bus, so to speak.
But it's beginning to look like cooperation is the way to go.
Exploring space is dangerous work. Exploring it for more than a few days at a time is not only dangerous, it's also expensive. To explore space well, to learn all we can about our celestial neighborhood and its possibilities, and to keep man's incessant bickering from spilling into extraterrestrial domains takes a few more steps in our political and intellectual evolution. It's time we stopped treating space exploration like a testosterone-laden sporting event and started treating it like the ambitious, species-wide exploration challenge of our history it so clearly is.
America's space shuttle is a marvelous thing. I've heard it described as the most complicated machine man has ever built. The shuttle itself has performed flawlessly - the two we've lost were destroyed by failures in the stuff bolted to them. If not for design inadequacies in the giant fuel tank and solid-rocket boosters, the shuttle would have a perfect safety record.
But the shuttle is getting old, technology is moving swiftly on, and replacing the shuttle with something even more capable would put it in direct competition with the International Space Station for funding, which is self-defeating.
Looking a bit farther to left and right we also notice that other countries have people and technology that can contribute significantly to manned space exploration, that these other countries also lack the economic strength to go the whole distance alone without forcing austere choices on their populations, and that many of these countries yearn for the satisfaction of seeing their own flags in space.
Can't we take advantage of this?
There are many ways to unite the world. One is to make the United Nations the ultimate law of all lands, a political development for which absolutely no country is completely prepared. We can unite the world under a single religion - if we kill everyone who doesn't accept it. We can unite the world in commerce, but we would still have to solve the problems of poverty and trade imbalances. Or we can all eat the same foods, wear the same clothes, watch the same movies and dismantle all borders.
But it seems to me a far better way to bring us all a bit closer together, close enough, at least, to make interdependence a more desirable alternative to mutual annihilation, is to tackle something bigger than all of us in a way that leaves the political institutions and economic arrangements of all countries intact.
Not every country borders an ocean, so not every country has an equal interest in understanding the alien world of water.
But every country sees sky, and no one with more than an ounce of romance and a teaspoon of curiosity can look at the stars and not extend the reach of imagination toward them. Agreeing to make human migration from this planet a goal for all nations and peoples would give every person in every generation a tangible reason for living, contributing his talent, and perpetuating our species.
Such a goal would produce another strong drive as well.
It would give those of us who remain on Earth a compelling reason for living together in peace. If nothing else it would be a gesture of respect toward those who do explore space to have somewhere in their endless desert a real home to which they can always return.
Greg Sagan can be contacted in care of the Amarillo Globe-News, P.O. Box 2091, Amarillo TX 79166, or letters@amarillonet.com.
And now, because my life is just this exciting:
- Contracts
- Traynor v. Unum Life
- Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd. v. Heller & Partners Ltd
May v. Butcher, Hillas v. ArcosFoley v. Classique CoachesEmpress Towers v. Bank of Nova ScotiaWalford v. Miles- Entores Ltd. v. Miles
- Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball
- Summary:
I. Remedies for Breach of ContractEquitable Remedies (Specific Performance)Reasonableness in Face of Contract Breach (Mitigation)
- Traynor v. Unum Life
- II The Kinds of Promises that the Law will Enforce
- Promises Under Seal
- Consideration
- Past Consideration
- Mutual Promises
- Pre-Existing Duty
- Subsequent Reliance (Estoppel)
- Intention
- Third Party Beneficiaries (Privity)
- Promises Under Seal
- III Formation of Contracts
- Offer
- Acceptance
- Agreements to Agree
- Contracts by Mail, Fax and Electronic Mail
- Unilateral Contracts
- Offer
Attend review class- 63-77 (skim)
- 102-117
- 117-164 (skim)
- Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'intosh
- Calder v. British Columbia (Attorney-General)
- Hamlet of Baker Lake v. Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- Guerin v. Canada
- R. v. Sparrow
- E-mail
- lj update - Kingston, ADR
- make Christmas wishlist
- Promises pictures
- write out Daniel's Harriet Tubman summary
- emissions and licence
- scan in Jean Chretien article
- write Penchilamma's letter
- look up wedding sites for Karen
- Chapters: return Barbara Coloroso book, get new Foreigner book
- Grand & Toy: highlighter, fountain pen
- bursary at school
- Ann Matthis
- hospital survey sheet
- deposit US$ cheque
Later Edit: Oh and I had a weird little prison flashback this morning. Walking to the law building, I looked up and a guy in dark jeans, pine green jacket, and white running shoes was walking in front of me. Looked exactly like the Kingston Pen inmate uniform from when I worked there. I swear I almost ran ahead of him so I could turn and look for his name & number ID label on the front of his jacket. Weird.
Even Later Edit: I am so bored, I think I just might cry.
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Date: 2003-11-28 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 11:12 am (UTC)I'm bored, but still buried in work. And that's why I'm bored. Because I'm reading endless tracts of crap.
I have, however, given myself permission to read for pleasure tonight after the kids are in bed. If I finish my summary down to Past Consideration.
::sigh:: back to reading about Promises Under Seal.
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Date: 2003-11-28 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-28 07:24 pm (UTC)LOL! Well, I actually read the first part of your comment and thought, Oooh! Contracts outline! Yeah!!
So yeah, I forgot about the whole Canada Has Difference Cases thingummy too ;)
I wonder how many of our cases are the same though. I know a lot of our most basic cites are English cases from the 1700s. And when we read through some of the American cases, they cite the same British Golden Oldies.
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Date: 2003-11-28 07:58 pm (UTC)