How can the bandwidth be exceeded
 

If there are three people here?

Re: How can the bandwidth be exceeded
 

What even is a 509 error?

Happy New Year, everyone!

Re: How can the bandwidth be exceeded
 

Sounds like when you have a problem with your Levi's...

Re: How can the bandwidth be exceeded
 

g.o.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

One of the smartest lawyers I ever met never went into a courtroom. Set up a referral machine. Bought ads, hired a few lackeys to handle cases in house for cash flow, referred out the rest.

I love referral fees. Money for nothing. Feels so wrong, and yet so, so right.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I see a lot of well-heeled folk whose kids took the prep school route going to big state schools, and a lot of southern schools. Idk why. These people can afford the freight for private colleges in the NE.

I think it comes down to hiring afterward. You can go to a fancy school and get a liberal arts degree and you're still only as hireable as a kid who went to a state school and has a STEM degree.

(That stuff about hedge funds, PE, and banks wanting liberal arts majors to create a more well-rounded workforce is BS. First, they're trying to eliminate everyone they can with AI. Second, the English major from Haverford is only getting hired at a fund because he's Greenwich money and his uncle is in the Senate.)

YMMV, but big state schools like MD, PSU, OSU, and MI have become far more competitive in recent years.

I think the NE/Mid-Atlantic is dusty, and backward. Sclerotic. Galloway is a good example. Guy went to UCLA, had middle of pack grades, and went on to make a fortune. Here, there's still a bizarre class thing about undergrad. I went to a private HS and college. If someone asks me about them, I immediately assume that person is a jackass. If someone tells me, "Oh, well, he went to [insert school]" as if I should be impressed, I immediately register that person as a dimwit.

YMMV, but the older I get, the more I realize my old man was right about school. "It's a badge. Advertising." I see little difference in terms of life outcome between the friends I know from college and HS and those I know who went to public HS and state universities. The NE's fixation on school is social climbing nonsense.

But, if one gets into an Ivy, he still must go. The free marketing that provides for the rest of life is just too good to reject.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Kids who can afford to have choices often end up choosing schools they want to go to, and, at the risk of being argumentative, I'm not sure what you've said here is getting at what those kids are thinking.

The top schools (e.g., Michigan) are not getting any less selective, and some schools (e.g., Northeastern) have managed to elevate themselves. But on the whole, enrollment is down, and many schools have do what they can to fill out their classes.

One thing I like about California is that people are much less interested in where you went to school. A recruiter told me the other day to play up my Ivy on my resume, and I was a little surprised, but then I remembered that he was in Northern Virginia.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

OTOH, the wildfires are terrible.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I know three separate people who have lost everything, and several others who are nervously watching from wherever they evacuated to. We've been through some pretty horrible shit in Houston, but this just horrible to watch from afar. I can only imagine what it like to go through.

The lawtalkers folk who I know are in the area have marked themselves safe on Facebook. I hope they stay so.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Our managing partner parents and an expert witness I use. OTOH, full employment for California insurance attorneys.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

In Santa Cruz, there are lots of stories of frustration from people who lost houses four years ago in the CZU fires and who have struggled to rebuild for various reasons. I assume that the insurance does not make most people whole.

eta: Interesting Twitter thread here about rebuilding from fires in Santa Rosa in 2017.

One of the best things about New York
 

I was standing in a coworkers office looking out the window and there was a modelesque young lady in the building across from us stark naked getting dressed. Absolute 10/10.

Re: One of the best things about New York
 

Do you outrank him? Suggest switching up offices.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I am looking for a new job, and am wondering if my resume is not optimized for the technology that many places are using for screening. There are people and services that say they will take care of this for you, but I am skeptical about their application in the specific sort of niche that we all are in. Does anyone have any experience with these services, or any suggestions about what I should be doing?

Re: One of the best things about New York
 

No need our offices are right next to each other, I just happened to be in hers. I have a better view from mine.

I have worked with her for over 24 years but needless to say it was a little bit uncomfortable.