John Adams

Perhaps I misunderstand you. Are you saying by "leveling" that you want to push down specialist's rates and use the difference to pay primary docs more?

You got the best advice so far. No sneakers. Slacks and jacket with no tie a nice statement that says you went just a tad higher than he asked. It's always better to go over- instead of under-dressed. And you can always introduce yourself and state that you weren't sure what casual was in his workplace and thus erred on the side of being more formal because you are interested in the job. That acknowledges his advice to dress casual (and that you listened to it) and tells him you want the job. It also tells him that you understand the importance of formality. All plusses. Clothes do matter. At our law firm, we are business casual but if an interviewee attorney comes in in anything but a suit, it's a red flag. Good luck.

Spending even more on healthcare? You are an Obamanite.

Solving what?

Maybe not, but the quality of doctors will because smart people (like doctors) will go into other businesses. Also, don't kid yourself: Medicare already sets most of the price points in medicine already. Whet the doc charges you for procedure X is what medicare will reimburse him for, even though you aren't using medicare.

Last year, Derrick Harvey, DE, went 8th. He signed a 5-year, $23.8 million contract with the Jaguars.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Harvey#cite_note-2The contract contained $17.175 million in guaranteed money and $33.4 million if all the incentives and escalators are met. Maybin will sign for something within 10% of what Harvey signed for. He's not sacrificing millions by holding out. He's sacrificing (maybe) a small percentage of his money to almost insure he won't be able to contribute for most of the year. That is bull sh-- and I don't believe his PR machine for one second.

I use them both. The Mac OS is better for you if you want better stability and ease of use. Windows is better if you don't mind the occasional inexplicable crash/seize and use lots of non-standard programs--including high end games.

And you want to go tit-for-tat on OS stability comparing Mac to Windows? Really?

You want to go tit-for-tat on security vulnerabilities compared to Windows? Really?

Look at similarly slotted players last year. Add some. Sign. Cry me a river. If he wanted to be here with his millions, he'd be here.

Bill--maybe there is some good news for NY because of its illegals after all! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...0796281832.html

I was once on a trial where the baliff fell out of his chair asleep during trial. We all treated it as a funny moment, you know, like grownups.

I would have !@#$ed you in the ass Saturday. I !@#$ you in the ass next Wednesday instead. Wooo! You got a date Wednesday, baby!

+1 to both points. But of course, she's kind of right. There are not enough doctors to treat everyone now. Add 40 million more patients and rationing health care becomes a reality.

The contingency idea is a bad one. It will hurt poor people the most--and as they are the people going to bad doctors, it's them that may need to bring these suits most. I love the idea of expert juries, which is in the zip code of what you suggest. As a patent attorney, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to explain a semiconductor or a pharmacological compound to a jury who barely made it through earth science (if that). In the end, they all decide based on some gut instinct with nothing to do with the nuances of the scientific facts.

Stop it already. Referring to D&D players as dorks is a time-honored reference. If you are truly sensitive about it, hop into a bag of holding and stay there.

Joe's #4 ""Making the most profit in the most ethical and beneficial way possible" is the way I and a lot of other business owner's do business. Faced with the 4Q2008 and 1Q2009 economy, our 24M/year business was getting the sh-- kicked out of it, and needed some things changed or we were probably headed to a dark place. So, what did we do? 1- owners took no pay for 5 months 2- We lowered health benefits from our fully paid-up Ferrarri plan to a nice fully-paid Cadillac plan, and at the same time gave some (but not all) of that savings back to our employees in a small (about $100/month on average) raise. 3- We laid off some people who would have and should have been laid off before but who we'd been keeping around just because we hoped they might someday not suck. The downturn made push come to shove and we let them go, all with 2 months pay. 4- We slashed and hacked at every bit of marketing and non-necessary expense we could. And out the other end, we got leaner and our people get a little less in benefits but overall, we're healthy again and the employees feel secure. We did this all ethically and with our employees interests at heart. If we only cared about the owners, we'd have slashed a lot more people and made the survivors work to the bone. We also would have cut salaries and hacked the crap out of benefits. And you know what, if things get so bad that the ship looked like it was going to sink, we'd have taken those steps too--not just out of self-preservation, but out of concern for the people who are here. Better to keep 80 people employed at 90% of their salary than 0 people at 0%. Believe it or not, most business owners care a ton about their employees. We had an awful meeting deciding to lay off the dead wood people--and in the end saved a couple just because.

Man the porn is just gushing into your house dude.

All I know is that they weren't whitebread Americanos and thus, deserved whatever they had coming, bandejo.

Source check. That's from a Latino paper. Hardly Red Dawn, my friend. "In the proposed remake, a Cuban attack gets held at bay by a troupe of Puerto Rican dance fighters. "

He had a lot of Jesus in that blog--maybe he had some warped version of morality that didn't allow it. Who knows?

Sending your thoughts out into space doesn't mean anyone will see them. I'm sure people would have read his page if they knew it was there. Do you google all your buddies to see if they have some page where they type out their plans? I don't.

I wonder if OC thinks people will read that entire post.

Some movies are better left alone. They better not tarnish the original movie's soul.

Hey Michael Rood: Don't come back to your thread and piss on the thought of a Red Dawn remake. Didn't you see The Last Starfighter? Video games are going to put kids in the perfect position to kick some Russky Ass with a fleet of robot planes and hell, just plain robots. Hoo hah!