This country has gone absolutely Insane and Out of their minds

Raevan, I think those were changes and n the right direction. But, since it's not a common practice in most courts for all types of cases it's impact can't be applied as broadly as I would find most beneficial. Thanks for sharing.

I would submit that it doesn't lend itself to any sort of case BUT civil cases. You could not apply such rules to cases such as criminal, juvenile, adoption, domestic law cases. In what other cases do you imagine such rules could apply?

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Oh, I'm a pretty straight forward, get it handled and move on kind of gal. Doesn't tend to jive well with any sort of tedious bureaucratic system.

So, yeah if I had a magic wand, I would be happy to wave it to streamline all kinds of wastefulness I see, not just in the courts, not just in the govt.

But, I don't and that's the way the world spins, so I have no grand expectation that my version of what would improve things will ever happen or even be in alignment with the majority or those in power.

But, I still have my opinion. And, the most practical way I've found to improve life for me and mine is to just try and stay clear of as many of the things I find dysfunctional as possible.

I appreciate you sharing your info about your work experience though.

I would only point out that most people have almost no idea how their court system actually works or what is involved in administering justice. Having worked in the thick of it for many years, I can tell you it's not nearly as wasteful or inefficient as many perceive it to be. They simply don't understand why things happen the way they do. And it's easy to criticize that which one does not understand. I see it happen here every single day.

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Not at all you make a valid point. I worked as a legal secy with some paralegal duties for a few years, and have some experience being party to legal actions in the court system.

So I personally am not entirely inexperienced in these matters either.

However, I don't feel a lack of personal experience in dealing with govt diminishes the validity of any citizens criticisms of their govt and how it functions.

Certainly opinions can be changed by people dialoging and sharing info and knowledge and experience. But, I don't like the idea of pressuring others to support my views anymore than i'd want them to make bending my opinions their ultimate goal.

I don't think personal experience is required. However, taking the time to actually understand why things work the way they do is imperative before deciding how things should change.

That, and I agree with you that we can learn more by having productive dialogues among ourselves.

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I guess I don't get why the word "cracker" is dehrogitory?

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The movie Rudy

When the black Panthers were shouting kill the white crackers....they were not talking about Ritz or saltines.

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This is really too dumb to respond to, but okay

Look it up

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He took a product to beta test it on the agreement that he would not be using it to make money commercially but in the end, would get a significant discount on a new machine (this was a beta machine so not "polished" the way a commercially sold one would be). This was a $60,000 piece of equipment that was for audio recording and it was the state of the art for the day. The man not only tested it but he was actively advertising that he was using it in his studio. When the company realized he broke the contract, they requested it be returned. He refused. One of our CEOs went over to visit him and when he refused to give back the system, our guy physically removed it and left. This was what he was going to sue for. He had NOTHING to stand on.

So why did your company threaten him ?

He said he was going to sue us for "stealing his equipment" (remember, this was a beta product of ours with a signed contract for him to test but he couldn't use the product for any profit making and it was to be returned after a period of time). He was using the product for commercial audio recording and advertising his studio as the only studio with this ground breaking product. At the end of the time period when he was to return it, he refused so we "repo'ed" it. He knew it was an empty threat and when he heard that we could sue him in return for treble damages when he lost the suit, he walked away.