Lisa Knows when Freedom will go live

...and violated the terms of the new EULA by using what appears to be your real name in the thread title.

"You warrant and represent that You will not use any Service, Content or Software to provide any information that could be used, directly or indirectly, by another user of the Game to identify You in the real world. You warrant and represent that You will not use any Service, Content or Software to obtain any information that could be used, directly or indirectly, to identify another user of the Game in the real world. "

Have you seen that new EULA? Wowza.

I seriously LOL'ed

Good luck enforcing that. Not only does it sound near impossible to enforce (are they going to have ranks and ranks of people monitoring chat just for this?), but if they actually succeeded it could easily turn into a public relations disaster. I can just see the human interest story now; "Couple meets through online game, is informed after wedding that they've been banned for their love!"

*looks at his handle*

Does...that count if your handle has more or less supplanted your real name?

cause..only my mother calls me by my birthname anymore.

Holy pancakes, what about my username!?

(Also, does this mean we're not allowed to be fans of the Facebook page?)

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When my wife had jury duty earlier in the year she was "on call" for lack of a better term, for a full month and also had scheduled dates within that month she had to show up. I'm assuming that's how it works everywhere.

I think if you're serving on a grand jury, you go 1/week for so many weeks.

-Gate

That's weird. Not saying it's not true, but it isn't like that everywhere. The one time I had jury duty, I was on the hook for one week. We showed up Monday through Thursday, waited in a "jury pool" room for several hours, then they came and told us that we could go home. It was scheduled Monday through Friday, but after Thursday, they said they didn't need us back.

I actually got picked for two juries. The first one, we all went in the courtroom and, after a couple of hours, they let us go, saying that the case was settled. The second one was for a murder trial, and I was struck because they asked if anyone was against the death penalty and, being the honest schmo that I am, I raised my hand. It was too bad, too; I actually wanted to be on that one. I was hoping to go all Henry Fonda on them.

Um...doesn't that make participating in Freedom Friday a violation of the EULA, at least technically?

The Electric-Knight ______ Malfaz _____ Zox'Oculox

@Zethustra

"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan

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Haw!
My Jury Duty experience is get called go to room sit around don't get picked for the jury. Go home and be exempt for two years. Repeat.

Mine has been the wonderful joy of calling the night beforehand and hearing that my number falls into the pool that are NOT needed!!
Three times this has happened so far!
Not that I mind doing my part and all... But... meh... Their schedule doesn't match mine so well! And I'd rather not go than sit around in a room full of people waiting to not be called (as the majority of people report around here in NY).

The Electric-Knight ______ Malfaz _____ Zox'Oculox

@Zethustra

"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan

www.pauldamonthomas.com - Original Music

Mine has consisted of getting called twice while I was in college half a country away and getting out of it, accordingly.
And then never getting called again for... oh, 20 years so far.

Not in NYC. I got selected for Grand Jury a few years ago. The term was a flat 20 days (4 weeks) unless there was a case still open, then we'd be held until it was done.

Grand Jury duty was actually pretty fun. If you have the time to spare and an employer who's willing to pay you for the month, I'd recommend that you let yourself get selected. Unlike a "real" jury, there's no pressure to make a permanent life affecting decision. You're basically just prescreening the Asst Dist Attorney's evidence, witnesses, etc. to see if his/her case has merit to proceed to court.

During the course of the month, we heard a lot of cases. Most were broken up in to several presentations. I guess it depended on scheduling of the witnesses and experts. After the first couple, I had to jot down some generic notes to keep track of them. It's allowed, but you can't make any case-identifiable notes or take them home.

By the way, some of my fellow jurors were concerned about the friends of the accused brought in as witnesses and even the accused who wanted to speak brought in, might try to memorize their faces for retaliatory purposes (like in the movies). If you are also concern, then I suggest that you volunteer to be the jury foreman or assistant foreman. I was picked to be the foreman and from what I observed, even if the presentation lasted an hour or two, the most the accused or friends of the accused saw my face was 3 times for a total of less than 30 secs. They'll look at me when they come in because I'm sitting at the big desk, but the bailiffs usher them to the witness stand chair immediately. They'll look at me when I'm reading the honesty oath, but I'm reading it off a much photocopied sheet of paper in a bored sort of way. And if I happen to have a question for the accused, I'd have to come down and around whisper it to the ADA (who if they think the question is relevant would do the asking to the accused). That's it. Whereas the rest of my fellow jurors are all sitting in front of the accused for the whole hour or so.

If you can't get the foreman or assistant foreman position (who does nothing except sub for the foreman in case the foreman is out sick), then I suggest volunteering for the secretary and assistant secretary positions. They just log the cases into the journal, ie copy the info from the slip of paper from the ADA into the book. They do still sit in front of the witness stand, but off to the side a bit.

But the big plus to taking one of these 4 positions is that you automatically have a table to eat your lunch at! Unlike the others who need to share/crowd around the supplies table or eat at their chair.

Sounds like we need to prepare for a lynchin'!

Who's got the rope?

I used to actually think this would be a pretty good system until I ran into a corrupt judge in Cobb Co., Georgia on a traffic violation case. She wouldn't accept any of my evidence, including photographs showing incontrovertibly that the police officer lied. As I walked in front of her, as god as my witness, she covered the microphone with her hand so that the court reporter couldn't hear and she said, "You know, you never had a chance."

The unmitigated arrogance and "screw you" superiority I saw that day was when a lot of my illusions of the justice system being about justice and judges being fair and impartial were shattered. I'd rather trust my fate to a bunch of average schmoes than a judge any day.

If there's one good thing that came out of it, it is that I learned on a minor traffic violation how rigged the justice system is against people. People complain about how expensive lawyers are, and for the most part, such complaints are justified. However, if I ever have to deal with the system or with law enforcement again in any official capacity, I will have legal representation from a competent lawyer.

In our system, if you think that a Judge is prejudiced or misbehaving himself you can do what we call a "Wraking". This means that the court stops and a panel of judges look at the incident to see if you are right or not.

In fact, it was used in the defense of a politician on trial by his very shrewd lawyer. It became quite a hype

But our system works out reasonably well and we do have lots of lawyers to represent you when it is needed.