The 44th TPBM Random Chat and Leg Lamp Compactor

thomascanty wrote in post #12580834
IThe legal system in this country is a joke...

Maybe, but from what I know f the world, there aren't many better. **sigh**

Belmondo wrote in post #12580696
Truth be told, a couple of very good friends are lawyers, and we joke about it. They have a job to do, and all too frequently it's in an adversarial role. I had the misfortune of being in a profession that lawyers have long considered ripe for picking.

I once attended a seminar put on by the Santa Clara County Bar Association, and it was a 'public invited' event. The title of the seminar (I'm not making this up) was 'How to Sue Your Broker.' The premise was that in any real estate transaction, whatever goes wrong is the fault of the broker; his/her role is to protect the client from the various problems that can crop up in a real estate transaction.

Over the years, I have been sued for:
1. Buyers discovered a deck had been build on top of an abandoned above-ground pool, not by the current owner, but by the owner before him. Even the seller didn't know it was there.
2. There had been an attic fire. It was completely repaired , but not disclosed. The case was thrown out, but not before we spent thousands of dollars responding to the suit.
3. Buyers moved it, and after a couple months, got into a feud with the neighbors. They sued for rescission, but lost. More thousands to defend.


Wanna' hear more? I have dozens of such stories to tell. In every example, there was a plaintiff's attorney. In most cases, if you offered them enough money to pay their attorney's bill, they would be advised they had no case and drop the suit. In every case, their lawyer got paid,most often by us.

BTW, we were never successfully sued in 40 years of business. The one and only time we should have been sued, we weren't. One of our agents sold a house to a couple that should never have owned property. The husband was blind, confined to a wheelchair, and living on disability. The wife was mentally challenged. They just walked away from the property even though we offered to buy it from them. I never understood why.

Oh holy carp Trust me I understand your feelings. My sister was telling me about product liability stuff from school. One of the cases they sited was a guy using an electric lawn mower, held at waist level, to trim a hedge. He managed to cut some part off or mangle himself and sued successfully saying the mower was dangerous and could have been made safe but there was no auto cut off and no warning not to use it as such

Can someone remind me how to stop lightroom from launching when I stick a card in the card reader? I have disabled it in the past but can't seem to figure out how. I loaded a trial version on this little netbook.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12580649
Glad to see that a change in time zones didn't alter your priorities.

Truth be told I just like making Tim get all rolly eyed

No I did not get elected though

Who is coming to the castle? Anyone we know?

Belmondo wrote in post #12580949
Maybe, but from what I know f the world, there aren't many better. **sigh**

Aww, c'mon, Tom, shake it off -- things aren't that bad!

tonylong wrote in post #12581035
Aww, c'mon, Tom, shake it off -- things aren't that bad!

That's funny...I meant to say, "From what I know OF the world...."

Might be Freudian....

Heh, yeah!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Another question. I clicked a link to the L.A. Times earlier. Now when I open potn the tab potn is on has that gawd awful rag of a paper's "L" logo in front of POTN. How do I get the times out of my computer

short5 wrote in post #12581108
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Another question. I clicked a link to the L.A. Times earlier. Now when I open potn the tab potn is on has that gawd awful rag of a paper's "L" logo in front of POTN. How do I get the times out of my computer

Exorcism is the only thing that works on the LA Times. Hate that paper.

Belmondo wrote in post #12581129
Exorcism is the only thing that works on the LA Times. Hate that paper.

I was thinking the same thing! No really though, any idea why it is doing that and how to get rid of it without a priest?

Okay I cleared my temp files and all is better *wipes off cold sweat*

short5 wrote in post #12580991
Truth be told I just like making Tim get all rolly eyed

:p

Quick run into the house for a hydration break and to cool off a little....

short5 wrote in post #12581155
Okay I cleared my temp files and all is better *wipes off cold sweat*

Well, good -- don't know if it's a vBulletin thing or what -- I occasionally see things pop up here, like photography related things, but not right now. On another vBulletin forum I'm in, though, the ads are pretty continuous. So there must be ways of configuring things?

Timphoto wrote in post #12581164
:p

Quick run into the house for a hydration break and to cool off a little....

What are you tractoring?

tonylong wrote in post #12581179
Well, good -- don't know if it's a vBulletin thing or what -- I occasionally see things pop up here, like photography related things, but not right now. On another vBulletin forum I'm in, though, the ads are pretty continuous. So there must be ways of configuring things?

It was odd. Rather than having the cute little camera icon before POTN, there was the Time's "L" they have heading the tab if you are on their page.

short5 wrote in post #12581247
It was odd. Rather than having the cute little camera icon before POTN, there was the Time's "L" they have heading the tab if you are on their page.

Ah, so you are talking about the little camera tab icon that's part of the POTN "ID"? Hm, I guess it was a browser glitch then, like you said, something with the temp files. Well, you fixed it. I get into the habit of totally restarting my browser on occasion when I have a glitch.