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User:jimt_law (1069715)
Strength and Honor
Name:James
Bio:Engineering degree from Penn, JD from University of Chicago.

Worked for four years in a District Attorney's office out of law school. Highlights included:

1. learning how to read police reports, interview forensic pathologists, field detectives and interrogate hostile witnesses/defendents.

2. honing my shit-sensor and successfully catching others in the middle of lies during sworn testimonies

Currently employed at a private law firm where my employer bills out my time and so-called legal expertise for an absolutely ridiculous amount of money to our corporate clients.

I am a BBC (British Born Chinese), but went to secondary and tertiary school in the US. Yes, this means I speak with an 'accent' to you Americans. Yes, I can do a pretty decent impression of many Monty Python skits.

No, I won't.

Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality - and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent - that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it, ... I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win - and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was 'No.'

-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged


At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

- Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection


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