rants & screeds
What’s a law degree worth?
By far the best thing about the WSJ law blog is the comments section, which today featured a lively debate on what a law degree is worth. There are of course any number of ways to measure that. The most useful is to ask, what is a law degree worth to me? as in what […]
What are you going to be when you grow up?
One of the unintended consequences of telling someone you’re going to law school is that they immediately ask you what kind of law you want to practice. This would be a perfectly reasonable follow up question were it not for the fact that I have no idea what kind of law I want to practice. […]
People or things that should be sued: Norton Antivirus
Oh Norton, how do I hate thee, let me count the ways…
for no apparent reason and entirely without justification, you prevent good hard-working computer-using people from performing perfectly routine tasks
you use a ridiculous amount of memory and computing resources
your constant, hyperbolic “warnings” cause gullible users to compute in a state of fear, believing they are […]