Posted by alexandra_k on August 19, 2014, at 15:04:05
In reply to Re: another year..., posted by ClearSkies on August 18, 2014, at 21:08:56
yeah, there seems to be a lot of scope in law to do a lot of different things...
law is fairly different here compared to the US (surprise surprise). we have parliamentary supremacy (like england) rather than a balance of power situation (like the US). so lawyers have a lot less power and politicians / parliament has a whole bunch more... and the executive, too, as a special branch of parliament, i suppose. who funds government agencies and sets their agenda.
like how here we can't take civil action for such things as medical misconduct. or for negligence of an employer. instead we have the government agency the 'accident compensation authority' who investigates (and delivers verdicts on) complaints from consumers... unless you want to take the government agency to court ahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
too many lawyers, not enough jobs is the problem. ditto nurses. this is partly why everyone wants to be a doctor nowdays... because of the cost to train to competence (not sure why we give a sh*t about competence in something all of a sudden) we can only train so many... consensus is 'never enough'. not enough of them. tis okay... nurses can smile and hug and say things like 'feel better'. we don't have the money for a lot else...
but, yeah, some of the higher court stuff seems interesting... in a bookish way.
i went to a talk yesterday and it reminded me of everything that was wrong with my thesis. except it was given my an associate professor. of course it was. sigh. i'm... glad to be learning science. put in a bit of time cramming equations for physics (turns out we should remember them - the equation sheet we'll be provided with will be slightly different from what we are used to working off... will be confusing to me)... cramming lineages... cephlochordates have a swelling (tiny brain) on the anterior portion of their dorsal hollow nerve chord... proboscis worms have a proboscis in their ... something... i forget... anyway... things are starting to come together...
the evolutionary explanation of 'religion'. uh... whatever the f*ck that is supposed to be is... uh... the stuff of popularist novels. because it is fun to speculate with analogies and think that the game is about 'yes and'. not so fun to nail down a more specific aspect and focus on an in depth analysis of what is going on in that case. then adapting one (just the one!) aspect of that case for a similar case and doing an in depth analysis of sameness / difference to try and hone in on some actual causal processes... that's... a little too much like... genuine work. not so fun anymore. but possibly... good science...
sorry to hear about the lack of cafe's... summer for you guys... i have done some good writing / reading in pub / restaurants... but not a great situation for avoiding the booze, to be sure. do you have an art gallery or a museum or something like that? just thinking that those kinds of places might have nice cafes attached... perhaps... or some diner sorts of places... keep an eye out for writers etc... people doing work-y stuff on laptops... places advertising free wireless... that don't mind you hanging about...
> I'm glad you made it through your meltdown OK. My ups and downs are rather dramatic with our bizarre, temporary living as roommates situation. From frosty to sulky to angry to hostile, I more often than not just grab my iPad and head upstairs to get away. We don't have any lovely little cafés to sit at - just sticky bar lounges.
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