Law School Discussion

Quote from: IrrX on March 13, 2011, 05:31:00 PM

Kind of looked like you did with the Al Gore comment.

No, just observing that mother nature can trump everything we've done to the climate (good or bad) with just one natural disaster.

Like when some force in the universe gave earth what it needed to shake dinosaurs off the planet like fleas and then go lifeless for a while to give time for a hopefully more advanced set of organisms to evolve and become the dominant life form.  From that the earth got humans after shaking off the dinos. 

However you look at it, planet earth will be fine for super long.  In millions and millions of years it will most likely still be a big rock loaded with water, elements, and all sorts of building blocks stuff floating around in space continuing to do its astronomical rotating around thing.  Whether people will still be around as a life form here is a different question. 

For all we know mother earth could get sick of us and somehow shake us off like a bad set of fleas just like it did with the dinosaurs when she wanted something better.

Quote from: 'blueskies on March 02, 2011, 07:40:54 PM

anyone doing anything fun for spring break?  I'll prob just be relaxing and working myself

Quote from: EarlCat on March 05, 2011, 05:29:16 PM

Actual IM transcript:

• Me: Have you built your web site yet?
• .Chuck: uhh, no, got distracted thinking about sex and rubbers

Guess that answers that question.

lol

If only!  It would be great if the forces of the universe would be kind enough to turn my imagination into reality!

At least a few people actually noticed that LSD was dead for a few days!  Checking for vital signs means that you care, right? (somebody said that in a CSI episode I watched the other night)

As long as the server is still alive, might as well keep this near world record breaking thread Alive and Kicking!

Andrew:  Thank You for noticing it was down, getting on it and fixing it pretty quick this time.

Soooo,  what's up Exilers? 

So bottom line is I have no problem with the rankings going up to 25 maybe 50, but after that just get rid of it.

Unfortunately US News doesn't agree with your position and is contemplating stirring the already scalding pot even more by expanding the numerical rankings deeper into the low tiers.

Statement made two days ago by the US News guy in charge of the rankings:

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2011/01/13/us-news-challenges-aba-on-law-school-employment-data-standards.html

In another very important law school rankings issue, at my AALS  convention session, "U.S.  News Rankings: An Inside Look into the U.S. News Law  School Rankings," I said that U.S. News   is considering  expanding the number of law schools we numerically rank   for the new Best  Law Schools rankings coming out in mid-March 2011. We   are contemplating  numerically ranking the top 75 percent of all the   law schools, or  around the top 150 law schools. Currently, we   numerically rank around  the top 50 percent of law schools, or top 100.   This would mean the  current schools that are in Tier 3 would be   numerically ranked, instead  of being  listed alphabetically as they are   now.

The owner of the site disabled the search function a few years ago because it kept crashing the server and he doesn't seem to want to take the time to optimize the site and properly configure the server or pay for a powerful enough server/hosting package to support the function.