Ask Jake Anything

Did my previous question not merit a response?

Here's a question for you. Would you prefer to be ruled by an oligarchy of highly educated individuals making decisions on what they can prove technically is the optimum solution or would you prefer to be led by direct democracy where the majority rules regardless of the outcome?

~Ulrika~

Dear Jake,


What should I be asking myself?

Every question merits a response Zuzu. Apparently i did not see it, in my haste. I found it and I will respond to it either later tonight or tomorow. I apologize. Really though neverything gets an answer. If I miss something feel free to ask f I have seen it, or wait until i drop to page five and read throgh everything to besure I have not missed something that will put me back on page 1 lol.

And thank you all for reading.

If I am part of the oligarchy then I want to be part of the oligarchy, otherwise I'll take democracy despite the fact that it fucntions at the level of the least common denominator. Because frankly the oligarchy soundsmlike governemnt by mircrosoft, and I think ineffecient governemtn has its place too.

really if you wanted a good model of governent have a monarchy, and give the people three things that can never bee comprimised: an education, the right to bear arms, and free speech. You would have a very eefictive and minimal goverment.

Who Am I is a good place to start.

Well Who are you?

Jake,

why do people insist on asking you pointless questions that they already know the answer to?

While we're at it can you explain the theory of time travel to me in great detail. Thanks.

That is all.

It is better to ask that same question of yourself: who are you.

Who I am is really answered by who you are. We are the same and yet different.

1. Probably for the exact same reason you asked a pointless question you already knwo the answer to.

2. No I cannot. It takes pages and hours. I wouls suggest that you read "a brief history of time, by Steven Hawking. Also Richard Feyman wrote some fascinating commentary on the two-slit experiement. Carl Sagan's cosmos discusses it. And I am sure somewhere GURPS must havea time travel supplement. The study of Four dimensional physics is brain damage at best. And really, unless you are planning a quick hop back in time to catch the premeier of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in Vienna, or forward o see how your great great great grandkids turn out on SL version 3.0 whith Havok 3 finally installed, I think you should try to understand the monets you have, and not the ones that have been or will be.

Jake,

So when i discover who i am and who you are and how we are differant.... what then?

~Syd

The you will have failed to see how our difference is illusion and that we both had the same face before our mother and father were born.

But really if you are hungry what do you do? You eat. And when you are done eating? You wash your bowl. elightnement is not like some huge expereience that whickses you out of this world and inot the next. Once you have attained enlightenment, if you attain enlightenment, then you will still be hungry, will still eat, and will still need to wash you bowl. But you will know who you are and not who thou think you are.

My lawyer spends countless hours on an internet forum, answering reduntant questions to anonymous individuals.

Is he effectively representing my best interest?

It depends on what he does with the time he is actively working on your case. Of course your best interest seems to be making yourself the most divisive person on the forums and cramming as many snide and thinly veiled personal attacks against as many people as possible. So I suppose in responding to this, which is only your most recent of many. A lawyer would be advocating in your best interest.

Be cause I do not which to faciliate your platform of ongoing and snide atacks, and because I grow weary of your constant assautls on others in every other thread of the forums, and because i tire of hitting the AR button with your every other post, you have not earned the dubious distinction of being the first and only person on my ignore list.

I hope this gives you some small pleasure.

To my readers. I apologize for my outburst in the previous posting. I am leaving it in place, because to remove it woult be to sweep a mistake in jusdgemetnunder the carpet. I should not have told Ms. Herbst I was putting her on my ignore list, but rather i should simply have done so without fanfare.

I also apologize for a slight exaggeration in the number of times I have made the decision to AR posts. In general it is my understanding that this information should be kept confidential, and it it was improper for me to disclose this. It violates the spirit of the TOS if not the letter.

That being said I stand by all my opinions about needless divisive attacks. I have repeatedly advocated that the forums are a place of reasonable discussion, and even the implication that I am somehow not zealously advocating for my clients when engaged in my capacity as an attorney is obscence to me.

The previous poster has no idea of the nature of my practice, the nature of the current litigation I am involved in, or the hours I spend at the office and not on second life. She was making a dig based on supposition. I truth I do not know what conduct I engaged in that caused the poster to target me, but I have obseved this same person attack others over andover in the time I have been a resident of second life. I promis you that my decision was not made lightly and randomly and I am not going to fly off the handle in answerin questions.

I will answer anything, as long as it is appropriate for the forums. And, obviously, based on my above response,even some inappropriate things. I will contine to advocate in favor of civil conduct in the forums, as they are our voice in the world. However, I participate in ask jake anything purely at my own whim, and I will not allow people to turn it into a maelstrom of personal attacks that gets almost every other thread closed. I there fore ask that if you wish to question me about this particular incident or topic, or you wish to take me to task for my decision, we do not do it in this thread. Create another, or send me an IM.

The forums are not a proper place for interpersonal dogfighting and I broke that rule. To my readers, I apologize.

Dear Jake,

Why is there a 6 month waiting period in the final phase of a divorce?

MJ

I have recently been thinking a great deal about who I am. Years ago, when I first heard the question, I thought it had a simple answer, but now I honestly find it a very hard question to answer. I have come face to face with my desire, instinct, passion, and pursuits, but when I boil all that off, I'm not sure what is left behind that is not connected to my situation in the world around me. In vague terms, I see something desperate to survive at all costs with cold disconnected calculation of estimated consequences when in solitude yet loss of control when conformity is pushed upon me or emotions and desires complicate matters, but again all this connects back into my experience of this life I'm living, and not into who I actually am. I wonder if I fail by trying to look too deep

All this leads me to wonder if you yourself have come to grips with who you are, and are you able to describe in words what you have discovered about yourself when seeking the answer to the simple question of "Who am I?" Have you found a way to describe yourself in a way that explains the essence of you as an individual beyond the reactor to outside influence, or do you think it is a realization not meant to have a description? If I sound crazy right now, feel free to just tell me, and I'll go be crazy elsewhere.

I refer you to the title of theis thread which is called "Ask Jake Anything"

Well Jake, what evidence do you have that this post was directed at you personally?

Secondly, does this apology directed at your readers include me? Or is this a veiled attack from which you speak so adamantly against?

I await your response before reporting you.

For the sake of clarity to your readers. You will observe that Jake's attack on me was edited.

The original response was this:



Seemed like a sound response to me. It stood for quite some time too.

Many times decisions to end a relationship are made in the heat of emotion following an argument or a dramatic event. When you consider all of the types of curcumstances that can prompt a decision to end a relationship, it is a good idea for the law to require a cooling off period before the definitive step of final dissolution of the marriage.

There are many time constraints and requirements built into many areas of the law all directed toward making certain people have had time to think clearly with a level head. The waiting period for final dissulution decree varies from state to state and can be as long as 18 months to 2 years of separation required. Social considerations supporting a long waiting period for final decree would be certainty of decision to divorce, best interests of any children of the marriage, fair identification and distrubution of marital assets, as well as a cultural bias in favor of marriage.

Thought I would add my input to that one having been a divorce lawyer for many years!

I found that the more successful and accomplished I became in my legal career, the more time I had in my life for other interests. Some reasons for this are that, with experience, it did not take me as long to complete tasks as it did when i was less experienced starting out, Also, having staff...becoming the "boss" allowed me to direct time consuming tasks such as legal research and forms etc to paralegals and junior level staff. The day I was able to send a junior attorney to court to handle a minor motion for me was a joy.

After law achool life returns in increments. The greater income I acquired over time allowed me to reduce my case load and be much more selective about my what i wanted to do and when.

The amount of free time also relates to the area of law that is practiced. A corporate or government attorney can have a more traditional work schedule allowing for the occasional fire eruption. A trial attorney or litigator is a different creature. When i was in court almost every day with a very heavy case load I had only the evenings and weekends to get my other prep work completed. This adds up to having no life and most attorneys dont tolerate that kind of schedule for long. They move on to a saner life where they can have a life. It is also interesting to note that most attorneys in the US never set foot in a courtroom.

I have also found that some attorneys cite "no time" for living as an excuse to avoid having to go home for a variety of reasons. Others are overworked because they are too inexperienced to get a better job, or not good enough to move on, or if flying solo, then unable to afford adequate staff and end up having to do it all themselves.

So, ironically, a successful attorney is one whom you might find has more time for activities other than work! Just as your busy gynecologist doesnt spend every minute focused on your pregnancy, your lawyer doesnt spend all his or her time focused on your case!

Thank you for your response. Very much to the point in question.

So Katy is Jake's alt?

Looks like there's going to be a lot of spanking. Can I do some of it?

Because the law accepts that many times people who get divorced start to reconsider one the finality of what they are doing dawns on them. thus california mandates a colling off period to facilitate reconciliation.

Katy's answer is right. But it is an answer and while I appreciate her input. Rules are rules and Katy gets spanked for not asking a question. I will do that myself.