Raising the bar Created 18 years ago2006-02-21 14:48:11 UTC by satchmo

I am so proud of my brother, who passed the California bar on the first try several years ago.

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From the Los Angeles Times:

A High Bar for Lawyers
Today, 5,260 people begin taking the state licensing exam. More than half will fail. And keep failing. Just ask the mayor of Los Angeles.
By Maura Dolan
Times Staff Writer

February 21, 2006

Former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto won't even say how many times she failed the California bar examination before she finally was licensed to practice law.

"Consider it to be several," said the antidiscrimination lawyer and daughter of the late San Francisco mayor and famed antitrust lawyer, Joseph Alioto.

"And understand," she quickly added, "that for the last two years in a row I have been nominated as a national trial lawyer of the year."

Add two former governors, an eminent legal scholar and a former state Supreme Court justice to the ranks of those, like Alioto, who learned the hard way that obtaining a license to practice law in California is hard. In fact, it's harder than in almost every other state.

Of the 5,260 people expected to take the state's bar examination beginning today, more than half are likely to fail, rates from previous years indicate. Some law school graduates, like Alioto, flunk the bar multiple times before finally passing and becoming lawyers.

Others give up.

Oh man, I thought I found at last a HL community who was sick of nub mappers, players and admins and decided to ban them all from its database... Well, congrats to your brother then ...

@J.C - What? What the hell are you on about?

@Satchmo - Interesting

What the hell is wrong with you JC? All you do is complain about CS and spout random garbage making little sense. :

YOu and your smart family!

Satchmo: Congrats. Smart people deserve recognition in achivements

JC: Wow every fuckin time you post you say some Asinine remark. God your fuckin annoying. Dont bother retorting to my statement, cuz I dont give a DAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111

Whow! So much anger! We shall heed the wise Yoda:

?Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.?

rawr lets say more crap about JC! Rawr your mother is fat!

Behold! The Sith Lord's wrath cometh.

Hehe a thread about a state licencing exam turns into JC flaming and Star Wars. I love it

lol

Rawr your mother is fat!

Yes she is indeed

What? What the hell are you on about?

I thought "raising the bar" means "raising the bar (of mapping criterias)", we are on a mapping forum you know, so ...

Wow every fuckin time you post you say some Asinine remark.

It's still better than to say people are tappering themselves every time they are doing better than you...

J.C : Maybe you should read the post and not only the topic.

t: Congrats to your brother.

"RUN LUKE!"that just about covers it

Maybe you should read the post and not only the topic.

I did read the topic but didn't understand everything, I just posted a comment about the title.

Yes my post is a bit off-topic, but it isn't so far the only one here, it's funny how people can critizise somebody by behaving exactly the same way ...

funny how people can critizise somebody by behaving exactly the same way

Actually, most people who criticized you also commented on Satchmo's post.. And star wars is to do with everything

I guess the lesson here is: Read the full post and understand it before replying.

Ahnnnn...

Forums ? General Discussion ? ...

If somebody want to "say some Asinine remark", or "critizise somebody", or "fuckin annoying", this is the right place...

This isn't the "Forums ? HL Engine Discussion ? ..." or "Forums ? Maps and Mods ? ..." .........................
THIS IS "Forums ? General Discussion ? ..." ...
And if the general subject changes to something more funny, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM????

Sorry about the finger...

And finally: "Congrats to your brother."

Indeed, this is general discussion, does that make any sense J.C.?

If you want to constantly whine about how CS is fucked up etc etc then you're on the wrong site.

TWHL is mostly for beginners (in your eyes 'nub mappers'.)
We all started out as 'nubs' once, ever thought about that?
About the idiots here, every site has idiots, face it.

Be helpfull and give advice, even to 'fy' maps or something.
Else I have 4 words: Shut the fuck up!

ON TOPIC: Grats to your bro.

NemoStein and FresheD, it's funny how you can post crap about my reply and conclude with exactly the same words I did, are you from that kind of internet trolls who endlessly need to hate somebody or something to feel better?...

Oh and by the way I fuck your opinions: If you think you're smarter than me and that I should think like you, that only you can post here, can think and have opinions, I just fuck you...

And if the general subject changes to something more funny, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM????

The problem is you obviously...

Else I have 4 words: Shut the fuck up!

Start first and I'll follow...

Stop trying to hijack Satchmo's thread you evil nerds!

Gz to your brother

J.C., I think you need to re-read my post because I think you didn't understand what I ment.

Hey, I just noticed. SariBous looks more and more human everyday.

By the way, how was Satan's sofa? Comfy?

Lets all gather around and bash JC for only reading the topic. Actually when I see long post like that I usally don't read it.

No satch, it's just that I don't want to scare the kids so I only show the "normal" me

Actually when I see long post like that I usally don't read it.

That explains sooo much

To satchmo - Sorry guy... We messed up your topic... I'm really sorry...

To J.C. - Ouch... Somebody here didn't understood a FUCKING WORD THAT I SAID...
Hey man, you just can't live with this paranoia...
Like FresheD said, TWHL is a safe place for the newbies...
Here they make their questions and we answer it...
If the noobs didn't exist, WTFHELL are we doing here???

About the people that always wanna say something idiot, let they be idiot, or funny, or anything...
They just make this place more funny...
Self-affirmations is the thing most idiot to do...

Break FREE... Freedom of speech...

I actually assumed that JC was making a witty yet surreal analogy.

Satch: I think it basically shows that America's Ambulance chasers have saturated that entire sector. Its slightly reassuring to know that there still are standards.

<sniffle> no comments on my pwetty picture? i spent a <sniffle> whole 5 mins on it <sniffle>

no comments on my pwetty picture

You know why I didn't comment? Because I was busy downloading it and keeping it on my HDD. I like it that much.

I am going to show it to my wife too.

I am not kidding. I am quite amused and impressed by it.

I love it too

See, I ain't kidding.

It's my blog entry for the day now.

Self-affirmations is the thing most idiot to do

Wow this last post is really full of contradictions...

You're talking about self-affirmations while your posts got nothing but some of them...

Freedom of speech...

You're talking about freedom while telling me I am totally wrong, quite a selfish point of view don't you think?...

They just make this place more funny...

Actually? Not really...

Somebody here didn't understood a FUCKING WORD THAT I SAID...

Yes, you didn't understand what I just said: I don't give a fuck about everything somebody like you can think: Start doing something instead of telling me how I should think and maybe I could consider your off-topic personnal and agressive comments...

TWHL is a safe place for the newbies... Here they make their questions and we answer it...

You are talking about the forum while I was talking about the map vault and the game servers: I don't care about nubs of forums, yes they have to learn and stuff, I just think they should all be banned when they rule on maps databases and game servers, endlessly doing and posting and playing and voting shit...

If the noobs didn't exist, WTFHELL are we doing here???

We could enjoy a quality game, full of stimulating stuff, people who are always doing their best, releasing nice-looking things interesting to play, original, optimized, well done tested etc, enjoy a world of cooperation and competition, artistic for the mappers and simulation/arcade for the gamers, not have to answer the same questions again and again to all the one post people who come here without a "hi" or a "thanks you" and speak like a 6 years old kid, and especially not have to spend hours to deal with agressive trolls who look like to not be able to do anything else that posting shit on forums...

no comments on my pwetty picture? i spent a whole 5 mins on it

Who is the black guy? looks like familiar...

You know I spent 30.000 minutes to make a map to be told by nubs on all forums crappy maps are better than standard maps, so you're not the only one sad here...

Wow, you even bothered to write all that? give it a rest man..

J.C.: You could've been playing a quality game, enjoying an in-depth experience for all the time it took you to write that.

Seriously, if you don't like what you get at forums/games/from people, GTFO. No one's forcing you to stay there.

Ok bye then,

I'll let you think about the differences between people who do and people who just think...

You could've been playing a quality game, enjoying an in-depth experience for all the time it took you to write that.

I could have teached too to a stupid kid he may not be the smartest there, but instead of that I just realized you prefer protect his pointless agressive and personnal rants, let's see the day he will attack you as he attacked me for no reason but personal feelings, or the day you will realize he will never bring anything to your community but pointless comments...

J.C., seriously, just shut up.

You are embittered.

I thought "raising the bar" means "raising the bar (of mapping criterias)", we are on a mapping forum you know, so

no we are on the mapping forum's general discussion part which people talk about real life stuff(mostly)

sigh you know, its the same isn't it? One guy puts a toe outa line and the next thing you know people are flaming him endlessly, then the first guy retorts and it seems to be a never-ending chain. Stop this now before it goes to far, or take it to PM's. It doesn't belong here.

Anyway, returning to the topic, congratulations about your brother Satchmo!

I feel sorry people... my fault...

Yes, all NemoSteins fault, lets burn him.

Please, burn me with kerosene or napalm, but don't use alcohol...

LOL! Hunter that's sweet