Spesul iz as speshul does

My civil procedure is a sleazy, cynical sonofabitch, blatantly so. How the fuck people think it's a good idea for him to be teaching anywhere outside of a community college is beyond me (that's how "ew" he is). Some people would call it "practical," but with having to face ethics boards at the end of our education, shouldn't the sleaziness be staved off until we actually pass? Or maybe that's his fucked up plan all along, limit the number of lawyers out there so that there's more money and clients for him.

Obama using teleprompters in a classroom is kinda shady (even if it is for the media). The man needs to be weaned off of them, or sent to rehab for the addiction. I swear, seems like he's becoming more of a puppet with his mind being controlled by some evil mastermind. Is he that afraid of messing up an answer for a simple question like the Miss Teen USA contestant who flubbed on the geography thing? The teleprompters also put a barrier between him and the people, making him seem as if he does not wish to connect with his audience, by dragging his eyes from the faces of whomever he is addressing.

A friend asked me an interesting question last night. Do you morally feel that downloading is illegal? Well, it isn't a crime until somebody's actually convicted of it and fulfills the assigned punishment (because you could still prove the new "law" to be unconstitutional). Disregarding that, if it's all within the US (as in the item was registered for a copyright in the US, the company who owns the item has a US branch, the person whose creative juices created the item is American, the item was sold/distributed in the US, and the uploader is American) then, yeah, you probably shouldn't be downloading it. Throw in some internationals in there and it gets iffy. Example, in Denmark, it's not illegal to download, so what if you're an American downloading something that's purely Danish? It's to be expected that once it's up on a Danish website, it's going to be downloaded. And what if the item was never introduced into the US? Is the item really protected under our copyright law if it never sought to be copyrighted in our country in the first place?