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I'm serving jury duty in the L.A. Criminal Court right next to Judge Ito's courtroom. Jury duty sucks. I had to pay $10 to use the computer, $1.75 for a soda, and don't even get paid for the day. Thank God I believe in jury nullification or I'd be here another week maybe.

-Michael

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It sickens me when I hear about people complaining about jury duty and then btiching about the OJ and Michael Jackson verdicts. I don't know if you are one of those people, but I think bitching about jury duty is dumb regardless. You should be glad that you live in a country that has jury trials.

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"You should be glad that you live in a country that has jury trials."

I am, but if I ever move again I'm not registering to vote. I get nothing out of voting and this is miserable.

UPDATE: I tried to download Eurobet poker but couldn't, so I'm playing $1 blackjack, three hands at a time, and intend to do so all day, unless a hot chick comes by to watch, in which case I'll start playing $100 a hand.

-Michael

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You should be glad that you live in a country that has jury trials.

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True, but the government shouldn't rape the jurors either. At a minimum free food, internet (work purposes), and drinks should be provided during breaks.

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I tried to download Eurobet poker but couldn't,

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Government computer? What stopped you? There is always empire and pacific.

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You should be glad that you live in a country that has jury trials.

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True, but the government shouldn't rape the jurors either. At a minimum free food, internet (work purposes), and drinks should be provided during breaks.

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I agree

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Jury duty sucks. I had to pay $10 to use the computer, $1.75 for a soda, and don't even get paid for the day.

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I thought the government compensated you for lost work. Is this not the case?

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Jury duty sucks. I had to pay $10 to use the computer, $1.75 for a soda, and don't even get paid for the day.

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I thought the government compensated you for lost work. Is this not the case?

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No. They pay you like $15 for the day.

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I haven't lost any work. They pay $15 a day but only for the second day and beyond. Also, they told us to arrive at 7:45 a.m. I was here on time, and at 8:45 they finally started juror orientation. Since I don't have a real job, this is just a huge waste of time.

Yeah I'm on a government computer, I can't download stuff.

Right now they are calling for a potential 15-day trial. Whew, just finished and I didn't get called.

-Michael

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Jury duty sucks. I had to pay $10 to use the computer, $1.75 for a soda, and don't even get paid for the day.

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I thought the government compensated you for lost work. Is this not the case?

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No. They pay you like $15 for the day.

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Correct. Many companies have jury duty protection, which pays you your normal wage while you're out, but I don't believe they're required.

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I served on a jury last year. It was fun. I started smoking again so I could take regular breaks outside.

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No. They pay you like $15 for the day.

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Why even bother? Good lord there is something terribly wrong with that. I can see them not wanting to give full compensation because that would make the wrong kind of people want jury duty but $15?!?! wow.

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Se-ques-terred..

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Well, we are allowed to take breaks whenever we want, and if we are not here when they call a panel they just skip us. So it might even be possible to just get up and leave, as I suspect their threats are idle. In fact, there was just an article in Newsweek about how CA does nothing if you don't show up. But I am already in lots of trouble for not having auto insurance, stalking, etc., and don't want to test the authorities anymore.

-Michael

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No. They pay you like $15 for the day.

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Why even bother? Good lord there is something terribly wrong with that. I can see them not wanting to give full compensation because that would make the wrong kind of people want jury duty but $15?!?! wow.

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I think it would be better if they required employers to compensate people while they are on jury duty. If the government reimbursed people, I think abuse would be much more likely. I don't know what to do about self employed people.

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Screw blackjack man, you can play pokerroom through the Java interface without downloading anything. Chinese poker all day.

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But I am already in lots of trouble for not having auto insurance, stalking, etc., and don't want to test the authorities anymore. -Michael

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Ummmm....story? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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"stalking"

I don't want to give any specifics. Let's just say I had never experienced a crush until 6 months ago. My crush is only semi-requited, and I don't know how to deal with it. I'm very socially awkward, I don't follow society's rules, and no doesn't always mean no, even if I'm not a good judge of when it does.

-Michael

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what sorta tard are you? didnt your papa gabe teach you better? you just thorw those things in the mail when you get them and dont think another second about em.

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" you just thorw those things in the mail when you get them and dont think another second about em."

Why do you throw them in the mail? You mean in the trash? Anyways, I am trying to uphold my civic duty. Plus, the idea of completely screwing over a bunch of people for days just by refusing to agree with them intrigues me.

-Michael

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I don't want to give any specifics. Let's just say I had never experienced a crush until 6 months ago. My crush is only semi-requited, and I don't know how to deal with it. I'm very socially awkward, I don't follow society's rules, and no doesn't always mean no, even if I'm not a good judge of when it does. -Michael

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Dude! Most people, even soicially akward ones, figure out if no means no long before a restraining order is issued. First crush though? How old are you? Well anyway, I hope you get past it and move on with things. Best way is find osmeone else. Rebound sex will snap you right out of it.

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"Why do you throw them in the mail? You mean in the trash?"

yeah trash sorry im just waking up, i dont get up at 7am to drive off to jury duty like some losers i know...

anyway no need to go to jury duty, im pretty sure youll be experiencing a long jury trial right up close any day now.

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But I am already in lots of trouble for not having auto insurance, stalking, etc., and don't want to test the authorities anymore.

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i would think that info could get you out of jury duty. i know here if your place of employment can't function w/o you, you can get out of it. is that something you can get away w/?

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Screw blackjack man, you can play pokerroom through the Java interface without downloading anything. Chinese poker all day.

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I've downloaded bodog poker onto a flash drive and played it like that on University Computers. You could try that. I haven't tried Coral yet.

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"You should be glad that you live in a country that has jury trials."

I am, but if I ever move again I'm not registering to vote. I get nothing out of voting and this is miserable.

UPDATE: I tried to download Eurobet poker but couldn't, so I'm playing $1 blackjack, three hands at a time, and intend to do so all day, unless a hot chick comes by to watch, in which case I'll start playing $100 a hand.

-Michael

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AWESOME POST!

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"Most people, even soicially akward ones, figure out if no means no long before a restraining order is issued. First crush though? How old are you?"

25.

Well, it hasn't gotten to the restraining order stage yet, but she lives about five minutes from here. I don't make it out this way often, I don't want to sit through rush hour. If she's home I'm definitely going to see some police tonight.

Up $21 on Eurobet.

-Michael

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Back to even $$. I wonder how much this will cost me.

-Michael

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"Most people, even soicially akward ones, figure out if no means no long before a restraining order is issued. First crush though? How old are you?"

25.

Well, it hasn't gotten to the restraining order stage yet, but she lives about five minutes from here. I don't make it out this way often, I don't want to sit through rush hour. If she's home I'm definitely going to see some police tonight.

Up $21 on Eurobet.

-Michael

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Generally, the worst thing you can blurt out is something along the lines of, "WHY WON'T YOU TALK TO ME?????" Good luck with the po-po.

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"Generally, the worst thing you can blurt out is something along the lines of, "WHY WON'T YOU TALK TO ME?????"

Well, it gets really awkward. I usually don't talk, I just start taking clothes off after ten minutes or so. That's when the cops come.

-Michael

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Back to even $$.

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Please keep us posted.

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Still close to even. Took about 1/2 hour off from playing. Lunch time is in another 1/2 hour, I'm going to start early, although I can't figure out how lunch will be any better than this.

-Michael

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Get drunk. Then run naked through her lawn sprinklers.

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Well, it gets really awkward. I usually don't talk, I just start taking clothes off after ten minutes or so. That's when the cops come.

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This is golden. You're young, reasonably well off, smart, and funny. I don't know what you look like but I have a feeling if you can do [censored] like this in real life you won't have a problem. Maybe you just need to get out more and stop being so addicted to 2+2. *wacki looks in mirror* Or maybe you are just [censored] with us. It's hard to tell.

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck.

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unless a hot chick comes by to watch, in which case I'll start playing $100 a hand.

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You don't find that the chicks are put off by the teddy bear and rasta hat?

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Haha, razor, you want me!

Some chicks love the teddy bear, others the rasta hat, but usually not both.

-Michael

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No. They pay you like $15 for the day.

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Why even bother? Good lord there is something terribly wrong with that. I can see them not wanting to give full compensation because that would make the wrong kind of people want jury duty but $15?!?! wow.

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I got paid more for my milage driving across the bridge to serve than i did for the jury duty itself when i served last summer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. Luckily I was only there for two days since the parties settled during the trial.

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Haha, razor, you want me!

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nah... although until I saw you on Live at the Bike a couple weeks back I was somewhat worried I might develop a man-crush if I ever saw what you looked like.

you'll be happy (presumably) to know that I didn't.

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"nah... although until I saw you on Live at the Bike a couple weeks back I was somewhat worried I might develop a man-crush if I ever saw what you looked like."

Actually you just took whatever part of my ego that Jeannine left.

-Michael

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"Generally, the worst thing you can blurt out is something along the lines of, "WHY WON'T YOU TALK TO ME?????"

Well, it gets really awkward. I usually don't talk, I just start taking clothes off after ten minutes or so. That's when the cops come.

-Michael

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You only really need to unzip your fly, you know. If you lived in NY and took the subway regularly you'd know that.