I think if a man slept with a female boss, didn't get a promotion, then sued his employer for almost the exact amount his bankrupt wife was in debt for... There would be plenty of questions over the credibility of that man. There are plenty of women being discriminated against because they're women... Ellen Pao does not happen to be one of those women though.

That's still terrible advice. I don't think there is a lawyer on the planet who would recommend that telling acknowledging you did the wrong thing to a police officer is a good thing. That is what court is for down the track.

Staying calm is incredibly good advice. Admitting guilt when you don't know exactly what they are going to charge you with is a bad idea. You may not be fully aware of the repurcussions for whatever crime you may have caused, and you may be giving them more evidence by speaking than they have without you speaking.

48 minutes in length and gives a lot of incite, at least in regards to the American legal system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

I know you mean well, but I think that is the worst possible advice you can give to anyone for anything other than a minor traffic violation. Also can be highly dependent on your ethnicity, like it or not, minorities do get treated differently to majorities almost everywhere on earth when it comes to justice in the legal system.

Your lawyer gets paid to minimise damage to you as a clients Policemen have monthly targets on cases to close. It's wise to not confuse the role of one for the other. A policemen is never there to prove your innocence, even though he may be telling you otherwise.

I can loan you my father.... He may be able to assist you.

He insisted upon us children avoiding pausewords to the point where if we said "um" or "ahh" to him, we had to write out the offending pause word one hundred times on a piece of paper and present it to him as proof. I thought he was being a horrible parent at the time, but I appreciate it now... I think that was my dads style of parenting though. Be the unpopular guy for 20 years, Have a good 40 years with his children after that. It's worked for the most part.

Loved the idea of pulling sick tricks on a skateboard when I was about 6. Sisters around 10 years old wanted to be cool too. Dad got us a quarter pipe as a trial. Within 24 hours, I fell off the top of said quarterpipe and landed face first onto bluestone. Have a permanent scar between my top lip and my nose. Also no longer have a quarter pipe.

You are granted the ability to wish to have fireballs... In fact... It was in you the entire time... You just had to say it out loud.

You can not however, throw fireballs.

I try to avoid using the phrase "As a..." because it implies that people who also share that characteristic will agree with me, when most of the time I say "As a..." There will be disagreement within whatever field I am saying. e.g. "As a man...", "As an Australian...", "As a gamer...".

I also avoid using "Umm", "Like" and "Ahh" wherever possible. It takes a while, but if you pay close attention to the way you speak, you will slowly phase it out, and then you will just avoid it by default.

There is nothing that will force them to pick a real reason, there is something that will force them to pick any reason. I've worked in note type/interaction classification analysis in a CRM system for more than one company any when you go from a system of not leaving notes as a habit, to forcing people to leave classifications, you find that some groups inevitably get set up as default options by users unless their classifications are being audited and managed.

By forcing people to leave value, It doesn't just mean you are getting nonsense data input into one category, it means you are also losing the true value of the category as it is not possible to distinguish the true values from the default entries (nonsense data).

Yep, definitely. I appreciate there is a very big difference between fph and my viewpoint, but I also believe that many people will group my viewpoint with fph, in order to right it off. For the record, I think that someone who is morbidly obese and doesn't preach their lifestyle should be treated just the same as everyone else in society. I don't bring up weight with my overweight friends and I don't bring up weight with my skinny friends.

This pretty much says "We will only protect something that does not require protection". Seems to defeat the purpose of protection existing.