07.05.09
Posted in Life at 16:39 by krikkert
When two educated people break up, what happens? What if they have the same degree? Let’s have a look.
Psychologists
- The girl accuses the boy of using her as a replacement for his mother, in lieu of something better. Boy accuses girl of indecent relationship to cigars.
Sociology
- Both parties claim that the other party was suppressing them.
Archeology
- Boy attempts to bury past, girl keeps digging it up.
Drama
- OH MY GOD! Darling — everything we had IS IN SHAMBLES!
Biology
- – All you wanted was access to my genes.
Physics
- Both parties accept that what goes up must come down.
Journalists
- “And it was in this house that Jack (19) and Jill (18) at 11 PM last night announced their respective break-ups after only two weeks.”
Women’s Studies
Business
- Both of them decide that they spend too much money together, and that it’s more rational to be single.
History
- They agree that the cause of the break-up is a matter of the past.
Geography
- Both agree that moving far, far away is the best solution.
Anatomy
- – I’ve never actually liked your body.
Literature
- The ending proceeds in the form of well-written letters, complete with a lead-in, a main part, and conclusions, but neither of them manage to communicate anything useful to the other party.
Teachers
- They both agree that it was a learning experience.
Architecture
- The fundament wasn’t any good anyways.
Philosophy
- If two people break up in a student house, and nobody can confirm the break-up, are they then single?
Chemistry
- There was simply no chemistry.
Music
- Both write a long piece to express their sorrow. At least one go into country music.
Law
- Mutual suits are filed for illegal neglect of a contractual agreement regarding dates.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 16:14 by krikkert
I kjølvannet av denne saken, der en chilener fikk bli i kongeriket på grunn av manglende tilknytning til Chile, har det dukket opp noen interessante innlegg i “blogosfæren”.
Det foreslås blant annet at politikerne bør kunne instruere Høyesterett:
Dette er det vanskelig å tro kan være sant, og om det er sant så har i all fall høyesterett fattet en beslutning som er så ufornuftig at en skulle tro dommerne var evneveike. Fjernt fra samfunnet og folk flest disse opphøyde høyesterett dommerne. Har tydeligvis ikke bakkekontakt og føling med livets realiteter. Når høyesterett gjør slike idiotiske beslutninger så må de regne med at folk flest helt mister tilliten til dem.
Når våre dommere i høyesterett har så liten vurderingsevne, så bør våre politikere gå inn å instruere dem, slik at vi slipper flere slike skandaler som dette.
Hvilket juridisk grunnlag skulle politikerne ha for å instruere Høyesterett, mon tro? Vi vet jo at Grunnloven bygger på maktfordelingsprinsippet, så at den lovgivende forsamling skulle instruere dommerne virker nok ganske fjernt for “folk flest”.
Det at dommere faktisk klarer å holde seg saklige og vurdere sakens faktum uten å gi seg hen til billig populisme ser jeg på som positivt. Dommere skal dømme etter loven, ikke etter folkemengden. Rettssikkerhet og likhet for loven gjelder også for kriminelle. Utrolig, men sant.
Bjarte kommer med bedre argumenter i sin kommentar av saken, der det stilles spørsmål om legitimiteten av å gi en person som har tatt seg til kongeriket ulovlig lovlig opphold. Bestemmelsen i utlendingsloven § 8 annet ledd om sterke mennesklige hensyn har tydeligvis blitt veiet og funnet meget tung i denne saken.
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05.05.09
Posted in Life, Work at 23:57 by krikkert
Inappropriately stolen from The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat, apparently a fellow paper-pusher:
Rule #O: “The Rules of Bureaucracy are mutable, non-canonical, non-ordinal, and contradictory, except in the cases where they are not.”
Rule #1: “Document everything you do; if you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.”
Rule #2 [The Sixty Minutes Rule]: “Never do anything that would cause Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Steve Croft, Leslie Stahl, or even Andy Rooney to pursue you down a hallway with a camera crew.”
Rule #3: “Nothing Simple is Ever Easy”
Rule #4: “It’s about the money; follow the money.”
Rule #5: “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Rule #6: “Politics is the enemy of good government.”
Rule #7: “The biggest detriment to public service is the public.”
Rule #8: “The second biggest detriment to public service is the service.”
Rule #9: “There’s a reason; there’s ALWAYS a reason.”
Rule #10: “The Law is a harsh mistress: The rigorous and exacting application of which can benefit of society when used correctly to advance good policy and block bad, and be the bane of society when used incorrectly to advance bad policy and block good.”
Rule #11: “Public service often involves waking up in the morning, opening up the newspaper, and discovering that someone, somewhere out there thinks that you’re a dickhead.”
Rule #12: “No one really knows what you do.”
Rule #13 [Luke's Rule]: “No one ever acts like the bastard they really are.”
Rule #14: “Bureaucracy endures.”
Rule #15: “The longer you work in bureaucracy, the more Catch-22 resembles non-fiction.”
Rule #16: “Politicians are not smarter than you.”
Rule #18: “Money is not created equal.”
Rule #19: “Mediocrity is normalcy.”
Rule #17: “Within any bureaucratic structure, resources (e.g. people, money, knowledge, etc.) are not distributed uniformly.”
Rule #20: “Don’t assume a fiduciary liability without a committed resource allocation.”
Rule #21: “If you do your job and obey the law, they can’t reasonably fire you.”
Rule #22: “The Budget will always be wrong.”
Rule #23: “Always sign in blue.”
Rule #24: “A Bureaucrat must be able to explain and justify his/her actions to laymen without resorting to the phrase ‘because the Rules say so.’”
Rule #25: “Never voluntarily relinquish control of an original document.”
Rule #26: “Sometimes you just have to say ‘Screw the rules’”
Rule #27: “Change sucks.”
Rule #28: “Sometimes the answer is ‘No.’”
Rule #29: “It is very easy to make difficult decisions when no one has a clue what’s going on.”
Rule #30: “If you hang around long enough, eventually you will become an expert in something.”
Rule #31: “Data, technology, and automatic processes can never completely supplant human interaction.”
Rule #32: “Cover thine own ass.”
Rule #33: “It’s not real until it has its own acronym.”
Rule #34: Coming Soon…
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