Bowing out of the Rogues Gallery

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I am officially overextended. I was selected for
6 months of Grand Jury duty in my county, and
I cannot afford any slack at work, so I get to
do both.

No one was sending me NPCs anyway.

Sorry to waste time and bandwidth.

 

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decalod85 wrote:

> I am officially overextended. I was selected for
> 6 months of Grand Jury duty in my county, and
> I cannot afford any slack at work, so I get to
> do both.
>
> No one was sending me NPCs anyway.
>
> Sorry to waste time and bandwidth.
>

In my state, Jury duty is 1 day or 1 trial. If you don't get picked,
you've served for two years. If you do serve on a jury, you've served
for three years.

Last time, I wound up on a rape trial. It lasted for a week. 2.5 days of
deliberations. Fortunately, my employer actually paid for court time.

CH

 

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Clawhound <none@nowhere.com> wrote:
> decalod85 wrote:
>
>> I am officially overextended. I was selected for
>> 6 months of Grand Jury duty in my county, and
>> I cannot afford any slack at work, so I get to
>> do both.
>>
>> No one was sending me NPCs anyway.
>>
>> Sorry to waste time and bandwidth.
>>
>
> In my state, Jury duty is 1 day or 1 trial.

Same here (British Columbia).

> If you don't get picked, you've served for two years.
> If you do serve on a jury, you've served for three years.

I don't know if the service time varies on whether you got picked or
not here. I do know it's easy to get off the list they use to randomly
select candidates from... if you know how to and to do so.

Which, incidentally, I do. I've never bothered.

> Last time, I wound up on a rape trial. It lasted for a week. 2.5 days
> of deliberations. Fortunately, my employer actually paid for court
> time.

Nice employer. They're not required to do so, at least around here.


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No 33 Secretary wrote:
>
> _Grand_ Jury. Quite different. Those are the folks who examine a police
> case to see if there is enough evidence to indict the suspect.

In Minnesota, it is required by law to convene a
grand jury if the crime involved carries the penalty
of life in prison (no death penalty).

Once the grand jury is selected, they use the same
people for the next 6 months. Any time they want
to try someone for murder, public corruption, or
other very serious offenses, they bring in the grand
jury for a couple of days.

 

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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Keith Davies wrote:
>>
>> I'm still up for it, though. I'm in the midst of designing a website to
>> make it easy, as a matter of fact.
>
> Sounds cool. Got your email on it. It's nice to have *some* rules.
>
> Wiki seems a little too loose for me (although the looseness fits with
> the wild wild usenet). I *want* to fix the NPCs but don't have any
> idea if I'm just f'ing up somone's vision or actually fixing things.

That's why I set it up as described in the email. A reviewer *can't*
change the character because he doesn't know enough about it. He's
checking only for mechanical correctness. If he has any questions, send
it back and ask.

I use the term 'Wiki' here, but it's not really *right* since I think
arbitrary users would not be able to edit each others submissions.

> I haven't found one standard NPC (I.E. standard array, standard NPC
> Gear) so far (I did find the half-green dragon rust monster rather
> entertaining though). I suppose I could just barge in and 'fix' all
> the NPCs. It'd be nice if the people there would put some blurb
> explaining why they did something a particular way if it's
> non-standard, I could live with that at least.

I've been thinking about it, and I think it might not be too hard to
differentiate between different 'games', sets of rules. For instance,
we might branch into d20 Modern (and variants) as well as just D&D.

Hell, I described this to a friend online and she started drooling over
the idea of GURPS... and I see no reason why we *couldn't* do GURPS too.


> I suppose I could try contacting them as well, but that seems a lot of
> work.

It would be if you have to track them all down. What I'm envisioning
should go a long way toward making that easier.


Keith
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Shadow Wolf <shadowolf3400@NOSPAMyahoo.invalid> wrote:
> Clawhound <none@nowhere.com> wrote in news:gF0Le.314$n5.425
> @mencken.net.nih.gov:
>
>> decalod85 wrote:
>>
>>> I am officially overextended. I was selected for
>>> 6 months of Grand Jury duty in my county, and
>>> I cannot afford any slack at work, so I get to
>>> do both.
>>>
>>> No one was sending me NPCs anyway.
>>>
>>> Sorry to waste time and bandwidth.
>>>
>>
>> In my state, Jury duty is 1 day or 1 trial. If you don't get picked,
>> you've served for two years. If you do serve on a jury, you've served
>> for three years.
>
> *Grand* Jury is different. Typically, it's one afternoon a week for
> six months or a year.

Ah, so not as arduous as spending six months (potentially) serving on
juries for a number of cases.

Still annoying and disruptive, but not *as* bad.


Keith
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Keith Davies "Trying to sway him from his current kook-
keith.davies@kjdavies.org rant with facts is like trying to create
keith.davies@gmail.com a vacuum in a room by pushing the air
http://www.kjdavies.org/ out with your hands." -- Matt Frisch

 

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"decalod85" <decalod85@comcast.net> wrote in
news:1123890807.373423.267350@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
> No 33 Secretary wrote:
>>
>> _Grand_ Jury. Quite different. Those are the folks who examine a police
>> case to see if there is enough evidence to indict the suspect.
>
> In Minnesota, it is required by law to convene a
> grand jury if the crime involved carries the penalty
> of life in prison (no death penalty).
>
> Once the grand jury is selected, they use the same
> people for the next 6 months. Any time they want
> to try someone for murder, public corruption, or
> other very serious offenses, they bring in the grand
> jury for a couple of days.
>
Not an unusual arrangement. In California, if I understand correctly, it's
pretty much a full time job three or four days a week for six months.

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