54 million dollars. The amount of money sued for over a lost pair of pants. Normally, this would not be a big deal, because normal people don't really know what the hell the law is there for. I'm here to hopefully correct that. The law is there to put right what has gone wrong. Was the pair of pants worth $54 million? I doubt that. I very much doubt that. How was this number arrived at? I believe that this person who sued calculated the amount based on some frivilous per diem...

Note: The following should not be construed as legal and/or accounting advice. If you are in an accident and need to calculate a loss, please contact an attorney and/or an accountant for legal/accounting advice. Remember - I do this everyday, but I still have a lot of people checking my stuff before it goes out. So, another thing the firm I work for does is help to calculate losses when people have been in auto accidents. I've been involved in a few cases now, so I'm beginning to get a...

I suggest that the only reason people even notice that computers mess up is that they tell you. For years, people have been making mistakes- mistakes with products, mistakes with their lives, mistakes on the cash register - heck, I bet you could even find an accounting mistake somewhere. I think that if no-one had invented the error message, no-one would even notice that computer programs are buggy. They're certainly not more poorly made than anything else. Product defects have been arou...

If I happen to know about a current event, I probably heard about it on Joe User. I can log on and read about whatever I want, on my own time table. I don't have to worry too much about slanted news stories, because I know they're here. But I can just read the comments and hear the other side, as long as the poster isn't one who deletes everything of an opposite view. I never knew the dangers of CPS before I read Gideon. I really thought they were a good thing. I hadn't heard anything g...

So it's finally here. My last day in the Learning Center at my University, and I'm feeling weird. You see, I've never actually left a job before. This was my first job. So, there are people here that I will probably never see again. We were coworkers for 2 years, but we had more fun together than work together. Appointments are all one-on-one, but when we're not working, we do crosswords and Sudoku together. My wife, to celebrate and thank everyone for being so great (they threw me a...

My wife went to Wal-Mart for our son's 3 month pictures. These pictures are very important to her, and when I saw how cute he looked, to me too. Well, we bought two packages. One came out great, just fine, but the other had a thumb print on it. A thumb print on the entire package, so every photo was ruined. The print did not show up on the computer screen when she picked out which poses she wanted for the packages. It was a bigger package, too. So Wal-Mart gave us some extra 5 x 7 pi...

Welcome to tax season! I am an Accounting major, and I am graduating very soon. Looking for a job, too, but that's beside the point, unless you're looking for an accountant. I recently learned that, under the rules of the American Institute of Public Accountant's Code of Conduct, if I find a mistake on someone's previous tax return, I am supposed to tell the client about the error and leave it at that. Now, a mistake is unintentional. Nothing illegal about making a mistake on your ta...