Richard III

Hypertweeky -

No, not mad, just bored with DeFaria - he is one of those guys that makes it his business to get under the skin of as many people as possible. This forum was designed and built with the intention of giving people the opportunity to get the help they need to get through a very tough process. DeFaria does his utmost to make things MORE difficult for people by arguing about EVERYTHING with EVERYBODY. I don't find that helpful. And, frankly, I don't believe many others who frequent this forum do, either. I have, therefore, decided to not waste any more of my valuable time having conversations with him. I think that if others did the same, he might go away. In my opinion, he is little better than a troll. And that's all I have to say about that, for NOW ;^).

Richard III

Matthew Udall

Does Andrew even have an immigration case going on any more? If not, maybe he's just addicted to this particular forum. Like Paul commented the other day about not wanting to hire him as he seems to spend all day posting (and he certainly has the right to do so), I've wondered about that as well.

If he's on the clock when posting, isn't that basically theft from the employer? (Truth be told, I used to wonder the same thing about Rita).

Yes, I post a lot too, but I'm self employed so I'm not stealing anything from an employer.

OK, lets be honest now. How many people here have ever posted from work while on the clock?

-//-

(And if you are an immigrant doing this, will you eventually list this on your I-485 or N-400 as a crime committed but one for which you have not been arrested ;-)

SecretGarden

You mean I'm supposed to be working when I'm there? *sheesh*. I better get my act together, I have to support an alien soon.

~SG
(Matt, Mr. P. got his visa on Tuesday.....did you know that? )

Matthew Udall

I saw that, but was so busy that day I forgot to post "Congratulations". Sorry, and "Congratulations!!!"

Andrew Defaria

Matthew Udall wrote:

    > If he's on the clock when posting, isn't that basically theft from the
    > employer? (Truth be told, I used to wonder the same thing about Rita).

That's up to my employer to complain about. As it is they don't. We are
a startup. We may not be in business much longer. Work is slow so I have
time to kill. I've largely automated most of my tasks so my employer has
been getting vast benefits from that in the first place. But if we were
in crunch mode I would be attending to that and not posting here. And
quite frankly if it didn't look like our demise was eminent I would be
inventing some other automated process, business thingy or product for
my employer. As it is I am working on my own stuff at home, partly to
solve a problem for myself but mostly to sharpen my skills in ancipation
of being out there in that great job market.

Additionally I run my own domain at home and am connected 24/7 - have
been since 1998 and, as you know, I often post at night too.

And yet it strikes me that many of you post as much if not more than me.
Some are indeed in the business such as yourself, others have been
around here for a long time and will probably stay, others are here and
gone. How do you justify your own participation level? I know I post
some in the morning before heading off to work and throughout the day
there are a lot of responses. Surely you guys are posting from work too.

Me, I've grown to like law in general (The Practice is now my favorite
show) and I happen to have learned a lot about immigration law in specific.

    > OK, lets be honest now. How many people here have ever posted from
    > work while on the clock?

"On the clock" while used for just about any job class now, used to
refer to hourly employees. I'm not hourly. There are times when I'm here
to late at night. There are times when I show up at noon. If there's
work that needs to be done then you dedicate extra time to it. If you've
gotten ahead then you can take a break. You manage your own "clock".
That's the true meaning of salary. I take it to heart.

--
Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!

David9287

Hello,
Pretty funny, and yes all the time, you could say I get paid while posting......lol. Perk of sitting on "top of the food chain." Having a "minority interest" in the business helps. Sorry had to laugh a little business is good. :-)

Vampier

About Andrew in google.com

http://www.talkaboutsupport.com/grou...es/462789.html

http://www.legal-secretary-info.com/..._msg9137.shtml

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=106970

He even had it's own newsgroup alt.flame.andrew-defaria

Andrew Defaria

sphyrapicus wrote:

Speaking of silly! I've always thought of these "if you are born on
<birthday> then your are <whatever>" style lists to be just silly
mysticism and largely untrue. To prove it to you I happen to be an apple
tree according to your list, which is.

    > APPLE TREE(the Love) - of slight build, lots of charm, appeal, and
    > attraction, pleasant aura, flirtatious, adventurous, sensitive, always
    > in love, wants to love and be loved, faithful and tender partner, very
    > generous, scientific talents, lives for today, a carefree philosopher
    > with imagination.

Anybody thinks it fits?
--
If you can read this I can hit my brakes and sue you.

Andrew Defaria

Leslie66 wrote:

    > Originally posted by sphyrapicus
    >> Jul 26 to Aug 04 - Cypress Tree
    >> CYPRESS TREE(the Faithfulness) - strong, muscular, adaptable, takes
    >> what life has to give, content, optimistic, craves money and
    >> acknowledgment, hates loneliness, passionate lover which cannot be
    >> satisfied, faithful, quick-tempered, unruly, pedantic, and careless.
    > This is fun!
    > Pretty damn accurate. It's not all spot on, but I'm not going to tell
    > which ones are right and/or wrong.

Hey I think you got mine! :-)

--
Copywight 1994 Elmer Fudd. All wights wesewved.

Andrew Defaria

Leslie66 wrote:

    > You're welcome. But when I think about it, in the end, the only thing
    > that is really important is the soul.

Being an atheist all can say is: Soul?

    > Actually, you are probably a wonderful person. However, you seem to
    > enjoy making people hate you.

Quite the contrary, I find no enjoyment in it at all and do not strive
to get people to hate me. It's just another misconception you have about me.

--
Right now I'm having vu ja de--deja vu and amnesia at the same time. I
could have sworn I forgot this before!

Andrew Defaria

Leslie66 wrote:

    > Originally posted by Andrew Defaria
    >> Let me ask you this: Why not the similar outcry when she insulted me?
    >> It stands to reason that if you are outraged (or even just a little
    >> perturbed) by my insult of her you should be similarly
    >> outraged/perturbed by her insult of me. Let's be fair here.
    > Gee!! That's kinda how I feel when Folinsky tells ME to "be nice"
    > after you've been slicing me to shreds.

I never slice anybody into shreds unless they've attacked me first.
Don't want to get attacked - don't attack people. Pretty simple really...

--
Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out.

SecretGarden

Hi Patrick,
I really think it's time to just let this one go. You aren't endearing yourself to the group with what appears to now be some sort of vendetta. Concentrate on being here with your wife and being happy, not demeaning and purposely attempting to irritate Andrew. Don't you have better things to do? Really.

~SG

Andrew Defaria

Richard III wrote:

    > Actually DeFaria, I would site specific instances in which you argued
    > a point that proved beyond a doubt that you hadn't read, or perhaps
    > understood, another's post, but, you know what? You bore the living
    > shit out of me and I will NOT waste any more of my valuable time on you.

So then what you are saying is you can't find any instances. I understand.

    > You may, or may not, be my intellectual equal

I doubt that I'm your intellectual equal! ;-)

    > but I am not going to participate in proving it one way or the other.
    > I enjoy reading and
    > posting to this forum primarily because it is, for the most part,
    > populated by people who are ready, willing and able to HELP others. So
    > far as I can tell, YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM. kma

Hmmm... - Does that help you? Cause that's what most people do
around here (though they just look like colons ( followed by capital
"D"'s to me but if that floats your boat...)

--
I wasn't born a bitch. Men like you made me this way.

SecretGarden

Make it stop. Please.

~SG

Vampier

     who cares?