Master Cantrell has alerted Geeklawyer to National Rail’s hilarious experiment with Artificial Intelligence for train information. It/She is called Lisa.
Any Unix geek reading will be familiar with the entertaining AI in the Emacs editor (of the same name GL thinks?). Abusive questions are, of course, inevitable:
“You asked:
You look bored? Are you wearing knickers?
Lisa says:
[…]
Not done a JR before. Boy was it a lot of work. I hadn’t read an administrative law book since university,
that was a week of client money, then all the adjectival stuff - another week - then a week reading papers.
Thank fuck I’m not the one paying.
Mark Saunders, a family law/divorce barrister it seems, was killed in a shoot out with armed police in London. It all happened near Geeklawyer’s old flat in the Kings Road as it happens, nice area but if there is much more gun-play people will presumably migrate to somewhere less dangerous; Peckham, say.
It seems that […]
Geeklawyer was a trifle amused by the story of an accused being able to retain £14million following a botched civil seizure action by the government. As outlined here the government lost a case because it wouldn’t pay barristers a proper rate. No barrister would accept the defendants brief so he had to defend himself while […]
A confession is required: Geeklawyer has been so busy this year he hasn’t had time to do anything for the conference. Given also the disappointing drop off of UK lawyers blogging there is also the question of attendance which it must be feared would be sparse.
The suggestion has been made and accepted, therefore, that a […]
Geeklawyer had thought that feminism was a joke that after 25 years was confined to history and the odd nostalgic memory of decaying overweight women with sagging breasts and moustaches.
He was right (thanks abovethelaw).
Apparently a bunch of strapon wearing bull-dyke feminist law professors are asserting that lying to a woman in order to give her […]
Geeklawyer attended the, surprisingly and very disappointingly lightly attended, SCL annual lecture at the IET on Wednesday to hear Professor Lawrence Lessig’s thoughtful Corruption 2.0 talk. That very light attendance bore an ominous portent for his theme, to which GL shall return shortly.
As an aside Geeklawyer really would recommend everyone, IT/IP/whatever lawyer or geek regardless, […]
Geeklawyer fangirl Miss Robinson has a very promising looking column at hereisthecity.com as an agony aunt. She seems to be encountering some very odd people in indeed and despatches them in the merciless style they deserve.
Do pop along and watch, but remember not to throw peanuts.
Ruthie was, as many were aware, recently pretending to be junior counsel in a multi-million pound criminal trial that Geeklawyer visited as it was drawing to its inevitable conclusion. In fact it nearly drew to a conclusion more rapidly as a result of Geeklawyer’s friendly visit.
Geeklawyer had merely intended to show up, provide Ruthie with […]
MsR has tagged me with the latest “What are you reading” meme:
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
The rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people
OK. Here goes:
“These reasons are built into the procedures of the application for judicial review, which requires for example […]
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