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Muchas Gracias,

for your welcome, normaly I speak german, but now sitting in Spain ...
checked your site and think I will read some of your entries soon,
but I have to be careful not to spend to much time here, because I should work ...

Hasta luego

Work??? What's that??
Hello AXR! What's it like being a Space Judge? Just wondering as I'm currently a law student. What qualifications do you need?

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worK ... mmhh ... it's somethinG that
1) Keep's you off the street's, robinG old ladys (what is quite Good)
and
2) Keep's you off the Internet (what is quite annoyinG)

and I haven't any idea, what I will have to do as (space) JUDGE , neither of laws
I just went to the employment office at Spacecenter ( http://www.h2g2.com/a285653 ) 3 days aGo
and wanted to became JUDGE
... and now I am !!!

>AXR<

Well, congratulations on your judgeship! Does that mean I have to call you "My lord" and bow to you?

So tell me, why do you like capital Gs?

do I have to have a reason for capital Gs, just like them and it's easier then capital As ,or ?!

and as lonG as you are not in the courthouse, you can call me like you want

(... nearly )

>AXR<

I hope you don't expect to be called "my Lord" all the time - we wouldn't want it going to your head!
But you're right about those Gs. No reason why the shouldn't be capitalised.

just one tip: if you, for what reason ever; come to the courthouse, it may help you with your problem to call me "my Lord"

Okay, I'll remember to do that.
Is it also true that giving you small peices of rectangular paper with the Queen's head on one side may also help with the case?

THAT is definitly NOT TRUE ... it could make your case worse ...

That's what I told the opposition, I said that you were honest and couldn't be bribed, but no, they insisted that you were corrupt and evil....

evil ... mmh ... sometimes I like to be evil, you can have so much fun beeinG evil

but I hate corruption ...

So, you could always be an evil judge who isn't corrupt - and just sentence the innocent and let the guilty go free just for the fun of it....?

the really innocent (when they exsist?) havn't to fear anythinG and what's bad to be evil with the Guilty (that can be quite funny too)
... but in many cases there are no innocent, anyway .......

How about cases of child kidnapping or child murders/attacks? The children are normally innocent.
And few people are really that evil, are they?

I think there are different levels of innocent. Compared with murderer etc. the most victims are innocent and the murderer have to get the full power of the law ... no mercy!
... and so there are diffrent levels of evilness too , or?! maybee it's better to call it nastieness or something else.

What I meant to having fun beeing evil is more something different: i.e. there are two people who have a problemwhich each other which is quiet stupid, but they are not able to solve it. You think "forget about and go one with it" but they can't, and than you do something ("evil") to make it worse and you have your fun
some kind of Schadenfreude

AXR

Yes, I admit you have a point that in several cases it isn't as simple as Innocent/Guilty as I suggested earlier. There are indeed different levels in a lot of things.
And yes, some cases are very amusing and silly - I agree that people who go to court over trivial and humourous instances and take it seriously should definately have a suitable punishment.

I touGht about studyinG law once to become a real judGe but I found out that I'm to loGical for those laws today
Maybe I would hab been a good one 200 or more years ago ...

Maybe - believe me, Law isn't that logical or exciting. Have you seen some of the crazy laws that have been put up off of the Joke Directory at:
http://www.h2g2.com/A227440
It just makes you think that the whole legal system has become one big joke.

OH YES ... I read some of them, it's true sometimes you can think all is a joke, but isn't it !?!
I think you misunderstood me, I meant, that I'm to loGical, not the laws. I have some friends who are law students and I know what they have to do ... bad bad bad. But sometimes we have interesstinG discussions.

btw ... I'm studyinG enGineerinG now