A similar case is when you want to deploy to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider like Heroku or Redhat OpenShift. Scheme isn't popular enough for any of these to support Scheme apps directly, but they do almost all support Java apps. So if you can deploy your Scheme app as a Java app, you can run it there.

There is no mechanism to force owners to become active in a company's daily affairs. That's one of the key benefits of incorporation: if shit hits the fan, you just declare bankruptcy and walk away unscathed. Owners have no responsibility to the company, and legal judgments cannot touch them as individuals. So no, it would not be forcing anyone to work for the company against their will. If everyone just quit the company, it would fold and it'd be up to a bankruptcy court to try to find a buyer or otherwise liquidate the assets.

I agree for private cars. The situation with buses is less clear. If you have overhead wires, of course you can run an electric bus on the grid, but most cities don't want to put that in (possible exceptions for BRT lines, but even those seem to usually not be electrified). And with current battery tech, a battery-powered electric bus is challenging. So I think the current trend of LNG buses being slowly rolled out has at least some life in it.

Most of the first $15m went towards R&D and custom manufacturing costs for some tech demos, like a hydrogen-powered bus. That's about what I'd expect that to cost, given fully-loaded engineering salaries (~$200-300k/yr after overhead) and how expensive it is to build one-off things. Might not have been worth building in the first place, though.

I think it's becoming increasingly clear that electric is a better choice. But Japan (both the government and industry) went pretty heavily into investing in fuel-cell tech some decades ago, when it was less clear which tech would win. And they don't seem willing to concede quite yet that electric cars now clearly are going to beat fuel-cell cars.

That does seem like the better solution, but probably not within the court's power. In an antitrust case a court can issue injunctions relating to a company's business practices or changes in business practices, but can't invalidate a patent. Congress could certainly pass such a law though, and probably should.

Despite the legal analogy, companies aren't really people. If you also made it illegal for people to quit the company, that would be akin to slavery. But requiring a company to do something is not slavery.

Technically "The Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme".

Scheme was first specified in a 1975 report, which was revised in 1978. The 1978 report was called "The Revised Report on Scheme, A Dialect of Lisp". The next version of Scheme, in 1985, initiated the current trend, by naming itself, "The Revised Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme", or "R2RS" for short. Since then it functions as sort of a version number, so R3RS was the successor to R2RS, and so on. But from R3RS onward, nobody actually writes out the "Revised Revised..." part.

That's "R. Alexander Milowski" with a slash on the 'l', which Slashdot ate since I guess it still doesn't support Unicode in 2014...

Sort of. The first version of Kawa was by R. Alexander Miowski. He's an American, but with a pretty clearly Polish name. However the main developer has been Per Bothner since ~1996.

The budget request isn't really NASA's request of how much they think they need, but rather the White House's request on behalf of NASA, acting in its role as head of the executive branch. The White House makes decisions about how much it thinks each agency and/or program needs, and presents that budget request to Congress. Congress, having the ultimate spending authority, can allocated either more or less than the request in various categories, if they have different ideas about how much should be spent on what.

But then what will the F-35 pilots fly in?

Especially because it would just waste the court's time. If people do exist in the purported class (i.e. some people actually did buy an iPod between those dates), then all throwing out the suit would do is lead to a new suit, with different plaintiffs, being refiled. Might as well save the court's time and just keep the current docket open.

That's even more moronic: now we're going to have 'z' version of every utility, instead of you know, doing things the actual Unix way and piping things? There's no reason grep (or awk, or other such tools) should have a decompression library built into it.

If a North Korean Lockheed employee has access to the F-22 Raptor designs, I have no doubt that a North Korean court could compel him/her to turn them over. My guess is that Lockheed's NK-based employees do not have access to the F-22 Raptor designs precisely for that reason.