but you can no longer afford beer! nooooooo! Welcome to the twilight zone.

or was the "other" merely the scientific establishment of his time telling the Pope what to think? This phenomenon needs a name. Something like 'model shift' or 'paradigm transfer'. Ptolemy wasn't Catholic afterall.

Horrible summary. The article points out states with larger numbers of tech per capita too - and by this measure, DC, Maryland, and Virginia are a leading cluster.

counterfeit Windows products sold on the streets in the Far East may have helped Microsoft â" by cementing their position as the technology standard

This is highly debateable. Why not use Photoshop as an example.

That's actually hilarious.

How about Titus Andronicus? That has to be the most graphic Shakespeare play.

I think the report is of real GDP, not nominal GDP. But in common parlance, a recession just means "the economy is not satisfactory" because of unemployment or inflation. It's like the word "Frankenstein". Meaning just ends up being usage, as Wittgenstein might say.

True! When he said "American defendants" I assumed he meant federal statutes. My memory of those cases involved judges scheduling a trial, then granting the prosecution as many continuances as they wanted. The only Constitutional bar is something like years after indictment.

Very true!

It's really callous to ruin somebody's life with immoral abuse of the legal system, over an unjust law, then blame the victim for his own suicide, because you think it didn't count as harassment.

Aaron's dad was right- the government murdered Aaron.

No where is "speedy trial" defined as a particular length of time. In practice it works like "as soon as possible" considering all the recognized reasons/loopholes for a delay. Other than gitmo inmates nobody "invokes" their right to a speedy trial anymore than they invoke their right to a Republican form of government.

What he meant was "The 802.11 protocol does not require cell phones to broadcast their MAC addresses when disconnected from an AP" Sure you need to send the MAC address to connect - he knows that. You don't need to send anything if you don't want to connect. It's not hard to write an app that turns off wifi outside of particular physical area. That addresses the concern they're talking about. They don't care about background data usage on the phone when they're not using it.

You're right, it never happens in real life. Just my crazy idea! D'oh!

Overly broad discovery requests are fun but there's a good response - imagine getting 500,000 pages of text from the company's records department, in shuffled order, with hand written notes, and copies of faxed printouts of email so illegible OCR gives up. Oh, and the incriminating stuff is accidentally missing (or did you just not find it yet?)

That's assuming the discovery request isn't ignored or thrown out by the court. Also, their lawyers are better than yours, and they're in-house (not hourly) and really bored. Your only recourse ends up being bad PR, but that makes finding a new job harder, so it's lose-lose.

But if you have a union....

Don't feel bad - in America we have "at will employment" by default, so your employer doesn't even need a reason to fire you. For any reason or no reason, just not for an illegal reason. On the other hand, for gov't employees it's almost impossible to fire them; procedural due process applies for some reason, somewhere in the Constitution.