No. You have a bad read. I'm about as anti-collectivist as you'll find. Thus educated, redo from start.

I am entertained. Tell me more about "my kind." While you're doing that, look up the difference between rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods.

Note that plagiarism is not unapproved copying, but copying and representing the copied work as your own. I doubt the Norwegians are trying to claim authorship of the copied shows.

We're talking about unapproved copying here, not theft; do try to keep up.

Already found that; no APIs that Word used were given. They only suggested that some undocumented APIs may have been used by anti-virus software. Word is not anti-virus software. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of undocumented APIs that Word used. One comment even said, based on the reading of a book covering the subject, that "Microsoft Word did not beat WordPerfect because of any secret API."

Which undocumented calls were these?

I'm studying for the bar right now and just covered this in Civil Procedure, at least, what I think it is, but it seems like an unusual way to go about it.

Basically, the seventh amendment guarantees a jury trial in federal civil cases if a party timely demands it, but only for matters of law, which means money damages, not equity (injunctions and other non-monetary remedies). If there is a mix of the two, you get a jury trial, and the jury decides on any facts relating to matters of law or that overlap the two, and the judge decides any facts only applying to the equitable matters.

So It seems like the theory is, if the matters of law are dispensed with, then the right to a jury trial goes away. However, I'm not sure that even paying the demanded sum can make that happen without the consent of the other party. Settlements happen all the time, but the other side must agree. And it's legitimate to settle some issues but not all, and then proceed to trial. Argument could be made that if the government is getting all of the money damages it has asked for it doesn't have a lot of room to say it still wants a jury trial—what would be the reasoning? If it's "we think we could persuade a jury to give even more than we asked for in our complaint," that doesn't seem like good faith: the complaint is in essence saying that the injury can be satisfied with the provided payment.

Another federal rule that's implicated is that if the government turns down the settlement but fails to get more than the settlement offer at trial, they can be required to pay Microsoft's post-offer litigation expenses. In a sense it doesn't matter very much—money printer goes brrrr, taxpayers are always happy to contribute—except maybe the principle.

Experts in the article appear to think it's an issue of first impression, and sufficiently different from a class action case with an offer for payment, so could go either way, and then might even be immediately appealable via the collateral order doctrine even if not a final adjudication.

Oh, the ironing is delicious.

Not just jurors; for anything short of a felony, let the victim, er, I mean defendant, remote in too.

A lot of people, especially poorer and with more time-demanding jobs (think retail, fast food, etc. compared to office jobs where in many it's no big deal if you're gone half a day if you make up the time) or less ability to travel (gas is cheaper now, but not free, or many may not have a car and in most of the US public transit is lousy) just can't fight even basic traffic tickets and have to pay the fine and increased insurance costs. They can't wait around for the entire day to be called at 4:59pm.If they could attend remotely (wouldn't even need to be from their computer; friend or library or pay-for-use station at FedEx may work too) that would make it easier to attend.

Of course, making it easier to fight them would make it more likely that the state would lose, and so they'd never go for it. But it might get a trial in more adventurous/advanced locations such as New Hampshire.

I have turned down offers in part because I'd be in an open layout office. In one case I would have had a couple feet of desk space at a long desk in a huge room. Heck, since he's mentioned in the article header and it was a few years back I don't mind saying it was at Bloomberg, doing C++ development; the work appeared great and the people that interviewed me seemed to know their stuff; and recently (so obviously it wouldn't have impacted me back then, but as a point of interest) I saw a couple of John Lakos's CppCon presentations and was singing with the choir. I took an offer much further south with an office (with a window, even). The NYC recruiting company managing the on-site interviews was not happy at this election, and tried to stiff me out of my travel reimbursement, but we worked it out.

Since Microsoft I've been spoiled for cubes (I've heard some of their newer buildings are cubes; I was in Office) and I won't say not having an office would always be a deal-breaker but pretty close to it. When my present company was in temporary space I had a cube with loud people making free to strike up random conversations or phone calls just outside it and it drove me absolutely bonkers; I even went home to work a couple times. Now I have an office as we had agreed on before coming on full time and things are much better.

The majority can't (in theory) order the government to enslave people and then expect the government to have the power to do so

Have you read any history at all? Ever? Not only have majorities had the government enslave and assist with enslaving, they have also had their governments carry out genocides and mass murder. The majority can do these things, and has done these things, both in theory and in fact.

It's good to see another former Amstrad user here. I started with a CPC464 with green screen and cassette - I think my dad traded it for a CD player or something - and eventually he got a CPC6128 with the color monitor and disk drive (360k - x2 - of sheer luxury!). I taught myself to program Basic to start then I got the firmware manual and a book of assembler opcodes and started in on Z80 machine code for sprites and such. Eventually I got an assembler, Maxam (sheer luxury again).

I also got ACU (Amstrad Computer User) with the Hairy Hacker's column in it; and a few years ago I actually contacted him (Vik) to express my appreciation, and he wrote back. His web site doesn't seem to be on the net any more, however.

Ah, well, that explains it - I haven't been here long enough for a big hurricane (nor will I be), and haven't had any serious power outages. Thanks for the info.

Would mod up if I had points - good analysis, came to say some of the same, and I hope he appreciates your time. Honestly, if I had a stack of 50 resumes and wasn't hiring for something like a game testing position, I'd be done at the "pro gamer" bit - not because of it per se, but because of its prominence.

I've also had recruiters modify a resume given in Word format, so will only send them PDFs (for now, since they're not usually competent to find it, I still have a Word format resume available on my site). One was a material change that claimed experience I did not have; I only heard about it because an interviewer read it to me over the phone, and I told them that was added by the recruiter.

But you probably didn't go to b-school with the government regulator in charge of allocating bailout money, and your fathers don't sit on the same boards nor your mothers on the same charities; so when you put your hat out for bailout money, by the time they get to you there's none left. There's your difference.

I live in Florida (for about another week) - in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area. Perhaps I haven't driven around the state enough - I've been down to the Everglades and Keys and up through Jacksonville but not much to the interior. Can you tell me more about Florida's infrastructure problems? Perhaps I'm biased by the area I'm in, but it seems reasonable enough. What's missing/substandard?