Comment Freshfields is not an American Law Firm (Score 1) 328
FWIW, Freshfields is a UK-headquartered law firm, one of the Magic Circle law firms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshfields_Bruckhaus_Deringer
Comment There's no mystery here! (Score 1) 845
There's no mystery to this screw. It's perfectly clear who Apple is screwing.
Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode 483
Miracle Jones writes "The ever-quotable speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison has launched a lawsuit against Paramount and the Writer's Guild West for rights to residuals surrounding his famous and award winning 'City on the Edge of Forever' episode for the original Star Trek series. Ellison, recently featured in the documentary 'Dreams with Sharp Teeth,' said that 'The Trek fans who know my City screenplay understand just exactly why I'm bare-fangs-of-Adamantium about this.' Regarding his lawsuit, he had this to say: 'The arrogance, the pompous dismissive imperial manner of those who "have more important things to worry about," who'll have their assistant get back to you, who don't actually read or create, who merely "take" meetings, and shuffle papers — much of which is paper money denied to those who actually did the manual labor of creating those dreams — they refuse even to notice... until you jam a Federal lawsuit in their eye. To hell with all that obfuscation and phony flag-waving: they got my money. Pay me and pay off all the other writers from whom you've made hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars... from OUR labors... just so you can float your fat asses in warm Bahamian waters.'"
Comment Re:Hell, I'd be happy if Blizzard (Score 1) 613
I run SC under Win2k. When I exit the game, the system doesn't freeze, but the executable won't exit cleanly. Walked through with tech support for 2 months before they gave up. Since the executable won't exit cleanly, my system (if I just leave it up after SC) will BSOD after a few minutes. That's about the only reason I don't play SC more...
