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Not only that, but the locality of East Texas is completely about "the little guy" (read: patent troll) against the "mega corporation."

Read this story (an East Texas paper), vs. this story (NY Times). Note also the ridiculous difference in the way the paper mentions the judgment amount.

Smartflash got greedy. They tried to double-dip, and the whole mess got thrown out (a story the Tyler paper neglected to run).

It's about a poisoned jury pool.

First, it isn't clear how Al Gore would instantly become a billionaire if cap and trade becomes law. Second, you really think one man is more influential than several, already, multi-billion dollar industries?

It's quite clear how he would become a multibillionaire. He started a company that does nothing but buy and sell carbon credits. He'd be the founder and owner of the biggest company on the carbon credit version of Wall Street. I also never said he was more influential than multi-billion dollar industries. However he is one of the most influential people in the world in terms of environmental policy.

While this may be true, they already are the completely dominant force in commerce and so they'll make even more money if they don't have to retool anything.

Incorrect. The cost of doing business in the developed world is more expensive than in the undeveloped world. The western factories are steadily losing ground to the Daewoos and Tatas of the world. Their profits (adjusted for inflation) are shrinking. They have a few choices: compete from a position that is inferior in the long term, level the playing field by getting rid of wealth destroying laws like western income taxes and minimum wages (which the economically ignorant would never let happen), or use the fear of the scientifically ignorant to pressure the developing nations to level the playing field the other way. These are the same mega-corps that promote ideas like mandatory worker health benefits, minimum wage, and complicated tax accounting rules. Sure it costs them money, but it costs their small scale competitors a greater amount (in relative terms), so they win. If the American corporations didn't want greater regulation and global environmental treaties, why did they give record amounts of money to the Obama campaign? It certainly wasn't because he wanted to make the US a capitalist country again.

What? Are you counting yourself and all the other posters on slashdot?

No I'm counting world renowned scientists:
Astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas
Statistician Stephen McIntyre
Professor Habibullo Abdussamatov
Geologist Astrid Lyså
Prof. Roy Spencer, NASA scientist
Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT
a few dozen here...including an IPCC member.
and these 32 000 guys.
That should be enough people to show there is no "consensus" on global warming.

What cooling? The temperatures may be slightly cooler than the absolute peak, but to say there is a cooling trend is simply not true.

The "trend", as you call it, is a decade long...so far, and it's projected to last another few decades. How long was the warming that proceeded it? Twenty five years? I find it interesting that you quote a man (James Hansen of GISS) who was forced to retract falsified evidence that had claimed that the 2000s were the hottest decade in recorded history. And whose revised (i.e. more truthful) report showed that the world has cooled since the 1940s, while at the same time CO2 production skyrocketed. Additionally, wasn't he implicated in the CRU data manipulation? Yeah, he was. He's a trustwo

Yes, very safe and nonthreatening...

http://tylerpaper.com/article/20090923/NEWS08/909239991

My work with a criminal defense attorney lets me get a taste of how many unreported acts of violence occur on school grounds in this city. Being out of school is unsafe for these children, being in school is unsafe for these children.

You can lead a camel to water, but he may not drink.
You can send a kid to school, but he may not think.

We need to fix the parts of our culture that desire ignorance over intelligence, how you do that, I have no clue.

Here's the local paper's story about MSFT...
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090520/NEWS08/905209980

Also, Yahoo! recently lost to the tune of $6.6 million! In the same damn courthouse!
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090521/NEWS08/905219967

It's not really Texas as much as East Texas in particular. The land where justice is bought and sold. Heck, now they're moving this crap up to the big city of Tyler.

The real reason they sue here is because we have the most corrupt courts in the land and the "good citizens" accept that as normal. Criminal or civil, you're screwed here if you don't have the right lawyer. But hey, what do you expect in a dry county that has the only XXX drive-in theater I've ever seen.

Heck, check out this suppressed book and bear in mind, we still have that same sheriff! Sigh.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Smith_County_Justice

And yes, I'm anonymous because I value my freedom. Just posting here could put me in jail. I suppose I should be using Tor too but it's alright, nobody here understands technical issues anyhow.

Here's the local paper's story about MSFT...
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090520/NEWS08/905209980

Also, Yahoo! recently lost to the tune of $6.6 million! In the same damn courthouse!
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090521/NEWS08/905219967

It's not really Texas as much as East Texas in particular. The land where justice is bought and sold. Heck, now they're moving this crap up to the big city of Tyler.

The real reason they sue here is because we have the most corrupt courts in the land and the "good citizens" accept that as normal. Criminal or civil, you're screwed here if you don't have the right lawyer. But hey, what do you expect in a dry county that has the only XXX drive-in theater I've ever seen.

Heck, check out this suppressed book and bear in mind, we still have that same sheriff! Sigh.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Smith_County_Justice

And yes, I'm anonymous because I value my freedom. Just posting here could put me in jail. I suppose I should be using Tor too but it's alright, nobody here understands technical issues anyhow.

Right, because in your magical world jails have multiple fall over systems for comms that can't be knocked out by fire or other inmates. Unfortunately in the real world jails just aren't built that way. Hell, our local low risk jail doesn't have a sprinkler system and was damn lucky not to burn down.

http://tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090127/NEWS08/901270322

The problem with ideas like this jamming is they not only block criminals, who by definition are going to find a way to break the law as it is. It's going to block legitimate legal use of phones in the general area of the prison. Like the parking lot, where locally, citizens have used there cell phones to report escaping inmates. Our local high risk jail is in the middle of the downtown area... how do you not cause accidental jamming there?

Want a better idea? How about an accurate cell phone location finder... Whenever a cell is used in the jail its general location can be tracked down and the cell searched. This way the cells are tracked to the people that have them and investigated, and cells can still be used in emergencies.

Mark Wilson, a "gun nut super-hero" of your description was credited with saving lives during a courthouse shooting spree. A man, David Hernandez Arroyo Sr., came to the courthouse with bullet proof vest and semi-automatic rifle. He then killed his wife, killed a deputy, and wounded his son. He was closing in to kill his son when Mark Wilson fired on him.

Wilson has been credited with saving not only the man's son, but others as well. Wilson hit Arroyo several times in the chest, but the bulletproof vest was effective. Arroyo did kill Wilson before running. The gun battle continued about two miles away and Arroyo was killed by police.

I hear news stories every few weeks of something like this, but almost never hear of anyone able to respond to the situation except police. I know of one friend in Houston, TX who's had to use his gun on a couple of occasions in downtown at night. He's never had to fire. He values his saftey more than the punk who's trying to rob him and rightfully so. If Wilson's a gun nut, we need more like him.

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