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Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-two-out-of-three dept.

Rent-to-Pwn writes "After the lawyers involved couldn't settle even the most basic disputes without court intervention, a federal judge ordered the two lawyers to play one (1) game of rock, paper, scissors to settle the dispute. Being a federal case, in theory, it could become precedent for similar, unimportant decisions. Of course, there's no mention of what the two lawyers are supposed to do in case of a tie ..."

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  1. Funny yes....but "your rights online"? by deanj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, so it's funny... but, how did this make "Your rights online"?

  2. Umm... by qw0ntum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny story, but... 'News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters'?

    Don't get me wrong, I got as much of a chuckle out of this as anyone, but the game settled a dispute about the location of a deposition in an insurance trial, not a copyright or patent suit, or anything else relating to technology for that matter.

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  3. Re:The law for kids by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Is it all down to fear of offending someones feelings...

    Your post was idiotic. I'm sure you don't mind me saying that.

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  4. All your case are belong to us! by ettlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Take off every 'scissors' !!
    You know what you doing.
    Move 'scissors'.
    For great justice.

  5. You. Have. Made. My. Day. by Elemenope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And here, it is only 7:30 in the morning. Golly, I wish some other folks around here would embrace a less narrow view of what is and is not part of geekdom.

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  6. Re:Good old rock... by kniLnamiJ-neB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Priceless! Where's a mod point when I need one...

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  7. Re:Geez... what a precedent by Roduku · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aoccdrnig to rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

            PS: Hwo'd yuo lkie to run tihs by yuor sepll ckehcer?

    The point of this is that proficient readers read most words (except very long ones) principally through the first and last letters and a rapid recognition of the general shape and content of the entire word. That's why we typically read misspelled words with no trouble.

    We can also easily read both cursive and block writing, different fonts (including fonts we rarely see), and words with mixed capital and small letters. We also easily distinguish between words like eight and sight that have only one subtle spelling difference but are pronounced very differently.

  8. Re:Geez... what a precedent by networkBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "We can also easily read [...] words with mixed capital and small letters"

    I DoN'T Know AbOUt you BUt i FiND PeopLe WhO WriTE LIkE THis AcTiVate MY WritTEN noISe FilTER.

    And I simply ignore them. (Damn that was a pain to write)
    -nB

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