They used to be a lot of things. Now, not so much.
Everyone knows the VHS v. beta that they lost.
How about tape/CD vs. minidisc? Minidisc has a lot of positive aspects (it was timed perfectly to replace the floppy and trounce the zip drive too) but poor marketing, cumbersome security and interface and lack of product availablity (caused by...yep, licensing!) doomed minidisc to obscurity.
Also the MP3 v. AACS (or whatever nonsense their MP3 players used) sony could have pounced on apple and probably taken a decent markets share.
Guess what they're going to do with BD? I mean, the problem is obvious when you compare the cost of the PS3 with a stand-alone BD player.
I can't count the number of times myself or someone else in elementary, middle, and high school got pissed off and said 'i'm going to kill you'.
No shooting that I recall and I put in 15 years. 1600 people at my high school.
Better question..."where were the parents" when google wasn't filtering the internet, youtube didn't have a therapist review every post, the school didn't notice the anti-social behavior, his friends didn't let anyone know he was so disturbed... Not that the parents are responsible. Clearly all the others are though.
I can easily get a "real" laptop for $400 and it's not even black friday. Heck, given that i actually live in a house with a roof (and running water and electricity!) I could buy a desktop. Those can be had for $300 without a big fuss.
Remind me again why I should care? I mean other than as an excuse for some big company to get a tax write off and free press. Something that would actually help me keep up with the price of gas and heating oil and electricity.
Actually yes. We (meaning americans, our money, our people, etc.) built OUR COUNTRY up to the current state that it is (horrible political structure not withstanding). So yes. I DO deserve a job here over some kid in a third world country that can barely count his fingers.
'Working your ass off' varies hugely. I might have a busy 12 hour day where I sit at my ergonomic desk in my ergonomic chair, with blinds to keep the glare of the sun up on the 51st floor on my office high-rise in financial NYC out of my eyes sending emails, making decisions, creating documentation and participating in meetings. I'd say i worked pretty hard that day. Compared to a 16 hour shift in a coal mine or scrounging garbage for metal to recycle i've got it pretty easy.
Guess what? As one of the benefits that my parents (and ancestors) have passed on to me, i get to have a much nicer 'hard day'. Maybe some of these third world countries should try doing something other than breeding more poor, diseased, hungry children. The US managed to avoid that route after all. So have plenty of other countries.
"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," the committee chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from Jerry Yang and Michael Callahan about Yahoo's actions that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a Chinese dissident"
1) Make arbitrary law violating existing case law and constitutional ammendments 2) make said law, and enforcement of, secret 3) issue gag order making discussion of said law, enforcement, and trial to determine legality... illegal 4)...? 5) profit!
More than 10x higher. No one sustains 10MB/sec of writes 24/7 or even averages that on an individual's computer/laptop.
The only situation you might find to push that is a dedicated high-use AV workstation in a 24/7 media company. Oh, and never mind that workstation would be using arrayed drives for additional speed and redundancy isntead of a single drive...which would of course increase the expeted overall lifetime.
How often do you feed a disk (not in a server) at 100MB/sec for any sustained period of time? Heck, how often do you feed a disk 100MB/sec for one minute much less an hour much less 2 years straight.
I suggest two things:
1) those so paranoid about drive life return to their handy array of 9.1GB disks in raid 50 and leave the thread
2) run perfmon (or the linux equiv.) and look at your overall disk writes for an average day, triple it and then calculate the number of years the drive will last and cut it in half for the hell of it. I'd guess the computer and storge of the drive will be long obsolete before the expected lifetime.
If you need to handle writing 100MB/sec of data at a constant rate for weeks/months/years then you don't need a 1.8" SSD. You need a couple pentabyte san. These drives are *perfect* for normal users, power users, heavy users. I'd gladly put one in each of our developer's PCs for doing coding and builds. Our AV guys would love them too.
Why is this the first and most frequent post every time someone mentions SSDs?
Wear leveling means your SSD will outlast a mechanical drive.
Moving on to a useful comment. At this speed I'm going to start looking at SSD for our high end machines. If you have to weigh performance, weight, battery life, and cost...and this dramatically wins in 3 out or 4 i'm going to start equipping high-end laptops with these. Heck, i know ULV CPUs are slow but the crappy hard drives have always been hugely limiting. We're looking at ultra-portable laptops that are actually USABLE:)
Reference? I'm rather sure that the 40 hour work week is law though it may have originated from union lawsuits or somesuch.
Now, i don't think i said unions NEVER did anything good. In the past they did serve a purpose. They've far outlived their usefullness though.
Ha, and programmers working 60+hour weeks might be an example of unions failure to be effective (and thanks for pointing that out). If they were so great programmers (and other IT folks - guess what programmers aren't the only abused ones by far!) would have unionized...well...an awful long time ago i'd think.
The real problem with 60+ hour uncompensated work weeks lies in our government and the fact that it's in bed with big business. We don't need a union to fix that, we need a responsible government.
Still, this does not invalidate my original point - unions don't make products (or whatever they do) any better than non-union shots. Cheap crap is cheap crap. Unions add cost (no matter how you look at it) so you then get less-cheap cheap crap. I'd say non-union still wins, especially from the wal-mart perspective.
Hate to break it to you, but there's no guarantee that your cell phone will work. Anywhere.
Furthermore, if someone's jamming on a train because of some idiots you can be pretty sure that person will switch off if the guy next to him has a heart attack. If you're in a resturant they have these people call "staff" and those "staff" have acess to a "land line".
The range of most portable, hand-held jammers is small enough that it would be very difficult to be in range to jam but far enough not to notice an emergency.
Besides, i wouldn't jam the 911 calls. I'd jam then "OH MY GOD, DID YOU HEAR WHAT BECKY DID WITH THAT GUY LAST WEEKEND? YEAH, WE'RE GOING OUT TONIGHT AGAIN. YEAH, SAME BAR. I HOPE THAT CREEPY GUYS ISN'T THERE THIS TIME. YOU KNOW, THE ONE WITH THE...." at 5AM when everyone else on the train is trying to sleep.
Oh, and i have another way to silence these people. Just say 'Excuse me, You're so inconsiderate and rude that I hope you get AIDS and die'. For some reason that always seems to silence them...at least for a few moments.
"Should not matter" but it does. Unions, as a rule (there are exceptions), ADD COST. Running the union by itself adds cost. Then the union has to deliver something more than the worker bees would get without it. This also adds cost.
I don't recall anything where a union increases quality of the end product. In fact, unions generally mean you're guaranteed a job and remove the majority of competition between workers...so why would anyone bother working harder to make a better product? Your entire counter-argument and justification fails. Look at the american car industry. Unions are bankrupting the american car manufacturers. While I don't think american cars are the crap they were 15 years ago, they're CERTAINLY not any better than what comes from japan. That's just one example of MANY.
Personally I'd just assume buy the best product for the least price. I don't care of slave-gang unicorns build them. If someone i'm given the equal choice between union and non-union, THEN i will go non-union. Unions are worse than corporate executives making 50-100x more than their average employees.
That said, hating them because they don't deal with unions is utter crap. In fact, I think I've actually found a single thing I can respect them for. Yes, they sell cheap crap. Buying from a union shop just ensures you're buying overpriced cheap crap.
I guess that's the preference it comes down to. Do you like to go to the store and trade your movies or do you like to drop them in the mail and get the next one (or batch) in 2 days?
I'll stuff 8 DVDs in my mailbox monday and have the next 8 from my queue on wednesday. For me, that's perfect. I'm not sure what you don't find in Netflix's catalog, but i've found everything i've gone looking for. THey even have obscure things like random yoga videos, foreign and B movies...
While i agree with the general "stupid terrorism nonsense" theme of the thread, i can explain your blue antifreeze. Old school antifreeze has a substantially shorter usable life than the newer coolant formulas. THey're designed to be stable 100,000 miles...essentialy the life of a car these days.
I especially love it when "oil and lube" shops convince people they need a 'coolant flush' and replace the mfg coolant that's good for another 60,000 miles with the generic gunk.
Eh, they said that about about DVDs. Why download 4-9GB when you can get the not-too-bad MPEG4/DIVX/etc. that only weighs 700MB.
Bandwidth keeps growing...i can get 30 or 40Mbit to my home for less than $100 a month. How long do you think it will be until people just go for the BD/HDDVD version anyway? When DVDs were cracked what was "good" bandwidth...500Kbit? A T1 at 1.5Mbit was "FAST". My cable modem does twice that today.
Isn't that the truth. Granted, I'm the Desktop Manager at my company and still have my hands in bits and pieces of support but i could easily go to one of our large offices where people don't know me and walk out with laptops. Heck, we use the USFF Dell's... 2 of those would easily fit in a backpack.
How about this one...walk up to a user 'Hi i'm from the desktop team. We got a report that your laptop has a very bad virus on it. I'll need to take it for about an hour to remove it or reimage. Would lunch time be good'
I'm tempted to try this next time i visit a remote site...unfortunately they pay me enough that i'd rather keep my job than prove how easy social engineering is.
Wow i stand corrected on my other post. Prince really is a complete *&^*&^ *(^%(@##$*&$%. I could go on but random punctuation will probably hit the lameness filter. Hey, that's kind of appropriate.
I can almost guarantee 'the purple one' doesn't have a problem with the video...and if s/he did wouldn't make a fuss over it. It's bad enough that the MAFIAA is getting bad press, immagine if an artist stepped up and said "cute baby bad, sue mommy".
Personally I don't like children. I don't like toddlers. I don't like babies. You won't find me defending them because they're "cute kids". That said, this whole thing is BS.
First, IANAL but it does appear to come under fair use. It's a short, hardly recognizable pirece of the song and incidental to the actual content - it could have easily been ANY song and it stil would have been a video of a "cute" baby dancing. While I understand there was still "music" on there regardless it serves to emphasize the point that the music itself was NOT the focus of the video. It's like filming a news clip and someone walks by in the background. Yes, you needed tos show you weren't on an abandoned street but you don't need anyone's permission for the incidental taping.
Second, I think we need a "sanity check" law. If it's not reasonable to do in almost highly similar situation it should not be reasonable to do in one. The music companies want to controll every "performance" of every song ever recorded. By performance i mean simply PLAYING the song. That, quite honestly, is insane. Then again, i think copyright and DMCA would fail the sanity check from the start.
Oh, and as for using the name of the video...No one could confuse this video with a copy of prince's video (if one exists for this song) or a simple excuse to publicly play the song. Literally in the first second of the clip it's obvious this is a personal clip of someone's child.
Are they still branding their wireless as "unlimited" to new customers? Existing customers that signed up for "unlimited" wireless should have exactly that - at least until their contract expires.
Despite their cute (though repetitive at this point) commercials, VZW is still a bad choice for a cell company in my opinion. T-Mobile OTOH seems to make good where verizon fails. Heck, they keep sending me free phones with a couple months of free service to try them out. Ok, so i'm a corporate customer but meh.
Well it does make for an easy way to measure tenure at a company. I never have to ask someone how long they worked here, just get their password and multiply the number on the end by 3 months...
It's far easier to look for post-its, stickies, scraps of paper...
Or social engineering. It's amazing how a 14 year old playing warcraft knows not to give up his password because "teh serverz lost all teh passwordz and if you don't give it to me to put back on teh serverz you will loose your accountz" yet I guaranteed i could cold-call anyone in my company with a fake name and get their password. People seem to fall for "your banking/paypal/etc. password has been lost and needs to be re-entered" pretty frequently though.
Now, the story under all this...is the guy actually a terrorist?
Everyone's talking like he's GOT to be innocent just because they redacted a summary that might have made our gov't look like "monsters". Well we are anyway but I don't necessarialy agree with assuming someone might be innocent when 5 out of the 20 people he tried to kill are still alive and holding him down for the police to arrive.
By classifying it they add (many) hurdles to using it as evidence in any type of trial or litigation. Based on past news, first they need approval to submit it as evidence. Then it can only be viewed in a dark room by the lawyers, judge and god. God must always be present. Then it can generally not be referred directly to or any information directly stated...further confusing the non-existant jury that was not cleared to read the document.
Have we made enough of an utter farce of our court system (and country) yet? You are quite right though, this whole thing IS appalling.
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They used to be a lot of things. Now, not so much.
Everyone knows the VHS v. beta that they lost.
How about tape/CD vs. minidisc? Minidisc has a lot of positive aspects (it was timed perfectly to replace the floppy and trounce the zip drive too) but poor marketing, cumbersome security and interface and lack of product availablity (caused by...yep, licensing!) doomed minidisc to obscurity.
Also the MP3 v. AACS (or whatever nonsense their MP3 players used) sony could have pounced on apple and probably taken a decent markets share.
Guess what they're going to do with BD? I mean, the problem is obvious when you compare the cost of the PS3 with a stand-alone BD player.
A hundered others? Way more than that!
I can't count the number of times myself or someone else in elementary, middle, and high school got pissed off and said 'i'm going to kill you'.
No shooting that I recall and I put in 15 years. 1600 people at my high school.
Better question..."where were the parents" when google wasn't filtering the internet, youtube didn't have a therapist review every post, the school didn't notice the anti-social behavior, his friends didn't let anyone know he was so disturbed... Not that the parents are responsible. Clearly all the others are though.
"I'm almost with you here man, but what do you have against cottage cheese?"
Because it gets into thighs somehow and is capable of totally ruining the view at the beach.
Give everyone guns. Educate them about their use.
Remove 90% of the police force. Save billions.
Next time some idiot points his AK-47 at a crowd he'll enjoy being shot down by a few people in the crowd before he gets very far.
In fact, would you try to rob a gas station or convinience store if you knew the clerk was armed and, probably, most of the people shopping in there?
Since you have to buy two to get one...
I can easily get a "real" laptop for $400 and it's not even black friday. Heck, given that i actually live in a house with a roof (and running water and electricity!) I could buy a desktop. Those can be had for $300 without a big fuss.
Remind me again why I should care? I mean other than as an excuse for some big company to get a tax write off and free press. Something that would actually help me keep up with the price of gas and heating oil and electricity.
Actually yes. We (meaning americans, our money, our people, etc.) built OUR COUNTRY up to the current state that it is (horrible political structure not withstanding). So yes. I DO deserve a job here over some kid in a third world country that can barely count his fingers.
'Working your ass off' varies hugely. I might have a busy 12 hour day where I sit at my ergonomic desk in my ergonomic chair, with blinds to keep the glare of the sun up on the 51st floor on my office high-rise in financial NYC out of my eyes sending emails, making decisions, creating documentation and participating in meetings. I'd say i worked pretty hard that day. Compared to a 16 hour shift in a coal mine or scrounging garbage for metal to recycle i've got it pretty easy.
Guess what? As one of the benefits that my parents (and ancestors) have passed on to me, i get to have a much nicer 'hard day'. Maybe some of these third world countries should try doing something other than breeding more poor, diseased, hungry children. The US managed to avoid that route after all. So have plenty of other countries.
"While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," the committee chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from Jerry Yang and Michael Callahan about Yahoo's actions that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a Chinese dissident"
Pot, meet kettle. Black!
How it works needs to do a section on government.
... illegal ...?
1) Make arbitrary law violating existing case law and constitutional ammendments
2) make said law, and enforcement of, secret
3) issue gag order making discussion of said law, enforcement, and trial to determine legality
4)
5) profit!
More than 10x higher. No one sustains 10MB/sec of writes 24/7 or even averages that on an individual's computer/laptop.
The only situation you might find to push that is a dedicated high-use AV workstation in a 24/7 media company. Oh, and never mind that workstation would be using arrayed drives for additional speed and redundancy isntead of a single drive...which would of course increase the expeted overall lifetime.
How often do you feed a disk (not in a server) at 100MB/sec for any sustained period of time? Heck, how often do you feed a disk 100MB/sec for one minute much less an hour much less 2 years straight.
I suggest two things:
1) those so paranoid about drive life return to their handy array of 9.1GB disks in raid 50 and leave the thread
2) run perfmon (or the linux equiv.) and look at your overall disk writes for an average day, triple it and then calculate the number of years the drive will last and cut it in half for the hell of it. I'd guess the computer and storge of the drive will be long obsolete before the expected lifetime.
If you need to handle writing 100MB/sec of data at a constant rate for weeks/months/years then you don't need a 1.8" SSD. You need a couple pentabyte san. These drives are *perfect* for normal users, power users, heavy users. I'd gladly put one in each of our developer's PCs for doing coding and builds. Our AV guys would love them too.
Why is this the first and most frequent post every time someone mentions SSDs?
:)
Wear leveling means your SSD will outlast a mechanical drive.
Moving on to a useful comment. At this speed I'm going to start looking at SSD for our high end machines. If you have to weigh performance, weight, battery life, and cost...and this dramatically wins in 3 out or 4 i'm going to start equipping high-end laptops with these. Heck, i know ULV CPUs are slow but the crappy hard drives have always been hugely limiting. We're looking at ultra-portable laptops that are actually USABLE
Same with desktops for that matter.
Reference? I'm rather sure that the 40 hour work week is law though it may have originated from union lawsuits or somesuch.
Now, i don't think i said unions NEVER did anything good. In the past they did serve a purpose. They've far outlived their usefullness though.
Ha, and programmers working 60+hour weeks might be an example of unions failure to be effective (and thanks for pointing that out). If they were so great programmers (and other IT folks - guess what programmers aren't the only abused ones by far!) would have unionized...well...an awful long time ago i'd think.
The real problem with 60+ hour uncompensated work weeks lies in our government and the fact that it's in bed with big business. We don't need a union to fix that, we need a responsible government.
Still, this does not invalidate my original point - unions don't make products (or whatever they do) any better than non-union shots. Cheap crap is cheap crap. Unions add cost (no matter how you look at it) so you then get less-cheap cheap crap. I'd say non-union still wins, especially from the wal-mart perspective.
Next?
Hate to break it to you, but there's no guarantee that your cell phone will work. Anywhere.
Furthermore, if someone's jamming on a train because of some idiots you can be pretty sure that person will switch off if the guy next to him has a heart attack. If you're in a resturant they have these people call "staff" and those "staff" have acess to a "land line".
The range of most portable, hand-held jammers is small enough that it would be very difficult to be in range to jam but far enough not to notice an emergency.
Besides, i wouldn't jam the 911 calls. I'd jam then "OH MY GOD, DID YOU HEAR WHAT BECKY DID WITH THAT GUY LAST WEEKEND? YEAH, WE'RE GOING OUT TONIGHT AGAIN. YEAH, SAME BAR. I HOPE THAT CREEPY GUYS ISN'T THERE THIS TIME. YOU KNOW, THE ONE WITH THE...." at 5AM when everyone else on the train is trying to sleep.
Oh, and i have another way to silence these people. Just say 'Excuse me, You're so inconsiderate and rude that I hope you get AIDS and die'. For some reason that always seems to silence them...at least for a few moments.
"Should not matter" but it does. Unions, as a rule (there are exceptions), ADD COST. Running the union by itself adds cost. Then the union has to deliver something more than the worker bees would get without it. This also adds cost.
I don't recall anything where a union increases quality of the end product. In fact, unions generally mean you're guaranteed a job and remove the majority of competition between workers...so why would anyone bother working harder to make a better product? Your entire counter-argument and justification fails. Look at the american car industry. Unions are bankrupting the american car manufacturers. While I don't think american cars are the crap they were 15 years ago, they're CERTAINLY not any better than what comes from japan. That's just one example of MANY.
Personally I'd just assume buy the best product for the least price. I don't care of slave-gang unicorns build them. If someone i'm given the equal choice between union and non-union, THEN i will go non-union. Unions are worse than corporate executives making 50-100x more than their average employees.
Ok, I hate walmart as much as anyone.
That said, hating them because they don't deal with unions is utter crap. In fact, I think I've actually found a single thing I can respect them for. Yes, they sell cheap crap. Buying from a union shop just ensures you're buying overpriced cheap crap.
I guess that's the preference it comes down to. Do you like to go to the store and trade your movies or do you like to drop them in the mail and get the next one (or batch) in 2 days?
I'll stuff 8 DVDs in my mailbox monday and have the next 8 from my queue on wednesday. For me, that's perfect. I'm not sure what you don't find in Netflix's catalog, but i've found everything i've gone looking for. THey even have obscure things like random yoga videos, foreign and B movies...
While i agree with the general "stupid terrorism nonsense" theme of the thread, i can explain your blue antifreeze. Old school antifreeze has a substantially shorter usable life than the newer coolant formulas. THey're designed to be stable 100,000 miles...essentialy the life of a car these days.
I especially love it when "oil and lube" shops convince people they need a 'coolant flush' and replace the mfg coolant that's good for another 60,000 miles with the generic gunk.
Anyhow, govt sucks balls but we all knew that.
Eh, they said that about about DVDs. Why download 4-9GB when you can get the not-too-bad MPEG4/DIVX/etc. that only weighs 700MB.
Bandwidth keeps growing...i can get 30 or 40Mbit to my home for less than $100 a month. How long do you think it will be until people just go for the BD/HDDVD version anyway? When DVDs were cracked what was "good" bandwidth...500Kbit? A T1 at 1.5Mbit was "FAST". My cable modem does twice that today.
Isn't that the truth. Granted, I'm the Desktop Manager at my company and still have my hands in bits and pieces of support but i could easily go to one of our large offices where people don't know me and walk out with laptops. Heck, we use the USFF Dell's ... 2 of those would easily fit in a backpack.
How about this one...walk up to a user 'Hi i'm from the desktop team. We got a report that your laptop has a very bad virus on it. I'll need to take it for about an hour to remove it or reimage. Would lunch time be good'
I'm tempted to try this next time i visit a remote site...unfortunately they pay me enough that i'd rather keep my job than prove how easy social engineering is.
Wow i stand corrected on my other post. Prince really is a complete *&^*&^ *(^%(@##$*&$%. I could go on but random punctuation will probably hit the lameness filter. Hey, that's kind of appropriate.
I can almost guarantee 'the purple one' doesn't have a problem with the video...and if s/he did wouldn't make a fuss over it. It's bad enough that the MAFIAA is getting bad press, immagine if an artist stepped up and said "cute baby bad, sue mommy".
Personally I don't like children. I don't like toddlers. I don't like babies. You won't find me defending them because they're "cute kids". That said, this whole thing is BS.
First, IANAL but it does appear to come under fair use. It's a short, hardly recognizable pirece of the song and incidental to the actual content - it could have easily been ANY song and it stil would have been a video of a "cute" baby dancing. While I understand there was still "music" on there regardless it serves to emphasize the point that the music itself was NOT the focus of the video. It's like filming a news clip and someone walks by in the background. Yes, you needed tos show you weren't on an abandoned street but you don't need anyone's permission for the incidental taping.
Second, I think we need a "sanity check" law. If it's not reasonable to do in almost highly similar situation it should not be reasonable to do in one. The music companies want to controll every "performance" of every song ever recorded. By performance i mean simply PLAYING the song. That, quite honestly, is insane. Then again, i think copyright and DMCA would fail the sanity check from the start.
Oh, and as for using the name of the video...No one could confuse this video with a copy of prince's video (if one exists for this song) or a simple excuse to publicly play the song. Literally in the first second of the clip it's obvious this is a personal clip of someone's child.
Are they still branding their wireless as "unlimited" to new customers? Existing customers that signed up for "unlimited" wireless should have exactly that - at least until their contract expires.
Despite their cute (though repetitive at this point) commercials, VZW is still a bad choice for a cell company in my opinion. T-Mobile OTOH seems to make good where verizon fails. Heck, they keep sending me free phones with a couple months of free service to try them out. Ok, so i'm a corporate customer but meh.
Well it does make for an easy way to measure tenure at a company. I never have to ask someone how long they worked here, just get their password and multiply the number on the end by 3 months...
It's far easier to look for post-its, stickies, scraps of paper...
Or social engineering. It's amazing how a 14 year old playing warcraft knows not to give up his password because "teh serverz lost all teh passwordz and if you don't give it to me to put back on teh serverz you will loose your accountz" yet I guaranteed i could cold-call anyone in my company with a fake name and get their password. People seem to fall for "your banking/paypal/etc. password has been lost and needs to be re-entered" pretty frequently though.
Now, the story under all this...is the guy actually a terrorist?
Everyone's talking like he's GOT to be innocent just because they redacted a summary that might have made our gov't look like "monsters". Well we are anyway but I don't necessarialy agree with assuming someone might be innocent when 5 out of the 20 people he tried to kill are still alive and holding him down for the police to arrive.
No No NO! Don't you see?
By classifying it they add (many) hurdles to using it as evidence in any type of trial or litigation. Based on past news, first they need approval to submit it as evidence. Then it can only be viewed in a dark room by the lawyers, judge and god. God must always be present. Then it can generally not be referred directly to or any information directly stated...further confusing the non-existant jury that was not cleared to read the document.
Have we made enough of an utter farce of our court system (and country) yet? You are quite right though, this whole thing IS appalling.