This actually sounds somewhat like what the American justice system is *supposed* to be like. The goal is justice, not understanding by the jury. Both sides present their best cases - hopefully both do so competently so that lay people can understand what the important facts are. The jury then decides the various disputed points based on that evidence and their understanding as lay people. Experts are supposed to explain things to them clearly.
The judge's actions also appear correct. His job is to facilitate the understanding that the jury forms of the evidence. If something seems muddy to him then he can expect it to be muddy to the jury and the presenting side can, as in this case, present that part more clearly.
The counsel of the side not presenting the muddy breakfast menu may be displeased when the judge causes that to be explained again more clearly.
At the end of the day, jury needs to have enough understanding to know which side should prevail on which issues and also to decide the penalty.
"Overall, this indicates an incredible amount of sloppiness and laziness in the peer-review field."
To me, this is outright fraud, not carelessness or sloth on the part of the contributors.
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They're introducing the new Note 7 battery technology so the phones can be remote immolated if you carry them out.
Wow. Can you show what kind of comments you make *after* the sarcasm flag is turned on?
Maths is hard!
Does *this* explain why alien races all die out before they contact us?
This actually sounds somewhat like what the American justice system is *supposed* to be like. The goal is justice, not understanding by the jury. Both sides present their best cases - hopefully both do so competently so that lay people can understand what the important facts are. The jury then decides the various disputed points based on that evidence and their understanding as lay people. Experts are supposed to explain things to them clearly. The judge's actions also appear correct. His job is to facilitate the understanding that the jury forms of the evidence. If something seems muddy to him then he can expect it to be muddy to the jury and the presenting side can, as in this case, present that part more clearly. The counsel of the side not presenting the muddy breakfast menu may be displeased when the judge causes that to be explained again more clearly. At the end of the day, jury needs to have enough understanding to know which side should prevail on which issues and also to decide the penalty.
Satan isn't so bad ... compared with cable TV.
More like two bits. As in "two bit ..."
You know you're dealing with a mentally ill person when they attribute something to the boogeyman of the day.
I *knew* ISIS was responsible! Or Obama maybe.
At $100,000 fine per copy he'll go broke a lot faster than the music industry does. And he'll bankrupt the whole Earth in about 5 months.
I thought the most hated man in America was Trump or Obama, depending on the time of day.
So ... diamonds are the unwanted impurity here?
Morlocks everywhere!
...t, and causes me to have thoughts of self-harm when listening to ....
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In America, all you need is a gut feeling and a lawyer, and you can litigate anything!
And last *I* checked, the gut feeling isn't required.
Astronauts Smith and Ivan blurted out "in free fall you have to wrap the neck of the flask, too."
"Overall, this indicates an incredible amount of sloppiness and laziness in the peer-review field." To me, this is outright fraud, not carelessness or sloth on the part of the contributors.
Nobody will ever need more than 640 GB of memory. - William Gates
and destroys humanity.
Sometimes 'unintended consequences' are beneficial.
You can upgrade the encoding. I'm re-ripping all my stuff at 112 now to replace those crapply old 96K MP3s.
Ya gotta paint the use magic marker to color the plugs green (not the contacts) to get the effect! Fools.
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Three Laws Safe. Only way.
Sounds like a good product slogan. "Our robots are 98% First-Law Compliant"
A pry bar to the the wooden crates open. Might have used an inclined plane at some point, too. No clubs. Yet.
I prefer the 60% solar output drop I saw in one article. But I'm an apocalypse fan.
No! Impossible!