juries de facto can ignore the judge's instructions, because they can't be required to explain their decision making process, so can ignore the instructions, and just not tell anybody that they did.
People not following the rules kind of trumps everything though, and is the result of a bad jury. Post trial interviews will generally find those though.
For the record, our instructions said that we had to agree that the defendant met both conditions A and B to be found responsible.
We thought he was slightly met the requirements for responsibility due to B, but he didn't meet A at all. Since the instructions said he had to meet BOTH, we returned a verdict of not responsible.
The lawyers from both sides argue/talk with the judge and agree on the instructions. So if one side wasn't happy with it, the lawyer should have said something.
Good thing you've probably never been on jury duty!
For the record, we all did not use any of our expert knowledge. All of us actually listened to the judge and didn't pretend we were above the law. Heck, we even self-threw-out arguments for the verdict on the basis that one would be using expert knowledge.
I very much doubt you can support any of your statements. However, I was actually on jury duty...
They didn't... they only showed them picking up like 3 of them before they said something like "Okay, what's our cost up to now?" I think the ingredients they had picked up so far were pretty generic, flour etc.
Recipes cannot be copyrighted, although the instructions can be. You can also patent the machines that put together your item, which would also document exactly how to replicate it.
Basically companies that have a 'secret recipe' are taking a risk-reward gamble. If you can keep it a secret, you don't have to patent it. Patenting would protect it, but it would "start the clock" so to speak. The patent would eventually expire and the documentation would be there plain as day.
The big companies rely on people thinking it's secret and not replicable. KFC's recipe has been known for a long time - KFC even ran ads last year show people collecting ingredients to make KFC chicken but were making a point that it would be cheaper to buy from KFC.
Coca Cola's recipe status I am not sure of but it would not be too hard to replicate. However Coca-Cola has some benefits: the only company that is a threat to them financially (Pepsi) would have no use for the Coca-Cola recipe because Pepsi has built their empire off selling Pepsi, not Coca-Cola. In fact, Pepsi and CC bottle each other's sodas in many locations to save money! In the same respect, CC has no use for the Pepsi formula.
The jury has to follow the judge's instructions. You cannot go outside of them. You are not allowed to use your 'expert knowledge' of anything as a juror - anything you argue on with each other has to be based on 'common knowledge'. IE, we can use basic physics as part of me arguing that the car hit the other one really fast, but I could not say they hit each other fast because I know the exact deformation mathematical model of a Ford Taurus.
So yes, the judge sets up the instructions, but the jury ultimately decides it. If you have a judge writing shitty instructions, vote his ass out.
I tell you what, as much as I like Java as a programming language, I'd fill my underwear in record time if I ever discovered it was used in any nuclear facility.
Well, thanks to JIT, your waste can be converted into usable fuel for the plant itself, no matter how fast you fill your underwear buffer.
Good thing I can still play Halo 2, which is still running and will run for the forseeable future. Game is 5 years old now, and has two sequels out and another on the way.
I think you pretty much hit it right on the nose. Mario Kart has never really been about the racing, it's always been unfair and more of a survival of trying to place on the top half to move on to the next track.
Good brief. You're wrong. That's a BARCODE not a serial number. All barcodes are identical across all Wiis, and therefore worthless for identifying individual machines.
Bzzt. All Nintendo consoles have a window in the box for scanning the actual serial number of said console. This is what he was talking about scanning.
FYI, back in the day when I called Nintendo up to replace our launch GameCube, they were able to tell me exactly where the GameCube was bought, and verify it was still under warranty, with no need for me to provide a receipt.
This system is now used also for Xbox 360s and PS3s, but the entire system was invented by Nintendo.
I have plenty of ground, parks, etc here. But I also have a treadmill, because:
* Treadmill lets me run without having to have a shirt on * I can listen to music without having to worry about cars/dogs/other people trying to shiv me * Omaha is way too hilly so the treadmill provides a nice even consistent flat ground so I can worry more about running than hill climbing
It really shouldn't matter how someone is running, as long as they are running.
The library I worked at in 2005 made a policy of deleting all records after a year and did not keep check out histories, you could only show up as a "previous borrower" of a book (which got deleted after a year). The only way a book stayed attached to the account is if you had an overdue fee on it or you reported it as lost.
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juries de facto can ignore the judge's instructions, because they can't be required to explain their decision making process, so can ignore the instructions, and just not tell anybody that they did.
People not following the rules kind of trumps everything though, and is the result of a bad jury. Post trial interviews will generally find those though.
For the record, our instructions said that we had to agree that the defendant met both conditions A and B to be found responsible.
We thought he was slightly met the requirements for responsibility due to B, but he didn't meet A at all. Since the instructions said he had to meet BOTH, we returned a verdict of not responsible.
The lawyers from both sides argue/talk with the judge and agree on the instructions. So if one side wasn't happy with it, the lawyer should have said something.
Good thing you've probably never been on jury duty!
For the record, we all did not use any of our expert knowledge. All of us actually listened to the judge and didn't pretend we were above the law. Heck, we even self-threw-out arguments for the verdict on the basis that one would be using expert knowledge.
I very much doubt you can support any of your statements. However, I was actually on jury duty...
They didn't... they only showed them picking up like 3 of them before they said something like "Okay, what's our cost up to now?" I think the ingredients they had picked up so far were pretty generic, flour etc.
Recipes cannot be copyrighted, although the instructions can be.
You can also patent the machines that put together your item, which would also document exactly how to replicate it.
Basically companies that have a 'secret recipe' are taking a risk-reward gamble.
If you can keep it a secret, you don't have to patent it. Patenting would protect it, but it would "start the clock" so to speak. The patent would eventually expire and the documentation would be there plain as day.
The big companies rely on people thinking it's secret and not replicable. KFC's recipe has been known for a long time - KFC even ran ads last year show people collecting ingredients to make KFC chicken but were making a point that it would be cheaper to buy from KFC.
Coca Cola's recipe status I am not sure of but it would not be too hard to replicate. However Coca-Cola has some benefits: the only company that is a threat to them financially (Pepsi) would have no use for the Coca-Cola recipe because Pepsi has built their empire off selling Pepsi, not Coca-Cola. In fact, Pepsi and CC bottle each other's sodas in many locations to save money! In the same respect, CC has no use for the Pepsi formula.
I was on a jury.
The jury has to follow the judge's instructions. You cannot go outside of them. You are not allowed to use your 'expert knowledge' of anything as a juror - anything you argue on with each other has to be based on 'common knowledge'. IE, we can use basic physics as part of me arguing that the car hit the other one really fast, but I could not say they hit each other fast because I know the exact deformation mathematical model of a Ford Taurus.
So yes, the judge sets up the instructions, but the jury ultimately decides it. If you have a judge writing shitty instructions, vote his ass out.
I guess that proves that multi-core programming is still hard to do..
GE already owns NBC though.
I was sure the web app thing was due to the iPhone being rushed to buy them some time while the SDK got up and running.
I tell you what, as much as I like Java as a programming language, I'd fill my underwear in record time if I ever discovered it was used in any nuclear facility.
Well, thanks to JIT, your waste can be converted into usable fuel for the plant itself, no matter how fast you fill your underwear buffer.
But if you're running custom code anyway, you'll have replacements for both of those. Right?
Levees only buy you time, they are not dams and do not prevent floods completely, they just buy you time to get out of the area.
Good thing I can still play Halo 2, which is still running and will run for the forseeable future. Game is 5 years old now, and has two sequels out and another on the way.
While that would be nice, certain cities (like mine) have made it illegal for anyone to run a bus service other than the City.
Which can (and already has) happened with dedicated server games because the master list went down.
They were not vaporized. Clearly you didn't see the pictures submitted as evidence at the trials. (I wouldn't recommend looking at them, either)
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I think you pretty much hit it right on the nose. Mario Kart has never really been about the racing, it's always been unfair and more of a survival of trying to place on the top half to move on to the next track.
More than likely because the Xbox supports UPnP so you don't have to forward them yourself.
Good brief. You're wrong. That's a BARCODE not a serial number. All barcodes are identical across all Wiis, and therefore worthless for identifying individual machines.
Bzzt. All Nintendo consoles have a window in the box for scanning the actual serial number of said console. This is what he was talking about scanning.
FYI, back in the day when I called Nintendo up to replace our launch GameCube, they were able to tell me exactly where the GameCube was bought, and verify it was still under warranty, with no need for me to provide a receipt.
This system is now used also for Xbox 360s and PS3s, but the entire system was invented by Nintendo.
You mean the house blueprints you can already pull from the internet via most county assessor offices?
Public, linked data able to be recorded, indexed
News at 11
(In other words, non-story. If you don't want something indexed... don't link it on the public internet.)
Granted, the first one isn't a true open source project in that they don't accept patches from the community
There's nothing about open source that says that the original maintainers have to accept patches from outside the initial group.
You mean the upgrade that came free with the game?
I have plenty of ground, parks, etc here. But I also have a treadmill, because:
* Treadmill lets me run without having to have a shirt on
* I can listen to music without having to worry about cars/dogs/other people trying to shiv me
* Omaha is way too hilly so the treadmill provides a nice even consistent flat ground so I can worry more about running than hill climbing
It really shouldn't matter how someone is running, as long as they are running.
The library I worked at in 2005 made a policy of deleting all records after a year and did not keep check out histories, you could only show up as a "previous borrower" of a book (which got deleted after a year). The only way a book stayed attached to the account is if you had an overdue fee on it or you reported it as lost.