Does anyone know what the actual amount of money she is asking to be reimbursed for attorney fees ? Its a two year old case
so I would think it is a lot, though I don't see any dollar amounts in the original article.
If a huge organization with lots of money comes after the average joe with all guns blazing, makes this person
hire an attorney to fight them over a period of time, brings them close to bankruptcy, and then the case
is thrown out, what recourse does a person have in the US ?
If I got sued (rightfully or wrongfully, I'm not saying), I would immediately crap in my pants and settle:-) What would you do ?
It seems any organization like the RIAA or the MPAA can wield this power over the masses.
... that Ramanujan gets referred to on slashdot as the "Indian
math guy" and is followed by jokes on outsourcing.
You can read about him at
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanuja n.html
or read the book "The Man who knew infinity" by Robert Kanigel.
He had remarkable contributions in number theory, all made
with very little formal training. His story cannot be explained
in any other way but supreme in-born genius (he himself explained it by inspiration from the goddess Namagiri).
The attitude to math in the general populace is one of total
avoidance. I had hopes that the average slashdotter was different.
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know what the actual amount of money she is asking to be reimbursed for attorney fees ? Its a two year old case so I would think it is a lot, though I don't see any dollar amounts in the original article. If a huge organization with lots of money comes after the average joe with all guns blazing, makes this person hire an attorney to fight them over a period of time, brings them close to bankruptcy, and then the case is thrown out, what recourse does a person have in the US ? If I got sued (rightfully or wrongfully, I'm not saying), I would immediately crap in my pants and settle :-) What would you do ?
It seems any organization like the RIAA or the MPAA can wield this power over the masses.
... that Ramanujan gets referred to on slashdot as the "Indian math guy" and is followed by jokes on outsourcing. You can read about him at http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanuja n.html
or read the book "The Man who knew infinity" by Robert Kanigel.
He had remarkable contributions in number theory, all made
with very little formal training. His story cannot be explained
in any other way but supreme in-born genius (he himself explained it by inspiration from the goddess Namagiri).
The attitude to math in the general populace is one of total
avoidance. I had hopes that the average slashdotter was different.