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Have I travelled back to 1972? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson
by riazrizvi 14y ago
Have I travelled back to 1972?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson
- lgray 14y agoOr 1897, when pi was almost legally changed to 3.2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
- rsbrown 14y agoWell, this is how our system works. There is nothing stopping me from filing suit against you for posting this comment because it hurt my feelings. Then the judge throws it out because there's no basis in the law for my claim.
- fatman 14y agoMotion to dismiss for failure to state a claim? Including reading the complaint, researching and drafting an answer, and associated communications, figure 30 hours of attorney time. Wilmer Hale? Figure $400/hr. $12K to respond to a claim so frivolous that it was dismissed instantly in the friggin' Eastern District of Texas. Hope RedHat can get some fees back from these fools.
- greyfade 14y agoWe never left 1971.
- joe_the_user 14y agoIn a society chalk full of rent-takers, you would expect that when one of these rent-takers "imagines a promising new field", their first impulse is to see if they can move their figurative fences little further out to extract a "reward" for their "discovery".