From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 16:46:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!peer.news.opaltelecom.net!londen1-snf1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr13.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:Copyright, was Re: Generation of permutations References: <5ee5b646.0205011356.5859c81e@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.112.203.155 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr13.news.prodigy.com 1020296744 ST000 67.112.203.155 (Wed, 01 May 2002 19:45:44 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 19:45:44 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@O@SIRQ@[ORHD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHDUWYAKVUOPCW[ML\JXUCKVFDYZKBMSFX^OMSAFNTINTDDMVW[X\THOPXZRVOCJTUTPC\_JSBVX\KAOTBAJBVMZTYAKMNLDI_MFDSSOLXINH__FS^\WQGHGI^C@E[A_CF\AQLDQ\BTMPLDFNVUQ_VM Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:45:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23379 Date: 2002-05-01T23:45:44+00:00 List-Id: > The law is based on statute and on precedence of case law, > not on Tom Moran's suspicions. For an alternate view, I cite "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.", and "The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law." and "the only question for the lawyer is, how will the judges act?" Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. > After all, consider the case of the lawyer who bought a > ... > This story is reported as true in a competition to find the > most notorious case of strange law. Suggesting, if true, that some judges, some of the time, are very difficult to predict. OTOH, > (the end of this story is that the lawyer was then charged > with 12 counts of arson -- you can't go around deliberately So perhaps the "judge's strange decision" part was taken out of context, and a wiser lawyer would have predicted the judge's determination, with its final result of the insurance company keeping its money and the lawyer going to jail.