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From: johnyaya.don'tspamonme.usa.net (John D)
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:17:16 GMT
Sid <sid.siddhartha.8m.com> wrote
>Dave Hemming <surfbaud.allyourclothes.waverider.co.uk> wrote:
>>>Sid wrote:
>>>> Why is it, that I meet the perfect girl, who likes me, who i like, who thinks like me and understands what I am saying and is absolutely adorable and I get to know her for just two weeks and she has to leave tomorrow back to wherever half-way across the globe?
>>Try starting with her being half-way across the globe. Nyah. If she's that good, it's well worth the effort.
>Sure, this december. What is the distance across America? (from north to south, I mean)
On the only North American map I could find around the house, it was about 3 inches. I've seen maps where it was a foot or two or even several. You can probably find it smaller, if you like.
John -- whose brightly colored kribensis cichlids look curiously disturbed by this
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Subject: Re: Life Sucks (Warning! Rant!)
From: Jim Evans <jevans.physics.uottawa.ca>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 02:43:15 -0400
Comrade Richard Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Ah. History never really repeats, after all.
It just keeps happening over and over again.
JIM, except when it finds new ways to torment you...
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Subject: Re: Life Sucks (Warning! Rant!)
From: st.ferd2.thristian.org (Screwtape)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:55:21 +0000
Ben Fisher schrieb:
>GW De Lacey wrote:
>> Well, it's good to see your goatee has a vestige of taste
>Is that your opinion, or the goat's?
>ST, what does Daisy think?
That's a good question - glad you asked. Let's see what we can find out. I've prepared a Summoning scene here, as you'll see - septagram made of hay, burning candles filled with incense of summer meadows, sheepskin carpeting and the like. Now, everyone dress in the sheepskin here and sit in a circle inside the septagram. Yes, you too. Seated? Good.
Concentrate on the name of the one we wish to see. Daisy. Daaaaaaaasie. Daaaaaaaaaaaay-zeeeeeeeeeeee.
<The lights flicker and dim. A foul black smoke begins to form in the centre of the circle. It swirls and spreads, then suddenly coalesces. It is a huge black goat, with flaming red eyes and an angry visage. Several of those closer to the hind-end shuffle away.>
Err, we were looking for Daisy.. you know - Daisy the Goat?
You know, *Daisy*! About fifty centimetres high, head-mounted megawatt laser...?
I don't suppose you could put us through- oh.
<The huge black goat has shimmered out of existence once more... no, not quite - where the black goat once stood is now an ordinary-sized black rotary phone. It rings>
Hello? Hello? Who's call-
Daisy: "Maaaaa!"
Daisy - we've got to ask you a question!
Daisy: "Maaaa?"
Do you think Richard Fitzpatrick's goatee has a vestige of taste?
Daisy: "Maah."
<Daisy hangs up>
Well, there you have it. All you ever needed to know about goat aesthetics, in one sharpish monosyllable.
...who can't speak Goat.
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Subject: Re: Life Sucks (Warning! Rant!)
From: Gordol <postmaster.gordol.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 04:30:58 GMT
Jason said:
; > despite Saturn's larger rings, Jupiter is more photogenic.
; Yes, I've often noticed that, unless you're above (for both positive and negative z-axis values of above) the plane of the elliptic, Jupiter is much nicer to watch than Saturn. But if you can travel a couple of microparsecs offset, a warm girl and a cold drink while watching the flight of Saturn through the void just can't be beat.
Oh, so +thats+ what I was doing wrong. The +drink+ was supposed to be cold.
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Subject: Re: Just in case it didn't work...
From: GW De Lacey <gdelacey.byronit.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:57:20 +1000
'Gold Inlaid Muffet' wrote:
>"Khat Khan Dhu" <Khat_9.mailandnews.com> wrote:
>> Gold Inlaid Muffet wrote:
>> > "Kevin Vanderhoef" <Khat_9.hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Jason Willoughby at jwilloug.gate.net wrote:
>> > > > Daniel E. wrote:
>> > > >> Khat <khat_9.mailandnews.com> said:
>> > > >> [tidied]
>> > > >> } I'll see your space-filler and raise you enough styrofoam peanuts to fill the Grand Canyon.
>> > > >> } I see your plystyrene landfill and raise you enough bubble-wrap to lift EGK into orbit. *POP!*
>> > > >> } I'll see your hours of entertainment and raise you a _Star_Wars_ marathon.
>> > > > ...etc...
>> > > > Does anyone else think this "tidying" is just plain wrong? You've removed the cascade!
>> > > I'll see your missing mountain range, and raise you a Wandering Jew.
>> > I'll see your Moses and raise you a flock of loyal followers
>> I'll see your sheepish expression and raise you a wolf whistle.
>I'll see your enchanted canine and raise you the 3 heads of Cerebrus on a plate with attractive decorative art around the edges and a beautiful scene of a mountain stream in the center which, if you hold it just right, seems to catch the light and makes the stream seem real--a true master piece.
[Stands, tips table over]
[draws revolver, stares at players with steely glint]
OK, which one of you is the cheat!
From: st.ferd2.thristian.org (Screwtape)
>OK, which one of you is the cheat!
/me watches half a dozen aces trickle from GW's sleeve, but says nothing.
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Subject: Re: Just in case it didn't work...
From: Jim Menard <jimm.eris.io.com>
Date: 15 Jun 2001 08:46:59 -0500
Chris Wesling <cwesling.cannedmeat.home.com> writes:
> Lemon Fresh Muffet wrote:
> > I hope we're talking about leprosy and not something else.
> Why? Can you think of something else *worse* than leprosy?
Leprosy and allergies.
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Subject: Re: So long...
From: pieceoftheuniverse <potu.pieceoftheuniverse.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:54:40 -0600
Bengt Ole Ekrem wrote:
>> I think Hetta was reffering to his/hers/its sexlife.
>Sexlife? Don't talk to me about sexlife.
This could be really interesting if applied to the rest of Marvin's lines.
"... and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my libido..."
"No?" said Arthur as he walked along beside him, a bit taken aback. "Really?"
"Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for it to be replaced but no one ever listens."
"I can imagine."
Just a thought.
pieceoftheuniverse - who can't think of any good examples at present, but it would probably end up changing the whole theme of the series.
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Subject: Re: So long...
From: TechnoAtheist <TA.SpamIsBad.delphicresearch.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:23:49 -0700
Sid <sid.siddhartha.8m.com> wrote:
>Jim Evans <jevans.physics.uottawa.ca> wrote:
>>Ah, but Deists are not Theists. Theists believe in God, and a specific religion. Deists usually just believe in God, without bothering with all the nitpicky details like who's going to hell and who you shouldn't sleep with and whether the goat gets sacrificed on Thursday or Sunday, and so on. Hence they generally don't preach.
>>They do, however, elucidate when asked.
>> JIM, j00 r 31uc1d473d!!!
>I guess I'll be a Deist then!
>Sid, who believes that he is God
Out of curiousity, is God an atheist or does He believe in a higher power?
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Subject: Re: So long...
From: Paul Andinach <pandinac.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:35:05 +0800
Ben Fisher wrote:
> Paul Andinach wrote:
> > It's times like this, when I've accidentally stumbled on a piece of information the like of which (it turns out) Man Was Never Meant To Know, that I wish I'd listened to what Howard Lovecraft told me when I was younger...
> So Paul, what did Howard Lovecraft tell you?
"Stay away from Knowledge The Like Of Which Man Was Never Meant To Know, it's bad for your health."
(Okay, so I wasn't listening. But he would keep going on and on about it...)
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Subject: Re: Rhodent-Spotter's Field Guide Pt 1
From: Jim Evans <jevans.physics.uottawa.ca>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 23:26:35 -0400
Comrade Sid wrote:
> Chris Wesling wrote:
> >It's positively heartwarming to know that even kids as young as Sid are still watching classic musicals. Gives me a warm glow.
> Parental pressure, wrong video pool and Movie modules can do that.
Maybe this explains poor Sid's romantic troubles. I was raised on musicals by my parents, and look at what happened to me. I don't think I'll ever get over the embarrassment of breaking into song on my first date...
JIM, how was I to know there wasn't an orchestra lurking in the bushes?
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Subject: Re: Rhodent-Spotter's Field Guide Pt 1
From: Julianna Avedon <SOteric2.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:29:11 -0700
Gordol <postmaster.gordol.org> wrote:
>What, you don't believe in evolution? Quick! We must kill it before it develops language skills!
Wait, wait... don't tell me... - the mantra you use when cleaning the vegetable bin of your refrigerator?
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Subject: Re: Now that we've found love what are we going to do with it... was Re: what do we have to do (was Re: I was idly wondering if the Pakmara could really do that)
From: "Lane Gray, Czar Castic" <cgraytwo.kc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 09:55:03 GMT
Lemon Fresh Muffet said:
> I'm sorry. The acronyms in this place are completely beyond me. In fact, I don't speak English at all. My native language involves batting at the air with my forelegs, shaking my abdomen really quickly, walking around in circles, and hanging on the hindquarters of those nearby.
Oh, so you're a lawyer?
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Subject: Re: Finally
From: "Teh (tî'pô)" <teh.apexmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:00:28 +0200
pieceoftheuniverse wrote:
>pieceoftheuniverse - who was taught how to drive on a stick but hasn't touched one since.
Sure you haven't...
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Subject: Re: Finally
From: Fierce Cookie <putain.de.2cv.mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:36:58 -0400
"Lane Gray, Czar Castic" <cgraytwo.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>Gordol said:
>> Ben Fisher said:
>> ; > We call that "driving". BTW, personally, I've never seen any car that can drive at its idle speed - that engine speed never generates enough power to move the car.
>> ; That's cause you drive wimpy cars.
>> Not just mine, but also those I drove while being a valet at a parking lot, and I got to drive just about everything, from econoboxen Hyundais to BMWs, Mercedeses and Jaguars and everything in between. The only thing I've ever driven where I was able to do that was my bike, an '81 Honda CB750F. Maybe it's the terrain. There are actually very few flat and level places where you +can+ safely try that around here.
>I suspect you just haven't much patience with the clutch, and it stalls. Unless the vehicle in question has a *real* engine problem, nearly everything should be able to do it on at least an 8% grade in first from a dead stop.
Announcer: Good Evening, and welcome to Clutch Talk, the TV talk show devoted exclusively to discussion of the issues and turmoil surrounding today's automotive transmissions. And here's your host, Gerry Grinder.
Gerry: Thank you. Thank you. No, please, thank you. Our first guest today is Frederick Downshiftingbottomsford-Smythe, last year's winner of the coveted Flywheel award for excellence in automotive maintenance discussion. Welcome to the show, Fred.
Fred: Glad to be here Gerry. Always happy to discuss automotive maintenance.
Gerry: Well, actually, we only discuss transmissions on the show, and not much maintenance of them, as such.
Fred: Oh. Well, I do know a thing or two about transmissions, as it turns out.
Gerry: Fascinating! So how do you stand on the whole "stick versus automatic" question, if I may be so bold?
Fred: Well, it depends, of course, upon what sort of driver you are talking abou...
<Gasps and mutters in the audience>
Fred: ab..about. You see, I think very highly of the stick-shift transmission.
<scattered applause>
Fred: But for some people, the stick can be, shall we say, rather confusing.
<More muttering>
Gerry: So, you mean to say, that there is a place in the world, albeit limited, for the <pause> automatic transmission? Hmmm?
<Gasps. One woman faints>
Fred: Well, certainly. Notwithstanding the, um, obvious merits and superiority of the stick, it does involve the use of that third footpad, which many people mistakenly call the clutch, but which is indeed correctly referred to as the clutch PEDAL, inasmuch as it is simply a pedal one depresses in order to disengage the clutch mechanism.
<Silence in the audience>
Gerry: Surely you mean "engage" rather than disengage, Mr. Downshiftingbottomsford-Smythe.
Fred: I don't take your meaning.
Gerry: One depresses the clutch pedal in order to ENGAGE the clutch mechanism, not to DISengage it.
Fred: No no no, not at all. When one depresses the clutch pedal with one's foot, that action operates a linkage, which thereby...
<Louder Laughter>
Fred: wh...whi...which thereby...Alright then, suppose you describe the functionality of the clutch mechanism. I suppose you're an expert, Gerry, this being "Clutch Talk" and all that?
Gerry: No no, that's quite alright (rolls eyes). Please, do go on with your discourse.
Fred: Right. So the clutch pedal operates a linkage which engages a mechanism...
Gerry: But you said before that it DISengages the mechanism.
Fred: Well perhaps you misheard me. It surely engages a mechanism.
Gerry: And?
Fred: And that mechanism operates the clutch.
Gerry: Well said!
Fred: Thank you. Now as it turns out, the clutch then provides the...
Gerry (interupting): Fred, you were saying earlier that you like the automatic. Could you elucidate upon that point?
Fred: Well I didn't actually say I LIKED it, just that it has its place in the scheme of things, due to the potential confusing nature of the stick, which I daresay we have discovered today in our discussion of the clutch pedal.
Gerry: I don't think it's confusing a damn bit, if I dare say so.
<Cheers from the audience>
Fred: Well certainly the necessity of simultaneously depressing the clutch pedal whilst selecting a gear can be confusing to some people, else why would the automatic transmission ever have become invented?
Gerry: Indeed. Why, why indeed. Well I'll tell you. It is a conspiracy between the automobile mechanics and the politicians and the oil companies to make us use less efficient technology that breaks more often, uses more gasoline, and costs more, thereby resulting in more taxes. All this rubbish about the stick being confusing is just so much rubbish.
<Uproarious cheers>
Fred: Well what of people who are unable to walk and chew gum at the same time?
<Scattered laughter>
Gerry: Oh for heaven's sake! As if such people should be allowed to drive in the first place.
<Standing ovation>
Fred: Goodness! Well, I suppose you have a point there. Perhaps I...
Gerry: Well that's all the time we have today. Tune in next week when my guest will be Miss Monica Lewinsky, who claims to have some knowledge of the clutch, and the stick. We shall see.
<Applause. Closing credits.>
From: Jim Evans (jevans.physics.uottawa.ca)
Subject: Re: Pointing device
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Date: 2001-06-05 18:40:01 PST
Comrade pieceoftheuniverse wrote:
> Jason leaves us with this final thought:
> >"Lord Insidious, World Dominator" wrote:
> >> My trackball is no longer reliably moving the cursor. Should I replace it with a new one? An optical mouse? Are there optical mouses not made by Mcro$oft?
> >You probably have, but did you clean off the rollers? I've got a 3-4 year old Logitech Marbleman, and it still works just fine. Just have to take a little scotch tape to the rollers and sensor every once in a while.
> They have a Special Cleaning Device you can purchase, too, in case if you fear the scotch tape. I only found this out while investigating irrational fears, though.
> No, I don't remember why I was investigating such things. One of those days, I suppose.
And here we find POTU's Irrational Fear of Scotch Tape.
Never use Scotch Tape! Your soul will stick to it and get pulled off!
Thank you, that'll do.
> Or you could join the twenty-second century and adapt a Nintendo Glove to work with your mouse port. There's nothing quite like the sensation of pawing through a virtual document. Not that I'd know first-hand, of course.
Wow, I never realised the capital O's in Times New Roman were so... firm...
> --
> pieceoftheuniverse - the three last paragraphs are untrue ramblings. Please ignore them.
Done, and done!
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Subject: Re: Pointing device
From: st.ferd2.thristian.org (Screwtape)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:55:49 +0000
pieceoftheuniverse schrieb:
>If you have an irrational fear of all things Logitech, you might take a look at some of the optical easels out there. Best for artists making the transfer to the digital realm, of course, but can double as a mouse if pressured enough.
Don't by the "pressure sensitive" ones, though, if you work in a high-stress environment. They wind up sulking in a corner and refuse to function until sent on a company-funded all-expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas.
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Subject: Re: Pointing device
From: pieceoftheuniverse <potu.pieceoftheuniverse.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:40:01 -0600
Lord Insidious, World Dominator leaves us with this final thought:
>And I can't upgrade because I have little enough room on my hard drive as it is.
To upgrade a computer (in four simple steps):
Take battle-axe in hand.
Swipe viciously at hard drive.
Remove all loose material.
Replace what was broken.
Warning: some minor data loss may result.
pieceoftheuniverse - next week: how to incarnate the Oracle (in five simple steps)!
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Subject: Re: Pointing device
From: "Richard Fitzpatrick" <fitzmor.webone.com.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:56:10 +1000
TimC wrote ...
>Screwtape (aka Bruce) wrote:
>> Lord Insidious, World Dominator schrieb:
>>>My trackball is no longer reliably moving the cursor. Should I replace it with a new one?
>> For a few hundred dollars, IBM will sell you a very cool TrackPoint II keyboard, with that original IBM clicky keyboard feel, made from black plastic, and with one of those laptop eraser-head things to use as a pointing device between the G and H keys.
>Those eraser thingies are evil.
Was it here or somewhere else I read the hilarious story about one of those being demonstrated - and one of the spectators exclaimed "Ooh, look! It's got a clitoris!"
After that, half the management team wouldn't go near it, and half couldn't stay away from it.
And the halves weren't gender-based, either.
Richard, whose dull green Kampuchean loving ghoti wants a laptop with a G-spot.
From: Gordol (postmaster.gordol.org)
All laptops have them. Right between the F-spot and H-spot.
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Subject: Re: Pointing device
From: dmacks.mail.sas.upenn.edu (Daniel E. Macks)
Date: 13 Jun 2001 00:42:25 GMT
TimC <tcon.no.physics.spam.usyd.accepted.edu.here.au> said:
>Daniel E. Macks (aka Bruce) wrote:
>> Was it here we discussed putting a heavy flywheel in a suitcase spinning on a horizontal axis and then having a skycap follow you on a zigzag course?
>I do seem to recall that - so it must have been here.....
><geekmode=on>Incidentally, my hard drive spins faster than the gyroscopes going in space soon to test general relativity. They're going to keep spinning for several *years*</geekmode>
So you're saying that the motor on your HD could've died last month and you wouldn't know it until 2006? Cool.
>> dan, whose bright red Siamese fighting fishies have a spinning chair
>Now if you connect the chair to a hardrive, I wonder whether you would get dizzy?
That's ridiculous! If my head were spinning at relativistic speeds, it would appear to everyone else that my brane had slowed down.
dan, whose bright red Siamese fighting fishies think 1 rpm would do it
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Subject: Re: The only thing offensive is the stupidity
From: TechnoAtheist <TA.SpamIsBad.delphicresearch.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:25:06 -0700
"Lane Gray, Czar Castic" <cgraytwo.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>This URL came across a listserv I am on. some folks are just too weird for wurdz.
Well, I don't care if Billy is only two weeks old! That's a perfectly good steak and he can just go hungry if he won't eat it.
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Subject: Re: A URL, No Full-Frontal Nudity or Flayed Body Parts
From: "Lane Gray, Czar Castic" <cgraytwo.kc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 04:56:16 GMT
Richard Fitzpatrick said:
> [1] Which is doubly sad when one considers that I work for an agency abbreviated as ACCC[2]. I often lose either count or a vocal cord at about the second "-Kh-" sound.
> [2] <www.accc.gov.au> for anyone who cares.
Ever notice how there is only one anti-trust commission?
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Subject: Re: Internet Oracularities Digest #1221
From: pieceoftheuniverse <potu.pieceoftheuniverse.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:15:22 -0600
Henriette Kress leaves us with this final thought:
> 1221
> 2 1 3 4 3 5 3 3 4 1
...and here, class, we have a classic example of the Mistaken Post, also known as the Whoopsi Rhodentia. Observe the way it holds its pose over the send key, making sure that it is doing everything correctly, before the subconscious fires and makes the message land in rec.humor.oracle.d. This kind of behaviour is especially noted by the complete lack of additional spaces towards the bottom of the post, just as you don't see here.
Hey. Wait a minute...
>Hah. Fooled you, didn't I?
Move along, class. Nothing to see here; move along.


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Over the years I have received a lot of solicited and unsolicited dating advice from friends (both male and female), family, and occasionally co-workers. Needless to say, none of it worked, since I am still very much single, but that might be because I refuse to follow the majority of it. Sometimes I think that if I had, I might have a ring on my finger and be well on my way to my first white-picket fence, and then I remember why I don't follow other people's dating advice: because for me, it is not going to attract the type of person with whom I would want to spend the majority of my life. Also, I'm going to issue a disclosure: this is, as are all my entries, an opinion piece and a fairly personal one at that, so if it differs with anyone's own personal views on love or romance, well then … tough.
The majority of dating advice falls into the realm of some variation of "The Rules", i.e. don't call/text him first, make him wait for sex, don't be too intimidating with your opinions/views, don't beat him at board games (video games in my case), etc. My mother's particular spin includes: don't laugh too loudly, don't be persistent in your opinions, don't have radical opinions to begin with, and be skinny (because men hate fat women). Now, I know the majority of people who read this blog also know me in person, and I'm sure they are laughing right now at how preposterous this advice is when it's applied to me. For those of you who have never met me, I'm opinionated, competitive, pretty loud, and very straight forward, also, I like to think I'm pretty sexually liberated.
Now, there is nothing wrong with more demure or more reserved women. Everyone is entitled to their personality, and I understand that there are a lot of men out there that prefer those qualities in a mate, and everyone is entitled to their preferences. A lot of people don't prefer me as a friend either, and that's ok, I don't expect everyone to like me, because science knows I don't like a lot of people. However, I also understand that these people in general would not be good romantic nor friend matches for me.
It's the same with the weight issue. My mom likes to reiterate to me, that if I don't lose the excess weight, then I will never find a husband (because that should be my end goal, right?), but why would I want to be with a man who won't give me a second glance as I am now? Just as with personality, everyone is entitled to their physical preferences, and I don't condemn men who are not attracted to women with fuller figures. However, I am also well aware that my weight is rarely constant, and even if I manage to shed a large amount of it, there is no guarantee that I will be able to maintain the loss indefinitely, so I would not want to be with a partner who would cease being attracted to me if my body changes.
I know I'm not a perfect catch, and I'm not saying I'm entitled to a relationship without putting in any sort of effort on my part. I know I'm not the easiest person to date. I'm stubborn and I hold people to very high standards of behavior (sometimes), but I also tend to hold myself to similar standards, i.e. respecting people's time and feelings. I'm a bit of homebody, and tend to drag my feet when it comes to participating in large outings. I also realize that there might not be someone out there for me at all, which is okay (I'll get dogs), my uterus does not ache to be filled with my genetic spawn. With this realization comes the fact that I am unwilling to follow other people's dating advice, because I'm not willing to compromise my personality, and in effect, my preferences.
As I've stated before, everyone is entitled to their preferences when it comes to finding a partner, and I feel that I should be included in this particular entitlement. And even though, I do have preferences when it comes to general physical and personality traits that I look for in a potential mate, the most important quality that I look for is their preference for me. I've been in relationships with men who have displayed tolerance or acceptance, but that's not enough for me. I don't want to be loved in spite of my personality, I want to be loved for it, because I do believe that it's worth being loved.
To me, it's always seemed that dating advice aims to change women to a more male-friendly version for themselves, but following "The Rules" or any other such book, is like following the Atkins diet. Yes, you will reach your goal quickly, but just as with Atkins, who can keep it up for the rest of their lives? And if you do slip, and you will slip if such advice is not how you operate naturally, (because just because you're not eating cookies, doesn't mean you don't still love them), it will cause issues in your relationship, or even if you don't slip, could you really be happy for the rest of your life with a person who does not even know who you really are. I know I wouldn't be.


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seems well made with attention to detail my only objection is the color of the real product did not match the color in the catalog. The picture depicted in the January catalog was definitely more green compared to the much more blue appearance of the real piece. I think in the future for such an expensive piece I would first request a swatch. We chose not to return it but if I had seen the real color originally I may not have made this selection. March 13, 2014
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A former Staunton River High School teacher, arrested in January for having a sexual relationship with a student at the school in 2005, is now facing three more charges of taking indecent liberties with a child.
Last month, a Bedford Grand Jury indicted David Allen Cherry, 39, of Forest on those additional charges. He had been indicted in April on four charges of taking indecent liberties with a minor while in a custodial relationship.
A former New London Academy cafeteria employee pleaded guilty to embezzlement last month in connection with money taken from the school nutrition fund.
Barbara Allen Wilson, 52, of Goode, faced one charge for taking in excess of $200 from the school during the time period Aug. 25, 2007, to March 31, 2008.
Bedford Memorial's radiology department's switch to digital X-rays is providing a number of advantages, according to hospital officials.
Don Updike, the hospital's director of imaging services, said that a major advantage is that a digital image can be enhanced for interpretation.
"That's a huge plus for our radiologists," he said.
A plan by Garland Simmons to build a 16-acre campground, with five cabins, doesn't sit well with a number of his neighbors. The campground is off Meador Spur Road. Members of the Bedford County Planning Commission also had questions about it when the request for the necessary special use permit came before them Monday night.
In Virginia, there are no automatic recounts; only the presumptive losing candidate can ask for a recount; and only in cases where the difference between the apparent winning and losing candidate is not more than 1 percent of the total votes cast for the two candidates. The apparent loser cannot request a recount until after the election is certified.
Local businessman Ronnie Miller notes that it's not necessary to leave the Bedford area to succeed.
Miller spoke at the local NAACP's annual Freedom Fund banquet, held at the Peaks of Otter Association's building on Shiloh Church Road. Local NAACP branches across the country hold Freedom Fund banquets to celebrate the past and continue the organization's legacy. Proceeds from the Bedford Branch's banquet are used for local scholarships. The NAACP, itself, is at a historic juncture and will celebrate its centennial next year.
Staunton River High School (SRHS) is getting a school-wide tail-gate party on Dec. 5 courtesy of YOVASO.
YOVASO stands for Youth of Virginia Speak Out. It's a state-wide organization that promotes traffic safety to the Commonwealth's teens. The tail-gate party that they are throwing for the SRHS students isn't a gift, either. The teens earned it.
Although obesity is a growing problem among America's youth, three students in Bedford's Junior ROTC unit have won the battle of the bulge.
Neal and Jennifer Hoback, who own Mayberry Early Learning Center, like children. They have three of their own, ages 3, 10 and 13.
They also noticed that there was an unfilled daycare market in the Moneta area. Most daycare facilities are open only a few hours a day. Mayberry Early Learning Center, which opened for business on Aug. 25, can take children at 6:30 a.m and keep them until 6 p.m. They can take in babies as young as 6-weeks-old or children as old as 12. They currently have 18 young children enrolled.
In a repeat matchup of last year's Division 3 opening round, the Blue Ridge District's Lord Botetourt will face Liberty.
One of the big differences in this year's matchup is that the Minutemen will play the role of host. Last year, the Minutemen hiked it up to Bonsack.
The other big difference is that last year, the Minutemen came in as a #5 seed to the Cavs' #4. This year, Liberty is a #3 to Botetourt's #4.
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A man fatally stabbed while he attempted to stop a fight between a married couple was among three people killed and at least 12 others were injured in violence since the beginning of Thanksgiving weekend.
On Wednesday, William Terry, 55, was stabbed multiple times when he tried to intervene in an argument between a married couple at 7:11 p.m. in the 10300 block of South Forest, authorities said. A man arguing with his wife took a kitchen knife and stabbed Terry multiple times throughout the body.
Terry, of the 14100 block of South Tracy Avenue in Riverdale, was declared dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The man who stabbed Terry fled in a van and is not in custody, police said. The man's wife was not injured.
In another death, Christopher Jacobs, 19, died Friday afternoon after he was shot in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, authorities said. About 1 p.m. Thursday, someone called police to report numerous gunshots fired in the 4900 block of South Seeley Avenue, police said.
When officers arrived, they found Jacobs lying down on the street, police said. Jacobs was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died Friday at 2:15 p.m., authorities said.
Around the time that Jacobs was shot on Thursday, Jonathan Belton, 25, was fatally shot in the 5500 block of South Albany Avenue, authorities said. Belton, of the 900 block of South Austin Boulevard, was dead on the scene.
Twelve other people were wounded by gunfire throughout the city — primarily on the South Side — since 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
About 1 p.m. Thursday, a Chicago Police officer shot a man who attacked a CTA bus passenger at South California Avenue and West 63rd Street then charged at the officer. Police shot the man twice and police needed to deploy a Taser twice to subdue him to get him into an ambulance, Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden said.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - More than two dozen Washington state troopers were sworn in at a ceremony at the Capitol.
Among the 27 troopers who graduated Wednesday from the Washington State Patrol Academy was Johnna Batiste, the 25-year-old daughter of Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste. The graduating troopers completed more than 1,000 hours of training and are from across the state, ranging from Olympia to Spokane. After being sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst, the troopers were presented their commission cards by Batiste and Gov. Jay Inslee.
The widow of Washington State Patrol Trooper Sean O'Connell, who was killed in detoured traffic in Conway on May 31 when his motorcycle collided with a truck, was also in attendance and presented one of the graduating troopers, Brandon Baird, with the Core Values Award.
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The vaccine market is different from any other commodity market. Compared to the pharmaceutical market it is relatively small, although growing fast. The vaccine market is rather concentrated on both supply and demand sides. It is highly regulated and largely dependent on public purchasers and donor policies. The vaccine market has very distinct features which increase the complexity of assessing and understanding pricing and procurement in their context. It is made up of individual markets for individual vaccines or vaccine types, each with their own specificities, particularly on the supply side.
The vaccine market accounts for a relatively small share (2-3%) of the global pharmaceutical market sales. However, there has been rapid growth over recent years, with the vaccine market quadrupling in value from USD 5 billion in 2000 to almost USD 24 billion in 2013, according to various sources. WHO growth estimations indicate the market may increase in value to almost 100 billion by 2025, with the arrival of new preventive, therapeutic and adult vaccines. In 2012, according to vaccine manufacturers, vaccines were in pipeline development for at least 31 infectious diseases. However, not all of these vaccines will make it to market. (IFPMA 2012:Delivering the promise of the Decade of Vaccines)
In addition to the arrival of new vaccines on the market, four factors account for growth in value:
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- Greater demand from developing countries;
- Global eradication and elimination efforts for some diseases (polio, measles rubella, etc.);
- The addition of adolescent and adult markets to the pediatric market.
The production of vaccines is becoming a profitable and promising niche for the pharmaceutical industry that is particularly attractive for innovative and research based companies.
The vaccine market exhibits a variety of critical features. While there is divergence in the market for traditional vaccines between high income countries and low income countries, there is convergence in the market for some new vaccines. The market can further be defined by the limited number of both purchasers and suppliers creating both an oligopoloy and an oligosposony market dynamic. The uniqueness of the vaccine market is further defined by the differences between individual vaccine markets.
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"I am often asked about who my favorite MCs or groups of all time are, and it is always impossible to answer. There is so much I love about so many artists. However, if forced to choose one great that you can point to as amazing at the drop of a dime, I would say Ghostface. Though A Tribe Called Quest is my favorite group of all time, the reality is that their brilliance was cut short because of inner turmoil.
"Ghostface, however, just continues to be amazing. He is an incredible MC with a voice and style as unique as his personality. Even his slept-on albums (Pretty Toney, FishScale and Ghostdini) are amazing. Twenty years into the game, and he still sounds like he fits. On top of all of that—he made a golden eagle and wore it like a huge wristwatch."


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Simply put, everyone should have the right for private information to be kept private, even to someone who might someday write that person a paycheck.
Kansas lawmakers are correct in seeking support for measures that would limit employers' access to the social media accounts of job applicants. One would protect job seekers from employers who want access to their social media accounts, such as Facebook and Twitter. Another bill would ban colleges and universities from asking for the same information from students and potential students.
Employers have no claim to the personal information of people already working at their businesses, let alone those whom they are thinking of bringing on board.
The screening process for potential employees is an arduous task. It used to be that a resume, list of references and an interview were the only way for employers to glean enough information to make a hiring decision.
The information highway has opened more opportunities to learn more about employment candidates. Nothing is illegal about a Google search, and anything that appears on the public portion of a Facebook or Twitter account should be considered fair game.
There is a big difference between public information and private that is stored on Facebook. An individual determines that, and — much like a diary, banking records or medical information — an employer has no right to anything deemed by a person to be private.
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Whilst Germany's defense ministry sees drones as the weapon of the future, the final decision must rest on the results of a wide public discussion over whether armed drones are necessary for German forces in Afghanistan.
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Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.
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RESPONSE in Opposition re 86 MOTION to Amend/Correct 79 Protective Order (Regarding the Parties' Prosecution Bar Dispute) filed by Mirror Worlds, LLC. (An, Richard)
Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc. Doc. 91 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION MIRROR WORLDS, LLC Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 6:08-CV-88 LED JURY TRIAL DEMANDED v. APPLE, INC. Defendant. MIRROR WORLDS' OPPOSITION TO APPLE'S MOTION REGARDING THE PARTIES' PROSECUTION BAR DISPUTE Plaintiff Mirror Worlds, LLC ("Mirror Worlds") hereby opposes the motion of Defendant Apple, Inc. ("Apple") Regarding the Parties' Prosecution Bar Dispute (Dkt. # 86). I. Introduction On April 23, 2009, Apple requested ex parte reexamination of two of Mirror Worlds' patents-in-suit, and requested inter partes reexamination of the two remaining patents-in-suit. By its motion, Apple seeks to exclude Mirror Worlds' litigation counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP ("Stroock") from participating in those reexamination proceedings. As set forth below, such a result would be grossly unfair to Mirror Worlds and result in an enormous strategic advantage for Apple. Mirror Worlds respectfully requests that Apple's motion be denied. By way of background, this case concerns revolutionary technology developed by a world famous computer scientist, Dr. David Gelernter, one of the primary inventors of the patents-in-suit. Dr. Gelernter, a distinguished Computer Science professor at Yale University, -1- Dockets.Justia.com developed breakthrough technology relating to the storage and access of documents on computer systems that changed the way people think about computers. Because of the importance of that technology and the potential consequences of that technology to not only Apple, but the world, we implore this Court to look at this issue carefully and not accept Apple's unsupported assertions at face value. In particular, the reexamination proceedings brought by Apple are clearly an extension of the proceedings before this Court. We ask, therefore, that the Court carefully weigh the purely speculative possibility that Mirror Worlds' litigation counsel might inadvertently use Apple's confidential information in the reexamination proceedings against the real and immediate harm that Mirror Worlds will suffer if its trial counsel is excluded from those proceedings. The reexamination proceedings involve, first and foremost, Apple's allegations that Mirror Worlds' patents are invalid over certain prior art. Mirror Worlds' counsel has been studying that prior art for months now and has a clear and in-depth knowledge as to the numerous differences between that prior art and Mirror Worlds' patents. If Apple has its way, not only will all that hard work by Mirror Worlds' trial counsel in analyzing and differentiating the prior art be lost, but Mirror Worlds' reexamination counsel, without the benefit of that work, may miss important differences identified by Mirror Worlds' trial counsel. In addition, Apple is certain to seize upon any differences, whether substantive or not, between Mirror Worlds' positions regarding prior art and claim construction taken in this action and the reexamination proceedings. It is therefore essential that Mirror Worlds be able to coordinate its efforts in both proceedings. As set forth herein, Apple's decision to place the patents into reexamination is plainly a strategic move, as there is no requirement that Apple do so. Certainly, this Court is perfectly -2- capable of hearing Apple's alleged invalidity arguments. Indeed, Apple waited more than a year after Mirror Worlds filed this lawsuit to request reexamination and, at the same time, ask this Court to exclude Mirror Worlds' counsel from those proceedings. During that time, Apple's counsel has been the beneficiary of information learned from discovery in this case, which has included, inter alia, Mirror Worlds' Preliminary Infringement Contentions, Mirror Worlds' interrogatory responses, Mirror Worlds' document production, and numerous depositions. Plainly, it would be unfair to Mirror Worlds if Apple is permitted to utilize the knowledge and expertise its counsel has acquired through this litigation regarding the prior art while denying Mirror Worlds that same opportunity. Indeed, if Apple's motion is granted, Apple could make whatever invalidity arguments it wants to the PTO--based on whatever information it discovered during discovery--without having to worry about Mirror Worlds' counsel, who is intimately familiar with the prior art and litigation events, presenting contrary arguments and evidence in the record. For those and other reasons set forth below, Apple's motion should be denied and Mirror Worlds' litigation counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP should be permitted to participate in all aspects of the reexamination proceedings. In the alternative, Stroock should, at a minimum, be allowed to participate in the reexamination proceedings where its participation is strictly limited to discussions regarding the prior art, including differences between the claimed inventions and the prior art. II. Mirror Worlds' Litigation Counsel Should be Permitted to Participate in Reexamination Proceedings Initiated by Apple As this Court is likely aware, defendants accused of patent infringement often initiate reexamination proceedings, only to then argue that the plaintiff's counsel should be excluded from those proceedings. That strategy, in essence, forces a Hobson's choice on the plaintiff's -3- counsel--choose between continuing to prosecute the defendant for infringement or withdrawing from the litigation to provide a more complete defense against the defendant's PTO challenges. As one court put it: [Defendant's] broad reading of the Protective Order would unjustifiably place [plaintiff's] litigation counsel on the `horns of a dilemma,' forcing them to choose between continuing to prosecute [defendant] for alleged infringement or withdrawing from this litigation to provide a more complete defense against . . . PTO challenges. Other than gaining leverage, and an obvious tactical advantage over [plaintiff] in this litigation, [defendant] has failed to establish any real need for forcing such a Hobson's choice. Pall Corp. v. Entegris, Inc., 2008 WL 5049961, at *7 (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 26, 2008) (emphasis added).1 Not surprisingly, such strategic jockeying by patent defendants has not gone unnoticed. In particular, courts have recognized that a reexamination initiated by a defendant during the pendency of a litigation, is not only "part and parcel" of the litigation, but clearly "part and parcel" of the defendant's strategy to gain a tactical, often unfair, advantage over the patent owner. See, e.g., Kenexa Brassring, Inc. v. Taleo Corp., 2009 WL 393782, at *2 (D. Del. Feb. 18, 2009) ("[B]ecause defendant filed the request for an inter partes reexamination of one of plaintiff's patents-in-suit, the reexamination is `part and parcel of the instant case.'") (allowing plaintiff's litigation counsel to participate in reexamination proceedings) (citing Hochstein); see also Hochstein v. Microsoft Corp., 2008 WL 4387594, at *4 (E.D. Mich. Sept. 24, 2008) ("[T]he Court views the reexamination [initiated by Defendant]. . . to be a part and pa[rc]el of Defendant In Pall, the reexamination was brought by a third-party, Cuno, on pleated filter technology, which was substantially unrelated to the pre-wet filter technology that was the subject of the litigation between the patentee, Pall, and the accused infringer, Entegris. In arguing that there was still a potential for misuse of confidential information, however, Entegris argued, similar to Apple, that Pall, "by virtue of the requested discovery" in the litigation, had "access to Entegris' pleated filter trade secrets" and could use that information to craft claims in the reexamination directed towards Entegris' pleated filter technology. Pall Corp. v. Entegris, Inc., 2008 WL 5049961, at **2, 7. Yet the court in Pall still allowed Pall to participate in all aspects of the reexamination. See id. -4- 1 Microsoft's strategy in the instant case.") (granting motion for leave to permit plaintiff's counsel to participate in reexamination proceedings). As a result, in such circumstances, Courts have often permitted the patentee's litigation counsel to participate in reexamination proceedings. See id. While Hochstein involved a case in which the plaintiff had agreed not to amend the claims during reexamination, other courts have cited approvingly to Hochstein in ruling that the plaintiff may participate in all aspects of the reexamination, including amending claims. For example, in Kenexa Brassring, Inc. v. Taleo Corp., the court noted that the plaintiff in that case, unlike the plaintiff in Hochstein, had not pledged to not draft new claims or amend existing claims. See 2009 WL 393782, at *2 n. 2 (D. Del. Feb. 18, 2009). However, in still allowing plaintiff's counsel to participate in all aspects of the reexamination, the court noted that it "considers amendments and revisions to claims on reexamination to be admissions regarding validity" and that "[s]hould plaintiff take an inconsistent position (to its litigation position) and revise its claims during reexamination, the court will consider the scope and effect of any such admission on an appropriate motion." Id. So too here, the Court should permit Mirror Worlds' counsel to participate in reexamination proceedings and give any weight it feels appropriate to any claim amendments made during those proceedings. It would be particularly unfair to Mirror Worlds, and a windfall to Apple, if Apple could utilize the knowledge of the prior art it has acquired during the more than fifteen months of litigation, without affording Mirror Worlds' counsel that same right. In such a case, Apple could freely utilize knowledge it has obtained through discovery of the prior art and Mirror Worlds' claim construction position, without Mirror Worlds being able to utilize its comparable knowledge--an inherently unfair situation. -5- Indeed, under Apple's proposed scenario, Apple's counsel would be giving its litigation input on a constant basis to Apple's reexamination counsel, while Mirror Worlds' reexamination counsel would receive no input from Mirror Worlds' litigation counsel. Again, that would put Mirror Worlds at a tremendous disadvantage and underscores Apple's litigation purpose for requesting the reexaminations. Further, a response to an office action issued in connection with the reexamination of United States Patent No. 6,768,999, one of the patents-in-suit, is due shortly on July 22, 2009. Although Mirror Worlds has retained the law firm of Cooper & Dunham LLP ("Cooper Dunham") to prosecute the reexamination proceedings, Cooper Dunham does not have much time to get up to speed in the case and prepare a response to that office action, as well as prosecuting the reexaminations for the other patents-in-suit. Mirror Worlds' current litigation counsel, who has been intimately involved with the prior art and this litigation from the very beginning, could substantially cut the time it would take for Cooper Dunham to get up to speed in the case. It is well-settled that reexamination proceedings "only implicate matters in the public record, i.e., the patent and the prior art" and that, accordingly, "Defendant's confidential information is basically irrelevant to the reexamination." Hochstein, 2008 WL 4387594, at *3; see also Kenexa Brassring, Inc., 2009 WL 393782, at *2 ("The scope of claims cannot be enlarged by amendment in a reexamination. Because reexamination involves only the patent and the prior art, defendant's confidential information is basically irrelevant to the examination.") (internal citation and quotation marks omitted). In particular, one court has noted the difference between reexamination proceedings and initial patent prosecution, explaining that the rules of the -6- reexamination process "effectively mitigates" the potential to misuse another's confidential information during that process: Although patent claims may be amended, redrafted or substituted for new albeit narrower claims, unlike prosecution of an initial patent application, the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. �� 305, 314, expressly curtails the scope of reexamination, prohibiting any claim amendment that would enlarge the scope of the initial patent . . . This restriction both underscores the distinction between initial patent prosecution and reexamination, and effectively mitigates the potential to misuse PTO procedures to gain a collateral business or litigation advantage, thereby rendering a prosecution bar in the reexamination context largely unnecessary. Pall Corp., 2008 WL 5049961, at *4. Further, Apple's vague and speculative assertions of potential harm are plainly an insufficient basis for a reexamination bar against Mirror Worlds' litigation counsel. See, e.g. Hochstein, 2008 WL 4387594, at *3 ("Defendant's vague assertion that [plaintiff's] litigation counsel could inadvertently use information it obtained during discovery is not enough to preclude [plaintiff's] litigation counsel from assisting [co-plaintiff] with the reexamination in this case where Defendants initiated the reexamination.") (emphasis added); see also Pall Corp., 2008 WL 5049961, at *7 ("[Defendant] did not . . . identify specific confidential information at risk for disclosure, nor did [defendant] identify the specific manner in which that information might be used to [defendant's] detriment."). III. Apple's Arguments are Without Merit Apple's reliance on two unpublished cases, Visto Corp. v. Seven Networks, Inc. and Microunity Sys., Eng'g, Inc., is without merit, as both cases are plainly distinguishable. Unlike the situation here, the parties in Visto and Microunity had agreed ahead of time to a protective order that expressly prohibited those receiving attorneys' eyes only information from participating in the prosecution of patent applications relating to the patents-in-suit. See Visto -7- Corp. v. Seven Networks, Inc., No. 2:03-CV-333-TJW, 2006 WL 3741891, at **5-7 (E.D. Tex. Dec. 19, 2006); Ex. A to Apple's Motion. Thus, the only issue in both cases was whether that prosecution bar extended to reexamination proceedings involving the patent-in-suit, which the courts, in both cases, found that it did. See id. In other words, the courts in both cases was simply asked to enforce a provision that the parties had expressly agreed to ahead of time. This is in stark contrast to the situation here, where the parties from the very beginning have disputed whether reexamination proceedings should be included in the prosecution bar. Nor is Apple's reliance on the Sterne, Robert Greene et al., "Reexamination Practice with Concurrent District Court or USITC Patent Litigation" (the "Sterne Article") persuasive. Apple cites that article for the proposition that a party having access to another party's highly confidential technical information should not be allowed to "draft or supervise the drafting of pending claims in applications or claims under reexamination in the same technical space." (Apple's Motion, p. 3). That article presents no analysis of the reexamination bar issue and cites no caselaw regarding that issue. It has no discussion, whatsoever, of the points raised by Mirror Worlds above, and in particular, how such a reexamination bar works as a severe disadvantage to the patent owner. Contrary to Apple's assertion, the article plainly does not "present[] all sides" of the reexamination bar issue. (Apple's Motion, p. 3). It instead merely states one viewpoint in conclusory fashion. Indeed, courts that have considered that article have expressly rejected its conclusions regarding a reeaxamination bar and have, in fact, permitted plaintiff's trial counsel to participate in reexamination proceeedings. See, e.g., Kenexa Brassring, Inc., 2009 WL 393782, at *2, n. 3 (the court expressly stating that it "disagrees with" the Sterne article's statement relied upon by -8- Apple); see also Crystal Image Tech., Inc. v. Mitsubishi Elec. 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I had my left signal on and was at a complete stop trying to turn into my subdivision entrance. I was rear-ended and the driver took off. Fortunately, he was apprehended in the next subdivision. There were three teens in the car and the one that hit me was 17 and had no DL. When the cops caught one of the other teens had gotten into the driver's seat because he had a DL. The car was registered to one of the teen's parents.
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If the "court (that) is coming up" is the traffic court case against the teen(s), no, you do not need an attorney. Just go and tell the truth. However, since you may need an attorney anyhow to pursue your injury claims, you should go ahead and consult with one (or more). Then, he or she can coach you as to how to present your case against the driver.
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Whether you need need an attorney really depends on whether you intend to file a bodily injury claim. I am assuming that the court date coming up is for traffic court. In most instances where liability is clear (as it appears in your case) an attorney is not needed for traffic court. Nor does the outcome of traffic court have any real bearing on a personal injury claim.
One issue in your case, however, may be the fact that the driver did not have a driver's license. This leads to question of did he/she have persmission to drive the automobile. If the teenage driver did not have permission to drive, the insurance company is likely to deny coverage, likewise denying any claim on your part. However, you may be able to make a claim for negligent entrustment against the parents of the driver.
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Generally speaking, it is not necessary to have a lawyer with you to appear in traffic court. However, in this case, if you are looking to be compensated for your injuries, you may want to take a lawyer. It sounds like there may be issues as to whether the other party's insurance will deny coverage and the traffic case likely will help the lawyer to determine more information about the insurance coverage. (Insurance policies usually have exclusions where the driver had no license or where the driver had no permission to drive the car.)
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I would use the upcoming court, which I assume to be in the nature of a traffic court proceeding, to "discover" what you can establish on the record at this point about the change of drivers. This further assumes you will be persuing an injury claim. The very first thing, however, is to consult with an attorney skilled in evaluating, investigating and trying these kinds of cases.
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The Wide-Boy64 is a rather obscure Nintendo 64 accessory that was unreleased to the public. A device similar to the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player, the Wide-Boy 64 allows videogame developers to play Game Boy Color games on the television screen. It also allowed the gaming press to capture screenshots more easily.
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The Wideboy was not a consumer product as only developers and magazines could purchase one from Nintendo at a cost of $1400 USD a piece.
Like the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player, the game screen itself is surrounded by a template mimicking the appearance of the portable system.
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