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[CENTER][/CENTER]You have, indeed, identified the biggest weakness of Loser Pays: reduced access for plaintiffs with lower incomes. This weakness has been mitigated in other countries by public legal aid and by Legal Expenses Insurance (LEI). One o…
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In life, sometimes the sequence of steps is important. Correct Sequence of Steps: 1. Check the facts. 2. Air/publish the news story. Wrong Sequence of Steps: 1. Air/publish the news story. 2. Check the facts.
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My family's iPod Touches are too old for iOS5--which is required for iCloud. So, I am praying that a new iPod Touch comes out before MobileMe terminates on June 30. I am hopeful. On the one hand, it has been 18 months since the last iPod Touch r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 3) There is no tablet competition for Apple! I think your idea that the current iPad could drop by $100 makes sense but it also makes sense that Apple doesn't have to with the state of the tablet industry. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kaiser_soze ... done carefully and with adequately high bit rate, that no person would be able to hear any difference whatsoever between that recording and a master that was recorded with linear PCM using arbitrarily …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast I agree. But audiophiles will always think that can hear something that the human ear cannot detect; well at least the difference between one recording and the next. It's the same people who think super …
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For web browsing, a 10-inch display is great. You can read a full-sized web page or letter-sized document (e.g., Acrobat) without squinting or scrolling--at least with my eyesight. A 7-inch display doesn't work nearly as well. And it's easier to ty…
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I currently use MobileMe to remotely sync calendar, contacts, and email for two Macs (which I will update to Lion), one iPad, and three 2G Touches. It looks like iCloud will not work with my 2G iPod Touches. Does that mean that I will lose the abili…
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Quote: Originally Posted by briavael Why would that make the system better? Sure you might stop some frivolous lawsuits like this, but you'd basically put well funded defendants above the law. About a year ago, I came across the following art…
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I see that Leopard is not supported. Looks like I'll finally replace my G5 Power Mac so I can run Snow Leopard.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid Agree. Remember when a 6 ft. Monster HDMI cable cost $100? ... (Of course, speaker cables, which are still analog, do require high-quality interconnects...) Actually, expensive speaker cables are a bi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by filburt Am I the only one who wants to see wimpier (and cheaper) Mac Pro? Something that uses iMac grade CPU at say, $1499? Me, too. I bought, and loved, the cheapest G5 and G4 towers when they came out. A dual G5 P…
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I wonder if it will support MySQL database connections. Would this be the first database app for handheld mobile devices that supports MySQL connections?
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Quote: Originally Posted by sippincider I'm reading it as "We'll take your kidneys unless you tell us otherwise". As I said above, often times a deceased person's identity isn't immediately known (the same period in which the decision to trans…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sippincider Look at it this way: such a program would give the government a default power to remove your organs upon your death. Scary, no? In the terrible moments after an accident, a person's ID is often unavaila…
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Originally Posted by boboosta A much more effective, yet simple, strategy would be to use an opt-out question on drivers' licenses. That is, "Check this box if you do NOT want to donate your organs ..." Research has shown that this would probably…
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A much more effective, yet simple, strategy would be to use an opt-out question on drivers' licenses. That is, "Check this box if you do NOT want to donate your organs ..." Research has shown that this would probably multiply the number of organs av…