I remember going to a Mondale rally with my mother.
I remember the '85 baseball playoffs, and going to a game, although my main memory from it is riding the bus and sitting way up under the arches at Busch Stadium. And the Vince Coleman Tarp Incident.
But the first obviously newsworthy thing was Challenger, three weeks before my seventh birthday. I don't remember the circumstances around me watching it, but the images are seared into my brain. And following the aftermath, and cursing Thiokol forever. Later, Chernobyl. 1986 sucked.
...so Neuromancer, by William Gibson is to A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
Two years of litigation in a case where the actual damages might possibly have reached the vast height of three digits, and there's any question of who won and lost? It's fairly obvious. The lawyers won, and the taxpayers lost big.
This is the problem with the modern spate of file-sharing litigation: the cost of enforcement -- even the partial cost borne by the government -- is orders of magnitude larger than the damages.
The college catalog is a contractual offer. Once a student registers, pays, takes classes, that student has agreed to contract terms.
I know little about British law, but I know this: The college really, really, really does not want to use this argument. If the college catalog were to constitute a contract, the college would be in a world of trouble, as every college I've ever known violates such things regularly. (If such an argument were valid, I would happily and lucratively sue my former institution for breach.)
Better that they let Gunn stick around than open up that can of worms.
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