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To: JGoren who wrote (17568)	11/3/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 152472

OT RE: Texaco Thanks for the wonderfully informative post on that interesting case. I also failed to buy Texaco, but it is only one of the many blunders I have made. Apparently there is a supersedeas bond permitted in FRCP 62 and FRAP 7 and 8, (but I haven't looked them up) and it might not have made much difference if they had gone federal. As to the defense no damage testimony calculation, there are defense lawyers who hire experts to pick holes in the case but not to testify, hoping to destroy the plaintiff's damage case without offering the finder of fact a fall back position. This never works in personal injury cases around here when the jury can view the bloody stump, but I have seen it work with more ethereal or supposititious damages (like invisible and undetectable brain damage).

To: JGoren who wrote (17568)	11/3/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Message 6259666 Gilder thread and Motorola has pinched [I'll lodge a patent claim very shortly] my idea of sprinkling a confetti of chips and adaptive antennae arrays around a city to provide very low decibel, high data rate CDMA 'Anita[TM]' multimedia mobile communications. Motorola is aiming at fifteen feet apart. My system uses metres and randomness in chip distribution so I suppose the IPR will be considered, like the soft handoff claims of L M Ericsson to be in conflict. I hope QUALCOMM is up with this trend to picocells. Tero's enormous GSM Nokia briefcase size macrocells are looking gargantuan by comparison. Wireless technology is NOT going to be slowing anytime soon. Human dinosaurs are going to go extinct in great numbers and rapidly, making the comet wipeout of regular dinosaurs when Iridium was splattered around the earth look insignificant. Iridium too will be splattered around the earth as it is superseded sooner rather than later by Globalstar. Mqurice [Who spotted my deliberate 'whose' instead of who's error in my last post?] Okay, oil! JGoren discussed my two old companies, Texaco and BP Oil. I followed the case with interest, as much as I could within the media I then had available, which was not bad at the time, working for BP Oil International. At the time I figured that Texaco had made the cardinal sin of thinking they were bigger than some grotty little judge in some hick town. While judges might not be corrupt, though bidding for a judgeship with lawyers supporting the campaign seems a conflict of interest, the common factor they pretty much all have, is to crush dissent. Same as police and army and other government functionaries. Rule number one is they are the boss. You mess with them at your peril. Look at $ill Gates, being grilled by Reno's gang because he beat Clinton at golf and didn't donate much money [well, that's my guesswork theory anyway]. Texaco didn't seem to me to give the importance to the case they should have. They were also stupid to say they'd take the consequences for the breach of contract in the buyout arrangements already made. But it was nothing to do with BP Oil. How did they get into it? L M Ericsson is coming close to being on the arrogant side too. I can tell them what that will get them in USA courts and Washington. Irrespective of what the law actually says. The Supreme Court invents laws, as do judges. The constitution is only a convenient guide to be ignored as required. I heard black people as late as the 1960's were not allowed this that and the other - without the constitution actually allowing such things.