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There are mechanisms by which a landlord can raise a rent inside the bounds of a lease. In my experience, multi-year leases have "elevator clauses" that either allow for pre-negoti…

Whenever I need to ask someone a question about something, I take 2 minutes to do just one more bit of homework on the topic. The goal to give my brain one more shot at figuring it…

Of course, I wanted to believe it was true. Unappreciated worker with morally-lite boss in a despised industry. What's not to like? The lighting was too good though. Specifically, …

If you don't understand why people are complaining, you may want to take a moment to understand why. You have shown how to block it, but there is a larger discussion of why or why …

To answer your specific question, it isn't necessary. It's just another Turing-Complete language, right? Perl was one of the first popular scripting languages out there to have wel…

At the risk of self-promotion, a while back I did a presentation on naming schemes for network devices, which have slightly different requirements than servers: http://www.nanog.or…

To use a recent movie quote: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." ITA's business is all about dealing with fiendishly clever transforms on small-ish sets of data, and…

IANAL, etc., but I believe you have it exactly right. The principle in question is the Clean Hands Doctrine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_hands ). In short, an entity can no…

At a guess, they're trying to make it up in volume. If you're a merchant bank, the smallest thing you can profitably target is a small business, so even a handful of significant ba…

Indeed, the title of the original post ensured that someone would point out that bit of misspelling. One does not insure against certainty.

Just in case you haven't yet, put in a city/country name that doesn't exist.

I'm just glad that the court explicitly said that "nonpracticing patent owners" are distinct from those who would benefit from the use of the patent in manufacturing. Stating that …

I'm reminded of the Latin phrase "Age quod agis", literally "Do what you are doing." It has been my experience that half-hearted attempts to learn/do things end up taking twice the…