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Brooklyn, 1970s: Eenie meenie minie mo / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers, let him go / My mother said to pick this one (with the last line being the most common variant I …

Indeed; I believe casual dress in general-purpose, public adult leisure contexts was initially associated strongly with the upper/upper-middle classes and was seen as a signal of h…

I flew from JFK to Heathrow in 1986 (don't recall the airline but assume it was either a major US carrier or British Airways) - I vividly remember the cabin being full of cigarette…

Actually, plagiarism and copyright infringement are different things. For example, it is possible to plagiarize something that is not copyrighted, and many forms of copyright infri…

Oracle owns copyright on OpenJDK, so it can't 'violate'. Maybe more precisely, if you regard the API in question as copyrightable, Oracle has clearly licensed it under GPLv2 plus t…

Source for "In the 50's congress was made up of Engineers"?

WildFly is the project formerly known as JBoss Application Server.

"Yeah no" is now fairly common in American English too. See, e.g.: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/yeah-no.html

Right. And there's been a trend at least over the past 10-15 years at larger companies of more work being done in-house -- the baseline, routine stuff you speak of -- rather than b…

That's essentially right. Law schools have generally not focused on providing any sort of training for the actual practice of law. The model of education established by the elite l…

A small number of law schools have debt-forgiveness programs for graduates who take low-paying public-service jobs.

A lot of what's been going on at the higher end of the legal services industry is greater cost control by clients. Expensive, elite law firms had a long run in which they were able…

Patents have been granted on claims that essentially cover an API. I think it would be harder to get such patents issued today than 10 years ago though.

OpenJDK isn't a good example, as Oracle owns copyright on it.