Ray Saintonge writes:
I'm sure that Dante should have set up a circle in hell where plaintiffs with more money than sense were forever litigating against defendants with less sense than money.
"More money than sense" = "less sense than money", n'est-ce pas?
Without making any claim as to the absolute amount of sense we have, I think we probably have more sense than money, by some appreciable margin. (I am hoping Dante would not count that self-assessment as a sin.) We look forward to the day when we have a lot of sense and even more money.
--Mike
I'm sure that Dante should have set up a circle in hell where plaintiffs with more money than sense were forever litigating against defendants with less sense than money.
"More money than sense" = "less sense than money", n'est-ce pas?
I thought that was probably intentional. A joke along the lines of it never being a good idea to get involved in a court case, whatever side you're on (unless you're the lawyer, of course). Similar to the description of a stock trader on the wrong side of a trade being "the greater fool".
PS Could you please fix your mail client? You are currently breaking threads.
On 26/11/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure that Dante should have set up a circle in hell where plaintiffs with more money than sense were forever litigating against defendants with less sense than money.
"More money than sense" = "less sense than money", n'est-ce pas?
I thought that was probably intentional. A joke along the lines of it never being a good idea to get involved in a court case, whatever side you're on (unless you're the lawyer, of course).
The historic existence of submarine patents suggests otherwise. Mind you people trying a similar tactic with software patents don't appear to be doing to well.
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:28 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
PS Could you please fix your mail client? You are currently breaking threads.
I think Mike is subscribed to the digest, and hence typing the subject reply line manually, and not embedding whatever it is mail client used to sort thread for single message subscription and reply.
Mike Godwin wrote:
Ray Saintonge writes:
I'm sure that Dante should have set up a circle in hell where plaintiffs with more money than sense were forever litigating against defendants with less sense than money.
"More money than sense" = "less sense than money", n'est-ce pas?
Yes and no. It's self-explanatory for these plaintiffs, but these defendants have little money and even less sense.
Without making any claim as to the absolute amount of sense we have, I think we probably have more sense than money, by some appreciable margin.
Having both sense and absolute sense is an oxymoron... except perhaps in theology.
(I am hoping Dante would not count that self-assessment as a sin.) We look forward to the day when we have a lot of sense and even more money.
Do we? When money grows at a faster rate than sense it becomes subject to the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Ec
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