Random Thoughts

[King.Khan]

got flue... and chest infection ... Big Pak Prob As You Came To Pak You Got Ill

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Quantum mechanics is a famous topic, but with the controversial string theory and the daunting task of unification of forces being the main concern of physicists, it doesn't get any special attention (although an enormous part of these two topics is dependent on Quantum theory). And being complicated makes it less known among the common masses, hence it is confined to only to the people specialized in physics.

you learn a fair bit in chemistry degrees too

 

[Auwais]

Did u know, an anagram of Osama Bin Laden is, "Lob da man in sea"?

Sorry if it's already been posted and I missed it.

 

[1iram1]

Another day without PSN

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Hey, PSN was down for couple of weeks and USA caught Osama. Shows what they can accomplish without it. Maybe if it's down for another 2 weeks they'll find the cure to Cancer...

 

[pcfan123]

lol

I'm done with PSN after that nonsense btw. Also cancelled the credit card I used on there. I'm strictly on pc now, the games are soo much cheaper

 

[Chewie]

Lord Denning is(was) the man. His judgements are the only ones that are actually not hard to read. Most judges use overly complex language for the hell of it - Denning wrote in easily understandable English and gained a reputation for it. Here's an example of some of his judgement in Miller v Jackson which is rather appropriate for a cricket forum:

In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team play there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket. But now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket ground. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at week-ends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for more houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much the poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground.

I suppose most people wouldn't have read a normal case so they wouldn't understand how much better this writing is compared to other judges, but it is extremely more readable.

 

[pcfan123]

It's pretty informal sounding for a court case. probably because it sounds like a very low court dealing with mundane domestic matters.

Read some Supreme Court cases, you need a damn dictionary and two cups of coffee to get through them.

There has to be a nice middle ground between the two. I don't care for the overly verbose Supreme Court cases but I'm not liking this informal, conversational style decision either.

 

[Chewie]

It's actually an English Court of Appeal case He's been praised a lot for the ease of reading of his cases. In law school we're told to avoid using overly complicated words because the courts should be open to the public - if it's not written in this way, the average person would have no idea what is going on and law would appear to be an exclusive club.

I would imagine that your Supreme Court cases would be just as complicated to read as judgements from other countries.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Why the hell would you buy a house next to a cricket ground and then complain about it? Just give them a well deserved bitch-slap and move on.

 

[Chewie]

I think the final judgement was that the cricket club had to pay an amount of compensation for all future incidents and they were allowed to continue playing.

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Oh and it gets a bit less conversational later on, this is just the setting out of the facts at the beginning of the case. It's still pretty easy to read though.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

It's so idiotic though. You bought the house next to a cricket field. No-one forced you into it. And the fact that a cricket ball lands from time to time, your weekend is flipped upside-down?

Can't believe they had to pay compensation.

 

[pcfan123]

the average person would have no idea what is going on and law would appear to be an exclusive club.

I agree completely. The most annoying thing about Supreme court cases is precedent. So to properly study one case, you end up having to read many others.

Glad my constitutional law days are behind me.

 

[Chewie]

It's not a defence for the cricket club to say that the people had 'come to the nuisance' by buying the house.

 

[pcfan123]

It's so idiotic though. You bought the house next to a cricket field. No-one forced you into it. And the fact that a cricket ball lands from time to time, your weekend is flipped upside-down?

Can't believe they had to pay compensation.

The should make him compensate the court for wasting it's time.