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Symbolic references - update 5

Authored by: PolR on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 10:27 AM EDT

I think the judge has lost faith in the lawyers. He has decided he won't get the
accurate picture from them. And he doesn't want to side with either of them. So
he made a wishy-washy answer, punting the ultimate decision to the jury.

This means the technical truth is not available to the jury. They must make
their own opinion as to what are the facts on technical matters without
appropriate guidance and with misleading answers to their questions.

It is quite clear, this system does not and can not work.

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Poor reporting ?

Authored by: YurtGuppy on Tuesday, May 22 2012 @ 01:15 PM EDT

I chalked this up to poor reporting.

In my understanding it is perfectly useful to look downstream at the use of the
variable to see if there is a reference table which turns the symbolic reference
into a numeric one.

So, if the judge said something like that, the reporter could have made it
short-hand the way she did, obscuring the subtle distinction.

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a small fish in an even smaller pond

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