WATCHING Sun Microsystems and the Microsoft Corporation quarrel over Java is a little like watching kids decide some issue by doing one-up with a baseball bat, hand over hand, until the winner cups the top of the handle.
They also proposed deciding some issues by voting, instead of only by consensus, as now.
The main idea in Stalnaker's passage and most of the work presented in Stalnaker 1970, as well as subsequent writings, is to utilize something less controversial than conditionals in order to decide some open issues in the semantics of conditionals.
So the judge in the federal case has ordered a February 2012 trial to sort all this out, and well as to decide some critical liability issues, such as whether these was "gross fault" by the companies in causing the explosion, which could result in punitive damages.
"There's something disingenuous," Mr. Doyle said, "when prosecutors bring cases filled with legal errors and then turn around and complain when the court is dealing with the errors instead of reaching out to decide some sweeping constitutional issue".
Judge Alsup may also decide some of the copyright issues.
US District Judge William Alsup must also decide some of the copyright issues.
WASHINGTON — President Obama will issue new guidelines on Friday to curtail government surveillance, but will not embrace the most far-reaching proposals of his own advisers and will ask Congress to help decide some of the toughest issues, according to people briefed on his thinking.
An examination of the contract shows that some of the most controversial issues at stake in the strike have yet to be completely decided, with some issues relegated to committees.
Plebiscite, a vote by the people of an entire country or district to decide on some issue, such as choice of a ruler or government, option for independence or annexation by another power, or a question of national policy.
