Comments on: New RIAA anti-p2p bid

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:34:24 +0000

Oh, i assumed john was using latin, and he frequently does
The fact that carte is a later form of the classical cartae didn’t help. Excuse my ignorance of the french language.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:09:25 +0000

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carte_blanche

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:05:24 +0000

french (IIRC) origin baby!

the e’s would normaly have the nice accent on the.

google says:

complete freedom or authority to act
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:42:55 +0000

Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.

By the way, what is ‘carte blanche’? carte looks like the vulgar form of the classic cartae. Unless it’s in the ablative declension of course. ‘blanche’ isn’t a latin word as far as i can tell. Ergo, this expression is nonsensical.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:42:18 +0000

Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:41:58 +0000

Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:40:44 +0000

Bad decisions are usually the result of ignorance. This case is exemplum of that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:01 +0000

In other words, “I (the judge) don’t want to be held responsible for what happens” (seeing the students, being “children”, are probably guilty anyways so should just simply “take what’s coming to them”).

“Old-fashioned” judge rendering his decision without benefit of cumbersome legal technicalities since (according to old fogeys) their probably not needed, in this case.

What ARROGANCE.