CONTRACT Ass ignment
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A mother holds her child as she looks at the destruction caused by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave to her home in the coastal town of Kosgada in southern Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 25--Q I was working with a company called Zippity Homes in San Antonio. I signed contracts in July for Zippity Homes to provide two houses to me, and I paid them a $1,100 deposit for each.
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I want to understand what it&#39;s like to play for Tom Coughlin. So I file this column at 5:30 pm Friday -- 28 hours before deadline -- and the Times Union fines me 63 cents for writing in my home office in boxer
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By Palenik, Charles John  Question: My office has had a series of "DISCUSSIONS" concerning placement of heat indicators on instrument bags. We need a third party to help m do the light thing.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing  scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You  put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old  house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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Walking on thin ice? The terms of Microsoft's End User License Agreement (EULA) for its upcoming Vista operating system raises the conflict between two fundamental principles of contract law. The first, and more familiar, is that parties to a contract can generally agree to just about anything, as long as what they agree to doesn't violate the law and isn't "unconscionable".â¦
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Investor's Business Daily - Insult is about to follow injury. It's bad enough that you've had to put up with a so-so year of market performance. Now you have to brace for an expected rise in stock fund capital gain distributions.
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ItÃ¢ÂÂs not easy being a presidential lame duck. A senator wants to slug you. The leader of your own client state snubs you. Even Air Force One causes trouble, blowing out six tires while you are on an overseas trip.
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Sir, The Nelson Mail's glib and inapt title on a June 23 article "Nappies and compost cause a stink'' is inappropriate and obviously was penned by a philistine.   Compost should never "stink'' if made properly.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November, to write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and to deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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Chuck Guite says the normal contract process was never used to award contracts to agencies in the sponsorship program. The former manager of the federal sponsorship program says agencies were &quot;prequalified
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Getting involved with a cheater spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e. (27 points!)
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By Dave Simanoff, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  May 28--SPEAK the language of your clients   Unless you work for the J.C.
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We tend to concentrate on deals that have been cleverly played or defended, but in the real world everyone makes mistakes. When an opponent does something wrong, you must be ready to benefit.
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Know what you're doing before you decide to sign on the dotted line.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.