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...Beck's "Loser" because I worked for Microsoft and I go to Harvard...
Disregarding, for a moment, the motivation behind such an argument, does Microsoft have a point? Have certain sectors of our society progressed so much and in such a rapid fashion that our current legal system and its employees are simply incapable of using the same old approaches to untangle increasingly complex issues of legality...
...immediate benefits of instituting such a system, the federal government should think long and hard before following the states' initiative. Without proper safeguards, these sorts of changes are more likely to help benefit companies like Microsoft than provide any increased measure of justice...
...judge is to rely on the evidence at hand, the arguments put forth by lawyers and the testimony of expert witnesses; they themselves are supposed to "specialize" only in impartiality and in the legal statutes which apply to a particular case. From this perspective, how different, really, is the Microsoft case from any other of the thousands of cases that cycle through the federal courts each year? What makes it so distinguishable as to require a special arena in which to be judged...
...unless the federal government can formulate a system that is able to account for and overcome the problem of objectivity--and until the time that the demand for such courts becomes a real concern--Microsoft and other technology companies will have to learn how to plead their case within the confines of the current system. And if Microsoft couldn't win the case playing with the same rules as everybody else, perhaps they deserved to lose...