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...whether it was the Castle Doctrine or a prior Texas law that most influenced its decision, the case may be a Pyrrhic victory for gun-rights advocates. As these laws spread across the country, the public will want to know what effect they'll have in their communities. Will they make people more secure? Or will they create some kind of dystopic Deadwood, where the law lands on the side of those who shoot first? The laws are written so vaguely that the answer lies largely in the interpretation. It's up to juries to set appropriate boundaries - hopefully ones...
...beat them, co-opt them. In vitro technology would perhaps make everyone winners: the masses could enjoy a nice steak and the animal activists wouldn’t have see any cattle butchered for that steak.However, the legitimate question arises whether in vitro meat is a Pyrrhic victory for animal rights activists. The terms of the PETA prize state that competitors must create chicken meat that “has a taste and texture indistinguishable from real chicken flesh to non-meat-eaters and meat-eaters alike.” However, recreating tissue as complex as muscle is no simple...
...Fabrications that hurt someone’s reputation are technically actionable—the victim could sue for defamation,” he said. “But again, that’s an awfully cumbersome process and possibly Pyrrhic victory that may not do much to ameliorate the original harm...
...They’re pretty bad, as far as criticism goes. They give the records glowing reviews, but in vague terms, without quite knowing why.And it’s hard to blame the writers. Scoring that big Radiohead review from your editor was mostly a pyrrhic victory. Sure, you get the big byline, but you also get to look like an idiot, because it takes countless listens, interviews, features, and tea-leaf readings to really get to know a disc like “Amnesiac.” Cokemachineglow.com ran a hilarious feature a while back called...
...have a sense that the junta's victory may yet prove Pyrrhic. The brutal crackdown has shattered the relationship between the generals and the monks. The regime spent years building new pagodas and donating alms to cultivate its image as protector of the faith. It can hardly claim that role now. The assault on a revered institution may yet cause divisions in the army's ranks. "Soldiers are humans," says a Burmese analyst with close ties to the military. "They have families. They have monks among their relatives." Already stories are being told of monks damning to hell the soldiers...