On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choices. > >> > You can get http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative > >> > >> Wow. Let's all go practice law with a dictionary. > > > >? But you mentioned dictionaries first... > > You do realize that when it comes to legal documents, such as licenses, > that general-purpose dictionaries are inadequate, right? If you want to > look up legal terms, you need a law dictionary. > > I think that if one is ignorant enough of law that one needs to consult > a legal dictionary for more than one or two terms in order to > understand a document, then perhaps it would be best to either do a lot > of studying to become more knowledgeable, or find someone with more > legal training to interpret the document. As a layperson with little > in-depth knowledge of legal code, that's how i see things anyway.
I think that if *alternative* means both at the same time in any reputable dictionary (legal or not), then I'm on a parallel reality for sure. Other than that, you're just being pretentious. Rui -- Or not. Today is Boomtime, the 28th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
