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The commonly construed contractual theme is a mutual agreement where each party accepts certain costs and responsibilities, and in return can rely on certain benefits and rewards. Some sort of symmetry is implied, in that the rational parties favored by the economists (when they come out of their recessionary hiding holes) will weigh the positive and negative impacts of the agreement before \"signing.\" I will put aside the notions of Hobbes, Rousseau, Rawls, and that crowd that in merely being born we enter into some form of\n social<\/jats:italic>\n contract with the combined prevailing laws of nature, nurture, and parliamentary whoredom.\n <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/1661785.1661787","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,12,8]],"date-time":"2009-12-08T20:53:14Z","timestamp":1260305594000},"page":"1-3","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Some Rules and Restrictions May Apply"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Stan","family":"Kelly-Bootle","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ACM Queue"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","unstructured":"Both Euclid's and Beethoven's Fifth are thunderous examples in the ongoing Snowdian two-culture clash. Knowing just one of them marks you as semi-educated. Bill Thompson's extension to 10 cultures will be addressed in another column. John Playfair (1748-1819) published the version of Euclid's Fifth Postulate that bears his name although he played fair by disclaiming its invention. The appropriateness (or lack) of proper names is a regular source of speculation. The French mathematician Jean Dieudonné whom I met once in Sonoma County of all places is a positive God-given example! He was Nicholas Bourbaki's most prolific scribe. To some that gives Dieudonné a contrary satanic gloss although to be fair he was often critical of the Bourbaki cold formalisms. Does the name Bourbaki have any self-referential resonances? Less familiar but equally self-fulfilling are the BBC Gardening experts: Anne Swithinbank Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood. Both Euclid's and Beethoven's Fifth are thunderous examples in the ongoing Snowdian two-culture clash. Knowing just one of them marks you as semi-educated. Bill Thompson's extension to 10 cultures will be addressed in another column. John Playfair (1748-1819) published the version of Euclid's Fifth Postulate that bears his name although he played fair by disclaiming its invention. The appropriateness (or lack) of proper names is a regular source of speculation. The French mathematician Jean Dieudonné whom I met once in Sonoma County of all places is a positive God-given example! He was Nicholas Bourbaki's most prolific scribe. To some that gives Dieudonné a contrary satanic gloss although to be fair he was often critical of the Bourbaki cold formalisms. Does the name Bourbaki have any self-referential resonances? Less familiar but equally self-fulfilling are the BBC Gardening experts: Anne Swithinbank Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"We must not forget the latest knee-tops! 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They croon the popular (giving my age away one last time) song: \"Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven.\""}],"container-title":["Queue"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1661785.1661787","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/1661785.1661787","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,18]],"date-time":"2025-06-18T12:41:03Z","timestamp":1750250463000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1661785.1661787"}},"subtitle":["An inquiry into contracts and the Next Big Thing"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2009,12]]},"references-count":3,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009,12]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1145\/1661785.1661787"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1661785.1661787","relation":{},"ISSN":["1542-7730","1542-7749"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1542-7730"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1542-7749"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2009,12]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2009-12-01","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}