I think that explanation may be a bit confusing and too detailed for easy understanding.
Here’s a simpler one.
Suppose you want to send a large data file from computer A to computer B over a network. If you send it all at once, there is a high risk that it might be corrupted or interrupted.
The solution is to cut the file up into small chunks, and send each chunk in turn. At the receiving end they can be joined together to recreate the file.
A packet is a chunk of a data file, plus a header containing information for reassembling the file, and the destination to send it to.
No. The basis of the internet itself, and from the very beginning. It is part of the effort to make the internet (then called DARPAnet or ARPAnet) as unbreakable as possible. It doesn’t matter which route the packets take from sender to destination so if one node city is turned to glass the packets can simply route around. The packets sent over the internet could come to you over a dozen different paths before being reassembled on your end.
(As an analogy it reminds me more of the old days of sharing data files over usenet. You uuencode it, break it into small chunks, probably slap on a few par files, post the chunks. To reassemble the original file, do the steps in reverse.)
There is really no right to appeal an arbitration award. (technically, you can on very limited grounds, but it’s almost always unsuccessful and over quickly)
The plaintiff will soon have an enforceable judgement against Mr. Pillow, and can start executing on his assets if need be. He can, of course, ask MAGA assholes to fund his mistake.
I hope it’s understood that I am not being sympathetic to any liars here but I seems ethically wrong for someone to be paid $5,000,000 for something as simple as proving Mike Lindell wrong.
I think flat-earthers set the standard as “Convince me.” which is pretty difficult considering
They require false facts in the proof. “Using earth drop as 8 inches per mile squared …”
They deny the results of experimentation. “The Cavendish experiment did not show gravity.”
They deny that events happened. “No one has ever seen the curve of the Earth.” or “Photos from space are faked.”
Combined with their other issues, the standard of “Convince me …” can never be met even if you took them into space and they saw the Earth as you revolved around it.
Actually I think its worse than that. There were really two parts to his claim, the first part was that the data was election data, the second was that it proved that China stole the election. In order for the election to be stolen both had to be true, but the contest was only based on the first part, Lindell would win provided that the data was election data, whether or not it actually proved the election was stolen. A massive moving of the goal posts from the original claim. But he even failed that test.
To use your analogy, Lindell was claiming to have box of rocks full of precious metals or gems, but when people became skeptical he ran a contest to prove that the box doesn’t contain rocks, then when geologists opened it all they found was a block of wood.
My guess is that he will. The plaintiff here has an enforceable judgment already. Dominion’s suit probably has a ways to go. Also, I’m sure Lindell can pay $5 million, I’m guessing he doesn’t have enough to pay whatever Dominion is going to ask for.