I guess this is why they're seeking a 'round 2'.
> Uber: Google invested in Uber; correct?
> Page: Yes.
> Uber: Do you recall when?
> Page: My answer is yes.
I'm definitely interested in some folks from Google chiming with respect to Larry's comments regarded starting side businesses at Google. Does anyone have any experience doing that? Is that allowed? I would imagine not, but I'm interested.
This is pretty unlike regular life. As an engineer if someone asked me "Hey, in order to get the widget-spinner to go clockwise do I call function X?" I might answer "No, what you need to do is set variable X to true." (or whatever). In a deposition the correct answer would just be "no."
I was in a patent troll deposition once and the opposing attorney kept dancing around moderately close to the interesting stuff but never really got there due to the fact that he didn't really know what he was doing. It was kind of fun just saying "no" over and over again without giving him any additional context or help. Weird though. It's not how humans normally communicate.
It's been many years now, but we did some canonicalization of email addresses before hashing [downcasing, stripping whitespace, stripping periods (gmail), stripping any local tags (plus-sign), and maybe a few others I'm forgetting] since false positives were "safe".
Or, even, possibly, “You might” (given the question phrasing ”...do I...”), if it is technically possible to get the fidget spinner to go clockwise with a call to function X, even though it's not the right way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature
(In typical conversation, speakers often guess why a question was asked and try to respond to the inferred motivation.)
I find this interesting conceptually.
Can you elaborate where this is being taught? or, if not of general knowledge, who, when, where taught you that?
Not a deposition, just an internet question.
That's the litigation game.
Edit: spelling.
And the deposition is very tiring.
Take a 2 hour disposition transcript to the judge.
All answers are ~I cannot recall~.
Profit.
That's how you do a deposition. I don't know how many depositions Page has had to do over the years, but it's not his first rodeo. Depositions aren't just used as fact-finding (and in a case like this most of the facts are already known) - they're used to force the deposed party into either lying or omitting something they later rely on in order to discredit their eventual testimony.
For example, the question "do you recall when" seems simple enough, but let's say I mistakenly mix up the year in my deposition. "How can he be trusted", the defense will say, "if he can't remember basic facts like when the company was bought?".
> Q: Do you recall when? [asked again]
> A: No, I don't remember when we did that.
They were probably talking over each other or something.