loggerhead

But with Google and Oracle being at loggerheads, it ain't going to happen.

Because it's directly at loggerheads with net neutrality. And it's not free.

And sometimes valuable things like corrections are at loggerheads with a minimum word count.

Often times, especially with technical writing, they are at loggerheads. With all that said, your re-write is actually quite a lot better.

I'm not familiar with WhatsApp, but from their front page blog article[1], it sounds like they could be at loggerheads with Google over privacy/advertising. You can't buy an ideologue.

If it comes down to a 1 v 1 situation where two guys are at loggerheads, then yeah, some design principal needs to be step in and make a call. But the process hopefully reduces how often this is necessary.

Electric eels, largemouth bass, and loggerhead sea turtles[1] are apex predators, within their respective environments. Do we respect as much as we do polar bears?

Again you're just craving this predictability and risk reduction which is at loggerheads of taking chances and entering new markets.

Google probably also wanted more control to insert advertising and the fact the two firms are now competitors in mobile OS's and at legal loggerheads made agreement unlikely.

People who are normally at loggerheads continuously, now getting along and working together. It makes my brain hurt that it took for someone to die for this to happen and now I don't want to be happy about it even though it's seeming more likely that we may actually get something good to come out of this.

Her implementation of change swapped one inefficiency for another while setting vast swaths of the country at loggerheads. Other countries have managed to implement painful change without the friction experienced in the UK. It's a sad period of history.

But your argument is sort of doubly ridiculous given that's confusing whatever personal loggerheads Hofstadter and researchers are at with what approach they are pursuing and then confusing that with what approach would actually work.

If the pissed off founder and the investor are at loggerheads then that is a very difficult situation, which comes up with some regularity, unfortunately. How it is dealt with depends very much on the situation, I think that the recent 'moves' of Monty and some of the other people from MySQL are a good indication of what it can look like on the outside but I'm quite sure that the indoors conversations were quite different.