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Natural gas generation units make profits. Wells don't at these prices, but once the LNG export business starts to ramp up that will raise the gas prices. Also, there are potential plans for a couple ethane cracker plants in the Ohio/Pennsylvania region, which will certainly make money. There is money to be made out there.

The original owner doesn't have to reimberse squat. Here in the states possession of stolen property is a crime itself.

First of all, this will vary from state to state as these laws are governed by the states so a blanket statement will be pointless to make. Second, I think that if you look, you will find an element pertaining to a mental capacity with almost all state laws concerning the possession of property that might be stolen. Certainly you wouldn't expect to be arrested for possession of stolen property because the milk you purchased at the grocery store this morning was stolen from a farm the night before. That's why most states involve "knowingly" "recklessly" and "reasonable belief" in the legal requirements for it to be a crime. You will also find that in cases of innocent possession (where a reasonable person wouldn't have believed the property to of been stolen), that the sale becomes final and they can't take the property from you unless a separate court action concerning conversion is initiated and won. The cops can take the property as evidence, but you would be the lawful owner at that point in time. This is how it works in pawn shops and in the two situations I had something of value stolen and located later.

If you pay for a stolen laptop believing it to be a legitimate purchase and the police come to claim it because it was stolen, you are out the money you paid for it

Again. look above, you might be correct but not everywhere in the states. I know Ohio, California, and Missouri aren't the way you speak of. It may also change according to the specific items in question too. Things like titled vehicles might have different circumstances depending on how it was sold or if the title was legitimately transferred according to the state or not.

Best advice would be to sue the criminal to recover your money. (Good luck with that.) But in no way does the original owner owe you anything. I don't know of *any* state whose laws say otherwise. (Reference please.)

In many cases, if they want the property back, they will have to pay for it. You do not transfer the damages of a criminal act from one person to another in some vein attempt to make something morally right. The law doesn't legislate morals, it deals with damages. That's how it works in most states. The legitimate purchaser is the legitimate owner even when the goods are stolen if that fact wasn't present in the sale.

All this started more than three years ago. He was working on a side research project that dated back years prior to that. Along the way, some of his students placed a compound Kalafatis now calls CancerX on human cancer cells in a petri dish.

But if I think about it now, it doesn't really make sense that they would be working with cancer cells if they weren't at least tangentially working on cancer :p. So, yeah - not really serendipitous.

I think it's more likely now that the usual drug testing approach might not be all that fruitful unless they really start understanding the causes of cancer. And by cause, I don't mean identifying carcinogens but getting more successful with the chemical mechanisms that govern it. Speaking naively it seems that cancer cells are a symptom, with the underlying cause still unknown. Anyway, like I said - this is not really my field and not having any personal motivations either, I've sadly neglected the technical side of cancer research in my readings.

I think my original point about parent's post stands though - just one less example to support it ;-).

anything other than anti-Americanism

You make it sound like that's automatically a bad thing. It's one thing to be anti-American for the hell of it, it's something entirely different when you point out that when we were talking about going to war, Wolfowitz expected $50-$100 billion a year from Iraqi oil: http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=236508

The cantonrep.com link crashes my browser (Firefox 1.5.0.9). Must be all that ad-cruft clogging my tubes. However, the printable version works fine.

Attack of the F5 bot
just another thing on proportionality, This From Canton:
http://www.cantonrep.com/

CANTON -- A roundup of "problem parents" whose children are habitually absent
or late to school is under way. The crackdown on truancy -- an aggressive
effort between Canton City Schools and City Prose...

Story:
LAKE TWP. -- Sheriff's investigators would like to find out how a man acquired nitric acid that they say he sprayed on his estranged wife's face, seriously burning her Saturday morning.

Story:
CANTON -- A crown adorning a statue of the Virgin Mary was stolen from Sancta Clara Monastery at 4200 Market Ave. N. The nuns who live and serve there want it returned, no questions asked. Mother Supe...

Nice town, but don't want to live there.

reveals that this guy also is prosecuting parents whose kids are truant

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=15&ID= 209513&r=2

sounds like a great guy to have for a neighbor . . .

Being an ex-resident of Canton, I do have some personal insight in to the area. Fortunately, I never went to Lake HS. ;D

Generally, it's like that all the time there. Ignorant law enforcement with nothing better to do. Granted, the kid said he wanted to take down the server, but how much damage can a bunch of "1337 k1dd135" from IRC do when their idea of a DDoS is mashing F5? And for that matter, what kind of hardware is the school running to let an F5 rampage slow their site down?

Also...a nice little tidbit for how much "crime" canton has to deal with... this story has Canton listed as #30 on a list of the "Most Dangerous Cities"

This editorial makes it sound like the kid's mistake was not being the Trustee of "a township he largely owns", in which case he might have been able to catch a break from this prosecutor.

[excerpt]
[Lake Township Trustee] Erb physically abused [Administrator Carolyn Casey] Casey. He eventually acknowledged it and apologized, but only after Casey complained and Canton Prosecutor Frank Forchione investigated and concluded Erb did, indeed, do the dirty deed. But rather than prosecute him as he would many first-timers, Forchione urged Erb to publicly apologize and Casey to accept it.
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=14&ID= 198547&r=0

I would have expected Slashdotters to look at the pictures... It has fixed wings. See.

Bakri said he would like Britain to become an Islamic state but feared he would be deported before his dream was realized. "I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world," he said.

Looks like they're friendly and reasonable after all! I apologize.

Are you even following the war? It was the initial attack that destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq, NOT insurgents.

I've been following it, but not on Al Jazeera. It's a rather "duhhh" kind of point that US military "blew stuff up." They blew up areas of Iraq's already-awesome infrastructure (neglected for decades, according to Iraqis) to weaken Iraq's military. That's war. Unlike with the "insurgents," the point was not to do harm to the people, but to do harm to their government so that they could be more quickly and easily beaten, thus inflicting fewer war-related casualties, so that Iraqis could resume life with a democratic government. Immediately after the war, the US government began _rebuilding_ the infrastructure, repairing not only war-damaged areas, but also old stuff that just wasn't working well three decades on. The inhumanity of it all!

Meanwhile, my sources seem to think the "insurgents" (otherwise known as "terrorists," speaking of labels) ARE destroying infrastructure. *Specifically* to damage reconstruction efforts and harm the everyday Iraqis in the process. (There would be plenty more of these attacks if it weren't for Iraqi police and coalition soldiers preventing them.) But where, oh where, are THEIR reconstructive efforts?? If you can use moral relativism to equate these two kinds of damage, you've got severe issues well beyond your lack of logical prowess. (This is not to mention the fact that the terrorists don't need to rely on infrastructure attacks to harm Iraqis, when they can carbomb neighborhood children, gas stations, police stations, and stores, which they do quite frequently. You're right -- these "insurgents" are the ones to get behind!)

Let's recap: "NOT insurgents." Now, I wonder: what does a person like you do when faced with a multitude of facts, by a variety of more knowledgeable people than yourself, that contradict the very wrong (and very odd) claims that you've made?

BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ONES GOING ROUND CLAIMING TO BE MORALLY RIGHT!!

Yet again: do you actually believe these statements, or do you just hope that no one will argue against you? You DO realize that these people shout "Allah akbar" as the planes slam into the buildings, right? And the same when they behead people? And claim

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Printable version of the story from Canada

According to recent Australian court deciesions, the jursidiction is where content is read, not where it is published.

See Article Here
And Here


Furthermore, these are people known to be sharing content that is copyrighted. If I own a shopping center and I allow a store to rent space and distribute illegally copied materials, AND I am aware of it--then yes, I think I should do something.

I agree that there are many battles to fight against the MPAA and the RIAA, especially with the overly broad DMCA. But this isn't one of them.
And no, the way to fight them is not to distribute material illegally.