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Technology was debunked New Scientist 19 Jan 1984
Read the article about out the same scam artist here.
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Utopia!
What kind of Utopia do you live in? Two choices!
Where I am from you can have either Bell or Rogers. Choose one. Both offer exact same packages.
I know there is a kang and kodos joke in here someplace...
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Usefulness of losing a hand
I never really got the drive behind smart watches. If you want time, you get a $9.99 Walmart special. If you want some bling that also tells time, spend more.
I do not see how they intend to make a watch that could provide much more function that a calculator watch.
You can only use one hand to operate it, unless you have very dextrous wrists.
The display should be readable from about 12"-16" away so you don't have to hold it up in front of your nose to read it.
Even if it could display a whole tweet, you still need to pull out your phone to respond, re-tweet, etc.
You need to have your phone with you anyway, unless it is 100% stand alone AND small enough.The iWatch idea with a lot of biometrics is a much better fit, with wider applications. Nursing homes could strap one to every guest and track vitals, monitor for other health risks and provide basic location reporting. Marathon runners would love a better / lighter tracker / pedometer that also tracks vitals and pace statistics.
I did own a calculator watch, it was handy but could not do much more than the basics. A full blown scientific calculation would be better, but again, size / weight is an issue.
Never mind what happens the first time someone dies / kills while playing with it behind the wheel. Look at phones and driving, major problem for some and law enforcement hammered it down pretty fast. Wait until its a 'watch' that can play movies/text/e-mail.
If anyone out there has a viable function for a device like this I would love to hear it, so far, no one I have talked to has come up with more that the MSP430 for pressing 'next' on slideshows.
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Hasbro My3D
Here you go: Hasbro My3D
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Re:Now I Know...
Over 20,000 results say differently.
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Re:But Terrizm!
the only explanation that makes sense to me is okham's racer
Congratulations you are the first person ever to have misspelt Occam's Razor Okham's racer.
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Re:Users will be "Printer Trash"
Sorry. I wasn't voicing my opinion about "trailer" homes, just stating that a cultural stigma exists.
Writing about the people around his hometown of Winchester, Va, Joe Bageant described the whole pyramid of mobile, manufactured, modular, etc and the relative esteem each is held in. It's around these pages:
http://books.google.ca/books?i...
I'm glad for your situation, but it doesn't affect the current norms of value for appearance unless it becomes more common. It's not just about how you value something; it's how brave you want to be about others opinions about it. Clothing is held to the strongest rules. Sweat pants and shirt are more comfortable and much cheaper than a suit, but what do you have to wear to the job interview? (Dr. Robert Frank's example.)
Because of other's opinions, people choosing non-manufactured houses aren't just misplacing values, they're counting on getting the added expense back at sale time, because of other's valuations of it. A lot of early manufactured homes had shorter lifespans and the perception they won't resell well continues. I'm all for the industry, but it still has a climb ahead of it.
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Re:Waiting since the '90's
My father's been involved in alternative energy research since the 70's, I'm pretty sure I heard about regenerative braking with flywheels in the early 80s. (This is what happens when you're related to mad scientists whose idea of fun involves steam engines, solar panels and ocean thermal energy, preferably at the same time...)
Here's a patent filed in 81 and granted in 85.
This stuff is like clothing fashions, just wait long enough and they'll all come back, hopefully with the patents expired.
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Re:Did Fluke request this?
Do a search for "Yellow Multimeter" on Google, then go to Google images and scroll down.
There is probable a dozen different brands of multimeters with a yellow contour and grey main face plate. Its probably the most popular color scheme for multimeters.
IMO, that patent should be quashed.
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Blame Canada
maybe its the weed up here
Ideal https://www.google.ca/search?q...
Fluke https://www.google.ca/search?q...
ideal clamp meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
fluke clmap meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
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Blame Canada
maybe its the weed up here
Ideal https://www.google.ca/search?q...
Fluke https://www.google.ca/search?q...
ideal clamp meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
fluke clmap meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
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Blame Canada
maybe its the weed up here
Ideal https://www.google.ca/search?q...
Fluke https://www.google.ca/search?q...
ideal clamp meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
fluke clmap meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
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Blame Canada
maybe its the weed up here
Ideal https://www.google.ca/search?q...
Fluke https://www.google.ca/search?q...
ideal clamp meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
fluke clmap meter https://www.google.ca/search?q...
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Re:Word processing?!
Try Google. I think the first hit is what the OP meant.
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Re:Very Sober
Perhaps I'm missing something, but a quick glance at the Google Scholar search results for Kurzweil don't show a whole lot of research from him. I do see a lot of books, articles and fluff, but that's not being active to me.
Compare, as another poster said, to Peter Norvig, who has his own Scholar page and the difference is rather striking. -
Re:Very Sober
Perhaps I'm missing something, but a quick glance at the Google Scholar search results for Kurzweil don't show a whole lot of research from him. I do see a lot of books, articles and fluff, but that's not being active to me.
Compare, as another poster said, to Peter Norvig, who has his own Scholar page and the difference is rather striking. -
Google did this back on April 1 of 2007
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.
Installing TiSP
Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process -- provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully.
#1 Remove the spindle of fiber-optic cable from your TiSP installation kit.
#2 Attach the sinker to the loose end of the cable, take one safe step backward and drop this weighted end into your toilet.
#3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes.
#4 When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least should) have largely unraveled, exposing a connector at the remaining end. Detach the cable from the spindle, taking care not to allow the cable to slip into the toilet.
#5 Plug the fiber-optic cable into your TiSP wireless router, which has a specially designed counterweight to withstand the centripetal force of flushing.
#6 Insert the TiSP installation CD and run the setup utility to install the Google Toolbar (required) and the rest of the TiSP software, which will automatically configure your computer's network settings.
#7 Within sixty minutes -- assuming proper data flow -- the other end of your fiber-optic cable should have reached the nearest TiSP Access Node, where our Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into our global data networking system.
#8 Congratulations, you're online! (Please wash your hands before surfing.)
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Re:Romans
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Re:only 6%?
I like how you ignores the fact that under his plans everything has improved. deficit? better. Market? healthier. Jobs? unemployment continues to decline.
Clearly, this pure nonsense. The only reason this President (who is criminal in such obvious, brazen and obnoxious way) has not been impeached is that given a history of past racism, impeaching the first black President would be unthinkable. He has carte blanche to commit crimes and he is charging it to the fullest. Hopefully, the country can still survive after he is done. Because, believe you me, immigration is a pretty damn hard undertaking.
It would help if people remembered that the economic crash, and massive government debt load was caused by conservative thinking and a useless war.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment steadily declined from 6.3% in June 2003 to 4.4% in May 2007..
Between May 2007, and the end of Bush's term in December 2008 unemployment steadily rose to 7.8%, an increase of 2.9%.
That trend continued until October 2009 where it peaked at 10%.
So yes, in the first 9 or 10 months of Obamas administration unemployment rose 2.7%. However a steady decline in unemployment then began, declining from a peak of 10% in October 2009 to the current 6.7%, 1.1% lower than when he took office.
In otherwords the situation began to improve within 10 months of Obama taking office.
So we see a net increase in unemployment under Bush from 4.1% When he took office in January 2001, to 7.8% when he left, an increase of 3.7%.
Again, under Bush an increase of 3.7%, under Obama a decrease of 1.1% DESPITE the financial crisis caused by his predecessor.
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Re:Is this guy living in realiaty
I have to spend 2 hr's getting down town to a switch site today. I will be doing this for over a week and its a waste. I am even using public transit as driving here would take even longer.
I call complete BS on it taking longer than 2 hours to drive into the city unless you live more than 100km away. Right now at 1:45 PM Google maps shows that in current traffic you can drive from Bracebridge (184km away) in 2 hours 4 min. I use Google maps almost exclusively when driving because it does a better job of local traffic than my TomTom GPS.
If you're in that 100km+ zone, like Barrie (cottage country), then making your way in by train will take 2+ hours. If you are in the 70km zone then it will take 1h 10min by train. -
Re:Yes.
You're all the old man yelling at the kid to "get offa my yard"
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Re:delay lines
In my post above:
... wouldn't take long ...Fingers too fast, or delay line from the Chomskian trace badly programmed.
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Re:What is an "AIDS denialist"?
Sure there are people who have other hypotheses but they have been refuted by research.
Duesberg claims have been refuted..
Rasnick's never actually researched AIDS and has made false claims of University affiliation.
Farmer wrote a book to refute the claim that AIDS came from Haiti.
Mullis has also done no actual research into HIV/AIDS. He is also a molecular biologist and infectious diseases is outside his area of expertise.Without any opinion at all on which side is right about the disease,
Have you looked at the Durban Declaration?
The declaration has been signed by over 5,000 people, including Nobel prizewinners, directors of leading research institutions, scientific academies and medical societies, notably the US National Academy of Sciences, the US Institute of Medicine, Max Planck institutes, the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Royal Society of London, the AIDS Society of India and the National Institute of Virology in South Africa. In addition, thousands of individual scientists and doctors have signed, including many from the countries bearing the greatest burden of the epidemic. Signatories are of MD, PhD level or equivalent, although scientists working for commercial companies were asked not to sign
That seems to be a fairly strong and widespread opinion.
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Re:Paul Krugman, 1998
Yeah, that and everything else. The guy is a gigantic fraud / propagandist for the power establishment, he has nothing to do with economics, he is a justifier in chief for the money printing elite, that are the actual reason that the economy is dying and as such, it can afford fewer and fewer choices in the market and that is what leads to acquisition and consolidation.
Now, obviously the government created and protects a number of gigantic monopolies / oligopolies, including telecommunications in the USA, this started with the destruction of 3000 competitors to AT&T 100 years back, but this does not mean that people should want more of the same 'solution' that actually created all of these problems in the first place. I could say that Krugman and his ilk are insane, that's their eternal position: government introduces a "solution", which makes things worse, so let's have more government "solutions".
Comcast and Time Warner acquisition is going to happen and if it does not, there will be a bankruptcy and liquidation somewhere there. The same thing happened to Blockbuster as an example, the company had plans to save its business by acquiring rival Hollywood Videos, but FTC prevented that from happening, so the company eventually died. I am not saying with certainty that Blockbuster would not have died if the acquisition went through, but it cannot be known now. What can be known is that the company tried to stay in business and it died, but not before government prevented it from trying to change its business model.
The USA market is shrinking, USA is unproductive, US dollars are fake, Krugman is a huge part of the propaganda that justified destruction of the value of the US dollar and US bonds. To listen to Krugman on any matters at all is insanity.
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Re:Liable *of not acting upon obvious infringement
Respectfully sir, I don't have to. The fact that the name of the file given is infringing is not enough and the fact that the site is a torrent site. Even if there was a hash "identifying" the file, that is not 100% accurate, although it may be given a very strong indication of. I said "a site", not "the site", which is what the court will be determining, whether "a" site should be suspended due to a copyright holder's evaluation of "a" site and/or file. Like other commenters have mentioned, the burden placed on "a" site to manually check whether a file follows a certain copyright or not is expensive for "all" sites and is overy onerous. The solution is to go after the site itself, not the "linker" to the site. Perhaps there is an automated way to identifying a song, or perhaps. not "A" file on a site could be arbitrarily long and you could change just a few bits of a file and it would be different. You cannot decide with reasonable certainty right now without some algorithm or machine learning that uses incredible amounts of computing power to identify a file. BTW the industry is working tirelessly on this problem, and Google just received a patent on identifying objects in a file, so we are a step away from actually impersonating a person to see if a file resembles another file and that is the only way.
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Some Of Us Already Know What Happened!
Highly recommenced a pretty cool movie based on the same story: Devil's Pass. Netflix has it, plus the other usual places.
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Re:The basics...
This is a self inflicted problem. The people wanted tress and shrubs to be the only thing above ground, so they made this rule and it bit them.
The only solution is fiber into streetlights with WiFi on the lights. Each light will serve 6-10 houses? and with the latest WiFi might give acceptable BW, since there are that many frequencies in each one, sort of like cell tower service.
Or they could use internet via water pipes
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Re:This isn't helping...
I've never heard of the daily caller. So I popped some search terms into Google just to see. There are many sites calling it a troll.
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LMGTFY
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Re:no
Yes, all things we buy are metered. From their listed costs per cabinet, it appears they bought current gear, and current gear is upgradeable via slide in replacement trays.A cursory search shows plenty of competitions. A small co-op would need advice, or they might get suckered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer
https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr&ei=gYbcUvnGHIbhyQGO7oAg#q=DSL++cabinet+provisioning+
http://www.zhone.com/products/MALC/
ftp://ftp.zyxel.nl/SAM1316-22/datasheet/SAM1316-22_4.pdf
http://www.ecitele.com/OurOffering/Products/Pages/DSL-Voice-Access.aspx
Yes, real tangible things. Not data.
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Re:no
Yes, all things we buy are metered.
From their listed costs per cabinet, it appears they bought current gear, and current gear is upgradeable via slide in replacement trays.A cursory search shows plenty of competitions. A small co-op would need advice, or they might get suckered.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer
https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr&ei=gYbcUvnGHIbhyQGO7oAg#q=DSL++cabinet+provisioning+
http://www.zhone.com/products/MALC/
ftp://ftp.zyxel.nl/SAM1316-22/datasheet/SAM1316-22_4.pdf
http://www.ecitele.com/OurOffering/Products/Pages/DSL-Voice-Access.aspx
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Re:Took them long enough...
Except all the statistically reliable and valid studies on the subject cannot find any medium correlation between gun availability and suicide rate. The vast majority don't even find a weak correlation.
Really? Every study I've seen suggests that the correlation between gun availability and suicides is fairly incontrovertible
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Re:Global warming.
It's actually called Ampholpological Global Warming.
3 words to understand.
Ampholpological - human induced (due to CO2, methane, etc.)
Global - global, as in "The Earth as whole", not your backyard
Warming - as in heating upSo, human induced warming of the earth's average temperature. Simple, eh?
It doesn't say that climate will change, but heating the planet likely will change it. It doesn't say weather extremes will happen. It doesn't say there will not be ice in Antactica in December of 2014 or 2020. It says the planet is warming.
Now, if you want to look how your current weather looks in terms of global averages, just look.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-percentile-mntp/201311.gif
so if you live in eastern US, you are probably colder than normal. But if you live almost everywhere else in the world, it is kind of warm. For example, look at Moscow. In 1942, Hitler was defeated near Moscow and weather played an important part. It was very cold and usually it was very cold in Russia in winter. This year? -4C (or +25F).
https://www.google.ca/#q=moscow+weather
So now you can look up weather in plenty of places with internet and verify that NOAA is not lying to you about AGW.
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Re:What?
They hold a couple of patents and published three papers (the rest in the list is references on their approach to fusion).
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Re:before anybody pops pills
But that's not really what matters for obesity - it's fat accumulation. Not only does a calorie need to be digested, it has to be stored as fat.
Or it has to be consumed as energy or excreted. I'm not saying it's a hugely useful guide for weight loss (though it works for some) but I don't see why you're arguing the concept.
That's not true at all. Insulin resistance was inferred, not measured, and differential insulin resistance (the key factor with the insulin hypothesis of obesity) wasn't even considered.
This article noting the 10-20% of MHO's just popped up in my RSS feed in the time since I last posted. If you really want to get an answer from an expert try posting there (though don't expect a long exchange).
Of course not. He was just the first one to make the definitive survey of the literature and history and publish his investigation. The townspeople who thought the castle was the tavern they were just drinking at were too drunk to see straight
:)You never did read his book, did you?
:) Borrow it from a library if you're worried about lining his pockets, but please, understand that Taubes isn't simply pointing at an old tavern and calling it a castle, he's showing that the emperor has no clothes.Gary Taubes is not a researcher, he's a reporter who had an idea then, went cherry picking for evidence to support his idea, then wrote a really book about it, which he could do because he's a reporter and a very good writer.
He did NOT "make the definitive survey of the literature and history" books by reporters with no formal training in a field rarely produce high quality scientific work, that's not being elitist that just common sense in understanding the strength and weaknesses of people with different backgrounds. If you want actual reviews on insulin and obesity look here. I can't find one that addresses Taubes directly, most likely because it's a question they answer in undergrad and don't find it worthwhile to ask.
You've basically got two possible scenarios. 1) A science reporter heard about low-carb diets (which ARE supported in literature), got an idea about how they worked from his basic understanding of how insulin works, became convinced it was true, then went looking for evidence to prove it and write a compelling but mislead book.
or 2) For decades thousands of fulltime researchers have got everything wrong and have been missing an answer so obvious that a reporter essentially proved it at a glance.Note that Taubes' book is NOT an investigation because an investigation implies you're looking for the answer. When Taubes wrote his book he'd already decided on his insulin mechanism years ago. Taubes' book is a summarization of the evidence for his theories, which is fine, except I don't believe he started his investigation with an open mind.
Also note I've pointed out Taubes' history of attacking straw men, misrepresenting evidence, and ignoring hugely inconvenient pieces of data like Asia. These are not the qualities of someone looking for the truth and if you launch into a investigation with that kind of confirmation bias you'll almost certainly be wrong.
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Re:And, Folks, stay tuned..
Your unitary algebra is totally fucked.
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Re:How hard is it?
My biggest gripe are the small AC to DC wall warts. Try as they might with different orientations of their bulbus shapes, they always take up to much room on my power strips
There are many power strips available to get around that problem.
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Re:Good news for all us have-nots!!!
SPY (big-ass S&P 500 index ETF; click the "10y" link in the graph). The index went up 73.7% over the past 10 years and it pays about a 1.9% dividend. That's 5.7% per year compounded on the index alone plus another 1.9% dividend = 7.6% per year return over the past 10 years.
Even better, a NASDAQ ETF QQQ has returned 152% over the past 10 years with a dividend of 1.2%. This is 9.7% on the index plus 1.2% giving a total compounded annual return of 10.8%! But don't worry, you're totally brilliant for staying out of all of this.
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Re:Good news for all us have-nots!!!
SPY (big-ass S&P 500 index ETF; click the "10y" link in the graph). The index went up 73.7% over the past 10 years and it pays about a 1.9% dividend. That's 5.7% per year compounded on the index alone plus another 1.9% dividend = 7.6% per year return over the past 10 years.
Even better, a NASDAQ ETF QQQ has returned 152% over the past 10 years with a dividend of 1.2%. This is 9.7% on the index plus 1.2% giving a total compounded annual return of 10.8%! But don't worry, you're totally brilliant for staying out of all of this.
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Re:The public Internet is NOT a government project
3000 telecommunication companies were destroyed by the USA government to provide a monopoly to AT&T.
The free market invented the telegraph, the phone, the radio, the TV. The Internet did not absolutely need TCP/IP, other protocols would come on line, telecommunications with computers is a logical step to other forms of communications and was inevitable.
You like to point at some specific government programs that ended up being useful but how much money and other resources is wasted by government on things that never work out and only reduce total economic viability?
Well, this is no longer very important, at least not in the USA. Chinese just decided they will no longer buy USA Treasuries and no American media reports on this. Guess what, you can't avoid the reality even if you don't want to acknowledge it.
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Re:Gov't in infrastructure
read and weep, you are only 100% wrong and you just bathe in your ignorance. The ONLY reason AT&T was a monopoly for all this time was because gov't gave it that power and destroyed 3000 of its competitors.
If you have 1% of integrity left, you'll reply with an apology for being an ignorant fuck while being so sure of yourself.
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Re:I got burned by the font rendering bug last tim
I guess Linux has never and never will have any security exploits possible against it. So yeah, good luck with that. And to anyone else who thinks using Linux online is the end all and be all for security. No system is safe.
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The Ruling
Here is the actual rulling rather than a paraphrased version. The important bit follows;
In assessing this question, the Court assessed four key issues. First, the context of the posts. The comments had been insulting, threatening and defamatory. Given the nature of the article, the company should have expected offensive posts, and exercised an extra degree of caution so as to avoid being held liable for damage to an individual’s reputation.
Second, the steps taken by Delfi to prevent the publication of defamatory comments. The article’s webpage did state that the authors of comments would be liable for their content, and that threatening or insulting comments were not allowed. The webpage also automatically deleted posts that contained a series of vulgar words, and users could tell administrators about offensive comments by clicking a single button, which would then lead to the posts being removed. However, the warnings failed to prevent a large number of insulting comments from being made, and they were not removed in good time by the automatic-word filtering or by the notice-and-take-down notification system.
Third, whether the actual authors of the comments could have been made liable for them. The owner of the ferry company could, in principle, have attempted to sue the specific authors of the offensive posts rather than Delfi. However, the identity of the authors would have been extremely difficult to establish, as readers were allowed to make comments without registering their names. Therefore many of the posts were anonymous. Making Delfi legally responsible for the comments was therefore practical; but it was also reasonable, because the news portal received commercial benefit from comments being made.
Finally, the court addressed the consequences of Delfi being made liable. The sanctions imposed by the Estonian courts against the company had been fairly small. Delfi was required to pay a EUR 320 fine, and the courts did not make any orders about how the portal should protect third party rights in the future in a way that might limit free speech.
Taking into account all of these points, the Court held that making Delfi liable for the comments was a justified and proportionate interference with its right to freedom of expression. There had therefore been no violation of Article 10. -
Re:A GOOD LANDING !!
The proverb among pilots is "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing".
Professional pilots obviously hold themselves to a higher standard than that, but for a first-time flyer that landing met the requirements completely.
The quote is extended among pilots to "and a great landing is where you can use the plane again".
That said, the aeronautical term for this is called a Pinch-Hitter (taken from baseball). Google brings up many courses (online and off), videos, articles etc of being a pinch-hitter pilot. You'll find most are for small GA aircraft where single pilot operations are common.
If you are a pilot, there are plenty of resources to which you can print out to help your passengers in the unlikely event they need to take over - these sheets include instructions on how to radio for help (basically, how to use the radio) and what to radio for help on. Your passenger briefing that you do before starting up should include instructions on how to work the radio as well.
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Re:Why Switzerland ?
That's ridiculous. Why would the French army go to the pains of crossing the alps and trying to invade a country that has atomic shelters everywhere
Geneva would be a cinch to snap up. It's in low-lying lands, and France can invade it from the northwest, south, west, east. All French territory.
Of course, they would have to contend with the fearsome Swiss Navy on Lake Geneva. I hear they have some fearsome, multipurpose cutlery they could bring to bear.
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Re:At least it's a business plan
Well, you're not incorrect technically, but haven't you wondered why everyone is so afraid of buying them?
Blackberry's assets are far beyond their current $4.5 billion market cap, so technically if you sold all their pieces you'd get more than what you'd pay in stock for the company.
The reason nobody is buying them is because they are losing $1 billion per quarter, and it would cost almost $2 billion to shutdown the hardware manufacturing unit. So let's say you pay $5 billion for the company, and you sell off all the assets (but you'll be at least another 2 quarters in by then), so now you've got another 2 quarters of $1 bln losses, and you've gotta shut down the manufacturing unit, and find buyers for the rest (assuming you want to sell). The deal isn't looking so great now, and it's got a lot of overhead (the Canadian gov't who is protecting them rather fiercely).
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Re:Amended quote
That's actually three words. https://www.google.ca/#q=%22an+acronym+is+not+a+word%22
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Re:"cargo" "cult", yeah.
Reminds me of the Bokonon from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. I had to look up John Frum, but he did sound familiar to me. Thank you for refreshing my memory.
Bokonon if you are interested:
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBokononism&ei=IBwVUpmYOtLE2QWCzICwDQ&usg=AFQjCNE1JyC-V7bAsTC-cRr-VUk8UW3nuQ&bvm=bv.50952593,d.b2I -
Re:Sugar
In this documentary, the doctor explain HOW sugar is processed differently than HFCS.
HFCS *FORCES* the liver to create fat.
Now HFCS is linked to Liver damage.
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Re:There are no NIMBYs in space...
What security concerns? Terrorism? You mean that thing that in the USA kills less people than farm animals?
Agreed, however some people will forgot the millions of safe trips and remember the bombs in Madrid in 2004 as well as the recent derailment that demonstratred so nicely what happens when you go around a curve at twice it's rated speed.
Pipelines can also be attacked, and would actually be a better target. Look at what bursting a pipeline did just recently in the news.
On the other hand, look what a train full of oil just did in Quebec.