The key to trademark infringement is brand confusion in the minds of typical consumers. If it can be shown that my Team O'Geeks is not confused with Geek Squad, there is no damage to pursue.
All electric grids produce power that is not consumed off-peak. That is because most power generation cannot be easily cycled up and down (turned on and off) as load changes. Grids peak during the day, so capacity is designed accordingly. That means excess at night. There is NOTHING about the 'smart grid' that can reduce that waste.
5 is the stage where the lower class is no longer needed, which creates instability and unrest, which leads to revolution, which kills all the smarties, redistributes the wealth, back to Stage 3.
It's quite the other way. Apple gets 30% of what runs through their channel. What Apple gave the record companies was a means to continue fixing prices.
In other news GE has sold their buggy whip division...
Why do so many people defend the free market in a case where the free market is not responsible? This is a result of forces that the argument you're making is specifically against.
GE wanted to shut down american ligth bulb plants so they can sell light bulbs with higher prices and higher margins made overseas. GE lobbies in favor of energy savings. Legislature outlaws light bulbs. GE complies with the laws and laughs all the way to the bank.
Are these the competitive forces you're looking for?
Most utilities are not run by the government but by private companies....make any case at all for privatizing them in your view?
Most utilities are regulated. Those that are regulated provider cheaper power than their unregulated counterparts because their prices are based on average cost rather than marginal cost. The states that deregulated their power generation now have higher electric rates. This American belief that unchecked competition automatically produces cheaper products simply isn't true, especially with infrastructure.
It has nothing to do with subsidies; it has to do with regulated business delivering service at cost + 10% profit rather than at market price. Properly regulated utilities produce cheaper products than their unregulated ('competitive') counterparts.
These results remind me of studies that showed correlation of academic performance with the presence and quantity of books in the home. The spurious conclusion was that more books would yield better grades.
The unfortunate truth is that the best predictor of your academic performance (statistically speaking, so dealing with large numbers and exceptions) is the academic performance your parents. Why? Smart parents are more likely to have smart kids. The converse is also true (as unpalatable as that may be).
The computer will not, cannot make you smarter, just as with books.
Nope. This has flim-flam written all over it.
Solar is a subsidized word. Electric trains are great, but if we build them, their source will be nuclear.
Windmills use the wind in your area. Solar panels use the sunlight from your roof. This is also true for geothermal, ocean-wave, and bio-fueled energy. All can be generated locally, with local resources.
Only oil and nuclear have limited supply.
All energy sources have finite supply.
There is finite land, coastline and tappable geothermal.
Ideally, an ISP would be like a utility company. Pay a metered rate and the ISP moves data in the quickest and most efficient way possible. This really is the answer. For natural monopolies, the best solution is regulation that forces service delivery at or near average cost.
Up to now, media content delivery systems were deemed entertain and excluded from the regulation of the major telecoms. This definition must change. Internet access is now an essential service and must be regulated to ensure adequate delivery.
This is far too reasonable and rational to have been posted anonymously. We must conclude, therefore, that you have an evil intent, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is...
Are you bored with IT, or are you bored with your place in IT?
Every time I get bored, I ask for something new an more money. If I don't get it, I find a new employer.
Get new skills, add more value, eat better, get your ass to the gym (if applicable), demand a better life, and you'll be surprised how much better it can get.
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More and more people are passing that point where everything on Facebook is indistinguishable from crap.
The key to trademark infringement is brand confusion in the minds of typical consumers. If it can be shown that my Team O'Geeks is not confused with Geek Squad, there is no damage to pursue.
Can't we just build nuclear plants? They're awesome. They'll provide cheap power for our kids and grandkids to enjoy.
All electric grids produce power that is not consumed off-peak. That is because most power generation cannot be easily cycled up and down (turned on and off) as load changes. Grids peak during the day, so capacity is designed accordingly. That means excess at night. There is NOTHING about the 'smart grid' that can reduce that waste.
5 is the stage where the lower class is no longer needed, which creates instability and unrest, which leads to revolution, which kills all the smarties, redistributes the wealth, back to Stage 3.
It's quite the other way. Apple gets 30% of what runs through their channel. What Apple gave the record companies was a means to continue fixing prices.
In 1998, L0phtCrack showed this to us on out pentiums, and we protected against it by changing the default hash to NTLMv2.
That read so much like "there's a car that runs on water, but the government banned it" that I assumed you were kidding. Boy was I surprised.
In other news GE has sold their buggy whip division...
Why do so many people defend the free market in a case where the free market is not responsible? This is a result of forces that the argument you're making is specifically against.
GE wanted to shut down american ligth bulb plants so they can sell light bulbs with higher prices and higher margins made overseas. GE lobbies in favor of energy savings. Legislature outlaws light bulbs. GE complies with the laws and laughs all the way to the bank.
Are these the competitive forces you're looking for?
Most utilities are not run by the government but by private companies....make any case at all for privatizing them in your view?
Most utilities are regulated. Those that are regulated provider cheaper power than their unregulated counterparts because their prices are based on average cost rather than marginal cost. The states that deregulated their power generation now have higher electric rates. This American belief that unchecked competition automatically produces cheaper products simply isn't true, especially with infrastructure.
It has nothing to do with subsidies; it has to do with regulated business delivering service at cost + 10% profit rather than at market price. Properly regulated utilities produce cheaper products than their unregulated ('competitive') counterparts.
Yet occasionally you still get a guy who manages to connect things that can't be and BOOM.
The unfortunate truth is that the best predictor of your academic performance (statistically speaking, so dealing with large numbers and exceptions) is the academic performance your parents. Why? Smart parents are more likely to have smart kids. The converse is also true (as unpalatable as that may be).
The computer will not, cannot make you smarter, just as with books.
like reason, conscience, morality and guilt
People avoid all four of these; none is as important as consequence. That is what is truly missing.
Nope. This has flim-flam written all over it. Solar is a subsidized word. Electric trains are great, but if we build them, their source will be nuclear.
Five eights is good enough for most people.
Windmills use the wind in your area. Solar panels use the sunlight from your roof. This is also true for geothermal, ocean-wave, and bio-fueled energy. All can be generated locally, with local resources.
Only oil and nuclear have limited supply.
All energy sources have finite supply.
There is finite land, coastline and tappable geothermal.
This is all about the free TERABYTES of video and audio available directly from your own ISP who now offers competing media services.
Surprised that it came in the guise of a 'think of the children' argument?
I sure wasn't...
Clearly there's a fine line between insightful and funny. At least today.
Viva La Revolucion!
Up to now, media content delivery systems were deemed entertain and excluded from the regulation of the major telecoms. This definition must change. Internet access is now an essential service and must be regulated to ensure adequate delivery.
This is far too reasonable and rational to have been posted anonymously. We must conclude, therefore, that you have an evil intent, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is...
Many large pharmaceutical developers spend more on marketing than they do on R&D. That makes them sound more like pushers than investors.
Every time I get bored, I ask for something new an more money. If I don't get it, I find a new employer.
Get new skills, add more value, eat better, get your ass to the gym (if applicable), demand a better life, and you'll be surprised how much better it can get.
I just scanned several for fun. Most were quite unintelligible to me, too. Next...