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  1. Re:Awesome... on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    And maybe after you look at the date, you might want to read the patnet,. It's very short, I'm sure even you can get through it with only a few distractions.

    hell, that probaly is too much to expect, reading a page and looking at about 10 pictures, let me some up:
    Is the link you providing link to a metalic look wedge shaped object? Are the feet the same sizes? are the ratios the same? Does the lid and base tapper the same way?

    SO yes it's w wedge, everything else is fail on the design patent.

    SO,. now that you have been schooled, are you going to make an effort to understand patents? please?

    sigh, I thought not. Pope who don't make an effort to learn what is being talked about really shouldn't be allowed to participate in any way other then asking question for clarification.

  2. Re:Spartacus moment on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    I do. and if you use one of my inventions, my lawyers will crawl so far up your ass, you will be coughing up little pieces of yellow paper for a month.

  3. Re:Free rider problem solved? on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 2

    "This crap that Micky Mickey mouse is still under copyright after 84 years is bullshit."
    You might want to notice he has changed over the years, and ther eis a reason fore that.

    Yes, Copyright is too long. 14 years is fine, even 20.

    This is a design patent for a specific things. It's for laptops, with a wedge, that are brushed nickle, have their feet is a specific space, etc. They did not get a utlity patent on the wedge. It prevents confusion. Seeing how many companies are trying to copy the specific design, it prevent market confusion.

    " Copyrighting of range check code is bullshit."
    format.

    "90%+ of patents now are bullshit. "
    That's a lie.

    Yes, kill the lawyers, that way no one can defend you from anything. Twit.

  4. Re:Real science means listening to scientists on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Actually that site uses fact to show errors in common misconceptions. They are a place that posts data.

    The fact that you are a shit hole of a human being that chooses ignorance doesn't change the facts.

    And yes, if you ignore the scientists, and science consensus without strong data, and then try to influence policy with you willful ignorance, then you are a shit hole of a human being.

  5. Re:Real science means listening to scientists on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    One is a slew now?

    Consensus disagrees with that guy; who has nothing to back up his claim, except that he doesn't like it That guy isn't even a climatologist.

    One side you have mountains of data and consensus, on the other side you have someone talking outside his specialty with no data. And you chose the opinion of the guy with no data.

    Fuck. Please fucking think. I mean. look at this:

    " Accordingly, the atmosphere since 1998 - so for 10 years - [has] not warmed since 2003 and it is actually much cooler again.""

    That's a stupid statement. Since he is an educated man, I find it hard to believe he did't cherry pick that range. Cause if you extent to 11 years, there is an overall increase. And of course the trend is still rising, unfortunately.

    His point have been scientifically disproven or shown to be irrelevant.

    What next? Are you going to point to someone poor understanding of the 2nd law of thermodynamics as more 'proof'?

    Idiot.

  6. Re:Choice B it is on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    "better metrics for infant mortality,"
    no. What the US defines as infant mortality is different from Europe.
      Turns out, they're the same.

  7. Re:Choice B it is on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the great cry about ta thing the seldom happens.

  8. Re:Choice B it is on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Healthcare, free education, and beer. Now that they might start focusing on other things beside blowing up pubs, I expect great innovation to start coming from there.

  9. Re:Choice B has worked before on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Its horrible, but it still means the birth rate in controlled.

    China's growth for 2011 0.493%

    There methods of control is a separate conversation about policy.

    Just to be clear, yes, it is horrid. Lets not pollute a since conversation with emotional detractors.

  10. Re:Choice B has worked before on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Or space is big and other intelligent species hasn't gotten to all of it.

  11. Re:I thought we were warming? on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Not the argument.

    There are cycles. No one says otherwise. Then there is warming that is on top of the cycles. SO when cyclic events are what they where, say 100 years ago, the temperature does not return to the temperature it was 100 years ago.

    "It is certainly true that most places would become easier to live in if average temperature would go up "
    That is certainly NOT true.

    "like the asteroid, "
    Could some unforeseen event happen to change things? of course. Why the hell would you be that way?

    "a ~1% drop in solar output would more than cancel out global warming, "
    no it wouldn't. It might prolong the time to get the the tipping point, but it won't stop it. And of course dimming the sun has other unpleasant effect.

    You act like there is an end? there isn't a practical one for humans. Your whole point would have merit, if we stopped putting CO2 in the air, and wanted to just lower the condition until CO2 naturally lowers.

    " Or at least ... something did"
    I suspect the massive amount of money to start making it usable might have something to do with that... as well might that shifts in the weather belts around the world.

    And even if the sahara become perfectly habitable, more farm land is lost. But if we don't stop, then another couple of degree after that, we would loose this hypothetical sahara as well.

  12. Re:It's been said many times... on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    It also won't be true if education of girls and access to birth control doesn't continue to happen.

  13. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    ah yes, the hiding tech conspiracy. Thre eis always one.

    "Prime example, BP and DuPont are sitting on the tech to make Butanol, a 1:1 replacement for gasoline made from any organic material by bacteria, and rather than making the stuff in quantity, they're actually suing other companies to prevent them from doing it."

    Yes, they'r not using technology that cloud triple their revenue and be cheaper to implement, because companies hate money, and CEO hate big fucking bonuses.

    " inexpensive battery technology used in the original Honda Insight was sold to Chevron, who, you guessed it, refuses to license it."
    because they too hate money. They don't want to positin themselves, and continue to work with their company trend of migrating from just petroleum to many forms of energy.

    Of course, that's besides the point since this:
    " was sold to Chevron,"
    is a lie.

    Chevron was a partner in developing it, then they sold it to LI motive.

    Plus there patent runs out in 2 years anyways.

    You need to stop with the idiotic conspiracy theories and think.

  14. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Incorrect.

    Those living in the good life will continue to do so, taking what they need from the poorer nations. SO the will continue to have less an dles until the have nothing.

    If we keep generating are electricity from petroleum.

  15. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Why can't that energy also come from the sun? a 10Mw solar furnace should do the trick.

    " it requires more energy to manufacture the solar panels than they can generate during their lifetime"
    that's just a lie.

  16. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    wow, what crap.

    Why is doubling a concern? why doesn' he consider population density? Government environmental control police?
    Sure, it is projects we will decrease, but what is it going to be like at the peak?

    If we were an evenly distributed group among the entire planet, it would be a fine video, but we are not.

    Look at the pollution of China. How much wars doe that get with the next billion people.
    You approach wall one step at a time, but just because the only doubling is the second step, that doesn't mean you wont hit the wall.

  17. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    The poster didn't say right or wrong, only that it's the data and the science. all of which point to, very dramatically, Man Made Global warming is happening,. If we don't curb are output, dramatically, the earth will change. That's obvious. When is the tipping point? How much change make it' difficult for humans to survive?

    None of that was an opinion, it's a fact.

  18. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    A) expecting things to be consistently isn't a decision. So there isn't right or wrong in the regard.

    B) People have enormous blind spots, every day, all the time. This why critical thinking isn't a natural act. You need to be trained for it.

  19. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    but it's methods are self correcting.

  20. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    The individual of the species who doesn't care for the species as a whole should be removed.

  21. Re:Pass phrase on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    Geekoid 1:1 It is better to be happy then to boil all thing down to two equally absurd dichotomies.

  22. a simliar password then one I use on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    would take:
    Online Attack Scenario:
    (Assuming one thousand guesses per second) 14.14 million trillion centuries
    Offline Fast Attack Scenario:
    (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second) 1.41 hundred billion centuries
    Massive Cracking Array Scenario:
    (Assuming one hundred trillion guesses per second) 1.41 hundred million centuries

    same number of characters, same number and organization of numbers and letter. Just different numbers and letters.

  23. Re:How about a tax on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 1

    err.. email, not internet. Sorry.

  24. How about a tax on UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data · · Score: 1

    on business that send ads through the internet?

  25. Re:What really worked for tobacco? on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    " PSA after PSA pointing out that it would cause all sorts of horrible diseases."
    and the tax paid for those as well as many other programs.

    Yes, it's ironic that you get money from a source you want to stop, but the people in the program have always focus on the goal getting rid of smoking.

    This is one of the things government does very well. Unlike private industry that won't spend money on a program whose ultimate goal is to end a revenue source.