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  1. Re:Moisture Vaporators! on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 2

    why? What the fuck makes getting out more valuable? cause YOU like it?

  2. Re:Common Uncle Owen!! on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1
  3. Re:"up to 1,000 liters of water per day"? on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    PILFs?

  4. Re:"up to 1,000 liters of water per day"? on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    I get how friggin huge the earth is, I also get how much energy humans consume.

    I also gte how importand micro environments can be.

    I'm not saying don't do this,, but there will be an impact of some sort.
    What happens when you have 1000 of these? How would that million liters a day been used otherwise?

    It's important to keep an eye on secondary effects, while building out.

  5. Re:see also on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 1

    So this is a fully operation moisture evaporator?

  6. Re:What it really means: on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why? Are you so emotionally tied up into a belief pattern that it actually bothers you to look at data and come to the same conclusion as Apple?

    Maybe you should reflect on that.

  7. Re:What it really means: on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 2

    history would indicate they aren't.

    They may be skewing, but every time Greenpeace opens their mouth for the last 2 decades, they have been wrong.

  8. Re:Excellent... on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    no, it's not huge. that's a kw in 80 or so hours.

  9. Re:Google's response on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    So we take Greenpeace non-verified numbers at face value?

    No.

    In fact, Apple has a history of being far more honest the Greenpeace. So I'll take Apples word for it until actual proof is presented.

  10. Re:Greenpeace on slashdot on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    PR. People haven't realized that Greenpeace is now full of liars. So when they here Greenpeace says Apple is "bad" it becomes a PR issue with Apple.

    Apple makes the greenest computers at of pretty much all home computers. Has for a very long while. The Greenpeace comes along and Says apple is the worst.
    Why did they say that? because Apple kept the efforts for cleaner system to them selves and Greenpeace equated not publishing your manufacturing plans with being a bad polluter.
    SO the PR caused Apple to change policy.

    So yes, a company can bully someone who makes more money.

    If the media would stop giving the yahoos the time of day, then they wouldn't be able to bully anyone.

    It has nothing to do with congress.

  11. Yep on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 2

    Greenpeace hasn't been trustworthy for over 2 decades. They lie, bully and extort.

  12. Re:Not about copyright on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Why won't you people bother to understand WTF you are talking about?

    If I stacked rocks while miming a tragic death to music, then yes I could copyright that performance. If some else stacks rocked while on fire, then that would be a different performance.

    The article sums up copyright nicely:

    A fundamental principle of copyright law is that copyright covers the expression of ideas but not the ideas themselves.

    I could do the same cutting trick with a different performance and that would be fine.

  13. Re:Teller *does* speak frequently.... on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    I know, right? This underline how hard it is for people to divorce performance from reality.

  14. Re:Seen this trick before on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Funny, when I did magic the magician called them tricks.

  15. Re:Very sad on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Nope, it
    s pretty clear it falls under copytright.

    A fundamental principle of copyright law is that copyright covers the expression of ideas but not the ideas themselves.
    Dance, and pantomime, and other performances are expression of ideas.

    It is not about the technical aspect of the rose falling apart, it is about the performance in doing so.

    If the other magician talked and wore a sad clown face while playing tragic music of a love lost as the rose comes apart, it would be fine.

    And that would be kind of awesome. hmm Maybe I should get back into magic and do that.

  16. Re:Bullshit. on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    If it was* true that you are a fan, you would have had the courtesy to read the article toi find out what it's about.

    Hint: it's not what you think it is.

    *were true???

  17. Re:If he manages - you know what the next stage is on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 0

    See sig.

    That said, the copyright, not patent, is on the performance of the trick, not the mechanics behind it.

  18. Re:Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 4, Informative

    It would only be a douche move if he went strait to lawyers. He has tried being polite. So now he is using the last recourse, the courts.

    That said, I have to agree with the article in that it will depends on how close it resembles tellers performance of the trick.

    If it is simple a guy making a rose fall apart while cutting a shadow, then teller will probably loose. If the performance of the trick is the same, teller may win.

  19. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 2

    they don't finger fuck anyone, and you look like an ass for making it up. Stop It, You Are Not Helping.
    You are making people that need to be involved think people who are against are crazy assholes. You do not win support that way, and no matter how right you may be , without support nothing changes.

  20. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you have to that far out to the extreme to make your point, you don't have on.

    But lets use you stupid inane example to work, shall we?

    There are laws against disturbing the peace. You can the authority and get it taken care of.

    Telemarketing isn't illegal. So put you number on the don not call list and use the law when someone violates it.
    Going after the person dialing from a list of member in front of him is worthless and mean. Going after the company the hires him and gives him the list is the way to handle it.

    TSA has a place. They've gone to far, but the certainly have a place.

    Please stop calling yourself the destroyer of woo until you learn how to argue. Those of us that actually fight for rational thought every day don't need assholes like you involved.

  21. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There job is not to annoy you. Their job happens to annoy you.

    What kind of self centered prick doesn't realize that different things annoy different people?

    Well, at leas on your death bed you can thinking of all that time you told off a person barely eeking a living doing a crap job for less then min. wage.

    Well done.

  22. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    Of course, he set up the camps, determined the best ways to find Jewish people, and was the conductor behind that particular maleficent orchestra.

    So that's may be why 'following orders' fell on deaf ears.

  23. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    You're cousin isn't clever, he's a prick who doesn't have the ability to understand different people may be in different situation.
    He is possible a social path.

  24. Re:This man is a hero. on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Marry a person you can be honest with. Whether or not they are a bitch is irrelevant. If you are honest, she will be a bitch on your side.

  25. Re:This man is a hero. on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 0

    It's a huge statement when I do it~