Well, obviously, this is an extreme case and would be bad indeed, I completely agree. I just wanted to point out that it is not a generally new thing. I gotta read the actual document when I got time, but what I got from the previously leaked drafts did not look that bad. I work in patent law, under a relatively sane patent system, and here it is mostly the other way around. If A gets hit by an injunction or sued for infringement, he can put it on hold by filing a countersuit questioning the validity of the patent the injunction is based upon, which is then put on hold until the legal status of the patent is clarified. Per analogy, SCO would not get an injunction as far reaching as in your scenario around here as long as the status of their claims is not clear. I am not completely certain how it is handled in the copyright business though. Anyway, I did not find the leaked drafts too scary, what I find absolutely abominable regarding ACTA is the utterly undemocratic way it is negotiated.
Everybody knows, eh? God, another one who swallowed Their propaganda hook, line and sinker. Listen, I keep it short, because I gotta change location soon - here is some advice: The conspiracy you read about, and especially, the conspiracy everybody knows, is not The True Conspiracy. It is propaganda planted by Them, things They want you to believe. I can't go into detail, this is not a secure line. But look at what the known conspiracies do NOT have in common. That is the path to The Truth. You can kiss your quiet life goodbye if you find out, though, maybe your life as such. Gotta go, been here too long already. THINK!
Imminent infringement clauses are nothing new, and are mostly used in the commercial realm. Say, for example, that A holds a patent on stuff X, B advertises product Y which clearly infringes on that patent. A does not need to wait until B actually starts production and therefore infringes on the patent, but can slap B with an injunction right away. Nothing new here, folks.
This could be solved by taking the profit out of it. Allow experimental treatment on informed, consenting terminal patients, but disallow taking money for that treatment. The patient gets a chance, however slim, and the pharma industry gets volunteers for tests, while there is no way for profiteering bastards to prey on the dying.
In all likelihood, the pilot didn't want to show off, but was rather urged by said politicians to attempt the landing under these conditions, so they would not face a delay. This has apparently happened before especially with Poland's president.
Exactly. I actually talked to a BMW engineer some time ago regarding the logistics of certain parts that could not be airlifted because of their chemical composition. Apparently, the logistics guys went apeshit over that, because ship freight was a concept completely foreign to them...
To be honest, the CEOs of most scientific publishing corporations need to be dragged out of their office and put up against the wall in the backyard, after expropriating them. Look at this business model:
1) Research gets done by public money. 2) Take page charges from the publicly funded researcher. 3) Let other publicly funded researches peer-review for free. 4) Put content behind paywall, overcharge the publicly funded university hugely on access. Oh, the original researcher mostly has to pay for reprints (digital reprints!) too. 5) Profit!!!!
Might be an option in that scenario. I still wonder how one could reliably counter the sandblasting effect that would erode aerodynamic features under constant use in a year-long lasting ash cloud. High-end ceramics for the leading edges of wings and prop blades?
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Given that I already had three cars totalled by some idiot rear-ending me while I was waiting at a light, I might very well go for the tank option soon. Next fucker to rear-end me gonna get ground into dust by my new tank's threads - after bouncing off the reactive armor. Eat that!;)
It is not only the airlines that are suffering - lots of industries depend on just in time shipping of parts per airfreight. The BMW production lines in Germany are shut down as of today, with 56000 workers on forced vacation. Electronic parts for new cars all get airlifted these days. BMW also can't get gear parts to their US facilities. The overall impact is quite huge indeed.
Looks interesting - if I get a few friends or colleagues together for an order of a few bottles, the costs should be negligible. I'll give it a try, thanks for the tip.
Locally produced southern German sugar beet molasses from a local factory. I hope I am on the safe side there. If I discover HFCS in that, I gonna pay said factory a visit with pitchforks and torches...
You're doomed.... Sorry, I didn't take into consideration that they would put that stuff into Worcestershire sauce. I live in Europe myself, so I did not expect that. Throw out that corn lobby, guys, and fast.
Well, mine is made from tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic, habaneros, worcestershire sauce, vinegar, coffee, whiskey, sugar, salt and pepper. No HFCS in there. Doesn't take long to make it yourself and beats everything from the supermarket. give it a try.
One more nitpick - mammals excrete excess nitrogen in form of urea, which needs to be dissolved in a lot of water, hence the urin. Birds, on the other hand, excrete uric acid, which comes out near crystalline, with much less water.
Actually German and Icelandic are in two separate branches of the germanic language family. The indo-european derived proto-germanic split into the northern germanic and the western germanic language groups. Icelandic developed from the northern germanic family via Old Norse, while German belongs to the western germanic languages and is not a derivative of Old Norse, but developed by convergence from a mixture of western germanic languages, which are still present in the form of dialects in today's German.
Sorry mate, been a bit primed to explode by dealing with asshats all day long, so you kinda became collateral damage there. My irony receptors are burned out on some of those days...
Nice kind of thought police you are installing here... So, in the world regarding to zzsmirkzz, people ought to be shot for *believing* something. That is how you envision your "free" society? Well, go ahead, install your society somewhere where it does not bother me, I guess the periodic purges of "undesirable elements" withing that community will take care of the problem sooner or later without the need for outside intervention.
Meh, this is just the same old puritan crap all over again. Beware of pleasure! Pleasure is evil! Only this guy puts forth the secular version - pleasure shall not lead to eternal damnation, but rather to species extinction in this case. Nothing to see here.
Well, SETI tends to primarily look at frequences which are "quiet" in the cosmic radio context, yet still close to certain marker lines, like the hydrogen microwave line or the -OH line, under the assumption that everyone with an understanding of physics who would want to be heard, would use those frequency bands most likely. Given the low intensity of radio communications, it is highly unlikely to find someone who would not have specifically set up a beacon anyway, and a beacon would have to be in these frequency bands to be effective.
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Well, obviously, this is an extreme case and would be bad indeed, I completely agree. I just wanted to point out that it is not a generally new thing. I gotta read the actual document when I got time, but what I got from the previously leaked drafts did not look that bad. I work in patent law, under a relatively sane patent system, and here it is mostly the other way around. If A gets hit by an injunction or sued for infringement, he can put it on hold by filing a countersuit questioning the validity of the patent the injunction is based upon, which is then put on hold until the legal status of the patent is clarified. Per analogy, SCO would not get an injunction as far reaching as in your scenario around here as long as the status of their claims is not clear. I am not completely certain how it is handled in the copyright business though. Anyway, I did not find the leaked drafts too scary, what I find absolutely abominable regarding ACTA is the utterly undemocratic way it is negotiated.
Everybody knows, eh? God, another one who swallowed Their propaganda hook, line and sinker. Listen, I keep it short, because I gotta change location soon - here is some advice: The conspiracy you read about, and especially, the conspiracy everybody knows, is not The True Conspiracy. It is propaganda planted by Them, things They want you to believe. I can't go into detail, this is not a secure line. But look at what the known conspiracies do NOT have in common. That is the path to The Truth. You can kiss your quiet life goodbye if you find out, though, maybe your life as such. Gotta go, been here too long already. THINK!
Imminent infringement clauses are nothing new, and are mostly used in the commercial realm. Say, for example, that A holds a patent on stuff X, B advertises product Y which clearly infringes on that patent. A does not need to wait until B actually starts production and therefore infringes on the patent, but can slap B with an injunction right away. Nothing new here, folks.
This could be solved by taking the profit out of it. Allow experimental treatment on informed, consenting terminal patients, but disallow taking money for that treatment. The patient gets a chance, however slim, and the pharma industry gets volunteers for tests, while there is no way for profiteering bastards to prey on the dying.
In all likelihood, the pilot didn't want to show off, but was rather urged by said politicians to attempt the landing under these conditions, so they would not face a delay. This has apparently happened before especially with Poland's president.
Exactly. I actually talked to a BMW engineer some time ago regarding the logistics of certain parts that could not be airlifted because of their chemical composition. Apparently, the logistics guys went apeshit over that, because ship freight was a concept completely foreign to them...
If I were an American, I would, believe me. Good luck with it!
To be honest, the CEOs of most scientific publishing corporations need to be dragged out of their office and put up against the wall in the backyard, after expropriating them. Look at this business model:
1) Research gets done by public money.
2) Take page charges from the publicly funded researcher.
3) Let other publicly funded researches peer-review for free.
4) Put content behind paywall, overcharge the publicly funded university hugely on access. Oh, the original researcher mostly has to pay for reprints (digital reprints!) too.
5) Profit!!!!
I think we can safely omit the ??? step here.
Might be an option in that scenario. I still wonder how one could reliably counter the sandblasting effect that would erode aerodynamic features under constant use in a year-long lasting ash cloud. High-end ceramics for the leading edges of wings and prop blades?
Given that I already had three cars totalled by some idiot rear-ending me while I was waiting at a light, I might very well go for the tank option soon. Next fucker to rear-end me gonna get ground into dust by my new tank's threads - after bouncing off the reactive armor. Eat that! ;)
It is not only the airlines that are suffering - lots of industries depend on just in time shipping of parts per airfreight. The BMW production lines in Germany are shut down as of today, with 56000 workers on forced vacation. Electronic parts for new cars all get airlifted these days. BMW also can't get gear parts to their US facilities. The overall impact is quite huge indeed.
Looks interesting - if I get a few friends or colleagues together for an order of a few bottles, the costs should be negligible. I'll give it a try, thanks for the tip.
Locally produced southern German sugar beet molasses from a local factory. I hope I am on the safe side there. If I discover HFCS in that, I gonna pay said factory a visit with pitchforks and torches...
You're doomed.... Sorry, I didn't take into consideration that they would put that stuff into Worcestershire sauce. I live in Europe myself, so I did not expect that. Throw out that corn lobby, guys, and fast.
Well, mine is made from tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic, habaneros, worcestershire sauce, vinegar, coffee, whiskey, sugar, salt and pepper. No HFCS in there. Doesn't take long to make it yourself and beats everything from the supermarket. give it a try.
One more nitpick - mammals excrete excess nitrogen in form of urea, which needs to be dissolved in a lot of water, hence the urin. Birds, on the other hand, excrete uric acid, which comes out near crystalline, with much less water.
Are you actually threatening the *viking's descendants*? Man, you better pray they don't dust off their battle-axes and get those longboats ready...
What? Do they fly out their data packages by airplane? That would certainly explain the fleet battle lag...
Actually German and Icelandic are in two separate branches of the germanic language family. The indo-european derived proto-germanic split into the northern germanic and the western germanic language groups. Icelandic developed from the northern germanic family via Old Norse, while German belongs to the western germanic languages and is not a derivative of Old Norse, but developed by convergence from a mixture of western germanic languages, which are still present in the form of dialects in today's German.
Sorry mate, been a bit primed to explode by dealing with asshats all day long, so you kinda became collateral damage there. My irony receptors are burned out on some of those days...
If you go back to the greek roots, it should probably be "College of Chiropraxis". You shall know the quacks by their mangling of language.
Sounds uncomfortably close to the living ocean on Lem's Solaris. Did he report strange visions of his dead wife or something like that?
Nice kind of thought police you are installing here... So, in the world regarding to zzsmirkzz, people ought to be shot for *believing* something. That is how you envision your "free" society? Well, go ahead, install your society somewhere where it does not bother me, I guess the periodic purges of "undesirable elements" withing that community will take care of the problem sooner or later without the need for outside intervention.
Meh, this is just the same old puritan crap all over again. Beware of pleasure! Pleasure is evil! Only this guy puts forth the secular version - pleasure shall not lead to eternal damnation, but rather to species extinction in this case. Nothing to see here.
Well, SETI tends to primarily look at frequences which are "quiet" in the cosmic radio context, yet still close to certain marker lines, like the hydrogen microwave line or the -OH line, under the assumption that everyone with an understanding of physics who would want to be heard, would use those frequency bands most likely. Given the low intensity of radio communications, it is highly unlikely to find someone who would not have specifically set up a beacon anyway, and a beacon would have to be in these frequency bands to be effective.