I suspect that the cost of defense in a small claims case may exceed any potential loss. I believe my state has a $2500 cap on small claims. There is no way to send a lawyer here and pay for travel and hotels in order to defend against a trivial case.
My fear would be in the difficulty in actually collecting the sum once victory is established. Frankly there are many times when I have good reason to file small cases but I do not as the system is so screwed up in regard to collecting judgements.
For every barrel of mud pushed down that equals one less barrel of oil spewing out of the pipe. They need to keep pumping mud until another solution is in play. If it takes a full tanker of mud every day then so be it.
There is a considerable history of computer professionals earning pretty good pay checks. The mobility of these techs is highly linked to their financial ability to move where they please. A 90K per annum computer tech is far more able to accept offers than a 30K school teacher who may actually be better educated and more able.
Since we have no real hope of population control and our ignorant world continues to reproduce like a slap happy pack of jack rabbits then we had better get used to the idea of eating weird food, synthetics etc. less we get to the point where we are forced to eat each other. Almost all of our serious problems have over population at the roots. Want less pollution then lower the population. Want less crime then lower the population. Want wildlife? Lower the human population. Want less wars? You can guess the answer. Want less disease? Lower the population.
Any reverse osmosis unit that I have ever seen requires fairly clean sea water to start the process. For example yachts need to be in open water before allowing these units to be started up. Now how will this work with BPs tons and tons of crude oil mixed into the Gulf. One good gulp of oil will foul this new idea completely.
Sadly our schools punish those who are attacked or baited with fighting words if they fight back. We need to encourage our kids to break a nose or knock out a tooth if they are hounded or pushed around and we need to insist that our schools back up those that have been wronged.
Just why would anyone connect the concept of privacy with chatting with another person. Anything that you share with another person is pretty much public information. If it is private keep it to yourself and stop trying to control the entire world that surrounds you.
But it seems to me that if a technique was already in use before another party patented it then their patent is no good and restricting other parties from using the technique might be grounds for a whopper of a law suit.
It would be unsafe to cut off car engines at stops. There are times when unusual actions must be taken to save lives. For example a bad guy walking towards your vehicle with a gun leaps to mind.
And then there are other issues. In my state really hot weather is a huge problem. Turning off a car's air conditioning system would quickly raise the car temperature to levels that would drown the occupants in sweat and leave the car so hot that it could not cool off before the next traffic signal starts the problem all over again.
And then we proceed to the cost of the electronic package and the difficulty of maintaining a more complex vehicle.
Perhaps it is past time to consider simplification of automobiles so that they can be produced and maintained for far less money and effort. For example urban vehicles might get by with a one cylinder engine and windows and manual sun roofs might account for cooling the cabin. Rolling the price back on urban vehicles might get the buying point under fifteen hundred dollars if done right.
Yes, keep in mind that Bush was in office when the plans for this oil rig were put into action. Useless anti spill measures and falsified information by BP such as hooking the wrong hydraulic rams up to shut off the flow seem to be criminal in nature. Due caution was not in play.
And now we will see which insurance companies BP had hired. Are these policies capable of paying off the damages? Dream on! Will the loss bankrupt those insurance companies and take down the banks that own the insurance companies? Are they American companies? And what if BP has to pay 300 or 400 billion out of pocket beyond their insurance policies?
My point being that many damaged parties will never get a cent. And I'm not even talking about the people who will die from cancers caused by exposure to oil in the environment.
As far as black humor goes on the one hand we have Alquiida with Ben Laden and loonies attacking us and trying to do harm for eight years. On the other hand we have BP that was only trying to make money. BP turns out to be a far more serious enemy than a pile of radical Arabs.
For many years students with education in biology really could have let some horrors lose upon the world. Thankfully those who know how tend to be stable enough not to want to pursue such negative goals. After all, it takes a certain sum of stability and direction to reach upwards in the universities. These folks tend not to want to do harm.
With synthetic life possible little has changed yet. Obviously this area can yield wonderful products to support and cure the ills of mankind.
As to regulation of the technology that will never be available in any substantial way. The cost of watching all of the peoples' efforts to create new and different things has nothing to support it unless national economies are very, very robust. Worse yet, science that is not done here will be done elsewhere. A bright student in Ethiopia is as likely to let the genie out of the bottle than a goofy student in California. So just where would the money come from to watch the people all over the world and study their work deeply enough to predict real hazards?
Any information shared with one other person in this world is public information. That is reality. After all that one other person can blab and spread that information to the far ends of the Earth. Trying to pretend that there should be some other definition of privacy is absurd. Privacy is not a rubber band. It can not be stretched simply because shy, guilty or inadequate people want it to cover more ground.
Anything that can be viewed from a public place such as a street is not private in any sense of the word. A person who can be photographed is in a public situation.
These privacy nuts are just that. It is time for people to take responsibility for their appearance, their actions and their whereabouts.
Usually this sort of legal nonsense is reserved for nations that have lost their minds. I am not convinced that the government of Pennsylvania is at all sane these days. The right of an attorney general to investigate is clear. The right of that attorney general to involve third parties under threat of arrest is not clear at all. This is perverted law at best.
It would be far better to record DNA for everyone in America including tourists. That first rape may be the only crime a criminal ever commits. Tracking people from DNA is one great way to discourage crime.
Yes, but we all have the right to get upset as well as upset others. Laws should never be created just to keep people from being upset. Those that can not control their behavior just because they are upset or offended belong in prisons and mental wards.
Considering the very nature of Pakistan and several other nations in the region should they even be allowed to have such things as laws and courts? After all, to most of the world they look like a pack of village idiots.
Governments seem to need something to do. So why not let them sneak about trying to steal each others secrets? On the other hand we couldn't even get New Orleans rebuilt and now it stands to be an oil rich city if the wind shifts a bit.
Swearing can disturb the peace. And swearing in front of a man's children just might meet the mark of fighting words. Fighting words as a recognized concept in law may or may not be common to various areas of the nation. I'm not so certain that profanity is something that we must allow everywhere at all times.
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Let's get together and call it text. Oh gosh! Somebody did that a couple of hundred years ago.
I suspect that the cost of defense in a small claims case may exceed any potential loss. I believe my state has a $2500 cap on small claims. There is no way to send a lawyer here and pay for travel and hotels in order to defend against a trivial case.
My fear would be in the difficulty in actually collecting the sum once victory is established. Frankly there are many times when I have good reason to file small cases but I do not as the system is so screwed up in regard to collecting judgements.
For every barrel of mud pushed down that equals one less barrel of oil spewing out of the pipe. They need to keep pumping mud until another solution is in play. If it takes a full tanker of mud every day then so be it.
There is a considerable history of computer professionals earning pretty good pay checks. The mobility of these techs is highly linked to their financial ability to move where they please. A 90K per annum computer tech is far more able to accept offers than a 30K school teacher who may actually be better educated and more able.
Since we have no real hope of population control and our ignorant world continues to reproduce like a slap happy pack of jack rabbits then we had better get used to the idea of eating weird food, synthetics etc. less we get to the point where we are forced to eat each other. Almost all of our serious problems have over population at the roots. Want less pollution then lower the population. Want less crime then lower the population. Want wildlife? Lower the human population. Want less wars? You can guess the answer. Want less disease? Lower the population.
Any reverse osmosis unit that I have ever seen requires fairly clean sea water to start the process. For example yachts need to be in open water before allowing these units to be started up. Now how will this work with BPs tons and tons of crude oil mixed into the Gulf. One good gulp of oil will foul this new idea completely.
When it is all bandages and no meat left inside - the mummy is like over corrected software.
Walgreens Drug stores are doing refills for $9.95. I suspect that usually that works pretty well.
Sadly our schools punish those who are attacked or baited with fighting words if they fight back. We need to encourage our kids to break a nose or knock out a tooth if they are hounded or pushed around and we need to insist that our schools back up those that have been wronged.
Just why would anyone connect the concept of privacy with chatting with another person. Anything that you share with another person is pretty much public information. If it is private keep it to yourself and stop trying to control the entire world that surrounds you.
But it seems to me that if a technique was already in use before another party patented it then their patent is no good and restricting other parties from using the technique might be grounds for a whopper of a law suit.
The prime frontier is in software. New concepts and applications based upon scientific discoveries are all over the world of software.
It would be unsafe to cut off car engines at stops. There are times when unusual actions must be taken to save lives. For example a bad guy walking towards your vehicle with a gun leaps to mind.
And then there are other issues. In my state really hot weather is a huge problem. Turning off a car's air conditioning system would quickly raise the car temperature to levels that would drown the occupants in sweat and leave the car so hot that it could not cool off before the next traffic signal starts the problem all over again.
And then we proceed to the cost of the electronic package and the difficulty of maintaining a more complex vehicle.
Perhaps it is past time to consider simplification of automobiles so that they can be produced and maintained for far less money and effort. For example urban vehicles might get by with a one cylinder engine and windows and manual sun roofs might account for cooling the cabin. Rolling the price back on urban vehicles might get the buying point under fifteen hundred dollars if done right.
Yes, keep in mind that Bush was in office when the plans for this oil rig were put into action. Useless anti spill measures and falsified information by BP such as hooking the wrong hydraulic rams up to shut off the flow seem to be criminal in nature. Due caution was not in play.
And now we will see which insurance companies BP had hired. Are these policies capable of paying off the damages? Dream on! Will the loss bankrupt those insurance companies and take down the banks that own the insurance companies? Are they American companies? And what if BP has to pay 300 or 400 billion out of pocket beyond their insurance policies?
My point being that many damaged parties will never get a cent. And I'm not even talking about the people who will die from cancers caused by exposure to oil in the environment.
As far as black humor goes on the one hand we have Alquiida with Ben Laden and loonies attacking us and trying to do harm for eight years. On the other hand we have BP that was only trying to make money. BP turns out to be a far more serious enemy than a pile of radical Arabs.
For many years students with education in biology really could have let some horrors lose upon the world. Thankfully those who know how tend to be stable enough not to want to pursue such negative goals. After all, it takes a certain sum of stability and direction to reach upwards in the universities. These folks tend not to want to do harm.
With synthetic life possible little has changed yet. Obviously this area can yield wonderful products to support and cure the ills of mankind.
As to regulation of the technology that will never be available in any substantial way. The cost of watching all of the peoples' efforts to create new and different things has nothing to support it unless national economies are very, very robust. Worse yet, science that is not done here will be done elsewhere. A bright student in Ethiopia is as likely to let the genie out of the bottle than a goofy student in California. So just where would the money come from to watch the people all over the world and study their work deeply enough to predict real hazards?
Here we go again. A poster in America now must be concerned about foreign laws. Foreign laws should only effect foreign people.
Any information shared with one other person in this world is public information. That is reality. After all that one other person can blab and spread that information to the far ends of the Earth. Trying to pretend that there should be some other definition of privacy is absurd. Privacy is not a rubber band. It can not be stretched simply because shy, guilty or inadequate people want it to cover more ground.
Anything that can be viewed from a public place such as a street is not private in any sense of the word. A person who can be photographed is in a public situation.
These privacy nuts are just that. It is time for people to take responsibility for their appearance, their actions and their whereabouts.
Usually this sort of legal nonsense is reserved for nations that have lost their minds. I am not convinced that the government of Pennsylvania is at all sane these days. The right of an attorney general to investigate is clear. The right of that attorney general to involve third parties under threat of arrest is not clear at all. This is perverted law at best.
How much biogas could we generate by fermenting illegal immigrants and violent criminals?
It would be far better to record DNA for everyone in America including tourists. That first rape may be the only crime a criminal ever commits. Tracking people from DNA is one great way to discourage crime.
Yes, but we all have the right to get upset as well as upset others. Laws should never be created just to keep people from being upset. Those that can not control their behavior just because they are upset or offended belong in prisons and mental wards.
Considering the very nature of Pakistan and several other nations in the region should they even be allowed to have such things as laws and courts? After all, to most of the world they look like a pack of village idiots.
Governments seem to need something to do. So why not let them sneak about trying to steal each others secrets? On the other hand we couldn't even get New Orleans rebuilt and now it stands to be an oil rich city if the wind shifts a bit.
Swearing can disturb the peace. And swearing in front of a man's children just might meet the mark of fighting words. Fighting words as a recognized concept in law may or may not be common to various areas of the nation. I'm not so certain that profanity is something that we must allow everywhere at all times.