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  1. Re: This isn't even a story. on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Sanders has this logo with a 5 pointed star for the dot over the I and two waves underneath, if they had left out the two waves, there would be no problem.

  2. Re:Are drone dangers exaggerated? on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Having a windshield blow out of a 747 at 35,000 feet and travelling at 500MPH probably would have been.

  3. Re:good luck with that on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    True but if it gets cheaper, you will not see a dime; you can't even opt out without the government fining you.

  4. Re:Change passwords on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You typically don't have to go that far, there isn't much you can do on a windows based systems admin wise any more without somebody physically typing in passwords or clicking "allow" on-site. HIPPA is no joke and you can't have EOLed operating systems; so they have to put up with the new windows security measures.

  5. Re:good luck with that on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In Healthcare insurance, the people you think of as the customer, are actually the product. The only people who will benefit are the C levels getting bigger bonuses.

  6. Re:Are drone dangers exaggerated? on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but I've sat on my duffle bag inside a hanger for 8 hours waiting for our commercial charter plane to have it's cracked windshield replaced.

  7. Re:Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    right after; "Put together until looks like picture."

  8. Re:Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha, how about a Cali prop 25 warning on distilled water, you know just in case they missed something.

  9. Re: Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    British regs must be very different, in the US RC's must stay below 400ft and under visual observation, and manned aircraft above 500 ft, rotary wing and ultralight fixed, 1000 ft for conventional fixed wing except during landing and take-off. I'm not sure how crop dusters fit in, but they are fun to watch and don't hang around too long.

  10. Re: regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    LiPo batteries has extremely high energy densities, many RC Pilots will not charge them indoors, nor after a crash because they can spontaneously explode or ignite; do you think all of the stories about houses burning down due to exploding cellphone and tablet batteries are made up?

  11. Re:One word... on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoa dude full stop,
    1. the Sander's campaign is a corporation, not a governmental entity, it has no obligation to observe the 1st amendment.
    2. there is no parody or satire exception under trademark law.

  12. Re: This isn't even a story. on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I wouldn't piss in Sander's mouth if his teeth were on fire, but in this case the dirbag's lawyers are correct at least in that the similarities of Sander's trademarked logo's and Liberty maniac's use of nearly identical logo's is actionable and trademark laws don't allow them the opportunity to not take action without putting their marks in jeopardy.

    It's not a copyright thingy it's a trademark thingy and trademarks are very different legally; there is no parody exception to trademark law, in fact trademark exists to prevent parody and derivative works from being confused with the authentic articles.

  13. He's over-reacting simply because he remembers how the Tina Fey/Sara Palin thing went down; a lot of low-information voters didn't know the difference what Fey said in character of Palin and what Palin actually said. Having said that I doubt the logos were copyrightable, I doubt the logos were trademarked and using the DMCA in this manner is improper and reeks of barratry.

  14. Re:what's the explaination? on Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No he can't get any telescope time, so he's buying his own. You can't get time for anything even tangentially related to extraterrestrials, it's easier to get a grant to disprove global warming. What he is attempting to do is buy his own radio telescope, then allow other astronomers to use it after he is done with his investigation.

  15. Re:Three words on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Format C: press any key to continue

  16. Re:Three words on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You'll only get the chopstick wand fireball spell when you achieve level 5 Sys-Admin.

  17. Re:Just another shakedown on Consensus On Consensus: Climate Experts Agree On Human-Caused Global Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    22, and about 1.6 trillion a year in regulator compliance expenses.

  18. Re:Problems, problems.... on Consensus On Consensus: Climate Experts Agree On Human-Caused Global Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when you were the Millennial's age (judging from your UID number) you thought the same about something else, just like I thought the same (or a lot more) a generation before you. We were lied to and exaggerated to for the purpose of hidden agendas in the past so we see them more readily now, the Millenials not so much.

  19. Re:Problems, problems.... on Consensus On Consensus: Climate Experts Agree On Human-Caused Global Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuscale looks promising.

  20. Certainly "CO2 in the atmosphere impacts the climate, so changing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere changes the climate."; the real question is how much. The amount of CO2 required to produce a given amount of change is logarithmic, the amount of changed caused by increasing CO2 by 180 ppm from the depth of the last ice-age to 360 ppm is likely to be the same as increasing the CO2 by twice as much to 720 ppm; and it will not be enough to get to catastrophic levels without amplification from water vapor and presently it's unclear if that will happen because of gaps in our knowledge of clouds and oceanic effects.

    With recent increases in Primary Production, due to increased CO2 levels, it looks like the amount of CO2 emissions is going to be a lot more than the model expect as well.

  21. Re:More accurate statement.... on Consensus On Consensus: Climate Experts Agree On Human-Caused Global Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century

    50.0001%; is that like Schmidt's Dec 2015 was the warmest month in history, were 38% confident?

  22. Nobody denies that the planet has gotten warmer since the 1950's (that's when theoretically Anthropologically induced warming would be able to occur), nobody denies that CO2 has contributed to that warming and only a few deny that the warming has stalled for 18 years. A lot of people deny that Climatology is advanced enough to predict whether the planet will continue to warm and if the warming will continue into catastrophic amounts.

    The Climate models aren't just climate models, they make assumptions about the biological responses to increased CO2 and they make assumptions about Economic activity.

    To me, it's the AGW who remind me of the Anti-GMO people and the Anti-Vaxers, jumping on a new-wave culture pop-sci-fi bandwagon.

  23. Several of the Essays Authors, Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook among others, had a paper on the same subject retracted. and last I heard Lewandowski is under investigation for fraud, both scientific and financial and has secured employment in a country other than where the alleged fraud occurred. So yes some of these nut-cases will destroy their careers by using made-up data, and it makes it hard for many of us to just except their data or their crony- reviewed papers hiding behind pay-walls.

  24. Re:Every Intelligent person knows that on Consensus On Consensus: Climate Experts Agree On Human-Caused Global Warming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed it is money driven. We basically don't want to see our kids paying for our mistakes so we're trying to get started paying the debts we've incurred before then.

    So how many $Billions will pay the debt; or better yet If a $100 Billion is available for Environmental Remediation, how much do you want to spend on the actual Environment and how much do you want to spend on Conferences about the Environment? How much do you want to spend on computer time to watch models spin off into chaos due to round-off error vs. spend on environmental remediation? If there's a "carbon tax" how many more people are going to starve because it costs more for fuel to plant and harvest crops, then transport the food around the world to fight famines?

    We've spent $122.8 billion trough the Federal Government and regulatory compliance is estimated at $1.75 trillion per year The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria, is that enough?

  25. When I have mod points, citing either WUWT or SS tends to get you down modded unless you can cite a more reputable source as well, and no the Guardian isn't more reputable unless your talking about wrapping fish or lining bird cages.

    Citing a journalist's interpretation of a pay-walled paper or essay doesn't support a position unless the journalist has a post-grad degree in a hard science.