However you can and should blame the dumbarses world wide who have been waging a campaign against vaccination based on at best a misunderstanding of the facts and at worst deliberate falsification of evidence.
For a whooping cough outbreak in the continental US? Blaming those folks is pretty much sound and fury... signifying nothing. But rage away because facts aren't your long suite.
Pertussis mutating and reducing the effectiveness of the vaccine is a bad thing. However I've yet to see a credible report that if the vaccination rate remained at pre noughties highs that mutated virus would have gained a foothold.
You've yet to see any credible reports to the contrary either... but you've made up your mind anyhow. (And despite me pointing it out, you've completely disregarded the fact that cases started rising in the eighties.)
How many liberals faking scientific literacy making that argument do you see on slashdot?
Half or more, if not a massive supermajority of the 'liberals' on Slashdot are scientifically illiterate.
To explain - they sound scientifically literate to folks just as lacking in literacy as they are, but what they really have isn't literacy, but something more akin to a cargo cult. They string oft repeated phrases together into science-y sounding soundbites - but they don't have a real grasp of the meaning of what they're saying. They just know the dogma they've been taught.
You can't blame the current rise in whooping cough cases on her. Pertussis cases began rising in the 1980's, and the current spike takes off in 2003 - four years before she started her campaign.
Seriously Slashdot - give the cargo cult, knee jerk, two minute hate type responses a bloody rest.
Maybe you could site a reference, other than your body's exit point for your food. When one is immunized, one can handle the real thing quickly. That means the sickness cannot take hold, or not for long.
Unfortunately - that's not entirely true, immunization against whooping cough is only partially effective. Worse yet, the effectiveness also fades over time. Even worse.... there's a possibility that the vaccine may not stop an uninfected person from being a carrier.
There is a group of dumb ass American parents that believe that immunizing their children is a bad thing.
If you're talking about the post-Jenny McCarthy era, you can't blame the current rise in whooping cough cases on her. Pertussis cases began rising in the 1980's, and the current spike takes off in 2003 - four years before she started her campaign.
Other than the restriction about not acting in concert with Silk Road et al., there's precisely nothing closed about this market. "Open market" does not mean "cheap".
It's a press release no matter how many legal sounding phrases it contains. It doesn't actually contain any legal phrases (though it's cleverly worded to appear like it does) and it's emphatically not a legally binding instrument (though it could be used to establish intent, it's still not binding).
And no shit it's an "official corporate communication" - that's very fucking definition of a press release you moron.
Why? There's a legal concept called "promissory estoppel". In a nutshell, it means that if I make you a promise and you, in good faith, depend upon that promise and build your business on it, and I knew or should have known that you were going to do so, then I can't later change my mind, withdraw my promise and sue you for doing what I said you could do.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Yes, it appears that "promissory estoppel" can create an implied contract, but it's not at all clear to me that a press release meets the standard. More to the point, "promissory estoppel" appears to be situational - not absolute. And you can bet Tesla's lawyers know that - hence the weaseling "in good faith" and "in the spirit of open source" (without actually specifying what that means or which license applies).
In the end, I suspect the OP is correct - without a signed and sealed contract or other appropriate and valid legal instrument... nobody with any sense and/or a half decent lawyer will depend on a press release and Tesla/Musk's continued good intentions as a legal defense against infringement. Particularly this applies to the big automakers or any real money investing in a smaller automaker. This is an impressive publicity stunt, and it will impress the impressionable and the fanboys, but without the proper legal backing that's all it is. The fanboys will use this press release to bitch and complain about the Big Automakers - and will never clearly understand how neatly they've been played. (To my mind, given that Tesla and SpaceX are still both essentially startups skating on thin financial ice, it's an open question as to Musk's acumen as a businessman. But one thing there's no question about to me, in the last few years Musk has emerged as a master manipulator of public opinion.)
Same answer. I don't know what you pay for pay for view movies, but they're typically only a couple of bucks most places.
Expensive PPV events are largely limited to live events, and are thus, irrelevant. Hence my bringing the discussion back to what *is* relevant, things directly comparable to physical media.
Now kindly fuck off, the adults are having a discussion.
The comparison between physical media and expensive pay per view services is another matter though. Streaming doesn't have an obvious price advantage.
I don't know how much your streaming plan and high speed internet costs, but I can recoup most or all of the full cost (as compared to physical media) of both Netflix and my high speed internet by watching four or five movies a month.
Exactly this. Cheap bastards torrent (understandable if you're broke), but if you have money? You rip the physical media.
For $DIETY's sake why? I've already paid for the disk, I've already paid for the player. I have the money, but it makes no dammed sense whatsoever to pay a third time for more (potential failure points) storage media and the electricity to run it. You and the OP ("Tech-savvy folks rip physical media") should speak for yourselves.
There's just no beating the convenience of a normal filesystem with normal media files.
If you're watching 3-4-5 movies a night, and your player and media is in some inaccessible location... Otherwise, it only takes a minute to swap disks and the time the player spends playing all the copyright threat crap is the time you'd spend hitting the head, getting another beverage, more snacks, etc.. anyhow.
obsession
This, I suspect, is a large component of the real reason - hipster geeks rip, and so you rip.
At the risk of Godwinizing the discussion... that's probably what those who voted for the NSDAP party thought too, out with the Old Guard and in with the New Blood.
This guy may be "new blood", but he's still running on the ticket and with the approval of the Tea Party. Read his biography on Wikipedia, and be careful what you wish for.
there's no reason to cripple good engineers forever w/ a felony for this
Yeah, there is a reason to cripple a "good"* engineer forever with a felony for this - he committed a bloody felony.
*Presuming he's "good", something neither you nor I know... but misuse of someone else's property indicates that he has significant ethics problems, which argues against him being "good".
Which you could have shown me up by posting some numbers to show why I'm full of FUD.
I'm waiting for you to post some numbers showing you aren't. The laughable "sources" you provide merely show the depth of your ignorance. The links that works that is, most don't. ("The magnets are under significant pressure" lead you to believe that a containment building will be required lest there be radioactive rain? That has to be the funniest thing I've read all year.)
More seriously, I have always wondered why NASA didn't set up its Apollo-era launch facilities in Brownsville to begin with. It's as far south as you can get in the lower 48, it has open water to the west, and it doesn't have that terrible Florida weather that kept delaying every launch. Also unlike Florida, it would have been not nearly so far from the Houston command center.
Because Brownsville doesn't have as much open water to the East (the direction of interest) as Cape Canaveral does, nor does it have a convenient chain of islands to the East upon which to locate telemetry gathering antennas, and (most importantly)... locating at Brownsville wouldn't have allowed them to piggyback on the built up infrastructure the Eastern Test Range already possessed.
Dotcom, Musk, others.../. is just as driven by celebrity journalism as any other form of media./.'s corporate masters have grokked this,/. itself has not.
Let's wait until he stops saying he'd "like" to open up his designs and "may" do something revolutionary with his patents and actually opens them up and/or does something revolutionary. Then we can judge how smart he is, because as it is all he's good at (on this topic, and so many others) is making provocative click-bait statements and watching the free publicity come rolling in.
Seriously, the Musk personalitycult (three article devoid of substantive content in as many days) here on Slashdot is reaching ridiculous levels.
Well in terms of percentage power, or capacity factor as we call it, fusion reactors are not competitive. Because of neutron embrittlement, they need to be shut down all the time so the reactor core liner can be removed and replaced.
[[Citation needed]] - "all the time" is not a mathematical statement and therefore cannot be included in your (pseudo) mathematical reasoning.
Depending on the design, it's also flammable, and the fire will cause radioactive rain, so you still need a complete containment building.
[[Citation needed]] - not to mention that since the system is not under significant pressure, the containment building (if actually needed) will be far simpler and far cheaper than that needed by a nuclear power plant.
And that's where it falls apart.
No, where it falls apart is right at the beginning where you start handwaving and blowing smoke about equations... but then substitute FUD for actual numbers.
It's not clear, and I don't have the expertise to determine whether the program is doing anything useful.
Most of the major scientific achievement are not doing anything useful at their time of discovery.
What you fail to realize though is the things you list as basic theoretical breakthroughs. Alcator C-Mod is not a basic theoretical breakthrough. Nor is it a major scientific achievement. (At least not any more.) It's not even the first tokomak, nor the latest, nor of unusual design or... or pretty much anything of note from a scientific point of view. It's a machine for performing applied research and engineering studies. And it's steadily sliding from being merely obsolescent to being completely obsolete. Ultimately MIT is keeping it running to keep the grant money flowing... which MIT then turns around and doles out to vendors and contractors all across the country. Which makes it easier to gain support come the budget crunch. Don't believe me? Look at TFA, which reproduces a graphic kindly provided by MIT detailing which Congressional districts will be affected.
Note to mods: "no $SCIENTIFIC_THING was useful in the beginning" is neither interesting nor insightful - it's the kind of karma whoring cargo cult religious dogma that so often clogs scientific discussion on Slashdot.
HFT serves little purpose other than providing market liquidity (and even at that arguably harms it given the flash crash), but it's not to blame for the above two pre-existing problems of today's markets of publicly traded companies.
HFT is the current soundbite/bugaboo de jour for the ignorant.
And 100th repeat: Slashdot doesn't get paid for running positive stories about a person or device or whatever. Sometimes it's nice to look at something and say, "Y'know, that's kind of cool and the person making it is kind of likeable." That's pretty much Tim's thought process at a show or conference when he points his camcorder at someone or something.
Aren't shills for Slashdot Corporate supposed to have the green circle-and-slash by their name and UID?
The point is, we don't care whether Slashdot Corporate gets paid or not. This isn't particularly cool and we don't give a rat whether the person making it is likeable or not. We care when Slashdot's home page is used to advertise a piece of crap that nobody with an IQ above room temperature would be interested in.
*shrug* I wrote several programs for my Tandy PC-2* inside a nuclear submarine (mumble) feet beneath your keel. I also diddled around with BASIC on the IBM-PC clone that Squadron bought and provided to the boats.
* Obtained from my housemate in exchange for paying up his share of the rent. J. actually one of the best housemates I ever had other than his habit of occasionally blowing his paycheck on some new shiny.
Research on those things never has been the problem. The problem is that it's going to be extraordinarily expensive to get and maintain all that resource extraction and exploitation infrastructure on stream. The only way to "save" money is to a) treat the costs as sunk costs and thus not apply them to missions flown, or b)... there really isn't a "b". (Unless you fly a sufficiently large number of missions frequently enough that said costs become a minor component of the overhead - which really isn't "sustainable" because it doesn't create any savings because of the high total costs of all those missions.)
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For a whooping cough outbreak in the continental US? Blaming those folks is pretty much sound and fury... signifying nothing. But rage away because facts aren't your long suite.
You've yet to see any credible reports to the contrary either... but you've made up your mind anyhow. (And despite me pointing it out, you've completely disregarded the fact that cases started rising in the eighties.)
Half or more, if not a massive supermajority of the 'liberals' on Slashdot are scientifically illiterate.
To explain - they sound scientifically literate to folks just as lacking in literacy as they are, but what they really have isn't literacy, but something more akin to a cargo cult. They string oft repeated phrases together into science-y sounding soundbites - but they don't have a real grasp of the meaning of what they're saying. They just know the dogma they've been taught.
You can't blame the current rise in whooping cough cases on her. Pertussis cases began rising in the 1980's, and the current spike takes off in 2003 - four years before she started her campaign.
Seriously Slashdot - give the cargo cult, knee jerk, two minute hate type responses a bloody rest.
Unfortunately - that's not entirely true, immunization against whooping cough is only partially effective. Worse yet, the effectiveness also fades over time. Even worse.... there's a possibility that the vaccine may not stop an uninfected person from being a carrier.
If you're talking about the post-Jenny McCarthy era, you can't blame the current rise in whooping cough cases on her. Pertussis cases began rising in the 1980's, and the current spike takes off in 2003 - four years before she started her campaign.
Other than the restriction about not acting in concert with Silk Road et al., there's precisely nothing closed about this market. "Open market" does not mean "cheap".
It's a press release no matter how many legal sounding phrases it contains. It doesn't actually contain any legal phrases (though it's cleverly worded to appear like it does) and it's emphatically not a legally binding instrument (though it could be used to establish intent, it's still not binding).
And no shit it's an "official corporate communication" - that's very fucking definition of a press release you moron.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Yes, it appears that "promissory estoppel" can create an implied contract, but it's not at all clear to me that a press release meets the standard. More to the point, "promissory estoppel" appears to be situational - not absolute. And you can bet Tesla's lawyers know that - hence the weaseling "in good faith" and "in the spirit of open source" (without actually specifying what that means or which license applies).
In the end, I suspect the OP is correct - without a signed and sealed contract or other appropriate and valid legal instrument... nobody with any sense and/or a half decent lawyer will depend on a press release and Tesla/Musk's continued good intentions as a legal defense against infringement. Particularly this applies to the big automakers or any real money investing in a smaller automaker. This is an impressive publicity stunt, and it will impress the impressionable and the fanboys, but without the proper legal backing that's all it is. The fanboys will use this press release to bitch and complain about the Big Automakers - and will never clearly understand how neatly they've been played. (To my mind, given that Tesla and SpaceX are still both essentially startups skating on thin financial ice, it's an open question as to Musk's acumen as a businessman. But one thing there's no question about to me, in the last few years Musk has emerged as a master manipulator of public opinion.)
Same answer. I don't know what you pay for pay for view movies, but they're typically only a couple of bucks most places.
Expensive PPV events are largely limited to live events, and are thus, irrelevant. Hence my bringing the discussion back to what *is* relevant, things directly comparable to physical media.
Now kindly fuck off, the adults are having a discussion.
I don't know how much your streaming plan and high speed internet costs, but I can recoup most or all of the full cost (as compared to physical media) of both Netflix and my high speed internet by watching four or five movies a month.
For $DIETY's sake why? I've already paid for the disk, I've already paid for the player. I have the money, but it makes no dammed sense whatsoever to pay a third time for more (potential failure points) storage media and the electricity to run it. You and the OP ("Tech-savvy folks rip physical media") should speak for yourselves.
If you're watching 3-4-5 movies a night, and your player and media is in some inaccessible location... Otherwise, it only takes a minute to swap disks and the time the player spends playing all the copyright threat crap is the time you'd spend hitting the head, getting another beverage, more snacks, etc.. anyhow.
This, I suspect, is a large component of the real reason - hipster geeks rip, and so you rip.
At the risk of Godwinizing the discussion... that's probably what those who voted for the NSDAP party thought too, out with the Old Guard and in with the New Blood.
This guy may be "new blood", but he's still running on the ticket and with the approval of the Tea Party. Read his biography on Wikipedia, and be careful what you wish for.
Good job there mate, caught wrong in your assumptions and unable to refute the facts - you resort to personal attacks and blowing smoke.
Yeah, there is a reason to cripple a "good"* engineer forever with a felony for this - he committed a bloody felony.
*Presuming he's "good", something neither you nor I know... but misuse of someone else's property indicates that he has significant ethics problems, which argues against him being "good".
I'm waiting for you to post some numbers showing you aren't. The laughable "sources" you provide merely show the depth of your ignorance. The links that works that is, most don't. ("The magnets are under significant pressure" lead you to believe that a containment building will be required lest there be radioactive rain? That has to be the funniest thing I've read all year.)
Because Brownsville doesn't have as much open water to the East (the direction of interest) as Cape Canaveral does, nor does it have a convenient chain of islands to the East upon which to locate telemetry gathering antennas, and (most importantly)... locating at Brownsville wouldn't have allowed them to piggyback on the built up infrastructure the Eastern Test Range already possessed.
Dotcom, Musk, others... /. is just as driven by celebrity journalism as any other form of media. /.'s corporate masters have grokked this, /. itself has not.
Let's wait until he stops saying he'd "like" to open up his designs and "may" do something revolutionary with his patents and actually opens them up and/or does something revolutionary. Then we can judge how smart he is, because as it is all he's good at (on this topic, and so many others) is making provocative click-bait statements and watching the free publicity come rolling in.
Seriously, the Musk personality cult (three article devoid of substantive content in as many days) here on Slashdot is reaching ridiculous levels.
[[Citation needed]] - "all the time" is not a mathematical statement and therefore cannot be included in your (pseudo) mathematical reasoning.
[[Citation needed]] - not to mention that since the system is not under significant pressure, the containment building (if actually needed) will be far simpler and far cheaper than that needed by a nuclear power plant.
No, where it falls apart is right at the beginning where you start handwaving and blowing smoke about equations... but then substitute FUD for actual numbers.
What you fail to realize though is the things you list as basic theoretical breakthroughs. Alcator C-Mod is not a basic theoretical breakthrough. Nor is it a major scientific achievement. (At least not any more.) It's not even the first tokomak, nor the latest, nor of unusual design or... or pretty much anything of note from a scientific point of view. It's a machine for performing applied research and engineering studies. And it's steadily sliding from being merely obsolescent to being completely obsolete. Ultimately MIT is keeping it running to keep the grant money flowing... which MIT then turns around and doles out to vendors and contractors all across the country. Which makes it easier to gain support come the budget crunch. Don't believe me? Look at TFA, which reproduces a graphic kindly provided by MIT detailing which Congressional districts will be affected.
Note to mods: "no $SCIENTIFIC_THING was useful in the beginning" is neither interesting nor insightful - it's the kind of karma whoring cargo cult religious dogma that so often clogs scientific discussion on Slashdot.
Not only a Slashvertisement that links to an article with practically zero content... but largely a dupe to boot.
HFT is the current soundbite/bugaboo de jour for the ignorant.
Aren't shills for Slashdot Corporate supposed to have the green circle-and-slash by their name and UID?
The point is, we don't care whether Slashdot Corporate gets paid or not. This isn't particularly cool and we don't give a rat whether the person making it is likeable or not. We care when Slashdot's home page is used to advertise a piece of crap that nobody with an IQ above room temperature would be interested in.
*shrug* I wrote several programs for my Tandy PC-2* inside a nuclear submarine (mumble) feet beneath your keel. I also diddled around with BASIC on the IBM-PC clone that Squadron bought and provided to the boats.
* Obtained from my housemate in exchange for paying up his share of the rent. J. actually one of the best housemates I ever had other than his habit of occasionally blowing his paycheck on some new shiny.
Research on those things never has been the problem. The problem is that it's going to be extraordinarily expensive to get and maintain all that resource extraction and exploitation infrastructure on stream. The only way to "save" money is to a) treat the costs as sunk costs and thus not apply them to missions flown, or b)... there really isn't a "b". (Unless you fly a sufficiently large number of missions frequently enough that said costs become a minor component of the overhead - which really isn't "sustainable" because it doesn't create any savings because of the high total costs of all those missions.)
in 3... 2... 1... And they'll all get +5 "Insightful" and "Interesting" too.
And they couldn't get more wrong. On both counts.