The US has around 1.1 - 1.3 fatal accidents per 100K miles for general aviation. For comparison, motor vehicles have about 1.2 deaths per MILLION miles.
No, you don't get to take it under the sophistry that you wouldn't have paid for it.
He wasn't saying it's OK to take it. He's saying that some of the people who took it would have skipped it if they had to pay, so the actual losses are lower than reported.
Consider that the United States obesity epidemic has been caused by a government policy to promote carbohydrate consumption and discourage fat consumption. That policy was based on scientific research.
These recommendations emanated from hearings held in the mid-to-late 1970s by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, despite a “boisterous mob of critics,” including those within the scientific community who pleaded with the Committee to wait for more research “before we make announcements to the American public.” In response, Committee Chairman Sen. McGovern responded that “Senators don’t have the luxury that the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in.”
This was a classic case of, "We have to do something, this is something, we have to do this." The scientists were very clear that there was no research supporting the policy recommendation.
First order of business: Is this report true? There need to be an unambiguous case of intentionally misleading the public, exposed by the E-mails and with no reasonable other explanation.
Naturally, that contention may be true or it may be false and Monsanto *might* just have the edge in hiring a large team of legal experts to grind the defense into the dirt.
So point to a single lawsuit where this was not the case. The truth is that the farmers are actually demanding that their suppliers sue misusers since otherwise the farmers would not have a level playing field.
Since the mid1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has filed suit against 145 individual U.S. farmers for patent infringement and/or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed but has proceeded through trial against only eleven farmers, all of which it won.
Can you explain why they drop over 92% of their cases? Especially considering the farmers are "demanding that their suppliers sue"?
In my experience it's useless when logged in on multiple devices. Calls and messages show up in random locations and I don't get notifications. That's pretty broken for my needs.
So it's not just me.
I want to have it on my phone so I get IMs when I'm not at my desk, but when I am at my desk it's crazy that I don't see notifications on the desktop.
France.com's operators noticed a Dutch firm, Traveland Resorts, had filed a trademark application for france.com. Frydman then sued to stop that happening and in 2014 the trademarks were transferred by what appeared to be mutual agreement to France.com Inc.
So Frydman and France had an ongoing relationship. A Dutch firm tried to steal his business name, he sued and won. And as a result of that, France decided that if anyone is going to own the name it should be them.
He won his lawsuit and still got screwed. I wonder what Traveland thought was the endgame here.
It seems that France didn't have a trademark for "France", so they had no reason to defend anything.
But once France.com applied for this trademark, the country of France had to object to this trademark.
I don't see that in any of the recent coverage. Have you got a link?
Seconded. I'm as much of a typography nerd as the next guy - unless the next guy is my friend Peter, who takes font mania to an unhealthy extreme - but this was painfully meager. I kept waiting to be astonished, and it just never happened.
Even if they do win the case, the law will be rapidly changed to make it impossible to win a similar case again. Politicians simply cannot afford to have media getting away with libellous content like this. It might be a financial expert getting libelled today but come the next general election it will be politicians and they know it.
That's just adorable. You think politicians aren't salivating at the opportunity to do this to their opponents.
For as long as automated systems of any kind have existed, we humans have figured out how to game such systems into doing things they're not supposed to do.
For as long as human systems have existed we've been figuring out how to game them. Social engineering existed long before AI. It's just a different set of rules now, so there's different ways to exploit them.
Imagine how much more they could have made if it hadn't been for all that piracy and illegal filesharing^W^W^W^W money wasted on legal action against their best potential customers.
Blocking audio is nice, but I'd really like to see controls on videos. Although... maybe not. If you've gone out of your way to make sure I can neither fast-forward your video nor even see how long it is, you've pretty much told me it's a waste of my time.
Frankly, the US would have been a better place if the Mayflower had hit rocks and turned the zealots it was carrying into fish food. Canada was settled by the British and French for profit instead of by Puritan refugees, and it's a much more tolerant place than the US.
And while we were getting the religious outcasts, Australia was getting the criminal ones. The relative outcomes probably says something profound.
... a government that has been bought and paid for by those big ass corporations.
Government interference in a market is a socialism thing.
The first is corporations controlling government. The second is government trying to control corporations. While you're right that the second would be closer to socialism, what actually exists is much closer to the first, which is plutocracy (or corporatocracy).
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Relevant XKCD
Holy crap, a 50% increase in death by blogging!
10 billion trillion trillion tonnes of gloop, or enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter.
I'm glad they converted it into something easier to get my head around.
Browsers have Add Ons to stop that kind of social media tracking.
Which browser add on do I install to prevent people I know from sharing their address book with Facebook?
if you dont like facebook using your data, then dont use it.
If I don't use Facebook, they still collect my data from friends who do use it, and from sites I visit.
The US has around 1.1 - 1.3 fatal accidents per 100K miles for general aviation. For comparison, motor vehicles have about 1.2 deaths per MILLION miles.
Where are you getting your numbers? For the last full decade with complete numbers:
Passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles 2000 - 2009:
Car - 7.28
Ferry - 3.17
Train - 0.43
Bus - 0.11
Plane - 0.07
"wrongful or criminal deception"
What's the deception?
I don't see how this "protects" fans from anything. And to the extent that it's protecting the clubs, it's certainly not from fraud.
Fraud is when you misrepresent something. Their complaint is that venues were broadcasting the real thing.
No, you don't get to take it under the sophistry that you wouldn't have paid for it.
He wasn't saying it's OK to take it. He's saying that some of the people who took it would have skipped it if they had to pay, so the actual losses are lower than reported.
Consider that the United States obesity epidemic has been caused by a government policy to promote carbohydrate consumption and discourage fat consumption. That policy was based on scientific research.
Not true.
These recommendations emanated from hearings held in the mid-to-late 1970s by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, despite a “boisterous mob of critics,” including those within the scientific community who pleaded with the Committee to wait for more research “before we make announcements to the American public.” In response, Committee Chairman Sen. McGovern responded that “Senators don’t have the luxury that the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in.”
This was a classic case of, "We have to do something, this is something, we have to do this." The scientists were very clear that there was no research supporting the policy recommendation.
First order of business: Is this report true? There need to be an unambiguous case of intentionally misleading the public, exposed by the E-mails and with no reasonable other explanation.
But his emails!
Naturally, that contention may be true or it may be false and Monsanto *might* just have the edge in hiring a large team of legal experts to grind the defense into the dirt.
So point to a single lawsuit where this was not the case. The truth is that the farmers are actually demanding that their suppliers sue misusers since otherwise the farmers would not have a level playing field.
Kind of hard to prove a negative, but according to that Wikipedia article:
Can you explain why they drop over 92% of their cases? Especially considering the farmers are "demanding that their suppliers sue"?
In my experience it's useless when logged in on multiple devices. Calls and messages show up in random locations and I don't get notifications. That's pretty broken for my needs.
So it's not just me.
I want to have it on my phone so I get IMs when I'm not at my desk, but when I am at my desk it's crazy that I don't see notifications on the desktop.
I thought the same, but moronoxyd cleared it up for me.
France.com's operators noticed a Dutch firm, Traveland Resorts, had filed a trademark application for france.com. Frydman then sued to stop that happening and in 2014 the trademarks were transferred by what appeared to be mutual agreement to France.com Inc.
So Frydman and France had an ongoing relationship. A Dutch firm tried to steal his business name, he sued and won. And as a result of that, France decided that if anyone is going to own the name it should be them. He won his lawsuit and still got screwed. I wonder what Traveland thought was the endgame here.
It seems that France didn't have a trademark for "France", so they had no reason to defend anything. But once France.com applied for this trademark, the country of France had to object to this trademark.
I don't see that in any of the recent coverage. Have you got a link?
Seconded. I'm as much of a typography nerd as the next guy - unless the next guy is my friend Peter, who takes font mania to an unhealthy extreme - but this was painfully meager. I kept waiting to be astonished, and it just never happened.
Even if they do win the case, the law will be rapidly changed to make it impossible to win a similar case again. Politicians simply cannot afford to have media getting away with libellous content like this. It might be a financial expert getting libelled today but come the next general election it will be politicians and they know it.
That's just adorable. You think politicians aren't salivating at the opportunity to do this to their opponents.
For as long as automated systems of any kind have existed, we humans have figured out how to game such systems into doing things they're not supposed to do.
For as long as human systems have existed we've been figuring out how to game them. Social engineering existed long before AI. It's just a different set of rules now, so there's different ways to exploit them.
Imagine how much more they could have made if it hadn't been for all that piracy and illegal filesharing^W^W^W^W money wasted on legal action against their best potential customers.
This is an old story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Blocking audio is nice, but I'd really like to see controls on videos. Although ... maybe not. If you've gone out of your way to make sure I can neither fast-forward your video nor even see how long it is, you've pretty much told me it's a waste of my time.
Yeah; I'm fucking angry, sorry.
That's the most Canadian thing I've ever read.
The science fiction book "Earth" by David Brin predicted exactly this back in 1990.
Orson Scott Card beat him with the earring to talk to Jane in Ender's Game in '85.
Frankly, the US would have been a better place if the Mayflower had hit rocks and turned the zealots it was carrying into fish food. Canada was settled by the British and French for profit instead of by Puritan refugees, and it's a much more tolerant place than the US.
And while we were getting the religious outcasts, Australia was getting the criminal ones. The relative outcomes probably says something profound.
... a government that has been bought and paid for by those big ass corporations.
Government interference in a market is a socialism thing.
The first is corporations controlling government. The second is government trying to control corporations. While you're right that the second would be closer to socialism, what actually exists is much closer to the first, which is plutocracy (or corporatocracy).