civil law isn't about intent, it's about findings of fact. Here's some:
Guy innocently buys a domain in 1999. Probably forgets he's put an auto-renew on it. Probably forgets, right there in the middle of the dotcom bubble, that he's even registered that one among dozens of others.
Company starts using a service mark THIS YEAR that bears a naming resemblance to the dotcom domain. Company attempts to acquire the domain, is rebuffed. Company gets pissy, goes right in with both barrels loaded with lawyers.
Really, they're just trying it on after offering him what, fifty bucks for the domain which he probably rightfully told them to stick up their arses, I'd be the same if someone came up to me and offered me a pittance for a domain they clearly held great value in acquiring.
OSS tries to buy the domain that a guy first registered fifteen years ago, fails. OSS tries to sue the domain owner over a trademark it didn't start using until THIS YEAR.
The fuck? OSS are trying it on. This shit should be tossed with prejudice and costs awarded to the respondent.
(I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advice).
(I mean, how hard can it be to enter a few random elements into the game and play "Nuke The Rock" in a sandbox?)
((Asked then answered: it is bloody hard considering the physics of the game means that any given offrails object is under precisely one sphere of influence at any given moment, which means that until the SOI changes (from the Sun to Kerbin, for instance) you know where the rock is and where it's going - but the second the SOI changes, all those napkin calculations you just did for an unguided nuke shot just went right out of the window))
Do you ever get sick of being asked about when the next book's coming out?
(even though you had nearly nothing to do with FF, that was the other Steve Jackson - side question, how did you find that experience, of writing on someone else's game engine? I'd've been a bit weirded out if I was writing for someone with the same name as me...)
(if you want to see what an old LR can do that a Sport can't, check out what Richard Hammond did with an old one - used its winch to stop it sliding and used the engine power and tyre grip to haul up the VERTICAL face of a dam! The winch can't do that on its own, anyone who uses a vehicle winch'll tell you that something rated for half a ton can't lift one and three quarter tons, winching a vehicle still very much depends on the drive axle finding a grip. The Sport went up unmanned and basically... well, failed to even get up over the kerb at the bottom).
that's not the reason to buy an old Land Rover over a new one. The reason is the build.
The new LR (the "Sport") has racing rims and tyres thinner than your thumb. Try taking that offroad, you'll tear the tyres to shit in about three seconds. The new LR has dropped suspension and skirts that make it grip flat road. Try taking that offroad and you'll break the shocks and tear the skirts off before you get ten feet. The new LR has a high mounted tank and a similarly mounted engine, which brings the centre of gravity high. High enough that it can't sit sideways on an urban hill before it rolls, it doesn't even have to be moving! The new LR is higher than its width which complicates the matter of balance. Think of a free standing-on-its-end Jenga block in a 7-point earthquake.
The old LR has: * big balloon stubbly tyres that hairgrip mud over a fifty degree incline and help to drag the vehicle up that hill * massive travel on the suspension that can withstand the vehicle being dropped out the back of a C5 Galaxy at takeoff speed * instead of skirts, running boards. That you can actually stand on * low mounted tank and engine that keep the centre of mass below the top of the tyres * wide enough that it will slide before it rolls. In fact, it wouldn't roll if you pushed it over a cliff. That's saying something considering the grippiness of the stock rubber.
humam rights means fuck all to any but the Government apologists who think Britain should stay in Europe and pay the EC seven million pounds a day for the privilege of being told how to run itself.
It's about time we got back to talking about INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, which trumps CORPORATE RIGHTS, trumps STATE RIGHTS and is INVIOLABLE and NOT FOR YOU TO GIVE AWAY AND NOT FOR ME TO TAKE.
Remember the maxim: anything given is worth nothing. Also remember this one: anything given can also be taken away.
At best, human rights are illusory. At worst, they are a harmful distraction from the fact that INDIVIDUAL rights are being summarily IGNORED in Law.
it was the previous AC (you?) who introduced camel jockeying into the conversation, not me. Stop claiming I did things I didn't, who did what is a matter of public record.
point ceded but mine stands: no public funding went in to development of either company. The only public money that's gone in was as remission for contracts. SpaceX can survive without NASA.
SpaceX can survive without actually going into space: that said, IT HAD A ROCKET BEFORE IT SAW A JOT FROM NASA. "Privately funded, it had a vehicle before it got money from NASA, and while NASA’s space station resupply funds are a tremendous boost, SpaceX would have existed without it." - Max Engel, March 2013
hm, let me analyse this fuel tank gauge: it reads zero. That means one of two things. Either the gauge is broken or we're actually out of gas. Given the fact that we're stopped, I'd tend to the latter.
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also happened to a Michael Rowe.
Silly kid settled for an XBox in exchange for the domain...
haha... it'd probably be one of the three he wrote o.0
civil law isn't about intent, it's about findings of fact. Here's some:
Guy innocently buys a domain in 1999. Probably forgets he's put an auto-renew on it. Probably forgets, right there in the middle of the dotcom bubble, that he's even registered that one among dozens of others.
Company starts using a service mark THIS YEAR that bears a naming resemblance to the dotcom domain.
Company attempts to acquire the domain, is rebuffed.
Company gets pissy, goes right in with both barrels loaded with lawyers.
Really, they're just trying it on after offering him what, fifty bucks for the domain which he probably rightfully told them to stick up their arses, I'd be the same if someone came up to me and offered me a pittance for a domain they clearly held great value in acquiring.
OSS tries to buy the domain that a guy first registered fifteen years ago, fails.
OSS tries to sue the domain owner over a trademark it didn't start using until THIS YEAR.
The fuck? OSS are trying it on. This shit should be tossed with prejudice and costs awarded to the respondent.
(I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advice).
Kerbal Space Program.
(I mean, how hard can it be to enter a few random elements into the game and play "Nuke The Rock" in a sandbox?)
((Asked then answered: it is bloody hard considering the physics of the game means that any given offrails object is under precisely one sphere of influence at any given moment, which means that until the SOI changes (from the Sun to Kerbin, for instance) you know where the rock is and where it's going - but the second the SOI changes, all those napkin calculations you just did for an unguided nuke shot just went right out of the window))
Do you ever get sick of being asked about when the next book's coming out?
(even though you had nearly nothing to do with FF, that was the other Steve Jackson - side question, how did you find that experience, of writing on someone else's game engine? I'd've been a bit weirded out if I was writing for someone with the same name as me...)
ah, the main power coupling adjustment. Got it :)
aren't some of the Formula E components 3-D printed? I'm thinking coachwork more than engines, but whatever...
(if you want to see what an old LR can do that a Sport can't, check out what Richard Hammond did with an old one - used its winch to stop it sliding and used the engine power and tyre grip to haul up the VERTICAL face of a dam! The winch can't do that on its own, anyone who uses a vehicle winch'll tell you that something rated for half a ton can't lift one and three quarter tons, winching a vehicle still very much depends on the drive axle finding a grip. The Sport went up unmanned and basically... well, failed to even get up over the kerb at the bottom).
that's not the reason to buy an old Land Rover over a new one. The reason is the build.
The new LR (the "Sport") has racing rims and tyres thinner than your thumb. Try taking that offroad, you'll tear the tyres to shit in about three seconds.
The new LR has dropped suspension and skirts that make it grip flat road. Try taking that offroad and you'll break the shocks and tear the skirts off before you get ten feet.
The new LR has a high mounted tank and a similarly mounted engine, which brings the centre of gravity high. High enough that it can't sit sideways on an urban hill before it rolls, it doesn't even have to be moving!
The new LR is higher than its width which complicates the matter of balance. Think of a free standing-on-its-end Jenga block in a 7-point earthquake.
The old LR has:
* big balloon stubbly tyres that hairgrip mud over a fifty degree incline and help to drag the vehicle up that hill
* massive travel on the suspension that can withstand the vehicle being dropped out the back of a C5 Galaxy at takeoff speed
* instead of skirts, running boards. That you can actually stand on
* low mounted tank and engine that keep the centre of mass below the top of the tyres
* wide enough that it will slide before it rolls. In fact, it wouldn't roll if you pushed it over a cliff. That's saying something considering the grippiness of the stock rubber.
humam rights means fuck all to any but the Government apologists who think Britain should stay in Europe and pay the EC seven million pounds a day for the privilege of being told how to run itself.
It's about time we got back to talking about INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, which trumps CORPORATE RIGHTS, trumps STATE RIGHTS and is INVIOLABLE and NOT FOR YOU TO GIVE AWAY AND NOT FOR ME TO TAKE.
Remember the maxim: anything given is worth nothing.
Also remember this one: anything given can also be taken away.
At best, human rights are illusory. At worst, they are a harmful distraction from the fact that INDIVIDUAL rights are being summarily IGNORED in Law.
yet you can't fucking out a kiddie fiddler operating right there inside your fucking headquarters building??
Fuck off.
has anyone else's Skype client stopped working with a .dll error lately?
it was the previous AC (you?) who introduced camel jockeying into the conversation, not me. Stop claiming I did things I didn't, who did what is a matter of public record.
point ceded but mine stands: no public funding went in to development of either company. The only public money that's gone in was as remission for contracts. SpaceX can survive without NASA.
try again. SpaceX *had* a launch vehicle *before* they even approached NASA for contracts.
once you're in space, you're halfway to anywhere.
(Heinlein?)
no such thing as an Hawaiian native, they're all nomadic Polynesian islanders.
I thought there was something being set up for the RD-180 clone to be built on American soil?
SpaceX can survive without actually going into space: that said, IT HAD A ROCKET BEFORE IT SAW A JOT FROM NASA.
"Privately funded, it had a vehicle before it got money from NASA, and while NASA’s space station resupply funds are a tremendous boost, SpaceX would have existed without it." - Max Engel, March 2013
hm, let me analyse this fuel tank gauge: it reads zero. That means one of two things. Either the gauge is broken or we're actually out of gas. Given the fact that we're stopped, I'd tend to the latter.
How much fucking data do you want??
source?
citations absolutely required. Tesla and SpaceX were started by Musk with his own money.
Yeah, pretty much. SpaceX doesn't get a Federal budget, being as it's a privately owned, publicly traded company initially financed by Musk himself.
Wanna try again? Double or nothing? MAYBE some citable sources, this time?
"Privately funded, it had a vehicle before it got money from NASA, and while NASA’s space station resupply funds are a tremendous boost, SpaceX would have existed without it."
Elon Musk would be launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
He still has that option.