> If the core is a dynamo, why can't we pull current from the core ?
No reason at all. Just have to burrow down a few thousand miles and hook up to a few million cubic miles of liquid iron. I suggest that you get right on it.
Because the suit was brought in USA Federal court by USA residents complaining about unauthorized copies of works subject to USA copyright being distributed in the USA. If awarded damages the plaintiffs can seize USA assets of the defendant and/or ask a Canadian court to enforce the orders of the USA court. While suits against foreign defendants may be news to you they are in fact routine in all jurisdictions and are handled in accordance with well-established procedures.
About the same as they did to a USA company being ordered by a French court to cease "violating French law" by selling Nazi memorabilia on its USA Web site.
> Lithium supply is marginal at present and future pricing is expected to keep > climbing.
The page you linked exists to sell stock in a mining company.
The problem is the cost of the rather complex cells, not the raw lithium. There might be a shortage in the near future but in the long term there is plenty. Lithium is the 25th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, about the same as nickel and lead. However, it is distributed fairly uniformly: there are no really high-grade ores. As usual as the best deposits are exhausted miners will move on the next best but as the difference between best and next best is not great the resulting price increase will be small. Prices may even fall once a high volume long term market is established as that will justify the development of better refining technology and the construction of large, expensive facilities.
It makes a great deal of difference whether the university is refusing to perform reaserch specified in a grant that they had already accepted or refusing to accept a grant that was being offered.
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> If the core is a dynamo, why can't we pull current from the core ?
No reason at all. Just have to burrow down a few thousand miles and hook up to a few million cubic miles of liquid iron. I suggest that you get right on it.
Microsoft didn't get where they are by throwing money around just because they have it.
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This is a civil lawsuit. The point is to make the plaintiff whole and cause the infringement to cease. It is not about any sort of punishment.
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...European and North American companies debut the worlds fastest train in China.
Not likely. Tsunamis rarely cause starquakes.
If anyone competent wanted to blow up a plane they'd use a mule.
I would have chosen a different word...
> It wasn't a firecracker. Google "binary explosive"
Perhaps. If so, it didn't work, just as everyone who actually knows any chemistry predicted.
Or is he the trouser terrorist? How soon will TSA start requiring you to remove your trousers before you can board your flight?
Yes, that's the "War On Terror" alright.
> This year, for the first time since its inception, Norad is not making a .kml file available for download to track Santa.
> simple
".kml" files in 1958 at NORAD's inception or in 1955 when its predecessor the Air Defense Command first started tracking Santa? Not likely.
Because the suit was brought in USA Federal court by USA residents complaining about unauthorized copies of works subject to USA copyright being distributed in the USA. If awarded damages the plaintiffs can seize USA assets of the defendant and/or ask a Canadian court to enforce the orders of the USA court. While suits against foreign defendants may be news to you they are in fact routine in all jurisdictions and are handled in accordance with well-established procedures.
About the same as they did to a USA company being ordered by a French court to cease "violating French law" by selling Nazi memorabilia on its USA Web site.
The plain language of the "safe harbor" provision makes it clear that the defense is not available when inducement is involved.
> Lithium supply is marginal at present and future pricing is expected to keep
> climbing.
The page you linked exists to sell stock in a mining company.
The problem is the cost of the rather complex cells, not the raw lithium. There might be a shortage in the near future but in the long term there is plenty. Lithium is the 25th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, about the same as nickel and lead. However, it is distributed fairly uniformly: there are no really high-grade ores. As usual as the best deposits are exhausted miners will move on the next best but as the difference between best and next best is not great the resulting price increase will be small. Prices may even fall once a high volume long term market is established as that will justify the development of better refining technology and the construction of large, expensive facilities.
You are suggesting do-it-yourself brain surgery? I guess that would be "glamourous". If it works. And if it doesn't, it might win you a Darwin award.
The disadvantage is cost. There are many battery technologies more suitable for this application than lithium.
> ...it is the fact the GPLv3 is too strict.
GPLv2 still exists and is still used (the Linux kernel, for example).
...compensated in proportion to their productivity because you cannot measure their productivity.
> I already thought Twitter required more filtering between brain and
> keyboard, but now this?
It's Twitter. No need to involve the brain at all.
In the USA truth is an absolute defense. However, you do have to present it. The obvious incompetence of your attorney is not a defect in the law.
> Actually if Microsoft just bought out the i4i company like it did Hotmail
> and others, it would then own those patents.
The shareholders would have to be willing to sell at a price Microsoft was willing to pay. My guess is that an offer was made and refused.
> Corporate Cannibalism is the word I would use to call that.
You, of course. would never sell your company for any amount of money.
It makes a great deal of difference whether the university is refusing to perform reaserch specified in a grant that they had already accepted or refusing to accept a grant that was being offered.