All they really need to do is develop an automated identification software and telescope computer interface. Then sell them for about $200 each. It would only take a 12" scope to ID 99% of the objects!
Then set up a registry and offer the Discovery announcement, naming rights, and mineral rights to anyone that ID's them.
Hell, I would spend all night ID'ing them for the mineral rights alone:)
I have owned and run a few computer companies. The first thing you learn is that word of mouth is worth it's weight in GOLD! Provided it is good word of mouth, bad word or mouth can kill a small company. With the advent of the internet, companies are now closer to there customer base than ever before. No longer can they ignore the customer, treat the customer like crap, etc. As they continue to enter into this space they will have to adjust their thinking. Change the way they respond and act towards the customer and provide GOOD customer service. Proper customer service and utilizing the advantages of the internet can truly change the way a business is perceived.
For now they are on a learning curve. They have not been a small business in many years and they now have to relearn what they have lost. (Customer service) A note here, if Dell wanted help in this area I can show them the In's and Out's for a price.:)
To the people who have used the excuse that Linux is only 2% of the computer world. That means that the number of Linux users in the US alone is in the neighborhood of 4 Million! Based on 2% of the HOME computers in the US! If a market of 4 million users is too small for Dell, Dell NEEDS to go under!
think the issue is not about pure technical censorship, but oppressive censorship that actually infringes on people's rights - which typically can only be done by governments.
And religious organizations, Social Groups, Big Corporations, and many other groups. It is not hard to censor in the definition you are attempting to create.
From NEC paying news papers not to publish information (Yes, First Hand Knowledge)
To pharmaceutical removing data to reduce or stop lawsuits, to Religious organizations using their large groups of believers to remove books from the library.
It does not take a government to censor. It only takes a group of people who can exert influence over others.
For instance, what do you call the removal of incorrect information from the public eye (say, on Wikipedia)? Technically that's censorship, but nobody complains.
Now you are mixing Editing with censorship. Wikipedia (by the nature of the design) allows everyone the ability to edit the information. A history is kept and you can look at the changes. I do not have a problem with editing. If Dell had removed the post and stated why they removed it or moved it to an area for complaints I would not have a problem with it.
Censorship does not require government. It is the removal of information from the public, or the prevention of circulation of information, where it is desired or felt best by some controlling group or body that others are not allowed to access the information which is being censored.
If they want to know why, all they have to do is look at the career possibilities.
#1) Unneeded: IT is seen (By the C-Level executives) as expensive, overpriced, overstaffed, and overhead. It is one of the first departments to get hit with layoffs when times get tough.
#2) No promotion/raise: The only way I have gotten a promotion or a raise is to change jobs. 5 years of working for a company, working to better the systems and protect the company assets. When the Manager moved up (to the GM spot) I put in for the position. I am told that I am not qualified. Strange, you would think that 10 years management experience, PM classes and 2 years towards a MBA would qualify me.
#3) Respect: When problems occur, IT is the first to get blamed Do I even need to explain this one?
#4) Cost Cutting: IT is the only field I have ever worked where you can and do get asked to take a pay cut while doubling your work load.
#5) Knowledge and training == 0: This is one of the few fields where people are paid for what they know, only to have the critical decisions made without their input. How many of us have been overridden by a C-Level Exec? Ex: "I have decided that we will be a MS Windows shop from now on. I need you to replace those 8 old HP9000 oracle servers with this new quad processor Windows server." --- Real example!
#6) Education: Most realize that after 4 years in college, they enter the workforce 7 years behind the curve. Experience is everything!
Some times a standard is adopted for strange reasons! For example 4' 8.5" (four foot eight and one half inches)
It is the primary gauge used in Britain, Europe, the USA, & many other countries. It is used on such high speed lines as France's TGV, Germany's ICE, & Japan's Bullet Trains.
Standard gauge, in railway terminology, means a distance between the rails of 4 feet, 8 ½ inches or 1.435 meters. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, & English expatriates built railways all around the world. Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railway tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did they use that gauge in England, then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since. And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The standard railway gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specifications and Bureaucracies Live Forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
Plus, there's an interesting extension of the story about railway gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railway from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railway track, and the railway track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
As you can see, the more we fight it the worse the planet gets! Look at the way the temp dropped when the government pushed for farmers to grow it during WWII!
It is in the top 10 for CO2 fixation! It has over 25,000 uses of which smoking it is just 1!
We can make cloths, shoes, rope, cardboard, paper, and other goods from the fibers. We can make bread, cooking oil, ethanol, bio diesel, and bird food from the seeds. We can smoke the buds to relax.
Problem solved! We just plant it everywhere! Along the roads, in the unused fields, around the government buildings, just everywhere. No more global warming!
Interesting how the CO2 levels started to rise just after the government banned growing it!
We can also reduce the "War on Drugs" budget and redirect it to research on global warming. There is an instant $6,000,000,000 per year to find alternate energy sources.:)
George Washington (1732 - 1799) Government Like Fire
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
It is not the governments job to ID me, tag me, or give a flying F**K what I do, provided I do not infringe on others rights.
What is the government's job?
Try this
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
The government's job is to secure our rights, not to remove them!
So, while you accept the ID cards, I do not! While you accept restrictions on your rights (To keep and bear arms), I do NOT! While you accept restrictions on your rights, I resist them! I will continue to resist them tell the day I die.
The universe is no longer in a steady state! Our use of cars and oil have unbalanced the delicate system and not only are we destroying the planet, we are causing the universe to come apart at the seams. We must stop using oil, cars, energy, and anything else we invent and let the universe heal itself.
It seems to be the only solution people can come up with.
I like the idea of the fine being inline with the crime. Instead of a fixed fine where the amount becomes a cost of doing business, why do they not move to a sliding scale. For example, each person who's e-mail they sold would receive the amount paid for the list. So if the list is 100 e-mails and the person caught was selling the list for 1$ then the fine would be equal to 1$ x 100 and that $ would be sent to the people who's names are on the list.
1) Can they sue you? Sure they can try, but will it hold up in court? Probably not. 2) Will you have to defend your self? Sure, so get a lawyer NOW!
Now for the fun part:)
3) (IN Texas) By verbally notifying you of their intent to sue, (I hope you have a witness!) they are now financially responsible for the cost incurred in your preparation to defend your self should they not follow through with it. This means that if it was a scare tactic and they had no intent of suing you, they have to pay all your lawyers fees! I know this because I used to run a large anonymous service. Every time I received a letter threating to sue me, my attorneys eyes would light up! It was like a bonus check for him:> He would put in all the work preparing a defense (and some people can make BIG threats) then when he found their intent was not to sue, we would sue them.
I hope this helps!!
Oh, and if you are leaving does that mean that they have an opening.;) cl@xganon.com
I don't have a problem with it. It has happened and will continue to happen. What I have the biggest problem with is the "Second Chance Offer." I have bid fair price on many (one of a kind) items only to get out bid by something that looks like a shill account. After the auction ends the seller makes a second chance offer to me at the price of the highest bidder.
So I bid 10$ on an item that I am willing to pay 10$ for, Some one outbids me and the number goes to $11, I up the bid to $15 and am again outbid 1$ at a time. At this point I walk away. I then get a second chance offer to buy the item for the 17$ high bid. What makes me even more suspicious is when the same item is then relisted and the pattern repeats itself.
In all honesty, it's e-bay, It is not worth getting worked up over! You win some and you loose some. If you think the seller is a ripoff, add them to your favorite sellers list and put a note stating your opinion of them. Then make sure you do not buy from them again. It would be nice if E-Bay offered a way to tag sellers you do not want to do business with and let you ignore there listings.
For the record, I am not a climatologist, which is why I listen to what people who are climatologists are saying.
HAHAHAH, you are pointing to Dr. Mann's site. The man that invented the hockey stick graph! His site supports his findings and the climatologists he allows to post support his findings. I would expect nothing less.
This is why the vast majority of climate scientists believe that the theory of AGW is correct
Sorry, It realy does not matter what the vast majority of climate scientists believe Consensus does not make science. As you point out A theory of yours that you've relied on for half of your life could be shattered beyond reconciliation by some dork on the other side of the planet that you've never even heard of.
I find it interesting that realclimate.org discounts the findings of other scientists on the solar forcing. It only goes to show you that the science is in debate. A simple Google search of Nasa.gov shows that there are over 5,000 references to solar forcing. It would seem that the verdict is out as to what the climates reaction is to solar variance.
Think of the reaction changes in the great climate models. If they only give solar variance a forcing of 10% - 20% and the real forcing is more in the range of 40% - 50% the change is drastic. Some papers give solar forcing percentages as low as 9% others rate it as high as 80%
All in all the debate is open, the consensus is BS and the global warming zealots are scared!
"If you want a concise definition of science, it is this: science is the methodology by which we identify and discard beliefs and theories that are false. This process does not produce facts; it does not produce proof"
Following that logic, there can be no PROOF of global warming! There can only be theories and as we know, a theory is not proof. Thus, all the people screaming about how "The debate is over", "We have proof of Global Warming", and "Science has proven global warming" must be wrong because science can not produce proof of global warming. It can only produce a theory that stands up to the observations and when the observations are found to be faulty (IE The hockey stick graph) the theory is revised to meet the new observations. You do not ignore the new observations!
On that note, it would also indicate that when some one finds instances where the data does not match the theory and uses these instances to show that the theory is wrong, it is not "Cherry picking" as any instance where the data does not match the theory means that the theory has been disproved and should be adjusted to take the new data into account.
Thus the Global Warming zealots will mod him down, it is more important that they maintain the illusion of consciences. This way they have power and can effect changes that they are sure are in your best interest even if you do not think they are.
Slashdot Mirror
The question that comes to my mind is, can a truly sentient being be governed by a set of pre-programed laws?
Would the existence of sentients not require the existence of self determination?
With out self determination it would be no more than a collection of programs intended to mimic human behavior's and not a truly sentient being.
The story is slash doted so I did not RTFA.
:)
Come on, It is a movie. Movie physics can be explained with a simple question.
Is it in the script?
If the answer is Yes, then "Make it so number one!"
All they really need to do is develop an automated identification software and telescope computer interface. Then sell them for about $200 each. It would only take a 12" scope to ID 99% of the objects!
:)
Then set up a registry and offer the Discovery announcement, naming rights, and mineral rights to anyone that ID's them.
Hell, I would spend all night ID'ing them for the mineral rights alone
I have owned and run a few computer companies. The first thing you learn is that word of mouth is worth it's weight in GOLD! Provided it is good word of mouth, bad word or mouth can kill a small company. With the advent of the internet, companies are now closer to there customer base than ever before. No longer can they ignore the customer, treat the customer like crap, etc. As they continue to enter into this space they will have to adjust their thinking. Change the way they respond and act towards the customer and provide GOOD customer service. Proper customer service and utilizing the advantages of the internet can truly change the way a business is perceived.
:)
For now they are on a learning curve. They have not been a small business in many years and they now have to relearn what they have lost. (Customer service) A note here, if Dell wanted help in this area I can show them the In's and Out's for a price.
To the people who have used the excuse that Linux is only 2% of the computer world. That means that the number of Linux users in the US alone is in the neighborhood of 4 Million!
Based on 2% of the HOME computers in the US! If a market of 4 million users is too small for Dell, Dell NEEDS to go under!
think the issue is not about pure technical censorship, but oppressive censorship that actually infringes on people's rights - which typically can only be done by governments. And religious organizations, Social Groups, Big Corporations, and many other groups. It is not hard to censor in the definition you are attempting to create. From NEC paying news papers not to publish information (Yes, First Hand Knowledge) To pharmaceutical removing data to reduce or stop lawsuits, to Religious organizations using their large groups of believers to remove books from the library. It does not take a government to censor. It only takes a group of people who can exert influence over others. For instance, what do you call the removal of incorrect information from the public eye (say, on Wikipedia)? Technically that's censorship, but nobody complains. Now you are mixing Editing with censorship. Wikipedia (by the nature of the design) allows everyone the ability to edit the information. A history is kept and you can look at the changes. I do not have a problem with editing. If Dell had removed the post and stated why they removed it or moved it to an area for complaints I would not have a problem with it.
You really should understand the word Censorship and how it is defined.
Read Wikipedia or Websters
Censorship does not require government. It is the removal of information from the public, or the prevention of circulation of information, where it is desired or felt best by some controlling group or body that others are not allowed to access the information which is being censored.
It qualifies!
What does the "Gay Nigger Association of America" GNAA corporate have to do with online storage?
NOTE: Just put GNAA into google and see what you get!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=218426&cid=17
I hate to say it but "I told you so!"
Ok, I enjoy saying it
HP 9000's are not "unsupported" the HP 9000 rp7440 Server (HP-UX 11i) is still a live (Supported) product.
Ok, Look at it this way
We will be replacing these 8 old 16 processor (1Ghz cpu's) HP units with a 4 CPU Windows box.
If they want to know why, all they have to do is look at the career possibilities.
#1) Unneeded: IT is seen (By the C-Level executives) as expensive, overpriced, overstaffed, and overhead. It is one of the first departments to get hit with layoffs when times get tough.
#2) No promotion/raise: The only way I have gotten a promotion or a raise is to change jobs. 5 years of working for a company, working to better the systems and protect the company assets. When the Manager moved up (to the GM spot) I put in for the position. I am told that I am not qualified. Strange, you would think that 10 years management experience, PM classes and 2 years towards a MBA would qualify me.
#3) Respect: When problems occur, IT is the first to get blamed Do I even need to explain this one?
#4) Cost Cutting: IT is the only field I have ever worked where you can and do get asked to take a pay cut while doubling your work load.
#5) Knowledge and training == 0: This is one of the few fields where people are paid for what they know, only to have the critical decisions made without their input. How many of us have been overridden by a C-Level Exec? Ex: "I have decided that we will be a MS Windows shop from now on. I need you to replace those 8 old HP9000 oracle servers with this new quad processor Windows server." --- Real example!
#6) Education: Most realize that after 4 years in college, they enter the workforce 7 years behind the curve. Experience is everything!
Some times a standard is adopted for strange reasons! For example 4' 8.5" (four foot eight and one half inches)
It is the primary gauge used in Britain, Europe, the USA, & many other countries. It is used on such high speed lines as France's TGV, Germany's ICE, & Japan's Bullet Trains.
Standard gauge, in railway terminology, means a distance between the rails of 4 feet, 8 ½ inches or 1.435 meters. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, & English expatriates built railways all around the world. Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railway tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did they use that gauge in England, then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing?
Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads?
The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since. And the ruts?
The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The standard railway gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot.
Specifications and Bureaucracies Live Forever.
So, the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses.
Plus, there's an interesting extension of the story about railway gauge and horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on the launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are the solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railway from the factory runs through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than a railway track, and the railway track is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So a major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.
And I thought that the year 1906 would pass with out any issues.
I am telling you all we need to do is plant more marijuana.
I put the major events of the "War on Drugs" into a global temperature chart. It is plane as day, just look at it!
Click HERE
As you can see, the more we fight it the worse the planet gets! Look at the way the temp dropped when the government pushed for farmers to grow it during WWII!
It is in the top 10 for CO2 fixation! It has over 25,000 uses of which smoking it is just 1!
:)
We can make cloths, shoes, rope, cardboard, paper, and other goods from the fibers.
We can make bread, cooking oil, ethanol, bio diesel, and bird food from the seeds.
We can smoke the buds to relax.
Problem solved! We just plant it everywhere! Along the roads, in the unused fields, around the government buildings, just everywhere. No more global warming!
Interesting how the CO2 levels started to rise just after the government banned growing it!
We can also reduce the "War on Drugs" budget and redirect it to research on global warming. There is an instant $6,000,000,000 per year to find alternate energy sources.
Problem solved, now take that $25,000,000 prize and give it to the Marc Emery defiance fund.
Time to feed the troll, we all enjoy it. :)
The government should never be trusted!
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Government Like Fire
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
It is not the governments job to ID me, tag me, or give a flying F**K what I do, provided I do not infringe on others rights.
What is the government's job?
Try this
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
The government's job is to secure our rights, not to remove them!
So, while you accept the ID cards, I do not! While you accept restrictions on your rights (To keep and bear arms), I do NOT! While you accept restrictions on your rights, I resist them! I will continue to resist them tell the day I die.
1,000???? You can find them in ancient Egyptian art. That covers closer to 4,000 years.
:>
Or for all of human time if you think of the other balls.
The universe is no longer in a steady state! Our use of cars and oil have unbalanced the delicate system and not only are we destroying the planet, we are causing the universe to come apart at the seams. We must stop using oil, cars, energy, and anything else we invent and let the universe heal itself.
Sound crazy?
No more crazy than global warming
It seems to be the only solution people can come up with.
:0
I like the idea of the fine being inline with the crime. Instead of a fixed fine where the amount becomes a cost of doing business, why do they not move to a sliding scale. For example, each person who's e-mail they sold would receive the amount paid for the list. So if the list is 100 e-mails and the person caught was selling the list for 1$ then the fine would be equal to 1$ x 100 and that $ would be sent to the people who's names are on the list.
Works for me.
The site is down right now.
It provided anonymous e-mail, Usenet news, and web surfing.
IANAL (but my sister-inlaw is an ADA in Texas!)
:)
:>
;) cl@xganon.com
1) Can they sue you? Sure they can try, but will it hold up in court? Probably not.
2) Will you have to defend your self? Sure, so get a lawyer NOW!
Now for the fun part
3) (IN Texas) By verbally notifying you of their intent to sue, (I hope you have a witness!) they are now financially responsible for the cost incurred in your preparation to defend your self should they not follow through with it. This means that if it was a scare tactic and they had no intent of suing you, they have to pay all your lawyers fees!
I know this because I used to run a large anonymous service. Every time I received a letter threating to sue me, my attorneys eyes would light up! It was like a bonus check for him
He would put in all the work preparing a defense (and some people can make BIG threats) then when he found their intent was not to sue, we would sue them.
I hope this helps!!
Oh, and if you are leaving does that mean that they have an opening.
I don't have a problem with it. It has happened and will continue to happen. What I have the biggest problem with is the "Second Chance Offer." I have bid fair price on many (one of a kind) items only to get out bid by something that looks like a shill account. After the auction ends the seller makes a second chance offer to me at the price of the highest bidder.
So I bid 10$ on an item that I am willing to pay 10$ for, Some one outbids me and the number goes to $11, I up the bid to $15 and am again outbid 1$ at a time. At this point I walk away. I then get a second chance offer to buy the item for the 17$ high bid. What makes me even more suspicious is when the same item is then relisted and the pattern repeats itself.
In all honesty, it's e-bay, It is not worth getting worked up over! You win some and you loose some. If you think the seller is a ripoff, add them to your favorite sellers list and put a note stating your opinion of them. Then make sure you do not buy from them again. It would be nice if E-Bay offered a way to tag sellers you do not want to do business with and let you ignore there listings.
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For the record, I am not a climatologist, which is why I listen to what people who are climatologists are saying.
HAHAHAH, you are pointing to Dr. Mann's site. The man that invented the hockey stick graph! His site supports his findings and the climatologists he allows to post support his findings. I would expect nothing less.
You can read about about rejected posts and dissenting opinions.
Or you could read on about them deleting posts.
This is why the vast majority of climate scientists believe that the theory of AGW is correct
Sorry, It realy does not matter what the vast majority of climate scientists believe Consensus does not make science. As you point out A theory of yours that you've relied on for half of your life could be shattered beyond reconciliation by some dork on the other side of the planet that you've never even heard of.
I find it interesting that realclimate.org discounts the findings of other scientists on the solar forcing. It only goes to show you that the science is in debate. A simple Google search of Nasa.gov shows that there are over 5,000 references to solar forcing. It would seem that the verdict is out as to what the climates reaction is to solar variance.
Think of the reaction changes in the great climate models. If they only give solar variance a forcing of 10% - 20% and the real forcing is more in the range of 40% - 50% the change is drastic. Some papers give solar forcing percentages as low as 9% others rate it as high as 80%
All in all the debate is open, the consensus is BS and the global warming zealots are scared!
hobdes,
He was modded a troll because he said
"If you want a concise definition of science, it is this: science is the methodology by which we identify and discard beliefs and theories that are false. This process does not produce facts; it does not produce proof"
Following that logic, there can be no PROOF of global warming! There can only be theories and as we know, a theory is not proof. Thus, all the people screaming about how "The debate is over", "We have proof of Global Warming", and "Science has proven global warming" must be wrong because science can not produce proof of global warming. It can only produce a theory that stands up to the observations and when the observations are found to be faulty (IE The hockey stick graph) the theory is revised to meet the new observations. You do not ignore the new observations!
On that note, it would also indicate that when some one finds instances where the data does not match the theory and uses these instances to show that the theory is wrong, it is not "Cherry picking" as any instance where the data does not match the theory means that the theory has been disproved and should be adjusted to take the new data into account.
Thus the Global Warming zealots will mod him down, it is more important that they maintain the illusion of consciences. This way they have power and can effect changes that they are sure are in your best interest even if you do not think they are.
I can count 5 that fail it's validation and every one of them is a legal copy on a legal system.
I would look at there program first, then accuse everyone of steeling second.
It really does not surprise me that there are a lot of pirated copies out there.