You can't sue an entity with Sovereign immunity unless they consent to the suit. The IPR process is a preliminary patent action where a challenger sues the patent holder demanding an adjudication of whether the patent is valid. if the Defendant has sovereign immunity in theory you can't launch the suit. At least that's why Allergen sold the patents to the Tribe, to prevent people from challenging the patent. If the court allows the suit to go forward discovery will likely show the sale of the patent is a sham sale.
Most of the Pharma companies are run by people who would fit right in with the Mafia. The days of humble drug companies working with the government to develop drugs and produce them for society at reasonable margins are gone, in the last 20 years the biggest group of psychopaths ever condensed into a single industry is running Pharma. And the results are just what you would expect.
You know I was following right along until you said "at some point nothing (except time itself) existed", because time didn't exist as you'd just said. Time and space go together, if you don't have space you don't have time either. Time started when space started with the big bang. This is a very difficult problem in science because unless someone can devise a way of figuring out what happened before the big bang by looking at the current universe it's a pretty insolvable problem because what existed if anything was outside our universe. There are theories of course, Hawking famously speculated that the events of a blackhole formation appears to be very similar in nature to a big bang within the blackhole, something that's likely not ever knowable.
Battery research has been ongoing at a phenomenal rate of advancement for 16+ years at this point. You appear to have no concept of how rapidly batteries are advancing. When the lead-acid battery was invented more than 100 years ago it became the one and only battery technology up until the 90's. The advancements during that time period were slow and nearly insignificant in comparison to the current breakthroughs with a major advancement about every 20-50 years.
Lithium Ion batteries in turn have advanced so quickly that capacity is growing 20% a year. The same size and weight battery in 2008 now holds more than triple the charge and costs 90% less. Every year there are new advancements that roll into the supply chain a few years later sustaining this continuing innovation. In 2008 Lithium Ion batteries were near on $1000kwh, now prices are $125 and expected to reach $50 by 2020. This is revolutionizing the world, already numerous countries, including China the largest automotive market in the world, have announced that by 2030 they won't allow petrol based vehicles to be sold.
If you told someone in 1990 that the Gas and Diesel automobile would be dead in 40 years and it would be killed by a battery electric car they would have laughed their ass off.
The problem with that whole idea is that sound doesn't behave like laser light.
This is what the experts keep saying every time the press bothers to even talk to them. Most of the experts in the field say that what the US Gov says is happening is simply not possible because sound doesn't behave like that. And 98% of these stories never even bother to ask sound experts and instead take everything the government is saying at face value.
I'll tell you one thing for sure, this focus on sound attacks has eclipsed all the real possibilities like biological or chemical causes. There are hundreds of chemicals and viruses that could cause the exact same symptoms.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has been owned by Murdoch since the 90's if I recall correctly. That's near on 30 years. Apparently you and I have a different opinion of what recent means. But I know, downplay it, for all anyone knows you could be one of the Russians paid to spread propaganda on the internet.
The only way to know for sure what the Chinese intend is to read their party magazines which have been floating the idea for over a year that a unified Korea under the South's leadership isn't a huge problem as they'll be able to bully the south into doing what they want. See if there was no NK there would be no reason to have the US troops and assets there and China would be able to make that point to SK very well given how entwined their economies are at this point. In fact given the hostility to US troops by the Korean public they'd likely be pulled out within 2 years of such an event, Just like the Philippines got rid of us and most of the Japanese want us out as well.
The only real wildcard at this point is Russia who appears to be aiding NK just to poke the west in the eye even though they know NK is a much a threat to Russia as it is to everyone else.
Jesus if you are gonna just make numbers up why post? NK has no where near 5 Million troops. They barely have a 1:1 match against the south's 600+K troops when you factor in capability. When you factor in starvation, lack of training and willingness to surrender you'll like see NK forces collapse as soon as the SK begins pushing back.
Just remember, they called Saddam's 1+million soldier invincible too. The US millitary bought 50,000 body bags for the first gulf war and friendly fire killed more US troops than Iraqis did. The largest tank battle since WWII resulted in no US casualties caused by enemy fire.
A war on the Korean peninsula will likely go down the same way, except rather than eating dog food like the Iraqi soliders the NK soldiers will wish they had the dog food and were as well fed as the Iraqis.
Artillery in tunnels like that is actually pretty easy to destroy with a missile, guided bomb or a fuel air bomb that can suck the air out of the tunnel. Reinforced tunnels like that haven't been secure for 30+ years when they developed the first bombs to take them out. And by they I mean everyone, pretty much every major military has the weapons to take out hardened bunkers like that, even Israel bought them after the last war with Hezbollah.
In a normal US administration that would be true, but Donald Trump is relaying on Twitter to give direction to his own secretary of state I wouldn't count on such policy during the current administration. In the past all US administrations had promised to consult SK before undertaking any attack against the north for the very reason you listed. I have no faith that the current administration would react in the same manner.
Yes most of Seoul would be destroyed in such a war but NK would likely lose very quickly to the South. Even with a manpower advantage the south's military is so much better trained and equipped that they'd likely mop the floor with the NK army. Oh you'll hear people claim the North is different that they have special forces that are better trained than the west, that they will overwhelm the south. In reality it will go down just like it did with Saddam (who the same pundits said the same things about in '91), the north will enact heavy destruction on Seoul and may even advance a couple miles into the south. At that point the south will be mobilized and their technological advantage and better training will come to bear and they will quickly turn the tide. As the tide turns you'll likely see whole divisions surrender to the south.
Yes Seoul and the tech centers will likely get destroyed, but in the end North Korea will cease to exist. China has already begun talking about a unified peninsula under SK leadership as an acceptable result.
While that might be true; I doubt they would risk it.
Why? What does the Russian Government have to lose?
The fact that the ownership of Kapersky was shuffled around such that a guy with deep connections to the FSB (Former KGB) has significant control over the corp should scare anyone. This should be enhanced by the fact that the American government has apparently seen something so concerning that they are reacting to it with law enforcement assets and have bared it's use within the DOD.
This isn't much different than ZTE's three top owners being top Army officials in the PRC along with deep connections to their spy apparatus. I'd be concerned about using any Tech where the top people and owners are all connected to and beholden to that states spy apparatus. For all the talk no one on the board of Microsoft or Cisco is a top retired general that's got deep connections with the NSA. From what we learned from Snowden the NSA does their backdoor stuff on the sly by diverting packages and installing compromised firmwares after it leaves the factory instead of writing the backdoor directly into the software.
If Kapersky is truly using virus scanning to scan for files they want then they've created a tool with unparalleled power. Any computer with Kapersky software is having it's contents scanned and reported back to Russia and the Russian government is apparently able to review the database for targets. It would be trivial for them in such a situation to have the software grab the contents for them, after all it already has kernel Ring 0 access by virtue of it's status as a virus scanner. That's reason alone not to run windows.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The vast majority of power and phone lines installed in this country were installed by local coop's organized and created by local governments. These were later sold to major corporations for management and upgrades after the initial installation was paid for by the local communities.
And once that scan data is lost and someone finds a way to duplicate it with a thin plastic coat over the palm of their hand you are fucked because you can't change your scan. Anything that relies on bio-metrics is a massive failure as even if it's not fakable now it will be after the implement it and you can't change your fucking bio-metrics.
The problem has always been using a fixed number for identity. A number I might add that was never intended for such and that congress actually banned it being used a few years ago. Congress should pass a law making any company that uses your social security number for anything other than social security liable for any damages and provide statutory damages of $5K per use.
If we need an ID number is should be fucking PKI based with a revocation list and everything that goes with it. We could even issue etokens for people to use for identification. Anything else is doomed to failure because it will suffer the same problems the stupid SSN suffer.
Gilsonite might technically be Asphalt by definition,but it's a unique natural bitumen composed of a mix of light but solid hydrocarbons. It only occurs in one spot on the planet (the Uinta Basin in Utah).
It's believed to have been created when a few million years ago a geothermal event warmed up the Uintah oil shale (the same stuff they frack) and liquefied a bunch of the hydrocarbons into a slurry that then oozed up the cracks and solidified. It's a solid, actually looks quite a bit like obsidian (glossy and black) but is super light weight and obviously not glass. It's so light weight they mine it by hand with air hammers and use vacuums to collect it and bring it to the surface.
You missed the best part, 3 years ago, they didn't even have a security department. At least according to his throw the wage slave under the bus testimony. He's distracting you with this tale of rouge employee while dropping a bombshell you didn't even notice.
3 years ago the company responsible for approving credit for all americans had NO information security department. According to the CEO's testimony they had zero budget and not a single employee dedicated to security of their IT networks. That's grounds for jailing him IMO.
Gas cannot be stored for more than about a month, it sucks water out of the atmosphere and will be so saturated with moisture in a month that it will be worthless.
GM also loses $7000 a vehicle on the Bolt, I don't blame them for not pushing it (it is quite ugly too) while they try to work out the best way to manufacture battery electric cars.
The problem GM has always had is that battery electric requires that you basically go back to the drawing board and redesign the car from the ground up, there are a ton of systems and things on a gas car that simply aren't needed on an electric car. Tesla went this route, but GM as a traditional manufacturer is handicapped by their supply chain already producing all these things that could be 50% cheaper if they were redesigned around an electric drivetrain with energy recovery. As it is GM is putting gas designed parts into the electric car which dramatically increases the cost, decreases efficiency etc.
Don't worry about it, it's a quite fascinating thing they do. They weren't fucking, they were just doing the courting thing that all birds do (dancing, calling etc), eagles grab each other by the talons and plumet and let go at the last second, climb back up and do it again and again. When the female is satisfied then they get busy and do the whole parenting thing. It's actually the coolest courting in the animal kingdom IMO.
Determining how it handles various types of failures will certainly be part of the engineering process
Only if there is appropriate government regulation, otherwise the company will cut corners, pray for no accidents then when the inevitable accident happens they will simply declare bankruptcy and reincorporate under the same management and the people that died can go pound sand.
The government has sovereign immunity to all lawsuits excepting those specifically authorized by congress. Without law that made it possible to sue the government for certain violations there would be no legal way to sue the federal government. Those lists of potential areas to sue are areas where congress allowed lawsuits in prior times.
You know, I tried to get the solar installer to do one panel at a time but he kept insisting on installing them on racks in rows of 20 at a time. Lazy bastard.....
You can't imagine how much wildlife has been displaced by the solar panels on my roof. Christ I haven't seen a single deer walking around on my roof!! I tell you it's a travesty of wasted wildlife access.
Unless of course the solar has an energy storage system then combined capacity rates are near 60-70% and present a power prices that's 1/3rd nuclear's cost.
I like nuclear as much as you but the simple fact is it's been priced out of the market and that's not likely to change without massive tax payer subsidies. Solar costs have fallen 99.99% since 1970. You can now purchase solar panels at a price that's orders of magnitudes smaller than other sources and the only reason it's not taken over completely is the storage issue. Once the storage problem is solved Wind and Solar will be the only two power sources as wind will be cheaper than dirt cheap gas without subsidy by 2020 at current price trends. Solar is following the same track but is a little bit more expensive upfront but has lower maintenance costs long term.
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You can't sue an entity with Sovereign immunity unless they consent to the suit. The IPR process is a preliminary patent action where a challenger sues the patent holder demanding an adjudication of whether the patent is valid. if the Defendant has sovereign immunity in theory you can't launch the suit. At least that's why Allergen sold the patents to the Tribe, to prevent people from challenging the patent. If the court allows the suit to go forward discovery will likely show the sale of the patent is a sham sale.
Most of the Pharma companies are run by people who would fit right in with the Mafia. The days of humble drug companies working with the government to develop drugs and produce them for society at reasonable margins are gone, in the last 20 years the biggest group of psychopaths ever condensed into a single industry is running Pharma. And the results are just what you would expect.
You know I was following right along until you said "at some point nothing (except time itself) existed", because time didn't exist as you'd just said. Time and space go together, if you don't have space you don't have time either. Time started when space started with the big bang. This is a very difficult problem in science because unless someone can devise a way of figuring out what happened before the big bang by looking at the current universe it's a pretty insolvable problem because what existed if anything was outside our universe. There are theories of course, Hawking famously speculated that the events of a blackhole formation appears to be very similar in nature to a big bang within the blackhole, something that's likely not ever knowable.
Battery research has been ongoing at a phenomenal rate of advancement for 16+ years at this point. You appear to have no concept of how rapidly batteries are advancing. When the lead-acid battery was invented more than 100 years ago it became the one and only battery technology up until the 90's. The advancements during that time period were slow and nearly insignificant in comparison to the current breakthroughs with a major advancement about every 20-50 years.
Lithium Ion batteries in turn have advanced so quickly that capacity is growing 20% a year. The same size and weight battery in 2008 now holds more than triple the charge and costs 90% less. Every year there are new advancements that roll into the supply chain a few years later sustaining this continuing innovation. In 2008 Lithium Ion batteries were near on $1000kwh, now prices are $125 and expected to reach $50 by 2020. This is revolutionizing the world, already numerous countries, including China the largest automotive market in the world, have announced that by 2030 they won't allow petrol based vehicles to be sold.
If you told someone in 1990 that the Gas and Diesel automobile would be dead in 40 years and it would be killed by a battery electric car they would have laughed their ass off.
The problem with that whole idea is that sound doesn't behave like laser light.
This is what the experts keep saying every time the press bothers to even talk to them. Most of the experts in the field say that what the US Gov says is happening is simply not possible because sound doesn't behave like that. And 98% of these stories never even bother to ask sound experts and instead take everything the government is saying at face value.
I'll tell you one thing for sure, this focus on sound attacks has eclipsed all the real possibilities like biological or chemical causes. There are hundreds of chemicals and viruses that could cause the exact same symptoms.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has been owned by Murdoch since the 90's if I recall correctly. That's near on 30 years. Apparently you and I have a different opinion of what recent means. But I know, downplay it, for all anyone knows you could be one of the Russians paid to spread propaganda on the internet.
The only way to know for sure what the Chinese intend is to read their party magazines which have been floating the idea for over a year that a unified Korea under the South's leadership isn't a huge problem as they'll be able to bully the south into doing what they want. See if there was no NK there would be no reason to have the US troops and assets there and China would be able to make that point to SK very well given how entwined their economies are at this point. In fact given the hostility to US troops by the Korean public they'd likely be pulled out within 2 years of such an event, Just like the Philippines got rid of us and most of the Japanese want us out as well.
The only real wildcard at this point is Russia who appears to be aiding NK just to poke the west in the eye even though they know NK is a much a threat to Russia as it is to everyone else.
Jesus if you are gonna just make numbers up why post? NK has no where near 5 Million troops. They barely have a 1:1 match against the south's 600+K troops when you factor in capability. When you factor in starvation, lack of training and willingness to surrender you'll like see NK forces collapse as soon as the SK begins pushing back.
Just remember, they called Saddam's 1+million soldier invincible too. The US millitary bought 50,000 body bags for the first gulf war and friendly fire killed more US troops than Iraqis did. The largest tank battle since WWII resulted in no US casualties caused by enemy fire.
A war on the Korean peninsula will likely go down the same way, except rather than eating dog food like the Iraqi soliders the NK soldiers will wish they had the dog food and were as well fed as the Iraqis.
Artillery in tunnels like that is actually pretty easy to destroy with a missile, guided bomb or a fuel air bomb that can suck the air out of the tunnel. Reinforced tunnels like that haven't been secure for 30+ years when they developed the first bombs to take them out. And by they I mean everyone, pretty much every major military has the weapons to take out hardened bunkers like that, even Israel bought them after the last war with Hezbollah.
In a normal US administration that would be true, but Donald Trump is relaying on Twitter to give direction to his own secretary of state I wouldn't count on such policy during the current administration. In the past all US administrations had promised to consult SK before undertaking any attack against the north for the very reason you listed. I have no faith that the current administration would react in the same manner.
Yes most of Seoul would be destroyed in such a war but NK would likely lose very quickly to the South. Even with a manpower advantage the south's military is so much better trained and equipped that they'd likely mop the floor with the NK army. Oh you'll hear people claim the North is different that they have special forces that are better trained than the west, that they will overwhelm the south. In reality it will go down just like it did with Saddam (who the same pundits said the same things about in '91), the north will enact heavy destruction on Seoul and may even advance a couple miles into the south. At that point the south will be mobilized and their technological advantage and better training will come to bear and they will quickly turn the tide. As the tide turns you'll likely see whole divisions surrender to the south.
Yes Seoul and the tech centers will likely get destroyed, but in the end North Korea will cease to exist. China has already begun talking about a unified peninsula under SK leadership as an acceptable result.
Why? What does the Russian Government have to lose?
The fact that the ownership of Kapersky was shuffled around such that a guy with deep connections to the FSB (Former KGB) has significant control over the corp should scare anyone. This should be enhanced by the fact that the American government has apparently seen something so concerning that they are reacting to it with law enforcement assets and have bared it's use within the DOD.
This isn't much different than ZTE's three top owners being top Army officials in the PRC along with deep connections to their spy apparatus. I'd be concerned about using any Tech where the top people and owners are all connected to and beholden to that states spy apparatus. For all the talk no one on the board of Microsoft or Cisco is a top retired general that's got deep connections with the NSA. From what we learned from Snowden the NSA does their backdoor stuff on the sly by diverting packages and installing compromised firmwares after it leaves the factory instead of writing the backdoor directly into the software.
If Kapersky is truly using virus scanning to scan for files they want then they've created a tool with unparalleled power. Any computer with Kapersky software is having it's contents scanned and reported back to Russia and the Russian government is apparently able to review the database for targets. It would be trivial for them in such a situation to have the software grab the contents for them, after all it already has kernel Ring 0 access by virtue of it's status as a virus scanner. That's reason alone not to run windows.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The vast majority of power and phone lines installed in this country were installed by local coop's organized and created by local governments. These were later sold to major corporations for management and upgrades after the initial installation was paid for by the local communities.
Please don't spread propaganda.
And once that scan data is lost and someone finds a way to duplicate it with a thin plastic coat over the palm of their hand you are fucked because you can't change your scan. Anything that relies on bio-metrics is a massive failure as even if it's not fakable now it will be after the implement it and you can't change your fucking bio-metrics.
The problem has always been using a fixed number for identity. A number I might add that was never intended for such and that congress actually banned it being used a few years ago. Congress should pass a law making any company that uses your social security number for anything other than social security liable for any damages and provide statutory damages of $5K per use.
If we need an ID number is should be fucking PKI based with a revocation list and everything that goes with it. We could even issue etokens for people to use for identification. Anything else is doomed to failure because it will suffer the same problems the stupid SSN suffer.
Gilsonite might technically be Asphalt by definition,but it's a unique natural bitumen composed of a mix of light but solid hydrocarbons. It only occurs in one spot on the planet (the Uinta Basin in Utah).
It's believed to have been created when a few million years ago a geothermal event warmed up the Uintah oil shale (the same stuff they frack) and liquefied a bunch of the hydrocarbons into a slurry that then oozed up the cracks and solidified. It's a solid, actually looks quite a bit like obsidian (glossy and black) but is super light weight and obviously not glass. It's so light weight they mine it by hand with air hammers and use vacuums to collect it and bring it to the surface.
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The domains are outside US law enforcement reach as are the servers and people involved. That's exactly that point.
You missed the best part, 3 years ago, they didn't even have a security department. At least according to his throw the wage slave under the bus testimony. He's distracting you with this tale of rouge employee while dropping a bombshell you didn't even notice.
3 years ago the company responsible for approving credit for all americans had NO information security department. According to the CEO's testimony they had zero budget and not a single employee dedicated to security of their IT networks. That's grounds for jailing him IMO.
Gas cannot be stored for more than about a month, it sucks water out of the atmosphere and will be so saturated with moisture in a month that it will be worthless.
GM also loses $7000 a vehicle on the Bolt, I don't blame them for not pushing it (it is quite ugly too) while they try to work out the best way to manufacture battery electric cars.
The problem GM has always had is that battery electric requires that you basically go back to the drawing board and redesign the car from the ground up, there are a ton of systems and things on a gas car that simply aren't needed on an electric car. Tesla went this route, but GM as a traditional manufacturer is handicapped by their supply chain already producing all these things that could be 50% cheaper if they were redesigned around an electric drivetrain with energy recovery. As it is GM is putting gas designed parts into the electric car which dramatically increases the cost, decreases efficiency etc.
Absolutely, that sleep pattern indicates they aren't getting enough sunshine or exercise. We evolved on this planet and we're tied to it's cycles.
Don't worry about it, it's a quite fascinating thing they do. They weren't fucking, they were just doing the courting thing that all birds do (dancing, calling etc), eagles grab each other by the talons and plumet and let go at the last second, climb back up and do it again and again. When the female is satisfied then they get busy and do the whole parenting thing. It's actually the coolest courting in the animal kingdom IMO.
Apparantly you don't know how eagles mate, that wasn't fighting, that was dating.
Only if there is appropriate government regulation, otherwise the company will cut corners, pray for no accidents then when the inevitable accident happens they will simply declare bankruptcy and reincorporate under the same management and the people that died can go pound sand.
The government has sovereign immunity to all lawsuits excepting those specifically authorized by congress. Without law that made it possible to sue the government for certain violations there would be no legal way to sue the federal government. Those lists of potential areas to sue are areas where congress allowed lawsuits in prior times.
You know, I tried to get the solar installer to do one panel at a time but he kept insisting on installing them on racks in rows of 20 at a time. Lazy bastard.....
You can't imagine how much wildlife has been displaced by the solar panels on my roof. Christ I haven't seen a single deer walking around on my roof!! I tell you it's a travesty of wasted wildlife access.
Unless of course the solar has an energy storage system then combined capacity rates are near 60-70% and present a power prices that's 1/3rd nuclear's cost.
I like nuclear as much as you but the simple fact is it's been priced out of the market and that's not likely to change without massive tax payer subsidies. Solar costs have fallen 99.99% since 1970. You can now purchase solar panels at a price that's orders of magnitudes smaller than other sources and the only reason it's not taken over completely is the storage issue. Once the storage problem is solved Wind and Solar will be the only two power sources as wind will be cheaper than dirt cheap gas without subsidy by 2020 at current price trends. Solar is following the same track but is a little bit more expensive upfront but has lower maintenance costs long term.