Perhaps when challenged they will point to other court cases where Universal has taken the position that "damages" have nothing to do with actual work/losses.
"So now I can look forward to being aggressively proselytized on the web as well as by obnoxious yokels in the real world. Wonderful."
Really? As far as I can tell, Roman Catholic priests are the least likely to proselytize, at least in the 7th Day/Mormon Missionary sense. For that matter, there is extremely little RC "televangelism".
"Will we come to our senses already, or will it take soaring food prices and flooded cities and islands first?"
What I find most ironic is that the measures taken by the "sensible" have ALREADY caused the prices of food to go up. From that viewpoint, why NOT delay the pain?
"Obama made the promise, Congress is failing to uphold it. I don't see a problem here."
While that is technically true, it's far too facile. Before one can claim that someone else is responsible for a broken promise, one must make at least SOME effort to fulfill it. Where Congress is concerned, he hasn't even tried.
Publish text of bills pror to the vote? Sorry, it's too "urgent".
Veto bills with earmarks? Sorry, "last year's business".
Televise negotiations? Sorry, too "sensitive".
Obama has let the Congressional leadership do whatever they want without even token protest. I don't like his politics, but I had held some "hope" that he'd have the balls to apply "change" to his own party. Turns out whatever balls he had are firmly ensconced in Pelosi's handbag.
People only use letters and numbers because when they thing "word" it implies some meaning or coherence. We all understand what letters and numbers stand for or "mean". Non-alphanumerics? Hell, we can't even decide what to call "#" - is it "hash" or "pound?" Is "." "dot" or "point?" For that matter, I still associate "$" with "string" in Fortran.
Start calling them security codes, pass codes, mystery keys, whatever.
You are comparing outliers with averages, and the results of centuries of breeding with an undomesticated species. I have the feeling that an auroch herd bull might be a *bit* more substantial than the average cow.
It's time for Congress to exercise one of their little known powers and issue a letter of marque to Google, authorizing them to take action against Chinese nationals via the internet. We are effectively in a state of conflict with China, with them attacking US interests via "private" proxies. Google and other organizations could be allowed to exercise some self help and go on the offensive.
And it would make "Talk like a Pirate Day" really mean something.
I think you may have the cause and effect wrong. I think sperm can't survive long at body temperature specifically BECAUSE a woman's eggs are so far inside her. The sperm's lifetime is drastically shortened by the conditions inside a uterus. This is good because, if sperm were long lived, parentage of offspring would always be in doubt - Is the daddy the guy she screwed yesterday or a month ago? This way, the odds are far more likely that the last one in is the Daddy.
I think sperm temperature range is the CAUSE of testicles, not the effect.
1) Making money off china without playing ball 2) Providing a means to get around the Great Firewall 3) "Index" Chinese companies and the gov like they've never been "indexed" before.
China is effectively using a militia to achieve political and economic goals. And they just pissed of a big company based in a country that's also an economic competitor. It's going to be like The East India company vs. privateers.
"Calling them out like this will force them to respond, and they have learned from several previous International fiascos (SARS, lead, tainted milk, etc) that lying and denying everything when the proof is already out usually just causes lot more harm than good. You are right that they probably will have to deny it (lead paint is one thing, govt sponsored international industrial espionage is another) - but they are going to lose a lot of international credibility in the process."
And that has hurt China how? They've been assuaging their humiliation by rolling around in the piles of cash we continue to give them. Oh, some chinese individuals may suffer - I believe there was an execution over tainted milk - but otherwise they don't care. I mean, cripes - lead is banned in kids toys in the US and they replace it with cadmium? Talk about obeying the letter but not the spirit.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big Ringo fan. I was pointing out that, once you get past the first "trilogy" (it was supposed to be one, but the last book got split into 2), his stuff get a LOT more complex, which Hollywood doesn't do so well. In addition, there's a lot of back-story needed for comprehension. Strip Aldenata down to basics, and it's bug-eyed monsters. Which is totally awesome in my book, but Hollywood's record lately hasn't been so hot.
After finally reading the book, I think it could only make sense if the cast, crew, director, producer, and audience were stoned.
On the other hand, the Chronicles of Amber is just sitting there, especially the Guns of Avalon - hoards of demons with MP-5's vs. humans with swords? What's not to like?
"Keith Laumer's Retief (sort of a tongue-in-cheek James Bond-ish diplomat dealing with various troublesome alien species) could be huge, and there are enough stories for a dozen films."
The problem with the Retief series is that there were a couple of good ones and then a bunch that he basically crapped out - oh, wait, it would be perfect for Hollywood.
Good Christian mom, martial arts expert, guns, demons, beheadings, thinly disguised SF authors getting killed in gruesome ways, BDSM, secret FBI departments...
You know, I'm thinking Ringo's stuff isn't going to make it to the big screen. At least, not unless they do a reverse Starship Troopers on it.
It's more complicated than that. The NSSS was supplied by one of the 4 companies. It may as well have been a heat pump, from that standpoint. But who did the design and installation of the REST of the plant was all over the place. Bechtel was the biggest player, United Engineers and Constructors was another,, Brown and Root, Fluor-Daniel, etc. but the list went on. Some utilities did the contracting themselves, which could be good (Duke Energy) or bad (Zimmer).
Also, aside from the first couple of plants, they were ALL built on a cost-plus basis. That was one reason that costs tended to spiral out of control - the General Contractor, who was supposed to be looking out for the owner's interests, more often than not just passed through whatever inflated costs their subs presented. Since they got a percentage on everything, they had zero incentive to control costs, and the utilities didn't have the expertise to know when they were getting screwed. Bechtel was great at that - it's no coincidence that the Big Dig was a Bechtel project and the overruns were astounding.
As much as it gauls me, Plopez is correct, although reactor designs weren't quite that diverse. In the US there were basically 4 NSSS (Nuclear Steam Supply System) suppliers: GE, who made BWR's; and Westinghouse, Babcock & Wilcox, and Combustion Engineering, who all made PWR's. Within each of the suppliers the designs were similar; the problem came in when the utilities specified the units. Some wanted big, some wanted small. Some wanted X, others wanted Y. So the suppliers competed against each other within that specification, but no 2 utilities had the same specs. Then they'd submit each individual design to the NRC, who would do a de novo analysis on each individual design and license it.
Should they have simply licensed 1-2 designs and be done with it? In retrospect, yes, but keep in mind that, at the time, the governmental style in the US and France were quite different. Licensing only 1 design created a de facto monopoly on NSSS's in France, and they were OK with that. In the US in the 50's and 60's, that looked an awful lot like communism.
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Perhaps when challenged they will point to other court cases where Universal has taken the position that "damages" have nothing to do with actual work/losses.
"So now I can look forward to being aggressively proselytized on the web as well as by obnoxious yokels in the real world. Wonderful."
Really? As far as I can tell, Roman Catholic priests are the least likely to proselytize, at least in the 7th Day/Mormon Missionary sense. For that matter, there is extremely little RC "televangelism".
Do you have any particular instance in mind?
"Will we come to our senses already, or will it take soaring food prices and flooded cities and islands first?"
What I find most ironic is that the measures taken by the "sensible" have ALREADY caused the prices of food to go up. From that viewpoint, why NOT delay the pain?
While that is technically true, it's far too facile. Before one can claim that someone else is responsible for a broken promise, one must make at least SOME effort to fulfill it. Where Congress is concerned, he hasn't even tried.
Publish text of bills pror to the vote? Sorry, it's too "urgent".
Veto bills with earmarks? Sorry, "last year's business".
Televise negotiations? Sorry, too "sensitive".
Obama has let the Congressional leadership do whatever they want without even token protest. I don't like his politics, but I had held some "hope" that he'd have the balls to apply "change" to his own party. Turns out whatever balls he had are firmly ensconced in Pelosi's handbag.
You don't need to bribe Neelie - just her underlings that filter the data that gets to her.
"maybe eu approved the deal because they got annoyed by monty"
More likely that Oracle's check finally cleared.
People only use letters and numbers because when they thing "word" it implies some meaning or coherence. We all understand what letters and numbers stand for or "mean". Non-alphanumerics? Hell, we can't even decide what to call "#" - is it "hash" or "pound?"
Is "." "dot" or "point?" For that matter, I still associate "$" with "string" in Fortran.
Start calling them security codes, pass codes, mystery keys, whatever.
You are comparing outliers with averages, and the results of centuries of breeding with an undomesticated species. I have the feeling that an auroch herd bull might be a *bit* more substantial than the average cow.
Thanks for the explanation of PITA - for a minute there I was thinking it was a gyro recipe.
You flew in a private jet to Congressional hearings, didn't you?
It's time for Congress to exercise one of their little known powers and issue a letter of marque to Google, authorizing them to take action against Chinese nationals via the internet. We are effectively in a state of conflict with China, with them attacking US interests via "private" proxies. Google and other organizations could be allowed to exercise some self help and go on the offensive.
And it would make "Talk like a Pirate Day" really mean something.
I think you may have the cause and effect wrong. I think sperm can't survive long at body temperature specifically BECAUSE a woman's eggs are so far inside her. The sperm's lifetime is drastically shortened by the conditions inside a uterus. This is good because, if sperm were long lived, parentage of offspring would always be in doubt - Is the daddy the guy she screwed yesterday or a month ago? This way, the odds are far more likely that the last one in is the Daddy.
I think sperm temperature range is the CAUSE of testicles, not the effect.
1) Making money off china without playing ball
2) Providing a means to get around the Great Firewall
3) "Index" Chinese companies and the gov like they've never been "indexed" before.
China is effectively using a militia to achieve political and economic goals. And they just pissed of a big company based in a country that's also an economic competitor. It's going to be like The East India company vs. privateers.
"Calling them out like this will force them to respond, and they have learned from several previous International fiascos (SARS, lead, tainted milk, etc) that lying and denying everything when the proof is already out usually just causes lot more harm than good. You are right that they probably will have to deny it (lead paint is one thing, govt sponsored international industrial espionage is another) - but they are going to lose a lot of international credibility in the process."
And that has hurt China how? They've been assuaging their humiliation by rolling around in the piles of cash we continue to give them. Oh, some chinese individuals may suffer - I believe there was an execution over tainted milk - but otherwise they don't care. I mean, cripes - lead is banned in kids toys in the US and they replace it with cadmium? Talk about obeying the letter but not the spirit.
http://www.superstupor.com/sust02132009.shtml
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big Ringo fan. I was pointing out that, once you get past the first "trilogy" (it was supposed to be one, but the last book got split into 2), his stuff get a LOT more complex, which Hollywood doesn't do so well. In addition, there's a lot of back-story needed for comprehension. Strip Aldenata down to basics, and it's bug-eyed monsters. Which is totally awesome in my book, but Hollywood's record lately hasn't been so hot.
Deathworld. Concise plot, current enviro-friendly themes, cool weapons, wisecracking protagonist with coy love interest.
Eh, Hollywood will fuck it up.
"Princess Ardala, Col. Wilma Deering, ... What more could any nerd boy want?"
I'm not a nerd boy anymore; I'm a nerd MAN, and the "more" I want is Ardala and Deering naked in a lesbian scene.
Dammit, "hordes", not "hoards".
"Zelazny's Lord of Light? "
After finally reading the book, I think it could only make sense if the cast, crew, director, producer, and audience were stoned.
On the other hand, the Chronicles of Amber is just sitting there, especially the Guns of Avalon - hoards of demons with MP-5's vs. humans with swords? What's not to like?
"Keith Laumer's Retief (sort of a tongue-in-cheek James Bond-ish diplomat dealing with various troublesome alien species) could be huge, and there are enough stories for a dozen films."
The problem with the Retief series is that there were a couple of good ones and then a bunch that he basically crapped out - oh, wait, it would be perfect for Hollywood.
I'd rather see the "Bolo" series.
That would be awesom. Then we can move on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_of_Shadows
Plenty of guns, bombs, naked chicks, presidents who aren't douchebags, BDSM, black helicopters, rape, ...
On second thought, http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/11-UntotheBreachCD/UntotheBreachCD/Princess%20of%20Wands/index.htm
Good Christian mom, martial arts expert, guns, demons, beheadings, thinly disguised SF authors getting killed in gruesome ways, BDSM, secret FBI departments...
You know, I'm thinking Ringo's stuff isn't going to make it to the big screen. At least, not unless they do a reverse Starship Troopers on it.
Where's the "titanic" tag?
It's more complicated than that. The NSSS was supplied by one of the 4 companies. It may as well have been a heat pump, from that standpoint. But who did the design and installation of the REST of the plant was all over the place. Bechtel was the biggest player, United Engineers and Constructors was another,, Brown and Root, Fluor-Daniel, etc. but the list went on. Some utilities did the contracting themselves, which could be good (Duke Energy) or bad (Zimmer).
Also, aside from the first couple of plants, they were ALL built on a cost-plus basis. That was one reason that costs tended to spiral out of control - the General Contractor, who was supposed to be looking out for the owner's interests, more often than not just passed through whatever inflated costs their subs presented. Since they got a percentage on everything, they had zero incentive to control costs, and the utilities didn't have the expertise to know when they were getting screwed. Bechtel was great at that - it's no coincidence that the Big Dig was a Bechtel project and the overruns were astounding.
As much as it gauls me, Plopez is correct, although reactor designs weren't quite that diverse. In the US there were basically 4 NSSS (Nuclear Steam Supply System) suppliers: GE, who made BWR's; and Westinghouse, Babcock & Wilcox, and Combustion Engineering, who all made PWR's. Within each of the suppliers the designs were similar; the problem came in when the utilities specified the units. Some wanted big, some wanted small. Some wanted X, others wanted Y. So the suppliers competed against each other within that specification, but no 2 utilities had the same specs. Then they'd submit each individual design to the NRC, who would do a de novo analysis on each individual design and license it.
Should they have simply licensed 1-2 designs and be done with it? In retrospect, yes, but keep in mind that, at the time, the governmental style in the US and France were quite different. Licensing only 1 design created a de facto monopoly on NSSS's in France, and they were OK with that. In the US in the 50's and 60's, that looked an awful lot like communism.