Twenty-three years into it, I have to say that I disagree. Though I wasn't a likely candidate, marriage (and later, a daughter) is one of the few life choices that I can say was an unqualified success, thanks to my improbable success in finding such a great mate.
That reminds me, my anniversary is in two weeks, and the old girl wants a tablet computer. I better get to picking out a good one for her.
Hot damn, congrats to you, Pope! Get her something nice!
Had this happened in the old Soviet Union he would have gotten life in prison as well. A short life, punctuated by a bullet to the back of the head.
You seem to wish a return to "the good ol' days".
But because this is America, my tax dollars are going to spent keeping him alive for the next several decades. Either kill him, or deliver a cost-effective but brutal punishment such as will discourage anyone else from pulling the same crap he did.
Cheap cunt. All you care about is your tax dollars? And yet nothing in your post about reforming the system to have fewer non-violent prisoners. Yeah, I bet you'd love China's or Soviet Union's penal system.
Seems to me that the best punishment would be a year or so in prison with the most violent and vicious criminals our society has to offer. If that doesn't discourage him from his black-hat activities then nothing will. A few before and after pictures (of both his face and anus) posted online should do the trick.
When South Africa did this (to black people, rather than women), under Apartheid, the civilised world rightly condemned it, and imposed trade sanctions. Where are the trade embargoes on Saudi Arabia? They're in contravention of the UN declaration of Human Rights.
Because it goes against Political Correctness. [...] The only thing dumber than Political Correctness are the people who don't question it.
No, it's because of the oil FFS.
Those on the left tend to be criticized as being PC, yet they're the ones who push for women's rights too, so PC it ain't.
The only thing dumber than PC is people who see it under every bed and in every closet. But I'm sorry for raining on your OT political rant, my bad, I guess I'm so un-PC.
Videomatica only exists in name only as a rump section in Zulu Records, which itself doesn't look too healthy. The original owners of Videomatica retired, precisely because of the destruction of its market by digital downloads. They donated most of their collection to either UBC or SFU, so there's only a few cult items left at Zulu. If you've been in the store lately, I think you would find that it is hardly a persuasive argument for the "niche" posts.
Interesting. I thought they had closed up entirely and was surprised when I punched their URL in to see that some part of them still existed. Too bad only part of their collection is available through Zulu. I'd heard talk of it going to a library of some sort, but assumed Zulu got all of it.
I used to live right next door to their building on 4th Ave, but moved away before it closed. Even then I ended up buying a new yearly membership every time I wanted to rent a movie as I only watched one per year on average.
And then there is this bill, signed a few years later by Obama:
The 2011 Defense Authorization Bill additionally prohibits âoethe use of funds to modify or construct facilities in the United States to house detainees transferred from United States Naval Station, GuantÃnamo Bay, Cuba.â
It's like he's trying to have his torture, and yet claim powerlessness too. Highly unimpressive.
Like I said, I'm unimpressed too, but I think you missed the part that the Senate passed the bill blocking funds (I don't think the president has a choice at that point but to sign it into law), where Obama signed a memorandum to get a place ready for prisoner transfer. He doesn't have the ability to force it to happen though.
But, it does seem like the USA likes its gulags and is loathe to give them up. Hell, Canada even refused to accept a Canadian citizen (born in Canada, 15 years old when captured) from being transferred back to Canada from Guantanamo. The Conservatives blocked the transfer at every possible opportunity until very recently; and had the support of a disturbing number of Canadians on that. So, I guess Canada likes gulags-by-proxie. Shameful. (See Omar Kadr case.)
Videomatica in Vancouver was (is?) famous for their foreign films and back catalogues and were staffed by movie buffs.
They had talked about closing up, but checking them just now (redirects to new site), they've closed their flagship store and are sharing a location with a record store.
They'd been in business for some 25 years or so, yet had to downscale their location in a reasonably large city just to keep the doors open. And I think they were popular Canada-wide for those really hard to get rentals among people willing to pay shipping...
Your friend might be able to get some ideas by looking at how they adapted to the times.
PS Tried to post this before, still have the "Working" throbber on my screen; apologies if it's a repeat.
The only possible way to survive is to develop a niche. Streaming services are usually pretty good for recent movies, but a lot of back catalogue stuff is hard to find. Specialize in the stuff that's out of print, rare, etc. But really, I'm hard-pressed to see how that business model would be sustainable as a primary income source in most communities. There simply isn't enough demand for the content, especially given the huge amount of material available through Netflix's mail catalogue.
Videomatica in Vancouver was (is?) famous for their foreign films and back catalogues and were staffed by movie buffs.
They had talked about closing up, but checking them just now (redirects to new site), they've closed their flagship store and are sharing a location with a record store.
They'd been in business for some 25 years or so, yet had to downscale their location in a reasonably large city just to keep the doors open.
I sure seem to recall a lot of squawking about that and in the end, since no
one would take the prisoners, Gitmo couldn't be closed.
That's highly unlikely. It would be trivial to transfer the prisoners into a specially built high security prison on some abandoned US military base in the middle of Nowhere, USA. Once the civilian trials had taken place, the facility could be handed over to some state government to become a regular prison.
Sadly, when it comes to addressing the human rights abuses committed by America in its witch hunt on turban wearing brown people,
Obama is just full od hot air like most Americans.
Some conservatives, however, don't like the idea of bringing suspected terrorists the government calls dangerous to the U.S. mainland.
"There's really no place in the United States that can replicate the sort of operational security features that Guantanamo has," said David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official.
On May 20, 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90-6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[12] President Obama issued a Presidential memorandum dated December 15, 2009, ordering the preparation of the Thomson Correctional Center, Thomson, Illinois so as to enable the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners there.[13]
I sure seem to recall a lot of squawking about that and in the end, since no
one would take the prisoners, Gitmo couldn't be closed.
That's highly unlikely. It would be trivial to transfer the prisoners into a specially built high security prison on some abandoned US military base in the middle of Nowhere, USA. Once the civilian trials had taken place, the facility could be handed over to some state government to become a regular prison.
Sadly, when it comes to addressing the human rights abuses committed by America in its witch hunt on turban wearing brown people,
Obama is just full od hot air like most Americans.
Some conservatives, however, don't like the idea of bringing suspected terrorists the government calls dangerous to the U.S. mainland.
"There's really no place in the United States that can replicate the sort of operational security features that Guantanamo has," said David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official.
Remember, choosing the wrong brand of watch could land you in Gitmo.
"I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that." - Barack Obama, On CBS 60 Minutes, November 16, 2008
I'm hugely disappointed that he didn't close it. But wasn't the reason he didn't close it the setting-hair-on-fire and similar cowardly nonsense from various opponents that were scared shitless of having "terrrrrrists" transferred to mainland USA prisons, to be held in SuperMax prisons until trials would have been held?
I sure seem to recall a lot of squawking about that and in the end, since no one would take the prisoners, Gitmo couldn't be closed.
Still, damned disappointed. But do find it ironic that some of those blaming him for that *supported* Bush when he created the gulag in the first place.
First, in the summary you forget to identify the distance: 100ly.
Oh. Shit. I thought I had that, as it is rather important. I guess I was too tired and too fascinated that this thing may not have coexisted with the last of the dinosaurs as it's so "young".
Well, that pretty much rules out any worry of a collision even if at such a distance the alignment would be astronomically unlikely to be one which would allow for a collision.
Second, why does anyone care if there is a 'spike' in discussion with the 2012 doomsayers? You think there WOULDN'T be a spike in discussion around December 2012? And who cares if there is? The good news, is that by January, all the 2012 end of the world nonsense will be over (Even if they are right;) )
Talk about the Mayan "prophecy" will be unavoidable around the end of December, but if there's an up-tick now and it lasts until xmas it will have become beyond funny. I'll have been all mocked-out long before then.
And, that doomsday nonsense will spill over to all kinds of places where we will not want to encounter it. Like here? At least it provided some interesting comments today.
My problem isn't any of that however. My problem is THIS travesty from the article:
One tricky part is determining if rogue planet candidates are as massive as the "failed stars" known as brown dwarfs, further along in stellar evolution but without enough mass to spark the nuclear fusion that causes starlight.
It's so freaking wrong I can't even parse it to bitch about it in any specific manner. And to me, that's the worst thing that could happen. If I can't complain, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
I don't see the problem there, actually.
Stellar evolution: gas, condensation, kinda maybe planet, yet more condensation, fusion ignites, eventually iron core, death of some sort depending on size. So they find the tricky part determining if it's "evolved" enough gas condensation to be a brown dwarf as I understand it.
What's wrong with that?
-- Serenity is a +5 Insightful post with 0 replies.
PS, I like your sig and (mis-)quoted it to someone on the phone when I got my first +5 with no replies.
They won't impanel me anyhow. Lawyers hate engineers on Juries.
Anyway, I believe Velvin Hogan is an engineer - Samsung might not be regretting having him there (now), although it could be argued things would've turned out much better if they had someone smarter.
The famous (in these parts) Terry Childs (SF Network Admin) trial that had an engineer on it, and he posted on Slashdot about it. He seemed a few degrees smarter than Hogan.
Besides which, if they want my time, they can pay for it. Same as they pay for the prosecutor, bailiff and judge's time.
Well, if that's your opinion of civic duty maybe you should be taxed more to pay for jurors' to be impaneled, seeing as you're too (valuable|precious|...).
Dunno. If I were on a jury, I don't think I would try to call attention to myself.
Forget about any legal exposure. Does South Korea have a "Mafia"? I don't think I would want to find out.
Everyone around here seems to play up the Samsumg complaining about sour grapes angle. I want to play up the "just keep one's (fine, fine) mouth shut" angle, especially as a juror post jury trial.
I mostly agree, though the mafia bit is a touch too paranoid even for someone who's paranoid like myself.
Anyway, here's what Samsung said about it, emphasis added:
Mr. Hogan’s explanations for his answers are not “plausible,” Dyer, 151 F.3d at 975, and he was not “indifferent to service on the jury,” id. at 982. An “individual who lies in order to improve his chances of service has too much of a stake in the matter to be considered indifferent.” Id. Mr. Hogan’s own press statements make clear he was just such an individual. “Whether the desire to serve is motivated by an overactive sense of civic duty, by a desire to avenge past wrongs,
2 by the hope of writing a memoir or by some other unknown motive, this excess of zeal introduces the kind of unpredictable factor into the jury room that the doctrine of implied bias is meant to keep out.”
1. Why didn't Samsung's lawyers know every detail about every potential juror? Is that not allowed in this court? Did each side not get to ask questions of each potential juror?
2. How much of the jury's actions are protected and how much are not?
3. Are Apple's lawyers required to share everything they find out about the case in their own digging with the opposition?
A couple things from Samsung's submission:
Only by chance did Samsung discover the suit by Seagate against Mr. Hogan while it was investigating these other potential bias issues reported post-verdict; and because the court file no longer exists, it was even later that Samsung discovered Mr. Hogan’s lawsuit against Seagate when Mr. Hogan himself disclosed it in an interview.
Nevertheless, Apple insists that Samsung waived because it “could have” and “should have” discovered the dishonesty before it actually did so by ordering Mr. Hogan’s 1993 bankruptcy file during voir dire. Opp. 2. Even apart from the impracticality of this suggestion (it took a week to receive the file after it was ordered post-verdict
Further:
the Court should reject Apple’s
4 untenable suggestion that trial counsel should engage, upon pain of waiver, in scorched-earth, extra- judicial investigations into a sitting juror’s life, absent any reason to believe that they lied on voir dire or otherwise warranted such an intrusion upon their privacy. See Dyer, 151 F.3d at 978 (“While trial is ongoing, lawyers may not conduct the kind of aggressive investigation of jurors they would of other witnesses.”); 6/29/12 Hearing Tr. 63:18-64:13 (Dkt. 1166) (“THE COURT: I’m not going to give you the jury questionnaires that have been filled out long enough in advance for you all to research all these folks.”). The Court asked Mr. Hogan about his prior lawsuits; Samsung was entitled to rely on the truthfulness of his answers.
And, from the footnotes is an example relating to your point #3, though I am not clear on the outcome:
6 Apple cites one more case in its response to Samsung’s related motion to compel: Johnson v. Hill, 274 F.2d 110, 116 (8th Cir. 1960). Dkt. 2118 at 3. In that case, contrary to the facts here, “at the time of voir dire examination appellant’s counsel had information from two sources” that “put him on notice” that an answer given by a juror was not true, but nevertheless “he remained mute and made no request of the court for a further interrogation.” Id.
Reading through Samsung's submission over at Groklaw, the whole juror misconduct is a rather minor part.
It goes on for pages about Apple's arguments during trial and disputes their claims, for example:
Apple’s attack on the legal standard for design patent infringement underscores the gaps in its evidence. First, the rule that “design patent infringement requires similarity so great as to deceive in purchasing” is not a “false premise” (Opp. 4) but rather the established standard for over a century. Gorham Mfg. Co. v. White, 81 U.S. 511, 528 (1871) (test is whether “the resemblance is such as to
5 deceive such an observer, inducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other”). Apple’s authority confirms this. Crocs, Inc. v. ITC, 598 F.3d 1294, 1303-06 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (infringement found where accused products were likely to “cause market confusion”). Apple’s experts conceded that purchasers would not be confused. RT 1101:11-1102:8; 1103:2-1104:18; 1424:3-1425:22.
It goes on like this for pages and makes a very compelling argument.
I don't personally care that the oil industry or whatever is protecting its turf. They have interests and I'm quite aware of what those are. The other side has considerable interests and frankly, those stakes look a lot bigger than the fossil fuel side.
The only place there's a serious debate is in the public imagination, and that's largely due to a very well-funded PR campaign funded by the oil and coal industries.
Show me the money. If there's a "well funded" PR campaign then someone has to be spending that money. In contrast there are vast sums being spent on pro-AGW PR. For example, whole government programs are devoted to this, such as UK's Met Office and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a department in US's NASA).
A really classy group (of psychological projectionists apparently):
On May 4, 2012, the institute launched a digital billboard ad campaign in the Chicago area featuring a photo of Ted Kaczynski, (the "Unabomber" whose mail bombs killed three people and injured 23 others), and asking the question, “I still believe in global warming, do you?”[24] [...] In a statement, the institute justified the billboards saying "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."[25]
Who only want what's best for everyone, no BS, just the truth unadulterated by their sponsors:
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with Philip Morris to question the link between secondhand smoke and health risks.[10][29]
Yep, the smoke-can-kill-you alarmists are just a bunch of lib'ruls, no doubt.
Anyway, unlike the climate scientists who have figured out how to get out of the poverty-riddled field of petroleum research and into the big bucks of academia (/snark), these guys don't release funding sources:
The Heartland Institute does not disclose its funding sources. According to its brochures, Heartland receives money from approximately 1,600 individuals and organizations, and no single corporate entity donates more than 5% of the operating budget,[37] although the figure for individual donors can be much higher, with a single anonymous donor providing $4.6 million in 2008, and $979,000 in 2011, accounting for 20% of Heartland's overall budget, according to reports of a leaked fundraising plan.[38] [...] Oil and gas companies have contributed to the Heartland Institute, including over $600,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005.[42]
That was one source, I'm pretty sure there are others.
Those are *completely* absurd statements that indicate an *utter* lack of comprehension as to how computer and peripherals actually are and how they work.
Besides being stupidly paranoid.
Then explain why a router would need any software on a PC to make the router run?
DHCP should be all that's needed, and it ought to be part of a base install of all systems out there.
Yet another attempt at FUD to get the American people to accept higher gas prices. Yet another way for them to arbitrarily increase gas prices even though there's plenty available.
-- You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
I like your signature.
I love the irony of that signature appended to what constitutes your comment.
You will eventually be paying more for fuel; either it goes to a) government taxes which can pay down debt or maintain / enhance infrastructure, or b) it goes to corporate profits / speculators' pockets.
So, when BigOilCo(tm) gets a refinery / pipeline, etc. incapacitated such as this story refers to, gas prices will immediately increase. And only (maybe) return to initial price after newly refined fuel has flowed through the entire (repaired) system, and repairs have been paid for. Yay for speculators / corporate profits.
Or, pay more in taxes, get better transit and fewer crumbling bridges, enjoy the uptick in economy from jobs created, and in future, rely less on BigOilCos.
So the Supreme Court Of Canada found the patent hard to understand.
You can believe that if it makes you feel good, but reality says otherwise, that the patent was purposefully obfuscated:
"Pfizer gained a benefit from the act -- exclusive monopoly rights -- while withholding disclosure in spite of its disclosure obligations under the act," Justice Louis LeBel wrote on behalf of the court.
"As a matter of policy and sound statutory interpretation, patentees cannot be allowed to 'game' the system in this way. This, in my view, is the key issue in this appeal.
"Pfizer had the information needed to disclose the useful compound and chose not to release it."
So, no one could "understand" it because they didn't disclose proper information - enough for someone skilled in the profession to create a copy of the drug.
It's a remarkably sensible decision and one that should be applied in US courts - particularly in the current mobile patent war (the part about not being allowed to "game the system").
Harper is... uncomfortably far right for many Canadians.
Again, true. But the real problem is he's too dishonest for most Canadians. And this time I think I can speak for most Canadians.
Should only be another election or two before his party collapses on itself and we can move on.
I fear that, by then, there will be decades of work undoing the damage he's caused. But you're probably correct in that the party is bound to implode, sooner rather than later (sooner being relative to the PCs, for example).
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Twenty-three years into it, I have to say that I disagree. Though I wasn't a likely candidate, marriage (and later, a daughter) is one of the few life choices that I can say was an unqualified success, thanks to my improbable success in finding such a great mate.
That reminds me, my anniversary is in two weeks, and the old girl wants a tablet computer. I better get to picking out a good one for her.
Hot damn, congrats to you, Pope! Get her something nice!
Had this happened in the old Soviet Union he would have gotten life in prison as well. A short life, punctuated by a bullet to the back of the head.
You seem to wish a return to "the good ol' days".
But because this is America, my tax dollars are going to spent keeping him alive for the next several decades. Either kill him, or deliver a cost-effective but brutal punishment such as will discourage anyone else from pulling the same crap he did.
Cheap cunt. All you care about is your tax dollars? And yet nothing in your post about reforming the system to have fewer non-violent prisoners. Yeah, I bet you'd love China's or Soviet Union's penal system.
Seems to me that the best punishment would be a year or so in prison with the most violent and vicious criminals our society has to offer. If that doesn't discourage him from his black-hat activities then nothing will. A few before and after pictures (of both his face and anus) posted online should do the trick.
You sick fuck.
When South Africa did this (to black people, rather than women), under Apartheid, the civilised world rightly condemned it, and imposed trade sanctions.
Where are the trade embargoes on Saudi Arabia? They're in contravention of the UN declaration of Human Rights.
Because it goes against Political Correctness.
[...]
The only thing dumber than Political Correctness are the people who don't question it.
No, it's because of the oil FFS.
Those on the left tend to be criticized as being PC, yet they're the ones who push for women's rights too, so PC it ain't.
The only thing dumber than PC is people who see it under every bed and in every closet. But I'm sorry for raining on your OT political rant, my bad, I guess I'm so un-PC.
Videomatica only exists in name only as a rump section in Zulu Records, which itself doesn't look too healthy. The original owners of Videomatica retired, precisely because of the destruction of its market by digital downloads. They donated most of their collection to either UBC or SFU, so there's only a few cult items left at Zulu. If you've been in the store lately, I think you would find that it is hardly a persuasive argument for the "niche" posts.
Interesting. I thought they had closed up entirely and was surprised when I punched their URL in to see that some part of them still existed. Too bad only part of their collection is available through Zulu. I'd heard talk of it going to a library of some sort, but assumed Zulu got all of it.
I used to live right next door to their building on 4th Ave, but moved away before it closed. Even then I ended up buying a new yearly membership every time I wanted to rent a movie as I only watched one per year on average.
And then there is this bill, signed a few years later by Obama:
It's like he's trying to have his torture, and yet claim powerlessness too.
Highly unimpressive.
Like I said, I'm unimpressed too, but I think you missed the part that the Senate passed the bill blocking funds (I don't think the president has a choice at that point but to sign it into law), where Obama signed a memorandum to get a place ready for prisoner transfer. He doesn't have the ability to force it to happen though.
But, it does seem like the USA likes its gulags and is loathe to give them up. Hell, Canada even refused to accept a Canadian citizen (born in Canada, 15 years old when captured) from being transferred back to Canada from Guantanamo. The Conservatives blocked the transfer at every possible opportunity until very recently; and had the support of a disturbing number of Canadians on that. So, I guess Canada likes gulags-by-proxie. Shameful. (See Omar Kadr case.)
Videomatica in Vancouver was (is?) famous for their foreign films and back catalogues and were staffed by movie buffs.
They had talked about closing up, but checking them just now (redirects to new site), they've closed their flagship store and are sharing a location with a record store.
They'd been in business for some 25 years or so, yet had to downscale their location in a reasonably large city just to keep the doors open. And I think they were popular Canada-wide for those really hard to get rentals among people willing to pay shipping...
Your friend might be able to get some ideas by looking at how they adapted to the times.
PS Tried to post this before, still have the "Working" throbber on my screen; apologies if it's a repeat.
The only possible way to survive is to develop a niche. Streaming services are usually pretty good for recent movies, but a lot of back catalogue stuff is hard to find. Specialize in the stuff that's out of print, rare, etc. But really, I'm hard-pressed to see how that business model would be sustainable as a primary income source in most communities. There simply isn't enough demand for the content, especially given the huge amount of material available through Netflix's mail catalogue.
Videomatica in Vancouver was (is?) famous for their foreign films and back catalogues and were staffed by movie buffs.
They had talked about closing up, but checking them just now (redirects to new site), they've closed their flagship store and are sharing a location with a record store.
They'd been in business for some 25 years or so, yet had to downscale their location in a reasonably large city just to keep the doors open.
That's highly unlikely. It would be trivial to transfer the prisoners into a specially built high security prison on some abandoned US military base in the middle of Nowhere, USA. Once the civilian trials had taken place, the facility could be handed over to some state government to become a regular prison.
Sadly, when it comes to addressing the human rights abuses committed by America in its witch hunt on turban wearing brown people,
Obama is just full od hot air like most Americans.
Here's a reference to the opposition I spoke of:
Here's something else:
That's highly unlikely. It would be trivial to transfer the prisoners into a specially built high security prison on some abandoned US military base in the middle of Nowhere, USA. Once the civilian trials had taken place, the facility could be handed over to some state government to become a regular prison.
Sadly, when it comes to addressing the human rights abuses committed by America in its witch hunt on turban wearing brown people,
Obama is just full od hot air like most Americans.
Here's a reference to the opposition I spoke of:
Remember, choosing the wrong brand of watch could land you in Gitmo.
"I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that." - Barack Obama, On CBS 60 Minutes, November 16, 2008
I'm hugely disappointed that he didn't close it. But wasn't the reason he didn't close it the setting-hair-on-fire and similar cowardly nonsense from various opponents that were scared shitless of having "terrrrrrists" transferred to mainland USA prisons, to be held in SuperMax prisons until trials would have been held?
I sure seem to recall a lot of squawking about that and in the end, since no one would take the prisoners, Gitmo couldn't be closed.
Still, damned disappointed. But do find it ironic that some of those blaming him for that *supported* Bush when he created the gulag in the first place.
*shug* Damned glad I'm not American.
First, in the summary you forget to identify the distance: 100ly.
Oh. Shit. I thought I had that, as it is rather important. I guess I was too tired and too fascinated that this thing may not have coexisted with the last of the dinosaurs as it's so "young".
Well, that pretty much rules out any worry of a collision even if at such a distance the alignment would be astronomically unlikely to be one which would allow for a collision.
Second, why does anyone care if there is a 'spike' in discussion with the 2012 doomsayers? You think there WOULDN'T be a spike in discussion around December 2012? And who cares if there is? The good news, is that by January, all the 2012 end of the world nonsense will be over (Even if they are right ;) )
Talk about the Mayan "prophecy" will be unavoidable around the end of December, but if there's an up-tick now and it lasts until xmas it will have become beyond funny. I'll have been all mocked-out long before then.
And, that doomsday nonsense will spill over to all kinds of places where we will not want to encounter it. Like here? At least it provided some interesting comments today.
My problem isn't any of that however. My problem is THIS travesty from the article:
One tricky part is determining if rogue planet candidates are as massive as the "failed stars" known as brown dwarfs, further along in stellar evolution but without enough mass to spark the nuclear fusion that causes starlight.
It's so freaking wrong I can't even parse it to bitch about it in any specific manner. And to me, that's the worst thing that could happen. If I can't complain, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
I don't see the problem there, actually.
Stellar evolution: gas, condensation, kinda maybe planet, yet more condensation, fusion ignites, eventually iron core, death of some sort depending on size. So they find the tricky part determining if it's "evolved" enough gas condensation to be a brown dwarf as I understand it.
What's wrong with that?
PS, I like your sig and (mis-)quoted it to someone on the phone when I got my first +5 with no replies.
Oops, forgot to clarify, IANAL, YMMV, etc. ad nauseam...
They won't impanel me anyhow. Lawyers hate engineers on Juries.
Anyway, I believe Velvin Hogan is an engineer - Samsung might not be regretting having him there (now), although it could be argued things would've turned out much better if they had someone smarter.
The famous (in these parts) Terry Childs (SF Network Admin) trial that had an engineer on it, and he posted on Slashdot about it. He seemed a few degrees smarter than Hogan.
Besides which, if they want my time, they can pay for it. Same as they pay for the prosecutor, bailiff and judge's time.
Well, if that's your opinion of civic duty maybe you should be taxed more to pay for jurors' to be impaneled, seeing as you're too (valuable|precious|...).
Dunno. If I were on a jury, I don't think I would try to call attention to myself.
Forget about any legal exposure. Does South Korea have a "Mafia"? I don't think I would want to find out.
Everyone around here seems to play up the Samsumg complaining about sour grapes angle. I want to play up the "just keep one's (fine, fine) mouth shut" angle, especially as a juror post jury trial.
I mostly agree, though the mafia bit is a touch too paranoid even for someone who's paranoid like myself.
Anyway, here's what Samsung said about it, emphasis added:
We need some real answers, not AC speculation.
1. Why didn't Samsung's lawyers know every detail about every potential juror? Is that not allowed in this court? Did each side not get to ask questions of each potential juror?
2. How much of the jury's actions are protected and how much are not?
3. Are Apple's lawyers required to share everything they find out about the case in their own digging with the opposition?
A couple things from Samsung's submission:
Further:
And, from the footnotes is an example relating to your point #3, though I am not clear on the outcome:
Reading through Samsung's submission over at Groklaw, the whole juror misconduct is a rather minor part.
It goes on for pages about Apple's arguments during trial and disputes their claims, for example:
It goes on like this for pages and makes a very compelling argument.
I don't personally care that the oil industry or whatever is protecting its turf. They have interests and I'm quite aware of what those are. The other side has considerable interests and frankly, those stakes look a lot bigger than the fossil fuel side.
Reminds me of this.
The only place there's a serious debate is in the public imagination, and that's largely due to a very well-funded PR campaign funded by the oil and coal industries.
Show me the money. If there's a "well funded" PR campaign then someone has to be spending that money. In contrast there are vast sums being spent on pro-AGW PR. For example, whole government programs are devoted to this, such as UK's Met Office and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a department in US's NASA).
Ok.
A really classy group (of psychological projectionists apparently):
Who only want what's best for everyone, no BS, just the truth unadulterated by their sponsors:
Yep, the smoke-can-kill-you alarmists are just a bunch of lib'ruls, no doubt.
Anyway, unlike the climate scientists who have figured out how to get out of the poverty-riddled field of petroleum research and into the big bucks of academia (/snark), these guys don't release funding sources:
That was one source, I'm pretty sure there are others.
Those are *completely* absurd statements that indicate an *utter* lack of comprehension as to how computer and peripherals actually are and how they work.
Besides being stupidly paranoid.
Then explain why a router would need any software on a PC to make the router run?
DHCP should be all that's needed, and it ought to be part of a base install of all systems out there.
Yet another attempt at FUD to get the American people to accept higher gas prices. Yet another way for them to arbitrarily increase gas prices even though there's plenty available.
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You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
I like your signature.
I love the irony of that signature appended to what constitutes your comment.
You will eventually be paying more for fuel; either it goes to a) government taxes which can pay down debt or maintain / enhance infrastructure, or b) it goes to corporate profits / speculators' pockets.
So, when BigOilCo(tm) gets a refinery / pipeline, etc. incapacitated such as this story refers to, gas prices will immediately increase. And only (maybe) return to initial price after newly refined fuel has flowed through the entire (repaired) system, and repairs have been paid for. Yay for speculators / corporate profits.
Or, pay more in taxes, get better transit and fewer crumbling bridges, enjoy the uptick in economy from jobs created, and in future, rely less on BigOilCos.
However, it's hardly arbitrary.
Seriously, this place has turned into such a lapdog to the Democratic Party that I can't stand to read it anymore.
Mod me down. I don't give a fuck. This is my last slashdot post.
And the quality of Slashdot just went up.
I was just making a stupid joke.. I guess I should have said "So the Supreme Court Of Canada found the patent hard. . . to understand."
Oh, fair enough.
Maybe I should have blamed the moderation system -- the mods marked it as +3 Informative as of right now.
Cheers
So the Supreme Court Of Canada found the patent hard to understand.
You can believe that if it makes you feel good, but reality says otherwise, that the patent was purposefully obfuscated:
So, no one could "understand" it because they didn't disclose proper information - enough for someone skilled in the profession to create a copy of the drug.
It's a remarkably sensible decision and one that should be applied in US courts - particularly in the current mobile patent war (the part about not being allowed to "game the system").
This person does not speak for us.
True - I speak only for myself.
Harper is... uncomfortably far right for many Canadians.
Again, true. But the real problem is he's too dishonest for most Canadians. And this time I think I can speak for most Canadians.
Should only be another election or two before his party collapses on itself and we can move on.
I fear that, by then, there will be decades of work undoing the damage he's caused. But you're probably correct in that the party is bound to implode, sooner rather than later (sooner being relative to the PCs, for example).
Hi down there,
We Canadians would happily trade you 1 Stephen Harper for either of your presidential candidates (prefer Obama SVP).
Anyway, congratulations & good luck...