There's a morbid mathematical-legal job called an actuary who practices in dealing with the estimated worth of people. See, there's no value in a person's death, but what the person would have earned should they have not died at that point can be computed and awarded to to the estate in a wrongful death lawsuit. Go ask O.J. Simpson. The LAPD bungled the investigation to the point there was reasonable doubt in the criminal trial... but O.J. got held liable on the more-likely-than-not standard in the civil trial, and now any money he touches belongs to the family of Ron Goldman.
Assuming the LHC destroys the world with the LHC itself getting swallowed first and all of Earth going next and eventuallyd swallowing the Solar System, what assets would they have left? You should know better than to sue somebody without assets, particularly when you can't hire a lawyer because all your money is gone, all the lawyers are gone, and for that matter, you're gone too.
Of course, this is relevant because in the event of an LHC-created black hole destroying the planet, we will of course launch into space a "lifeboat" containing a judge, defense and plaintiff lawyers, Rusty the Bailiff to keep everyone in line, and one token normal person to be the plaintiff. Justice will be served no matter what the damage to the planet is.
How is that possible that I get not only first post, but first four posts when I have to play by the same rate limiting rules as everybody else? Did all of you let your slashdot subscriptions lapse?
1. Get the government to require your product be shipped with all computers, and used by all households with children. 2. Make your product by stealing code to save on development costs. 3. Bill the computer makers for license rights to the program you stole and the government requires, they can't turn you down or they're out of the PC business. 4. PROFIT!!!
It seems odd that a Chinese government-run effort would have to respect the American copyright laws... couldn't China just declare the work to be in the public domain as far as they're concerned?
If the USA did this, it could remove itself from the lawsuit claiming "Sovereign Immunity" and it's game over. Are you telling us that China doesn't have this out clause?
Let's see... we want 1920x1080x1080 rectangular pixels... I think DirecTV could pull that off, if they'd just down all their SD, HD, and Internet offerings at the same time.
The first lineup has been announced, it will feature "Comin' Atcha!" "Think Fast!" and "Look Out, I'm Throwing Things At Your Head!"
Last week's "Look Out, I'm Throwing Things At Your Head" was killer. This young guy was at the $1,000,000 dodge and still has his Hide In the Audience lifetime, but got too cocky and fell back to $25,000.
Sony and IMAX are more known for doing movies... but it's Disney's Pixar and Viacom's DreamWorks that's doing most of the HD movies. IMAX tends to like to upconvert major releases, but they've got limited processing power so they can't do everything... yet.
During the early days of HD, NESN (the Boston-area sports network with Red Sox games) rented out movie theaters and sold tickets to see the HD broadcast (complete with commercials) in the local movie theater for several away games. We'll likely see a repeat of this stunt by the 3D rights holders.
The first HD broadcasts of a Space Shuttle launch were only available at Best Buy stores. No HD sets had been sold at that time, and Best Buy was rolling out the first unbranded disaster of an plasma HD set for $10,000 and all of those were eventually recalled.
We're starting to hit the point where those with damaged eyes who can see somewhat but not perfectly are getting lost. 3D is useless to the people who have lost depth perception... and HD requires a big enough TV for any additional pixels to be meaningful. At this pace, only teenagers will be subscribing to the highest definition TV services.
Sony, IMAX and Discovery aren't owned by the "big" content companies. Nothing heard from CBS, NBCU, NewsCorp/Fox, Time Warner... and Disney's only asset offering anything is ESPN.
This is about the point where HD was in 1999. Announced, but not quite online yet and only limited programs are being broadcast. Channels are so light on content they sign off rather than take up bandwidth when they've got nothing to show. This will make more sense when the devices are out and priced like an HD set is today... we're just not there yet.
They don't seem to be breaking much ground with this. It was already known that the World Cup going to be shot in 3D... ESPN is basically saying they'll make that feed available in the USA because they own the English-language TV rights. Could we please have Sunday Night Baseball and Monday Night Football in 3D?
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There's a morbid mathematical-legal job called an actuary who practices in dealing with the estimated worth of people. See, there's no value in a person's death, but what the person would have earned should they have not died at that point can be computed and awarded to to the estate in a wrongful death lawsuit. Go ask O.J. Simpson. The LAPD bungled the investigation to the point there was reasonable doubt in the criminal trial... but O.J. got held liable on the more-likely-than-not standard in the civil trial, and now any money he touches belongs to the family of Ron Goldman.
If we don't agree to the shrinkwrap terms, can we take the LHC back to the point of purchase for a full refund?
I think CERN would be declared an Terrorist Organization and the scientists individually deemed Enemy Combatants.
We're past that climax... the answer's 42. Google it.
Let me Wikipedia that for you...
It's not a perfect defense, but it is in many cases a excuse to end a case that the Feds or 50 States don't want to argue out.
Assuming the LHC destroys the world with the LHC itself getting swallowed first and all of Earth going next and eventuallyd swallowing the Solar System, what assets would they have left? You should know better than to sue somebody without assets, particularly when you can't hire a lawyer because all your money is gone, all the lawyers are gone, and for that matter, you're gone too.
Of course, this is relevant because in the event of an LHC-created black hole destroying the planet, we will of course launch into space a "lifeboat" containing a judge, defense and plaintiff lawyers, Rusty the Bailiff to keep everyone in line, and one token normal person to be the plaintiff. Justice will be served no matter what the damage to the planet is.
How is that possible that I get not only first post, but first four posts when I have to play by the same rate limiting rules as everybody else? Did all of you let your slashdot subscriptions lapse?
I'm not quite sure why they went with blue people in the plot... wouldn't that kill red/blue 3D tech?
Well, the USA could take that to the WTO... wait, we don't even respect the WTO anymore.
Asking the USA for a judgment against China? Sounds like even if they win they don't get anything.
1. Get the government to require your product be shipped with all computers, and used by all households with children.
2. Make your product by stealing code to save on development costs.
3. Bill the computer makers for license rights to the program you stole and the government requires, they can't turn you down or they're out of the PC business.
4. PROFIT!!!
It seems odd that a Chinese government-run effort would have to respect the American copyright laws... couldn't China just declare the work to be in the public domain as far as they're concerned?
If the USA did this, it could remove itself from the lawsuit claiming "Sovereign Immunity" and it's game over. Are you telling us that China doesn't have this out clause?
Let's see... we want 1920x1080x1080 rectangular pixels... I think DirecTV could pull that off, if they'd just down all their SD, HD, and Internet offerings at the same time.
Sony is a minor player in television, most of what they do there is game shows.
The first lineup has been announced, it will feature "Comin' Atcha!" "Think Fast!" and "Look Out, I'm Throwing Things At Your Head!"
Last week's "Look Out, I'm Throwing Things At Your Head" was killer. This young guy was at the $1,000,000 dodge and still has his Hide In the Audience lifetime, but got too cocky and fell back to $25,000.
Sony and IMAX are more known for doing movies... but it's Disney's Pixar and Viacom's DreamWorks that's doing most of the HD movies. IMAX tends to like to upconvert major releases, but they've got limited processing power so they can't do everything... yet.
During the early days of HD, NESN (the Boston-area sports network with Red Sox games) rented out movie theaters and sold tickets to see the HD broadcast (complete with commercials) in the local movie theater for several away games. We'll likely see a repeat of this stunt by the 3D rights holders.
The first HD broadcasts of a Space Shuttle launch were only available at Best Buy stores. No HD sets had been sold at that time, and Best Buy was rolling out the first unbranded disaster of an plasma HD set for $10,000 and all of those were eventually recalled.
I don't understand why the standards org for soccer is called FIFA... shouldn't they have an S for soccer somewhere in that name?
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We're starting to hit the point where those with damaged eyes who can see somewhat but not perfectly are getting lost. 3D is useless to the people who have lost depth perception... and HD requires a big enough TV for any additional pixels to be meaningful. At this pace, only teenagers will be subscribing to the highest definition TV services.
Sony, IMAX and Discovery aren't owned by the "big" content companies. Nothing heard from CBS, NBCU, NewsCorp/Fox, Time Warner... and Disney's only asset offering anything is ESPN.
This is about the point where HD was in 1999. Announced, but not quite online yet and only limited programs are being broadcast. Channels are so light on content they sign off rather than take up bandwidth when they've got nothing to show. This will make more sense when the devices are out and priced like an HD set is today... we're just not there yet.
They don't seem to be breaking much ground with this. It was already known that the World Cup going to be shot in 3D... ESPN is basically saying they'll make that feed available in the USA because they own the English-language TV rights. Could we please have Sunday Night Baseball and Monday Night Football in 3D?