Censorship, hmm, the best way to fight bad content would of course be to eliminate all censorship in the case of that bad content, by simply adhering to the law. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.".
So don't like the content, stop censoring people copying it and distributing it for free. Greed will solve the problem caused by greed. No fines required, in point of fact, fewer fines required. Let the religious right decide what content adheres to the law and should be have monopoly copy protection and what should have tax payer funds wasted on it, not when police officer should be out protecting people not wasting their time protecting the profits of pornographers et al.
Really it's drones versus mines, as it side tries to take out the others sources of supply.
Silly enough to launch space war, silly enough to make it genocidal.
Consider stealthed, interstellar high yield nukes designed to target random areas of the planet, and what they don't blow up they make uninhabitable due to radiation. Consider them to be a fail safe, designed to target the hostile worlds over the next few centuries after launch, even in you lose. Consider them mass produced and having thousands in flight.
When it becomes genocidal, everyone abandons their planets (excluding the unlucky many) and it's fleets versus fleets, darting in and out of nebulas to hide, refuel and rebuild. Home worlds where all life is extinct and nothing much left to fight.
Then consider highly advanced third parties who consider those willing to take conflicts out into space a threat and take measures to reset social evolution to see, if they can be less hostile the next time around. Most likely space wars, simple genetic culling, prior to hostilities actually becoming interstellar. Apart from maybe poachers and pirates, those outside the main stream of their societies, on the run and hunted by many.
There are a whole range of industry and construction standards that are compulsory, literally thousands of them. All enforced by government regulations with penalties for non-conformance, absolutely not voluntary.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people can actually exist. In that case a strong government is everything the people want. When private entities reach sufficient power to control the government, they either subvert the government and control it or the destroy the government and become the government.
Weak government is one easily controlled by private entities, strong government gets it's strength from the people.
Anarchistic nonsense only survives in micro economies, the village or nomadic tribes. With cities comes the requirement for strong government in order to ensure equitable access to resources and control of pollutants in concentrated populations. Anarchism ceases to function with increased total and density of population ignoring this is nothing more than childish I want, I want, I want ranting.
Anarchism can be seen as the toddler stage of political evolution and yes, many democracy are actually anarchistic at the very top, especially the US.
The losses will be paperwork losses, reflected in building up infrastructure to mass produce the panels upon very large basis.
The branch off is more indicative of Samsung having made a breakthrough in alternate panel construction, likely cheaper and capable of more readily producing larger screens.
Inevitable that would mean the new business shutting down the old business, not a very good business model hence the need to sell off the old business first.
No different to IBM selling of the hard disk drive business, with the break through in SSDs.
So big Samsung OLEDs in the not too distant future.
There is a real a definitive end to copyright. Either their greed kills us all or we get rid of them. The copyrightists, the pigopolists, tend not to work in the one field but dabble in many destructive areas including patents, the military industrial complex and politics. Copyright will assuredly end one day maybe closer than many people think http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-18/who-orders-bird-flu-research-kept-secret/3838008.
If some corporate executive can come up with a way to profit by it, you can bet it'll be released the next day.
Standards can be legislated as compulsory. To require the use of patent items and hence compulsory payments, is nothing more than a government enforced monopoly with the sole intent of driving out all other businesses covered by that standard. None of them can sell that service, only one of them can, all the others are force to buy it and in the case of FOSS then have to give it away ie a direct corrupt tactic to drive FOSS out of business.
Want it in a standard, then give it away to start with or piss off with your corrupt intent.
For the rich, the poor are always terrorists threatening to use democracy to take away the psychopathic power of the rich.
This is nothing more the rich versus poor and keeping the poor down and under the thumb. The poor now includes the middle class whom the rich consider the greatest threat.
Screen real estate will always be screen real estate. When it comes to do anything once it under say 12 inches it might as well be a phone say no bigger than around 5 inches and the phone does need a blue tooth rechargeable stylus that you use as a hand set (speaker microphone) so you don't need to hold up that large screen to your head and you can use it as a vid phone.
My regular screen is up to 24 inches, I would find anything under 12 inches horribly cramped and honestly think unrealistic in anything other than the marketing world of illusions as being suitable for creating content.
Seriously marketing hype to get people to buy content consumption tablets as devices to create content will simply be proven false and collapse the market. Small tablets are nothing more than a third device, requiring a real computer and a smart phone to make up for small tablet deficiencies. Personally I'd push them even further back behind a big screen computer (45 inches plus), although a tablet would be a useful remote for it (but I'd get the screen before the tablet and seek to have one thrown in with the deal).
It is not a think tank, it is a stink tank. A large public relations firm whose job is to create media to promote the wealth of their donors. No lie to be repeated again and again.
An illusory edifice to sell advertising. Something empty headed politicians bought and paid for by lobbyists can hang their hate.
So they are bitching about the marketing entities ability to promote the agendas of it's donors. Basically a stream of Machiavellian twisted and distorted content and, for all the world content created by psychopaths for psychopaths.
Looking like an actual real world example of James Bond plot. People who spend the working lives plotting and scheming as the minions of some truly enormously bloated ego's, emperors of the world insanity levels, oh my, the Koch(head) boys have wandered right way out there.
The real question here is "is the Heartland Institutes intent criminal" and should it be raided for a whole range of conspiratorial acts.
This is really just a media question, about psuedo celebrities, journalists, maybe sales, et al. For by far the majority of nerds and geeks a non-issue.
So something that needs to be sorted out contractually between the identity, their agent, lawyers and the company to whom that public identity (often just a created faÃade which has very little to do with who the person really is) was contracted.
Such it is much like a person creating an anime character, and the person, the company and what ever public relations services are used to created an identity for that character to promote what ever content and advertising that is produced in that characters identity.
So in the modern internet age who owns that 'anime' character, that marketing illusion, the person in whose name it was created, their agent, the company that contracted them, the public relations firms that worked to bring them to life (well zomboid existence, who is the zomboid those that follow it or the object they follow).
Well, as it all revolves around bullshit, let the bullshit lawyers, deal with the bullshit contracts, deal with the bullshit public relations agencies. When it comes to bullshit, there are no solutions except maybe dung bettles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle;D. Don't know how that helps people who live in the world of PR=B$ (lies for profit) but then again I don't think anything ever really will.
Moron, we are talking average users, where the numbers are, just like you the sub-100s'. The bulk, were corporate executives target their shenanigans. Plenty of solutions for smarter users in fact the majority of smarter users would not even bother with that feature. Retentive types that need every single thing clarified and defined, rather than most things not delineated are obviously regard the majority, the average.
What is fascinating is that companies like godaddy are basically cutting their own throats. The current incumbent mass media outlets are intent on shutting down all competition, that want it back to the way it was last century, where they colluded and controlled the public mind scape. They were the political elite, empty headed narcissist and psychopathic schemers ruled the country (they still do but they know they are on the way out).
Of course when they shut down all opposition everything not part of the mass media cartel, the cartel that self hosts, what business will godaddy have.
Obfuscate your access. Use tools like trackmenot http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ to obfuscate your searches. Now you just need additional tools to randomly access web sites to obfuscate web access. Same can be done to background send email to mutual member's of a random email network (random addresses with random content content purposefully tongue in cheek).
Floor some privacy invasive freaks desk with ten thousand times as much stuff as you actually access.
Expensive or not, it is just another sickening grab for greed. Students already have to pay for textbooks and access to online articles. They are now being charge extra for a link to what they are already paying for. If you can't see the transparent disingenuous grab for cash at the expense of those already struggling to feed the greed of the already rich.
You paid for the content in fees already, but wait that's not enough you have to pay more to be told where to access what you have already paid for.
Will this be a one off, absolutely not, just a sign of more charges to come.
Let's take this argument to it's realisic conclusion - Google Chrome password lockin. What easy access to you web site, you better stick to using Chrome or else look forward to pen and paper copying 20 random characters, including numbers, letters, capitalisation and special chars, with different passwords for each and every site you connect to, get one char wrong and your stuck. Some like banks will definitely not email you a replacement password so that you can immediately reconnect.
Easy solution go with pass phrases they are easier to remember, words between 4 and 6 characters long, three words, that's 12 to 18 chars, those with mixed language capabilities have a slight advantage and only so "Googleveryobvious" and your done;).
Firstly you fallacy in river thinking. All calculations are based upon average flows, not only for the nuclear power plant but for irrigators. When flows are low, generally during warmer than average conditions, the irrigators continue to draw their licensed amount. This generates an enormous impact upon flows. Less water at a higher temperature. Now comes the Nuclear power plant, running at full load to feed air conditioners. Already excessively warm water is raised to higher temperatures triggering fish kills, the fish kills alter oxygen levels generating even worse conditions.
Nothing, absolutely nothing in isolation. Regardless of how often corporation fob off the responsibilities by pretending their actions occur in isolation completely ignoring how impacts are compounded by multiple loads upon the environment.
Ah, another conservative who thinks that if deregulation has not worked, we need more deregulation control.
Hate to break it to you, numb nuts but you deregulatory have been pretty much running the show since the late seventies, been kind of a fuck up hasn't it. We progressive are just re-regulating to get things back under control.
Funny conservatives never actually believe in conserving anything. Don't want to conserve the environment, don't want to conserve resources, don't want to conserve people, why they hell do you call yourself conservatives, I just don't get it. Yeah I know, the exploiters party sounds bad but at least it's the truth, exploit the environment, exploit resources and exploit labour and we all know exploiters absolutely, positively love less government control.
I worked in construction, when it comes to bore logs, you only really know what will happen after it has happened. Bore logs are a random luck of the mill draw, they never find major layer intrusions, boulders et al the pass through many layers, long buried inactive faults that you miss every time. Everything is just plain luck, you either find those layer defects or your do not. Forget the idea of laid done by GOD perfect layers that go on forever. You wont really know what will happen until your finished it's all an 'educated' guess.
Now what happens when it goes wrong, ohh that's right the drilling company basically tries hold's up the victims case in court till they go bankrupt or die and or the sell of all the companies liabilities to some 2 dollar front so they can disappear with the profits.
That doesn't even touch where they straight up lie about site all together, it has gas and they know it will impact surrounding water sources they just straight lie about the results, knowing full well due to the random nature of testing they can claim pretty much anything.
Then of course it was us, it was that earthquake that did it now prove we caused that earth quake. I've worked with major corporations, lie cheat and steal, that's just how they deal. You have to on your toes and keep a sharp eye upon every contract clause. When your out of the loop not in control watch out.
SOCA, how about the message you sent to the people.
A lot of the users and likely a majority were minors. This is the message SOCA sent out to the world on behalf of copyright industries, we will imprison you children for ten years and issue unlimited fines bankrupting them for life, no age minimum.
How about honest users. I would to open a music download account, say even with Apple but should I, seriously think about it. On one hand I pay a dollar per song and get it on the other hand if Apple cheat, even if I paid a dollar per song, SOCA is telling me that it is my fault, I should have known Apple was cheating and that I will now go to jail for 10 years and pay an unlimited fine.
Seriously under that threat would you buy any content at all, they cheat you go to jail and pay the fine. How do you know they are not cheating, how can you legally validate it as an civilly correct under copyright law copy, is that music worth the risk of a decade in prison and the loss of all your assets, how are you ever meant to know whether it is a safe copy. Better to just say 'NO' and buy drugs instead and listen to the tunes in your head, even if you get caught it's still a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot less risk;D.
'Er' yeah, they make up for a lake of sales tax by generating more revenue in that state by stealing it from adjoining states. Now if the adjoining states also had no sales tax, Oregon revenue base would collapsed forcing them to implement a sales tax. It's exactly the way tax havens work, the live by stealing the income from other countries money by allowing tax cheats and criminals to hide their ill gotten gains.
A Federally based tax, negotiated by majority agreement by the states, with uniform taxes, at states and county level, helps to balance out income opportunities and hence create average lower taxes (the little guys, us, do not end copping it is the neck to make up the difference). All revenue would of course be collected and retained by the state but as a federal tax, no fucking corrupt bribe local or state officials tax cheats.
The only things I will find really interesting is who is going to pay the insurance. The owner, the dealer, the car manufacturer or the road authority (they set the rules cars are programmed with, if the rules fail whose fault is it).
Can a self driving car be stolen? Can it steal itself? Will it turn itself over to the nearest police station?
Will the software coders deny all responsibility, you only allow the car to self drive at your own risk, if the software contains, faults known or unknown and or virus, you chose to allow the software to control you at your own risk.
So self drive runs down a pedestrian at a crossing and kills them whose fault is it. Can't blame the driver for not paying attention, that is the whole point of self drive, even those software companies always love to blame the user.
Auto-driven cars are sure to trigger the blame game, with the owners and victims at one end and every other asshat seeking profits with no responsibility for costs at the other end and insurance companies somewhere in the middle looking to get their money back.
Heck, if an omniscient psycho ex offered me fraudulently presented as discounted (secretly price up 50% with a presented discount of 25%, targeted at a more psychologically vulnerable moment), in-stock products I "might have bought" (actually psychologically triggered into over spending, on things you might need just in case), I might just 'get tricked into' keeping them around (as they continued to manipulate your thinking and decisions for their advantage not yours).
Besides everyone invades your privacy, manipulates your choices, uncaring purposefully tries to drive you into overspending, has absolutely no real regard for you debts or your future and basically when your broke wants you to never return.
Most people call those destructive relationship, victims who seem to get caught up in them again and again, specifically targeted by psychopaths because they are vulnerable. Personally, Target and all other stores MYFB, be polite, be respectful and, how does it go again, "only speak when spoken to", only send me adds when I seek them.
"When a company has drilled a few hundred wells in a field, with all the electric log analysis, reservoir simulations, and production decline analysis, I believe that it's safe to say that the oil company has a pretty darn good idea what's happening subsurface." Kinda fucken too late then, huh.
You don't seem to understand, all of the discussion et al are not about changing the position of those diametrically opposed to nuclear energy. They provide an opposition, they detail problems, they challenge greed based engineering and basically they act as a 'devils advocate' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_advocate to challenge those that promote nuclear energy.
This forces review of problems, defeats easy cheap greedy solutions (which no on wants except a psychopathic few). So better safer nuclear energy solutions are provided as a result of their opposition. Not to forget, the broad majority of people, will influenced by those opposed or be influenced by those for nuclear energy. That will largely be based upon the problems presented by those opposed and the solutions provided by those for.
Their opinions are valid as their opinions and in instances their stances on some issues is sound. Those for, well, hidden amongst them are the psychopathic few, with total disregard for the outcome as long as they can profit in the interim (they often represent the far greater challenge and often those opposed help the rest of us to either get rid of them or mitigate the harm their greed will causes). Weird, huh;).
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Censorship, hmm, the best way to fight bad content would of course be to eliminate all censorship in the case of that bad content, by simply adhering to the law. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.".
So don't like the content, stop censoring people copying it and distributing it for free. Greed will solve the problem caused by greed. No fines required, in point of fact, fewer fines required. Let the religious right decide what content adheres to the law and should be have monopoly copy protection and what should have tax payer funds wasted on it, not when police officer should be out protecting people not wasting their time protecting the profits of pornographers et al.
Really it's drones versus mines, as it side tries to take out the others sources of supply.
Silly enough to launch space war, silly enough to make it genocidal.
Consider stealthed, interstellar high yield nukes designed to target random areas of the planet, and what they don't blow up they make uninhabitable due to radiation. Consider them to be a fail safe, designed to target the hostile worlds over the next few centuries after launch, even in you lose. Consider them mass produced and having thousands in flight.
When it becomes genocidal, everyone abandons their planets (excluding the unlucky many) and it's fleets versus fleets, darting in and out of nebulas to hide, refuel and rebuild. Home worlds where all life is extinct and nothing much left to fight.
Then consider highly advanced third parties who consider those willing to take conflicts out into space a threat and take measures to reset social evolution to see, if they can be less hostile the next time around. Most likely space wars, simple genetic culling, prior to hostilities actually becoming interstellar. Apart from maybe poachers and pirates, those outside the main stream of their societies, on the run and hunted by many.
There are a whole range of industry and construction standards that are compulsory, literally thousands of them. All enforced by government regulations with penalties for non-conformance, absolutely not voluntary.
So you are either grossly UNINFORMED or a LIAR.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people can actually exist. In that case a strong government is everything the people want. When private entities reach sufficient power to control the government, they either subvert the government and control it or the destroy the government and become the government.
Weak government is one easily controlled by private entities, strong government gets it's strength from the people.
Anarchistic nonsense only survives in micro economies, the village or nomadic tribes. With cities comes the requirement for strong government in order to ensure equitable access to resources and control of pollutants in concentrated populations. Anarchism ceases to function with increased total and density of population ignoring this is nothing more than childish I want, I want, I want ranting.
Anarchism can be seen as the toddler stage of political evolution and yes, many democracy are actually anarchistic at the very top, especially the US.
The losses will be paperwork losses, reflected in building up infrastructure to mass produce the panels upon very large basis.
The branch off is more indicative of Samsung having made a breakthrough in alternate panel construction, likely cheaper and capable of more readily producing larger screens.
Inevitable that would mean the new business shutting down the old business, not a very good business model hence the need to sell off the old business first.
No different to IBM selling of the hard disk drive business, with the break through in SSDs.
So big Samsung OLEDs in the not too distant future.
There is a real a definitive end to copyright. Either their greed kills us all or we get rid of them. The copyrightists, the pigopolists, tend not to work in the one field but dabble in many destructive areas including patents, the military industrial complex and politics. Copyright will assuredly end one day maybe closer than many people think http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-18/who-orders-bird-flu-research-kept-secret/3838008. If some corporate executive can come up with a way to profit by it, you can bet it'll be released the next day.
Standards can be legislated as compulsory. To require the use of patent items and hence compulsory payments, is nothing more than a government enforced monopoly with the sole intent of driving out all other businesses covered by that standard. None of them can sell that service, only one of them can, all the others are force to buy it and in the case of FOSS then have to give it away ie a direct corrupt tactic to drive FOSS out of business.
Want it in a standard, then give it away to start with or piss off with your corrupt intent.
For the rich, the poor are always terrorists threatening to use democracy to take away the psychopathic power of the rich.
This is nothing more the rich versus poor and keeping the poor down and under the thumb. The poor now includes the middle class whom the rich consider the greatest threat.
Screen real estate will always be screen real estate. When it comes to do anything once it under say 12 inches it might as well be a phone say no bigger than around 5 inches and the phone does need a blue tooth rechargeable stylus that you use as a hand set (speaker microphone) so you don't need to hold up that large screen to your head and you can use it as a vid phone.
My regular screen is up to 24 inches, I would find anything under 12 inches horribly cramped and honestly think unrealistic in anything other than the marketing world of illusions as being suitable for creating content.
Seriously marketing hype to get people to buy content consumption tablets as devices to create content will simply be proven false and collapse the market. Small tablets are nothing more than a third device, requiring a real computer and a smart phone to make up for small tablet deficiencies. Personally I'd push them even further back behind a big screen computer (45 inches plus), although a tablet would be a useful remote for it (but I'd get the screen before the tablet and seek to have one thrown in with the deal).
It is not a think tank, it is a stink tank. A large public relations firm whose job is to create media to promote the wealth of their donors. No lie to be repeated again and again.
An illusory edifice to sell advertising. Something empty headed politicians bought and paid for by lobbyists can hang their hate.
So they are bitching about the marketing entities ability to promote the agendas of it's donors. Basically a stream of Machiavellian twisted and distorted content and, for all the world content created by psychopaths for psychopaths.
Looking like an actual real world example of James Bond plot. People who spend the working lives plotting and scheming as the minions of some truly enormously bloated ego's, emperors of the world insanity levels, oh my, the Koch(head) boys have wandered right way out there.
The real question here is "is the Heartland Institutes intent criminal" and should it be raided for a whole range of conspiratorial acts.
This is really just a media question, about psuedo celebrities, journalists, maybe sales, et al. For by far the majority of nerds and geeks a non-issue.
So something that needs to be sorted out contractually between the identity, their agent, lawyers and the company to whom that public identity (often just a created faÃade which has very little to do with who the person really is) was contracted.
Such it is much like a person creating an anime character, and the person, the company and what ever public relations services are used to created an identity for that character to promote what ever content and advertising that is produced in that characters identity.
So in the modern internet age who owns that 'anime' character, that marketing illusion, the person in whose name it was created, their agent, the company that contracted them, the public relations firms that worked to bring them to life (well zomboid existence, who is the zomboid those that follow it or the object they follow).
Well, as it all revolves around bullshit, let the bullshit lawyers, deal with the bullshit contracts, deal with the bullshit public relations agencies. When it comes to bullshit, there are no solutions except maybe dung bettles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle ;D. Don't know how that helps people who live in the world of PR=B$ (lies for profit) but then again I don't think anything ever really will.
Moron, we are talking average users, where the numbers are, just like you the sub-100s'. The bulk, were corporate executives target their shenanigans. Plenty of solutions for smarter users in fact the majority of smarter users would not even bother with that feature. Retentive types that need every single thing clarified and defined, rather than most things not delineated are obviously regard the majority, the average.
What is fascinating is that companies like godaddy are basically cutting their own throats. The current incumbent mass media outlets are intent on shutting down all competition, that want it back to the way it was last century, where they colluded and controlled the public mind scape. They were the political elite, empty headed narcissist and psychopathic schemers ruled the country (they still do but they know they are on the way out).
Of course when they shut down all opposition everything not part of the mass media cartel, the cartel that self hosts, what business will godaddy have.
Obfuscate your access. Use tools like trackmenot http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ to obfuscate your searches. Now you just need additional tools to randomly access web sites to obfuscate web access. Same can be done to background send email to mutual member's of a random email network (random addresses with random content content purposefully tongue in cheek).
Floor some privacy invasive freaks desk with ten thousand times as much stuff as you actually access.
I found a simple fun site http://www.randomwebsite.com/ for when you are bored.
Expensive or not, it is just another sickening grab for greed. Students already have to pay for textbooks and access to online articles. They are now being charge extra for a link to what they are already paying for. If you can't see the transparent disingenuous grab for cash at the expense of those already struggling to feed the greed of the already rich. You paid for the content in fees already, but wait that's not enough you have to pay more to be told where to access what you have already paid for. Will this be a one off, absolutely not, just a sign of more charges to come.
Let's take this argument to it's realisic conclusion - Google Chrome password lockin. What easy access to you web site, you better stick to using Chrome or else look forward to pen and paper copying 20 random characters, including numbers, letters, capitalisation and special chars, with different passwords for each and every site you connect to, get one char wrong and your stuck. Some like banks will definitely not email you a replacement password so that you can immediately reconnect.
Easy solution go with pass phrases they are easier to remember, words between 4 and 6 characters long, three words, that's 12 to 18 chars, those with mixed language capabilities have a slight advantage and only so "Googleveryobvious" and your done ;).
Firstly you fallacy in river thinking. All calculations are based upon average flows, not only for the nuclear power plant but for irrigators. When flows are low, generally during warmer than average conditions, the irrigators continue to draw their licensed amount. This generates an enormous impact upon flows. Less water at a higher temperature. Now comes the Nuclear power plant, running at full load to feed air conditioners. Already excessively warm water is raised to higher temperatures triggering fish kills, the fish kills alter oxygen levels generating even worse conditions.
Nothing, absolutely nothing in isolation. Regardless of how often corporation fob off the responsibilities by pretending their actions occur in isolation completely ignoring how impacts are compounded by multiple loads upon the environment.
Ah, another conservative who thinks that if deregulation has not worked, we need more deregulation control.
Hate to break it to you, numb nuts but you deregulatory have been pretty much running the show since the late seventies, been kind of a fuck up hasn't it. We progressive are just re-regulating to get things back under control.
Funny conservatives never actually believe in conserving anything. Don't want to conserve the environment, don't want to conserve resources, don't want to conserve people, why they hell do you call yourself conservatives, I just don't get it. Yeah I know, the exploiters party sounds bad but at least it's the truth, exploit the environment, exploit resources and exploit labour and we all know exploiters absolutely, positively love less government control.
I worked in construction, when it comes to bore logs, you only really know what will happen after it has happened. Bore logs are a random luck of the mill draw, they never find major layer intrusions, boulders et al the pass through many layers, long buried inactive faults that you miss every time. Everything is just plain luck, you either find those layer defects or your do not. Forget the idea of laid done by GOD perfect layers that go on forever. You wont really know what will happen until your finished it's all an 'educated' guess.
Now what happens when it goes wrong, ohh that's right the drilling company basically tries hold's up the victims case in court till they go bankrupt or die and or the sell of all the companies liabilities to some 2 dollar front so they can disappear with the profits.
That doesn't even touch where they straight up lie about site all together, it has gas and they know it will impact surrounding water sources they just straight lie about the results, knowing full well due to the random nature of testing they can claim pretty much anything.
Then of course it was us, it was that earthquake that did it now prove we caused that earth quake. I've worked with major corporations, lie cheat and steal, that's just how they deal. You have to on your toes and keep a sharp eye upon every contract clause. When your out of the loop not in control watch out.
SOCA, how about the message you sent to the people.
A lot of the users and likely a majority were minors. This is the message SOCA sent out to the world on behalf of copyright industries, we will imprison you children for ten years and issue unlimited fines bankrupting them for life, no age minimum.
How about honest users. I would to open a music download account, say even with Apple but should I, seriously think about it. On one hand I pay a dollar per song and get it on the other hand if Apple cheat, even if I paid a dollar per song, SOCA is telling me that it is my fault, I should have known Apple was cheating and that I will now go to jail for 10 years and pay an unlimited fine.
Seriously under that threat would you buy any content at all, they cheat you go to jail and pay the fine. How do you know they are not cheating, how can you legally validate it as an civilly correct under copyright law copy, is that music worth the risk of a decade in prison and the loss of all your assets, how are you ever meant to know whether it is a safe copy. Better to just say 'NO' and buy drugs instead and listen to the tunes in your head, even if you get caught it's still a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot less risk ;D.
'Er' yeah, they make up for a lake of sales tax by generating more revenue in that state by stealing it from adjoining states. Now if the adjoining states also had no sales tax, Oregon revenue base would collapsed forcing them to implement a sales tax. It's exactly the way tax havens work, the live by stealing the income from other countries money by allowing tax cheats and criminals to hide their ill gotten gains.
A Federally based tax, negotiated by majority agreement by the states, with uniform taxes, at states and county level, helps to balance out income opportunities and hence create average lower taxes (the little guys, us, do not end copping it is the neck to make up the difference). All revenue would of course be collected and retained by the state but as a federal tax, no fucking corrupt bribe local or state officials tax cheats.
The only things I will find really interesting is who is going to pay the insurance. The owner, the dealer, the car manufacturer or the road authority (they set the rules cars are programmed with, if the rules fail whose fault is it). Can a self driving car be stolen? Can it steal itself? Will it turn itself over to the nearest police station? Will the software coders deny all responsibility, you only allow the car to self drive at your own risk, if the software contains, faults known or unknown and or virus, you chose to allow the software to control you at your own risk. So self drive runs down a pedestrian at a crossing and kills them whose fault is it. Can't blame the driver for not paying attention, that is the whole point of self drive, even those software companies always love to blame the user.
Auto-driven cars are sure to trigger the blame game, with the owners and victims at one end and every other asshat seeking profits with no responsibility for costs at the other end and insurance companies somewhere in the middle looking to get their money back.
Heck, if an omniscient psycho ex offered me fraudulently presented as discounted (secretly price up 50% with a presented discount of 25%, targeted at a more psychologically vulnerable moment), in-stock products I "might have bought" (actually psychologically triggered into over spending, on things you might need just in case), I might just 'get tricked into' keeping them around (as they continued to manipulate your thinking and decisions for their advantage not yours).
Besides everyone invades your privacy, manipulates your choices, uncaring purposefully tries to drive you into overspending, has absolutely no real regard for you debts or your future and basically when your broke wants you to never return.
Most people call those destructive relationship, victims who seem to get caught up in them again and again, specifically targeted by psychopaths because they are vulnerable. Personally, Target and all other stores MYFB, be polite, be respectful and, how does it go again, "only speak when spoken to", only send me adds when I seek them.
"When a company has drilled a few hundred wells in a field, with all the electric log analysis, reservoir simulations, and production decline analysis, I believe that it's safe to say that the oil company has a pretty darn good idea what's happening subsurface." Kinda fucken too late then, huh.
You don't seem to understand, all of the discussion et al are not about changing the position of those diametrically opposed to nuclear energy. They provide an opposition, they detail problems, they challenge greed based engineering and basically they act as a 'devils advocate' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_advocate to challenge those that promote nuclear energy.
This forces review of problems, defeats easy cheap greedy solutions (which no on wants except a psychopathic few). So better safer nuclear energy solutions are provided as a result of their opposition. Not to forget, the broad majority of people, will influenced by those opposed or be influenced by those for nuclear energy. That will largely be based upon the problems presented by those opposed and the solutions provided by those for.
Their opinions are valid as their opinions and in instances their stances on some issues is sound. Those for, well, hidden amongst them are the psychopathic few, with total disregard for the outcome as long as they can profit in the interim (they often represent the far greater challenge and often those opposed help the rest of us to either get rid of them or mitigate the harm their greed will causes). Weird, huh ;).