Might want to check out some physics textbooks and read up on this. The energy 'harvested' by that sail is provided by the internal combustion engine. Yeah, sounds like a great idea at first blush, but when you dig deeper into it, you quickly find out it's not
I'm not sure he really did know how bad things were, except for perhaps at the very end... for a long time I'm not sure he thought himself he was defrauding anyone.
He ran NASDAQ for fuck's sake. That takes some serious economic knowledge as well as some heavy connections. That kind of background, he knew what he was doing. Ponzi schemes are not hard to spot if you know what to look for. He knew. He knew the bottom would drop out someday, and just bet that it would happen after he croaked. He lost.
Thing is, if you try to make money off of crime and you're convicted, the government seizes everything in sight unless you can prove 100% that you had it before the crime was committed. They call it 'proceeds of crime', and put it in place to 'get' drug 'kingpins'. Even hiding the cash offshore isn't good enough, as even the Swiss have bent over backwards to open the books on those numbered accounts. Moving 65 billion dollars is a big feat, and will leave a big-assed papertrail.
In the current American political climate of 'pin the rap on the Other Side', a 4% difference is known as a 'mandate'. Gotta love spin doctors...
What gets me, though, is everybody saying the United States must curb their energy and consumer goods habit, but nobody's saying a thing to the Chinese putting more and more coal-fired power plants online every month. Kyoto was designed to rein in the Americans, but give the Chinese a free pass. Yeah, there's room for improvement here in the States, but dammit, what good is it to muzzle 100 coal-fired plants here in the States if 1000 more coal-fired plants in China start up?
LOL. Every time I've used bluetooth device, an AM/FM radio, or a cell phone.
Are you really comparing exposure to milliwatts of increased background RF to a concentrated 200MW beam?
Try looking at the energy densities per square millimeter. That 200 MW beam is spread out quite a bit.
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Certainly "human error" happens very often, especially when the user interface was designed by chimpanzees.
Funny, every user interface I've had to design for customers was specified by the top level management (owners, etc), who never seemed to need to use the interface. The 'grunts' constantly complained about them.
I don't know if GSM phones check with a database to see if they are allowed to connect to the access point when listing networks.
Actually, the system checks the database for the number and ESN of the phone to see if it's allowed on the network. That's why you could be standing next to a tower and have zero signal on your phone is because it's not allowed on that network.
Finding ice on the Moon is a step closer to colonisation. There's a lot of materials on the Moon, but utilising them would take a colony. You can only do so much with teleoperated machines due to the communications lag. Sure, it's spending money now for a payoff later, but think of the tax money rakeoffs from colonial products, and think of the money saved by not having to lift every gram off Earth at a cost of thousands of dollars per pound.
Based on previous experience I suspect they would be more likely to buy that codebase, then claim others had stolen that code in their own FPS games and offer to allow end users to license to use a product for a small fee. Then sue EA, pump shares, dump shares, lose and then file for bankruptcy.
Good plan. We oughta patent it as a business method.
That's all very well and good, except for two things.
1. The cash would go directly into Darl's pocket. Yeah, we might be finally rid of him, but still...
2. The company would get stuck with all the debt from the lawsuit & such, with no income being generated. Remember, SCO is running on fumes, and what little comes in goes right back out to Darl & the lawyers.
So this is an attempt to get the remaining cash and Unix assets out of reach of Novell, and leave the shell of SCO (plus some mobile products that most likely have no value) to continue the lawsuit, with no money left over for Novell and IBM when they eventually run out of appeals.
Sounds bout right. As long as Darl gets paid, who really cares?
It is bad enough insurance companies found a way to force everyone to give them money.
Actually, I kinda like the idea of manditory no-fault auto insurance. Woulda saved me some serious headaches when I got centerpunched 30 years ago. Just rig it to where they can't cancel on you if somebody hits you and we'd be golden.
As far as health insurance here in the US goes, it needs some serious overhauling. I worked for a few years in a collection agency that specialised in health debt collection. Something like 30% of your healthcare dollar here in the US goes to satisfying the damned paperwork, and ghods help you if you actually needed to use your health insurance. Your rates went up til they could figure a way to drop you like a rock. The doctor's malpractice insurance rose up to the point where the doctors ordered TONS of unnecessary tests just to rule out stuff that they knew wasn't the problem, but it was all CYA. The patient's insurance screamed when they did that cause of all the 'unnecessary tests' drove up the costs, but if they didn't order those tests, the malpractice insurance dropped the doctors for NOT adequately and agressively attempting to reduce the risk of a malpractice suit. It's a fucking mess, and something needs to be done. What, exactly? Hell, if you can figure that out, you're smarter than I am...
Mark Twain considered himself to be a storyteller. And his works are all public domain now. Guy's been dead a hundred years, quit including him in with the scum sucking leeches^F^F^Fcorporados^Fmedia companies...
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Might want to check out some physics textbooks and read up on this. The energy 'harvested' by that sail is provided by the internal combustion engine. Yeah, sounds like a great idea at first blush, but when you dig deeper into it, you quickly find out it's not
Hopefully, it'll hold off until I've had my coffee...
He ran NASDAQ for fuck's sake. That takes some serious economic knowledge as well as some heavy connections. That kind of background, he knew what he was doing. Ponzi schemes are not hard to spot if you know what to look for. He knew. He knew the bottom would drop out someday, and just bet that it would happen after he croaked. He lost.
He said a little bit of money, not billions.
Didn't work so good for Noriega. DAMN that rock and roll music!
Thing is, if you try to make money off of crime and you're convicted, the government seizes everything in sight unless you can prove 100% that you had it before the crime was committed. They call it 'proceeds of crime', and put it in place to 'get' drug 'kingpins'. Even hiding the cash offshore isn't good enough, as even the Swiss have bent over backwards to open the books on those numbered accounts. Moving 65 billion dollars is a big feat, and will leave a big-assed papertrail.
5 years hell. Now come all the appeals. Is he out on bail?
Sorry, pixie dust is illegal in the US.
Unless, of course, you're in the CIA and using its importation to fund something 'off the books'...
In the current American political climate of 'pin the rap on the Other Side', a 4% difference is known as a 'mandate'. Gotta love spin doctors...
What gets me, though, is everybody saying the United States must curb their energy and consumer goods habit, but nobody's saying a thing to the Chinese putting more and more coal-fired power plants online every month. Kyoto was designed to rein in the Americans, but give the Chinese a free pass. Yeah, there's room for improvement here in the States, but dammit, what good is it to muzzle 100 coal-fired plants here in the States if 1000 more coal-fired plants in China start up?
Try looking at the energy densities per square millimeter. That 200 MW beam is spread out quite a bit.
Funny, every user interface I've had to design for customers was specified by the top level management (owners, etc), who never seemed to need to use the interface. The 'grunts' constantly complained about them.
The good news is, they're working on death.
The bad news is, they had to give up working on taxes to pay for it.
Actually, the system checks the database for the number and ESN of the phone to see if it's allowed on the network. That's why you could be standing next to a tower and have zero signal on your phone is because it's not allowed on that network.
Finding ice on the Moon is a step closer to colonisation. There's a lot of materials on the Moon, but utilising them would take a colony. You can only do so much with teleoperated machines due to the communications lag. Sure, it's spending money now for a payoff later, but think of the tax money rakeoffs from colonial products, and think of the money saved by not having to lift every gram off Earth at a cost of thousands of dollars per pound.
No, in that one, they blew the Moon into chunks by setting off a nuke to build an underground city. What could possibly go wrong?
Good plan. We oughta patent it as a business method.
Oh, wait...
1. The cash would go directly into Darl's pocket. Yeah, we might be finally rid of him, but still...
2. The company would get stuck with all the debt from the lawsuit & such, with no income being generated. Remember, SCO is running on fumes, and what little comes in goes right back out to Darl & the lawyers.
Sounds bout right. As long as Darl gets paid, who really cares?
I won't point out the obvious, i.e., the votes can be seen to be rigged.
Rather, I'll just agree with John Thorne when he says "If voting ever really changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
A mortar is a ridiculously easy weapon to make. Just ask the precursor to the Mossad.
Other than out of the pool, that is...
Wouldn't a spectrograph tell us that?
Cite?
Problem of course is he wasn't Disneycorp.
Actually, I kinda like the idea of manditory no-fault auto insurance. Woulda saved me some serious headaches when I got centerpunched 30 years ago. Just rig it to where they can't cancel on you if somebody hits you and we'd be golden.
As far as health insurance here in the US goes, it needs some serious overhauling. I worked for a few years in a collection agency that specialised in health debt collection. Something like 30% of your healthcare dollar here in the US goes to satisfying the damned paperwork, and ghods help you if you actually needed to use your health insurance. Your rates went up til they could figure a way to drop you like a rock. The doctor's malpractice insurance rose up to the point where the doctors ordered TONS of unnecessary tests just to rule out stuff that they knew wasn't the problem, but it was all CYA. The patient's insurance screamed when they did that cause of all the 'unnecessary tests' drove up the costs, but if they didn't order those tests, the malpractice insurance dropped the doctors for NOT adequately and agressively attempting to reduce the risk of a malpractice suit. It's a fucking mess, and something needs to be done. What, exactly? Hell, if you can figure that out, you're smarter than I am...
Mark Twain considered himself to be a storyteller. And his works are all public domain now. Guy's been dead a hundred years, quit including him in with the scum sucking leeches^F^F^Fcorporados^Fmedia companies...