As a side note, I remember a local case where DNA sampling was used to 'prove' that a person was guilty. According to the paper, there was a one in ten thousand chance that the testing was wrong.
This sound like another example of the Prosecutor's fallacy. Prosecutors who use that reasoning should be fired. They are too ignorant to do their jobs properly. Simple as that.
I suspect that a more accurate comparison would be someone calling up AOL to cancel, refusing to give AOL their account details, then suing AOL for not cancelling the account.
WikiLeaks emails made it very clear that they have several legal representatives, and they needed to know
1) what documents were at issue, and 2) who the other party actually was,
so that the appropriate counsel could be selected. Despite repeated requests from WikiLeaks, that information was not provided by BJB's lawyer. It is quite clear that BJB's lawyers were not acting in good faith. I hope there are sanctions against them at the end of this, as they clearly abused process.
Campbell said that she doesn't really expect to get $54 million, but chose the amount to attract attention to her case.
She doesn't say her laptop / data is worth that amount, and she knows she isn't going to get that amount, she's being smart and hurting Best Buy before they get to trial, by bringing negative publicity upon them. The amount is a blunt instrument applied to an arrogant corporation.
So, because some jackass wants to shut down gambling, suddenly Antiguans think they are able to steal my software and pass it around? Absolutely not. That would be punishing American companies and private citizens for government gambling policies. There is no part of international law which works that way; this is a smoke screen
Copyright protection for a work in the US is granted by the US government (it's in the constitution, IIRC). What the Antiguans are saying is, since the US government isn't playing by the rules they agreed to, the US government should lose the right to grant those protections, where Antigua is concerned.
I don't know why they're going after movie and software copyrights, though, I would have thought drug patents would be a far more lucrative target.
Depends on where you put them. If you put them on down-hill stretches of roads, then the energy that is being collected is energy that was going to be lost as heat otherwise. The energy is still coming from the fuel tank, of course. It's just being taken from the vehicles in a different way (as electricity via a generator, rather than as heat via brake pads).
If the generators were installed on flat stretches of road then it is, as you say, a horrible idea, unless it's somewhere where braking often happens (such as before traffic lights, or where the speed limit changes from open-road speeds to urban-road speeds).
Also, electric (or hybrid) vehicles with regenerative braking break this idea - that is just stealing energy.
TFA said it would take about 34,000 square km of ponds to produce enough fuel for the world's aircraft.
Firstly, how many square kilometres of sewage ponds are there in the world already?
Secondly, how many major cities in the developing world still discharge sewage directly into waterways? Would the income from selling biofuel produced from this effluent be enough to offset the cost of building settlement ponds for those cities? And how many more square km would that add? In other words, can this technology help the envrionment in other ways?
Statutory damages for even 1 infringement are between $750 and $150,000. How could $300 be any more or less reasonable than $1 when the minimum judgment, assuming the defendant was guilty at all, would be $750?
As I understand it, statutory damages are not equal to actual damages.
that as the '094' -class submarines come on-line, that the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea)
gets "first dibs" on the "soon-to-be obsolete" '092' -class? With a heavily discounted price, no doubt,
I doubt it, the Chinese are as annoyed at Kim the Younger's antics as the west. They don't want NK to be stirring up too much trouble because it increases the chances of the Kim regime falling. If that happens, then there is a good chance that four million Korean refugees end up in Liaoning province, and 40,000 US troops will end up in spitting distance of the Chinese border. And theyr eally don't want either of those to happen.
And then, whatever '092' -class subs are left over will be sold to Pakistan, or traded to Iran for oil contracts.
That's marginally more likely, but, the Chinese have, what, two missile subs? No-one has ever exported missile subs before, though, so I can't really see that happening either. Even if the PRC did somehow lose their minds and sell the subs, I don't think they'd sell the missiles to go with them.
Now, here's the rub: Where are you going to get energy conversion efficiency that high?
No where. According to this site, the efficiency of photosynthesis is just 6.6%. So, to capture 100 watts of energy in plants, you need more than 15 square metres of plants. I don't know what the efficiency of human digestion is, but I suspect you'd be looking at closer to 100 square metres or more of plants to get enough energy for one person.
> Look, the ballistic missile defense system is a joke. We already have one; it is called a few thousand nuclear missiles > that can hit anywhere in the globe.
Two points to consider:
Firstly, not having a nuclear warhead explode over your country is a preferable option than having one go off, then turning its lauchsite into glass.
Secondly, the deterrent value of thousands of nuclear warheads is somewhat lost on religious fanatics who don't care if they and a million other faithful get sent straight to Allah.
I'm not expert on the scientific journals, but I thought one of the things they provided was seperating out the complete junk from legit research.
The filtering is done by the editors and reviewers. None of whom get paid. People review journal articles as a public service and to advance their careers. The most I've received for reviewing a journal article, apart from a "thank you" note from the editor, is a free copy of the current issue of the journal I was reviewing for.
The peer-review process might work a bit better if the reviewers got even a tiny share of the subscription money journals charge.
Is there any particular reason why these (proposed) guns are all rated at powers of two?
I would hazard a guess that it would have something to do with the output of the pulse generators they use to power the gun. They could simply be doubling up the number of generators each time they do an increase in power.
It seems to me that the problem with over-zealous prosecutors could be that they are elected in many places. They need to get a certain number of convictions for certain crimes to show that they're "tough on kiddie porn/drugs/terrorism/jay-walking".
This means, of course, that there will almost inevitably be abuses of the prosecution process, with people like this 15 year-old the victims.
The long-term solution could be to stop electing the prosecutors.
going through LAX in July on the way to Vancouver. Couldn't work out why I'd been selected (I know it's not random) until now:
See, my flight from NZ to LA was delayed by several hours. So, I got switched from an Air Canada flight to Vancouver to an Alaskan Airlines flight. This meant that I:
(a) received my ticket for that flight shortly before departure
(b) had no return ticket booked with that airline (because I was supposed to go LAX - Vancouver - LAX with Air Canada)
Since I was travelling alone, and am in the target age group, that must have tripped some alarms. On the way back, of course, I was on the flight I was supposed to be on, which was booked months in advance.
So, it seems that having a delayed flight can single you out as well. Which makes a mockery of the whole system, really. Too many false positives.
The man is 89 years old. He could be long dead and burried by the time it goes to court. There's hardly an incentive here for the lawyer to settle.
He has an estate (at least one child, and a niece) who could continue the suit after his death.
This is in Canada, don't most Commonwealth countries allow for private prosecutions? He could tell the lawyer if he doesn't settle for the full worth of the house, he will prosecute him for fraud and get him sent to jail.
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Hahahaha. You must not have met many of the assholier than though Christians that seem to haunt my existence.
This sound like another example of the Prosecutor's fallacy. Prosecutors who use that reasoning should be fired. They are too ignorant to do their jobs properly. Simple as that.
I suspect that a more accurate comparison would be someone calling up AOL to cancel, refusing to give AOL their account details, then suing AOL for not cancelling the account.
WikiLeaks emails made it very clear that they have several legal representatives, and they needed to know
1) what documents were at issue, and
2) who the other party actually was,
so that the appropriate counsel could be selected. Despite repeated requests from WikiLeaks, that information was not provided by BJB's lawyer. It is quite clear that BJB's lawyers were not acting in good faith. I hope there are sanctions against them at the end of this, as they clearly abused process.
Campbell said that she doesn't really expect to get $54 million, but chose the amount to attract attention to her case.
She doesn't say her laptop / data is worth that amount, and she knows she isn't going to get that amount, she's being smart and hurting Best Buy before they get to trial, by bringing negative publicity upon them. The amount is a blunt instrument applied to an arrogant corporation.
Copyright protection for a work in the US is granted by the US government (it's in the constitution, IIRC). What the Antiguans are saying is, since the US government isn't playing by the rules they agreed to, the US government should lose the right to grant those protections, where Antigua is concerned.
I don't know why they're going after movie and software copyrights, though, I would have thought drug patents would be a far more lucrative target.
Depends on where you put them. If you put them on down-hill stretches of roads, then the energy that is being collected is energy that was going to be lost as heat otherwise. The energy is still coming from the fuel tank, of course. It's just being taken from the vehicles in a different way (as electricity via a generator, rather than as heat via brake pads).
If the generators were installed on flat stretches of road then it is, as you say, a horrible idea, unless it's somewhere where braking often happens (such as before traffic lights, or where the speed limit changes from open-road speeds to urban-road speeds).
Also, electric (or hybrid) vehicles with regenerative braking break this idea - that is just stealing energy.
TFA said it would take about 34,000 square km of ponds to produce enough fuel for the world's aircraft.
Firstly, how many square kilometres of sewage ponds are there in the world already?
Secondly, how many major cities in the developing world still discharge sewage directly into waterways? Would the income from selling biofuel produced from this effluent be enough to offset the cost of building settlement ponds for those cities? And how many more square km would that add? In other words, can this technology help the envrionment in other ways?
As I understand it, statutory damages are not equal to actual damages.
I doubt it, the Chinese are as annoyed at Kim the Younger's antics as the west. They don't want NK to be stirring up too much trouble because it increases the chances of the Kim regime falling. If that happens, then there is a good chance that four million Korean refugees end up in Liaoning province, and 40,000 US troops will end up in spitting distance of the Chinese border. And theyr eally don't want either of those to happen.
And then, whatever '092' -class subs are left over will be sold to Pakistan, or traded to Iran for oil contracts.
That's marginally more likely, but, the Chinese have, what, two missile subs? No-one has ever exported missile subs before, though, so I can't really see that happening either. Even if the PRC did somehow lose their minds and sell the subs, I don't think they'd sell the missiles to go with them.
> And giving the Afghanis weapons was a good idea ? Where have your been since 9/11/2002 ?
Probably the same place he was 9/11/2001.
No where. According to this site, the efficiency of photosynthesis is just 6.6%. So, to capture 100 watts of energy in plants, you need more than 15 square metres of plants. I don't know what the efficiency of human digestion is, but I suspect you'd be looking at closer to 100 square metres or more of plants to get enough energy for one person.
>WTF idiots are running these corporate HR departments?
;-)
You haven't dealt with HR much, have you
> Look, the ballistic missile defense system is a joke. We already have one; it is called a few thousand nuclear missiles
> that can hit anywhere in the globe.
Two points to consider:
Firstly, not having a nuclear warhead explode over your country is a preferable option than having one go off, then turning its lauchsite into glass.
Secondly, the deterrent value of thousands of nuclear warheads is somewhat lost on religious fanatics who don't care if they and a million other faithful get sent straight to Allah.
Now you know how every single person going through US immigration feels.
Not 22 years - time dilation means it's closer to 22 days.
I think that's called patent fraud, and is already illegal. It just doesn't seem to be enforced very well.
The USA needs private prosecutions.
The filtering is done by the editors and reviewers. None of whom get paid. People review journal articles as a public service and to advance their careers. The most I've received for reviewing a journal article, apart from a "thank you" note from the editor, is a free copy of the current issue of the journal I was reviewing for.
The peer-review process might work a bit better if the reviewers got even a tiny share of the subscription money journals charge.
I would hazard a guess that it would have something to do with the output of the pulse generators they use to power the gun. They could simply be doubling up the number of generators each time they do an increase in power.
It seems to me that the problem with over-zealous prosecutors could be that they are elected in many places. They need to get a certain number of convictions for certain crimes to show that they're "tough on kiddie porn/drugs/terrorism/jay-walking".
This means, of course, that there will almost inevitably be abuses of the prosecution process, with people like this 15 year-old the victims.
The long-term solution could be to stop electing the prosecutors.
That would be a violation of the lecturer's copyright.
See, my flight from NZ to LA was delayed by several hours. So, I got switched from an Air Canada flight to Vancouver to an Alaskan Airlines flight. This meant that I:
(a) received my ticket for that flight shortly before departure
(b) had no return ticket booked with that airline (because I was supposed to go LAX - Vancouver - LAX with Air Canada)
Since I was travelling alone, and am in the target age group, that must have tripped some alarms. On the way back, of course, I was on the flight I was supposed to be on, which was booked months in advance.
So, it seems that having a delayed flight can single you out as well. Which makes a mockery of the whole system, really. Too many false positives.
He has an estate (at least one child, and a niece) who could continue the suit after his death.
This is in Canada, don't most Commonwealth countries allow for private prosecutions? He could tell the lawyer if he doesn't settle for the full worth of the house, he will prosecute him for fraud and get him sent to jail.
It stands for Institute.
The US is a sovereign nation, but they still have to play nicely with others.