If Kim files suit and the suit is found frivolous, there's a chance of extortion charges being laid against him, but more likely he'll be hit with vexatious litigant status and from there, pretty much no lawyer will take up any of his cases, except public defenders when he lands in a court room on criminal charges.
"Its a fact that more CO2 in the atmosphere makes us worse off?"
Yes. Ocean acidification, increased reduction of external radiation (which means we warm up,) and a concentration of 10,000 pm for a few hours will kill off most smaller animals (this is how we 'green' kill pests in greenhouses.)
It's already known that rising CO2 levels have bad effects - we utilize those bad effects DAILY in the course of REAL SCIENCE.
"So the part of Kyoto which exempted gigantic polluters such as China and India... exactly what science do you consider to be justification for that?"
The hidden science of population control. Let the most populous countries pollute themselves to death so the rest of us can (eventually) have more land and resources.
Funny that you ask me, since I have an extortion charge on my criminal record.
This isn't extortion. There's no criminal threat to cause bodily harm or injury to reputation going along with the demand for money. 'Pay or I sue' is not extortion. 'Pay or I'll hurt you somehow' is.
This is essentially how our patent system is supposed to work.
I do pay for my own science, and you're about to find out why you wish I hadn't.
Global economical collapse via Agricultural economy disaster, from the discovery of zero-light fruiting-plant horticulture.
That's the hand I hold. I own the rights to the tech, and your asses are mine, and so are the asses of your children, grandchildren, and more. In fact, the entire planet, including every head of state and their families, are now MINE as long as I control this tech.
People like you make me think more and more of selling this tech to North Korea. Fuck your economy and your future, as well as fuck the future of your future generations. You assholes want to fuck around and discredit science, time for that plan to backfire on your asses.
Let's see how well you handle life when you have to get your food from Dear Leader.
"far less useful from [sic] a statistical point of view."
Welp, ladies and gentlemen, we've got a perfect example of anti-science right here. Despite 'lies, damned lies, and statistics,' the statistics of well-controlled experiments almost always lay true with reality when proven to be unbiased and neutrally-conducted.
"reflexively condemn teh evil BIG business and fossil fuels"
Follow the money - it's not just a reflex. It's a well-known FACT - you know, the things science relies upon.
But it appears you don't have a job in research or scientific development, at least not on the order of what I do to keep your asses fed while producing a very limited amount of pollution.
But you keep talking. It's ignorant people like you that give me reason to give this kind of tech to the countries you DON'T want them to have.
"I can be against Kyoto accord (policy) for reasons other than the "science" behind it (policy). This is something liberals cannot fathom."
I fathom it just fine, speaking as someone way more 'liberal' than the term implies. That coming from the POV of a multi-national research director.
Doesn't matter your thoughts on th policy - the science behind it is with a 5-sigma degree of certainty FACT. (6 sigma is almost undeniable, but 5-sigma is damned close.)
And that is something ill-educated people such as yourself cannot fathom - the rules and regulations the REAL scientists have set forth.
Apparently you don't know what the patent definition of a machine truly is. I suggest you stop talking go back to your basic high school and basic entry-level college courses and relearned that which you failed to learn in the first place.
"Strictly speaking soap just traps the natural oils in your skin in which a great many bacteria live which allows your hands to be much cleaner than otherwise"
Wrong. Soap has two poles. One pole binds to lipids (such as the ones that form bacterial cell membranes) and the other binds to water. Enough of this binds to a bacteria over a long enough period of time (10 minutes or so) and the cell membrane will simply rupture, due to the effects of the surfactant. Without that long period of time, soap just binds to the bacteria, then to water, and then goes away as you wash.
"People don't understand that farmer's markets and other sources of fresh produce don't exist everywhere."
Every google search I type in the name of a city and farmer's market and I get tons of results. I have yet to NOT find a city without some sort of farmer's market, even in cities with a population 5,000 people.
The hardware is the machine itself, pal, not the software. The software is a result of the machine's manipulation of electrons.
Please feel free to rejoin the conversation once you actually work in the semiconductor industry and build ICs and do lithography and understand what makes the computer the machine.
"I and millions of others use Google+ every day. We just use it for things other than whining about stupid shit and complaining about High School like what you find on Facebook."
Looking at my G+ right now, looks like everyone's still bitching and moaning and +1 stupid memeish bullshit.
And that's from the people NOT in any of my circles, just the shit Google tosses out.
What sort of crack are you smoking? Put it down you ignorant tool.
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" A retroreflector reflects light right back at where it came from no matter what angle it hits it at."
Wrong. Out of 10^17 photons emitted, only one will make it back to the original source.
The LRE is a PERFECT example.
The second retroreflector installed had to be hand-aimed.
Which means you had to be there in PERSON. July 21, 1969, Apollo 11 crew. They installed the second retroreflector.
Let's not forget Apollo 14 and 15, which put larger retroreflectors on the surface, and aimed them back at Earth.
At least we don't go accusing the wrong people of blowing people up, unlike Reddit.
At least we don't start witch hunts, unlike Reddit.
At least we focus on technology, unlike Reddit.
If Kim files suit and the suit is found frivolous, there's a chance of extortion charges being laid against him, but more likely he'll be hit with vexatious litigant status and from there, pretty much no lawyer will take up any of his cases, except public defenders when he lands in a court room on criminal charges.
No, there needs to be direct threat of personal injury or harm to a protected status in order to trigger extortion.
Nothing Dotcom has said applies.
"Its a fact that more CO2 in the atmosphere makes us worse off?"
Yes. Ocean acidification, increased reduction of external radiation (which means we warm up,) and a concentration of 10,000 pm for a few hours will kill off most smaller animals (this is how we 'green' kill pests in greenhouses.)
It's already known that rising CO2 levels have bad effects - we utilize those bad effects DAILY in the course of REAL SCIENCE.
You just proved that you know absolutely nothing.
"So the part of Kyoto which exempted gigantic polluters such as China and India... exactly what science do you consider to be justification for that?"
The hidden science of population control. Let the most populous countries pollute themselves to death so the rest of us can (eventually) have more land and resources.
"Given that I no longer actively market or produce a product with my patent, am I a patent troll?"
No, because you were a truly practicing entity.
You made the product AND the patent.
You didn't just buy a patent so you could sue.
"What is the definition of extortion, Alex?"
Funny that you ask me, since I have an extortion charge on my criminal record.
This isn't extortion. There's no criminal threat to cause bodily harm or injury to reputation going along with the demand for money. 'Pay or I sue' is not extortion. 'Pay or I'll hurt you somehow' is.
This is essentially how our patent system is supposed to work.
I do pay for my own science, and you're about to find out why you wish I hadn't.
Global economical collapse via Agricultural economy disaster, from the discovery of zero-light fruiting-plant horticulture.
That's the hand I hold. I own the rights to the tech, and your asses are mine, and so are the asses of your children, grandchildren, and more. In fact, the entire planet, including every head of state and their families, are now MINE as long as I control this tech.
People like you make me think more and more of selling this tech to North Korea. Fuck your economy and your future, as well as fuck the future of your future generations. You assholes want to fuck around and discredit science, time for that plan to backfire on your asses.
Let's see how well you handle life when you have to get your food from Dear Leader.
"far less useful from [sic] a statistical point of view."
Welp, ladies and gentlemen, we've got a perfect example of anti-science right here. Despite 'lies, damned lies, and statistics,' the statistics of well-controlled experiments almost always lay true with reality when proven to be unbiased and neutrally-conducted.
You know what, instead, just read my sig. That might hit you harder than reality does.
In case you didn't catch the joke (made by a woman no less which makes it funny that feminists decry its usage) you're the whore (such as it is said.)
A whore for anti-science.
"reflexively condemn teh evil BIG business and fossil fuels"
Follow the money - it's not just a reflex. It's a well-known FACT - you know, the things science relies upon.
But it appears you don't have a job in research or scientific development, at least not on the order of what I do to keep your asses fed while producing a very limited amount of pollution.
But you keep talking. It's ignorant people like you that give me reason to give this kind of tech to the countries you DON'T want them to have.
"I can be against Kyoto accord (policy) for reasons other than the "science" behind it (policy). This is something liberals cannot fathom."
I fathom it just fine, speaking as someone way more 'liberal' than the term implies. That coming from the POV of a multi-national research director.
Doesn't matter your thoughts on th policy - the science behind it is with a 5-sigma degree of certainty FACT. (6 sigma is almost undeniable, but 5-sigma is damned close.)
And that is something ill-educated people such as yourself cannot fathom - the rules and regulations the REAL scientists have set forth.
Policy means SHIT in the face of fact.
Exactly, what 'intelligent' being would put waste elimination and reproduction in the same systems and same areas?
Or let alone, go look at a Giraffe's vocal chord nerves (or was that the tongue?)
What intelligent moron figured that it'd be a good idea to make that nerve loop all the way down the neck and back up?
"If you ever saw that stupid blinking red light when trying to boot a game, you encountered a DRM-related problem on your NES."
Nope. Even after authentication the game can still fail and it will continue to do the same thing.
Apparently you don't know what the patent definition of a machine truly is. I suggest you stop talking go back to your basic high school and basic entry-level college courses and relearned that which you failed to learn in the first place.
"Strictly speaking soap just traps the natural oils in your skin in which a great many bacteria live which allows your hands to be much cleaner than otherwise"
Wrong. Soap has two poles. One pole binds to lipids (such as the ones that form bacterial cell membranes) and the other binds to water. Enough of this binds to a bacteria over a long enough period of time (10 minutes or so) and the cell membrane will simply rupture, due to the effects of the surfactant. Without that long period of time, soap just binds to the bacteria, then to water, and then goes away as you wash.
"People don't understand that farmer's markets and other sources of fresh produce don't exist everywhere."
Every google search I type in the name of a city and farmer's market and I get tons of results. I have yet to NOT find a city without some sort of farmer's market, even in cities with a population 5,000 people.
Also - read this and learn how wrong you are.
The hardware is the machine itself, pal, not the software. The software is a result of the machine's manipulation of electrons.
Please feel free to rejoin the conversation once you actually work in the semiconductor industry and build ICs and do lithography and understand what makes the computer the machine.
You need to go back to elementary school and re-learn how to read.
"individualized circuitry created and used by the operation of the software"
This judge is a fucking moron. Software doesn't create circuitry within the machine itself.
"I and millions of others use Google+ every day. We just use it for things other than whining about stupid shit and complaining about High School like what you find on Facebook."
Looking at my G+ right now, looks like everyone's still bitching and moaning and +1 stupid memeish bullshit.
And that's from the people NOT in any of my circles, just the shit Google tosses out.
What sort of crack are you smoking? Put it down you ignorant tool.
Most 'mildly competent technicians' from my experience have always saturated a circuit, hence leading to cut-outs and equipment failure.
I don't have any certs or licensing, yet all my shit passes CE/UL/NEC code and my work doesn't fail.
But I spent more than 6 years studying and personally testing stuff during my self-education during my desire to create high-power LED lighting units.
And in that time, only 4 units out of 10,000+ have failed. All of them hand-tested and built.