They are also useless from a practical point of view, since they can't scan body cavities. If you are willing to die for your cause it doesn't seem like a huge leap of faith to assume that you are also willing to shove explosives or a weapon up your ass......
Except that doesn't work. You blow yourself up, and you might injure the people next to you and startle the rest of the passengers, but that's about it. This guy tried it. But don't worry, they're looking into body cavity scanning technology, too! Now we can be safe from getting splattered by bomber bits.
How do we go about getting somebody disbarred? Is there a public forum for filing complaints? I know for engineers, you just go to the State Board. So I guess you have to find out what state these guys (Dunlap, Grubb, and/or Weaver) operate in (VA?) and file a complaint with their state bar. Anybody know for sure?
And fraudulent copyright notices are punishable by fine! Not that I've ever heard of anybody being fined for trying to, for instance, copyright a blank form.
I even once tried to email copyright.gov when I found a fraudulent copyright notice on a public domain work. You know what their response was? If you own the copyright, you can sue them. So basically they don't investigate fraudulent claims, despite this being a possible way to get some extra income.
Cute. I was making the point that the shows are different and are not government propaganda. You counter with two shows that are also different and not (currently) government propaganda. Don't really understand your point.
But let's get something straight about NPR. It is not Pacifica, and it is not MSNBC. With the exception of the late Daniel Schorr (who was clearly labeled a "commentator"), nobody on either Morning Edition or All Things Considered is a liberal Hannity. Often, I find NPR infuriating for failing to call out jerks like Breitbart for fear of being labeled "liberal." Yet Hannity can rant at guests and spout his "we have the bestest, most greatest country in the whole, wide world" crap every other show.
I'm sorry, what? I may be feeding a troll here, but I have to interject. NPR and Pacifica are government propaganda?
First of all, those two stations aren't anything alike. Pacifica is straightforward in its left-wing bias, whereas NPR is about as balanced a news show as you'll find these days. They frequently interview government officials and ask them questions they'd rather not be asked. They did it when Republicans were in power, and they're doing it now.
You're right there's a lot of garbage to filter. Unfortunately last week's Breitbart/Sherrod adventure showed us what happens when news outlets try to lower the BS filter a bit.
Did you see the week when Jason Jones happened to be in Tehran right about when the protests started? I don't know of any other American TV news show that had a reporter on the ground then. It was obviously just luck, but still interesting. The Iranian government thought it was real enough to arrest and interrogate one of Jason's interviewees.
I think these guys are at least at the same level of journalism as Gretchen Carlson or Rachel Maddow. They don't break stories, they just comment on them. But at least the Daily Show doesn't pretend to be straight news. If anything, you could argue that the Daily Show is meta-journalism, reporting on the reporters, researching the researchers.
Hell, I still browse with keyboard commands sometimes. I can go quite a while without even touching the mouse. But I say we encourage them to collect more and more data. Especially useless data like this. It makes the real nuggets of important info harder to find.
BTW, the second photoshop job (last link in summary) is clearly just an attempt to fix some contrast issues. I've made photos with similar artifacts after tweaking.
You really think American businesses have a "toss and re-buy" philosophy? Can I work in a place like that? My (American) company goes to great pains to scrimp and re-use things that are waaaaay past their shelf life. It makes my life as an engineer quite interesting. I can't count the number of times I've heard the line "Well, we did it that way because we had an extra widget laying around from another job. Sure it's not quite the right size, and we had to fabricate this Rube Goldberg device to get it to function, but hey, it was free!"
Actually, you'd only need 1.5 to 43 million sheets, depending on your definition of mountain (300 to 3000 meters) and thickness of paper (70 to 200 microns). Seeing as National Geographic has a circulation of 9 million, even if they only printed one sheet of evidence, you'd have your mountain right there. Spun never said it was a mountain of distinct evidence. But I must point out, it's still not a "literal" mountain because a) the evidence hasn't been piled up to said height, and b) a mountain is a natural landform.
As a Texas Professional Engineer, I can tell you that's a wrong-headed assumption. Subchapter C of our rules makes it pretty clear that our first priority is to protect the public. If we suspect any risk to the public, we have a duty to report it to the proper authorities. If I don't report another engineer that is willingly putting the public at risk, I can lose my license and face stiff fines.
That's what I was wondering. What if all these teenage boys are really just trying to practice their gaming skills by driving like lunatics? By the way, if you practice your hooker-abuse skills IRL, you'd better be prepared to practice your run-like-hell-cause-that-crazy-bitch-has-a-gun skills, too.
Probably the extra data will be the patent file wrappers. That's where all the good stuff is when you're trying to challenge a patent or defend against a patent lawsuit. Speaking from experience, the wrapper can be orders of magnitude larger than the patent itself. Generally, the wrapper is not readily available. You have to pay a $200 fee to get a copy of it, more if it's over 400 pages.
While they may be a bunch of jerks, they certainly have had their copyrights infringed. PLAN apparently didn't always just summarize their "clippings" like they do now. They used to take the entire article and serve it directly (well, they hotlink the photos). They could have just used frames, I guess, or just link to the original article from the get go.
The company was founded in 1990. Don't know why the TM was registered so late. Maybe because of Apple's iCraze, they decided to get something on file with the PTO.
As somebody who has dealt with engineers and managers from Exxon, TransCanada, and ElPaso, I can tell you that most of these guys are legit hard-nosed engineers. They don't take any crap from any of their vendors, and if you want to stray from their SOP, you had damn well better have good data backing yourself up. Even then, their likely to tell you to go to hell. BP's strict, too, but not to the same level. Sometimes their contractors have to help them make improvements for safety and quality. Not everybody's an Enron.
After the Texas City refinery disaster, not a lot of Houstonians are keen on giving BP any "second" chances. These asshats have a history of cutting corners and killing people. OSHA slapped them on the wrist last year. A record-breaking fine is just two days' profit for this company. Instead of "let the punishment fit the crime," it should be "let the punishment fit the wallet."
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They are also useless from a practical point of view, since they can't scan body cavities. If you are willing to die for your cause it doesn't seem like a huge leap of faith to assume that you are also willing to shove explosives or a weapon up your ass......
Except that doesn't work. You blow yourself up, and you might injure the people next to you and startle the rest of the passengers, but that's about it. This guy tried it. But don't worry, they're looking into body cavity scanning technology, too! Now we can be safe from getting splattered by bomber bits.
How do we go about getting somebody disbarred? Is there a public forum for filing complaints? I know for engineers, you just go to the State Board. So I guess you have to find out what state these guys (Dunlap, Grubb, and/or Weaver) operate in (VA?) and file a complaint with their state bar. Anybody know for sure?
And fraudulent copyright notices are punishable by fine! Not that I've ever heard of anybody being fined for trying to, for instance, copyright a blank form.
I even once tried to email copyright.gov when I found a fraudulent copyright notice on a public domain work. You know what their response was? If you own the copyright, you can sue them. So basically they don't investigate fraudulent claims, despite this being a possible way to get some extra income.
Cute. I was making the point that the shows are different and are not government propaganda. You counter with two shows that are also different and not (currently) government propaganda. Don't really understand your point.
But let's get something straight about NPR. It is not Pacifica, and it is not MSNBC. With the exception of the late Daniel Schorr (who was clearly labeled a "commentator"), nobody on either Morning Edition or All Things Considered is a liberal Hannity. Often, I find NPR infuriating for failing to call out jerks like Breitbart for fear of being labeled "liberal." Yet Hannity can rant at guests and spout his "we have the bestest, most greatest country in the whole, wide world" crap every other show.
I'm sorry, what? I may be feeding a troll here, but I have to interject. NPR and Pacifica are government propaganda?
First of all, those two stations aren't anything alike. Pacifica is straightforward in its left-wing bias, whereas NPR is about as balanced a news show as you'll find these days. They frequently interview government officials and ask them questions they'd rather not be asked. They did it when Republicans were in power, and they're doing it now.
You're right there's a lot of garbage to filter. Unfortunately last week's Breitbart/Sherrod adventure showed us what happens when news outlets try to lower the BS filter a bit.
Did you see the week when Jason Jones happened to be in Tehran right about when the protests started? I don't know of any other American TV news show that had a reporter on the ground then. It was obviously just luck, but still interesting. The Iranian government thought it was real enough to arrest and interrogate one of Jason's interviewees.
I think these guys are at least at the same level of journalism as Gretchen Carlson or Rachel Maddow. They don't break stories, they just comment on them. But at least the Daily Show doesn't pretend to be straight news. If anything, you could argue that the Daily Show is meta-journalism, reporting on the reporters, researching the researchers.
Hell, I still browse with keyboard commands sometimes. I can go quite a while without even touching the mouse. But I say we encourage them to collect more and more data. Especially useless data like this. It makes the real nuggets of important info harder to find.
How else can you get a poodle out of a Wolf?
I think you just have to wait for it to pass through the wolf's digestive track.
Excellent point. I hadn't thought of it this way.
BTW, the second photoshop job (last link in summary) is clearly just an attempt to fix some contrast issues. I've made photos with similar artifacts after tweaking.
Reminds me of Christina Maldonado's fail back in May. It would be funny if it weren't so sad and scary.
You really think American businesses have a "toss and re-buy" philosophy? Can I work in a place like that? My (American) company goes to great pains to scrimp and re-use things that are waaaaay past their shelf life. It makes my life as an engineer quite interesting. I can't count the number of times I've heard the line "Well, we did it that way because we had an extra widget laying around from another job. Sure it's not quite the right size, and we had to fabricate this Rube Goldberg device to get it to function, but hey, it was free!"
Actually, you'd only need 1.5 to 43 million sheets, depending on your definition of mountain (300 to 3000 meters) and thickness of paper (70 to 200 microns). Seeing as National Geographic has a circulation of 9 million, even if they only printed one sheet of evidence, you'd have your mountain right there. Spun never said it was a mountain of distinct evidence. But I must point out, it's still not a "literal" mountain because a) the evidence hasn't been piled up to said height, and b) a mountain is a natural landform.
... engineers tend to protect engineers...
As a Texas Professional Engineer, I can tell you that's a wrong-headed assumption. Subchapter C of our rules makes it pretty clear that our first priority is to protect the public. If we suspect any risk to the public, we have a duty to report it to the proper authorities. If I don't report another engineer that is willingly putting the public at risk, I can lose my license and face stiff fines.
That's what I was wondering. What if all these teenage boys are really just trying to practice their gaming skills by driving like lunatics? By the way, if you practice your hooker-abuse skills IRL, you'd better be prepared to practice your run-like-hell-cause-that-crazy-bitch-has-a-gun skills, too.
Probably the extra data will be the patent file wrappers. That's where all the good stuff is when you're trying to challenge a patent or defend against a patent lawsuit. Speaking from experience, the wrapper can be orders of magnitude larger than the patent itself. Generally, the wrapper is not readily available. You have to pay a $200 fee to get a copy of it, more if it's over 400 pages.
Although, they do seem to be targeting liberal organizations disproportionately.
While they may be a bunch of jerks, they certainly have had their copyrights infringed. PLAN apparently didn't always just summarize their "clippings" like they do now. They used to take the entire article and serve it directly (well, they hotlink the photos). They could have just used frames, I guess, or just link to the original article from the get go.
The individual cop can't get to the video, I am sure only internal affairs and their superiors have access.
And we all know cops would never do something like edit a videotape to protect a fellow officer.
i'm free to do whatever i want
except videotape a cop.
The company was founded in 1990. Don't know why the TM was registered so late. Maybe because of Apple's iCraze, they decided to get something on file with the PTO.
IEEE Spectrum had a similar article last year. Check out the images for a little better understanding of the tradeoff. It's pretty clever stuff.
As somebody who has dealt with engineers and managers from Exxon, TransCanada, and ElPaso, I can tell you that most of these guys are legit hard-nosed engineers. They don't take any crap from any of their vendors, and if you want to stray from their SOP, you had damn well better have good data backing yourself up. Even then, their likely to tell you to go to hell. BP's strict, too, but not to the same level. Sometimes their contractors have to help them make improvements for safety and quality. Not everybody's an Enron.
After the Texas City refinery disaster, not a lot of Houstonians are keen on giving BP any "second" chances. These asshats have a history of cutting corners and killing people. OSHA slapped them on the wrist last year. A record-breaking fine is just two days' profit for this company. Instead of "let the punishment fit the crime," it should be "let the punishment fit the wallet."
Actually, they changed "unlikely" to "possible." That is not nearly as dishonest. It's like the difference between "partly cloudy" and "partly sunny."