not really, Though some gas tax money is often diverted for other uses, they don't bring in enough to build and maintain the roads even if they were dedicated to that use.
The federal appeals court in the Washington circuit where Afifi's case was filed ruled in August that the collection of GPS data amounts to a government "search" that required a warrant.
The reason for the suit is, again in the words of TFA:
Judges have disagreed over whether search warrants should be required for GPS tracking. Afifi's lawyers say they are filing this lawsuit in hopes of a decision saying that any use of tracking devices without a warrant in the United States is unconstitutional.
ko7 has a point though. In order to have a discharge temperature out of the rack exactly the same as the temperature your rack is you need an infinitely efficient heat exchanger. The air coming out of the rack needs to be at least 10F cooler than the rack to have any sort of efficient heat exchange. (This is all complicated by the internal fans, heat sinks, etc. of the equipment, so YMMV)
He's also right that the cooler you keep electrical equipment running, the longer it will last, generally, though fluctuations in temperatures may be as deterimental than the actual temperature in some cases.
My understanding is that microsoft caved in after suing over the "Lindows" name precisely because they started to feel that they were going to lose the "Windows" trademark in the process. So, in spite of starting the suit over the name themselves, Microsoft did a U-turn, and paid big bucks for an out-of-court settlement to convince Lindows to change to Linspire without a court decision. So "windows" tm hasn't been tested in court because Microsoft has been (rightly) scared to try.
On the contrary, there is a large over-abundance of natural gas in the USA and depressed prices. What I've heard from an executive of a natural gas exploration company is that they are going after deposits where gas and oil can both be extracted by fracking, since the gas alone is not valuable enough to make it worthwhile,
TFS quotes "Some experts think that pumping water into the ground as part of the extraction process of natural gas could cause local seismic events." but leaves out the next sentence from TFA "But the area hasn't been studied enough, they say, to know for sure."
Then, TFA gets it wrong by claiming "The scale is logarithmic, meaning a magnitude 5 earthquake is 10 times as powerful as a magnitude 4" when in reality the amplitude of a magnitude 5 earthquake is 10 times larger than a magnitude 4, and the energy released is roughly proportional to the amplitude raised to the 3/2 power, so a magnitude 5 earthquake will cause more than 31 times the destruction than a magnitude 4 earthquake, 9depending a little on how long each lasts), The earthquakes observed were not out of line with past experience in the area and were too small to be of concern by themselves.
Pumping high pressure water into active fault lines might not be such a good idea, but you are unlikely to find gas or oil in a fault, since the cracks in the rocks give a path for the fluids to escape and rise.
It's an important enough concern to pay attention to and study, but maginitude 3 and 4 earthquakes should not cause panic, they happen tens of thousands of times per year all over the world and don't cause significant damage.
Incandescent bulbs are widely used for heating. For example in bread proofing boxs, small animal tanks and lava lamps.
What exactly are we supposed to use now?
Infrared lamps? Or maybe incandescent bulbs, since the efficiency rules apply to general purpose lights and not to heaters.
Companies like Sony have no choice but to do whatever they can in order to make money for their shareholders, that is their only duty in the capitalist system we live in.
It's not an apology, it's a statement of fact.
It is not a true fact. Corporations have a duty to uphold their charter, which usually includes something about making longterm profits. Corporations also have a duty to obey the laws wherever they operate. Finally, corporations have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, which is not the same as doing whatever they can in order to make as much money as possible for their shareholders, but is more along the lines of taking care with their finances, the officers not using company money for personal gain, etc.
I probably shouldn't be responding in this article, since the consensus seems to be that there was no attempt to censor, just a whitelist. But your argument seems to just be a parroting of the spin-of-the-day, which I would like to revise:
As far as the pro-corporation movement goes, I tend to think corporations are fine for enterprises in the private sector that need them. But corporations for enterprises that get paid by taxpayers? That makes no sense at all. The people they "bargain" with have no incentive for efficiency, so very little pressure to negotiate vigorously for the side they represent (the taxpayers). The public corporation are often "bargaining" with people whose campaigns they funnel money into, so there's also a conflict of interest. This inevitably leads to public corporations becoming a faction organized against the public good, the very thing James Madison warned against. So government workers can't view a website aimed against the public interest using government PCs: boo hoo.
Also, the website may be viewed as in favor of the public interest by many, it should not be up to the government to decide.
In the USA, there are 3 time zones, and so the smallest time harmonious area is a state
Actually, in just the lower 48 states there are 4 time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. In addition, Hawaii follows another time zone, and Alaska follows yet another, except the westernmost islands of Alaska follow the same time zone as Hawaii. And not all states follow daylight savings time. At least Arizona doesn't, (the only reasonably comfortable daytime in the low desert summer is around dawn), I can't remember if Indiana still ignores daylight savings time. And though Indiana is in the Eastern time zone, its northwest cities follow Central time, in order to be in sync with Chicago - so the smallest time harmonious area is less than a state in the USA.
. . . though it was seamless pipe having no welds to fail.
Seamless pipe may have no longitudinal weld, but (in most cases, like this case) still has welds at joints and fittings connecting pipe segments together.
I was raised as a Lutheran, going to church every week, and then some. I can't say whether praying to God directly was considered "blashpemy back then", but I can testify that one of the objections about the Roman Catholic church at the time of reformation was the claim that you needed a priest to intercede between God and the lowly peasant sinners, which was rejected by the protestants.
As far as indulgences go, if they were not being paid for by coin, why did Luther think to write a dissertation trying to convince the Roman church to stop the practice?
Here's a quote from Wikipedia, you can go there and check out the citations yourself:
On 31 October 1517, Luther wrote to Albrecht, protesting the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," which came to be known as The Ninety-Five Theses. Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices, and the tone of the writing is accordingly "searching, rather than doctrinaire."[2] Hillerbrand writes that there is nevertheless an undercurrent of challenge in several of the theses, particularly in Thesis 86, which asks: "Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?"[2]
Luther objected to a saying attributed to Johann Tetzel that "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory [also attested as 'into heaven'] springs."[3] He insisted that, since forgiveness was God's alone to grant, those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error. Christians, he said, must not slacken in following Christ on account of such false assurances.
To correct the Vatican spokeman:
It is essential to understand that penance requires a personal dialogue between penitents and their creator. . . . I must stress to avoid all ambiguity, under no circumstance is it necessary to confess through an interlocuter like a priest.
Using tactics that are most likely illegal in the US is not a legitmate thing to do in the US, regardless of the target. Now if Congress were to issue a declaration of war on Wikileaks, that might make it legitimate, although still not right, since Wikileaks has not really broken any US laws.
IANAL and YMMV but they probably have a good trademark case against the name Tetrada as confusingly similar, especially since it is essentially the same game. As for copyright, that depends on how much of the game is similar and how similar it is. (e.g. if you use the exact same shaoes, colors, buttons, etc., it may be seen as derivative. In the US, anyway, you can't copyright essential features or ideas, but you can copyright the original expressions of those features and ideas.
Defining science as its common usage, "branches of study that relate to phenomena of the material universe and their laws" [Wikpedia] . . .
Using a definition from the same source more in line with the meaning in context with this thread:
"Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.https:"Wikpedia, evolution
. . . evolution is not a scientific theory
Yes, it is, as it does involve testable explanations and predictions.
It is intended to answer the question of how life came to exist, which is a historical question (how did this come about) rather than a scientific one (how does the universe work).
No, the scientific theory of evolution is not intended to answer the question of how life cam to exist, it is intended to explain how species arise and evolve (part of how the universe works). The origin of life issue may be related, though, because some theories use evolutionary principles about accumulation and survival of physical changes as part of their explanation for the (physical) origin of life.
Nothing explains the ultimate origin of existence/life/conciousness, though. (Even if you have religious faith, religion doesn't really explain that, unless you consider concepts like "God works in mysterious ways" an explanation)
As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user's permission.
I don’t think an average consumer realizes that if they say "yes, show me suggested sites” that they’re granting Microsoft permission to send their queries and clicks on Google to Microsoft, which will then be used in Bing’s ranking.
. . . just because the technology makes those terms difficult to enforce doesn't mean that if you get caught stealing the info, you're not in violation.
Discovering a secret, even if it is done by illegal means, is not stealing.
Tell that to the RIAA, who, despite using Gestapo tactics to go after 12 year olds, are essentially within their rights
The RIAA cases are about copyright. Google's accusations are not.
Then pray-tell, what does the term "Fairness Doctrine" actually mean?
Accoring to Wikipedia:
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The 1949 Commission Report served as the foundation for the Fairness Doctrine since it had previously established two more forms of regulation onto broadcasters. These two duties were to provide adequate coverage to public issues and that coverage must be fair in reflecting opposing views. The Fairness Doctrine should not be confused with the Equal Time rule. The Fairness Doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the Equal Time rule deals only with political candidates.
In 1969, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Commission's general right to enforce the Fairness Doctrine where channels were limited, but the courts have not, in general, ruled that the FCC is obliged to do so
It never required equal time, was dropped in the late 1980s, and with the expansion in broadcast channels available and the decline in over-the-air importance, it has become less important either way. That's not to say I would want it to be policy in our current environment.
Except currently you have up to one year after publishing/selling in which to file. So if this rule doesn't change, then first-to-file may allow someone up to a year to create "evidence" that they independently came up with the invention and be first to file for a patent on what you actually invented.
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Actually, "k" is the SI prefix for one thousand, not "K".
not really, Though some gas tax money is often diverted for other uses, they don't bring in enough to build and maintain the roads even if they were dedicated to that use.
From TFA:
The federal appeals court in the Washington circuit where Afifi's case was filed ruled in August that the collection of GPS data amounts to a government "search" that required a warrant.
The reason for the suit is, again in the words of TFA:
Judges have disagreed over whether search warrants should be required for GPS tracking. Afifi's lawyers say they are filing this lawsuit in hopes of a decision saying that any use of tracking devices without a warrant in the United States is unconstitutional.
ko7 has a point though. In order to have a discharge temperature out of the rack exactly the same as the temperature your rack is you need an infinitely efficient heat exchanger. The air coming out of the rack needs to be at least 10F cooler than the rack to have any sort of efficient heat exchange. (This is all complicated by the internal fans, heat sinks, etc. of the equipment, so YMMV)
He's also right that the cooler you keep electrical equipment running, the longer it will last, generally, though fluctuations in temperatures may be as deterimental than the actual temperature in some cases.
My understanding is that microsoft caved in after suing over the "Lindows" name precisely because they started to feel that they were going to lose the "Windows" trademark in the process. So, in spite of starting the suit over the name themselves, Microsoft did a U-turn, and paid big bucks for an out-of-court settlement to convince Lindows to change to Linspire without a court decision. So "windows" tm hasn't been tested in court because Microsoft has been (rightly) scared to try.
On the contrary, there is a large over-abundance of natural gas in the USA and depressed prices. What I've heard from an executive of a natural gas exploration company is that they are going after deposits where gas and oil can both be extracted by fracking, since the gas alone is not valuable enough to make it worthwhile,
Typical low information content article.
TFS quotes "Some experts think that pumping water into the ground as part of the extraction process of natural gas could cause local seismic events." but leaves out the next sentence from TFA "But the area hasn't been studied enough, they say, to know for sure."
Then, TFA gets it wrong by claiming "The scale is logarithmic, meaning a magnitude 5 earthquake is 10 times as powerful as a magnitude 4" when in reality the amplitude of a magnitude 5 earthquake is 10 times larger than a magnitude 4, and the energy released is roughly proportional to the amplitude raised to the 3/2 power, so a magnitude 5 earthquake will cause more than 31 times the destruction than a magnitude 4 earthquake, 9depending a little on how long each lasts), The earthquakes observed were not out of line with past experience in the area and were too small to be of concern by themselves.
Pumping high pressure water into active fault lines might not be such a good idea, but you are unlikely to find gas or oil in a fault, since the cracks in the rocks give a path for the fluids to escape and rise.
It's an important enough concern to pay attention to and study, but maginitude 3 and 4 earthquakes should not cause panic, they happen tens of thousands of times per year all over the world and don't cause significant damage.
Infrared lamps? Or maybe incandescent bulbs, since the efficiency rules apply to general purpose lights and not to heaters.
Who the hell would keep their house at 30C (86F) in the winter?
It is not a true fact. Corporations have a duty to uphold their charter, which usually includes something about making longterm profits. Corporations also have a duty to obey the laws wherever they operate. Finally, corporations have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, which is not the same as doing whatever they can in order to make as much money as possible for their shareholders, but is more along the lines of taking care with their finances, the officers not using company money for personal gain, etc.
I probably shouldn't be responding in this article, since the consensus seems to be that there was no attempt to censor, just a whitelist. But your argument seems to just be a parroting of the spin-of-the-day, which I would like to revise:
As far as the pro-corporation movement goes, I tend to think corporations are fine for enterprises in the private sector that need them. But corporations for enterprises that get paid by taxpayers? That makes no sense at all. The people they "bargain" with have no incentive for efficiency, so very little pressure to negotiate vigorously for the side they represent (the taxpayers). The public corporation are often "bargaining" with people whose campaigns they funnel money into, so there's also a conflict of interest. This inevitably leads to public corporations becoming a faction organized against the public good, the very thing James Madison warned against. So government workers can't view a website aimed against the public interest using government PCs: boo hoo.
Also, the website may be viewed as in favor of the public interest by many, it should not be up to the government to decide.
Actually, in just the lower 48 states there are 4 time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. In addition, Hawaii follows another time zone, and Alaska follows yet another, except the westernmost islands of Alaska follow the same time zone as Hawaii. And not all states follow daylight savings time. At least Arizona doesn't, (the only reasonably comfortable daytime in the low desert summer is around dawn), I can't remember if Indiana still ignores daylight savings time. And though Indiana is in the Eastern time zone, its northwest cities follow Central time, in order to be in sync with Chicago - so the smallest time harmonious area is less than a state in the USA.
. . . though it was seamless pipe having no welds to fail.
Seamless pipe may have no longitudinal weld, but (in most cases, like this case) still has welds at joints and fittings connecting pipe segments together.
I just call mine a bag.
Yes, the kind of assumption that's odd because it's not arrived at by assuming, but by remebering the quotes of the architects of the war at the time.
I was raised as a Lutheran, going to church every week, and then some. I can't say whether praying to God directly was considered "blashpemy back then", but I can testify that one of the objections about the Roman Catholic church at the time of reformation was the claim that you needed a priest to intercede between God and the lowly peasant sinners, which was rejected by the protestants.
As far as indulgences go, if they were not being paid for by coin, why did Luther think to write a dissertation trying to convince the Roman church to stop the practice?
Here's a quote from Wikipedia, you can go there and check out the citations yourself:
On 31 October 1517, Luther wrote to Albrecht, protesting the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," which came to be known as The Ninety-Five Theses. Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices, and the tone of the writing is accordingly "searching, rather than doctrinaire."[2] Hillerbrand writes that there is nevertheless an undercurrent of challenge in several of the theses, particularly in Thesis 86, which asks: "Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?"[2]
Luther objected to a saying attributed to Johann Tetzel that "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory [also attested as 'into heaven'] springs."[3] He insisted that, since forgiveness was God's alone to grant, those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error. Christians, he said, must not slacken in following Christ on account of such false assurances.
To correct the Vatican spokeman: It is essential to understand that penance requires a personal dialogue between penitents and their creator. . . . I must stress to avoid all ambiguity, under no circumstance is it necessary to confess through an interlocuter like a priest.
Using tactics that are most likely illegal in the US is not a legitmate thing to do in the US, regardless of the target. Now if Congress were to issue a declaration of war on Wikileaks, that might make it legitimate, although still not right, since Wikileaks has not really broken any US laws.
IANAL and YMMV but they probably have a good trademark case against the name Tetrada as confusingly similar, especially since it is essentially the same game. As for copyright, that depends on how much of the game is similar and how similar it is. (e.g. if you use the exact same shaoes, colors, buttons, etc., it may be seen as derivative. In the US, anyway, you can't copyright essential features or ideas, but you can copyright the original expressions of those features and ideas.
Because it's not called Tetrapassel.
jpeg also comes in lossless flavors
Using a definition from the same source more in line with the meaning in context with this thread:
"Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.https:"Wikpedia, evolution
Yes, it is, as it does involve testable explanations and predictions.
No, the scientific theory of evolution is not intended to answer the question of how life cam to exist, it is intended to explain how species arise and evolve (part of how the universe works). The origin of life issue may be related, though, because some theories use evolutionary principles about accumulation and survival of physical changes as part of their explanation for the (physical) origin of life.
Nothing explains the ultimate origin of existence/life/conciousness, though. (Even if you have religious faith, religion doesn't really explain that, unless you consider concepts like "God works in mysterious ways" an explanation)
About "opted in":
As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user's permission.
I don’t think an average consumer realizes that if they say "yes, show me suggested sites” that they’re granting Microsoft permission to send their queries and clicks on Google to Microsoft, which will then be used in Bing’s ranking.
Discovering a secret, even if it is done by illegal means, is not stealing.
The RIAA cases are about copyright. Google's accusations are not.
Accoring to Wikipedia:
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The 1949 Commission Report served as the foundation for the Fairness Doctrine since it had previously established two more forms of regulation onto broadcasters. These two duties were to provide adequate coverage to public issues and that coverage must be fair in reflecting opposing views. The Fairness Doctrine should not be confused with the Equal Time rule. The Fairness Doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the Equal Time rule deals only with political candidates.
In 1969, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Commission's general right to enforce the Fairness Doctrine where channels were limited, but the courts have not, in general, ruled that the FCC is obliged to do so
It never required equal time, was dropped in the late 1980s, and with the expansion in broadcast channels available and the decline in over-the-air importance, it has become less important either way. That's not to say I would want it to be policy in our current environment.
Except currently you have up to one year after publishing/selling in which to file. So if this rule doesn't change, then first-to-file may allow someone up to a year to create "evidence" that they independently came up with the invention and be first to file for a patent on what you actually invented.