There are far too many sociopaths in the world, and the Internet seems to be a perfect playground for their misanthropy.

Here is a Youtube link to a demo (long). A short intro here, and a longer speech here. No such thing as "safe" content, but safer content and includes volume control.

Like what? It's designed to detect gravitational waves. It's not designed to detect not-gravitational waves. Since we can't produce artificial gravitational waves (the detector would be almost pointless if we could, since it's meant to prove the existence of gravitational waves), we can't use a known test to confirm it's detecting gravitational waves and only gravitational waves, but since all our theory and all our observation says it should be detecting them and only them, it's fairly safe to assume it's actually doing so (assuming no systematic errors: a large assumption, but not an unreasonable one if everyone involved did their job). In fact, if what it detects isn't gravitational waves, it's almost more interesting, because that means it's detecting something else which isn't accounted for in our theory. If it detects nothing at all, well, that too would be interesting, since (again) our theory says it should. Either way, interesting.

Because climatologists never use field data...

Oh wait, they do, that must me you're either a liar or a retard.

Google is a customer of the teleco I work for. They are effectively regulated because we are regulated. I presume Facebook is no different.

Slow your roll there guys, your not going to make Google any more regulated than your customers are ...

Oh hell, this story is nothing more than a slashvertisement for some guys new pet project, the first commit is barely 2 weeks old.

Could you people use google and a cloupon before you reinvent the wheel using a shitty scripting language, please.

That's one of the points of zebra and the suite of tools that it brings to the table.

The kernel shouldn't do more than it already does unless you want to move the kernel into systemd as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Zebra is not, by any means, new.

If he is able to get a Fair trial. (This is the United States, our criminal justice system while isn't perfect, isn't so bad off that it cannot be done). There should be enough people for a fair jury, especially due to morally ambiguous issues, whistle blowing to show off abuse vs. just following order.
The trial can be used to bring to light rules on how to correctly whistle blow, and force changes in the organizations structures.

My personal view, I think he went too far, while I admire his intentions he crossed the line. However crossing that line means now the court will need to show where that line is.

I expect he will get 10-20 years of prison. Then get hired to work for some political action group.

Our history shows that people who willingly take their time for their actions, usually end up looking better in the eyes of history then the guy who cowers in some other countries borders.

The Austin Powers films stand on a lot of firm ground: they're a completely self-sustaining franchise (new work); they're a lampoon of James Bond films (parody); and a lot of their jokes are satirical references and shout-outs. You *are* allowed to say "McDonalds" instead of "McDougals"; Family Guy does the direct parody thing a lot, and Space Balls took it up to 11 with the Planet of the Apes reference.

Notice that Austin Powers wasn't "James Bond in: I am a Frozen Retard Popsicle." Likewise, the Godzilla joke you showed dispels all trademark confusion issues (the legal crux of media IP) by lampooning international copyright law. These aren't just James Bond rip-offs and Godzilla showing up in a movie; unlike the Metal Gear, Megaman, and Star Wars fan movies that claim to be MG and Star Wars, and could easily be mistaken for an official production because... well... they happen in-universe with the same characters.

But if Google gets a reputation of not showing businesses, just because they have a hissy fit, then people won't use it because it isn't giving them accurate search results.
But Google and Facebook, are very popular, but still not vital. I can change my habits for Google with Yahoo or Bing,
I can swap Facebook with Twitter, linkedin or even Google+

Telco on the other hand own the infrastructure and you have little choice but to use it, or if you are using a competing service many of them are still renting the infrastructure from them as well. So if say your local Cable provider decides that your home or business isn't worth maintaining, without regulations, they will just cut you off, and you will be SOL. And because they have a captive audience they really don't care about getting a bad repuation.

...and I wouldn't trust any guarantee I received if I were in Snowden's situation. His best case scenario would be to find himself a nice country(read: not Russia) without an extradition treaty and negotiate his way there. The only way is if the president officially pardons him or he is convicted in absentia and the president commutes his sentence, but even then, they'll find something to stick on him, just like they used the IRS to take down gangsters and the mafia.

"Satire" doesn't mean "Different".

The fact that it's a piece of visual entertainment or related, and called "Power Rangers". Also, substantial similarity can hit trademark on characters, or even hit copyright by being a derivative work. Parody quickly distances you from these--hence the Axem Rangers, a humorous reference to the Power Rangers without using any of the scenario, names, or other assets, used as a large joke in an unrelated work--and derivation into unrelated works and unrelated scenarios is usually considered influence--such as between Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and the completely unrelated NES game Crystalis.

Using the same characters, same setting, same scenario, but a different title won't get you away from derivative work copyright issues or plagiarism. Using the same title but different everything will hit trademark law. Using a similar scenario as a whole work or a *very* similar scenario as part of a different work often passes. Using something very similar as a joke falls under parody.

I'd say the tongue was firmly planted in cheek for the whole thing.

It could argue that it is a parody. The official Power Rangers are Anti-Gritty, clean cut one dimensional good guys (at least they were when I was a child). To make them a more complex and morally ambiguous to show off how clean cut the original is parodying the original.

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