Still leaves the important bit of setting a price floor you can live with.

By what realistic measure did AEDE expect Google to pay, when it outright stated that it'd shut down in Germany before paying? Did they expect Spain to be different?

Like has been said, news aggregation is a loss leader for google - they don't even get advertising money on those pages.

One has to love the unforeseen consequences. By the way, this is the first time I saw that the Spanish legislation went further than the German ones - The German court decision merely gave the right to charge, but per the article the Spanish one mandated charging.

I can't help but picture that AEDE is going 'NOT AS PLANNED NOT AS PLANNED!!!'. Though how they could expect Google's actions to be any different in this case than it was in Germany, I don't know.

Spend many millions in lobbying efforts to force Google to pay for doing X, only to have Google go 'Fine, we won't do X', costing them potentially millions more in advertising.

Now, one should remember that consumer protection and business regulation is much stronger over in Europe, but deciding that a business has to continue to run at a loss is pushing it. It's more likely that they'll get a emergency overruling of the 'must pay' system.

Because let's face it: NOBODY is going to want to run a news aggregator where they have to pay to list the news. It's more likely that the news sites would have to pay to be listed.

They usually administer a 'bunch at a time' because seeing the doctor is fairly expensive in both time and money. As for the amount of aluminum, do you have any figures on how much is too much, and how vaccines 'can' exceed that, especially since most such vaccines are combined today?

Really? What sort of percentage do you consider 'highly'? Because the CDC says that's 'highly unlikely', which given CDC stuff is probably less than 0.1%. Before the vaccine infection rate rounded to something near 100% of people getting it, normally in childhood.
Term of protection is: >90% after 20 years (immune systems vary). For example, I have an aunt who's had chicken pox over a dozen times. Her immune system just keeps 'forgetting'.

Per both CDC and wikipedia, the protective action against shingles is getting what amounts to a larger dose of the very same vaccine. When I'm older, I'm going to need that booster since I've had the disease.

Any citation/evidence on the vaccine causing outbreaks of the disease? I mean, something that would see the CDC getting it's ass reamed in congressional hearings and the maker sued for release of a vaccine that's worse than ineffective?

Again, CDC says >90% after 20 years remain immune. Worst case, recommend a booster at 25, 45 & switch to shingles at 65. in the adult vaccination schedule. Much like the Tetanus vaccine(every 10 years in adults).

Reread your own post. You missed the 'in' - "due to a specific component missing the plastic insulation."

It changes the meaning quite a bit, which caused me to wonder how the hell the installers didn't notice that something was missing insulation, as well as wondering if it was something special due to calling it a power cord(which here is basically 'modular non-permanent electrical cord intended to power a device).

At one point I was wondering if it was a component being used to hook up generators or something.

Thanks for the information. I tried finding more on the failure modes, but didn't see a link to the exact problem.

While there's a number of different plugs, all this stuff is modular today. Since the cables need to be rated from 100V-240V(plus safety margin) for a constant wattage draw due to universal power supplies, they can use the same cable for all of them.

Then you just contract for the appropriate number of plugs for the various standards, of the appropriate amperage capacity, all with the same wire-side interface.

You screw that interface up, and it's the most logical spot, you're going to screw a lot of cables for a lot of different companies up.

Sounds odd. Here in the USA 'power cord' implies what's being recalled, and 'rewired' implies replacing the wiring in a home. Was it some variation of Non-metallic building wire?

Is this the incident?
FTA: "While good-quality cable will last decades (up to 40 years) the Infinity brand is said to become brittle after 5 years, potentially exposing live conductors, creating the risk of fire and or electrocution."

1. I hope your guy's cable lasts more than 40 years. I had wiring much older than that in my last house, and my current is getting up there.
2. It doesn't say it was missing the insulation, the insulation was improperly chosen such that it'd break down early. Much harder to see.

I'm guessing it's not the wire. I'd guess it's the connection to the plug.
They probably:
Didn't use the right solder
Didn't use enough solder
Didn't use adequate lead-in.

This results in a connection that gets a little too warm, the solder melts/softens and tends to migrate a bit, the connection comes loose, and a marginal connection creates a point of resistance that creates a LOT of heat, potentially fire.

With the charges that airlines are imposing on baggage, it's often cheaper to mail your stuff than to fly with it.

Paper hospital gowns might be a while.

Better yet, issue the users a smart card that contains the encryption key. They plug that into the thin client with a pin in order to log on. That way you also avoid weak password stuff.

First, you're telling me things I already know again. The easiest argument it not being wasted mass is 'If we don't put defenses against lasers on this missile it's unlikely to get through and strike it's target'. You end up either armoring them or sending a shoal of them to overwhelm the lasers.

You might not like spending the mass, but you still do it.

This, however, may run into a problem with: Armor tends to be heavy, ergo to maintain range we have to put in a bigger engine and more fuel, which leads to needing more armor, which means a bigger engine and more fuel to maintain speed. A bigger missile may be easier to target by the laser, which means you need even more armor.

It doesn't go on permanently, of course, but you can end up with a substantially bigger and more expensive missile in the end. Or one with a substantially smaller warhead because you couldn't make the submarine launched missile bigger without redesigning the submarines. Or maybe you sacrificed range.

I'd argue that a 'k-cup' would be hard to patent due to having an obvious nature. The trick would be that the machine is patented, which is why 'everybody' could make k-cup compatible tubs, but not the machines. Well, a google search shows those patents have likely expired as well, I'm seeing lots of compatible machines.

Really, you'd just have to change the machine enough to avoid Keurig's patents. How? Depends on how the patents were written.

Google says 25 nmn = 46.3 km, so you may be right. I just looked up 16" and grabbed the range for the mod 8. There's also a number of different ranges listed for the Harpoon, which makes some sense when you have booster/no booster, different warheads, submarine vs surface launch, and even have to consider wind patterns and weather when you actually launch it. That's BEFORE deliberate confustication on the part of the military as to it's exact abilities in order to mislead the enemy.

Anyways, if enemy forces start armoring their missiles there's a number of solutions - more powerful lasers or even more of them.

Oh yeah, and especially when you start introducing multiple lasers(possibly on different ships), consider that the laser might be hitting the side of the missile, not the front. Puncture the side of it and there's several possibilities at first glance:
1. Fuel tank ruptured - loss of fuel may deny it the ability to reach the target ship.
2. Solid fuel hit - you now have an uncontrolled jet out the side. Missile rendered uncontrollable, loss of stability(and range), missile no longer a concern.
3. Electronic/mechanical component hit - Results may vary. Loss of sensor capability means it can't aim to hit, mission kill. Loss of power kills the missile. Loss of control surface means the missile can't aim itself anymore either. The engine might be disabled(some of these are more like a small jet than a rocket). Etc...
4. Explosives hit - while they're unlikely to explode outside of the detonator going off, they might catch fire and have much the same effect as the solid fuel hit.

Don't forget that while the electronics are armored and there's a lot of air flow to help keep it cool, that's still a very big laser and the components do have a maximum operating temperature. They can fail from heat alone.

Anyways, armor on the SIDE of the missile wouldn't be helping much with penetration, it'd be lighter and more effective to make it ablative, which really wouldn't help with penetration. Well, other than helping to make sure it actually reaches the target in a laser equipped environment.

Considering that he retired a few years ago, then retired from even giving online classes, he's obviously getting on in age. Dementia is a possible problem.

I know my grandfather, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, has been making increasingly racist comments without any real reason to do so. Was he originally racist(before I was old enough to remember)? Was he always racist and just hid it from me(and now his ability to hide is declining)? Is it something new?

I don't know, and it makes me sad.

I wonder if a similar thing could be happening here. If it is indeed the cause, shouldn't we celebrate his rising above that past, even as we mourn his fall due to mental illness?