[TheDomains.com] The court ordered auction of the domain name RightHaven.com started today on Snapnames.com.
As many of you are aware, RightHaven.com isn't just a ordinary domain name.
The story has been followed very closely by VegasInc.com which reported that Righthaven LLC, filed 275 lawsuits for copyright infringement seeking not only damages but the forfeiture of the domain name of the infringing site to them, RightHaven.
In one case they filed however, the defendant, was awarded costs of $63,720 against RightHaven. So this auction on SnapNames.com is to raise money to cover part of Righthaven's liability.
The defendant who beat Righthaven, Wayne Hoehn, has an attorney, Marc Randazza, who put up a blog post on the case on his blog today saying: Randazza's blog and the referred to post is here
"Righthaven went after hundreds of defendants in copyright cases. Often, the defendants were innocent and engaged in fair use.
"In all cases where a court has been asked, they found that Righthaven had no right to bring the suit in the first place. In all of their cases, Righthaven asked the court to award them not only money, but the defendant's domain name.
"After losing a case to my client, Wayne Hoehn, Righthaven is at least $63,000 in debt to him.
"They refuse to pay. Now their domain name is up for auction to the highest bidder."
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Here's your chance, Fred. I'm sure you and the mods could do a little redecorating as befits the situation.
[Emirates 24/7] A Caliphornia man was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for choking and sexually assaulting a chihuahua, and must now register as a sex offender, Sacramento prosecutors said Saturday. And no jokes about puppy love, dammit!
Robert Edwards De Shields, who is confined to a wheelchair, was convicted last month of the crimes against the eight-month-old chihuahua mix living with the family of the South Sacramento home where he rented a living space. He was high on methamphetamine at the time of the attack.
In March the owners found the dog almost lifeless, in pain and in shock, with De Shields in the garage.
A veterinarian later found traces of asphyxiation, as well as serious injuries to the animal's rectum and internal organs. The chihuahua was only able to survive thanks to intensive medical care.
De Shields, a meth addict, has been in and out of custody for years.
In the last 19 to 20 years, he has only been free from jail or monitoring by the authorities for about five months, except for periods when he was on the run, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney's office.
In an unusual move for an animal cruelty case, De Shields was also required to register as a lifetime sex offender, meaning he will have to wear an electronic surveillance device and keep a distance from schools and other places where children gather.
He will serve out his sentence in a state prison.
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China began the scramble for Afghanistan's untapped oil reserves by announcing an exploration contract with Kabul – the first such international agreement in decades.
State-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) was given approval by the Afghan government to sign the joint-venture deal with diversified Afghan company, the Watan Group.
The Chinese will lead the exploration for oil in three fields in the Kashkari, Bazarkhami and Zamarudsay basins, located in the northern provinces of Sar-e Pul and Faryab, which are estimated to hold around 87 million barrels.
Compared globally, the oilfields are comparatively small but are significantly profitable for Kabul.
Crucially, the deal gives China a leading foothold in its quest to tender for drilling rights at the countryÂ’s larger oil and other hydrocarbon reserves located elsewhere in the country.
Recent estimates by the US Geological Survey suggest northern Afghanistan, especially in the northeast Afghan-Tajikistan Basin, holds up to 1.8 billion barrels of oil.
[An Nahar] A military coup led by renegade troops was foiled Monday in Guinea-Bissau, the head of the army of the impoverished coup-prone west African state said.
"A small group of soldiers" tried to "topple the top brass of the army and the government," but failed, General Antonio Indjai said, adding: "The situation is under the control of the army and the government."
Soldiers demanding better pay attacked the headquarters of the armed forces and fanned out across the streets of the former Portuguese colony's capital.
Indjai was inside the headquarters compound in the central district of Bissau Velho when the renegade soldiers attacked. His front man fingered navy chief Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto as the criminal mastermind of the plot.
The controversial navy head, who has been linked to several previous coup attempts and suspected of being close to drug runners, was tossed in the slammer along with other top officers, army front man Major Samuel Fernandes told Agence La Belle France Presse.
According to military sources, the military headquarters were attacked at 0630 GMT by soldiers who overran the compound by firing shots in the air for close to half an hour.
Fully gunnies then fanned out across the capital, erecting roadblocks around the headquarters of the general staff and in the avenue leading to the home of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior.
Troops from different units could be seen, armed with machine-guns, Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-launchers.
Gomes briefly took refuge at the embassy of Angola, which has a small military mission in Guinea-Bissau, after soldiers paid him a visit at his house, located opposite the embassy, according to two aides and a non-Angolan diplomat.
The military action took place in the absence of President Malam Bacai Sanha, who is currently seeking medical care in La Belle France.
The presidency earlier this month denied rumors that the 64-year-old Sanha, who has spent most of his term in and out of the troubled country for health reasons, had died in a Gay Paree hospital.
The president, who was elected in 2009 after his predecessor was assassinated, was admitted to a hospital in neighboring Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... last month before being transferred to the Val de Grace hospital, which frequently takes in ailing leaders of French allies.
Since independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau's history has been studded with coups, army mutinies and political murders. It has also become a drug-trafficking hub, mostly for cocaine to Europe.
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[Iran Press TV] Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have attacked an army headquarters in the capital Bissau, demanding higher pay.
"We were caught off guard this morning by gunnies who attacked the joint command as well as two other military units inside the headquarters," General Antonio Indjai said.
A soldier introducing himself as a leader of the deployed forces told news hounds on condition of anonymity that they were out to demand an increase in their incomes.
"This is a purely military problem. We have no intention of attacking the state," the soldier added.
According to military sources, the soldiers overrun the compound by firing shots in the air.
Reports also say the armed soldiers set up roadblocks in some areas including the avenue leading to Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior's home,
forcing him to take refuge at the Angolan embassy located near his house.
The government granted a pay rise to the army in November, but soldiers claim the money has only been given to a number of soldiers.
This is while the West African state's President Malam Bacai Sanha is currently seeking medical assistance in La Belle France.
Guinea-Bissau has been a place of violence, witnessing coups, army mutinies, and political murders since its independence from Portugal in 1974.
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[Emirates 24/7] When Soddy Arabia's inquisitors religious policeplaced in long-term storage a man for dating a girl, the first thing he did was to pull a photograph out of his pocket and try to rip it.
The blood-stained picture was then determined to be a magic spell done by the man to push the girl to go out with him.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were on a routine patrol in the capital Riyadh when they suspected the man walking with a girl in the town centre.
"When they caught him, he pulled out a photograph of him and the girl and tried to tear it....but the Commission members managed to wrest it out of his hands and found that it was daubed with blood and the girl's hair," the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said.
"After questioning him, the man confessed that the photograph is a magic spell aimed at persuading the girl to go out with him...the girl said she had been dating him for nearly a month but did not know why."
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"...the girl said she had been dating him for nearly a month but did not know why."
I imagine that a lot of girls ask themselves this very question. Boys don't ever ask themselves this question, though husbands do.
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I had a poster of Farrah and one of Linda Carter. If I knew speels were avaialble, I would have bought one of Cherryl Ladd as well.
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Whoa - anuther one, first Kimmie now a Saudi.
D *** NG, beats me again, all I did was elevate a Babe telekinetically + summon thunder, strange signs seen in the sky over Pennylvania + Wisconsin, ...
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His father was known to American audiences as playing the rather randy head of Turkish Intelligence, assisting James Bond in From Russia With Love. Unfortunately, though he had rave reviews, it was his last role before he died.
During the production, he discovered that he had terminal cancer, and the shooting schedule was changed to film his scenes while he was still physically able. This was to insure that his family would get his pay from the role.
After the check cleared, as it were, he ate his gun, not wanting to go out the hard way.
[Emirates 24/7] Brazil has overtaken Britannia as the world's sixth largest economy, a London-based research group said Monday.
In its latest World Economic League Table, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said Asian countries were moving up while European countries were slipping down.
CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams told BBC radio that Brazil's advance was part of a wider trend.
"I think it's part of the big economic change, where not only are we seeing a shift from the west to the east, but we're also seeing that countries that produce vital commodities -- food and energy and things like that -- are doing very well and they're gradually climbing up the economic league table," he said.
Brazil's population of about 200 million is more than three times that of Britannia.
The Brazilian economy grew 7.5 per cent in 2010, but the government has cut its growth projections to 3.5 per cent for this year after the economy slowed in the third quarter.
The CEBR also predicted that the British economy would overtake La Belle France -- ranked fifth this year -- by 2016 and it said India, the world's 10th biggest economy in 2011, would move up to fifth place by 2020.
It says the US economy is the biggest, followed by China, Japan and Germany.
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So BRAZIL = RISING BRAZIL = MERCUSOR BLOC own the Falklands now???
Must be, since the former Brit "Grand Fleet" is barely even the "Grand Squadron" anymore -
"Grand Yacht Club"???
Personally I blame OWG PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" = "TRIPS TO BRAZIL" ABDUL, or in lessor perhaps PRE-BRAD, 1960's-70's = 1990's GUAM-JELINA "LADY LARA" JOLIE, THE SMARTEST ARMED BABE IN SHORT SHORTS THAT ST. FRANCIS EVER PRODUCED.
Paula is a little snotty becuz her kid grows up to be a King David-Solomon + a sister a UK Royal.
To paraph the great FRED FLINSTONE > K-K-K-I-I-I-I-D-D-D-Z-Z-Z .......
More specifics about the dynamics in this primary season, in the vein of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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Newt Gingrich and his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, are both able, intelligent men. Both are skilled in debate. Neither is more conservative than the other. But although the latter is by nearly all polls more electable next November, it is rather the former speaker who is now the frontrunner. The difference seems to be that Gingrich, who recently extolled the virtues of brain science on the campaign trail, has found a way to satisfy profound cognitive needs of conservative voters.
Conservatives are usually at a disadvantage when confronting moral argument with rational analysis. Arthur Brooks, at the American Enterprise Institute (where, perhaps not coincidentally, Gingrich was until recently a senior fellow), has argued that the massive weight of economic evidence in favor of the free enterprise system fails to fully convince because countervailing left-leaning arguments carry greater psychological weight: Balanced budgets and higher GDP are no match for equality and social solidarity. To use cost-benefit reasoning against moral emotion is to bring a knife to a gunfight. Thus, very often if you make a moral argument -- that A is the right thing to do -- it trumps a practical argument that B might work out better.
According to neuroscientists like Jonathan Haidt at the University of Virginia, the greater force of moral emotion is equally true of the brains of both conservatives and liberals, although the values they respond to differ somewhat. This explains Gingrich's recent rise: The former House speaker has adeptly, especially during debates, undercut the moral force of opposing arguments.
Consider how his comment that Palestinians are an "invented" people created an immediate route to the conclusion nearly all Republicans share: that America needs to be on the side of Israel to a greater extent than reflected in current policy. Whether this is prudent diplomacy is certainly open to doubt. But Romney's reasonable questioning of whether this helps or harms Israel lacks the vividness of Gingrich's formulation.
This approach, as cathartic as it might be, should not obscure the fact that a Gingrich candidacy might prove problematic.
And, not insignificantly, Gingrich's chances in a general election contest against President Barack Obama seem slim. A recent poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal shows the former speaker trailing the current president by 11 percent in a hypothetical matchup. Polling by Reuters reveals a similar spread, while a Washington Post/ABC survey shows that 48% of the country view Gingrich unfavorably. Although Gingrich can give voice to the values of many conservatives, the rest of the country is unmoved or indeed, averse to his rhetoric. The polls, conversely, show Romney in a near dead heat with the president.
Romney's long experience in the private sector, where data-driven analyses of the costs and benefits of every plan are expected and often legally required could arguably make him an effective president. But people don't make voting decisions the way corporate boards must; they're underwhelmed by justifications based largely on utilitarian interest. Thus, some focus groups have labeled the former Massachusetts governor "unexciting," "calculating," "distant." even "robotic." All of these perceptions (likely quite untrue on a personal level) are different labels for an undeveloped emotional connection to a segment of voting public.
If Romney ultimately prevails in the primaries on the basis of his advantages in electability and executive experience, a stronger moral tone will almost certainly be necessary to win the election against Obama, who is a skilled expositor of left-of-center ideological formulations - and extraordinarily successful in persuading a nation of roughly 80% non-liberals to be swayed by them.
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extraordinarily successful in persuading a nation of roughly 80% non-liberals to be swayed by them.
More like a nation of idiots! The dynamics of candidates is one thing, the dynamics of the electorate, quite something else.
Cool article about the Hexagon spy satellite program. Worth the read.
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I heard from a friend of mine who was in the Russian military that they had a manned satellite to do the same thing. Probably not as nice pictures though. :-)
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given that the soviet union collapsed from internal forces, a lot of this high tech spy stuff was almost certainly unnecessary
Really, Lord Garth? You're quite sure of that?
I'm not. For one thing, those satellites gave us significant negotiating power in arms limitation talks. And not only with regard to nuclear weapons. They, along with defectors, allowed us to judge the hideous extent of Soviet bioweapons research - as evidenced, among other things, by the effects of the leak of weaponized anthrax at Sverdlosk, an event that the Soviets denied happened but for which we had photographic evidence, courtesy of "this high tech spy stuff". (We later also verified the mind boggling extent of their bioweapons manufacturing program - they had huge amounts of several agents weaponized and stockpiled.)
Had the US not had the capabilities to detect and on occasion to demonstrate that we could detect key Soviet assets and behaviors, the USSR would not have collapsed internally nearly so quickly, if at all.
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Corona and Gambit. But neither had the resolution or sophistication of Hexagon
True, but a bit misleading. Hexagon's great advantage was its ability to take panoramic scans in which each frame had high resolution. Upon command from ground controllers, film sequences were exposed, cut, wound, placed in cannisters and dropped for surreptitious recovery. Several of the Hexagon vehicles made multiple scans with very high-value mission impact.
We take repeated use for granted with digital imagery. It was an amazing engineering and operational feat with film. These systems were complex and were used only for the most important reconnaisance missions where imagery was crucial but we could not risk use of U2s.
The Soviets lied, cheated on signed treaties and proliferated greatly. Imagery and ELINT systems helped us catch them at it and counter some of that behavior.
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..yes, but never used to humiliate and dismiss their agents and useful idiots in America who continuously pushed for more useless treaties and agreements only designed to hobble American security. With the record at hand we should have used it to brand the creatures as socially and culturally unacceptable as slavers in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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I worked the other end. I looked at several dozens of miles of that imagery during my 26 years in the Air Force. I first worked this in 1970, and I also worked some of the last actual mission (the one before the last launch, which didn't make it). There was an article on Smithsonian, I believe, that showed the actual satellite. The monster is HUGE! It was an achievement that let us track the development and deployment of every Russian weapons system since the T-70 tank. It was one of the crowning achievements of US Intelligence.
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One thing you have to understand, and this marks the difference between US intelligence and that of most other countries. Virtually every inch of that imagery was scanned from each mission. Ninety percent of the work was done by kids under 25.
My unit (1st TAC Recon Squadron) set an all-time record for tactical intelligence during a NATO Tac Eval in 1987. That didn't surprise the examiners half as much as the average age of the unit's PIs was 24, even with me at 42 bringing up the average. And yes, the security clearances for satellite imagery were something else!
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BTW, most of the Soviet "COSMOS" satellites were spy satellites. Their resolution was about a third of ours at best. The book "Deep Black" has some good information about our early photo satellites. Some of what is talked about in there is true, some of it isn't. Definitely worth a read, though.
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Anonymous broke into a computer system, which is a crime and distributed the data, which is also a crime.
It doesn't make a bit of difference if it was done to save the children, the planet or stamps. What they did was a crime punishable by imprisonment in US federal prison.
Paint your acts in hues of nobility all you want: you committed a serious federal crime.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TheDomains.com] The court ordered auction of the domain name RightHaven.com started today on Snapnames.com.
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have attacked an army headquarters in the capital Bissau, demanding higher pay.
