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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. solar installers. “ Idiots ! There is also.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

We spent our last installment reviewing the special and sometimes troublesome engineering that was standard on the Brougham. Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Now legal in all states, all Cadillacs adopted them immediately.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. But the Savarese Commission went to great lengths to show that even simple wiretap installations were impossible to prevent and prosecute according to the letter of the law. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and. main frame.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. You’re crazy.”

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

I downloaded a MediaWiki instance, which is the same type of software that runs Wikipedia, installed it on a Linux computer under my desk, turned it on, and within a year we had, you know, we went from about zero to 20,000 users of the system. You know, Pfizer, like many other organizations, do have this dark data challenge.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

The measurement of reductions is relatively straightforward, based on readings from meters installed at regulated power stations and manufacturing facilities. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010). The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation , by Brian J.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Douglas Brotz Adobe had agreed to deliver its software for installation into the LaserWriter during the summer of 1984. The company has no patents to defend, only copyrights and trade secrets, so if other companies can reproduce Adobe’s technology, it has no legal recourse. What’s NeXT? Window on PostScript” in MacWeek , Feb.

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