Re: Image legality of a defective image

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Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com> 

Nope, I twisted mine together. So I guess if it alloyed together you own the
rights, if its twisted its mine.

---Eric
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Subject: Image legality of a defective image


 > Original poster: "Scott Hanson" <huil888-at-surfside-dot-net>
 >
 > Chris -
 >
 > Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but the "bucket capacitor" that you feel
 > deserves so much recognition is fundamentally flawed, both as described in
 > the text and as shown in "the illustration" at the Greek Group site.
 >
 > According to the instructions (and as clearly shown in "the
illustration"),
 > pairs of bottles are interconnected with individual "U-shaped" pieces of
 > copper wire.
 >
 > Somewhere (not shown) a connection is made from one of the U-shaped wires
to
 > a binding post on the bucket cover. However, this means the binding post
is
 > actually "connected" to ONLY the two bottles that share the U-shaped wire
 > connected to the binding post. All other bottles must discharge through
the
 > salt water "gap" between U-shaped wires. Very inefficient and lossy.
 >
 > To make this setup actually work right, all the U-shaped wires going into
 > every bottle need to be clamped, soldered, brazed (or create a
 > low-resistance connection by other means) to each other so the bottles are
 > actually connected in parallel.
 >
 > Hmmmmm ..... I guess this improvement is now MY intellectual property
 > ....... domestic and international plagiarists beware ......
 >
 > Scott Hanson
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 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 6:46 PM
 > Subject: Image legality
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Chris Boden" <cboden-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Hi All,
 >  >      As many of you know, the Geek Group avidly supports the
dissemination
 > of
 >  > scientific and technical knowledge by all legitimate means. All
pictures,
 >  > texts, and diagrams on our web site are published with the permission
of
 > the
 >  > author(s) and credits are posted to the extent possible.  We usually
have
 > no
 >  > objections to anyone copying pictures and quoting text as long as
sources
 >  > are cited and appropriate credit given. However, copying from our site
 >  > without permission, removing credit lines, and publishing materials on
 >  > another website as one's own, is intellectually and professionally
 > unethical
 >  > and, in the case of copyrighted materials, also illegal, even
 >  > internationally.
 >  >
 >  > Because pursuing remedy claims internationally through the legal system
is
 >  > very slow, painful, and costly, we are asking the members of TCML, the
 >  > largest peer-review TC group, to consider this several-year-old
 > illustration
 >  > from our website:
 >  >    http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/projects/bucketcap/
 >  >
 >  > and compare it to this recent website:
 >  > http://free-kc.htnet.hr/Kreso-Bukvic/Izrada%20VN%20kondezatora.htm
 >  >
 >  >     and use whatever peer pressure they may be able to exert to remedy
 > this
 >  > situation without our having to seek legal recourse.
 >  >      While we realize that sometimes a copy of a copy of a copy of
 > something
 >  > may inadvertently be displayed without permission/credits However
direct
 >  > plagiarism with deliberate editing out of names/logos is difficult to
see
 > as
 >  > accidental.
 >  >
 >  > Sincerely,
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > The Geek Group Board
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >
 >


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