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A federal judge has ordered China's largest wind-turbine firm, Sinovel, to pay $59 million for stealing trade secrets from a Massachusetts-based technology company.

Last January, Sinovel was found guilty of stealing trade secrets in federal criminal court in Madison, Wis. The company paid an Austria-based employee of American Superconductor Corp. to steal its source code for software that powered wind turbines.

This kind of intellectual property theft has been highlighted by the Trump administration as a reason for levying 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods entering the U.S., which began on Friday. China retaliated with tariffs on $34 billion worth of U.S. goods.

Sinovel was the largest customer of American Superconductor Corp. And then the Chinese company suddenly began rejecting shipments of American Superconductor's electronic components in 2011.

The Massachusetts tech company learned that Sinovel was using a pirated version of the software it made in the wind turbines it installed.

The ordeal left American Superconductor in perilous financial shape, and Wall Street analysts wrote it off as dead. The U.S. Department of Justice said that the company lost more than $1 billion in shareholder equity and 700 jobs.

Earlier this week, American Superconductor announced it had agreed to settle the lawsuit against the Chinese company for $57.5 million in restitution. U.S. District Judge James Peterson said Sinovel has a year to pay the restitution and it must also pay a fine of $1.5 million.

"Through Sinovel's and AMSC's joint efforts, we have signed a settlement agreement to resolve the previous disputes in a constructive manner that we believe will enable us to move on with our respective businesses," said Daniel McGahn, American Superconductor's president and CEO. "This closes a challenging chapter for AMSC."

The problem there is that different people are scared by different things. Things you don't find scary may terrify the shit out of other people, and things that leave you a gibbering wreck might leave me bored and calling you a pussy. And that's not even getting into arguments about whether or not bullshit jumpscares count, since they don't really make you "scared" as much as they just startle you.

WastelandCowboy posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/76780246

Search button is there for a reason..

Or just look on the front page.

No one uses the search function, ok?

Hopefully he goes to jail for all of his corruption.

EPA isn't getting any better, sadly. New guy spent the prior 10 years before Trump was in office as a coal lobbyist.

Scott Pruitt will no longer lead the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump announced Thursday afternoon via Twitter.

Pruitt was among the most controversial of President Trump's original Cabinet-level picks. He embodied the administration's broad support for the fossil fuel industry and its disdain for climate science, and attracted the attention of Congress and the EPA's inspector general for a wide range of potential ethics violations that hinged on misusing his power and spending far more taxpayer money than his predecessors had on travel and security expenses.

As investigations piled up, multiple close aides and EPA staffers resigned from the agency, and support among congressional Republicans slowly weakened.

Pruitt came to the EPA from Oklahoma, where he spent years as the state's attorney general attacking the federal agency he would eventually run. With other Republican attorneys general, he sued the EPA to stop ozone and methane emissions rules and block regulations on coal-fired power plants. Throughout his career, he has publicly questioned climate change and whether it is caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Until a replacement for Pruitt is named, the EPA will be led by Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler, himself a former coal lobbyist and senior Senate staffer.

While Pruitt's environmental policies were controversial, it was his spending and attempts to use the position for personal gain that resulted in more than a dozen investigations.

Several patterns were quickly established, including unusually high spending on his office and travel and continually mixing his personal and professional lives.

The EPA spent about $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth for the administrator's office, and The Washington Post reported that Pruitt spent thousands of dollars on first-class plane tickets. The New York Times reported Pruitt's chief of security proposed that Pruitt spend $70,000 on two desks, one of them bulletproof. The desks were not purchased.

Pruitt cited security threats as one reason for the first-class travel, and he spent tens of thousands of dollars on a publicly-funded, 24-hour security detail, which his office said was necessary to protect him from threats. Pruitt's security detail reportedly accompanied him on personal trips, including a family vacation to Disneyland. In August 2017, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General began investigating Pruitt's travel and security expenses and has widened the investigation multiple times.

Pruitt aides also sought to protect their boss from questions, and help his wife pursue business deals, according to New York Times and Washington Post analyses of thousands of internal emails released to the Sierra Club under the Freedom of Information Act.

According to CNN, Pruitt broke with a tradition set by past EPA administrators and kept a secret, non-public calendar to hide meetings with industry representatives and controversial figures. At public appearances, EPA staff often told reporters and citizens that the administrator would only answer pre-planned questions, the Times reported.

My Little Pony.

If I had any doubts before, theyve been laid to rest as now I can certainly guarantee that Nathan dies alone.

Well, not alone. Im guessing his mother will be there. As a lampshade that he made out of her.

I don't understand the question.

I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting the question as such: "Suppose you had to report to the draft, but after reporting they said you weren't good enough to serve. How feel?"

Revelation34 posted...

Judgmenl posted...

Thank you for being one of those pedophile apologists you sick fuck.

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Naw I think he's just trolling

If youre the kind of person who thinks all pedophiles are bad, and youre also a #notallmen kinda guy, youre a hypocrite.

WastelandCowboy posted...

dioxxys posted...

A Pedophile is someone who is attracted to pubescent humans and typically just faps in private.

And what about those who don't just fap in private? What about those who are sexual predators to children?

The only thing you've "won" is a seat over there.

Well then theyre a child molester.

its like "a doctor could be a dentist but not all dentists are doctors" sort of thing

A Pedophile is someone who is attracted to pubescent humans and typically just faps in private.

WastelandCowboy posted...

will we bring to light how fucked-up this country really is and work on a solution?

lmao, that's not happening

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/29/did-anthony-kennedys-son-loan-donald-trump-1-billion/

Forget fascist. He's a corrupt broke pathetic human

Sad that Kennedy would sell himself and the scotus out like that

WastelandCowboy posted...

It feels like you should go back to CE, if you feel like PotD is so inferior.

I am here to make PotD great again.

yea. these people kinda want to die. make them rot in prison

Mead posted...

The process youre describing is exactly what happens to nearly all the people crossing the border seeking asylum.

Then are we still calling Trump literal hitler for putting kids in nazi internment camps?

Decrying dishonest news sources for publishing intentionally misleading bullshit isn't really a fascist sentiment either.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Metal_Mario99 posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

Gotta get the fascist in chief to appoint another shit bag to tear up the constitution before the midterms.

STFU. You don't know what "fascism" is, and if you ever found out, you'd shit yourself.

Why would someone shit themself over finding out the definition of fascism, which literally anyone can Google.

You need to chill and stop overreacting anytime anyone insults or throws shade onto Trump. Hes just the president. Hes not god, if there is one.

He's not a fascist, a dictator, or a Nazi either, but people in the real world are losing their shit for real because they think he is.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Gotta get the fascist in chief to appoint another shit bag to tear up the constitution before the midterms.

STFU. You don't know what "fascism" is, and if you ever found out, you'd shit yourself.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Pro_Boner posted...

I'm not reading all that shit.

Still, what a lazy bastard

Wont read a news article because its too long and calls someone lazy.

Hmmm.

Hey, man.

Don't be a judgmental prick.

I'm not reading all that shit.

Still, what a lazy bastard