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16y ago
I don't know, although there were items like a blowout preventer that would be required in other areas. I also don't know what the contract was, was BP in day-day charge of the rig or was that the company the rig was leased from? The cappin
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I have spent an hour on the phone almost everyday for a few weeks talking to our patent lawyer, then there are all the extra hours of searches they bill me for. This is for a complex piece of opto-electronics, explaining to the lawyer (who
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16y ago
They did ask for it, they texted to a number or clicked a pop-up. Scott Adams wrote an article about this, in America it's a lot more profitable. To the Indian poster it's not worth cancelling a 60cents/month service, to Scott Adams or a m
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16y ago
The interesting point is the infrastructure behind this. Have an idea and instead of needing to build factories, employ salesmen, visit customers - you can build an online store in minutes (all the billing and payment handled by a dozen sit
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16y ago
Alternatively BP followed the lax standards required by the US rather than the stricter standards required in the North Sea. If it had applied all the extra european safety standards then somebody else could have extracted the oil more chea