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  1. Re:Really? by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years

    I don't use Gopher because he's not in the book, you know.

  2. I'm not in the book WHOOOAAAAAA... Ugh! by tepples · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Big Day For Browser Vulnerabilities

    Everyone doesn't use gopher???

    He's not in the book, you know.

  3. Re:Go Gopher! by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Netscape Turns 10

    Gopher? He's not in the book (WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAA... Ugh!)

    One-year-olds and their video habits.

  4. Self policing gov? / Disney is not innovative by moncyb · · Score: 1 · on Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute

    Maybe it's time for a SEC investigation into the patent office to check for bribery and other criminal actions.

    You think you'll get the government to watch over itself? Good luck. Sometimes it happens, but not often. I may be good to try, but I wouldn't bank on it.

    It would be better for companies to defend their products as innovative, not the functions within them that make things work. Disney has done very well with copyright laws...

    Yeah, but look at Disney's use of trademarks. Look up trademarks for "Winnie the Pooh" at the uspto.gov site. Disney owns several. Just try to use Winnie the Pooh for almost anything without getting sued by Disney. All this, and as far as I can tell, Disney had nothing to do with the creation of those characters. Also note the dates. The books were published between 1926-1928, by my math the copyright on the last book expired in 1956 (copyrights lasted a max of 28 years then, correct?). Disney started using Pooh in their cartoons at about 1966, no doubt without paying royalties.

    Everywhere I've seen, Disney doesn't innovate much at all, they just rehash--while doing everything they can to avoid paying royalties, yet they do everything they can to expand copyright law and DRM to defend their unorigional work. So no one is able to reap the same benefits from their works that they did from others.

    I don't think it is bad to rehash old works, nor do I think it's bad to use works from the public domain, but what Disney does is hypocritical and fascist.

  5. Re:Of Course There's Life! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Might Mars Contain Life?

    What they never show you is the giant ass on the other side of Mars.

  6. In summary... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Gospel According to Neo
    ...writers use pop material as a hook. And since "The Matrix" is such a mis-mash of material, there's a lot to choose from.

    It's not the message in "The Matrix" is inherently Christian/Buddist/Pagan/Geek, it's just a convenient exegetical tool for various writers to latch onto an indoctrinate readers with their own philosphical views.

    Sort of like "The Tao of Pooh".

  7. Re:The irony here is amazing by alangmead · · Score: 1 · on Pixar/Disney in "Monsters Inc" Ownership Scuffle
    The other poster was right. See http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html for details.

    A bear cub was found in Ontario by soldiers being shipped of to WWI. Lt. Harry Colebourn named him "Winnipeg", after his hometown. The bear was loaned to the London Zoo in 1919. Cristopher Robin Milne saw the bear, and named his stuffed bear toy after it. Canada had a series of postage stamps based on the events, and from what I can understand, Canadian stamps need to deal with Candadian events or culture.