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AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny
An anonymous reader writes "I worried that Brad Templeton's humorous reply in rec.humour.funny to the MasterCard threat might put an end to my daily read. I never heard the outcome, but since the column continues and he is using the same response to a suit from American Express, it must have been OK. This guy has more b*lls than I."
What Brad needs, instead of writing sarcastic responses himself, is to get a lawyer to write a letter pointing out to these pinheads that satire is constitutionally protected, and if they don't want to make asses of themselves and get laughed out of court like Fox News did against Al Franken, they should shut the fuck up.
Preferably in those exact words.
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This guy has more b*lls than I.
What, can people not say balls now? If not, could someone please say why?
Oh, maybe he means bills, as in dollaz. Meaning, he can afford the law suit?
Either way...
Billion dollar companies still struggling to overcome protections championed by a pornographer: priceless
Having a bookmark to Google does not make you an expert on everything.
Also you have to look at the other side of the coin. Can you imagine this country, in this day and age, if true satire/parody was not protected?
Having a bookmark to Google does not make you an expert on everything.
Your unauthorized use of AMERICAN EXPRESSWAY ... is likely to cause consumers to be confused, mistaken, or deceived as to the source of origin of your services.
...In addition, your continued use of these marks constitutes a deceptive business practice and unfair competition in violation of state law.
Considering that he's not running a business, claiming to run a business, or using these terms for advertising a business, these statements seem rather curious. Did they just use a search engine and automatically send out a nastigram based on the results? Would my writing "American expression, Membership has its Privileges" in this post result in Slashdot getting a letter? (If so, sorry guys)
This guy has more b*lls than I.
Either have the balls to use the word balls or pick a different word. Writing b*lls is just stupid. Allow me to demonstrate:
On slashdot I can say: I thought that anonymous coward was a fucktard.
Relaying the same information to my mother in an email I would say: I thought that anonymous coward was an idiot. Not I thought that anonymous coward was a f*cktard.
-Colin
2-digit years? STILL? Gah.
The worst is when people express a date like 01/04/03. Great; how the hell am I supposed to know which is which? I have to figure out whether you were from the U.S. and meant January 4, 2003, or from somewhere else and meant April 1st, 2003.
(If you don't think that this is a problem, consider that many restaurant kitchens employ large numbers of people from Spanish-speaking countries. Consider that food has expiration dates.)
I see many people still writing dates like this, too. I guess they saw "Y2k" as just some buzzword that the Morlocks were supposed to fix for them, and it didn't have anything to do with what they did personally.
Really, if you want a short date, you could at least use the 3-letter abbreviation for the month so that it was less confusing. Asking everyone to write ISO dates is probably too much, but dd/dd/dd is just evil. YY/mmm isn't all that much better, although if you're looking at it as a directory structure, it should be obvious that the directories would have to be in descending order. I mean, who would group things by the first day of the month, then the month?
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