2. this is corporate takeover of our culture. its our culture. not their ip. we need to hammer this point home
To be fair, Godzilla was originally a character from a Japanese movie.
That said, Toho has had plenty of time to milk their IP on Godzilla and come up with a new iconic monster. The modern IP laws don't really encourage creativity, since it just doesn't pay to create more than one trademark and then fight tooth and claw to hang on to it. In a proper system you'd have a deadline coming up in your lifetime where you'll have to have come up with something new.
I haven't heard of wills including a full list of your bank accounts, either. It could be just common sense to include a list of them, so executors don't have to run around Europe applying every item in their possession to everything they see just to round up your assets.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. As long as it takes a mind-numbing amount of jackassery, including repeatedly ignoring mod warnings and/or not reforming after a temp ban, to get a permaban, I don't really see a problem with the policy. Of course I haven't read the TOS for the forum, so I can't tell if this is the case.
Seriously, what would happen if I went WAAH over the fact that I can get evicted even if I pay my rent if I don't behave myself to a reasonable extent? I don't really see all that much of a difference between this issue and that one.
Let's look at the bright side, shall we? At the very least there was a real world component, and a pretty despicable one at that, to the theft of virtual property. Still, RuneScape items don't represent a real monetary investment since playing the game is free and real-world trading is forbidden by the rules and made difficult by the game mechanics, so real-world mugging someone for the items is idiotic even for a real-world mugging.
When I read the title I was half afraid that this was about someone being successfully sued for pickpocketing a Big Freakin' Sword +4 in-game. Fortunately that precedent is yet to be set.
Still, it's only a small shard, where, conceivably, the DNA could be degraded enough not to turn up a conclusive result. It has been a whole year since Fosset's disappearance, after all.
Now, all we need for a credible conspiracy theory is a good reason for Fosset to have gone missing. Something tells me he wouldn't have dumped his wife like that to simply escape celebrity. If he really disliked his wife enough to do that, why would he leave his whole fortune to her?
I see your point, but I'd be a lot more relaxed if it was EFF or just about any nonprofit org that was doing it.
The implications of a megacorp patenting methods of patent trolling are... a very good reason to use an ellipsis during an asynchronous discussion, for one thing.
Just imagine the legal stink that Barr could raise if they tried to apply that retroactively to slip in their candidates. Of course, it would propably be a case of lesser loss than not having their candidates run in the state.
I wonder, how much of a majority would it take to ram that through? The Democrats and Republicans seem to be pretty tied in the house of representatives, so Democrats could filibuster the legislation to keep McCain from getting the Texas delegates. That would at least earn them my respect.
So when teaching evolution, there is much to be said for allowing students to raise any doubts they have (hardly a revolutionary idea in science teaching) and doing one's best to have a genuine discussion. The word 'genuine' doesn't mean that creationism or intelligent design deserve equal time.
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If questions or issues about creationism and intelligent design arise during science lessons they can be used to illustrate a number of aspects of how science works.
So, he isn't even advocating teachers bringing the subject up, but that they should politely refute any arguments in favor of creationism made by the students. Of course it's a lot to ask that anyone remain civil while refuting creationist claims.
I think the controversy a knee-jerk reaction to the article containing the words 'creationism' and 'classroom'.
That only holds true if it's only the software EULA. There may be a 'not for resale' provision in the terms of purchase, although it can hardly be called purchasing for resale if you buy it without intention to sell it right along (you are propably buying the laptop under the impression that the license terms apply and you get a refund for Vista).
Also, I'm guessing that if the laptop came with an EULA of it's own, you can't sell it along if you use the laptop.
HP in Finland is like that. My brother's laptop actually had an EULA of it's own, saying that the software and hardware are an inseparable bundle, which is kind of true since the installation files were on a preinstalled cd image.
Worse yet, the consumer protection agency backs that interpretation up. I sent them an email quoting several windows licences, asking them about it, and three weeks later I got an email saying they had received my email but can't respond individually to each email. A few weeks after that, their position remains unchanged (shocking, I know).
You do have a point there. Still, I can't quite bring myself to think that the copyright skullduggery biting a big studio in the ass for $150M is a bad thing, especially when the money goes to a charity. The only thing that gets me that my math tells me the Tolkien Trust is owed around $450M.
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2. this is corporate takeover of our culture. its our culture. not their ip. we need to hammer this point home
To be fair, Godzilla was originally a character from a Japanese movie.
That said, Toho has had plenty of time to milk their IP on Godzilla and come up with a new iconic monster. The modern IP laws don't really encourage creativity, since it just doesn't pay to create more than one trademark and then fight tooth and claw to hang on to it. In a proper system you'd have a deadline coming up in your lifetime where you'll have to have come up with something new.
I haven't heard of wills including a full list of your bank accounts, either. It could be just common sense to include a list of them, so executors don't have to run around Europe applying every item in their possession to everything they see just to round up your assets.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. As long as it takes a mind-numbing amount of jackassery, including repeatedly ignoring mod warnings and/or not reforming after a temp ban, to get a permaban, I don't really see a problem with the policy. Of course I haven't read the TOS for the forum, so I can't tell if this is the case.
Seriously, what would happen if I went WAAH over the fact that I can get evicted even if I pay my rent if I don't behave myself to a reasonable extent? I don't really see all that much of a difference between this issue and that one.
Let's look at the bright side, shall we? At the very least there was a real world component, and a pretty despicable one at that, to the theft of virtual property. Still, RuneScape items don't represent a real monetary investment since playing the game is free and real-world trading is forbidden by the rules and made difficult by the game mechanics, so real-world mugging someone for the items is idiotic even for a real-world mugging.
When I read the title I was half afraid that this was about someone being successfully sued for pickpocketing a Big Freakin' Sword +4 in-game. Fortunately that precedent is yet to be set.
Still, it's only a small shard, where, conceivably, the DNA could be degraded enough not to turn up a conclusive result. It has been a whole year since Fosset's disappearance, after all.
Now, all we need for a credible conspiracy theory is a good reason for Fosset to have gone missing. Something tells me he wouldn't have dumped his wife like that to simply escape celebrity. If he really disliked his wife enough to do that, why would he leave his whole fortune to her?
I see your point, but I'd be a lot more relaxed if it was EFF or just about any nonprofit org that was doing it.
The implications of a megacorp patenting methods of patent trolling are... a very good reason to use an ellipsis during an asynchronous discussion, for one thing.
Just imagine the legal stink that Barr could raise if they tried to apply that retroactively to slip in their candidates. Of course, it would propably be a case of lesser loss than not having their candidates run in the state. I wonder, how much of a majority would it take to ram that through? The Democrats and Republicans seem to be pretty tied in the house of representatives, so Democrats could filibuster the legislation to keep McCain from getting the Texas delegates. That would at least earn them my respect.
So, he isn't even advocating teachers bringing the subject up, but that they should politely refute any arguments in favor of creationism made by the students. Of course it's a lot to ask that anyone remain civil while refuting creationist claims. I think the controversy a knee-jerk reaction to the article containing the words 'creationism' and 'classroom'.
Agreed. Who wants to bet that the patch in question will be fanmade, and relased before the official patch with the same effect?
Also, I'm guessing that if the laptop came with an EULA of it's own, you can't sell it along if you use the laptop.
HP in Finland is like that. My brother's laptop actually had an EULA of it's own, saying that the software and hardware are an inseparable bundle, which is kind of true since the installation files were on a preinstalled cd image. Worse yet, the consumer protection agency backs that interpretation up. I sent them an email quoting several windows licences, asking them about it, and three weeks later I got an email saying they had received my email but can't respond individually to each email. A few weeks after that, their position remains unchanged (shocking, I know).
You do have a point there. Still, I can't quite bring myself to think that the copyright skullduggery biting a big studio in the ass for $150M is a bad thing, especially when the money goes to a charity. The only thing that gets me that my math tells me the Tolkien Trust is owed around $450M.