So to get back to the guy's original worry, and leave the nit picking for another day, the domain squatter is still welcome to, ahem, "go forth and multiply". If you'd like to argue that in court, I think you'd have a very interesting time doing so. I should add that I'm not American; we do things a little differently up here.
That's not all of it, but lists some of the more obvious no-no's. We lean more on "attempt to deceive", and we take a dim view of people appropriating certain coats of arms.
I'll just add that Shakespeare still has a lot to say. One character's idea for a better world is, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Not a bad recipe for Utopia, I think.
If you'd worked with Dracula, I bet you'd STILL find that woman scary. I got some advice once from a Canadian version of the creature with respect to my father's estate. It amounted to, "You're right, but you might as well give up now. You're not in a financial position to fight a multi-year court battle, and we're prepared to keep going forever".
I can imagine a typical job interview when they're hiring these people:
"I see the Hobbies and Interests part of your resume lists torturing puppies and tipping wheelchairs.
"You got a problem with that?
"Not at all. It means you can skip the orientation session. You start work Monday.
I should have explained in greater detail. A real word can be trademarked, but only for a particular, narrowly-defined application unaffiliated with its meaning. As George Carlin might say, "Apple Computers is a yes. Apple Farms is a no". That explains why the Apple recording label and Apple computers had to work out a deal when the computer guys started ITunes. You can get away with trademarking a word if it's completely idiosyncratic in its application, and ONLY for that application. "Dartboard Tomato Soup" could be trademarked. "Dartboard Dart Flights" could not. And some dick who's registered the domain name Dartboard doesn't have a hope in hell of stopping me from naming my website Dartboard Sporting Goods or whatever.
The answer to the gent being threatened by the domain farmer remains the same. Except I might add "and die" to the end. People who play that kind of game really piss me off.
I bet he was lying through his teeth about how much he made in order to impress the cop and do the deal. If he thinks two years in jail is bad, wait 'til he has to explain to the IRS that he didn't really make all that money and hide it somewhere untraceable. He'll wish he was back in his cell getting corncobbed by Bubba.
I'd send them a response with two words in it. The second word would be "off".
The reason why people use fake words like "Kwik" and "Kleen" is that you can't trademark real words. You combined two real words. Tell the domain squatter to go squat on something pointy.
I've heard estimates of both one and three terabytes as adequate storage to accurately reproduce a neuron-by-neuron reconstruction of a human brain. Assuming they figure out how we assemble and integrate everything to produce sentience, 20 years might be longer than we need.
Remember how the Luddites used to sneer that a computer the size of Manhattan couldn't model the behaviour of a cockroach? Then somebody figured out that about 6 basic commands would do the trick?
Microsoft's conviction for monopolistic practices in the EEC argues strongly against their spokesman's statement. Of course, when has a spokesman for a large corporation, especially MicroDreck, said anything that was more than tangentially connected with the objective truth?
I noticed that the current cost of a vehicle-mounted radio is $80,000. Abdul with the $50 cell phone and the IED detonator seems to offer more bang for the buck.
I guess it makes sense if you think about it, but it seems a bit weird that it's much easier to design and build a plane that flies itself than a car that drives itself.
Just because you're older doesn't mean you're a techno-moron. I'm in that demographic, and I even hang out with the Slashdot crowd once in a while and I, ah, what was the question? Why am I downstairs?
They need to reassemble the court/jury that convicted that woman and fined her a gazillion dollars. See whether they'd have the parts to go after somebody who can fight back.
I suspect that the more species they experiment with, the more they're going to find with some concept of numbers. What could be more important to survival than choosing the most abundant food source when other factors are equal? I seem to recall that some parrots actually count, but I can't recall where I got that information.
LifeHacker says the Firefox people are already working to get plug-ins and extensions functioning with the new system, and expect to have things harmonized in very short order.
My bare-bones Thunderbird likes GMail's IMAP just fine, but I don't know about the bells and whistles some people need/use.
If you ever doubted, even for a moment, that laws are written for the benefit of the thieves and cheats, you need look no further than these cable slimeballs. A real estate company that owns a significant percentage of the high-rise apartment buildings in my city signed a deal with the local cable scumbags. Within weeks, signs went up in every building demanding that all satellite dishes be taken down "for safety reasons". A dish weighing about a tenth what an average flower box weighs allegedly represents some kind of safety hazard all of a sudden.
That would indeed be a major investment of very limited personnel resources. Sounds to me as though you're doing an excellent job under challenging circumstances.
A key advantage to such a changeover from an educational perspective was mentioned above by Webmaster404. I might add that Linux works just fine on current systems and the used machines that Vista and "dual core mania" are putting into the marketplace at very reasonable prices.
It would be nice if students could continue to use up-to-date software on less than the "latest and greatest" hardware. And let's face it, most of the businesses that will hire your graduates have never worried about cutting-edge hardware.
You must have had the bad luck to run into the only standoffish people in the whole province. Nova Scotia is home to some of the friendliest (and funniest) people on the face of the planet. And for crapsake don't waste your time on Italian while you're there. Seafood, seafood and more seafood! I was in a Dartmouth restaurant one time where they had a "Catch of the Hour" posted on a chalk board. Damn...I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it.
I'll pretend to be a good li'l grad student and keep feeding Herr Doctor Professor the links. You can have a look and judge for yourself whether or not May has a doctorate, or perhaps something higher. You might pay particular attention to the section that states the doctorate in science was regarded "as a greater distinction than a professorial chair and hence a professor who was also a D.Sc. would be known as Doctor."
Your original post said, "Brian May *doesn't* have a PhD. He has submitted his thesis, but hasn't been awarded it yet. Get your facts right."
I see nothing there specifying that you were referring only to that specific Ph.D., and all others were meaningless in your estimation. I suggest that a successful award will give May his second doctorate. Perhaps you are also confused about the way degrees are designated in North America vs the UK. Had you been aware of this difference you may have chosen to be more temperate in your language and thus seemed less like just another arrogant, dismissive Eurotrash prick. Over here, "Doctor" means physician. Ph.D.'s who insist on calling themselves "Doctor" are regarded by many with some degree of contempt. The phrase "Piled Higher and Deeper" is sometimes used.
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So to get back to the guy's original worry, and leave the nit picking for another day, the domain squatter is still welcome to, ahem, "go forth and multiply". If you'd like to argue that in court, I think you'd have a very interesting time doing so. I should add that I'm not American; we do things a little differently up here.
http://www.trademark-law-canada.com/trademark-lawyer-canada-overview.html
That's not all of it, but lists some of the more obvious no-no's. We lean more on "attempt to deceive", and we take a dim view of people appropriating certain coats of arms.
I'll just add that Shakespeare still has a lot to say. One character's idea for a better world is, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Not a bad recipe for Utopia, I think.
If you'd worked with Dracula, I bet you'd STILL find that woman scary. I got some advice once from a Canadian version of the creature with respect to my father's estate. It amounted to, "You're right, but you might as well give up now. You're not in a financial position to fight a multi-year court battle, and we're prepared to keep going forever".
I can imagine a typical job interview when they're hiring these people:
"I see the Hobbies and Interests part of your resume lists torturing puppies and tipping wheelchairs.
"You got a problem with that?
"Not at all. It means you can skip the orientation session. You start work Monday.
I should have explained in greater detail. A real word can be trademarked, but only for a particular, narrowly-defined application unaffiliated with its meaning. As George Carlin might say, "Apple Computers is a yes. Apple Farms is a no". That explains why the Apple recording label and Apple computers had to work out a deal when the computer guys started ITunes. You can get away with trademarking a word if it's completely idiosyncratic in its application, and ONLY for that application. "Dartboard Tomato Soup" could be trademarked. "Dartboard Dart Flights" could not. And some dick who's registered the domain name Dartboard doesn't have a hope in hell of stopping me from naming my website Dartboard Sporting Goods or whatever.
The answer to the gent being threatened by the domain farmer remains the same. Except I might add "and die" to the end. People who play that kind of game really piss me off.
I bet he was lying through his teeth about how much he made in order to impress the cop and do the deal. If he thinks two years in jail is bad, wait 'til he has to explain to the IRS that he didn't really make all that money and hide it somewhere untraceable. He'll wish he was back in his cell getting corncobbed by Bubba.
I'd send them a response with two words in it. The second word would be "off".
The reason why people use fake words like "Kwik" and "Kleen" is that you can't trademark real words. You combined two real words. Tell the domain squatter to go squat on something pointy.
I've heard estimates of both one and three terabytes as adequate storage to accurately reproduce a neuron-by-neuron reconstruction of a human brain. Assuming they figure out how we assemble and integrate everything to produce sentience, 20 years might be longer than we need.
Remember how the Luddites used to sneer that a computer the size of Manhattan couldn't model the behaviour of a cockroach? Then somebody figured out that about 6 basic commands would do the trick?
Microsoft's conviction for monopolistic practices in the EEC argues strongly against their spokesman's statement. Of course, when has a spokesman for a large corporation, especially MicroDreck, said anything that was more than tangentially connected with the objective truth?
Actually, I meant the $100,000 base station that WE paid for vs the $50 cell phone HE paid for?
He's getting the bang. We're paying the bucks.
Fixed yours for ya.
One good turn deserves another.
I noticed that the current cost of a vehicle-mounted radio is $80,000. Abdul with the $50 cell phone and the IED detonator seems to offer more bang for the buck.
You mean besides the one currently in the White House?
Or better yet, 23. Kick Out The Jams, Man.
I guess it makes sense if you think about it, but it seems a bit weird that it's much easier to design and build a plane that flies itself than a car that drives itself.
Just because you're older doesn't mean you're a techno-moron. I'm in that demographic, and I even hang out with the Slashdot crowd once in a while and I, ah, what was the question? Why am I downstairs?
So I lose ten years of data when a fruit fly tries to mate with the storage medium. Perfect.
They need to reassemble the court/jury that convicted that woman and fined her a gazillion dollars. See whether they'd have the parts to go after somebody who can fight back.
Step 1: Find out what was supplied in an old chemistry set.
Step 2: Find out what's supplied in the current version of the same one.
Step 3: Compare.
Step 4: Walk away with a list of common chemicals that the government thinks is dangerous.
Step 5: Tell all terrorists that they shouldn't do this, because people will think they're naughty and anti-social.
Step 6: Say "Hi" to your local Homeland Security rep at your next yard sale. He'll be hanging out by the toy table.
I suspect that the more species they experiment with, the more they're going to find with some concept of numbers. What could be more important to survival than choosing the most abundant food source when other factors are equal? I seem to recall that some parrots actually count, but I can't recall where I got that information.
LifeHacker says the Firefox people are already working to get plug-ins and extensions functioning with the new system, and expect to have things harmonized in very short order.
My bare-bones Thunderbird likes GMail's IMAP just fine, but I don't know about the bells and whistles some people need/use.
It's obvious you've never sampled my chili.
You can't circumcise 'em.....there's no end to the pricks.
If you ever doubted, even for a moment, that laws are written for the benefit of the thieves and cheats, you need look no further than these cable slimeballs. A real estate company that owns a significant percentage of the high-rise apartment buildings in my city signed a deal with the local cable scumbags. Within weeks, signs went up in every building demanding that all satellite dishes be taken down "for safety reasons". A dish weighing about a tenth what an average flower box weighs allegedly represents some kind of safety hazard all of a sudden.
That would indeed be a major investment of very limited personnel resources. Sounds to me as though you're doing an excellent job under challenging circumstances.
A key advantage to such a changeover from an educational perspective was mentioned above by Webmaster404. I might add that Linux works just fine on current systems and the used machines that Vista and "dual core mania" are putting into the marketplace at very reasonable prices.
It would be nice if students could continue to use up-to-date software on less than the "latest and greatest" hardware. And let's face it, most of the businesses that will hire your graduates have never worried about cutting-edge hardware.
What would it cost you to go Open Source?
You must have had the bad luck to run into the only standoffish people in the whole province. Nova Scotia is home to some of the friendliest (and funniest) people on the face of the planet. And for crapsake don't waste your time on Italian while you're there. Seafood, seafood and more seafood! I was in a Dartmouth restaurant one time where they had a "Catch of the Hour" posted on a chalk board. Damn...I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it.
I'll pretend to be a good li'l grad student and keep feeding Herr Doctor Professor the links. You can have a look and judge for yourself whether or not May has a doctorate, or perhaps something higher. You might pay particular attention to the section that states the doctorate in science was regarded "as a greater distinction than a professorial chair and hence a professor who was also a D.Sc. would be known as Doctor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Science
Your original post said, "Brian May *doesn't* have a PhD. He has submitted his thesis, but hasn't been awarded it yet. Get your facts right."
I see nothing there specifying that you were referring only to that specific Ph.D., and all others were meaningless in your estimation. I suggest that a successful award will give May his second doctorate. Perhaps you are also confused about the way degrees are designated in North America vs the UK. Had you been aware of this difference you may have chosen to be more temperate in your language and thus seemed less like just another arrogant, dismissive Eurotrash prick. Over here, "Doctor" means physician. Ph.D.'s who insist on calling themselves "Doctor" are regarded by many with some degree of contempt. The phrase "Piled Higher and Deeper" is sometimes used.
Have a nice day.