that just gave me a great idea for a new p2p network, everyone pays like $.05 per song that they pirate and the money gets used to defend the guys that get caught. it's like piracy insurance:)
oh yeah, and testing your urine for drugs and emailing the results to your employer. the price of clean urine will double. and drug addicts will start peeing in the sink.
if you're staring at a projecter 8 hours a day, for 500 straight days, maybe you should go outside
I'll go outside if you get a spellchecker.
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someone once had a name for this type of a struggle... i think it was a class struggle...
right on baby, fair's fair. I'll submit if they do too. they want to know if i'm gay or violent? thats cool, scan away. but I want to know how many ufo's are hidden under roswell.
And since this strip wasn't intended to be seen by Strawberry Shortcake's prime audience (little girls), I don't think American Greetings has an actual case here.
yeah but how many parents of young girls read PA? and how many parents generally avoid buying their daughters products that evoke images of bondage lesbianism? I think they'd not have too hard a time proving damages.
It looks like the lawsuit is totally justified. The Strawberry Shortcake comic is damaging to the trademark-holder's reputation, and the US has an enforce it or lose it trademark system.
somebody mod this back up because he's right. it's not flamebait just because you don't agree with it or wish the world were different. I personally like PA but I think they should be counting their blessings that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often, they get away with a lot of shit that they wouldn't if game publishers/etc. weren't afraid of a backlash.
that said, I like that they stuck to their guns. there's not enough of this lately.
speaking your mind is cool. cowtowing to corporate pressure is not. the dixie chicks could learn a lesson from these guys. I had to delete all my illegally downloaded dixie chicks mp3s in protest.
if there could be one good thing to come of this hype it should be ridding us of the custom of shaking hands. Really, when someone you don't know sticks out his hand for you to shake it, he might as well be asking you to lick his armpit.
but if you don't you look like a weirdo. what happens when you show up for a job interview and the guy sticks out his hand, its like: 'sorry, I'd shake your hand but I left my level 4 biocontainment suit at home.'
do you even understand the concept of a saga? heroes are larger than life and unlikely things happen. if you can't deal with that you can go watch something else
I'm inclined to think they should treat music/software piracy the same as they treat, say, turnstile-jumping in major cities
This won't work because it will cost RIAA more than $500 in court costs to go after each offender. Plus they're harder to catch, there's no cop running after you when you're at home in your living room.
the fact that you continue to respond to this thread suggests a pattern of obsessive-compulsive behavior for which you should seek medication - and I'm not talking about the stuff growing in your closet.
and remember, you're not allowed to reply. doesn't that make your brain itch??
ok so we've got 3 scenarios. either I'm right and you're a paranoid whackjob, or I'm wrong and there's a vast conspiracy that you can't do anything about anyway, or I'm a troll and you fell for it hook line and sinker.
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I agree. invest in a ski mask and start robbing cenvenience stores.
Italics slow reading to 40% too
have you tried tilting your head?
and they'll come with a free order of cheesy bread.
smart move. you can expect the RIAA to be paying your hard drive a little visit once they coerce paypal into giving them your personal information.
that just gave me a great idea for a new p2p network, everyone pays like $.05 per song that they pirate and the money gets used to defend the guys that get caught. it's like piracy insurance :)
oh yeah, and testing your urine for drugs and emailing the results to your employer.
the price of clean urine will double.
and drug addicts will start peeing in the sink.
i wouldn't want to touch it, maybe it will be voice (fart) activated.
the killer app for this thing will be the ability to log your... ahh... logs.
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
go home, dad, you've had too much to drink.
video games too. somewhere out there there's a working space invaders that beats it too
so did jesus (aka jebus).
they haven'y used that 7-year boner thing that vulcans get, there's an episode I'd be willing to watch.
if you're staring at a projecter 8 hours a day, for 500 straight days, maybe you should go outside
I'll go outside if you get a spellchecker.
someone once had a name for this type of a struggle... i think it was a class struggle...
right on baby, fair's fair. I'll submit if they do too. they want to know if i'm gay or violent? thats cool, scan away. but I want to know how many ufo's are hidden under roswell.
they've got more to hide than I do.
And since this strip wasn't intended to be seen by Strawberry Shortcake's prime audience (little girls), I don't think American Greetings has an actual case here.
yeah but how many parents of young girls read PA? and how many parents generally avoid buying their daughters products that evoke images of bondage lesbianism? I think they'd not have too hard a time proving damages.
I know. apparently I can't get modded down when I'm trying. too bad you don't have points.
It looks like the lawsuit is totally justified. The Strawberry Shortcake comic is damaging to the trademark-holder's reputation, and the US has an enforce it or lose it trademark system.
somebody mod this back up because he's right. it's not flamebait just because you don't agree with it or wish the world were different. I personally like PA but I think they should be counting their blessings that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often, they get away with a lot of shit that they wouldn't if game publishers/etc. weren't afraid of a backlash.
that said, I like that they stuck to their guns. there's not enough of this lately.
speaking your mind is cool. cowtowing to corporate pressure is not. the dixie chicks could learn a lesson from these guys. I had to delete all my illegally downloaded dixie chicks mp3s in protest.
you're about to get laid. and by laid I mean fired.
Just because you have had some kind of psychosematic..
if you're gonna use big words at least learn how to spell them.
if there could be one good thing to come of this hype it should be ridding us of the custom of shaking hands. Really, when someone you don't know sticks out his hand for you to shake it, he might as well be asking you to lick his armpit.
but if you don't you look like a weirdo. what happens when you show up for a job interview and the guy sticks out his hand, its like: 'sorry, I'd shake your hand but I left my level 4 biocontainment suit at home.'
guess who doesn't get the job?
5) Don't try to pick up chinese girls you meet at the airport.
do you even understand the concept of a saga? heroes are larger than life and unlikely things happen. if you can't deal with that you can go watch something else
I'm inclined to think they should treat music/software piracy the same as they treat, say, turnstile-jumping in major cities
... unless you live in a trailer park in florida.
This won't work because it will cost RIAA more than $500 in court costs to go after each offender. Plus they're harder to catch, there's no cop running after you when you're at home in your living room.
the fact that you continue to respond to this thread suggests a pattern of obsessive-compulsive behavior for which you should seek medication - and I'm not talking about the stuff growing in your closet.
and remember, you're not allowed to reply. doesn't that make your brain itch??
ok so we've got 3 scenarios. either I'm right and you're a paranoid whackjob, or I'm wrong and there's a vast conspiracy that you can't do anything about anyway, or I'm a troll and you fell for it hook line and sinker.
any way you look at it, you lose.
Remember kids, some trolls really do work for the government
Yes that's it, I'm a government agent and you've blown my cover. Congratulations on being a paranoid lunatic.