You fail to understand that free speech is not some grand more-important-than-everything-else freedom. Your right to free speech is no more important, morally or otherwise, than my right to not be associated with your speech.
If we are to really take you at your word, that free speech must be supported by everyone, then you would have no problem with me writing some hateful thing on your car, right?
Well OK, if your definition of 'good enough' is that the engine runs. If your definition includes using fuel effieciently and polluting the least amount possible, an improperly tuned carburetor is nowhere near 'good enough'. If you want a quick demo of that, take a walk on a suburban street some Saturday morning and enjoy the fresh aroma of all those poorly tuned lawnmowers.
A properly tuned carburetor may do a good enough job. Of course, properly tuned means it is adjusted for the current air temp, engine temp, altitude, etc. That may happen at a race track, it doesn't happen anywhere else. Do you think the manufacturers all switched to computer controlled fuel injection just to mess with you?
Please explain how you determine what the next output of a 40-bit PRNG will be by capturing a sample or two. You haven't 'synced' anything, and you have no ability to do what the real fob can do. The most you can do is stop the real fob from working. Big deal.
I have no idea what 'city bumpers' are, but the luggage net is something added by the dealer, not the factory. Same with things like floor mats. Most other things, however, are added (or not) when the car is manufactured. So there are basically two possibilities: make a mix of options that you think cover most of your market, or custom-build cars.
Making a mix of options means you have to guess at what people will buy. Guess wrong, and you have a shortage of some combinations and a glut of unsold cars with a different combination. Not good. The more combinations you have, the more likely it is you have the wrong mix. So, the manufacturers choose a few trim levels, and that is the choice you get.
Custom building has its own set of problems, and is very expensive.
OBD is required by law, so nobody is going to offer the option of not having it.
You DO, of course, have the option of refusing something you don't want - don't buy the vehicle. Nobody is required to produce what you want.
Their objections never once mention privacy or anything like that. Their objections are solely based on the 'proven health problems' caused by smart meters.
You are certainly right about that. I recently witnessed such as exchange.
Person 1: Smart-meters/Wifi, etc cause cancer! The proof is that the Soviets microwaved the US Embassy in Moscow for decades and some people got cancer. Person 2: A very large study examined that case, and found no negative health affects from it 1: The US government manipulated the data! You can't trust them. And besides, the GAO issued a report that the FCC should lower exposure limits but the FCC won't do it because the head of the FCC was in the industry 2: The GAO report actually states that there are no known problems with the levels of EMF from cell phones, etc, and asks the FCC to RAISE the limits 1: The GAO is corrupt and you can't trust them! The MILITARY knows the truth because they did some experiments (links to some FOIA document) 2: That only says that if you hit someone with microwave-oven levels of microwaves for several minutes you can give them fever-like symptoms, wifi and smart meters have energy levels millions of times lower 1: You can't trust the military, they lied about the Gulf of Tonkin. And besides, power levels don't matter 2: Power levels DO matter, you can't effect change without an input of energy 1: There is NO SCIENCE proving that. And besides, these things use SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES, and there was a cancer cluster in a high school where switching power supplies were found. 2: Okayyyyy...
Bullshit. Woodstock, NY, about as liberal place as you will find in the US, has so many of these loonies that the town board is trying to ban smart meters.
It is being diluted by being used as a generic reference to large-screen movies. There is nothing remotely related to IMAX with this thing. So if you say 'this thing is just like IMAX' and the thing is a piece of crap, you have just damaged IMAX's brand, for something they had absolutely nothing to do with.
If by 'them' you mean IMAX, yes it is much better for them. Why? Because when the product (which they have nothing to do with) turns out to be a piece of crap, short lived fad, failure, wharever, THEIR name is not associated with it.
Problem is, that only works to the benefit of the newcomer and the detriment of the trademark holder. 'Product X is as good as IMAX!' Hey, I've heard of IMAX, that is high-quality stuff. Customer buys product X and it is a piece of crap. Association is now IMAX must be crap. THAT is why holders of famous marks like IMAX do not want their marks used to generically describe a product, which is exactly what Ars is doing.
Does not matter. The Trademark Dilution Act "Entitles an owner of a famous mark that is distinctive to an injunction against another person who commences use of a mark of trade name, after it has become famous, in commerce in a manner that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or tarnishment, regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion, competition, or actual economic injury."
In other words, you can't use IMAX to generically mean large-format movie. This is because once you let that happen, it becomes incfreasingly difficult to protect the trademark, and that is where the confusion comes in.
Apparently the submitter has never heard of the Streisand Effect. either. The Streisand Effect. is where one does not want publicity, but their efforts to suppress it increase the publicity. IMAX is not trying to hide from any publicity, they just don't want their name used in conjunction with some else's product. And preventing confusion about products is the whole point of trademarks.
No, I don't need proof that there are idiots and malicious people. I need proof that MOST Americans don't care about social consequences, which is what the claim was.
Fierce competition for fares, for one thing. That includes things like fights between drivers, picking people up on the wrong side of the street, dangerous driving so you get to the fare first, etc.
Not getting enough fares means less money, means less maintenance on cabs, etc. Not enough fares also means working too long hours. Yes, the long hours problem is solved by the medallion system, because the medallion system regulates how many hours a driver can work.
Other than 'they make laws I don't like', what evidence do you have that the politicians have been bought off?
The 'scarcity' is there for a reason - to prevent a glut. The conditions that existed when there was a glut of cabs was much worse than the conditions that exist now. Do a little research.
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In other words, preventing someone from making a profit is more important than having a cheap and plentiful food supply.
You fail to understand that free speech is not some grand more-important-than-everything-else freedom. Your right to free speech is no more important, morally or otherwise, than my right to not be associated with your speech.
If we are to really take you at your word, that free speech must be supported by everyone, then you would have no problem with me writing some hateful thing on your car, right?
Well OK, if your definition of 'good enough' is that the engine runs. If your definition includes using fuel effieciently and polluting the least amount possible, an improperly tuned carburetor is nowhere near 'good enough'. If you want a quick demo of that, take a walk on a suburban street some Saturday morning and enjoy the fresh aroma of all those poorly tuned lawnmowers.
You're assuming the response is fixed. Whoops.
A properly tuned carburetor may do a good enough job. Of course, properly tuned means it is adjusted for the current air temp, engine temp, altitude, etc. That may happen at a race track, it doesn't happen anywhere else. Do you think the manufacturers all switched to computer controlled fuel injection just to mess with you?
Please explain how you determine what the next output of a 40-bit PRNG will be by capturing a sample or two. You haven't 'synced' anything, and you have no ability to do what the real fob can do. The most you can do is stop the real fob from working. Big deal.
I have no idea what 'city bumpers' are, but the luggage net is something added by the dealer, not the factory. Same with things like floor mats. Most other things, however, are added (or not) when the car is manufactured. So there are basically two possibilities: make a mix of options that you think cover most of your market, or custom-build cars.
Making a mix of options means you have to guess at what people will buy. Guess wrong, and you have a shortage of some combinations and a glut of unsold cars with a different combination. Not good. The more combinations you have, the more likely it is you have the wrong mix. So, the manufacturers choose a few trim levels, and that is the choice you get.
Custom building has its own set of problems, and is very expensive.
OBD is required by law, so nobody is going to offer the option of not having it.
You DO, of course, have the option of refusing something you don't want - don't buy the vehicle. Nobody is required to produce what you want.
Their objections never once mention privacy or anything like that. Their objections are solely based on the 'proven health problems' caused by smart meters.
You are certainly right about that. I recently witnessed such as exchange.
Person 1: Smart-meters/Wifi, etc cause cancer! The proof is that the Soviets microwaved the US Embassy in Moscow for decades and some people got cancer.
Person 2: A very large study examined that case, and found no negative health affects from it
1: The US government manipulated the data! You can't trust them. And besides, the GAO issued a report that the FCC should lower exposure limits but the FCC won't do it because the head of the FCC was in the industry
2: The GAO report actually states that there are no known problems with the levels of EMF from cell phones, etc, and asks the FCC to RAISE the limits
1: The GAO is corrupt and you can't trust them! The MILITARY knows the truth because they did some experiments (links to some FOIA document)
2: That only says that if you hit someone with microwave-oven levels of microwaves for several minutes you can give them fever-like symptoms, wifi and smart meters have energy levels millions of times lower
1: You can't trust the military, they lied about the Gulf of Tonkin. And besides, power levels don't matter
2: Power levels DO matter, you can't effect change without an input of energy
1: There is NO SCIENCE proving that. And besides, these things use SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES, and there was a cancer cluster in a high school where switching power supplies were found.
2: Okayyyyy...
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That is not 'hearing' EM, that is just hearing vibrating components.
Bullshit. Woodstock, NY, about as liberal place as you will find in the US, has so many of these loonies that the town board is trying to ban smart meters.
Too late for what? Apparently 'practically everywhere' does not include Louisiana.
Ars is a business, and they were using the name IN THE COURSE OF THEIR BUSINESS, to mean something other than products offered by IMAX.
It is being diluted by being used as a generic reference to large-screen movies. There is nothing remotely related to IMAX with this thing. So if you say 'this thing is just like IMAX' and the thing is a piece of crap, you have just damaged IMAX's brand, for something they had absolutely nothing to do with.
Ars is not a 'regular person'. It is a business, ie commerce
If by 'them' you mean IMAX, yes it is much better for them. Why? Because when the product (which they have nothing to do with) turns out to be a piece of crap, short lived fad, failure, wharever, THEIR name is not associated with it.
Problem is, that only works to the benefit of the newcomer and the detriment of the trademark holder. 'Product X is as good as IMAX!' Hey, I've heard of IMAX, that is high-quality stuff. Customer buys product X and it is a piece of crap. Association is now IMAX must be crap. THAT is why holders of famous marks like IMAX do not want their marks used to generically describe a product, which is exactly what Ars is doing.
Does not matter. The Trademark Dilution Act "Entitles an owner of a famous mark that is distinctive to an injunction against another person who commences use of a mark of trade name, after it has become famous, in commerce in a manner that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or tarnishment, regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion, competition, or actual economic injury."
In other words, you can't use IMAX to generically mean large-format movie. This is because once you let that happen, it becomes incfreasingly difficult to protect the trademark, and that is where the confusion comes in.
Seriously? Do we actually have to list all the trademark complaints Apple has filed?
And don't forget the aspirin.
Apparently the submitter has never heard of the Streisand Effect. either. The Streisand Effect. is where one does not want publicity, but their efforts to suppress it increase the publicity. IMAX is not trying to hide from any publicity, they just don't want their name used in conjunction with some else's product. And preventing confusion about products is the whole point of trademarks.
No, I don't need proof that there are idiots and malicious people. I need proof that MOST Americans don't care about social consequences, which is what the claim was.
I'd like to see some proof for your claim that most Americans don't care about social consequences.
Fierce competition for fares, for one thing. That includes things like fights between drivers, picking people up on the wrong side of the street, dangerous driving so you get to the fare first, etc.
Not getting enough fares means less money, means less maintenance on cabs, etc. Not enough fares also means working too long hours. Yes, the long hours problem is solved by the medallion system, because the medallion system regulates how many hours a driver can work.
Other than 'they make laws I don't like', what evidence do you have that the politicians have been bought off?
The 'scarcity' is there for a reason - to prevent a glut. The conditions that existed when there was a glut of cabs was much worse than the conditions that exist now. Do a little research.