The 1935 claim is bullshit. The song was being widely sung years before to the tune of "Good Morning to All", and the 4th edition of the The Everyday Song Book, published in 1922, included the lyrics to the song "Happy Birthday" without any copyright notice at all.
This was the proverbial "smoking gun" in Warner's claim that lost them the copyright.
As for caring about emissions, that's all very well and good, but the previous post to which I had responded was only lamenting about inferior performance, which wouldn't even happen in real world conditions and will only be an issue if the fix that VW offers on recalled models simply worsens the performance of the vehicle to comply with the emissions standards. Since the recall has only just happened, we do not yet know that is what VW will do. It wouldn't surprise me that they may do this, but that still hasn't actually happened yet, and you can't (rightfully) sue someone over an action that you are only expecting them to do in the future but they haven't actually done, no matter how certain you are that will be the outcome. If their actions are truly inevitable, it would make sense to prepare to sue them, but unless you are going to sue them now for fraudulent claims about their emissions, you have no real case against them until they come back with a fix that actually (and provably) worsens the performance of your vehicle.
You didn't read the post very carefully, it said that in order to obtain lower emissions, it reduces its own performance, and on the vehicles that are being recalled, this only happens when the car is being tested. Performance-wise, the car may still perform exactly as advertised the real world. They aren't lying about performance, they are lying about their emissions.
Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but for something to be a bomb hoax, doesn't somebody actually have to still at least proclaim that they supposedly have a bomb?
In most states, an employer can pretty much fire any employee for almost any goddamn reason they want to, with perhaps only about half a dozen or so extremely specific exceptions. Failing a polygraph is not one of those few listed exceptions, and if firing a person allowed, I'm pretty sure that suspending an employee without pay is no less permissible as well.
The only recourse for the wrongly terminated employee, of course, is to sue the employer, involving expensive litigation that is rarely worth the time or effort to pursue, particularly when they may not even win even though they may be entirely in the right.
That's about on par with a suspect giving a plea "not guilty" in court, and since they are bound by oath to tell the truth, the judge proclaiming that the matter has been settled, and the case is summarily closed.
Why aren't they, oh.... I don't know.... measuring the actual emissions produced by the vehicle? Sure, it's a harder test to conduct, but the results would reflect what the thing is actually doing, and would also have the upshot of working with older vehicles that don't have such a port.
My point is that the gesture of sliding to unlock is intuitive only because there is a physical analog to it that most people have already encountered.
On point 7, that your Grandma may find the iPad harder to use the Surface is anecdotal evidence for your proposition. It remains that the underlying argument that the Surface is easier to use than the iPad is entirely subjective.
I will not contest the other points, however.
But really, putting something that can be quite objectively shown to be false in your itemized list of differences really negatively impacts your overall argument. You could have left point 4 out and just listed six points and your argument would have been much stronger than how you presented it.
I would think that if this is allowed to continue for too long, it could endanger Apple's trademark, as the term may be eventually be taken as a synonym for any tablet-like computer.
Most people aren't overly satisfied working minimum wage either.... doesn't mean that a whole lot of people won't settle for it and give up trying to get something better until some impetus comes along and moves them to do so.
Actually. IOS users are *more* likely to have access to an android device than android users, because android emulators exist that can be run in Windows, while ios emulation is currently only possible on a mac.
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Does that mean that corporations that have paid licensing fees to Warner for the song in the past can (rightfully) sue them to get their money back?
The 1935 claim is bullshit. The song was being widely sung years before to the tune of "Good Morning to All", and the 4th edition of the The Everyday Song Book, published in 1922, included the lyrics to the song "Happy Birthday" without any copyright notice at all.
This was the proverbial "smoking gun" in Warner's claim that lost them the copyright.
Is it also the *only* possible truthful answer if it were actually not a bomb.
But yes, of course it's fraud.
You didn't read the post very carefully, it said that in order to obtain lower emissions, it reduces its own performance, and on the vehicles that are being recalled, this only happens when the car is being tested. Performance-wise, the car may still perform exactly as advertised the real world. They aren't lying about performance, they are lying about their emissions.
Except he didn't cause alarm... they did, by suggesting that it was somehow supposed to be seen as a bomb.
If not, nothing was learned here. Either by accident or intentionally, it will happen again, eventually.
For the allegation that it was a bomb hoax to carry any weight, wouldn't the kid have had to allege that it was a bomb in the first place?
Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but for something to be a bomb hoax, doesn't somebody actually have to still at least proclaim that they supposedly have a bomb?
In most states, an employer can pretty much fire any employee for almost any goddamn reason they want to, with perhaps only about half a dozen or so extremely specific exceptions. Failing a polygraph is not one of those few listed exceptions, and if firing a person allowed, I'm pretty sure that suspending an employee without pay is no less permissible as well.
The only recourse for the wrongly terminated employee, of course, is to sue the employer, involving expensive litigation that is rarely worth the time or effort to pursue, particularly when they may not even win even though they may be entirely in the right.
What a load of hyper-defensive, condescending bullshit.
Even at best, the additional commentary comes across as trying to change the topic, as if to avoid being caught in a small white lie.
It's a yes or no question.... anything else added to the answer of a yes or no question is invariably a diversionary tactic.
Do you have an authoritative reference for that, or are you pulling that out of your ass?
I'm assuming the latter by default, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and ask if you actually have the former.
Such a dispute is immediately settled if you keep your receipt.
That's about on par with a suspect giving a plea "not guilty" in court, and since they are bound by oath to tell the truth, the judge proclaiming that the matter has been settled, and the case is summarily closed.
Why aren't they, oh.... I don't know.... measuring the actual emissions produced by the vehicle? Sure, it's a harder test to conduct, but the results would reflect what the thing is actually doing, and would also have the upshot of working with older vehicles that don't have such a port.
... but how does the software in the car know that the vehicle's emissions are being tested in the first place?
My point is that the gesture of sliding to unlock is intuitive only because there is a physical analog to it that most people have already encountered.
It goes back further than that.... *WAY* further than that.
Try apartment deadbolts.
Door deadbolts were using the concept of sliding to unlock long before Apple was.
It is categorically ludicrous to believe that Apple invented the concept.
iPad battery? Several days???? Uh, what?
I get about 4 hours off an iPad battery. The battery only lasts for days if I don't use it that much.
Not that I'm suggesting Surface is any better, I haven't used it so I wouldn't know.
Not exclusively American at all.
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Point 4 is entirely untrue.
On point 7, that your Grandma may find the iPad harder to use the Surface is anecdotal evidence for your proposition. It remains that the underlying argument that the Surface is easier to use than the iPad is entirely subjective.
I will not contest the other points, however.
But really, putting something that can be quite objectively shown to be false in your itemized list of differences really negatively impacts your overall argument. You could have left point 4 out and just listed six points and your argument would have been much stronger than how you presented it.
I would think that if this is allowed to continue for too long, it could endanger Apple's trademark, as the term may be eventually be taken as a synonym for any tablet-like computer.
Most people aren't overly satisfied working minimum wage either.... doesn't mean that a whole lot of people won't settle for it and give up trying to get something better until some impetus comes along and moves them to do so.
Actually. IOS users are *more* likely to have access to an android device than android users, because android emulators exist that can be run in Windows, while ios emulation is currently only possible on a mac.