Because the World Wildlife Fund came first, and uses WWF as its initials and trademark. When the World Wrestling Federation came around, they, too, used WWF, and legal threats ensued. The Wrestling was allowed to use WWF *only* in the US and distinctly talking only about its wrestling properties. That ended when they went international and went into other properties, such as movies (The Rock, etc.).
In the end, in order to escape a damaging lawsuit, they changed their name to the WWE to escape confusion with the WWF.
Aren't Republicans about less government, and lately the republican Congress are pushing for MORE regulations of decency and patriotism? How odd that they've sullied the name of the party that once held Abraham Lincoln as their leader.
One of the only few things I liked about the Call to Power series were the underwater cities. That, and I'd like to see Civ 4 have growing cities, so that you don't have a city of 1 population taking the same room as one of 20 population. Make them grow larger, have more resources, possibly even duplicates of buildings like the bank, etc. It was weird playing the World Map on the largest setting and Japan could only play one city on its island.
Civ 4 had better improve in many ways, but still have the same feel that made the others great.
Firaxis still owns Civilization, and Sid Meier's still the director on the game. Take Two is just taking over the role of Atari/Infogrames and it sounds like they wish to do more with the title than just make PC games.
Civ IV is scheduled to be out in late 2005. Hopefully, it will be.
I just would like to know what kind of regulation would be beneficial, then? Any regulation beyond age limit would be based on taste or preference, wouldn't it?
Say we regulate that pornography can only exist of human beings. What happens if someone releases a video of a human and a human dressed up as a Vulcan getting down and dirty on a dining room table? Would we need to regulate that?
At some point, it should become clear that regulation of pornography is nothing more than someone saying, "That's disgusting and should be outlawed!" Well, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Turn the knob, block the site, don't pick up that magazine, whatever you need to do, besides tell everyone else that no one may enjoy it.
I live in Ohio, and no one should move here unless you want to have the urbanized features of Chicago or Boston mixed with the plains of Nebraska and Kansas...
It's farms and big cities, rural and urban throughout, and that's why Ohio usually is about as close as the national vote for President... We also are the testbed of many products for companies, because if it works in Ohio, it should work throughout the land.
Ohio is the center of the US in many aspects, but it's also just as corrupt with Republican rule (no offense to Republicans here, but the ones we have in Ohio, except for Voinovich, have done nothing but wrong for this state).
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That's like saying, "If you think the car's too much, steal it in protest!"
If you think the market price of media is too much, the way you combat that is to boycott it. DON'T buy it, use it, etc. There are plenty of alternatives for cheaper out there (many musicians, for example, give away their songs for free).
It could also be that he's contractually obligated only to have syndication or discussions on Viacom stations, or must be approved by Viacom. Remember when Conan O'Brien wanted to be on celebrity Millionaire? NBC/GE said no, because it was a competing network, but had no qualms about having Regis on Conan's show to discuss it.
All in all, it's still the corporations who make many of these decisions, not necessarily the people who wish to make them.
Everyone lies; only the main Republicans seem to think that great lies are easily told. But then again, the parent said Jon was Republican bashing, when most of the pummeling was about how ridiculous the current administration sounds, even to the point of flat-out lying about very important things.
I saw Jon Stewart when he had a late night talk show in syndication. It was cancelled due to low ratings (syndicated late night talk show, go figure!), but he still was funny then.
Look at any interview where Jon is the guest where he can just open up; he is funny then as well.
If he's not funny to you, then our opinions differ. But if Jon left TDS and is a success, it won't be a miracle but just a good mixture of his talents and other forces at work, just like any other comedian.
But Jon doesn't force his show to lean either way; he just has more cannon fodder from Republicans.
I remember after the first debate, Jon's show was live. When Kerry answered the first question, Jon began the "audience falling asleep" type of assault. Last I saw, Kerry was a Democrat, not a Republican.
But just look at the cannon fodder for him to play with on one side! We have Bush saying that the war in Iraq is successful and we're winning, and then we see BBC feeds showing that we're not safe at all. We have Republicans in front of cameras LYING, not exaggerating or misleading, flat out LYING, and then on-camera proof to retort.
Try as you may, it's not Republican bashing, it's finally getting truth to the people who want it. Even if it's biting commentary or satirical in nature, Stewart still isn't about destroying one side.
If you want to end "Republican Bashing", start by telling Republicans who get bashed that we can record things, and we can play them back. Lying will get people nowhere today.
Yes, it's time to stop. The media plays for the largest audience, so alienating large numbers of people is bad. They need these numbers to attract advertisers and higher rates to have ads during these shows.
Two solutions still linger: Talk radio and satellite radio. Talk radio has low values for advertisers already, and satellite radio is already paid for by subscriptions. Imagine Jon Stewart without the bounds of Viacom or the need to placate to any audience the corporation wanted.
Jon, as good as he is, also wants to be big; he wants Dave Letterman's spot when he retires. GE controlling Conan at 11:35pm versus Viacom controlling Jon at 11:35pm, would it be tragic or a victory for political humor?
I just hope Jon can get his own talk show on radio, whether AM/FM or satellite, that can reach the masses without the fetters of a large corporation.
The weight of their massive corporate offices and use of water from underground sources has allowed hot magma to bubble out toward Mt. Saint Helens over the past decade?
Monkey Boy dancing causes seismic episodes in nearby mountain?
Wrath of God for making His computer crash incessantly?
The trademark is on 'Droid, with the apostrophe. Trouble is, they also go after people who simply use the term without the apostrophe, as it is similar.
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He can't catch a break.
Because the World Wildlife Fund came first, and uses WWF as its initials and trademark. When the World Wrestling Federation came around, they, too, used WWF, and legal threats ensued. The Wrestling was allowed to use WWF *only* in the US and distinctly talking only about its wrestling properties. That ended when they went international and went into other properties, such as movies (The Rock, etc.).
In the end, in order to escape a damaging lawsuit, they changed their name to the WWE to escape confusion with the WWF.
Lysator underestimated the full power of this slashdotting. Anyone have a torrent link that won't be toast?
Especially since most of it is just changing the number at the end of the sports games.
Find the phone booth and go back to tell yourself NOT to leak the show!
No, but the design and mechanics of a game are patentable. The main problem would be the look-and-feel and name trademarks.
GO OUTSIDE!
Aren't Republicans about less government, and lately the republican Congress are pushing for MORE regulations of decency and patriotism? How odd that they've sullied the name of the party that once held Abraham Lincoln as their leader.
One of the only few things I liked about the Call to Power series were the underwater cities. That, and I'd like to see Civ 4 have growing cities, so that you don't have a city of 1 population taking the same room as one of 20 population. Make them grow larger, have more resources, possibly even duplicates of buildings like the bank, etc. It was weird playing the World Map on the largest setting and Japan could only play one city on its island.
Civ 4 had better improve in many ways, but still have the same feel that made the others great.
Firaxis still owns Civilization, and Sid Meier's still the director on the game. Take Two is just taking over the role of Atari/Infogrames and it sounds like they wish to do more with the title than just make PC games.
Civ IV is scheduled to be out in late 2005. Hopefully, it will be.
I just would like to know what kind of regulation would be beneficial, then? Any regulation beyond age limit would be based on taste or preference, wouldn't it?
Say we regulate that pornography can only exist of human beings. What happens if someone releases a video of a human and a human dressed up as a Vulcan getting down and dirty on a dining room table? Would we need to regulate that?
At some point, it should become clear that regulation of pornography is nothing more than someone saying, "That's disgusting and should be outlawed!" Well, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Turn the knob, block the site, don't pick up that magazine, whatever you need to do, besides tell everyone else that no one may enjoy it.
I live in Ohio, and no one should move here unless you want to have the urbanized features of Chicago or Boston mixed with the plains of Nebraska and Kansas...
It's farms and big cities, rural and urban throughout, and that's why Ohio usually is about as close as the national vote for President... We also are the testbed of many products for companies, because if it works in Ohio, it should work throughout the land.
Ohio is the center of the US in many aspects, but it's also just as corrupt with Republican rule (no offense to Republicans here, but the ones we have in Ohio, except for Voinovich, have done nothing but wrong for this state).
That's like saying, "If you think the car's too much, steal it in protest!"
If you think the market price of media is too much, the way you combat that is to boycott it. DON'T buy it, use it, etc. There are plenty of alternatives for cheaper out there (many musicians, for example, give away their songs for free).
But using price to justify P2P piracy is selfish.
It could also be that he's contractually obligated only to have syndication or discussions on Viacom stations, or must be approved by Viacom. Remember when Conan O'Brien wanted to be on celebrity Millionaire? NBC/GE said no, because it was a competing network, but had no qualms about having Regis on Conan's show to discuss it.
All in all, it's still the corporations who make many of these decisions, not necessarily the people who wish to make them.
You must work for the Sproul group.
Everyone lies; only the main Republicans seem to think that great lies are easily told. But then again, the parent said Jon was Republican bashing, when most of the pummeling was about how ridiculous the current administration sounds, even to the point of flat-out lying about very important things.
I saw Jon Stewart when he had a late night talk show in syndication. It was cancelled due to low ratings (syndicated late night talk show, go figure!), but he still was funny then.
Look at any interview where Jon is the guest where he can just open up; he is funny then as well.
If he's not funny to you, then our opinions differ. But if Jon left TDS and is a success, it won't be a miracle but just a good mixture of his talents and other forces at work, just like any other comedian.
But Jon doesn't force his show to lean either way; he just has more cannon fodder from Republicans.
I remember after the first debate, Jon's show was live. When Kerry answered the first question, Jon began the "audience falling asleep" type of assault. Last I saw, Kerry was a Democrat, not a Republican.
But just look at the cannon fodder for him to play with on one side! We have Bush saying that the war in Iraq is successful and we're winning, and then we see BBC feeds showing that we're not safe at all. We have Republicans in front of cameras LYING, not exaggerating or misleading, flat out LYING, and then on-camera proof to retort.
Try as you may, it's not Republican bashing, it's finally getting truth to the people who want it. Even if it's biting commentary or satirical in nature, Stewart still isn't about destroying one side.
If you want to end "Republican Bashing", start by telling Republicans who get bashed that we can record things, and we can play them back. Lying will get people nowhere today.
Yes, it's time to stop. The media plays for the largest audience, so alienating large numbers of people is bad. They need these numbers to attract advertisers and higher rates to have ads during these shows.
Two solutions still linger: Talk radio and satellite radio. Talk radio has low values for advertisers already, and satellite radio is already paid for by subscriptions. Imagine Jon Stewart without the bounds of Viacom or the need to placate to any audience the corporation wanted.
Jon, as good as he is, also wants to be big; he wants Dave Letterman's spot when he retires. GE controlling Conan at 11:35pm versus Viacom controlling Jon at 11:35pm, would it be tragic or a victory for political humor?
I just hope Jon can get his own talk show on radio, whether AM/FM or satellite, that can reach the masses without the fetters of a large corporation.
Feline 3911?
Yet another reason not to use Red Hat.
Oh, I get it...
The weight of their massive corporate offices and use of water from underground sources has allowed hot magma to bubble out toward Mt. Saint Helens over the past decade?
Monkey Boy dancing causes seismic episodes in nearby mountain?
Wrath of God for making His computer crash incessantly?
Take your pick!
The trademark is on 'Droid, with the apostrophe. Trouble is, they also go after people who simply use the term without the apostrophe, as it is similar.
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Orson Scott Card comes to mind.
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Yes, because violating copyright is informative, except if it's violating GPL licensed copyrights. Great modding.