Just wondering...
I wonder, with the patents on species being allowed if some biotech company could patent the homo sapiens species.
Then slavery could be reinstated as said company would be the owner of all human beings on Earth and could sell them out to the highest bidder.
PyRoNeRD
In Belgium a neonazi (who as an editor of a extreme-rightist magazine placed an article from a British neonazi which propagated the illfounded theory that more jews died of starvation and ill health in the German death camps than were murdered by the Nazi's) has just been indited for minimising the Holocaust, which is punishable with a maximum 1 year prison sentence.
Why don't the USA and Great Britain have similar laws against Holocaust revision (see the link below)? Many notorious revisionists operate from US and British soil because their theories aren't prosecuted there.
Also many neonazi's and racists from Europe have placed their websites with American webhosters, therefore making it very difficult for European law enforcement agencies to clamp down on the ideas which are propagated on these sites.
Internet facism is becoming a serious threat to democracy and the US and Britain won't do anything about it because of their misguided "freedom of speech" notions. Therefore they are aiding and abetting the intimidation by these fascists which makes life harder and harder for people of colour and other minorities in Europe.
The US is scheduled to be majority non-white in 2050. This is clearly a good thing as it would mean an end to racism in the USA. If you look world wide whites are already a tiny minority (
Whites only ever got their position in society through thuggery, the black people outclass them on a physical and creative level, the asian people are smarter than them and the jewish people are more inventive. These people built the United States, while their white bosses did nothing and it's only in recent times that they receive recognition for their efforts. But without compensation such recognition is cheap.
There is really not much to so-called "white culture" if you look at e.g. "white music" it is really a tradeoff of black music styles. So why are whites so afraid of becoming part of the glorious mosaic? Everywhere you see them leaving suburbs because minorities move in and they pull their children from schools when more than a token few students are minorities. Where are the newspaper articles and TV news items exposing the racism in that?
Yeah, apparently Americans judge people only by the money they make and this mentality is quickly being exported all over the world.
A loudmouthed basketball star is apparently a more important person than a doctor who has developed a new vaccine against a previously uncurable disease or a scientist who makes an important breaktrough with world changing possibilities.
So why don't you change all Thomas Edison highschool into Dennis Rodham High's?
Yeah, but it seems the Brill's Content folks thing that people who know how to use computers are the guru's. Someone like Shawn Fanning obviously knows more than the average teen who uses the computer to wordprocess, e-mail, chat and let's not forget play games. Being able to run proggies doesn't automatically translate into being a guru.
And knowing more about computers than the average non-tech boomer (which all the parents in the study were) is hardly a great acheivement.
Unfortunately he has allowed all use for everyone:
Feel free to do whatever you see fit with the images, you are encouraged to integrate them into other designs that fit your need. Comments suggestions are also welcome, so please tell me what you think of these. I suggest that you look at some of the other images available with integrated text.
So all the companies can do with them as they please. They could stick Tux symbols on washingmachines if they wanted to.
Just like the USA behaving predatory because they refuse the Columbian cartel from selling drugs freely?
GM Foods haven't been fully tested on humans, so it's just as harmful as drugs to sell them in the marketplace without knowing what kind of consequences they will produce.
If you read the article it only lists a number of companies who make programs to protect their networks, interests.
What is wrong with that?????
All this free speech nonsense is well and good until they start ripping you off.
What will you do if I make an exact copy of Slashdot and put it under a confusingly similar name. How about slashdor.org, that is an easy to make typo? Then you would be on to your lawyers in no time.
MP3 ripping is against the law, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. It is as simple as that.
And NO, no-one is out to kill the internet, make TCP/IP illegal or ban FTP as they make far too much money out of it.
They are either belligerent assholes out to conquer the world or Mahatma Ghandi types who travel the stars to bring about universal peace and brotherhood.
It would be better if there were TLD's that corresponded with the trademark classes that are in the trademarks act and a few that fell outside them. The trademarkholders could have their sites in the class TLD that corresponds to the class in which they have a trademark. Only registered trademark holders could register domains in the class TLD's for which they have registered trademarks. However they would not be allowed to sue for use in non-class TLD's.
The American classes for goods and services are listed on the site of the USPTO, there are 42 of them. I am sure it wouldn't be too much a problem implementing that.
So e.g. Ford would be listed under www.ford.vech instead of www.ford.com.
I remember reading about a British animal rights group who had placed a car bomb in the car of an animal testing researcher. The bomb killed a small boy who was playing near the car.
The group justified their act in a commique saying that "as long as animals are being threatened human life is worth nothing!".
Big interests always let their lawyers drag the case on for a long time if they are in a lawsuit against a smaller interest. They know that they can force the smaller interest to settle even if they are in the wrong.
>Case law is showing that having a domain name >registered and pointing to a website is, for all >intents and purposes, "commercial use".
Well there you have it. That leaves no room for non-commercial domains. All sites on them are "infringing" if someone registers the site name as a trademark (even if they do it after the site went up or even just so they can steal the domain name).
There should be a "Non-trade Mark" registration procedure to protect the interest of non-commercial site owners.
BTW: How can Linus Torvalds get a trade mark for Linux, while he doesn't use it in commerce?
But trademarks are registered per class, so a big company could register your domainname as an trademark in another class in order to get your domain name and damages. And the biggest pockets win in court (just remember OJ)
And you actually have to use your name in commerce, which could be a bit problematic if you don't use your site as a business.
What can the holder of a non-commercial site do to protect himself from this kind of action?
Well I'd guess you could spend 325 bux to get your domain name registered as a trademark, but if some big company also registers it a trademark (in another class), they could still steal your domain name.
Because the laws favour big company and organisation interests only, as justice is increasingly becoming a commodity that is available at a very high price. And if it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, the wheels of the legal machinery will still crush you, if you do not have the required millions to defend yourself in court. In fact, people with loads of money who are wrong can buy the required results.
So in a few years time all non-big commercial/big-interest sites will disappear.
Picture this, if CmdrTaco hadn't sold out to Andover.net and kept Slashdot.org non-commercial any big company could have registered Slashdot as a trademark and then he would have been forced to hand over his site for free and pay $50K damages.
What is next, suing some Granny Smith's knitting club on the web because Granny Smith is the trademark of some apple growers?
The web will become a top-down medium for large corporations/organisations and all the homegrown / grassroots content will be sued into submission or scared away because of high profile lawsuits.
Well that happened to that fellow named Don Henley who was sued by the rock singer for using don-henley.com.
Don Henley's (the singer) lawyer even said that using his name on the internet was infringing.
My last name is Janssen and there is already a company called Janssen Pharmaceutica who owns janssen.com. Does that mean that I can't use my last name on the internet anymore because it might infringe their trademark??????
Slashdot Mirror
Errm, Netware 3.xx requires a 386 minimum as it's a 32 bit OS. And IIRC it first came out in the early '90s.
Just wondering... I wonder, with the patents on species being allowed if some biotech company could patent the homo sapiens species. Then slavery could be reinstated as said company would be the owner of all human beings on Earth and could sell them out to the highest bidder. PyRoNeRD
Why don't the USA and Great Britain have similar laws against Holocaust revision (see the link below)? Many notorious revisionists operate from US and British soil because their theories aren't prosecuted there.
Also many neonazi's and racists from Europe have placed their websites with American webhosters, therefore making it very difficult for European law enforcement agencies to clamp down on the ideas which are propagated on these sites.
Internet facism is becoming a serious threat to democracy and the US and Britain won't do anything about it because of their misguided "freedom of speech" notions. Therefore they are aiding and abetting the intimidation by these fascists which makes life harder and harder for people of colour and other minorities in Europe.
There is really not much to so-called "white culture" if you look at e.g. "white music" it is really a tradeoff of black music styles. So why are whites so afraid of becoming part of the glorious mosaic? Everywhere you see them leaving suburbs because minorities move in and they pull their children from schools when more than a token few students are minorities. Where are the newspaper articles and TV news items exposing the racism in that?
Yeah and the original URL is now a porn site!
Linus Torvalds --> Married, two daughters (see here)
Alan Cox --> Married, no kids (see here)
A loudmouthed basketball star is apparently a more important person than a doctor who has developed a new vaccine against a previously uncurable disease or a scientist who makes an important breaktrough with world changing possibilities.
So why don't you change all Thomas Edison highschool into Dennis Rodham High's?
And knowing more about computers than the average non-tech boomer (which all the parents in the study were) is hardly a great acheivement.
A clear case for a patents suit, it seems...
According to those doomsayers of the Club of Rome we should have depleted our natural resources long ago.
AFAIK "gas" is a liquid and not a gas.
His homepage can be found here: Linux 2.0 Penguins
Unfortunately he has allowed all use for everyone:
So all the companies can do with them as they please. They could stick Tux symbols on washingmachines if they wanted to.
GM Foods haven't been fully tested on humans, so it's just as harmful as drugs to sell them in the marketplace without knowing what kind of consequences they will produce.
Shame it doesn't work under Linux though (the scroll bit).
What is wrong with that?????
All this free speech nonsense is well and good until they start ripping you off.
What will you do if I make an exact copy of Slashdot and put it under a confusingly similar name. How about slashdor.org, that is an easy to make typo? Then you would be on to your lawyers in no time.
MP3 ripping is against the law, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. It is as simple as that.
And NO, no-one is out to kill the internet, make TCP/IP illegal or ban FTP as they make far too much money out of it.
Stop panicking and get a clue!!!
Why can't they show a more realistic alien?????
You need to turn the sucker on every couple of years to prevent that from happening.
The American classes for goods and services are listed on the site of the USPTO, there are 42 of them. I am sure it wouldn't be too much a problem implementing that.
So e.g. Ford would be listed under www.ford.vech instead of www.ford.com.
I wonder if you would make a parody of their meatstinks.com site and call it meatrules.com, could they also sue you for "diluting" their trademark?
The group justified their act in a commique saying that "as long as animals are being threatened human life is worth nothing!".
Big interests always let their lawyers drag the case on for a long time if they are in a lawsuit against a smaller interest. They know that they can force the smaller interest to settle even if they are in the wrong.
You don't get justice in a court, you BUY it.
Well there you have it. That leaves no room for non-commercial domains. All sites on them are "infringing" if someone registers the site name as a trademark (even if they do it after the site went up or even just so they can steal the domain name).
There should be a "Non-trade Mark" registration procedure to protect the interest of non-commercial site owners.
BTW: How can Linus Torvalds get a trade mark for Linux, while he doesn't use it in commerce?
US Patents and Trademarks Office Trademark Electronic Application System
But trademarks are registered per class, so a big company could register your domainname as an trademark in another class in order to get your domain name and damages. And the biggest pockets win in court (just remember OJ)
And you actually have to use your name in commerce, which could be a bit problematic if you don't use your site as a business.
Well I'd guess you could spend 325 bux to get your domain name registered as a trademark, but if some big company also registers it a trademark (in another class), they could still steal your domain name.
Because the laws favour big company and organisation interests only, as justice is increasingly becoming a commodity that is available at a very high price. And if it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, the wheels of the legal machinery will still crush you, if you do not have the required millions to defend yourself in court. In fact, people with loads of money who are wrong can buy the required results.
So in a few years time all non-big commercial /big-interest sites will disappear.
Picture this, if CmdrTaco hadn't sold out to Andover.net and kept Slashdot.org non-commercial any big company could have registered Slashdot as a trademark and then he would have been forced to hand over his site for free and pay $50K damages.
What is next, suing some Granny Smith's knitting club on the web because Granny Smith is the trademark of some apple growers?
The web will become a top-down medium for large corporations/organisations and all the homegrown / grassroots content will be sued into submission or scared away because of high profile lawsuits.
That is the result of what is happening now!
Don Henley's (the singer) lawyer even said that using his name on the internet was infringing.
My last name is Janssen and there is already a company called Janssen Pharmaceutica who owns janssen.com. Does that mean that I can't use my last name on the internet anymore because it might infringe their trademark??????