Nuking Israel would probably be enough - it's a big place, the problem is persuading all of the other asshats to move there first. Maybe make it the site of an international conference on oil and intellectual property rights or something...
That won't do shit for China/Tibet, Pakistan/India, or the Somali pirates, just to go by my list. And there's plenty more that I didn't list. Hell, even most of the Middle East conflicts are between people who don't give a shit about oil or intellectual property. It's either they hate some other country, or they hate their own leadership. Or both.
I mean, look at how swimmingly it works in real life. There's Vancouv....err....well, there's Tripoli....errr...wait....no..there's Belfast...no...dammit...there's got to be....ok...how about Lebanon?
But Obama said he would investigate the telecoms, he would increase transparency, stop revolving door lobbyists, on all three issues he reversed. Anybody can do that, and there is no way to know who.
I realize it's never going to happen, but wouldn't it be beautiful if you could charge the lying politicians like this with fraud? After all, they sold you their presidency on false pretenses. How is this any different from a business doing false advertising?
At the very least, completely reversing on some platform promise like this should be reason to be removed from office.
HTML doesn't have classes. Real programmers don't use JavaScript. My webserver is netcat and my ability to respond to incoming requests at 120 words-per-minute. Typing out a JPG is a bit of a pain though.
Real websites don't have images on them! Just static pages of text with the occasional heading.
a large group of Nissan employees show up in a micro van and pummel you for 2 hours with Domo-kun dolls or until you submit and put the card back in.
But how do they know where to find you to beat you up, if you've pulled the SIM card from the car? Unless you're a dumbass, and pull the card while your car is sitting in your driveway at home.
If the card can be accessed while driving, even by a passenger, then pull it while you're one the freeway with your foot to the floor. That way you can avoid the ninja sqaud, and with any luck, they'll also think the car blew up.... If it's under the hood, or somewhere like that, pull over on the freeway after driving with your foot to the floor, pull the card, and take off. Maybe they'll still think the car blew up....
It's an acceptable excuse for why they're not defending it. If you've never heard that someone is using the name, then how could they possibly defend against it?
Hypothetical: I start a gardening company specializing in playing music to plants (peas, mostly) under the theory that they grow better. The product also has a small camera, so you can keep an eye on your garden from anywhere, so you can tell if pests are trying to steal your vegetables. I call my product the "iPod", because the music helps the peas the most, and "eyePod" was too clumsy, even though it denoted the camera aspect. I run this one man business for a few years, then companyB creates an "iPod" product, which Apple sues for. I send a letter to companyB, stating I've been using this name for years, and Apple has never defended against it.
So now, Apple should lose their trademark on iPod, because some backwater sole proprietor company used the product name but flew under the radar? No.
On the other hand, a simple Google search for "iCloud" results in the domain "geticloud.com" coming up. There's no excuse for Apple to have used it without knowing about this other company.
Maybe, like myself, they've never heard of the previous owners of the domain. It may have only come to their attention when Apple started their eleventy billion dollar marketing campaign on the matter.
From the offices of: Dewey, Cheatem and Howe Attorneys at Law Specializing in Intellectual Property Law
Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms. Coward,
It has been brought to our attention that you are referring to yourself by the name "Anonymous Coward". This obvious attempt to associate yourself with the family of Sir Noël Peirce Coward will not be tolerated.
Under current overbearing intellectual property laws, you a required to cease and desist using this name, and return to referring to yourself as your birth name of "Unnamed idiot wimp". Failure to correct this matter will result in legal action filed against you, in the amount of eleventy billion (111!!.111.1.1>!!1!!1.111eleventy!!11!1!) dollars.
AC is a douche. There's nothing wrong with your spelling.
Only thing wrong with your post is lack of capitalization on the last two sentences, and starting the last one with "and". But since that's not what AC quoted, I'm assuming they didn't even notice that, because they were too busy thinking you spelled "ad" without the second "d".:-/
It's beautiful. Evil, but beautiful and elegant. But about the most evil thing one can do. I personally consider it more evil than mass-murder. Because those manipulated people in essence stop being an independent entity, but become part of you. Like a possessed zombie, dead, yet walking the earth and talking your views. At least the dead have their peace.
So we've already _had_ a zombie invasion? Shit.
And in order to prevent the zombie apocalypse, we should have just killed all the IP lobbyists? Cool.
Slashdot Mirror
I had the same thought... "yet another reason? who the fork relies on FB to STORE their photos?"
Idiots.
Next question.
Nuking Israel would probably be enough - it's a big place, the problem is persuading all of the other asshats to move there first. Maybe make it the site of an international conference on oil and intellectual property rights or something...
That won't do shit for China/Tibet, Pakistan/India, or the Somali pirates, just to go by my list. And there's plenty more that I didn't list. Hell, even most of the Middle East conflicts are between people who don't give a shit about oil or intellectual property. It's either they hate some other country, or they hate their own leadership. Or both.
....Ministry of Love?
That would be "Minilove" Which sounds doubleplus close to Wikilove....
1. Nuke Israel.
2. Nuke Washington, D.C.
That is all.
Yeah. Because then we'd only have Somali pirates, Pakistan/India, most of the Middle East, China/Tibet, etc.etc.
If your solution to obtain world peace involves nuking anybody at all, then it can only end after the entire planet has been nuked.
OMG!!! PONIES!!!!!!
Fixed that for you.
<random grumbling about noobz.>
What's wrong with mob mentality on the Internet?
I mean, look at how swimmingly it works in real life. There's Vancouv....err....well, there's Tripoli....errr...wait....no..there's Belfast...no...dammit...there's got to be....ok...how about Lebanon?
Ahh, fuck it. You're right. Mobs suck. ...
As an aside, is it ironic that I linked to a Wikipedia article about the results of mob mentality when we're talking about mob mentality on Wikipedia?
But Obama said he would investigate the telecoms, he would increase transparency, stop revolving door lobbyists, on all three issues he reversed. Anybody can do that, and there is no way to know who.
I realize it's never going to happen, but wouldn't it be beautiful if you could charge the lying politicians like this with fraud? After all, they sold you their presidency on false pretenses. How is this any different from a business doing false advertising?
At the very least, completely reversing on some platform promise like this should be reason to be removed from office.
Well, you can live on it.....but it tastes like shit.
HTML doesn't have classes. Real programmers don't use JavaScript. My webserver is netcat and my ability to respond to incoming requests at 120 words-per-minute. Typing out a JPG is a bit of a pain though.
Real websites don't have images on them! Just static pages of text with the occasional heading.
Get off my lawn!!
a large group of Nissan employees show up in a micro van and pummel you for 2 hours with Domo-kun dolls or until you submit and put the card back in.
But how do they know where to find you to beat you up, if you've pulled the SIM card from the car? Unless you're a dumbass, and pull the card while your car is sitting in your driveway at home.
If the card can be accessed while driving, even by a passenger, then pull it while you're one the freeway with your foot to the floor. That way you can avoid the ninja sqaud, and with any luck, they'll also think the car blew up....
If it's under the hood, or somewhere like that, pull over on the freeway after driving with your foot to the floor, pull the card, and take off. Maybe they'll still think the car blew up....
(Yeah, yeah....I know....whoosh.)
They do when you tell them you're on a highway doing 60 mph....
Mike, Mike, or MC?
Yeah, yeah, I know.....the middle one isn't spelled the same,
The best way to prevent STDs other than not having sex is to use a condemn.
That's exactly what all the religious nuts are doing, and you bitch about them to no end!!!
That's a completely different firm, with completely different partners. What makes you think they spell their names the same?
It's an acceptable excuse for why they're not defending it. If you've never heard that someone is using the name, then how could they possibly defend against it?
Hypothetical: I start a gardening company specializing in playing music to plants (peas, mostly) under the theory that they grow better. The product also has a small camera, so you can keep an eye on your garden from anywhere, so you can tell if pests are trying to steal your vegetables. I call my product the "iPod", because the music helps the peas the most, and "eyePod" was too clumsy, even though it denoted the camera aspect. I run this one man business for a few years, then companyB creates an "iPod" product, which Apple sues for. I send a letter to companyB, stating I've been using this name for years, and Apple has never defended against it.
So now, Apple should lose their trademark on iPod, because some backwater sole proprietor company used the product name but flew under the radar? No.
On the other hand, a simple Google search for "iCloud" results in the domain "geticloud.com" coming up. There's no excuse for Apple to have used it without knowing about this other company.
Maybe, like myself, they've never heard of the previous owners of the domain.
It may have only come to their attention when Apple started their eleventy billion dollar marketing campaign on the matter.
From the offices of:
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe
Attorneys at Law
Specializing in Intellectual Property Law
Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms. Coward,
It has been brought to our attention that you are referring to yourself by the name "Anonymous Coward". This obvious attempt to associate yourself with the family of Sir Noël Peirce Coward will not be tolerated.
Under current overbearing intellectual property laws, you a required to cease and desist using this name, and return to referring to yourself as your birth name of "Unnamed idiot wimp". Failure to correct this matter will result in legal action filed against you, in the amount of eleventy billion (111!!.111.1.1>!!1!!1.111eleventy!!11!1!) dollars.
Yours,
I. William Cheatem
Because the full length link doesn't fit within the sig length limit?
AC is a douche. There's nothing wrong with your spelling.
Only thing wrong with your post is lack of capitalization on the last two sentences, and starting the last one with "and". :-/
But since that's not what AC quoted, I'm assuming they didn't even notice that, because they were too busy thinking you spelled "ad" without the second "d".
What's spelled incorrectly there? I don't see it. I don't even see any grammar atrocities.
So obviously you never RTFA..... :)
<zeep> wtf is veryfi?
* Batty bangs his head repeatedly against a wall
Eh? (Canadian here.)
That would make the US measurement worth _more_ than the Canadian measurement.
With money, it's the other way round.
Of course, you probably went through a US public school, so you wouldn't be able to understand that, anyway....
(Ducking and running.)
We can say with 100% certainty, though, that IP lobbyists are scumbags.
It's beautiful. Evil, but beautiful and elegant. But about the most evil thing one can do.
I personally consider it more evil than mass-murder. Because those manipulated people in essence stop being an independent entity, but become part of you. Like a possessed zombie, dead, yet walking the earth and talking your views.
At least the dead have their peace.
So we've already _had_ a zombie invasion? Shit.
And in order to prevent the zombie apocalypse, we should have just killed all the IP lobbyists? Cool.