The Black Mustang Club wanted to put together a calendar featuring member's cars and print it through CafePress, but an attorney from Ford nixed the project, stating that the calendar pics and 'anything with one of (member's) cars in it infringes on Ford's trademarks which include the use of images of their vehicles.' Does Ford have the right to prevent you from printing images of a car you own?"
This is a trademark vs copyright issue. The question asked is a red herring. The actual question is "Does Ford have the right to block one from selling, for a profit, an image that includes their trademark?"
The answer is "Yes, they do have that right. They have to protect their trademark or they lose it."
"Information" does not want anything. And, neither does beer. Information and beer have no desires as they is inanimate.
And, if you really believe information wants to be free, please set loose all your information, including name, birth date, SSN, bank names/routing numbers, account numbers, etc.
I put your post in context, dumbass. Did you forget you put this:
I would rather be dead than live my life as a slave, even a tiny bit.
If you have a job, you are a slave to your needs and your employers desires, lest you loose your job. If you are an entrepreneur, you are a slave to your customers desires, lest you loose your customers. If you are neither, you are a slave to your ideology and live on the charity of other including the government. If you have insurance, you are a slave to the insurance company because they use your money to pay for other's treatment and force you to justify using it yourself. If you have a girlfriend, you are a slave to both your desire for her and her desires, or you have a one-sided relationship in which she is your slave and you do not care about her. And, if you ever have kids, you will be a slave to them as well.
You said you would rather die than be a slave "even a tiny bit". Well, you are a tiny bit a slave. Now go kill yourself.
Employers and banks still use it as identification. Especially employers when evaluating a prospective employee, e.i. credit check and background check.
You must live in a shithole, because every apartment I have ever rented required a credit check. And, a couple did a criminal check which used the SSN as well.
I notice you didn't mention any of the other items. Telling, that is.
Really? So you don't have a job and pay no taxes, right? And, you are not an entrepreneur because then you are a slave to your customers, right? And, you don't have any insurance either, right? And, you are single and never plan on having a (girl/boy)friend, wife, or kids, right?
Really? Open a bank account without one. Get a job without one. Rent an apartment without one.
Many places require an SSN for credit check and ID check because, in theory, that number is unique to you. Granted, the law says they can't, but they do it anyway.
You will notice that most of the terrorist's actual foot soldiers are all under the age of 50. Check out who actually caries out the orders. Richard Reid, the 9/11 hijackers, car bombers, suicide bombers. All most all of them are under the age of 35.
The older members are generally in command positions and send other people to their deaths rather than risk themselves.
This is the government mandating only one form of identification, and mandating what it has to look like.
No, dumbass, that is not what the quote says. It says that if people are going to use driver's licenses as ID, there should be rules to ensure they are not easily faked. It does not say that only driver's licenses will be accepted as ID. You can still use a passport for an ID with the feds and whatever the state will accept as state ID and whatever a company will accept as ID with that company.
Also, it does not mandate what the license looks like. It mandates the minimum info needed for the ID to be accepted as an ID by the feds.
You need to actually learn about what you are talking about instead of spouting out the lies you have heard.
Now, STFU and go learn something true for a change.
No, it is not a national ID card, you dumbass. A national ID card is issued by the federal government and already exist in two forms: the social security number and the passport.
It is mandatory minimum requirements for state ID cards, and that is not a bad thing. It is also database interoperability specifications, which is not a bad thing.
Now grow up or add some more tinfoil to your head.
REALID is not a national ID card. It is minimum requirements for state ID cards to be accepted at the national level and database interoperability standards.
Fast Search And Transfer [Microsoft to use a self-recursive acronym?]
FAST is not a self-recursive acronym. FAST stands for "FAst Search and Transfer". The "fast" in the expanded acronym is not the acronym FAST, it is the actual word fast, therefore it is not a self-recursive acronym.
Actually, they don't. This explanation, while not wholly correct, should help you understand.
Time is effected by acceleration. Gravity is an acceleration field. You are accelerating towards the center of the Earth at 9.8 meters per second squared. However, you don't go anywhere because the surface of the Earth presses back with enough force to keep you from sinking.
The force of gravity also gets weaker the farther one gets from the center of the Earth. So, the gravitational acceleration felt by a clock on the of a building is less than felt by a clock in the basement of the same building. Because accelerated clocks run slower, the clock in the basement (with it's higher acceleration) will run slower than the clock on the roof.
Time is also effected by motion. A moving clock will run slower than a clock that is standing still, relative to the observer. While the clock in the airplane is running minutely faster because of the lessened gravity, the relative motion causes the clock to run much slower.
Think of it this way: The clock on the airplane gets an extra tick for being higher than the reference clock, but because it is moving, it loses 5 ticks making it run 4 ticks slower than the reference clock (1 - 5 = -4 ).
Of course this is just to help you understand that there is no contradiction and is not a good explanation of what is going on.
Ah, but what about the lens mount for the camera? Panasonic, like every other camera maker has a proprietary lens mount. Please put a Nikkor 128mm lens on your Panasonic SLR without a third party adapter.
As for Logitech, go get a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse set and then try to use a different company's wireless mouse with the receiver and let me know how you do.
Yes, being tied to the command line for most things is so innovative. Look, fanboy, UNIX is over 30 years old and you are wanking over it because no one has come up with anything better?
You, dumb-ass, are proving his point. His point, and he is correct in this, is that FLOSS is not innovative. It just recycles the same thing again and again. You and your ilk spend your time reinventing the wheel.
Logical consistency? You are joking right? Take a look at the file system. Where are the programs? They are somewhere in/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/usr/local/bin,/usr/local/sbin,/usr/X11R6/bin,/usr/share/bin,/usr/local/share/bin,/opt,/where-ever/the-hell/it/was/installed.
Configuration files? If one is lucky, they are in/etc, which is for "etcetera" which is where one should find miscellaneous crap, not critical system files. But, we can't change it because that is the UNIX way, right? And, if an application's configuration files are not in/etc somewhere, where are they? Anywhere the developer decided to put them, unless whoever built the distribution decided to move them somewhere else.
Modules are located in/lib/modules. Why? Are modules library files? No, they are not, they are system files. They should be where all the other system files are located. Oh, wait, they can be located anywhere because there is not real logical consistency to the file system.
GUI? Well, let's just use a bolt-on that does network transparency by sending entire graphical widgets over the network instead of sending just the data to be displayed and letting the server handle the graphics.
You don't want to get me started on desktop environments and window managers. Think you could come up with something that isn't a clone of Win95/XP or OSX? Nah, that would actually be innovative, better to copy other people's work.
By the way, if "UNIX was never designed for unskilled users", maybe you and your fanboy buddies should stop advocating Linux (a UNIX-like OS) for home desktop users (AKA unskilled users).
Oh, and you want something better than UNIX? How about BeOS? A GUI based, multi-threaded, SMP friendly OS that could do multimedia better than Windows or Mac.
Or, better yet, do something truly innovative and write a secure, efficient, SMP-friendly, threaded GUI based OS instead of jerking off over 30 year old technology while bashing Windows.
The problems in the music industry started years ago when it stopped being about people playing good music and started being about attractive people shaking their asses and lip-syncing.
That would be about one month after MTV came on the air.
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This is a trademark vs copyright issue. The question asked is a red herring. The actual question is "Does Ford have the right to block one from selling, for a profit, an image that includes their trademark?"
The answer is "Yes, they do have that right. They have to protect their trademark or they lose it."
"Information" does not want anything. And, neither does beer. Information and beer have no desires as they is inanimate.
And, if you really believe information wants to be free, please set loose all your information, including name, birth date, SSN, bank names/routing numbers, account numbers, etc.
Then don't complain when people don't adopt Linux. And, don't complain that people use Windows.
In fact, don't complain at all.
It is not sarcasm. The world would be a better place if you were dead.
If you have a job, you are a slave to your needs and your employers desires, lest you loose your job.
If you are an entrepreneur, you are a slave to your customers desires, lest you loose your customers.
If you are neither, you are a slave to your ideology and live on the charity of other including the government.
If you have insurance, you are a slave to the insurance company because they use your money to pay for other's treatment and force you to justify using it yourself.
If you have a girlfriend, you are a slave to both your desire for her and her desires, or you have a one-sided relationship in which she is your slave and you do not care about her.
And, if you ever have kids, you will be a slave to them as well.
You said you would rather die than be a slave "even a tiny bit". Well, you are a tiny bit a slave. Now go kill yourself.
Employers and banks still use it as identification. Especially employers when evaluating a prospective employee, e.i. credit check and background check.
You must live in a shithole, because every apartment I have ever rented required a credit check. And, a couple did a criminal check which used the SSN as well.
I notice you didn't mention any of the other items. Telling, that is.
But, to use your analogy, doesn't walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so it must not be a duck.
Maybe if you had any intelligence and knowledge on the subject you would realize that.
Really?
So you don't have a job and pay no taxes, right?
And, you are not an entrepreneur because then you are a slave to your customers, right?
And, you don't have any insurance either, right?
And, you are single and never plan on having a (girl/boy)friend, wife, or kids, right?
You are an incredible dumb-ass.
Really?
Open a bank account without one. Get a job without one. Rent an apartment without one.
Many places require an SSN for credit check and ID check because, in theory, that number is unique to you. Granted, the law says they can't, but they do it anyway.
You will notice that most of the terrorist's actual foot soldiers are all under the age of 50. Check out who actually caries out the orders. Richard Reid, the 9/11 hijackers, car bombers, suicide bombers. All most all of them are under the age of 35.
The older members are generally in command positions and send other people to their deaths rather than risk themselves.
No, dumbass, that is not what the quote says. It says that if people are going to use driver's licenses as ID, there should be rules to ensure they are not easily faked. It does not say that only driver's licenses will be accepted as ID. You can still use a passport for an ID with the feds and whatever the state will accept as state ID and whatever a company will accept as ID with that company.
Also, it does not mandate what the license looks like. It mandates the minimum info needed for the ID to be accepted as an ID by the feds.
You need to actually learn about what you are talking about instead of spouting out the lies you have heard.
Now, STFU and go learn something true for a change.
Keep dreaming, dumbass.
Um, no. Now please stop being stupid and STFU.
No, it is not a national ID card, you dumbass. A national ID card is issued by the federal government and already exist in two forms: the social security number and the passport.
It is mandatory minimum requirements for state ID cards, and that is not a bad thing. It is also database interoperability specifications, which is not a bad thing.
Now grow up or add some more tinfoil to your head.
REALID is not a national ID card. It is minimum requirements for state ID cards to be accepted at the national level and database interoperability standards.
Nothing new or exciting.
Right, and What is on second.
FAST is not a self-recursive acronym. FAST stands for "FAst Search and Transfer". The "fast" in the expanded acronym is not the acronym FAST, it is the actual word fast, therefore it is not a self-recursive acronym.
Actually, they don't. This explanation, while not wholly correct, should help you understand.
Time is effected by acceleration. Gravity is an acceleration field. You are accelerating towards the center of the Earth at 9.8 meters per second squared. However, you don't go anywhere because the surface of the Earth presses back with enough force to keep you from sinking.
The force of gravity also gets weaker the farther one gets from the center of the Earth. So, the gravitational acceleration felt by a clock on the of a building is less than felt by a clock in the basement of the same building. Because accelerated clocks run slower, the clock in the basement (with it's higher acceleration) will run slower than the clock on the roof.
Time is also effected by motion. A moving clock will run slower than a clock that is standing still, relative to the observer. While the clock in the airplane is running minutely faster because of the lessened gravity, the relative motion causes the clock to run much slower.
Think of it this way: The clock on the airplane gets an extra tick for being higher than the reference clock, but because it is moving, it loses 5 ticks making it run 4 ticks slower than the reference clock (1 - 5 = -4 ).
Of course this is just to help you understand that there is no contradiction and is not a good explanation of what is going on.
Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer. I would agree with you if one had to purchase Sliverlight, but one doesn't. It, like Flash, is free.
Also, no one has to visit the MS website.
I love it. I am buried for not being an MS-basher.
Ah, but what about the lens mount for the camera? Panasonic, like every other camera maker has a proprietary lens mount. Please put a Nikkor 128mm lens on your Panasonic SLR without a third party adapter.
As for Logitech, go get a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse set and then try to use a different company's wireless mouse with the receiver and let me know how you do.
True. But, Adobe did partner with FedEx Kinkos and then put a "Print at Kinkos" option directly in their programs, for which Adobe got money.
You mean like pretty much every other company either does or tries to do?
Yes, being tied to the command line for most things is so innovative. Look, fanboy, UNIX is over 30 years old and you are wanking over it because no one has come up with anything better?
/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/share/bin, /usr/local/share/bin, /opt, /where-ever/the-hell/it/was/installed.
/etc, which is for "etcetera" which is where one should find miscellaneous crap, not critical system files. But, we can't change it because that is the UNIX way, right? And, if an application's configuration files are not in /etc somewhere, where are they? Anywhere the developer decided to put them, unless whoever built the distribution decided to move them somewhere else.
/lib/modules. Why? Are modules library files? No, they are not, they are system files. They should be where all the other system files are located. Oh, wait, they can be located anywhere because there is not real logical consistency to the file system.
You, dumb-ass, are proving his point. His point, and he is correct in this, is that FLOSS is not innovative. It just recycles the same thing again and again. You and your ilk spend your time reinventing the wheel.
Logical consistency? You are joking right? Take a look at the file system. Where are the programs? They are somewhere in
Configuration files? If one is lucky, they are in
Modules are located in
GUI? Well, let's just use a bolt-on that does network transparency by sending entire graphical widgets over the network instead of sending just the data to be displayed and letting the server handle the graphics.
You don't want to get me started on desktop environments and window managers. Think you could come up with something that isn't a clone of Win95/XP or OSX? Nah, that would actually be innovative, better to copy other people's work.
By the way, if "UNIX was never designed for unskilled users", maybe you and your fanboy buddies should stop advocating Linux (a UNIX-like OS) for home desktop users (AKA unskilled users).
Oh, and you want something better than UNIX? How about BeOS? A GUI based, multi-threaded, SMP friendly OS that could do multimedia better than Windows or Mac.
Or, better yet, do something truly innovative and write a secure, efficient, SMP-friendly, threaded GUI based OS instead of jerking off over 30 year old technology while bashing Windows.
The problems in the music industry started years ago when it stopped being about people playing good music and started being about attractive people shaking their asses and lip-syncing.
That would be about one month after MTV came on the air.