Trademark doesn't do anything, anyway, regardless of what's more important. The Mickey in steamboat Willie is refering to Disney's trademark. It was put there by Disney, and unless you extract Mickey from context, there's no problem. It's like a Starbucks coffee cup. You can resell the cup without infringing on the trademark, because it's Starbucks' cup. As long as you don't use it to represent yourself as Starbucks or try and sell your coffee in it as Starbucks coffee, you're completely in the right.
Shit, what's one more? You're probably already paying extra for Oxygen, Lifetime, Women's Entertainment, YES, USA, Religious Programing #1, #2 and #3, PAX, Family Channel, Speed Network, Golf, Sci-Fi and a load of other shit no one wants to watch.
Besides, it's a VOD channel. You only pay for it if you specifically ask. I won't be getting it because my cable company requires a Family package and an extra $20 a month just to get VOD capability, and I still have to pay to add the channel to my lineup if they start offering it.
What? My rates go up every time they move the TV guide channel around to fuck with my head! If they gave me a new channel, I don't even want to think what they'd do to me.
I think I understand the cable industry. They have a monopoly, more influence than my state's government, and they want all of my money.
You think it's possible to produce a show more Freudian than that thing? It's like watching the big breakthrough from Rupert Murdoch's therapy session that reveals something about his traumatic childhood. What's in the tubes now? Penis Island?
Though, as Freud would say, sometimes a shitty dating show is just a shitty dating show.
My hypothetical children are so not making it past age 5. There is no biological imperative strong enough to keep me from going homicidal under that kind of pressure.
Heh. Conan was just on with Scorsese talking about his kid watching Fox and the Hound. "What is this? Look at that cut! Dinosaurs don't act that way! The sun is coming up! Arrrrgh!" Best Conan moment of the year.
It's crap. Like Pepsi Twist. What the hell is with that? The whole difference between the originals was that Coke was more vanillaey and Pepsi was more lemoney. So you're making Cokeier Coke and Pepsier Pepsi? I guess it's better than Lemon Coke and Vanilla Pepsi. That would just be sad.
Pepsi Blue, now that's creative, even if it does taste like bat shit.
This post from that article is interesting. I never really thought about the TV whine thing before. For me, that's pretty clearly a sound, not a wierd extra-sensory thing. Is there anybody who really doesn't hear that? I need to start asking people.
Anarchy is the default. We got rid of their government, didn't replace it, so it's anarchy. It's not a moral judgement to say that the majority rules, it's a practical one.
Morally, the Bill of Rights shouldn't exist if law enforcement were perfect. The world's not perfect, so you try and create the most moral framework possible within the limits you have.
Morally, we should just run a benevolent dictatorship, but we can't do that. We don't know what's best for them, and even if we did, we don't have the capacity nor the inclination to occupy like that.
Morality is great, but the world doesn't work that way. We have limits. Fighting tooth and nail for centuries trying to supress an Islamic fundamentalist movement isn't going to work. The majority is rarely right, but trying to opress a majority for their own good doesn't help anybody. It makes the stupid majority mad, it gets you killed, and they'll still have to fuck it all up and discover their own idiocy at some point anyway.
It's not a Patriot Act invention, it's been around, but they usually used it for the War on Drugs and the War on the Mob instead of the War on Terror. It's for forcing people who have firsthand evidence of a crime to testify. Like if a guy sees a hit but won't come in due to threats to his family, or whatever. Of course, using it to suck people up before they come up with something to charge them with is a newer interpretation.
And Loosewire was shooshing the parent for attracting the FBI...
Regardless, I really doubt that would work as well as you think. Even with something like sarin, probably the worst that would happen is a panic and a stampede. And Kamakazi? I guess you could burn somebody, maybe blind them, but unless they tried to eat your bomb, it's probably not going to do too much.
Anyway, better go unlock your doors. Maybe you won't have to replace them.
Senator Goofyhair is afraid of people that can kill him, so he wants to keep track of them. Mr. Helmet is afraid of being seperated from the majority, because he lived through the holocaust. Mr. Wheelchair is afraid of both Mr. Helmet and Senator Goofyhair because frightened people get violent.
Everybody's correct based on their own position, just like real life.
Explain that to me. NASCAR is stock cars, right? I really don't have a clue, but I assume that means they're in some way, you know, stock? I'm sure they do some stuff to them, but I'd think you'd watch F1 if you wanted to hear about ridiculously insane car technology. Is it just that NASCAR promotes a lot and gets on more often?
I watch both, since the wwwwAAAAOOOOmmmmm stuff and the droning anouncers in the background help me concentrate on boring stuff for some reason, but I never got actually following it like a sport. The rules make all the cars basically the same, so it always seemed to me like a contest to see who can deviate from the ideal race the least. Like competetive video games.
Does that actually make sense? I know the article says the foam did it (presumtively, really, the admiral doesn't even mention foam), but it says the seal "floated away" while it was in orbit. I haven't really been paying enough attention (all that international chaos stuff is distracting) so I don't know much about the mystery object situation. But, if the shuttle's in orbit, it can't be doing much in the way of manuvering, at least not anything that's going to approach the forces of the launch, so unless there's some kind of cooling going on with the wing tiles that could pop it out, it seems kind of bizzare that a collision during this insanely violent launch sequence isn't going to have any effect until the shuttle's just sitting there doing basically nothing.
I'm certaintly not qualified to speculate here, but that seems like hitting a pothole and then having your muffler fall off an hour after you parked in the garage.
Yeah. 6 year olds. Don't we all wish. You know at least 90% of their sales go to creepy fat guys in their 40s hoping to resell crap for porn money. I bet they'll love this. "Oooh! This tea party playset was introduced during the copyright infringement contraversy in 2003! Best. Strawberry Shortcake. Ever."
Never required the DMCA, sure, but the DMCA requires it now.
The ISP could always unplug you if they saw fit, like if you're spamming or something else that's going to hurt their image or suck up resources. But if I had a guy on my network making fun of Strawberry Shortcake, I could give a shit. If I think a complaint is stupid, there was no reason I wouldn't ignore it. There'd be no loss to me if I blew off somebody's lawyers. The ISP didn't produce whatever. It didn't buy it from whoever made whatever. The complaint is with the customer. Suing the ISP is like suing the Queen of England because some contractor botched your roof repair.
Now, though, they stuck in the "listen to the morons" clause so you have to pay attention to Ted from the mental hospital that says all the other Teds are pirating his name.
The paper paid for the comics and is responsible for selecting which will be run. The ISP analogue in that situation is the guys who deliver the papers.
Well, they went from the Arab myth to the Russian, so I guess Mozilla could keep going to Benu, the ancient Egyptian one, or whatever the Navajo word was. China has one to, but that's even harder to pronounce.
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Lord, we're all screwed, aren't we?
Trademark doesn't do anything, anyway, regardless of what's more important. The Mickey in steamboat Willie is refering to Disney's trademark. It was put there by Disney, and unless you extract Mickey from context, there's no problem. It's like a Starbucks coffee cup. You can resell the cup without infringing on the trademark, because it's Starbucks' cup. As long as you don't use it to represent yourself as Starbucks or try and sell your coffee in it as Starbucks coffee, you're completely in the right.
Jet from the Cowboy Bebop dub was doing a show about WWII combat gliders on the History Channel a few days ago. Funny stuff.
Shit, what's one more? You're probably already paying extra for Oxygen, Lifetime, Women's Entertainment, YES, USA, Religious Programing #1, #2 and #3, PAX, Family Channel, Speed Network, Golf, Sci-Fi and a load of other shit no one wants to watch.
Besides, it's a VOD channel. You only pay for it if you specifically ask. I won't be getting it because my cable company requires a Family package and an extra $20 a month just to get VOD capability, and I still have to pay to add the channel to my lineup if they start offering it.
What? My rates go up every time they move the TV guide channel around to fuck with my head! If they gave me a new channel, I don't even want to think what they'd do to me.
I think I understand the cable industry. They have a monopoly, more influence than my state's government, and they want all of my money.
You think it's possible to produce a show more Freudian than that thing? It's like watching the big breakthrough from Rupert Murdoch's therapy session that reveals something about his traumatic childhood. What's in the tubes now? Penis Island?
Though, as Freud would say, sometimes a shitty dating show is just a shitty dating show.
Tex Avery? Morons? Go back to France, ya commie bastard. A man who can't apreciate high comedy has no place in my country!
I'll tell you what, go pick up a Lilo & Stich DVD and a bag of weed and we'll see if we can't beat some artistic appreciation into that head of yours.
My hypothetical children are so not making it past age 5. There is no biological imperative strong enough to keep me from going homicidal under that kind of pressure.
Heh. Conan was just on with Scorsese talking about his kid watching Fox and the Hound. "What is this? Look at that cut! Dinosaurs don't act that way! The sun is coming up! Arrrrgh!" Best Conan moment of the year.
It's crap. Like Pepsi Twist. What the hell is with that? The whole difference between the originals was that Coke was more vanillaey and Pepsi was more lemoney. So you're making Cokeier Coke and Pepsier Pepsi? I guess it's better than Lemon Coke and Vanilla Pepsi. That would just be sad.
Pepsi Blue, now that's creative, even if it does taste like bat shit.
This post from that article is interesting. I never really thought about the TV whine thing before. For me, that's pretty clearly a sound, not a wierd extra-sensory thing. Is there anybody who really doesn't hear that? I need to start asking people.
Anarchy is the default. We got rid of their government, didn't replace it, so it's anarchy. It's not a moral judgement to say that the majority rules, it's a practical one.
Morally, the Bill of Rights shouldn't exist if law enforcement were perfect. The world's not perfect, so you try and create the most moral framework possible within the limits you have.
Morally, we should just run a benevolent dictatorship, but we can't do that. We don't know what's best for them, and even if we did, we don't have the capacity nor the inclination to occupy like that.
Morality is great, but the world doesn't work that way. We have limits. Fighting tooth and nail for centuries trying to supress an Islamic fundamentalist movement isn't going to work. The majority is rarely right, but trying to opress a majority for their own good doesn't help anybody. It makes the stupid majority mad, it gets you killed, and they'll still have to fuck it all up and discover their own idiocy at some point anyway.
It's not a Patriot Act invention, it's been around, but they usually used it for the War on Drugs and the War on the Mob instead of the War on Terror. It's for forcing people who have firsthand evidence of a crime to testify. Like if a guy sees a hit but won't come in due to threats to his family, or whatever. Of course, using it to suck people up before they come up with something to charge them with is a newer interpretation.
And Loosewire was shooshing the parent for attracting the FBI...
Regardless, I really doubt that would work as well as you think. Even with something like sarin, probably the worst that would happen is a panic and a stampede. And Kamakazi? I guess you could burn somebody, maybe blind them, but unless they tried to eat your bomb, it's probably not going to do too much.
Anyway, better go unlock your doors. Maybe you won't have to replace them.
AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.
I think we just need different hangups, really.
I'd be more worried about how careful he's going to be after his GM wings grow in.
"Sorry, folks, but we're not coming out of this dive, here, so, gotta go!" *WHOOSH!*
Right.
Senator Goofyhair is afraid of people that can kill him, so he wants to keep track of them. Mr. Helmet is afraid of being seperated from the majority, because he lived through the holocaust. Mr. Wheelchair is afraid of both Mr. Helmet and Senator Goofyhair because frightened people get violent.
Everybody's correct based on their own position, just like real life.
Explain that to me. NASCAR is stock cars, right? I really don't have a clue, but I assume that means they're in some way, you know, stock? I'm sure they do some stuff to them, but I'd think you'd watch F1 if you wanted to hear about ridiculously insane car technology. Is it just that NASCAR promotes a lot and gets on more often?
I watch both, since the wwwwAAAAOOOOmmmmm stuff and the droning anouncers in the background help me concentrate on boring stuff for some reason, but I never got actually following it like a sport. The rules make all the cars basically the same, so it always seemed to me like a contest to see who can deviate from the ideal race the least. Like competetive video games.
Does that actually make sense? I know the article says the foam did it (presumtively, really, the admiral doesn't even mention foam), but it says the seal "floated away" while it was in orbit. I haven't really been paying enough attention (all that international chaos stuff is distracting) so I don't know much about the mystery object situation. But, if the shuttle's in orbit, it can't be doing much in the way of manuvering, at least not anything that's going to approach the forces of the launch, so unless there's some kind of cooling going on with the wing tiles that could pop it out, it seems kind of bizzare that a collision during this insanely violent launch sequence isn't going to have any effect until the shuttle's just sitting there doing basically nothing.
I'm certaintly not qualified to speculate here, but that seems like hitting a pothole and then having your muffler fall off an hour after you parked in the garage.
Yeah. 6 year olds. Don't we all wish. You know at least 90% of their sales go to creepy fat guys in their 40s hoping to resell crap for porn money. I bet they'll love this. "Oooh! This tea party playset was introduced during the copyright infringement contraversy in 2003! Best. Strawberry Shortcake. Ever."
Never required the DMCA, sure, but the DMCA requires it now.
The ISP could always unplug you if they saw fit, like if you're spamming or something else that's going to hurt their image or suck up resources. But if I had a guy on my network making fun of Strawberry Shortcake, I could give a shit. If I think a complaint is stupid, there was no reason I wouldn't ignore it. There'd be no loss to me if I blew off somebody's lawyers. The ISP didn't produce whatever. It didn't buy it from whoever made whatever. The complaint is with the customer. Suing the ISP is like suing the Queen of England because some contractor botched your roof repair.
Now, though, they stuck in the "listen to the morons" clause so you have to pay attention to Ted from the mental hospital that says all the other Teds are pirating his name.
The paper paid for the comics and is responsible for selecting which will be run. The ISP analogue in that situation is the guys who deliver the papers.
I think the children were more frightened and disturbed by Strawberry Shortcake before she took up lesbian S&M. That is some freaky shit.
Sweet. You got my vote
Well, they went from the Arab myth to the Russian, so I guess Mozilla could keep going to Benu, the ancient Egyptian one, or whatever the Navajo word was. China has one to, but that's even harder to pronounce.
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