"If you have a registered brand in the Brand Registry and don't sell the product wholesale, there could be one box to check for that," Hopkins wrote. "And anyone else would have to get approval or high vetting to sell the product
I've seen exactly this happen. Amazon restricts some brands or even whole categories until you provide paperwork showing you've either bought it from a reputable supplier or have written permission from the brand owner.
It's hard to understand why Playboy brought this case in the first place, turning its legal firepower on a small news and commentary website that hadn't uploaded or hosted any infringing content.
It's even harder to understand when sites like Slashdot just slap together a couple of paragraphs from the article without any care for which parts are actually pertinent and informative.
This, at the very least, should have been included:
This case began when Playboy filed suit accusing Boing Boing of copyright infringement for reporting on a historical collection of Playboy centerfolds and linking to a third-party site.
filming Schindler's List in "old" black and white specifically to invoke a documentary feel, except adding splashes of color for symbolic purposes, and subsequently winning an academy award for best director for his "cheap and nasty" decision...
Make up your mind. Is black-and-white "old" or is it "cheap and nasty"?
Doesn't help that Slashdot is still using the antiquated and pointless tradition of capitalising every word in a headline (except for the ones they don't, sometimes, seemingly at random).
Well, I also know that phones sometimes are accidentally caused to dial 911. It might happen to my own phone one day. Doesn't mean I'll be knowingly allowing it to happen on that occasion.
Sounds like a great way to open the police up to a lawsuit when they subsequently don't pull out all the stops in this manner for some random person's accidental-or-otherwise 911 call.
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If the state doesn't change, it can't experience anything.
Black electrical tape, dammit.
If you need black electrical for wanking and nose-picking, you're doing it wrong.
They should have just called it "Hal-9000" and left it at that.
I'm afraid they couldn't do that.
it could be scaled up to remove sophisticated vacuums from their detectors.
What?
Vacuums are pretty simple by definition.
We have no idea what the computers "upstairs" might run on.
I decided to stop arguing and just do my research.
Uh huh. And how'd all that Googling go?
http://www.wlwt.com/
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Uh, okay.
Yes. Which would you have a better chance of detecting and avoiding: a car driving towards you at 40mph, or an arrow fired at you at 40mph?
They didn't "get into" it, as per the headline. They just signed up, as anyone can, and posted. That's the whole point of Reddit.
Anyway, we all know that inside every Russian troll is another, slightly smaller, Russian troll.
Which you should see a doctor about, if you still have health insurance.
There ain't no cymeks and there never was!
I didn't say anything about what my opinion is, or whether other people are "right."
Argument from majority is a form of argument from authority. It's fallacious.
If you'd read my post more carefully, you might understand what I'm actually saying.
...in your opinion.
Plenty of people seem to disagree with it.
As for artistry, it also won Best Cinematography.
"If you have a registered brand in the Brand Registry and don't sell the product wholesale, there could be one box to check for that," Hopkins wrote. "And anyone else would have to get approval or high vetting to sell the product
I've seen exactly this happen. Amazon restricts some brands or even whole categories until you provide paperwork showing you've either bought it from a reputable supplier or have written permission from the brand owner.
It's hard to understand why Playboy brought this case in the first place, turning its legal firepower on a small news and commentary website that hadn't uploaded or hosted any infringing content.
It's even harder to understand when sites like Slashdot just slap together a couple of paragraphs from the article without any care for which parts are actually pertinent and informative.
This, at the very least, should have been included:
This case began when Playboy filed suit accusing Boing Boing of copyright infringement for reporting on a historical collection of Playboy centerfolds and linking to a third-party site.
You do realize that has absolutely no bearing on anything and that if you think you're making some kind of point, you're actually not?
filming Schindler's List in "old" black and white specifically to invoke a documentary feel, except adding splashes of color for symbolic purposes, and subsequently winning an academy award for best director for his "cheap and nasty" decision...
Make up your mind. Is black-and-white "old" or is it "cheap and nasty"?
You're completely missing the point.
It iis antiquated, and completely pointless. It serves no purpose, and only ever makes headlines more ambiguous.
Just nobody appreciates proper typography anymore and don't know any better.
People do know better, and what's better is simply to capitalise a headline the same way you would capitalise any other text.
Doesn't help that Slashdot is still using the antiquated and pointless tradition of capitalising every word in a headline (except for the ones they don't, sometimes, seemingly at random).
We associate black-and-white with "old." We don't associate it with "cheap and amateurish," which is what this looks like.
Knowing about it doesn't mean they are knowingly allowing it.
I know that phones sometimes dial 911 unintentionally. It might happen to my phone one day. Would that mean I'd knowingly allowed it to happen?
Well, I also know that phones sometimes are accidentally caused to dial 911. It might happen to my own phone one day. Doesn't mean I'll be knowingly allowing it to happen on that occasion.
Sounds like a great way to open the police up to a lawsuit when they subsequently don't pull out all the stops in this manner for some random person's accidental-or-otherwise 911 call.