Do you know what won the Oscar for the best movie of 1969? You might look it up. No one remembers it.
Uhh, it was Midnight Cowboy. Hardly a forgotten film.
Yeah, but 2001 was released in 1968, the "best picture' that year was the musical "Oliver".
And compared to other films made the same year (how about the ludicrous 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars'?)
That was made four years earlier, in 1964. Shot in Death Valley with a red filter for the sky, looked pretty Martian. But of course the story was pretty schlocky.
Thankfully you can at least use an Oyster card anonymously - just don't register it
In Hong Kong all public transport (bus, tram, train, ferry) uses the "Octopus Card". You can top it up in a machine or a 7-Eleven. Very convenient, and anonymous. No more having to keep a stash of small coins in your wallet to feed into turnstiles. Technology doesn't have to be evil.
skin young girls live, use their skin for lamp shades, and brag which one is softer was their sport. He is very clever not to mention any of that when being called spiritual and moral leader.
Yes, obviously he's very clever not to react to such absurd propaganda.
And interestingly, he apparently wants to kill off retarded children
You lost any credibiity with that misrepresentation of a statement about abortion. And considering the Chinese policies that encourage infanticide of newly-born on a massive scale, blatant hypocrisy.
I'm not trying to bait or anything but I am curious. Why does the internet community give so much energy to the liberation of Tibet but they don't do the same to the USA, South Africa, Australia etc that are overrun and controlled by accupying colonial powers. Yes they may be 'democracies' but if you go and speak to a native aborigony and ask them about it I think that their perspective would be different to that of some slashdotters
In Australia with a population of 20 million, perhaps 500,000 are Aboriginal (depends how you count mixed blood). So where do the 19.5 million people go whose ancestors arrived in the last 250 years? It's too late.
China invaded Tibet in 1949, in living memory. They still have a (faint) chance to save their culture before they are relegated to being marginal slum dwellers in their own cities.
In Tibet the native Tibetans are still in a majority. But Han Chinese are immigrating in at an increasing pace. In a few decades the Tibetans will be a minority, and their culture will be as doomed as the natives of Australia.
You can't justify China's colonisation and genocide in Tibet by saying other countries did worse centuries ago. We are talking about NOW and what can be done NOW to save a living culture.
if they have their way, there will be no way to travel in the UK that can't be tracked.
Really? You'll still be able to buy single (or multiple) trip tickets for cash, surely?
Any "person of interest" will be sure to be doing that from today, if they weren't already. So as usual, the people the measures are supposed to catch will easily evade them, meanwhile millions of innocent commuters will lose another piece of their privacy.
Ever tried building a PC that doesn't produce any sound? After a while, you'll find that the only noise you just can't seem to get rid of, is the humming of the hard drive (while idle). "Soft" as in "nearly silent". As in "driving you nuts".
Where are you setting up this PC? In the middle of Antarctica? I only wish the level of ambient noise was low enough that I could detect my hard disk access.
Anyway, I have my radio on a rock station beside me to drown out the noise from the loud conversations in the next room, the vehicles passing by, airplanes overhead, airconditioners....
Well, yes. But I also get lots of ads in English -- my point was that there are not a lot of blonde bimbos in Hong Kong, and it's painfully obvious few if any of the "girls near you" are on the same continent.
The bank i used to work for, had its router in Hongkong.
It was really fun to watch ads by google in native chinese (mandarin) talking about a concert, etc.
In Hong Kong the "native" language is Cantonese.
I live there, and am amused sometimes by the sleazy dating ads that show underdressed blonde bimbos under text like "Girls in To Kwa Wan who want to f***".
the creeper might, after following the mark,....
Blurting names also confirms the name of a mark who conscientiously and carefully LIED to her follower about her name, only to be f*scked over by her emerging stalker....
THAT's why it matters. We don't have the luxury of knowing who is our freak and our stalker.
If you actually did have a stalker, they will find your name out pretty quickly.
Have you ever had a stalker? Do you know anyone who did? I was under the impression that non-celebrities were stalked by jilted boyfriends, ex-husbands, and such; people who already know everything they need to know about you. The deranged psycho who comes out of nowhere and targets you "just because" no doubt exists, but like terrorists, the number of people affected is much, much smaller than the number who walk around in a state of fear due to imagining they are a target.
Apologies if you actually have been stalked by an anonymous psycho.
It runs Windows Mobile, it's a look-alike, not a counterfeit.
It's about MP3 patents, not Apple.
http://www.meizume.com/ : "According to forum posts by Meizu CEO Jack Wong, the raid was initiated by Sisvel due to the lack of a Sisvel (patent holder of MP3 format) license."
You appear to be using sarcasm. But have you ever heard of unclean hands?
Wouldn't apply, the one suing you would be the US Olympic committee, the one you have a grievance against is the Chinese. In any case, you would destroy any chance of getting compensation for the original violation.
Don't forget that copyright is ridiculous when it applies to the RIAA and MPAA, but it's incredibly important when it applies to flash games and the GPL. This isn't the first set of blatant hypocrisy around these parts.
Please name the posters that have demonstrated this hypocrisy. Fiding posts FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE that are inconsistent is not unexpected when there are upwards of one million members.
Scrabble can be, and has been Copyrighted. A colleague of mine, Steve Glista, wrote a detailed and insightful piece about exactly that
No he didn't. RTFA. He says:
"If Hasbro eventually files a lawsuit but claims only copyright infringement, it might just lose the case. A trademark dilution claim will surely score a bingo,"
Though earlier versions of Scrabulous may inded have violated copyright, (by duplicating various graphic elements) current ones have been sanitised. And the simple fact that this is an online game, not a real board game in a cardboard box, is enough to make it fundamentally different in its rules, whci are the only other thing taht might be copyrightable.
As he says, trademark is the real issue. The game itself is clear, aside from the branding.
While the arrangement of squares is not strictly protected by copyright in itself, the entire image of the game board is protected by copyright as an image. That protection extends to derivative works. Any board that used the same layout would be a derivative work infringing on that image
Rubbish. Under this "rule" every game that used a square grid would be a "derivative" of another game (Chess, checkers, etc). But many of these games are thousands of years old. So out of copyright, even in the US under its Mickey Mouse copyright laws.
Only a duplicate of the board could be considered a copyright violation. Just redrawing it, different colours and fonts (and omitting the trademarked logo), would avoid any infringement.
The image of the board can be copyrighted. The manual can be copyrighted. The logo can be trademarked. But the rules of the game are not subject to copyright.
I doubt the board itself can be copyrighted. A square grid is not art, and copyright is supposed to protect works of art and creativity. Even if it could, a functionally identical version (different colours and fonts, maybe change a few words "triple word" -> "treble word", etc.) would not be covered. Basically, as long as you recreate it, not just duplicate, you would be safe. Except you would still have to spend a fortune in court to fight the case to defend yourself, of course. Big companies can CLAIM copyright and make your life hell for years regardless of the merit of their case.
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Uhh, it was Midnight Cowboy. Hardly a forgotten film.
Yeah, but 2001 was released in 1968, the "best picture' that year was the musical "Oliver".
That was made four years earlier, in 1964. Shot in Death Valley with a red filter for the sky, looked pretty Martian. But of course the story was pretty schlocky.
Taco, I will try not to make the obvious "anal" jokes, but FFS, is clicking spellcheck really so hard?
In Hong Kong all public transport (bus, tram, train, ferry) uses the "Octopus Card". You can top it up in a machine or a 7-Eleven. Very convenient, and anonymous. No more having to keep a stash of small coins in your wallet to feed into turnstiles. Technology doesn't have to be evil.
Yes, obviously he's very clever not to react to such absurd propaganda.
The part where you said he "wants to kill off retarded children".
Since I have no connection with China...
Excuse me, Mr Hung Wei Lo, if that is your name than you most certainly do have a connection to China.
or support the policies of its government
You are doing exactly that in these posts.
You lost any credibiity with that misrepresentation of a statement about abortion. And considering the Chinese policies that encourage infanticide of newly-born on a massive scale, blatant hypocrisy.
In Australia with a population of 20 million, perhaps 500,000 are Aboriginal (depends how you count mixed blood). So where do the 19.5 million people go whose ancestors arrived in the last 250 years? It's too late.
China invaded Tibet in 1949, in living memory. They still have a (faint) chance to save their culture before they are relegated to being marginal slum dwellers in their own cities.
In Tibet the native Tibetans are still in a majority. But Han Chinese are immigrating in at an increasing pace. In a few decades the Tibetans will be a minority, and their culture will be as doomed as the natives of Australia.
You can't justify China's colonisation and genocide in Tibet by saying other countries did worse centuries ago. We are talking about NOW and what can be done NOW to save a living culture.
Really? You'll still be able to buy single (or multiple) trip tickets for cash, surely?
Any "person of interest" will be sure to be doing that from today, if they weren't already. So as usual, the people the measures are supposed to catch will easily evade them, meanwhile millions of innocent commuters will lose another piece of their privacy.
Where are you setting up this PC? In the middle of Antarctica? I only wish the level of ambient noise was low enough that I could detect my hard disk access.
Anyway, I have my radio on a rock station beside me to drown out the noise from the loud conversations in the next room, the vehicles passing by, airplanes overhead, airconditioners....
For a while the editors were good in snipping off his link whoring "for more information..." lines, but eventually he wears them down, I guess.
Well, yes. But I also get lots of ads in English -- my point was that there are not a lot of blonde bimbos in Hong Kong, and it's painfully obvious few if any of the "girls near you" are on the same continent.
In Hong Kong the "native" language is Cantonese.
I live there, and am amused sometimes by the sleazy dating ads that show underdressed blonde bimbos under text like "Girls in To Kwa Wan who want to f***".
If you actually did have a stalker, they will find your name out pretty quickly.
Have you ever had a stalker? Do you know anyone who did? I was under the impression that non-celebrities were stalked by jilted boyfriends, ex-husbands, and such; people who already know everything they need to know about you. The deranged psycho who comes out of nowhere and targets you "just because" no doubt exists, but like terrorists, the number of people affected is much, much smaller than the number who walk around in a state of fear due to imagining they are a target.
Apologies if you actually have been stalked by an anonymous psycho.
OK. People really are that dumb, apparently.
That isn't in TFA. Where did you get that fact from?
It runs Windows Mobile, it's a look-alike, not a counterfeit.
It's about MP3 patents, not Apple.
http://www.meizume.com/ : "According to forum posts by Meizu CEO Jack Wong, the raid was initiated by Sisvel due to the lack of a Sisvel (patent holder of MP3 format) license."
Wouldn't apply, the one suing you would be the US Olympic committee, the one you have a grievance against is the Chinese. In any case, you would destroy any chance of getting compensation for the original violation.
Please name the posters that have demonstrated this hypocrisy. Fiding posts FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE that are inconsistent is not unexpected when there are upwards of one million members.
Right. Because when the IOC sues you, "they did it first" is a perfect defence.
It's an embargo, and one of the side effects is censorship.
No he didn't. RTFA. He says:
"If Hasbro eventually files a lawsuit but claims only copyright infringement, it might just lose the case. A trademark dilution claim will surely score a bingo,"
Though earlier versions of Scrabulous may inded have violated copyright, (by duplicating various graphic elements) current ones have been sanitised. And the simple fact that this is an online game, not a real board game in a cardboard box, is enough to make it fundamentally different in its rules, whci are the only other thing taht might be copyrightable.
As he says, trademark is the real issue. The game itself is clear, aside from the branding.
Rubbish. Under this "rule" every game that used a square grid would be a "derivative" of another game (Chess, checkers, etc). But many of these games are thousands of years old. So out of copyright, even in the US under its Mickey Mouse copyright laws.
Only a duplicate of the board could be considered a copyright violation. Just redrawing it, different colours and fonts (and omitting the trademarked logo), would avoid any infringement.
Please cite as ource for this "fact". Because it is impossible. You cannot copyright a single word, or definition.
The image of the board can be copyrighted. The manual can be copyrighted. The logo can be trademarked. But the rules of the game are not subject to copyright. I doubt the board itself can be copyrighted. A square grid is not art, and copyright is supposed to protect works of art and creativity. Even if it could, a functionally identical version (different colours and fonts, maybe change a few words "triple word" -> "treble word", etc.) would not be covered. Basically, as long as you recreate it, not just duplicate, you would be safe. Except you would still have to spend a fortune in court to fight the case to defend yourself, of course. Big companies can CLAIM copyright and make your life hell for years regardless of the merit of their case.