Part of the trademark process is active protection of same. This is all Google is doing. Making a good faith effort to prove they're intent on keeping their trademark. Neither Lego nor Kleenex has lost their trademarks, right? Neither shall Google.
P.S. Google -- if it starts with a lowercase letter, it's not your name.
'Don't confuse hatred of the United States with hatred of "The West"'
And you should not confuse the last fifty years or so as being the last thousand. Seen over that time, fanatical Islam indeed wants the West removed from the world. It has always seen non-Muslims as an affront to allah.
"Actually, I think you'll find they merely want to convert us all to Islam and make us live under a theocracy, not literally destroy us."
Then you need to read. If you will not be converted, you are to be killed.
"And don't try the "targeting innocents" angle - do you think more or less innocent Iraqis have died as a result of the Iraq invasion than Americans died in 9/11?"
You left out that they died at the hands of Islamic fanatics, just like the Americans.
"I think you'll find that meddling in (and destabilising) the entire middle east region for the best part of half a century got the US in this mess, actually."
Here's some more of that you gotta read stuff. Islamic history goes back further than that and has always been predicated on lethal conversion.
"...acting in your own best interests.."
Unlike the rest of human-kind?
"You're still more likely to get killed by lightning than killed in a terrorist attack..."
The difference being, of course, the first is a natural occurrance beyond human control and the second is a murder.
"Oh right - the threat of lightning lacks a clear us-and-them angle..."
No, it lacks the murder angle. You have blinders to that, why?
"One thing that's almost certain is that no official will release any detail on that plot..."
You're prediction is already crap. Kind of amazing, in my opinion, as the stamp on your comment indicates you could have been watching the news and reading articles on this event already, preventing you from making such a post-detail release blunder.
So, you've been purposely keeping yourself ignorant? It's been all over the news since I got up, with plenty of detail.
But no, rather to whine about some imaginary cover-up. Amazingly, dependant comments pony-up to that delusion with apparently no more clue as to what is going on in the news than your comment.
One nice thing about imaginations. They let you imagine things that can't be done. Like slip a macromolecular nanobot in between the smaller molecules of living cells.
An actual Liberal would believe that rights are self-assigned and self-restricted. The codification of said rights and restrictions is just a way to come to a consensus which will allow a civilized society to exist and function.
In the sense that the government is the people, you would be correct. I would fervently hope liberals aren't so blind as to believe rights come from non-representative governments.
Exactly what rights are you people talking about? Journalists do not have the right to withhold pertinent information on a crime and never have had. Provide some cites to show they do.
"...that there is some portion of the collective "Amreican Dream/Resources" that is owned by ME..."
You, sir, are correct. That portion is called your vote. Do not let the various levels of government dicker with that right with unaudited electronic voting machines.
People who migrate to the extreme are statistically few enough that it's a push that they manipulate the middle. The middle is still pretty much the middle.
In particular, the right wing of the political spectrum has become masterful at this, pulling mainstream America way to the right with hyperbole and fear mongering.
Did you mean to be ironic in your attempt, oh lefty?
Except, of course, that Hizbollah straps explosives to the chests of humans and has them enter crowded market places and blow up citizens. They do this first. They have a history of doing this first. They do this because their stated goal is "the elimination of Isreal". Other than that, your moral equivelancy is showing.
"(because the Whitehouse feeds much of the media)"
That being so very obvious in the disproportionate coverage of Hizbollah's side.
How was that Devil's Advocate? The point was that there were deeper stories about the families of the Palestinians and not the Israelis. You simply dismissed that as uninteresting. Opinion, and even if yours, and not relevant to the point.
The lives of the innocent Palestinians are no more or less interesting than those of the innocent Israelis.
That a person is not "entirely evil" is moot once their explosive jacket goes off, killing 40 shoppers in a market.
I don't think he missed the point at all of the original article. His contention (and mine) was in anthropomorphising a change of state in the evolutionary time line into something approaching a big god pushing down a big button. No reset. Only a change.
Dumbass, your own damn self. When a mafioso has his records siezed, or a corrupt business, or a terrorist, or a friggin' reporter, they sieze all records because you can't tell what is useful until you look at them. So, unless you have some magic ball (or the bad guys nicely stamp what is what and put into color coded envelops), you have to sieze it all. Tuff, don't commit a felony.
Daily Show? Hardly. The host once said (and I paraphrase) -- I'm so in love with John Kerry that I have my nose so far up his ass I know what he had for breakfast. So much for news.
1) The feds turned nothing. It was business that turned it.
2) It is specially protected even now. Freedom of the press? In other words, the freedom to print what you will. It does not mean a reporter can be an accomplice to a crime and get a pass go card.
3) Straw. The police and fire departments are not capitolist organizations, bent on making money. The comparison is ludicrous.
No problem at all. This fantasy problem will simply impact the string theory fantasy solution of microdimensions and disappear before it can go anywhere. What's so hard about that?
I've been using PC's since the first. I don't recall "when everyone looked at their old, beige PCs in disgust as they saw new black models". Exactly when was that?
How fucking pompous of you. Just because we don't agree with you, you proclaim us ignorant. Ironic as well, since you go on to equate nicotine addiction with simply liking a Mac.
At my age -- having watch the entire problem arise -- and with my understanding the difference between addiction and desire, my guess is I am more aware of the whole picture than yourself.
Here's a hint. Only eat one Big Mac. And only do so one time per day. Spend the rest of the day eating only enough to fill in the required caloric levels for your body.
Geeks are not reviled and marginalized by society. They do it to themselves, then whine about how all the other members don't respect their superiority.
Just look at the commentary here at/.; where geeks spout about things of which they have absolutely no clue as to the facts, presented with grammar and logic becoming a five year old and yet pontificate as if they are just as accurate as they are talking about the innards of some router.
Only NASA didn't launch a missle attack, invade their borders, kill four soldiers and abduct two others. Other than that, NASA = Lebanan. Yes, I know it was Hezbollah. That portion (27%?) of the Lebanese gov.
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Part of the trademark process is active protection of same. This is all Google is doing. Making a good faith effort to prove they're intent on keeping their trademark. Neither Lego nor Kleenex has lost their trademarks, right? Neither shall Google.
P.S. Google -- if it starts with a lowercase letter, it's not your name.
I buy my music fome a russian website to prove a point to the RIAA that all they need to do is hit a resonable price point
Why the hell didn't anyone mod this funny?
'Don't confuse hatred of the United States with hatred of "The West"'
And you should not confuse the last fifty years or so as being the last thousand. Seen over that time, fanatical Islam indeed wants the West removed from the world. It has always seen non-Muslims as an affront to allah.
"Actually, I think you'll find they merely want to convert us all to Islam and make us live under a theocracy, not literally destroy us."
Then you need to read. If you will not be converted, you are to be killed.
"And don't try the "targeting innocents" angle - do you think more or less innocent Iraqis have died as a result of the Iraq invasion than Americans died in 9/11?"
You left out that they died at the hands of Islamic fanatics, just like the Americans.
"I think you'll find that meddling in (and destabilising) the entire middle east region for the best part of half a century got the US in this mess, actually."
Here's some more of that you gotta read stuff. Islamic history goes back further than that and has always been predicated on lethal conversion.
"...acting in your own best interests.."
Unlike the rest of human-kind?
"You're still more likely to get killed by lightning than killed in a terrorist attack..."
The difference being, of course, the first is a natural occurrance beyond human control and the second is a murder.
"Oh right - the threat of lightning lacks a clear us-and-them angle..."
No, it lacks the murder angle. You have blinders to that, why?
"One thing that's almost certain is that no official will release any detail on that plot..."
You're prediction is already crap. Kind of amazing, in my opinion, as the stamp on your comment indicates you could have been watching the news and reading articles on this event already, preventing you from making such a post-detail release blunder.
So, you've been purposely keeping yourself ignorant? It's been all over the news since I got up, with plenty of detail.
But no, rather to whine about some imaginary cover-up. Amazingly, dependant comments pony-up to that delusion with apparently no more clue as to what is going on in the news than your comment.
One nice thing about imaginations. They let you imagine things that can't be done. Like slip a macromolecular nanobot in between the smaller molecules of living cells.
Please, describe to us your traumatic experiences with the government preventing you from publishing your opinions? I've had none.
An actual Liberal would believe that rights are self-assigned and self-restricted. The codification of said rights and restrictions is just a way to come to a consensus which will allow a civilized society to exist and function.
In the sense that the government is the people, you would be correct. I would fervently hope liberals aren't so blind as to believe rights come from non-representative governments.
Exactly what rights are you people talking about? Journalists do not have the right to withhold pertinent information on a crime and never have had. Provide some cites to show they do.
"...that there is some portion of the collective "Amreican Dream/Resources" that is owned by ME..."
You, sir, are correct. That portion is called your vote. Do not let the various levels of government dicker with that right with unaudited electronic voting machines.
People who migrate to the extreme are statistically few enough that it's a push that they manipulate the middle. The middle is still pretty much the middle.
In particular, the right wing of the political spectrum has become masterful at this, pulling mainstream America way to the right with hyperbole and fear mongering.
Did you mean to be ironic in your attempt, oh lefty?
"The problem is, both sides are about as bad..."
Except, of course, that Hizbollah straps explosives to the chests of humans and has them enter crowded market places and blow up citizens. They do this first. They have a history of doing this first. They do this because their stated goal is "the elimination of Isreal". Other than that, your moral equivelancy is showing.
"(because the Whitehouse feeds much of the media)"
That being so very obvious in the disproportionate coverage of Hizbollah's side.
How was that Devil's Advocate? The point was that there were deeper stories about the families of the Palestinians and not the Israelis. You simply dismissed that as uninteresting. Opinion, and even if yours, and not relevant to the point.
The lives of the innocent Palestinians are no more or less interesting than those of the innocent Israelis.
That a person is not "entirely evil" is moot once their explosive jacket goes off, killing 40 shoppers in a market.
"We (meaning animals) are almost an anomaly, not the rule."
Where the hell'd that come from?
I don't think he missed the point at all of the original article. His contention (and mine) was in anthropomorphising a change of state in the evolutionary time line into something approaching a big god pushing down a big button. No reset. Only a change.
Evolution is the changing of traits in a population pool over time. No more. No up, no down.
Dumbass, your own damn self. When a mafioso has his records siezed, or a corrupt business, or a terrorist, or a friggin' reporter, they sieze all records because you can't tell what is useful until you look at them. So, unless you have some magic ball (or the bad guys nicely stamp what is what and put into color coded envelops), you have to sieze it all. Tuff, don't commit a felony.
Daily Show? Hardly. The host once said (and I paraphrase) -- I'm so in love with John Kerry that I have my nose so far up his ass I know what he had for breakfast. So much for news.
1) The feds turned nothing. It was business that turned it.
2) It is specially protected even now. Freedom of the press? In other words, the freedom to print what you will. It does not mean a reporter can be an accomplice to a crime and get a pass go card.
3) Straw. The police and fire departments are not capitolist organizations, bent on making money. The comparison is ludicrous.
No problem at all. This fantasy problem will simply impact the string theory fantasy solution of microdimensions and disappear before it can go anywhere. What's so hard about that?
I've been using PC's since the first. I don't recall "when everyone looked at their old, beige PCs in disgust as they saw new black models". Exactly when was that?
"You are unaware of the whole picture."
How fucking pompous of you. Just because we don't agree with you, you proclaim us ignorant. Ironic as well, since you go on to equate nicotine addiction with simply liking a Mac.
At my age -- having watch the entire problem arise -- and with my understanding the difference between addiction and desire, my guess is I am more aware of the whole picture than yourself.
Here's a hint. Only eat one Big Mac. And only do so one time per day. Spend the rest of the day eating only enough to fill in the required caloric levels for your body.
"What's a difference ... rule book...?"
Being able to communicate in a more formal environment.
Geeks are not reviled and marginalized by society. They do it to themselves, then whine about how all the other members don't respect their superiority.
/.; where geeks spout about things of which they have absolutely no clue as to the facts, presented with grammar and logic becoming a five year old and yet pontificate as if they are just as accurate as they are talking about the innards of some router.
Just look at the commentary here at
Only NASA didn't launch a missle attack, invade their borders, kill four soldiers and abduct two others. Other than that, NASA = Lebanan. Yes, I know it was Hezbollah. That portion (27%?) of the Lebanese gov.