A recount is to catch tabulation error. Not to catch fraud.
There are many reasons why places shy from allowing them that have nothing to do with coverups.
A recount implies that the results are in question. Leading to questions of the legitmacy of the power of the person holding the office and the election itself.
A recount allows a 'sore' loser to stall the 'offical' results. This is never good in the sense of maintaining a well ordered government.
There is no guareentee the recount will be any more or less accurate than the original count. Leading to a situation where people just keep demanding recounts till their opposition gives up.
Although it is counter-intuitive, it's easier to rig a re-count than it is to rig the original count. For the orginial election you need access to the votes, for the recount you just need access to the counters.
Most people just want it to be over with once the election is done. Dragging it out over months while the votes are re-counted and re-re-counted just rubs in the fact that the losers lost and makes the winners feel nervous that their win will be taken away from them. And in most cases, you aren't going to discover anything that would significantly change the outcome.
This isn't patent law, this is trademark law. The existance of a word prior to it's use as a trademark does not exclude it from being a trademark. Otherwise Mickey Mouse would have never been trademarkable. After all, mice have existed for centuries.
A trademark is a mark which the use of has become associated with your business. It can almost be anything, witness Microsoft's trademark on Windows.
No, those are actual products which the company lost the protected trademark status on. Kleenex, the Yo-Yo, and the escalator were listed on one page that I came on and the rest were listed on the wikipedia article concerning genericized trademarks. Since Kleenex is actually listed in a different section of the wikipedia article, I'm guessing its inclusion on the first page was in error.
Regardless a brand being confused as the name of the generic product IS what you are asking about because each and every genericized trademark is the result of someone attempting to enforce their trademark too late and it losing it's protection, typically through a court battle.
Read up on the topic, this isn't exactly one of those issues where the information is difficult to retreive.
Products which, through lack of defense of their trademark, have become genericized trademarks:
Kleenix
Yo-Yo
escalator
Cellophane
mimeograp h
Xeroxing(in Russia)
Allen wrench
bikini
dry ice
granola
lanudromat
linoleum
merry widow
milk of magnesia
plasterboard
pogo stick
spandex
tabloid
tarmac
touch-tone
Webst er's dictionary
zip code
zipper
And that list was just culled form a quick look at google using genericized trademarks as the search term. I'm sure there are plenty of others out there if you look for them.
Trademark law is not standardized between countries other IP law is.
It is quite possible that both have legal standing to defend their trademark in their country but not in the other's country.
The problem Google has isn't that they don't own a trademark to Gmail, but that they don't own a trademark to Gmail in every country it's available in. As a result, these bush leaguer's can come in and attack Gmail in their own country but not, for instance, in the USA.
This is less aruging the point as much as blunting the whole "High Pressure" issue.
Almost a decade and a half ago, in my senior year of high school, we had one of those 'intense' Science teachers. I'm sure you've met the type, exude Mr. Wizard from their pores and act as if they were hobbist chemists from the age of two. In any event, he actually had a friend in the local univeristy that was working on these vortexes and loaned him a nozzle to attach to a normal portable air compressor. The kind you can rent from contruction companies for $60 a day or so.
It took about 30 seconds for the cold end to start forming frost on the glass of water it was pointed at, and the hot end was already too hot to handle without a towel.
The compressor ran at something like a measly 100-125psi. Not exactly heavy duty, or really that much harder to generate out in the boondocks than the equivalent electricy to run a fridge. Given that most field generators are horribly inefficent.
Actually if they made Hackers something that you had to watch annually, not only would Hacking become uncool but the world would rush back to the Dark Ages as everyone rushed out to destroy all electronics after the first year was over.
Because Creative was assinine to file a patent app and Apple didn't bother because they correctly understood it to be trivial and not actually patentable.
Basicly Creative got the patent because the Patent Office rewards people who drown it in frivolous patents instead of rewarding people who only patent valid ideas.
When other companies offer something EA doesn't, EA will just sit on them. Maybe they'll buy them out and destroy any future products made by the company while dismantling it. Maybe they'll just drown them in crap releases to make it less likely that the gem will be seen in the rough. But whatever they will do, you can be sure it'll be effective enough to kill the attempt.
Don't kid yourself, we are well past the point where 'started in our garage' company has any chance of overturning the state of affairs without the big developer's consent or the help of some bigger bully.
I beleive Uwe Boll is german for "Where video game movies go to die".
Really, if you can stand to watch even three of his movies in a month timespan, you are either a vehement anti-video game nut, have just commited sucide due to the experience and have blocked the memory out, or were blind and deaf at the time.
Your body does not "crave" foods based on it's health or lack thereof. Your body craves foods based on your diet.
If you eat healthy, you crave healthy foods. If you eat greasy fast food, you crave fast food.
It is a matter of conditioning. Your mind learns that certain flavors and textures mean pleasure from a full belly and starts signaling for you to seek more of that food. Most people crave 'bad' food because that is what they were brought up on. Not because there is some deep genetic or biological process going on.
Yes, it's easier to get hooked on certain types of foods, which invoke pleasure through other chemicals, like sugar or chocolate. But by and large, what you crave is a matter of your current diet and nothing else.
It sounds more like you are having issues with the screen saver and not the actual BIONC program. Just leave the SS for BIONC off and either pick something else or none at all.
The problem isn't that BIONC is taking up your resources, it's that those pretty graphics have to be loaded up and unloaded whenever the SS starts.
I don't have the SS on and have never seen _any_ impact on my computer performance.
If only they could put half of the engineering they put into that plant into every Wal-Mart so checkout lines would disappear. Something like the self checkout at Loblaws combined with this RFID would be very sweet. Walk through a sensor and swipe my credit card and then off to the car in seconds...
Till you got your credit card statement and realized you had been charged twelve times for the clothes on your back because they were tagged and the system kept picking them up, you mean.
When? I can recall no period in the history of Microsoft where they weren't pulling ethicly challeneged tricks to get ahead.
Google may someday become as bad as the majority of the big tech companies are today. It may not.
Being big or successful isn't an automatic conversion to evil.
In fact, most companies start off evil and it's their unethical decisions which give them the advantage to get on top. Google started off 'good' I don't see anything they've done so far that could be characterized in anyway as 'evil' and I strongly suspect that it will be a long long time before I ever do.
Seen them, read about them, liked them. Don't fear spoilers. It's stuff you should already be able to figure out if you've seen the series and not from the movie from all accounts. It IS new video created specificly for this campaign.
If base GDS does not do this, then I beleive there is an addon you can download which adds that functionality. I know I am able to do so, however I've installed a number of addons.
I agree, I'm a bit surprised that they didn't at least make the sidebar autohide. On the other hand, you can turn it off and on with just a few clicks...
My problem though is that after installing it, I wasn't able to get it to open any browser windows or connect to it for some reason. I had to go to work but I hope they haven't set it up so it works completely independantly of a browser.
The real problem is the 'bidding' process to host the games.
Cities spend so much on trying to one up each other in some lame "we are better because we know how to go into debt faster" competition that they need sponsers to just be able to pay the sanitation workers after everything is said and done.
If the IOC would stop making it acceptable to bankrupt small nations with the amount of money spent on these facilities (many of which are almost always severly under utilized once the games are over) then this loonacy would no longer happen.
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Did you include the "Get a pointless tattoo to remember stuff a man with amnesia would have trouble forgetting?" square?
ALLEN WRENCH!
There are many reasons why places shy from allowing them that have nothing to do with coverups.
Most people just want it to be over with once the election is done. Dragging it out over months while the votes are re-counted and re-re-counted just rubs in the fact that the losers lost and makes the winners feel nervous that their win will be taken away from them. And in most cases, you aren't going to discover anything that would significantly change the outcome.
That's what they said about Firefly's Space Western theme too. :-P
This isn't patent law, this is trademark law. The existance of a word prior to it's use as a trademark does not exclude it from being a trademark. Otherwise Mickey Mouse would have never been trademarkable. After all, mice have existed for centuries.
A trademark is a mark which the use of has become associated with your business. It can almost be anything, witness Microsoft's trademark on Windows.
No, those are actual products which the company lost the protected trademark status on. Kleenex, the Yo-Yo, and the escalator were listed on one page that I came on and the rest were listed on the wikipedia article concerning genericized trademarks. Since Kleenex is actually listed in a different section of the wikipedia article, I'm guessing its inclusion on the first page was in error.
Regardless a brand being confused as the name of the generic product IS what you are asking about because each and every genericized trademark is the result of someone attempting to enforce their trademark too late and it losing it's protection, typically through a court battle.
Read up on the topic, this isn't exactly one of those issues where the information is difficult to retreive.
And that list was just culled form a quick look at google using genericized trademarks as the search term. I'm sure there are plenty of others out there if you look for them.
Trademark law is not standardized between countries other IP law is.
It is quite possible that both have legal standing to defend their trademark in their country but not in the other's country.
The problem Google has isn't that they don't own a trademark to Gmail, but that they don't own a trademark to Gmail in every country it's available in. As a result, these bush leaguer's can come in and attack Gmail in their own country but not, for instance, in the USA.
This is less aruging the point as much as blunting the whole "High Pressure" issue.
Almost a decade and a half ago, in my senior year of high school, we had one of those 'intense' Science teachers. I'm sure you've met the type, exude Mr. Wizard from their pores and act as if they were hobbist chemists from the age of two. In any event, he actually had a friend in the local univeristy that was working on these vortexes and loaned him a nozzle to attach to a normal portable air compressor. The kind you can rent from contruction companies for $60 a day or so.
It took about 30 seconds for the cold end to start forming frost on the glass of water it was pointed at, and the hot end was already too hot to handle without a towel.
The compressor ran at something like a measly 100-125psi. Not exactly heavy duty, or really that much harder to generate out in the boondocks than the equivalent electricy to run a fridge. Given that most field generators are horribly inefficent.
Actually if they made Hackers something that you had to watch annually, not only would Hacking become uncool but the world would rush back to the Dark Ages as everyone rushed out to destroy all electronics after the first year was over.
Not a full 3d, but isometric. I'm at work so I can't give you the link but look up Falcon's Eye. It's nethack's engine rendered in iso.
Because Creative was assinine to file a patent app and Apple didn't bother because they correctly understood it to be trivial and not actually patentable.
Basicly Creative got the patent because the Patent Office rewards people who drown it in frivolous patents instead of rewarding people who only patent valid ideas.
Well gee, I wonder how hard these cars will be to steal.
When other companies offer something EA doesn't, EA will just sit on them. Maybe they'll buy them out and destroy any future products made by the company while dismantling it. Maybe they'll just drown them in crap releases to make it less likely that the gem will be seen in the rough. But whatever they will do, you can be sure it'll be effective enough to kill the attempt.
Don't kid yourself, we are well past the point where 'started in our garage' company has any chance of overturning the state of affairs without the big developer's consent or the help of some bigger bully.
I beleive Uwe Boll is german for "Where video game movies go to die".
Really, if you can stand to watch even three of his movies in a month timespan, you are either a vehement anti-video game nut, have just commited sucide due to the experience and have blocked the memory out, or were blind and deaf at the time.
DUH! If you start off with XP, you'll have enough power to run all the others! :-P
Your body does not "crave" foods based on it's health or lack thereof. Your body craves foods based on your diet.
If you eat healthy, you crave healthy foods. If you eat greasy fast food, you crave fast food.
It is a matter of conditioning. Your mind learns that certain flavors and textures mean pleasure from a full belly and starts signaling for you to seek more of that food. Most people crave 'bad' food because that is what they were brought up on. Not because there is some deep genetic or biological process going on.
Yes, it's easier to get hooked on certain types of foods, which invoke pleasure through other chemicals, like sugar or chocolate. But by and large, what you crave is a matter of your current diet and nothing else.
It sounds more like you are having issues with the screen saver and not the actual BIONC program. Just leave the SS for BIONC off and either pick something else or none at all.
The problem isn't that BIONC is taking up your resources, it's that those pretty graphics have to be loaded up and unloaded whenever the SS starts.
I don't have the SS on and have never seen _any_ impact on my computer performance.
Till you got your credit card statement and realized you had been charged twelve times for the clothes on your back because they were tagged and the system kept picking them up, you mean.
When? I can recall no period in the history of Microsoft where they weren't pulling ethicly challeneged tricks to get ahead.
Google may someday become as bad as the majority of the big tech companies are today. It may not.
Being big or successful isn't an automatic conversion to evil.
In fact, most companies start off evil and it's their unethical decisions which give them the advantage to get on top. Google started off 'good' I don't see anything they've done so far that could be characterized in anyway as 'evil' and I strongly suspect that it will be a long long time before I ever do.
It is the second option rather than the first. Check the site posted for more information (hint: the FAQ is linked from the main page.)
Seen them, read about them, liked them. Don't fear spoilers. It's stuff you should already be able to figure out if you've seen the series and not from the movie from all accounts. It IS new video created specificly for this campaign.
Watch it, it's interesting.
Because that 'crap' works better and faster than the native search in most email clients. Especially when dealing with large numbers of emails?
If base GDS does not do this, then I beleive there is an addon you can download which adds that functionality. I know I am able to do so, however I've installed a number of addons.
I agree, I'm a bit surprised that they didn't at least make the sidebar autohide. On the other hand, you can turn it off and on with just a few clicks...
My problem though is that after installing it, I wasn't able to get it to open any browser windows or connect to it for some reason. I had to go to work but I hope they haven't set it up so it works completely independantly of a browser.
The real problem is the 'bidding' process to host the games.
Cities spend so much on trying to one up each other in some lame "we are better because we know how to go into debt faster" competition that they need sponsers to just be able to pay the sanitation workers after everything is said and done.
If the IOC would stop making it acceptable to bankrupt small nations with the amount of money spent on these facilities (many of which are almost always severly under utilized once the games are over) then this loonacy would no longer happen.