Your points are great, but wait til the Wal*Mart empire comes to Uruguay, then you can hate them as bad as many of us do here in the states. I've long said that unfettered capitalism ends up in the same place as communism -- with one corporate "winner" in which all power and resources are centralized. Since Wal*mart is the current "presumptive candidate," I "vote with my dollar" against them any chance I can.
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Just wait til Trash*Mart takes over the world and then you won't be able to buy a computer (or anything else) from anywhere else.
In the recent list of richest people, Gates was at the top, but several Walton heirs were in the top 10. So be careful which collective to which you assimilate!
One of the legal standards of trademark infringement is "likelihood of confusion." Clearly this site intended to capitalize on this very thing, and so violate Falwell's intellectual property. However, parody is acceptable under the copyright law, but one's parody still cannot violate trademarks and other IP.
But trademark coverage only extends to certain categories, e.g. a trademark registration for a web site covers web site infringement. One does not automatically have a registration in all categories.
I laughed years ago when Paramount unsuccessfully sued a music group called "The Romulans," who had a Roman-style motif. At the time, Paramount only had a TM for "Romulans" that protected a 70s-era Star Trek action figure. The judge in the case said there was no likelihood of confusion between a music group and a little toy.
So you/. regulars are all anti-IP, what do you think?
I know practical realities have no place in Trekkie fantasies, but the fact is, it's just too dang expensive to send people into space, PERIOD! You can dream about it all you want, but no government can justify the expense, just to collect a few rocks, when a robot can do the same job for zero risk and a fraction of the cost.
The only way space will be colonized is if some filthy rich individual funds a private space mission and then finds something of value. Paul Allen is financing private space efforts. Suppose someday that group lands on the Moon. If they find something of value, like gold or rare earth minerals, there will be a new capitalist gold rush to the Moon, and everyone will say "NASA who?" At least this is the way that exploration and colonization has always happened throughout history.
But there's a bad problem with human space exploration that always gets lost in these discussions -- there is deadly radiation in space. The Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protects us from this radiation. But out in space, you're on your own. The usual comeback to that is "lead shielding" but that adds too much weight and is otherwise unfeasible. OK Trekkies, lets see a show of hands -- how many of you would volunteer to get your gonads irradiated in space?
Human space exploration cannot be viewed like Columbus and Magellan, it's just not the same thing, no matter how many Trek episodes you watch.
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Your points are great, but wait til the Wal*Mart empire comes to Uruguay, then you can hate them as bad as many of us do here in the states. I've long said that unfettered capitalism ends up in the same place as communism -- with one corporate "winner" in which all power and resources are centralized. Since Wal*mart is the current "presumptive candidate," I "vote with my dollar" against them any chance I can.
In the recent list of richest people, Gates was at the top, but several Walton heirs were in the top 10. So be careful which collective to which you assimilate!
One of the legal standards of trademark infringement is "likelihood of confusion." Clearly this site intended to capitalize on this very thing, and so violate Falwell's intellectual property. However, parody is acceptable under the copyright law, but one's parody still cannot violate trademarks and other IP. But trademark coverage only extends to certain categories, e.g. a trademark registration for a web site covers web site infringement. One does not automatically have a registration in all categories. I laughed years ago when Paramount unsuccessfully sued a music group called "The Romulans," who had a Roman-style motif. At the time, Paramount only had a TM for "Romulans" that protected a 70s-era Star Trek action figure. The judge in the case said there was no likelihood of confusion between a music group and a little toy. So you /. regulars are all anti-IP, what do you think?
The only way space will be colonized is if some filthy rich individual funds a private space mission and then finds something of value. Paul Allen is financing private space efforts. Suppose someday that group lands on the Moon. If they find something of value, like gold or rare earth minerals, there will be a new capitalist gold rush to the Moon, and everyone will say "NASA who?" At least this is the way that exploration and colonization has always happened throughout history.
But there's a bad problem with human space exploration that always gets lost in these discussions -- there is deadly radiation in space. The Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protects us from this radiation. But out in space, you're on your own. The usual comeback to that is "lead shielding" but that adds too much weight and is otherwise unfeasible. OK Trekkies, lets see a show of hands -- how many of you would volunteer to get your gonads irradiated in space?
Human space exploration cannot be viewed like Columbus and Magellan, it's just not the same thing, no matter how many Trek episodes you watch.