There's a difference between a company being unable to move fast and one deliberately delaying action to extract maximum damages. The latter is unethical and contrary to the intent of the law.
The point was simply that failure to apply a doctrine does not mean that the doctrine doesn't exist. Maybe someday laches will officially cease being a doctrine if it keeps being ignored, but that day has not yet arrived.
Just out of curiosity, do you believe that granting the ability to tactically delay legal action is a good thing?
Yes it does. Laches may not be a "law" per se, but the fact is that there is a legal prohibition against tactically delayed action. How frequently it is applied is irrelevant, or would you say that there's no law against jaywalking?
No, the Redcoats were the civilized British tyrants. The Browncoats are analogous to the Confederacy (the South) in the American Civil War. (a.k.a. "The War of Northern Aggression.")
I can also tell you that my failure to partake in one certain drug with certain ropelike qualities is governed primarily by the effect of a sudden job loss on my children's welfare.
You acknowledge that a system based on fear keeps you in line, yet you applaud it. There's a word for people like you. Hey, here's another. Wouldja look at this, seems there's a whole bunch!
I sincerely hope your children manage to escape your influence and grow up to be decent human beings.
They're not a cell phone monopoly, but they are a monopoly in a lot of regional markets where all the "competing" DSL providers have to work through Verizon to set up a customer's connection. Unsurprisingly, Verizon is known for dragging its feet and being generally uncooperative with these providers despite a legal obligation to treat them fairly. This allows Verizon to get away with providing shitty service, because it can ensure that its competitors' service will be even worse.
Also they have the worst logo in all of recorded history. Even if they didn't suck in so many other ways, I'd still avoid Verizon just so I wouldn't have to see that godawful logo every time I looked at my phone.
What's so idiotic about them? The kilo-, mega-, giga-, etc. prefixes were/are being used incorrectly by the computing community (hard drive manufacturers being the exception.) Nowhere else do those prefixes have anything to do with powers of 2. It's not such a big difference between 1000 and 1024, but as quantities get larger the difference between decimal and whatever 2^ximal is called becomes increasingly significant. Consumers are already starting to wonder why their new 250GB drive only holds 236GB.
When people talk about "warm" and "cool" light, they usually mean the opposite of what the Kelvin color temperature would suggest. A higher color temperature is a "cooler" light because blue is considered a cooler color than yellow and orange. (This is in the applied lighting field; scientist types may use the terms differently.)
You must be in favor of bribery then. Giving someone money is just free speech, right?
The idea that the true purpose of campaign finance restrictions is to maintain the existing duopoly is plausible, and I'm not dismissing it at all. But there is nothing you are not allowed to say under campaign finance laws that you would be allowed to say in their absence. Ergo, campaign finance laws do not restrict your freedom of speech.
Back in college, a local supermarket cashier, when handed a Susan B., asked "What is this, Mexican?" Which was especially surprising since not only had they been around for years but the supermarket adjoined a commuter rail station that had ticket machines that gave them as change; you'd think she would get them all the time.
Another time at the same supermarket, my friend got carded. The cashier didn't recognize the out-of-state driver's license and got the manager, who examined it for a while before deciding: "MARY-land? No way." He'd never heard of the state of Maryland.
That said, we should take care to remember that not everyone in low-level retail jobs is that stupid. Don't make people's sucky jobs worse by assuming they're morons.
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You can get laid in a coffee shop?! Utah must be a more exciting place than I've been led to believe.
He doesn't experience the moral ambiguity, he embodies it.
There's a difference between a company being unable to move fast and one deliberately delaying action to extract maximum damages. The latter is unethical and contrary to the intent of the law.
Just out of curiosity, do you believe that granting the ability to tactically delay legal action is a good thing?
Yes it does. Laches may not be a "law" per se, but the fact is that there is a legal prohibition against tactically delayed action. How frequently it is applied is irrelevant, or would you say that there's no law against jaywalking?
It still exists today as part of Hasbro. Thay also made Furbys.
Wrong. As has been mentioned upthread, there is the doctrine of laches, which prohibits exactly the kind of tactics you describe.
If they want a court to believe they're concerned about dilution, they better have sued Hasbro too.
No, the Redcoats were the civilized British tyrants. The Browncoats are analogous to the Confederacy (the South) in the American Civil War. (a.k.a. "The War of Northern Aggression.")
One could argue that they're fighting for Iraq.
Twelve nanometers isn't very far.
Good thing you're not qualified to come up with one, then.
You are one scary motherfucker. Seriously. Get help.
You acknowledge that a system based on fear keeps you in line, yet you applaud it. There's a word for people like you. Hey, here's another. Wouldja look at this, seems there's a whole bunch!
I sincerely hope your children manage to escape your influence and grow up to be decent human beings.
Also they have the worst logo in all of recorded history. Even if they didn't suck in so many other ways, I'd still avoid Verizon just so I wouldn't have to see that godawful logo every time I looked at my phone.
What's so idiotic about them? The kilo-, mega-, giga-, etc. prefixes were/are being used incorrectly by the computing community (hard drive manufacturers being the exception.) Nowhere else do those prefixes have anything to do with powers of 2. It's not such a big difference between 1000 and 1024, but as quantities get larger the difference between decimal and whatever 2^ximal is called becomes increasingly significant. Consumers are already starting to wonder why their new 250GB drive only holds 236GB.
When people talk about "warm" and "cool" light, they usually mean the opposite of what the Kelvin color temperature would suggest. A higher color temperature is a "cooler" light because blue is considered a cooler color than yellow and orange. (This is in the applied lighting field; scientist types may use the terms differently.)
The idea that the true purpose of campaign finance restrictions is to maintain the existing duopoly is plausible, and I'm not dismissing it at all. But there is nothing you are not allowed to say under campaign finance laws that you would be allowed to say in their absence. Ergo, campaign finance laws do not restrict your freedom of speech.
Okay, so you don't know what a trade secret is.
We have people whose job it is to sit in judgement. They're called judges.
The NYC subway's third rail carries 600VDC.
Making the natives restless, are we?
Yeah, the 70s were pretty awesome. I was just a kid, but I could tell.
Another time at the same supermarket, my friend got carded. The cashier didn't recognize the out-of-state driver's license and got the manager, who examined it for a while before deciding: "MARY-land? No way." He'd never heard of the state of Maryland.
That said, we should take care to remember that not everyone in low-level retail jobs is that stupid. Don't make people's sucky jobs worse by assuming they're morons.
Here's the right map.