That's what I heard. Although, the way I heard it was that it is clearly not possible to trademark a number at all. It probably has to do with not being able to trademark commonly used words.
Maybe it is like you can trademark Fish[tm] brand Fish, and since number are so obvious with computers that that.... nah. It's probably just absurd to trademark any number in any context.
Why don't they just write up the allegations in the form of a song and stick it out on kazaa etc.
It's a song about 'party time.' It goes something like, 'Come to the party.' It sounds of course like a fun party; you know. Then later the vocal line goes, 'Join the party?' The singer says, 'Everybody join the party.' And a subtrack goes, Is everybody at the party? Is everybody present at the party?' Only if you listen carefully, they're saying, 'Is everybody president at the party?' and the singer is singing something about 'joining the party' at the same time the word 'president' is said - repeated, in fact by, by an ensemble answer: 'President, president, president, join - joined - the party,' and so forth.
I thought the blackouts in California were caused by companies strategically turning off the power plants to drive up the price of electricity?
You can't have a monopoly of essential services without regulation. As someone else has said, give competition first, then and only then can you deregulate. Otherwise, you need some system of accountability.
The a company gets it wrong, the customers get what they want elsewhere
Forgive me but where do you find a competing electric company?
I was under the impression that the main reason for the State of California financial crisis stems from the energy fraud. The politicians are definately part of the blame in this. However, when a company screws up badly, it can hurt much more than just the company and stockholders. In this case it has hurt ratepayers and Californian tax payers. It even hurt Oregon ratepayers because they used the excuse of the energy rcrisis to raise our rates.
this is one example of how capitalism is not a perfect system!
Well, one problem is that capitalism (or Neo-Liberal Economics) assumes that there is competition, which means, there are no monopolies. Another assumption is that what we have is capitalism in the first place.
Also, I don't think that Libertarian and Socalism are mutually exclusive. There are examples of Libertarian Socialism and I think the GPL is a perfect example: Anyone who wants to use GPL Software can, and if you don't want to use it or contribute to it, you don't have to.
With utilities you have a choise: You can have a monopoly with regulation to ensure the ratepayers don't get ripped off, or you can have a Public Utility District. The "California Energy Crisis" fraud proved that monopolies don't work when you take away the regulation. Companies got greedy and turned off the power to increase the prices.
Here in Portland we have a ballot initiative to make Portland a PUD. After dealing with Enron as the owner of PGE I'm much more concerned about Corporate Fraud than Government Incompetense. (I'm concerned about both but Enron's track record says a lot.)
Possibly another example of Libertarian Socalism is people getting solar panels and feeding the excess back into the grid. You don't have to buy solar panels, but it will probably reduce your bills by a lot, makes your bills more predictable, and distributes the power generation across the entire grid. When everyone has a little power generating system it is a lot harder to have a black out. Also, business tend to use more electricity durring the day, and homes use more at night so it is a symbiotic relationship.
Well, by that definition, any military action is terrorism.
From what I understand, military action, when not in self-defense, is considered an Act of Aggression (or is that a War of Aggression?) which is considered worse than Terrorism, at least in international law.
"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act of an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intedned (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to infuence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping." (United States Code Congressional and Administrative News, 98th Congress, Second Session, 1984, Oct. 19 volume 2; par. 3077, 98 STAT. 2707 [West Publishing Co., 1984])
Imagine if artists couldn't or wouldn't be tied to a particular label by exclusive contract anymore.
Well, what if there was a change to contract law that limited the number of years a record comany could have exclusivity, and the number of albums a company could reject. (One way labels stick it to artists is by never accepting an album for distribution, and indefinately keeping a band in limbo, regardless of how good the music is. Meanwhile the bills keep piling up.)
Also, what if copyright was changed so that the rights revert to the artist/s after so many years?
I mean, where else is little Cindy going to go for that latest Brittney Spears record?
You mean little Cindy isn't interested in listening to John Zorn?
Spake the AC: Whats she going to do? Go get Tipper and clean up this mess?
Tipper Gore came out earlier today saying that DRM CDs are obscene and must have Parental Advisery Stickers. She was quoted saying "Won't Someone PLEASE Think of the Chidlren!"
Later someone pounted out that DRM is not a Hip Hop band but refers to software that prevents people from listening to their own CDs. She responded "Oh, nevermind. Anything that prevents people from listening to music must be good."
In this case 'future enhancements' means that they are going to break into people's houses while their out and install the software on their computers for them.
Anyone trying to uninstall the software afterwards will be in volation of the DMCA. Anyone reporting someone breaking into their home will be in violation of the USA PATRIOT Act.
That's like saying "well, the customer bought the damn horse statue, how dare he bitch about the 100 greek soliders hiding in it".
I don't think that's the wrong analogy. I think the analogy would more likely be: We built a Trojan Rabit and forgot to hide in it before the stupid French people took it into their castle. Those French People should give it back to us so that we can hide in it and then take it back in so that we can kill them in their sleep.
Anyone that lets people know how stupid this plan is is slandering our company and we will sue!
And anyone that says that suing just makes us look more stupid will also be sued.
400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd Avarage? Average meaning mean I'm guessing..... If 400lb is the mean, what does a relatively heavy LOTR Nerd weigh? (Especially considering that some are quite skinny.)
And 10 hours.... (and this is not a comment on the weight joke.) it's not just bathroom breaks but meal breaks that will come into play there. And no, eating junk food while watching the movie isn't a meal. Need good protein.
In the past when a movie was 3 hours long you had an intermission in the middle. It is nice to get up and walk around every hour or so. I remember being suprised when Malcolm X didn't have an intermission. When they re-released Laurance of Arabia there was an intermission. I have not seen it yet but I heard that Shoah had more than one intermission.
So what happened? Did we go through the 80s without any (mainstream) 3 hour movies and after so long a time movie studios forgot the concept?
I've heard about this situation with the 3 notes and that there are something like 46k possible "combinations" (there's probably a more specific word that's better but I'm a little rusty on my discrete math) of the 12 tones....
Anyway, what I was wondering for a possible solution is what if you had a computer analyse all the music that's in the public domain. All of the "classical" and folk musics that was written before this century. Someone provides this archive online or something. That way if someone gets hit with the 3 notes = copyright infringment could claim that the song claiming to be infringed actually came from the public domain, and thus you both have equal rights to it.
Now I can sue the telemarketers, if someone ever gets on the line that is. A few weeks ago I decided to just start f#*$ing with the telemarketers. Sound like I'm interested, and keep them on the line for a while and then just start meowing.
What I've discovered is that most of the time when I pick up the phone and say hello I just hear clicks and then it hangs up on me. I get like 8 calls a day like this and most of the time never get to speak to someone. I finally got sick of it and did a *77 which is supposed to block calls without caller ID info but I'm guessing it only works for the Private (ie blocked) calls and not the Unavailable calls that come from most telemarketers.
I understand that computers do the actual dialing and they call multiple people and the first to answer and trigger the voice recognition software gets to the actual telemarketing drone but even when I answer on the first ring and start saying "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?...." it still hangs up on me.
My favorite companions were Zoe, because she's smart, and Ace!, because she was always blowing stuff up.
In The Pirate Planet the Doctor has been knocked unconcious and is having nightmares about Leela and woke up screaming "No more janus thorns! No more Janus thorns!" I wonder if a future incarnation of the Doctor will wake up screaming "No more Nitro-Nine!"
I've never been a good judge of acting so I couldn't tell you if Wendy Padbury and Sophie Aldred were good actors.
I'd be interested in if you, as a researcher, would agree with what they say about these issues. (I started to read the book, intend to finish it, but got distracted for now.)
It would also be helpful to get to know your neighbors better and look out for each other. Not neccessarily Neighborhood Watch, but just talking to each other. Let them know if there is a weirdo or the police looking through your windows or going through your trash etc.
But then now that we have the "USA PATRIOT ACT" it is now illegal to even talk about the police searching yourself if you catch them.
What I do is I shred EVERYTHING. I then mix it in with my trash. I suppose I should be the good environmentalist and recycle it but I've been too lazy. I recycle just about everything else.
So I got shredded junk mail, personal mail, bills, and often subversive literature.
I doubt the police are going through my trash but the image of them trying to piece together misc. shredded paper mixed in with rotting fruits and vegies etc. is amusing.
When I tell people this they call me paranoid and say I should seek professional help right away.
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That's what I heard. Although, the way I heard it was that it is clearly not possible to trademark a number at all. It probably has to do with not being able to trademark commonly used words.
Maybe it is like you can trademark Fish[tm] brand Fish, and since number are so obvious with computers that that.... nah. It's probably just absurd to trademark any number in any context.
Why don't they just write up the allegations in the form of a song and stick it out on kazaa etc.
It's a song about 'party time.' It goes something like, 'Come to the party.' It sounds of course like a fun party; you know. Then later the vocal line goes, 'Join the party?' The singer says, 'Everybody join the party.' And a subtrack goes, Is everybody at the party? Is everybody present at the party?' Only if you listen carefully, they're saying, 'Is everybody president at the party?' and the singer is singing something about 'joining the party' at the same time the word 'president' is said - repeated, in fact by, by an ensemble answer: 'President, president, president, join - joined - the party,' and so forth.
"Can he resist clicking on the bright, candy-colored window?"
Don't Touch it! It's the History Eraser Window you fool!
So.... which is better, Linux detergent or Microsoft Detergent?
I thought the blackouts in California were caused by companies strategically turning off the power plants to drive up the price of electricity?
You can't have a monopoly of essential services without regulation. As someone else has said, give competition first, then and only then can you deregulate. Otherwise, you need some system of accountability.
The a company gets it wrong, the customers get what they want elsewhere
Forgive me but where do you find a competing electric company?
I was under the impression that the main reason for the State of California financial crisis stems from the energy fraud. The politicians are definately part of the blame in this. However, when a company screws up badly, it can hurt much more than just the company and stockholders. In this case it has hurt ratepayers and Californian tax payers. It even hurt Oregon ratepayers because they used the excuse of the energy rcrisis to raise our rates.
this is one example of how capitalism is not a perfect system!
Well, one problem is that capitalism (or Neo-Liberal Economics) assumes that there is competition, which means, there are no monopolies.
Another assumption is that what we have is capitalism in the first place.
Also, I don't think that Libertarian and Socalism are mutually exclusive. There are examples of Libertarian Socialism and I think the GPL is a perfect example: Anyone who wants to use GPL Software can, and if you don't want to use it or contribute to it, you don't have to.
With utilities you have a choise: You can have a monopoly with regulation to ensure the ratepayers don't get ripped off, or you can have a Public Utility District. The "California Energy Crisis" fraud proved that monopolies don't work when you take away the regulation. Companies got greedy and turned off the power to increase the prices.
Here in Portland we have a ballot initiative to make Portland a PUD. After dealing with Enron as the owner of PGE I'm much more concerned about Corporate Fraud than Government Incompetense. (I'm concerned about both but Enron's track record says a lot.)
Possibly another example of Libertarian Socalism is people getting solar panels and feeding the excess back into the grid. You don't have to buy solar panels, but it will probably reduce your bills by a lot, makes your bills more predictable, and distributes the power generation across the entire grid. When everyone has a little power generating system it is a lot harder to have a black out. Also, business tend to use more electricity durring the day, and homes use more at night so it is a symbiotic relationship.
Big Brother is the hero of 1984.
You mean it isn't Emmanuel Goldstein?
Well, by that definition, any military action is terrorism.
From what I understand, military action, when not in self-defense, is considered an Act of Aggression (or is that a War of Aggression?) which is considered worse than Terrorism, at least in international law.
"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act of an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intedned (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to infuence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping." (United States Code Congressional and Administrative News, 98th Congress, Second Session, 1984, Oct. 19 volume 2; par. 3077, 98 STAT. 2707 [West Publishing Co., 1984])
Imagine if artists couldn't or wouldn't be tied to a particular label by exclusive contract anymore.
Well, what if there was a change to contract law that limited the number of years a record comany could have exclusivity, and the number of albums a company could reject. (One way labels stick it to artists is by never accepting an album for distribution, and indefinately keeping a band in limbo, regardless of how good the music is. Meanwhile the bills keep piling up.)
Also, what if copyright was changed so that the rights revert to the artist/s after so many years?
I mean, where else is little Cindy going to go for that latest Brittney Spears record?
You mean little Cindy isn't interested in listening to John Zorn?
Spake the AC: Whats she going to do? Go get Tipper and clean up this mess?
Tipper Gore came out earlier today saying that DRM CDs are obscene and must have Parental Advisery Stickers. She was quoted saying "Won't Someone PLEASE Think of the Chidlren!"
Later someone pounted out that DRM is not a Hip Hop band but refers to software that prevents people from listening to their own CDs. She responded "Oh, nevermind. Anything that prevents people from listening to music must be good."
In this case 'future enhancements' means that they are going to break into people's houses while their out and install the software on their computers for them.
Anyone trying to uninstall the software afterwards will be in volation of the DMCA.
Anyone reporting someone breaking into their home will be in violation of the USA PATRIOT Act.
err, "I don't think that's the wrong analogy." should read "I don't think that's the right analogy."
We apolygise for any inconvience.
That's like saying "well, the customer bought the damn horse statue, how dare he bitch about the 100 greek soliders hiding in it".
I don't think that's the wrong analogy.
I think the analogy would more likely be: We built a Trojan Rabit and forgot to hide in it before the stupid French people took it into their castle. Those French People should give it back to us so that we can hide in it and then take it back in so that we can kill them in their sleep.
Anyone that lets people know how stupid this plan is is slandering our company and we will sue!
And anyone that says that suing just makes us look more stupid will also be sued.
(or should that be sacked?)
400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd
Avarage?
Average meaning mean I'm guessing.....
If 400lb is the mean, what does a relatively heavy LOTR Nerd weigh? (Especially considering that some are quite skinny.)
And 10 hours.... (and this is not a comment on the weight joke.) it's not just bathroom breaks but meal breaks that will come into play there. And no, eating junk food while watching the movie isn't a meal. Need good protein.
In the past when a movie was 3 hours long you had an intermission in the middle. It is nice to get up and walk around every hour or so. I remember being suprised when Malcolm X didn't have an intermission. When they re-released Laurance of Arabia there was an intermission. I have not seen it yet but I heard that Shoah had more than one intermission.
So what happened?
Did we go through the 80s without any (mainstream) 3 hour movies and after so long a time movie studios forgot the concept?
You guys are all losers. You say "I'm Thankful," but you have to stipulate it in some way. "I just wish..." not me. What I am thankful for is pure and unalienable. It is a right for which I have nothing but gratitude. The right to shoot all telemarketers on site!"
I've heard about this situation with the 3 notes and that there are something like 46k possible "combinations" (there's probably a more specific word that's better but I'm a little rusty on my discrete math) of the 12 tones....
Anyway, what I was wondering for a possible solution is what if you had a computer analyse all the music that's in the public domain. All of the "classical" and folk musics that was written before this century. Someone provides this archive online or something. That way if someone gets hit with the 3 notes = copyright infringment could claim that the song claiming to be infringed actually came from the public domain, and thus you both have equal rights to it.
Does that make any sense?
Now I can sue the telemarketers, if someone ever gets on the line that is. A few weeks ago I decided to just start f#*$ing with the telemarketers. Sound like I'm interested, and keep them on the line for a while and then just start meowing.
What I've discovered is that most of the time when I pick up the phone and say hello I just hear clicks and then it hangs up on me. I get like 8 calls a day like this and most of the time never get to speak to someone. I finally got sick of it and did a *77 which is supposed to block calls without caller ID info but I'm guessing it only works for the Private (ie blocked) calls and not the Unavailable calls that come from most telemarketers.
I understand that computers do the actual dialing and they call multiple people and the first to answer and trigger the voice recognition software gets to the actual telemarketing drone but even when I answer on the first ring and start saying "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?...." it still hangs up on me.
Anyone else experiencing this?
My favorite companions were Zoe, because she's smart, and Ace!, because she was always blowing stuff up.
In The Pirate Planet the Doctor has been knocked unconcious and is having nightmares about Leela and woke up screaming "No more janus thorns! No more Janus thorns!" I wonder if a future incarnation of the Doctor will wake up screaming "No more Nitro-Nine!"
I've never been a good judge of acting so I couldn't tell you if Wendy Padbury and Sophie Aldred were good actors.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever read the book Trust Us, We're the Experts?
I'd be interested in if you, as a researcher, would agree with what they say about these issues. (I started to read the book, intend to finish it, but got distracted for now.)
How much is $19k spread over 30 years at 5% interest, or whatever it's at now?
You can also think of it as insurance against a fraudulent "energy crisis" that increases your bill 1000%.
Before I got layed off I was considering this even though I live in Oregon where we don't see the sun half the year.
It would also be helpful to get to know your neighbors better and look out for each other. Not neccessarily Neighborhood Watch, but just talking to each other. Let them know if there is a weirdo or the police looking through your windows or going through your trash etc.
But then now that we have the "USA PATRIOT ACT" it is now illegal to even talk about the police searching yourself if you catch them.
From some squirle (I think) to Slappy Squirl:
"Excuse Me! That's MY garbage receptical. I'm sure you have a garbage receptical of your own!"
I wish that people would put their trash in my can instead of leaving it on my lawn.
What I do is I shred EVERYTHING. I then mix it in with my trash. I suppose I should be the good environmentalist and recycle it but I've been too lazy. I recycle just about everything else.
So I got shredded junk mail, personal mail, bills, and often subversive literature.
I doubt the police are going through my trash but the image of them trying to piece together misc. shredded paper mixed in with rotting fruits and vegies etc. is amusing.
When I tell people this they call me paranoid and say I should seek professional help right away.