Re: Replacing parts = "sue for trademark infringement"???
WHAT?
First, that's just wrong if it's physical parts, EVEN IF had imitation logo.
Er, actually, if the parts were being passed off as official Apple parts when they weren't, it would indeed be trademark infringement (EVEN IF they didn't have an imitation logo)
How do you think trademark works exactly?
2nd, Apple is a third party to the misleading, where's its standing?
Um, it's standing is as the trademark holder... Again, how do you think trademark works exactly?
3rd, why is Mike advising a mis-use of trademark in this case?
How would that be trademark mis-use? Trademarks as a way of preventing customer confusion and stopping companies from misleading consumers is a good thing. That's what it's for. So, as the post said, if Apple genuinely thinks customers are being misled into buying aftermarket parts while thinking they are official Apple parts, trademark is the correct way to address that -- it wouldn't shut down repair shops, merely force them to make it clear that they use third-party parts. Of course, it doesn't seem likely that Apple does genuinely believe that, which is why they aren't using trademark here, and instead just using it as an excuse to try to shut down the shops altogether.
I don't think we should look at it from the point of view of "protecting" repair businesses and their profits -- that's no better than the source of the problem here, which is the government protecting Apple and other phone manufacturers.
If phone companies can make repair shops obsolete by offering cheap phones and lots of free replacement deals, then that's just them winning in the marketplace, and we should accept it. However, if they need the help of ICE to go in and shut down the repair shops as is apparently the case, that's not a fair market victory.
Approaching it from a perspective of fairness and competition is the best way. Otherwise, before you know it, it's the repair shops using ICE as a private police force to shut down the competition.
Our position has always been clear: there are far more negatives than positives, and whatever "positives" there are could be better accomplished by a system that relied less on copyright -- so while they may be "positive effects", they are not points in copyright's favor. Dog food has the positive of being food, but that doesn't win it any points against steak.
There's really no reason to doubt that AJ is telling the truth about his friends and family. Lots of people have found a way to succeed under the current system. And lots more are finding a way to succeed as we move to a new system. I'm sure he's telling the truth -- he just has a tragic lack of imagination, and a surprising lack of faith in these people's actual value, if he thinks they would all fail miserably without copyright.
(I suppose "dino-" can have a few different meanings as a prefix -- in "dinoflagellate" it means "whirling" -- but certainly the most common is "dinosaur" in which it means "terrible")
"Church" most commonly translates to "CE", "CC" or "CH" in cryptics -- though that's a very british thing in my mind. In some clues, though, it merely becomes "C"
Mostly I try to minimize the use of those types of one-letter abbreviations in cryptics, since I often find them annoying. But, they exist for a reason... and that's one of the clues where one slipped in.
Don't worry, you won't catch me using "sailor" to mean "AB" or any of those other weirdly obscure ones -- those drive me nuts.
"Dino" is technically not a word by itself, thus the specification of "prefix". Overall, that clue is one that's slightly more on the playful side -- I had considered putting a "?" at the end as is sometimes done on such clues, but I didn't think it quite warranted that, and worried that the "?" might actually be misleading. So basically it's a double definition clue, with one of the definitions being more suggestive than direct:
"Terrible prefix" = DINO, quite literally (dino- as a prefix means "terrible", derived from greek)
Then "DINO" is also a "terrific prefix for the obsolete" in a less literal sense, merely a suggestive one
More common on Britain indeed. I remember the other day I saw Victoria Coren on some panel show comment on doing crosswords, and someone asked her if she meant cryptic or regular. Her response? "Cryptic, obviously -- I'm not an idiot." :)
Well, calling the puzzle stupid suggests the person who made it and the people who enjoyed it are stupid. In this context, that's what I meant by "everyone"
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Re: Replacing parts = "sue for trademark infringement"???
First, that's just wrong if it's physical parts, EVEN IF had imitation logo.
Er, actually, if the parts were being passed off as official Apple parts when they weren't, it would indeed be trademark infringement (EVEN IF they didn't have an imitation logo)
How do you think trademark works exactly?
2nd, Apple is a third party to the misleading, where's its standing?
Um, it's standing is as the trademark holder... Again, how do you think trademark works exactly?
3rd, why is Mike advising a mis-use of trademark in this case?
How would that be trademark mis-use? Trademarks as a way of preventing customer confusion and stopping companies from misleading consumers is a good thing. That's what it's for. So, as the post said, if Apple genuinely thinks customers are being misled into buying aftermarket parts while thinking they are official Apple parts, trademark is the correct way to address that -- it wouldn't shut down repair shops, merely force them to make it clear that they use third-party parts. Of course, it doesn't seem likely that Apple does genuinely believe that, which is why they aren't using trademark here, and instead just using it as an excuse to try to shut down the shops altogether.
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If phone companies can make repair shops obsolete by offering cheap phones and lots of free replacement deals, then that's just them winning in the marketplace, and we should accept it. However, if they need the help of ICE to go in and shut down the repair shops as is apparently the case, that's not a fair market victory.
Approaching it from a perspective of fairness and competition is the best way. Otherwise, before you know it, it's the repair shops using ICE as a private police force to shut down the competition.
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Yes, a publication having an editorial position on something is super creepy, and also totally unheard of.
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And now you present evidence which says: "hey look! those legitimate uses are totally ineffective at achieving their goal!"
I don't see why anyone needs to respond to that. You've already made our point quite well.
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not activists.. HACTIVISTS..
Hactivists are to activists as squares are to rectangles.
Wrestle with that one for a bit darryl :)
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Mostly I try to minimize the use of those types of one-letter abbreviations in cryptics, since I often find them annoying. But, they exist for a reason... and that's one of the clues where one slipped in.
Don't worry, you won't catch me using "sailor" to mean "AB" or any of those other weirdly obscure ones -- those drive me nuts.
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"Terrible prefix" = DINO, quite literally (dino- as a prefix means "terrible", derived from greek)
Then "DINO" is also a "terrific prefix for the obsolete" in a less literal sense, merely a suggestive one
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I know you don't know how to spell "ad" -- but do you not know what it means either?
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What gives you that idea?
I don't think we've ever had a musician of any kind pay for promotion on Techdirt -- and if they did, it would be clearly marked as a sponsored post.
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CROWED = bragged, which goes "about" (around) "bad grade at bad church"
bad grade = D
bad = SOUR
church = C
thus...
CROW(D+SOUR+C)ED
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