And yet I'm furious that Apple's Web Site has nothing about the date. I honestly think that Apple was a better company under Steve Jobs. He definitely had many of the same failings as Tim Cook but I felt he knew what he was doing in approving the right ideas from the design team in a way that Tim Cook never could. I don't think a Steve-Jobs-run-Apple would have come out with something as banal as an iPad with a stylus or an Apple Watch.
Here's the difference between Wikimedia (and Blender, for that matter) and your product meshpage: Wikimedia's (and Blender's) products have minimal copyright but they're so high in value that people are willing to give them money. You, however, make a product with such low value that copyright is completely irrelevant to its success.
Are you actually using circles to create illegal copyrghted work?
You mean trademark. Using circles in such a way to make Disney's mickey mouse logo (but not draw Mickey Mouse himself) is a trademark violation (and not copyright) seeing as three circles doesn't meet the minimum threshold of originality necessary for copyright protection.
No wonder it gets DMCA'd given that the mickey mouse circles attached to a copyright symbol is clearly violating disney's mickey mouse trademark.
Generally speaking when you normally vote for a party rather than an individual candidate it becomes onerous in the extreme for some lobbying interest to spend as liberally when they really can't preapprove and vet the presumptive office holder.
When what you have is a form of ranked-choice voting system with between half a dozen and a dozen parties represented it gets even harder.
Re: Re: 'It's got a lock and heavy door, whatever shall I do?'
Well, if Facebook is in favor of something, maybe you should see why that is. It could also be one of those "broken 24-hour clocks being right" thing. That doesn't mean that Facebook and everybody in the Senate not named Ron Wyden is right here; it just means that an evil entity being in favor of something shouldn't necessitate a knee-jerk reaction but an examination as to ulterior motives.
Pardon my conspiracy theory but maybe, and this is completely baseless but what if this was all being done on purpose by Facebook to spur congress into once again carving up 230?
Again, completely baseless speculation but still.
Your conspiracy theory is baseless, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. At least you have the humility to call it a "baseless conspiracity theory" and say "I know it happened for a fact!!!!11" like so many grifters…
"Conservatives" (actually far-right fascists) like OAN. It's the same reason they won't go investigate January 6th. Whereas there's bipartisan consensus (or at least a bipartisan tug-of-war) with Facebook, Dems are scared of going after their own shadow without GOP approval whereas Facebook is an easy target because even its own users hate it.
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Because of how violent our foreign policy is.
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Steve Jobs' passing
Steve Jobs passed away 10 years ago? Damn!
And yet I'm furious that Apple's Web Site has nothing about the date. I honestly think that Apple was a better company under Steve Jobs. He definitely had many of the same failings as Tim Cook but I felt he knew what he was doing in approving the right ideas from the design team in a way that Tim Cook never could. I don't think a Steve-Jobs-run-Apple would have come out with something as banal as an iPad with a stylus or an Apple Watch.
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Here's the difference between Wikimedia (and Blender, for that matter) and your product meshpage: Wikimedia's (and Blender's) products have minimal copyright but they're so high in value that people are willing to give them money. You, however, make a product with such low value that copyright is completely irrelevant to its success.
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As I said, PRC is like the Borg in that they go after you if they see you as a threat (The US is more like a combination of Klingons and Ferengi).
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The CCP is like the Borg in that they have no beef with you until they see you as a threat.
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Re: Re: Re: A case could be made that there's prior art that pre
https://media.giphy.com/media/8D7FaGd2QIXG8/giphy.gif
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Re: Re: Using crcles illegally?
In fact, here's proof that the Disney Mickey-mouse-ears logo is public domain. See its page on wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_head_and_ears.svg
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Re: Using crcles illegally?
You mean trademark. Using circles in such a way to make Disney's mickey mouse logo (but not draw Mickey Mouse himself) is a trademark violation (and not copyright) seeing as three circles doesn't meet the minimum threshold of originality necessary for copyright protection.
The DMCA only applies to ©, not ™, and like I said, Disney's trademark is not copyrighted unless you mean a drawing of Mickey Mouse himself and not a big circle with two smaller but equally-sized circles attached to the larger circle at a 104° angle.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Follow the money.
When what you have is a form of ranked-choice voting system with between half a dozen and a dozen parties represented it gets even harder.
There are some constituencies in the US with the fusion voting system, like in New York State and Oregon. Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fusion#United_States
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Re: Warrants
I'm just glad Warrants still needed to be issued; and here I thought the 4th Amendment was dead! I guess rumors of its death were greatly exaggerated…
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Re: Nuke Australia Now
Dude, you could criticize Australian law without advocating (even if kidding) that a nuclear warhead be dropped on it.
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Re: Re: 'It's got a lock and heavy door, whatever shall I do?'
Well, if Facebook is in favor of something, maybe you should see why that is. It could also be one of those "broken 24-hour clocks being right" thing. That doesn't mean that Facebook and everybody in the Senate not named Ron Wyden is right here; it just means that an evil entity being in favor of something shouldn't necessitate a knee-jerk reaction but an examination as to ulterior motives.
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Whoops, the sentence should be
I should really use the preview button more often…
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Your conspiracy theory is baseless, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. At least you have the humility to call it a "baseless conspiracity theory" and say "I know it happened for a fact!!!!11" like so many grifters…
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Here's the difference though:
"Conservatives" (actually far-right fascists) like OAN. It's the same reason they won't go investigate January 6th. Whereas there's bipartisan consensus (or at least a bipartisan tug-of-war) with Facebook, Dems are scared of going after their own shadow without GOP approval whereas Facebook is an easy target because even its own users hate it.
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Re: Revolving Door
I would think that you're starting to get it, Koby, but your history here proves that you don't dare deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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Maybe you should read this. You're both right and wrong at the same time. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-police-compare-different-democracies
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Derp, it should be IP, or better yet, "monopoly rights", since Evil Knievel's likeness and publicity rights have nothing to do with copyright…
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What's even more depressing is that in this instance, Disney are the good guys when it comes to ©. I never thought I would see that coming, but principles are principles even when bad actors are found on the right side and vice versa.
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Re: I rarely say this, but it's warranted in this instance.
Derp, that should be "Good Job, Florida!" Saying "Good Job, Florids!" would be even rarer, come to think of it.
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