If it's not a competing firm it's going to side with the cops. Why do you think the DA's office, who has to have the cops' cooperation to win trials, would be against them as a rule?
You like Tim's writing? Why? I've only seen ridiculous stuff from him. (I love this one, with its complaint that "the taxpayer" had to pay for the enormous cost of one extra cop. Nevermind the rest of the staff that "the taxpayer" has to pay for, that's chump change.)
This. I am sick of people defending cops (to use a different example) because "they're not all bad". Yes they are; if they weren't, they'd arrest the ones we know to be this bad.
Same thing applies to the NSA. The only one of them to do something about it was Snowden. All the others are evil.
Tim, I think your obsession with Snyder borders on stalking. You've already been slapped about it in the last post, why don't you declare victory and move to something else?
This article can be summarized as "lawyers aren't particularly funny; news at 11".
In Friday, Heinlein posits a nice little war, part of it inside the US, that is later discovered to have been a power struggle inside one multi-national corporation.
I grew up in a communist country (Romania), and I have the same experience: nobody believed the government. When, after 1990, we started getting information from the west, I was shocked to discover that Americans DO believe their government's propaganda. I have yet to personally meet one who doesn't. (Yes, I read blogs from people who clearly don't, but I haven't yet met one in real life.)
Hell - anecdote time. My former boss emigrated to the US from Ukraine (then the Soviet Union) when he was six. I asked him "you're Russian, how the hell can you trust the government?". He said the US government was different. What can you say to that?
While trademarks have a bit of merit in a sane legislation, the injured party here is the customer: he is the one who might be duped by the name. Someone who buys a Louis Vuitton knockoff knows that he's buying a knockoff and is fine with it; it is insane to allow LV to prevent that transaction on the grounds that it helps the customer. Same thing here: if someone buys a "The Oatmeal" greeting card while wrongly believing he bought a "Oatmeal Studios" one can show actual harm, instead of the alleged potential harm this suit is trying to prevent.
I love how pro-copyright morons train people to ignore the thing. Nobody is going to pay any attention to the threat of paying 5 years in federal prison for copying a book; it's just not a credible threat.
He actually did what he said... in the same sense as Dawkin's Weasel program. That one was also a "let's pretend we can do something that requires infinite resources in very little time" program.
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Bwahahaha....
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Same thing applies to the NSA. The only one of them to do something about it was Snowden. All the others are evil.
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This, a thousand times.
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This *has* to be a troll...
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Hell - anecdote time. My former boss emigrated to the US from Ukraine (then the Soviet Union) when he was six. I asked him "you're Russian, how the hell can you trust the government?". He said the US government was different. What can you say to that?
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I love this
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I hate these freetards who want to copy everything in sight.
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