Until we outsource our military, we still have the more basic and ultimately more effective means to impose governmental will on a corporation: we have bigger guns.
It's not about NJTA (which manages NJ TPKE and GSP) fighting another pizza competitor. It's about borrowing a logo in existence for 50-60 years to sell pizza, in effect trading on the national recognition of one entity to promote your business.
Whether that has legal merit or not, whether they then choose to go the copyright route (where I suspect they will enjoy more success) is left to be seen. To characterize this disingenuously as "pizza versus highway" is lazy high school writing.
I like preemption, previously mentioned: Congress should call them to account and have them prosecuted for even thinking about such a stunt. The USTR is the enemy.
"Earlier this week, the A Good Cartoon tumblr first posted a bunch of ridiculous and misleading political cartoons about net neutrality that showed zero understanding of net neutrality. And then the person behind the site remade many of those cartoons, but replaced the words in them with "the cartoonist has no idea how net neutrality works!" "
So the admission of error counts for nothing here? How about amending the article to call this out?
Fifty years ago, before SWAT: -cops carried nightsticks and used them; -bulletproof vests weren't available; -cops carried way more than six rounds, as they had dump pouches, speed loaders, even ammo belts. Only a desk officer carried a moldy six-gun with no reloads. Any patrol officer carried as many rounds as possible, and backup weapons if they could afford them; -no civil service protection existed; -no medical benefits, no insurance, five days sick time; -pay was about the same as an entry-level manufacturing job; -patrol cars were not the overwhelming norm in cities, foot patrols were; -rural towns had shotguns or deer rifles for deputies of elected sheriffs; -prosecutors were even more likely to take an officer's word over a suspect; -no-knock warrants happened then, too, but good luck finding as many stats on them.
It's a better job than it was then. However, an officer had a pension and respect, was taught restraint because the dangers were more immediate and fatal, and had the backing of most of the population because of this. Debatable? Sure, but it fits the overall pattern of the job in 1965.
I know many, many people who were there. I'm all for thought experiments, but first-hand accounts trump them.
... why JetBlue is now constricting seats and introducing fees for bags. JetBlue isn't intentionally trying to make lives miserable, but their shareholders will take away their capital if they don't. Can JetBlue tell them to GFY? Sure, but it won't be long before an activist shareholder pulls a stunt to force JetBlue's compliance.
The 1% are immune to these things, of course, which is why they are always implemented by them.
"Rather, these documents are the knowledge base needed to build a phone using the copyright owner's chips, and as such, this sharing of documents helps to promote the sales of their chips."
... until someone releases the chip documentation to spur chip competition. Then, watch how gongkai adapts to that.
In a rush to elevate capitalism as an awesome tool against communism, we seemed to have lost the counterbalance to the unchecked greed that is a natural exponent of capitalism.
That counterbalance is, ironically, labor unions and other progressive tools like anti-trust regulations and banking laws that, ha ha, the 1% beneficiaries managed to gut.
How fucking lazy do *you* have to be to not bother paying a tax bill for 34 days? You didn't ripped off, you got instructed. I'll bet you pay on time now.
Given a choice between the cop coming home, and the fat turd resisting arrest, I pick the cop every time. Comply, and nothing bad happens. Resist, and get thrown down and arrested. Oh, you were asthmatic? Then I guess resisting arrest was a bad decision on your part Eric.
It was death, it was a homicide, it was an accident, and too bad. I'd rather have people obey the law.
Forget the camera or battery. Those are nice drop-ins and sure, a keyboard slider back would be my compulsory mod, but the cell radio is your killer module.
Samsung builds a cell phone, and you buy a Verizon radio for it. Drop it in like a SIM. You want to switch to AT&T? Buy the radio, drop it in. Done.
but only if your "Entropic" character string isn't in a dictionary. Twelve characters in a dictionary is not the same as twelve non-word characters -- in any language. Dump a dictionary in English and then next four most used languages into your rainbow tables and you're still more successful than not.
The armchair experts of law enforcement come out again to deride a legitimate use of machinery for the protection of others, because oh no, camouflaged steel!
... so if one rolled up during an active shooter call, and parked it right outside a first-floor window to provide an armored cover for escaping people, you'd what, have a problem with that?
You're only problem is that the use cases are being cherry-picked from the news to make yourselves look good, because the most likely use case is the one I just showed you, and my bet is it never occurred to you.
Because Germany does. Go ahead and sue... now try to collect it. Honestly, these paper fictions all burn away if you meet someone that doesn't care to play this stupid game.
Stop-and-frisk was awesome. If you feel targeted, it's probably because you look and act like a shitbird. You think NYC innovated this? Try that act in a small Southern town and you'll see stop-and-frisk in action for real. It's a logical and useful response to bullshit in the streets... alternate responses CLEARLY not forthcoming from second-guessers like yourselves.
You don't even live in the worlds you pass judgement upon.
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Dust Brothers are laughing (on the inside)
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Yea!
-C
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You really don't need to worry just yet.
-C
On the post: Sanity: Trademark Suit Rules That Florida Pizza Joints Don't Compete With The NJ Turnpike
Congratulations, you all missed the point.
Whether that has legal merit or not, whether they then choose to go the copyright route (where I suspect they will enjoy more success) is left to be seen. To characterize this disingenuously as "pizza versus highway" is lazy high school writing.
-C
On the post: USTR Pushes Congress To Approve Trade Deals... But Threatens Reps With Criminal Prosecution If They Tell The Public What's In Them
Indict the USTR
-C
On the post: The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Net Neutrality Works
Credit where it's due.
So the admission of error counts for nothing here? How about amending the article to call this out?
-C
On the post: Police Union: You Can Have Safe Neighborhoods Or Be Free Of Flashbang-Burned Toddlers, But Not Both
Re: tarded statement much?
-cops carried nightsticks and used them;
-bulletproof vests weren't available;
-cops carried way more than six rounds, as they had dump pouches, speed loaders, even ammo belts. Only a desk officer carried a moldy six-gun with no reloads. Any patrol officer carried as many rounds as possible, and backup weapons if they could afford them;
-no civil service protection existed;
-no medical benefits, no insurance, five days sick time;
-pay was about the same as an entry-level manufacturing job;
-patrol cars were not the overwhelming norm in cities, foot patrols were;
-rural towns had shotguns or deer rifles for deputies of elected sheriffs;
-prosecutors were even more likely to take an officer's word over a suspect;
-no-knock warrants happened then, too, but good luck finding as many stats on them.
It's a better job than it was then. However, an officer had a pension and respect, was taught restraint because the dangers were more immediate and fatal, and had the backing of most of the population because of this. Debatable? Sure, but it fits the overall pattern of the job in 1965.
I know many, many people who were there. I'm all for thought experiments, but first-hand accounts trump them.
-C
On the post: Chris Christie, Port Authority Official Abused E-ZPass Data For Their Own Ends
Yes yes yes!
On the post: Broadband, Airline Industries Are Incredible Innovators -- When It Comes To Giving You Less But Claiming It's More
None of this explains...
The 1% are immune to these things, of course, which is why they are always implemented by them.
On the post: How 'Gongkai' Innovation Could Allow China To Leapfrog The West
This is flawed.
... until someone releases the chip documentation to spur chip competition. Then, watch how gongkai adapts to that.
-C
On the post: Will Patents Ruin The Most Important Biotech Discovery In Recent Years?
Is there an eminent domain for this?
On the post: DailyDirt: Getting Ahead Is Getting Harder
Re:
That counterbalance is, ironically, labor unions and other progressive tools like anti-trust regulations and banking laws that, ha ha, the 1% beneficiaries managed to gut.
-C
On the post: DailyDirt: Getting Ahead Is Getting Harder
Re: Re: Re: Re: Keeping People Down is Easier.
-C
On the post: The Homicide No One Committed: Eric Garner's Death At The Hands Of An NYPD Officer No-Billed By Grand Jury
Don't resist arrest, don't die.
It was death, it was a homicide, it was an accident, and too bad. I'd rather have people obey the law.
-C
On the post: DailyDirt: Does Anyone Really Want A Modular Smartphone?
The killer module
Forget the camera or battery. Those are nice drop-ins and sure, a keyboard slider back would be my compulsory mod, but the cell radio is your killer module.
Samsung builds a cell phone, and you buy a Verizon radio for it. Drop it in like a SIM. You want to switch to AT&T? Buy the radio, drop it in. Done.
-C
On the post: DailyDirt: How Many Passwords Do You Know?
Bits of entropy
-C
On the post: Veteran Police Officer Defends Law Enforcement's Use Of Military Vehicles Using Condescension And Baseless Claims
Boo hoo, again.
... so if one rolled up during an active shooter call, and parked it right outside a first-floor window to provide an armored cover for escaping people, you'd what, have a problem with that?
You're only problem is that the use cases are being cherry-picked from the news to make yourselves look good, because the most likely use case is the one I just showed you, and my bet is it never occurred to you.
-C
On the post: Swedish Company Uses Corporate Sovereignty Clause To Demand 4.7 Billion Euros From German Public
Does that company have an army?
-C
On the post: Former NYPD Chief Ray Kelly Still Trying To Sell His Post-Stop-And-Frisk Apocalypse But The Stats Aren't Backing Him Up
Dopes.
You don't even live in the worlds you pass judgement upon.
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Paolo Bacigalupi
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