Masks stop the spread right? So your safe regardless of what someone else does.
Masks primarily stop the wearer from spreading the disease. They're not particularly effective at keeping the wearer from catching it. So I am protected when those around me are wearing masks (and now because of the vaccine but that's a different topic).
Use of Nintendo's branding and imagery certainly runs afoul of copyright and trademark laws.
Trademark, yes, but where's the copyright issue? And if there's no copyright issue, the DMCA does not apply.
Description of copyrighted material: Brand design mark
Description of infringing material: "The Campaign offers for sale its “Unofficial Amiibo Handbook,” which prominently displays Nintendo’s AMIIBO Design mark on the cover and also displays throughout the handbook Nintendo’s other design marks and elements of Nintendo’s AMIIBO Design mark"
Is Nintendo's "brand design mark" even copyrighted? Or copyrightable?
They're doing what they're supposed to do, which is present a vigorous defense of their client. When they don't have much of a case, they may have to do something desperate like this. It's up to the court to then shoot it down.
If he wanted to be viewed in the best possible light at a trial behaving lile a decent human being should have been a priority for him.
But when Mike paints with a broad brush that equates the good points that Democrats bring up about why they're angry
The problem is, regardless of the validity of the underlying concerns, these efforts are 1) not going to work, 2) probably going to make things a lot worse, 3) amount to government officials applying pressure to private actors with regard to constitutionally protected speech, which is always deserving of vigorous criticism and pushback. Techdirt's criticism really isn't about the concerns Democrats have with social media, it's about the actions they want to take to address those concerns.
In the '90s, it used to cost less than that for unlimited dialup.
Because there was this unheard of thing called competition! If ISPs had to compete with each other to offer service over regulated infrastructure, we would have super fast super cheap internet just like everywhere else.
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I feel like fox News dug a legitimate hole by arguing that they were not a news station, and should eat the complaint.
I think you're either talking about the Tucker Carlson thing, which is completely unrelated, or another thing which basically didn't happen and would also be unrelated anyway. Fox News != Fox affiliate station.
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The actual quote is “But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”
Yep, and one of the sides was neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Then when condemning the violence, he couldn't bring himself to just condemn the neo-Nazis, he had to also pretend the peaceful protesters were violent:
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.”
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The speed of rollout is easily explained by the being a worldwide pandemic, which obviously led to some of the normal red tape being suspended on an international level to fight the disease.
Not only that, but they had already been working on a vaccine for another coronavirus, which gave them a big head start.
See, you're still doing it. All you had to say to my question was "no, I don't agree with that." But you didn't even try doing that, you just skipped straight to "rhetorical gimmick." And despite me trying to assure you repeatedly (I've lost count of how many times) that it was a genuine question, you're still insisting that it wasn't, and that I was laying some kind of trap for you.
make me seem unreasonable no matter how minor my disagreement.
Only if your disagreement was unreasonable. Next time consider assuming good faith instead of bad. Just a suggestion. I'm out.
The trick to that gimmick lies in asking me to agree with a conclusion that I don’t share so you can have the upper hand in an argument.
No, I was inviting you to state whether you agree or not. Nothing more. The argument is over as far as I'm concerned.
(Your aimed-below-the-belt snipe about “keyword matching” isn’t helping your case in that regard.)
Your response indicates that it was correct. You can choose to look at the context of the conversation and determine what was meant by it, or just see "right?" and assume bad faith. You chose the latter, and are continuing to do so.
A system that protects the masses from small scale major population masses. Multiple studies since 2000 have broken down states. The consistent result is that large “Blue” states are such do to one or two very dense cities.
Can you explain why people choosing to live in large cities should make their votes count for less?
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Wow, you really have drunk the Kool-Aid.
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I think you may be disappointed by the outcome.
https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/face-covering-requirements-and-the-constitution/
Masks primarily stop the wearer from spreading the disease. They're not particularly effective at keeping the wearer from catching it. So I am protected when those around me are wearing masks (and now because of the vaccine but that's a different topic).
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Wow. Um, there are at least two meanings of "free". You're conflating them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
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Then why hasn't a single one of them been struck down?
Because they could take a lot of other people with them. The germ theory of disease and all that.
Where did you hear that, Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity?
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Copyright?
Trademark, yes, but where's the copyright issue? And if there's no copyright issue, the DMCA does not apply.
Is Nintendo's "brand design mark" even copyrighted? Or copyrightable?
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Re: Your writing is atrociating.
storied: celebrated in or associated with stories or legends.
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They're doing what they're supposed to do, which is present a vigorous defense of their client. When they don't have much of a case, they may have to do something desperate like this. It's up to the court to then shoot it down.
I'm sure he was never expecting to be on trial.
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You're restricting this to only the US and only recently, yes? Otherwise yeah, people have outlawed the choice.
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The problem is, regardless of the validity of the underlying concerns, these efforts are 1) not going to work, 2) probably going to make things a lot worse, 3) amount to government officials applying pressure to private actors with regard to constitutionally protected speech, which is always deserving of vigorous criticism and pushback. Techdirt's criticism really isn't about the concerns Democrats have with social media, it's about the actions they want to take to address those concerns.
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Too many links and it gets held for moderation as suspected spam.
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Because there was this unheard of thing called competition! If ISPs had to compete with each other to offer service over regulated infrastructure, we would have super fast super cheap internet just like everywhere else.
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I think you're either talking about the Tucker Carlson thing, which is completely unrelated, or another thing which basically didn't happen and would also be unrelated anyway. Fox News != Fox affiliate station.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/
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Yep, and one of the sides was neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Then when condemning the violence, he couldn't bring himself to just condemn the neo-Nazis, he had to also pretend the peaceful protesters were violent:
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.”
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Citation, please.
Citation, please.
Citation, please.
When referring to chemical disinfectants. Not bleach specifically, but yes he suggested we research injecting disinfectant into humans.
Including no plan for vaccine distribution.
When they had no plan for distributing the vaccine, I can't see how you could believe otherwise. Oh wait, yes I can.
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Not only that, but they had already been working on a vaccine for another coronavirus, which gave them a big head start.
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See, you're still doing it. All you had to say to my question was "no, I don't agree with that." But you didn't even try doing that, you just skipped straight to "rhetorical gimmick." And despite me trying to assure you repeatedly (I've lost count of how many times) that it was a genuine question, you're still insisting that it wasn't, and that I was laying some kind of trap for you.
Only if your disagreement was unreasonable. Next time consider assuming good faith instead of bad. Just a suggestion. I'm out.
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No, I was inviting you to state whether you agree or not. Nothing more. The argument is over as far as I'm concerned.
Your response indicates that it was correct. You can choose to look at the context of the conversation and determine what was meant by it, or just see "right?" and assume bad faith. You chose the latter, and are continuing to do so.
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So your interest in the constitution ends after, what, the second amendment? You're obviously not a fan of the fifth, sixth, or eighth.
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Can you explain why people choosing to live in large cities should make their votes count for less?
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Asking for confirmation of agreement is not a rhetorical gimmick. You need to up your level of textual analysis beyond keyword matching.
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