I don't know, but I think I can understand using "Pop-Ups" to protect your trademark from an imitator cashing in on your reputation in a foreign country on the cheap.
Actually establishing a presence, even if it's only a few stores, would be better.
Using trademark law against a store when there's little or no confusion involved is tacky.
A quote from Jerry Pournelle seems appropriate. He speaks of energy, but this could also apply to the internet.
"I do know some fundamental economic truths – at least they are 'true' in the sense that they come from observation, not theory. I have stated them before. Energy and freedom lead to prosperity. Restricting energy and adding not freedom but commands and regulation lead to downward economic pathways. Thus has it been, and thus will it be.
"Civilization trends toward converting more and more of its output to structure. Infrastructure or superstructure isn’t important: output is seized and converted to structure, and the largest beneficiaries of that are bureaucracies. Bureaucracies are devoted to the preservation and expansion of the bureaucracy and its members, and only secondarily to the purposes for which they were founded. Thus has it been, and thus will it be."
On the one hand I take issue with calling broadband a "Right". Freedom of speech is a Right, freedom of religion is a Right, freedom against unreasonable search and seizure is a Right, etc. You have the same Rights whether you live in an apartment in Manhattan or the boonies of Alaska.
On the other hand, yeah, broadband today is right up there with electricity and telephone and the FCC should be pushing to bring it to all Americans.
I just put "Human Rights" one notch above modern conveniences like electricity and telephone.
The police and their unions still dig in and insist that cops never do anything wrong, and to even question them is unacceptable, refusing to even entertain the idea that an officer might ever step out of line and need to be held accountable for their actions.
Why not?
It's all upside and no downside to police union. The only people whose opinion matters to the police union are other police officers and they eat this up.
In a worst case scenario, what sort of consultant or service should we look for? Would a regular debt management service also handle medical debts? Or is that a specialty? Are there lawyers that specialize in medical debt negotiation?
There's a difference between facing outrageous medical bills and insurance rates because of "sheer crap luck on your part" and "people that take unhealthy risks with their bodies".
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Actually establishing a presence, even if it's only a few stores, would be better.
Using trademark law against a store when there's little or no confusion involved is tacky.
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Jerry Pournelle
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Re: What I hear
But it's the only one they can do anything about.
Just saying.
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A fried chicken in every pot.
Re: So the US was able to safely land people on the moon and return them decades ago...
Sadder, isn't it.
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On the other hand, yeah, broadband today is right up there with electricity and telephone and the FCC should be pushing to bring it to all Americans.
I just put "Human Rights" one notch above modern conveniences like electricity and telephone.
Re: Designing and specifying the API was creative work. Google as usual just trying to steal value.
You're thinking of Googol or 10^100.
Google is the search engine.
Notice the difference in spelling.
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Unlike Microsoft which licensed Java from Sun, created an incompatible version, called it Java and got sued.
You can't copyright a language, although you can trademark a language name.
Just a thought
(Note: I'm not suggesting that excuses their stupidity)
Re: We don't need DSL anyways
So what else is there? Dial-up?
Re: See this? Fix it or stop whining
It's all upside and no downside to police union. The only people whose opinion matters to the police union are other police officers and they eat this up.
Civilians? Pfft, who cares what they think.
Inappropriate humor
Was it wrong of me to chuckle at that?
Any place where they can't even prevent their own employees from killing themselves has got to be hell to work for.
Re: Re: Bad article mistake
I think the point is that FedEx may refuse to ship a package labeled "counterfeiting equipment", even if it merely contains a color copier.
What you seem to be saying
Just curious.
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For example risks you can control; smoking, drinking, recreational drugs use, obesity (from overeating, not genetic or physiological), etc.
Risks you can't control; genetics, eating, walking, getting out of the bath, living in general, etc.
And even risks in between, risks where the benefits potentially outweigh the risks; driving, biking, running, swimming, flying, traveling, etc.
Re: Contract law still allows negotiating amounts
Just curious.
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Just sayin'.
Two words
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