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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Active Shooter at the Naval Medical Center Building #26 in San Diego.
U.S. eases air travel, export financing sanctions on Cuba
The changes will facilitate travel to Cuba by allowing blocked space, code-sharing, and leasing arrangements with Cuban airlines, it said.
Another step forward in tearing down that bit of the wall still remaining
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes![]()
Trademarks are something of a weird beast that I don't know nearly about as much as copyright and patents, really. But I also know that the current state of it is not nearly as offensive as the state of copyright and patents. That being said, I do find aspects where trademark ends up overlapping with copyright to be extremely problematic for both - such as the ridiculous case of Marvel Comics snapping up the trademark for Captain Marvel while the original character wasn't being used, forcing the original Captain Marvel (owned by DC) to be named 'Shazam' in marketing until eventually DC just gave up on the original name and the new name stuck with the New 52.
I mean, I realize the value in protecting branding, but I'd rather see trademarks for artistic works outright banned so they don't overlap with copyright, because copyright is already enough protection as it is. Trademark works for non-artistic branding, but it doesn't make sense for artistic works.
edited 26th Jan '16 9:41:40 AM by Cronosonic
Exactly. There's not enough meat on dem bones.
To be fair, Intellectual Monopoly laws have been tipped far, far too much in the favor of said corporations, that is pretty much indisputable. Though what the balance should be is a much better discussion, such as term lengths and whether commercial derivatives should be allowed without the need to license them directly, etc.
edited 26th Jan '16 9:51:53 AM by Cronosonic
BBC: Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders
...Nice to see that the US is starting to realise that torturing inmates is not a good thing.
"Yup. That tasted purple."Solitary has its uses at times, now prolonged solitary is obviously bad, but sometimes you have to use it, say some guys hide drugs in a prisoners room, the prisoner tells the guards because he's trying to be a good guy, the guards then take the stuff in such a way that it reveals that the guy ratted on the others, and the good guy has to be moved to solitary before he can be transferred, as now the other prisoners are trying to kill him.
Not that any system could be that stupid, they'd certainly never be stupid another to then try and give the good guy extra time in jail and a loss of good behaviour privileges because of the drugs in his room.
edited 26th Jan '16 10:48:00 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranHillary Clinton and Reconstruction & Sanders and Racial Violence
Besides the fact we know Sanders tends to insist Economics is the solution to racial injustice on the whole, it should be noted, Hillary Clinton apparently due to her Arkansas Background, thinks that Reconstruction only happened because the north was bitter about Lincoln's murder, and that the South was brutally beaten up when it didn't need to be. (Instead of forcing the South to obey the law.)
Robert Reich: "I’ve Known Hillary Since She Was 19. Bernie Sanders is the Most Qualified Candidate"
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Uuuuuugghhhhh... Hillary, why do you have to be so good in some ways and so bad in others? That kind of rhetorical nonsense is part of what's keeping racism alive today. You can't win over racists by "respectfully agreeing to disagree" and "giving them room to adapt to change". You have to crush racism with all the fervor that a national government can bring to bear.
edited 26th Jan '16 12:12:11 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Try harder, trolls. At least pretend to be interested in rational discussion.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@Troll This forum is hardly pro Clinton, given that almost everyone here would ideally want to see a Sanders government. But for a claim like that you need sources.
And yeah I've heard Clinton voted for Goldwater as well. But Goldwater himself apparently genuinely believed that the Feds couldn't interfere in stuff like that, and he helped desegregate his home state of Arizona. And people can change their views. Though I doubt normal people conveniently evolve according to the polls as much as Hillary.
Some people in my school say they support him, but it's mostly for the indignation it gets in others.
edited 26th Jan '16 1:35:05 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.

Do we have an intellectual property thread? It's certainly a subject broad enough to support its own discussion. I did a quick forum search, but the only hit for "intellectual property" was from Yack Fest.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.