Long waddle Emperor Penguin Blakey
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I thought we already had those? Are @boomzilla and @flabdablet not bots?
you win sir.
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This post is not an invitation to start political discussions.
You Must Be New Here™.
Filed under: we don't really need an invitation
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The comments on that article are the best part. It basically goes like this:
I think we should have an intelligent conversation about what's going on in the world.
1 person agrees with this. 57392 people disagree.
ur an ass hat
G64 people agree with this. 7 people disagree.
barak obams is the best and no fakt wil ever chang my mind
republicans r bad pepol
ur a bagger we're r ur brans1000 people agree with this. 2 people disagree.
I'm sorry, but do you have any references to back up that comment, or are you speaking purely from opinion?
0 people agree with this. 23467 people disagree.
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ur a bagger we're r ur brans
They do say that it's important to have a steady source of dietary fibre...
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List of words that are owned by companies:
- adrenaline
- dumpster
- Philadelphia
- ping pong
- popsicle
- super hero
- taser
- freedom
- flag
- tiger
- like
- book
- face
- here
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How many of those do you think would actually hold up in court if challenged?
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probably none of them.
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Taser has a chance since it was a brand name/ trade mark before it became part of common vocabulary. The rest, you're probably right
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Don't forget Saga
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How about apple, windows, vista?
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How about apple, windows, vista?
The “Apple” name has been the subject of a lot of litigation (and who owns it depends strongly on what domain of trade you're in; nobody owns it when it refers to the greengrocery item). Microsoft never uses “Windows” and “Vista” by themselves (except in contexts where it is obviously a shorthand term) and instead talks about things like “Microsoft Windows”, which is the trademarked term.
The general rule is that the more specific the trademark — so things like a particular word in a particular font and particular colour — and the more specific the domain, the easier it is to defend. And marks must be actively used or they are lost; they exist to provide the opportunity for companies to build sane brands and to prevent other
scumpeople from trading off the good name of the company, not to let some company get a lock on a word forever. The details vary a bit between jurisdictions (e.g., in the UK it is always permissible to trade under the proprietor's name, much to the frustration of the McDonalds burger franchise…)
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Fun fact: in Poland, there's an institution named WORD that's responsible for driving tests and issuing driver's licenses. The correct pronunciation is like "vord" (because it's Polish name, duh), but for some reason, most young people pronounce it like the English "word".
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Taser has a chance since it was a brand name/ trade mark before it became part of common vocabulary. The rest, you're probably right
Dumpster. It's interesting to think that somebody who was selling trash hauling must have invented the big box on wheels and marketed it as an innovation - and coined the word "dumpster". interesting to me that is. ymmv.
Popsicle is definitely a brand-name... but, IANAL, so who knows.
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Do Not Want.
So you have said. We move to other things... Tell me about your Mother. </freud>
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for some reason, most young people pronounce it like the English "word".
If it was pronounced "word" wouldn't it ideally be spelled ŁURD in Polish?
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ŁURD
We pronounce "word" as "łord". Also, the irony is that MS Word is so popular people automatically assume English when they see "WORD" in any form.
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ENGLISH: because fuck you, why should we learn a second language?
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Needs more comma.
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I'm glad everyone finally came around to understanding how important hats are.
My avatar's had a hat for years!
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Taser has a chance since it was a brand name/ trade mark before it became part of common vocabulary. The rest, you're probably right
I suspect Philadelphia as applied to cream cheese would hold up, and probably if applied to other forms of cheese, and possibly other dairy products, as confusion about the maker of those products would be likely.
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@tar said:
ENGLISH: because fuck you, why should we learn our own native language?
PTFYAlso works for some of the native English, sadly...
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I suspect Philadelphia as applied to cream cheese would hold up, and probably if applied to other forms of cheese, and possibly other dairy products, as confusion about the maker of those products would be likely.
Lawyer-like pendantry...
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Lawyer-like
There is no call for insults and personal attacks. Would you like it if I were to say you were like a pimple on the ass of humanity, or compared you unfavorably to smallpox virus? I daresay you would not. Why then would you make such statements about me?
I consider this statement libelous, and I demand a public apology, or you will be hearing from my la ... um, never mind that last bit, but I still demand an apology.
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There is no call for insults and personal attacks. Would you like it if I were to say you were like a pimple on the ass of humanity, or compared you unfavorably to smallpox virus?
If I were indeed pus-fulled and infectious - I might not like it, but I would have to accept the hypothetical and hyperbolic comparison. My dander-fueled vessel of anger would likely be dashed upon the rocks of protected speech in the form of satire, in any case.
Your broaching of the vile term "Philadelphia" as a trademark, when narrowed to the field of lactated-comestibles is a perfectly odious and obvious demonstration of a willful and attorney-like desire to split hairs.
I maintain my appreciative stance towards your pendantry.
...or maybe it's just a hacker's ability to dig out and identify edge-cases before they crash the system.
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I maintain my appreciative stance towards your pendantry.
if i read the situation right then, he only needs one more flag for a pedantry badger. ;-)