The coke bottle isn't covered under copyright, but trademark. So as long as its clear that your book is *about* Coca Cola (its always legal to use a trademark in a nominative fashion) and not *from* Coca Cola you have the legal right to publish it without their permission (this won't necessarily keep them from suing you of course, which is the real problem, not the laws).

IANAL and so forth.

IANAL and all, but I'm pretty sure those are trademarks and not copyright. That O is there so the consumer knows whats an Oakley and whats a (non counterfeit) knock off. Actually, I'm also pretty sure the coke bottle falls under trade dress. Trademark (and dress) have totally different rules than copyright.

Yeah uh, if this is anything like Call center forecasting they should probably pack up and go home. Most call centers I've worked for can't figure out that just after the holidays is the busiest time of the year. Or maybe they can and they just don't give a shit when the client pulls the contract because we were 30% under the staff we promised in the SLA come January 2nd.

Law of averages actually says you can expect to *lose* money from life insurance. But, as you pointed out life insurance isn't taxable, so they remove taxable profit by buying the policy, and get untaxable money back (on top of smoothing the lumps caused by employee training, though for walmart I expect turnover from quitting is higher than dying).

Paypal customer service was still at an utter loss for what to do if the online password reset doesn't work.

Well, that assumes that web developers are bright enough to target the backend instead of the name of the browser. I see a lot of 'please use firefox' messages while using Iceweasel.

Implying that was not my intention, the legal status part is a totally separate statement about a different possible motive for pirates to use the service.

There's no reason for the artists to get paid for this, its not meant to be a service to provide new music, its a data availability service for music you already own. The money Apple is paying the record labels is basically extortion money.

That's true for paying the people who provide the iCloud service in this case (and if you want iCloud that's great). But this isn't a purchase service at all, you don't get music you don't already have out of it. So it might be de jure legit to pirate music then get it from iCloud*, but it's still de facto piracy, and has the same moral issues as going to pirate bay in the first place.

*If there was ever an argument that our IP laws need to be burned, pissed on, and rewritten from scratch that even the content providers would listen too this has to be it.

0$ of which goes to the artists.

I don't see how doing this would relieve the guilt in the first place. You still haven't payed for the music. And people who pirate don't fear lawsuits.

In this case, is there a difference? In fact, I've never heard of an Anon related arrest that *wasn't* targeting dissidents.

Now, their methods aren't exactly legal, but its worth pointing out that governments are doing jack shit to help regular people who are targeted by Anon. It's only the dissidents that they go after.

Its a way to buy or sell very large chunks of bitcoins without the transaction showing up on the ticker. (I fI understand it right, you can only buy or sell other black pool offers, and normal offers that are actually larger than your black pool offer, but its possible to do both black pool and normal offers at the same time).

For bonus hilarity: The price went from 11$ to 18$ at 3am on a Sunday. This has to be the last currency in the world a professional investor should touch, though the new generation of meth addled bitcoin traders who are desperately trying to find the non existent Silk Road to get a fix will be hilarious to watch).

Except of course paypal's fees are higher than credit card fees.

At the end of the day, its the same service Paypal offers. Just without the central control.