Comment Re:Old news (Score 1, Redundant) 183
You've a 6-digit UID and you're just now figuring this out?
(BTW, some of us who don't live in the US might not have heard about this yet. It doesn't seem to have been widely reported elsewhere.)
You've a 6-digit UID and you're just now figuring this out?
(BTW, some of us who don't live in the US might not have heard about this yet. It doesn't seem to have been widely reported elsewhere.)
You're conflating trademarks and copyrights. No-one's disputing Disney's right to hold a *trademark* for the Mickey Mouse character and likeness to use in representing their company and its products.
As for *copyright*, you're asking the wrong question. This is because copyright is not a right, but rather a privilege granted by the State. So the proper question in this case is, "Why should the government continue grant Disney the privilege of copyright on the Steamboat Willie cartoon *indefinitely*?"
Nought better to do
Than post this drivel each day--
What are you, 14?
If you were Irish, you'd know that diplomacy is actually the art of telling someone to go to Hell in such as way that he'll be looking forward to the trip.
It could be no more free than the least free place, and quite possibly less free than that, yes.
Those leaders sought to be elected as leaders, then failed to meet their responsibilities. Nobody forced them to run for office.
...of a Slashdot where the editors actually edit submissions and turn them into something approaching standard English.
When actual fucking EDITING commences, I'll consider that worth coming up with the bucks to fly out to Oregon and meet you guys at *Con. Thanks for the invite, though.
32 bit extensions and a graphical shell [on top of] a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
If you're going to try to misrepresent people convincingly, you'll need to do it MUCH better than that, Ace.
Good thing you're a mind-reader, then, since I'm not.
Trust me, it reads better in the original Klingon.
A certain general would like to speak to you: http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...
That would in fact be the 6th Century (BC).
That and disk-waving contests about who has the lower uid.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
