"Ninety per cent of pregnant French women use homeopathy. Astrology is a useful diagnostic tool enabling us to see strengths and weaknesses via the birth chart."
At first, I have failed to see the common ground between homeopathy and astrology - these two sentences sounded completely unrelated. But they are actually related - it says "90% of French women are gullible enough to fall for homeopathy. This means that most of them are stupid enough to also believe astrology crap, so market is ripe"
That would be true only if all French women are pregnant.
Same story, different century.
Yes, and what the internet needs is to be the same old shit all over again! That'll really provide the most value to We The People Who Paid For It.
Correct. On this we agree.
So I don't know what you mean by 'vulnerable' position. If you take a job in another country, you take that job. You can quit and return to your own country at any time.
The vulnerability is for those that don't want to return but eventually get a green card. The "Do this or I pull your visa threat" is very real for them; and they would generally be the lower level cheap IT labor pool people, not someone with very valuable and specialized experience that a company wants to keep.
The purpose of the domain name service is to help us find things. When that system is subverted by people who are just standing in between customers and legitimate commerce, that's not legitimate at all. The fact that it's legal doesn't make it any less sleazy.
You may not like it but it sure isn't sleazy. It's no different than buying a plot of land and holding on to it hoping someone will want to build on it. People seem to think because "it's the internet" that different rules need to apply and normal activities somehow are no longer relevant.
He simply looked at some property, decided some would be valuable some day and bought them before someone else did. The next person could have simply said,"Gee xyz.com is used, I'll use something else" instead of buying a more generic name. More to your point, what if a someone comes up with a really good idea for a business only to discover someone else already has a really good generic domain and is using it for some mundane activity such as a daily quote? They're standing in the way of commerce as well; but that's the disadvantage of being the second guy to a plot of land.
With that said, it should be cheaper to get a trademark, which should simply expire in fairly short order if you don't use it.
Except you cannot trademark generic terms except when it is used in some unique way beyond the normal use. Even so, trademarking sex.com and other generic domains and putting on a web site would probably qualify its use in commerce.
You're a net newbie, aren't you. Domain squatters are scum. Right there with spammers and con artists.
Nah, been here since before eternal September. It's the late arrivers who are pissed at those who got there first and grabbed the good land. Same story, different century.
Sex isn't trademarked, so domain squatting doesn't apply.
Uh no. That's not how it works. Domain squatting is buying a domain for the purposes of speculation, and trademark is irrelevant. It would help if you knew what we were talking about.
It's a perfectly legitimate thing to do. It's no different than someone buying apiece of land hoping it will be valuable some day. He got there first and bought it so when someone comes around and wants i they have to pay for it. That's different than, as you point out, registering trademarks and holding the domain hostage. The first is a legitimate form of speculation and the latter simple extortion.
Here's a current example from Montana.
If you want to show your fake nipple in Montana, do it before HB 365 gets passed, or you could face a $500 fine and 6 months in the county jail. It could have been worse. The original bill called for "life imprisonment" for a third offense.
That's right. Life in jail for showing fake nipples three times. Of course they backed off on it, but the fact that this was even considered shows how corrupt the law has become.
A few points:
The markup made the 3rd offense only punishable by up to 5 years in jail, along with a fine; thus saving some poor criminal the ignominy of, when asked by other lifers what they're in for, saying "wearing spandex in public three times..."
The sponsor seemed to be more upset over people wearing spandex and speedos, and stated that wearing beige spandex could be considered public indecency. He was upset over some bikers who rode nude through his town and this was his response.
The bill was tabled by the judiciary committee so it's pretty much dead; which is normal for much of the wing nut inspired legislation that gets brought up in state legislatures. if you think Congress is a clown show wait to you see a state legislature in action. Wing nut legislators introduce all kinds of wacky bills either out of their own beliefs or in response to wing nut voters in their district. It gets introduced, the legislator gives a floor speech to an empty chamber, and the bill dies quietly in committee and perhaps gets a few lines in the local news or nationally on a slow day.
" Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America"
The most honest answer would probably have been that they were just pirates and attacked any ship they thought they could win from without serious retalliation.
True. Religion is a convenient excuse, for some, to do whatever they want to do in order to get rich or gain power. In the case of the Dey, he underestimated the willingness of the United States to take action.
But merely purchasing a VPN is no proof of illegal behavior. Unless the government is ALSO getting log records of what people see. But the article doesn't make any mention of that, so I assume it's not happening.
Once you have the name and supplier getting the supplier to provide information you want is not that big of a step. You can let most people use a VPN without problems and let suppliers make money; in exchange they provide you with what you want or lose the income stream.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
