Used to. No more.
Sci-fi writers of yesteryears used to ask pertinent questions, something like - Can robot dreams?
Nowadays we have the so-called 'sci-fi-writer-wannabes' who produce crappy stories, crappy plots, crappy concepts, craps such as 'twenty-mile-high-buildings"
The current crop of sci-fi-writer-wannabes just ain't got the imagination to inspire
Let me Xerox off a few examples of when similar Noun/Verb phrases lost their trademark in the past
Before Xerox came out with the photocopy machine which uses plain-paper for duplicating purposes, were there any such machine on the market?
No?
Before Google was online, was there any online search engine?
Yes!
Yahoo, Astavista,
Coke gets to retain its trademark precisely because Coke wasn't the first mass-marketed bottled soft drink either
The one big problem with Yahoo is it cluttered up its interface - even from the start we users already complained about their interface, but they just won't listen, and when Google came out with its back-to-basic minimalist interface users flocked to Google (including me) and since then the only time I go to yahoo is when I need to log on to my yahoomail account
If someone wants me to type in my account and then my password I won't
I really won't
Common sense tells me that no one has any right to demand me to type in my account name/number and then my password
That is why I do not understand why there _are_ people who are simply void of any common sense
Ain't there enough stories of scams already? Why can't those people learn _anything_ from the mistakes of others?
I could have used that money as a down payment towards an iHouse or an iCar...
Just be proud that you helped pay for the $100,000,000.00 that Apple gave iU2 for the album
Under the deal between Apple and the band where Bono is one of the members, U2 "gives away" the album on iTune and for that, Apple awards them with a cool Two Hundred Million United States Greenbacks
Thomas Jefferson was a dangerous fool, this country would do well to forget him
If you are from North Korea, you are right
But if you are an American, take my advice --- get a visa, fly to North Korea, and when you arrive at North Korea, tear that North Korean visa to shred and demand a political asylum !
The guise of national security
If the "five eyes" limit their surveillance on the people of their respective five countries the 'national security" argument could still be applied
But what TFA is describing has gone way beyond their respective national border. Their aim is to extend their authoritarian control over THE ENTIRE WORLD and this is the one thing that the whole world must reject
Not since the dawn of time _any_ one entity has the control of the entire planet - As a comparison, even the largest empire ever was, the British Empire, in its peak, controlled less than 25% of the world
The worldwide hegemony must be defeated, dismantled and destroyed, or our future, the future of the Human Race, will forever be shrouded under a thick layer of very dark cloud
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.
