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DC Comics, the company behind some of our most beloved superheroes, has built a reputation for itself for playing the supervillain when it comes to intellectual property disputes. Chiefly at issue tends to be trademark law, which DC views as some kind of overarching right for it to not allow any other entity to hold a trademark that even remotely overlaps with its own established marks. DC has taken this to absurd levels, opposing trademark applications that couldn't possibly be confused with its own properties, even as many of its marks are very, very well known.
This continues to the present. Most recently, DC has decided to oppose the trademark application for a group founded by MIT's Joy Buolamwini to spotlight the negative consequences of certain technologies, which she dubbed The Algorithmic Justice League.
Buolamwini filed in 2017 for a US trademark on Algorithmic Justice League, saying she had used the name for more than a year on projects that “promote awareness of and combat bias in algorithms as used in artificial intelligence.” In June, DC lawyers filed to oppose the registration.
DC claims consumers may confuse the group’s work on AI algorithms with its superhero collective Justice League, founded in 1960 by Wonder Woman and six others. “Such false assumptions will cause injury and harm,” the company’s filing says. It cites 10 trademarks related to the Justice League that mostly predate Buolamwini’s application, covering such uses as comic books, movies, mouse pads, and "adhesive plastic bandages for skin wounds."
DC's own citations point to the absurdity in all of this. Namely that none of the marks held by DC remotely bleed into the work that Buolamwini is doing. The closest you could get would be the view that some members of the public might see her as a superhero in her own right, attempting to head off the dangers of AI and algorithms. Other than that, it's difficult to see where the public is going to be confused between superheroes and this kind of technological research.
DC, as it typically does, goes to great lengths to point out that its marks are super-famous and therefore deserving of expanded protection.
Fictional beings capable of flight or freakish strength might seem hard to confuse with the real-world work of Buolamwini—whose abilities appear to be 100 percent human. To draw attention to the potential harms of AI technology she has written code, published academic research, and presented her findings in a TED talk, congressional testimony, and spoken word poetry.
Yet DC is a powerful foe, standing on reasonable legal ground. “The more famous the mark, the broader the protection,” says Alan Fisch, an intellectual property lawyer with the firm Fisch Sigler.
Labeling this as reasonable is probably a stretch. Famous or not, there are limits to the expanded protections available to well known trademarks. And, I would argue, DC's Justice League marks are certainly different than its truly famous marks. Had, for instance, this group been called the Algorithmic Supermen, we might be having a slightly different conversation. But the deviation in the markets and the name chosen don't lend themselves to claims of potential confusion.
But DC's going to DC, I suppose. It would just be nice to see the company play superhero instead of villain for once.
Oh, is that how you take it? I am sure that you feel comfortable that I am marked troll while the ignorant comment of history is 5 insightful to make an easy snipe.
Here let me help you understand.
Cotton was dying off because crop rotation and other advances in agriculture didn't happen yet. The number of cotton plantations were decreasing because the soil could no longer support such a cash crop. We can credit the government getting involved for those advancements? Which agricultural practice and technology should the government be given credit for?
The anti-slavery movement had been around for a long time. Part of the reason the Civil War occurred when it did was because the North started to "catch up" in population to the slave south to get a proper representation of power in the House. That's why there were so much violence in newly admitted states preceding the Civil War. Look up Bleeding Kansas to get an idea. It was the Senate that was the last bastion for the slave south. IOW, the 3/5ths compromise delayed an inevitable fight between the agricultural dominate slave states and the North. When the North was able to overcome the 3/5ths compromise, new states and their Senators became a huge part in the ability for the country to change. What did the government do? Fight a war to ensure that it doesn't splinter when it became advantageous to push the issue. Oh good job it has self preservation like any dumb fucking animal.
All around the West slavery was ended and was fought for. Why was the West the first and why did the rest of the world wait until after the West to abolish slavery? Surely, the governments of those areas would have gotten around to it even after thousands of years. Why these countries at these times? Yes, the government did it!
By the way, Slavery still exists. No, I am not talking about the bullshit "hurr muh income inequality". If you get paid your not a slave (maybe taken advantage of but not a slave). There are slaves in the world today. Bringing up muh income inequality as an example of "modern slavery" is a real spit in the face to those that are actually forced into labor. It diminishes the term "slave" and puts bullshit "muh higher minimum wage" on par with actual slaves. It's bullshit.
"If the government had just left the locals residents alone". Such a stupid thing to say. People that choose their governments can do bad shit. Well no shit! Do you think you need a "higher" government or power to end all evils in the world? If so I have a bridge to sell you. Only the federal government can do good things? State governments can only do bad things? Why don't tell that to the "sanctuary" states. Or any state right that the left has pushed lately against Trump. Maybe you don't understand the point of decentralization and federation. Limit the power, limit the damage. The Civil War, a government enforcing self preservation when the people changed enough to change the constitution and some governments making the federal government didn't want that change. Wow... and that makes me a closet confederate / corporate shill? You are an idiot. I could keep going but
Here is the breakdown of a ride i did in January , when i was still driving for Uber :
Duration : 48 min 42 sec
Distance : 43.58 mi
I receive :
Base Fare : $1.04
Distance (43.59 mi x $0.6900/mi) : $30.08
Time (48.70 min x $0.2400/min) : $11.68
Tip : $10:00
Wait Time ($0.966666666667 min x $0.2400/min : $0.23
Toll : $3.69
Total : $56.72
Rider Pays :
Rider Price : $54.95
Tip : $10.00
Total : $64.95
Uber receives :
Service Fee : $6.03
Booking Fee : $2.20
Total $8.23
They used to include the waybill breakdown. but I can't find the breakdown anymore.
This $8.23 earning also included regulatory fee's , fee's that I believe were paid to a third party to track the ride for insurance purposes, and for insurance.
The moment a rider enters an Uber and the ride begins the occupants are covered for $1 million until the ride is ended and they exit the vehicle.
Tips are very uncommon, about 5 to 8% of riders tip the driver. (And this was with a 4.96 / 5.0 star rating with over 1500 rides.)
That's not what they were referring to. Maybe you need hearing aids.
When it comes down to it, people like their myths and their stories.
Not making this up, OK?
I come from a family of 8 kids and my dad worked his ass off in the oil patch.
We didn't have money for eye tests.
I could see fine.
At 19 I joined Uncle Sam's Yacht Club and in boot camp they told me, "You can't see fine."
Been wearing glasses ever since.
You misunderstood. It doesn't say that people in those areas don't live long lives, it just says that they aren't as old as they claim due to poor recordkeeping. And also, the UK scientist was recently murdered on Ikaria, did you miss that in the news?: https://www.theguardian.com/wo.... So um, not so "crime free".
You can say the same thing about attaching a GPS tracker to a car.
No, the act of attaching is — or can be argued to be, which is the same thing — (a part of) an actual, physical search. No, if we must have a car-analogy, this is like following your vehicle with a drone — programmed to recognize your car (or its license plate) — on public roads.
Which is no different, legally, from an actual officer following you. Which is perfectly legal and requires no warrants.
Back in the old days there was no such thing as "screen time". Computers were things that occupied huge rooms, cost millions of dollars, and had less computing power and memory than my current watch. I did however read books. A lot. All the time. Far more than a mere 26 hours a week.
I wonder if "excessive book time" is the reason that I developed myopia in my teens?
... have teens spent hours looking at things close up.
I have to agree. I whipped up a side project in Python about 2.5 years ago. It's amazingly broken if I try to run it on what's current today. Granted, a lot of it is the libraries I used, but backwards compatibility just doesn't seem to be a strong point in the Python community.
I'm a bit torn on the Python 2 to 3 transition. The one big thing it fixes is Unicode support, which is a nightmare to handle properly with Python 2. Once again, a lot of it is due to libraries that expect <type 'str'>, but since Python isn't strongly typed, you can pass <type 'unicode'> anyway, and like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. So breaking backwards compatibility to bring in proper Unicode support, I could argue was necessary. On the other hand, a lot of the other stuff was not. It could be argued that the language should have been that way from the start (for example, the print keyword), but it seemed that changing something that didn't really need fixing was more important than backwards compatibility.
One thing that is pretty clear is Python 2 is going to be around for many years to come.
I hated Bixby so much, and was so annoyed by the fact that the only way to turn it off is to log in to it, which is the reason I didn't want it in the first place, that I installed LineageOs on it days after I got it.
There are many upsides to this (such as: I can use the "bixby button" to start the camera, and more importantly, not start Bixby), but one of them is that I did not get any notification about the Galaxy 10 in any way or form.
This is either a good thing, or a very bad sign.
The company did an IPO never earning any money.
It's never made any money.
Uber is the "bitcoin" of the stock market.
It made a few people rich while fleecing a much larger market.
... anyone?
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
