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  • On the post: Fact Checking? Reporter Claims It Costs $27 To Use The Pirate Bay

    Adept-Slacker ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2009 @ 11:21am

    Re: Re: Re:

    I fail to see how I'm profiting off TPB (or doing anything criminal) by downloading open source software or public domain materials. The only benefit to me is increased download speed versus other sources. Your reality and mine are obviously different.

  • On the post: If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue

    Adept-Slacker ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2009 @ 08:31am

    Re: Re: You now need a license to ride that bike.

    Er, I mean to say 'Mike probably means', not 'they'. Anyway, I bet he's right and the trademark lawyers would try to go after them for that, no matter how silly.

  • On the post: If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue

    Adept-Slacker ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2009 @ 07:44am

    Re: You now need a license to ride that bike.

    Now, the trademark lawyers will rush to say that a company such as Pez needs to defend its trademark, lest it become generic.

    Huh?
    The interwebs are reporting that Pez has been around since 1927. How can it become more recognizable?


    I assume they mean generic in the way people refer to any brand of adhesive bandages as a 'Band-Aid' or say 'Xerox' for any copier. That just seems silly to me. Pez doesn't exactly have so many imitators that the name would become a universal term...

  • On the post: Turns Out It's Not Sex Discrimination To Get Fired For Looking At Porn Sites

    Adept-Slacker ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2009 @ 11:46am

    Re: Is it a gender thing?

    Who thinks women don't surf porn? Wanna know why? They aren't so dumb as to do it at WORK - just a guess mind you.
    You have guessed correctly, sir.

  • On the post: Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index

    Adept-Slacker ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2009 @ 02:13pm

    Re: Googles index

    If Google were the one-and-only way to access content, I suppose I'd be concerned about my freedoms. But there are many ways to access sites, be it competing search engines, typing in an address directly, finding a link in someone other person's page, etc. Google is only removing access via their search, not controlling the entire internet. If they censor/remove links, that's their right.