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• Jul 7th, 2009 @ 11:21am

  Re: Re: Re: (as Adept-Slacker)

  on Fact Checking? Reporter Claims It Costs $27 To Use The Pirate Bay

  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.

• Jul 7th, 2009 @ 8:31am

  Re: Re: You now need a license to ride that bike. (as Jessica)

  on If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue

  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.

• Jul 7th, 2009 @ 7:44am

  Re: You now need a license to ride that bike. (as Jessica)

  on If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue

  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...

• Jul 1st, 2009 @ 11:46am

  Re: Is it a gender thing? (as Jessica)

  on Turns Out It's Not Sex Discrimination To Get Fired For Looking At Porn Sites

  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.

• Jun 30th, 2009 @ 2:13pm

  Re: Googles index (as Jessica)

  on Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's 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.