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I'm intrigued by the news on the front page. Cheap, fidgety. I look forward to seeing them in stores.

Uh, I don't think you understood me. He was definitely married. And if you're pointing out that you knew it was an isolated incident... what was the point?

Even granting that Twitter owns the tweets, I'm not convinced the courts would find that assertion enough to prevent the sale. It seems a pretty spurious argument, to me.

Well, it's at least a reminder that Musk doesn't think you own your social media accounts. I'm curious to learn how the courts decide.

A professor I used to work for would buy a new Volvo in Europe every few years, drive it around while he was on his sabbatical over there, then ship it to his home here in the US. Apparently doing so got him a great deal between exchange rates and tax laws qualifying the car as "used" by the...

Depends on what needle you're talking about. Will people "wise up"? Probably not. But people can and will be reliably depended upon to punish incumbants when the economy is bad. So long as voting power is not, itself, taken away (not an assumption I make these days), Ungnome's statement is...

But, again, there's confusion of copyright and trademarks here. Disney will continue to hold a trademark on Mickey Mouse even once every single one of the Mickey Mouse cartoons enters the Public Domain, so long as Disney keeps using the character.

Agreed, but my point is that Hasbro's lawyers "took the chance" on that instance because it was so minimal. They're typically VERY risk-averse.

THAT was probably itself just minimalistic enough to win a "Fair Use" exception if a rightsholder decided to sue.

Trademarks and copyrights are different. Trademarks have to be actively used and/or renewed, or someone else can use the mark (usually a name or logo). Copyrights last a long time without need for attention. Long story short, Hasbro can use RiD concepts, since any relevant trademarks either...

The thing is, it's far more about Hasbro's risk aversion (and time efficiency) than about cost-aversion. Hasbro doesn't want to take the time to look into finding out who owns, and ultimately buy, these characters. If they don't know that they already own them, they're going to just move on. It...

Indeed, he'll simply follow the 2016 and 2020 playbooks, pointing out that he HAD more than 50%, and then Democratic shenanigans (what sane people call "counting all the ballots") happened over a week after the election took place.

Definitely not. If the trend is anti-incumbant, it might even have been worse....

No question: Gavin Newsom is utterly reviled by a lot of people (and not just hyper-conservatives). He'd have the lefist base, but he'd have an uphill battle winning over enough of the rest of the nation to be elected. I don't say it's impossible for 2028, but if he ran this year (especially if...

So far as I know, Musk's kids aren't the problem....

I agreed with the first part of your post, but disagree with these parts. I'm convinced that Kamala's being a woman, despite the very real sexism still present in this country, wasn't much of a factor against her. She lost far more due to the anti-incumbent feelings sweeping the nation (and...

Literally anyone who said that V is the low point of the movies... by definition.

I've already said some things that make known I don't agree here, but I will absolutely say that, when I assert that having opposing viewpoints is still okay (certain people's statements notwithstanding), this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. You're actually engaging the discussion.

You can voice other viewpoints, but if you fail to acknowledge reality, it won't get you anywhere.

All I hear is someone arguing for false equivalences. That's not okay.