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It?s been months and we still don?t know.
The best special interest hasn't been determined yet.
They're still waiting for a significant enough "donation" to determine that.
Soon.
It just *seems* like it's been months, you know ....
Austin, TX is chosen to get Google Fiber next, after Kansas City
My Cali tech buddies are perplexed as to why they haven?t chosen a California city yet. Actual quote in response to the linking of this article on FB: ?So lame that it hasn?t been made available in any worthwhile city or state.?
The elitist mentality of your average Californian cannot be overstated.
Apparently AT&T announced a "nice monopoly you got there, shame if someone else was to come in and force us to both lose money" plan for Austin as well. Not clear if they mean it or are trying to make the ROI calculations look bad for future Google expansions.
I like Google Fiber, good for the digestion.
"Fiber net" sounds like internet for old people.
Don't forget to run your Norton Prune Scan daily!
Small business owners are pessimistic about the state of the economy and aren?t hiring right now.
Is pessimistic the same as racist? I think it is.
Police arrested a man for pulling out a BB gun as President Barack Obama?s motorcade passed nearby in Connecticut following a speech on gun control.
For all he knows, it could have been a fully automatic BB gun!
Have you seen the magazine capacity on those things?!?
I've got one that holds like 500 rounds. Of course, you have to remember exactly the right angle to hold the thing at and just the right way to shake it to load each one. But I could kill 500 extremely patient squirrels with it.
The Republicans have been blocking numerous bills that would have prevented this.
At least it wasn't a paint gun. That would have been racist.
Or a bubble gun. That would have been gay.
"You'll shoot yer eye out kid!"
No one is allowed to be armed in the presence of the king.
Fox shuts down anyone selling a Jayne hat
Well it's true that if a man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything. Including Fox.
As to whether you can copyright a simply patterned hat, that argument is ongoing.
As a knitter looking at a picture of that hat, I'm going to have to say the answer should definitely be "hells no."
The obvious answer will be to just arrest anyone wearing an orange knit cap with ear flaps.
That's pretty much what you'd have to do.
They can have my Jayne hat when they pry it from my around my cold dead ears.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT NICOLE BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT ARRGGHHHHHHH
I just read an article about how part of the thing is it's supposed to be handmade with love and that jazz. AS A KNITTER I UNDERSTAND THIS. There is love in every stitch, yo!
Artisanal knit caps, of course.
Did your knit posing pouch come out unflattering or something?
Why do I need to be discouraged from knitting? WTF?
He had a bad assault needle experience.
You can't actually make things out of jizz, Nicole. It's too liquidy.
Let it firm up a bit. Think Jello. Be patient.
You need to watch more South Park.
You mean you can't make a sports drink out of it?
No cumboxes allowed at homeschool, Auric.
But they let me use reddit at work!
If you'd rather go to work than homeschool, I think I can still fill up my classes. I mean, fulfill my collective responsibility.
A pattern on the hat might be copyrightable, but the design probably wouldn't be, this being apparel.
People copy famous designers all the time. There is no IP protection for apparel design. As you say, a printed pattern and set of instruction would be copyrightable, but the design of the hat cannot be protected.
You can make a purse that looks exactly like a Gucci purse and sell it. You just can't call it a Gucci purse, because it isn't one.
Well, let's not get hasty. First, you could run afoul of trade dress. Ripping off the Coach pattern would get you there, for instance.
Second, there's also such a thing as design patents, which exist on any number of fashion products. A good example is Cartier, which gets design patents on watches.
The design patent has to be attached to some functional element, but that's not that hard to do.
They can make and sell hats like that, they just can't call them Firefly hats or Jayne Cobb hats because both of those names are trademarked.
If that's where they're going, and they aren't asserting rights to the pattern, then they're on firmer footing.
Why not call it a "Jayne-style" cap?
You could get a license from Adam Baldwin and call it an Adam Baldwin-style hat.
Howbout calling it a "definitely-not-a-Firefly-Jayne" hat. Would that be OK?
Alright! I'll watch it already, sheesh!
You know who else tried to control people wearing funny knit caps?
Alright Pro Lib, we're going to have to change the color for the sequel.
Fuck that. We'll license it or use slightly different Pantone colors.
Blather, Rinse, Repeat
Obama perseverates again. Meanwhile, cops don't think much of his antigun ideas.
The guys at CBS News have a sense of humor. The Web headline on their story about President Obama's antigun speech yesterday in Hartford, Conn., reads: "Obama on Gun Debate: 'This Isn't About Me.' " That reminded someone on Twitter of the same network's headline from July 20, 2009: "Obama on Health Care: 'This Isn't About Me.' "
Try to imagine how soul-ravishingly tedious an Obama speech would be if it wereabout him. We dare you.
Obama's speech, at once demagogic and pathetic, reminded us of Mayor Michael Nutter's efforts to censor a different kind of magazine, which we noted last month. Like Nutter, Obama is seeking to restrain law-abiding individuals from exercising their constitutional rights in ways the liberal left disapproves. And like Nutter's effort, Obama's is unlikely to succeed.
Here's an example of the president's demagogy:
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....TopOpinion
"You would think that with those numbers Congress would rush to make this happen. That's what you would think. If our democracy is working the way it's supposed to, and 90% of the American people agree on something, in the wake of a tragedy you'd think this would not be a heavy lift."
Fuck you asshole. My rights are not up for a majority vote. AND THIS ISN'T A FUCKING DEMOCRACY!
Shodan: the scariest search engine on the internet
I was wondering whether the name was a weird coincidence, but apparently not.
The Florida legislature is pondering a bill prohibiting the sale of bongs...
Yes, marijuana decriminalization is right around the corner alright.
It's the powerful rolling papers and blunts lobby.
Has anyone pointed out to the FL legislature how one can easily improvise a water pipe with materials found in Home Depot, for instance? I mean, they SHOULDN'T, of course, because that would be illegal.
A friend of mine in college claimed that he knew a guy in high school who had supposedly made a bong out of a bible. Not sure how much truth there was in that story, but you know they say you can make a bong out of anything...
A friend of mine used to troll an intersection with a busy Starbucks by purchasing one and smoking flavored tobacco in it.
The manager called the cops every time he did it. They stopped coming after the first time. It took a lengthy conversation with their superior officer for them to arrive at the conclusion and admit "Sorry, there's nothing we can do about it."
Eh. The dude sponsoring it is a former crackhead. I can't tell whether he wants them to go out of business because they ripped him off while he was high or if he really believes that he wouldn't have become a crackhead without bongs and pipes.
Former drug-abusing politicians deserve to be discretely murdered by Kevin Spacey, left passed out drunk in a running auto inside a closed garage.
Wait. Who in their right mind elects a former crackhead? I mean, I get that most politicians are insanely venal and usually dumb, but crackhead?
Yes, that's true. But they're crazy even by Florida standards.
I wouldn't put it past people in Florida.
I might argue, except that, apparently, some of my co-wackos have, in fact, elected a crackhead.
Former Tenn. Lawmaker Allegedly Drove 90 MPH While Masturbating Out Window
I suppose with cruise control it would technically be possible to drive and stick your penis out the window at the same time without having a garden hose down there, but I suspect there's some exaggeration going on here.
Like a midget at a urinal, he had to stay on his toes.
Maybe the complaining witnesses were one-eyed, and their lack of depth perception made them misjudge his one-eyed snake.
"...I wouldn't look over any more, and I wrote his tag number down on my hand, which I believe he noticed, and he exited very quickly," Street said.
"Exited very quickly" is a euphemism, right? Women transcribing things brings his autoeroticism to fruition?
Former? I say give him his job back!
Why wouldn't there be a picture of this fellow so we could judge appropriately.
Hmm. Somehow I thought he'd have more bugs in his teeth.
His TEETH weren't out the window.
He may or may not have flies on his fly.
I want to know: Democrat or Republican? Somehow I suspect that if he was a Republican, it would have been in the headline.
Blakely was investigated on similar charges more than two years ago when he was still in office. Recalling dozens of complaints in recent years, Terry Christian, a Kingsport detective, told WJHL that Blakely's behavior has gone on "for so long an (sic) nobody's addressed it."
maybe everyone just figured he'd kill himself in a high-speed wreck.
At least 14 wounded in stabbing spree at Texas community college.
Time to ban assault knives?
If they guy was getting stabby because he was denied a gun permit, then I think we can chalk this up to the system working.
Steak Knife is a meaningless term.
But are college campuses in Texas gun free zones?
Sorta. You can't carry in a building or a portion of a building, but the grounds and parking lots are okay with some exceptions for sporting events.
Lone Star had another campus where two dudes made shooty on each other. Glad my pops GTFO of the LSCC system before it was the LSCC (he never worked at either violent campus. CyFair campus didn't exist.)
The shooty one was North Houston (near the Big Bush (IAH)). The stabby one is up 290.
Yep. And my pops was at the one on 242 back when it was MoCo of the NHMCCD. I know where they are.
The suspect, who witnesses say is a white male who has been seen on campus carrying a stuffed animal, reportedly ... used an X-ACTO knife
Details matter here. What *kind* of stuffed animal?
You know, deep down in your heart, it was Pinkie Pie.
In the ER, any adult showing up carrying their own stuffed animal is known automatically to have Borderline Personality Disorder. Something the DSM won't tell you.
You don't think knife restrictions are coming next? See Great Britian for that.
Why does anyone *need* more than one kitchen knife?
There already are restrictions on what knives you can carry in most states. I'm proud to be in a state that just removed all restrictions on bladed weapons. In NH, you can carry a switchblade, a dagger or a damn sword if you want to.
Still, try walking the down street with a katana strapped to your back and see how long it takes for someone to call the cops.
In Texas, that'll get you arrested, as will carrying a spear. But carrying a rifle is perfectly legal!
Don't ask me, I just live here.
I didn't know that.
I'm totally petitioning to get all bladed weapons allowed to be carried in public. I want to walk around with a sword damn it.
Anyone optimistic about this economy absent major reforms to government spending is either half out of their mind or hoping for collapse.
Does hope count as optimism or wishing?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/tre....._link.html
Shreek now has his own video blog over at Slate.
I am deflated over today's Chamipons League results
/no spoiler
Without spoilers can you tell me which of the two games I should watch? I probably don't have time for both.
Good choice. I thank you for the recommendation and the lack of spoilers.
http://popchassid.com/photos-holocaust-narrative/
The picture of the beautiful young woman being liberated is stunning. And the one of the old lady whacking the skin head is ten shades of awesome.
Those pictures are amazing. The skydiving Holocaust survivor is great.
i like the survivor with the rifle w/ bayonet moving the Nazi
There's an awesome video (too lazy to look it up) of Jews dancing at the gates of Auchwitz. Very Mel Brooks.
What is this I don't even
Maine's Marine Patrol has cited a New Hampshire man for having tens of thousands of dollars' worth of baby eels without a license in what's being called the biggest case of illegal eel possession in the history of the fishery.
What gave him away was his hovercraft showed an obvious imbalance due to sloshing.
They're opening a can of worms...
Does the article list a street value?
The trouble with eel investments is you can find yourself underwater pretty fast.
They are a slippery lot, I tell ya what.
Electric eels were doing great things for my portfolio until the negative demand shock.
You should have tried shorting them.
Try getting your hands on some of the more exotic eel investment products. You'll be shocked!
People pay a lot for baby eels in Europe.
But they have it right when it comes to things like transfats and soda. Trust them.
The science is settled! Until it isn't!
Yeah, no fucking shit. When I was a kid I never heard of peanut allregies or gluten intolerance. Now if you bring normal food to a potluck you have to put a fucking biohazard sign in it.
I was on a fight last week where they didn't serve peanuts, as someone on the flight had a severe allergy. WTF?
I haven't seen peanuts as an option on a flight in many years.
I've had them on Delta in the past few years. I'm pretty sure they're still given out on all my Delta Shuttle flights but I always pretend to be asleep when the flight attendants are coming around because I don't want anything anyway.
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