Parodies of the atrocious Wharton offerings during the pandemic referred to the overall effort as "Whoreton." Some would say it's destruction not dilution.
The contract reporters are also personally liable for what they submit. So there is absolutely zero incentive to risk going deep on a topic, let alone investigate anything.
"In 2006, Plummer's SoftwareOnline.com company was sued by The Washington State Attorney General’s Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called Registry Cleaner and InternetShield"
People at this site are notoriously anti-Windows. We love to talk about dark patterns. Those products were total bullshit built to scare people, leveraging knowledge of Windows internals garnered as a junior programmer who ported code that drew fonts and lines on the screen. And now he's overstating even that.
So those people were the forefathers of modern computing.
(Android: "If you don't install updates, you will lose the right to make legal claims." "For your security, turn on Play protect to check apps outside of Play Store")
Somewhere deep inside the bowels of this site there's a text file that makes things gently disappear. And I can't wait for "gut flora" to become a key value pair there.
My non-lawyer understanding is that trademarks are pretty narrowly scoped; a database company and a Linux distro seem unlikely to be confused. So this is an excellent point, but maybe not the way you meant.
Trademarks are monitored by prepaid, cocksure corporate attorneys who generate expensive-to-respond-to paper ultimately subject to the whims of judges and juries.
It's often best to avoid a crowded space. Coconut and Swimwear/pajama vendors? Sure. Multi-billion dollar SaaS that hosts conferences? Maybe don't give them a reason to notice you.
I've learned that posts with this kind of tone are often motivated solely for the benefit of the writer, not the reader.
Spend some time with addicts and the ones who choose to share advice instead of personal experience are often a long way from healing because they haven't built the courage to look inside themselves yet. They speak this way because they're scared.
She's obviously working through some things.
A private journal might work better than a public one, because then she could delve into many of the topics she went light on: her sexuality, her relationship with her therapist, her self-image.
Yet another thing she may be addicted to? Attention.
Talk therapy works for many types of disorders. Group therapy scales some but not all. Because certain personality disorders manifest as everyone in the group trying to one up each other.
There are huge swaths of blog and Facebook culture (and even academic publishing) that enable this. Best to avoid participating.
True, but the judge's conclusion was "Even full enforcement of a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio . . . would not excuse IA’s reproduction of the Works in Suit." So even if they had done it right, this wouldn't have gone their way.
The books are still there, and if you're disabled you can even read them. They don't delete anything, even when they say they do. They "dark" it and let it sit, waiting for changes in the law, or for it to fall out of copyright, or some admin on an information-wants-to-be-free bender to push a button assuming nobody will notice.
