Carrying on, sir!
Frankly, this couldn't happen to a nice chap... decide for yourself whether I'm referring to Trump, Murdoch or Epstein. (oh, but would that make me anti-semitic?)
OMG how low the standards of humour must have reached for that nugget of wit (sic!) to get noticed!
What's the odds that Kennedy has an investment in the company? I'd say, given the current regime of adminis-grifters, the odds are significant.
A full refund after 19 years? (because the company didn't support for the full 20) So how does a business make any money for giving you 19 years service? Surely some sort of pro-rating against the purchase date would make more fair sense. Perhaps a full refund after 1 year, degrading to 5% after 20?
Is that a letter incoming from Clare Locke I see. Paging Ms Streisand. Could Ms Streisand come to the front page, please?
"Pravda" had the same problem.
Won't somebody please think of the AI crawlers. If they start using Truth+ as training data, who knows what nightmarish creations they will create. Second thoughts: maybe that would be a feature, not a bug? Make AI models so full of garbage people stop using them?
... someone could translate ECA's posts into English. I often get the feeling that there's something in there, but I'm damned if I can parse it out following the rules of any English variant that I know. Sorry fella / lass. (delete as appropriate because I sure as hell can't tell)
The BBC Verify also looked at this event. They have little to benefit from sugar coating this. I suspect NOAA/FEMA/DOGE/Trump just had a very near miss - their cuts probably had little impact in this event. 2026 hurricane season won't be anywhere near so lucky. However, the use of ExTwitter to 'alert' in Texas is clearly.... suboptimal. That does lie with the penny-pinchers at all levels of emergency planning.
Seems, on the basis of November 2024, that we can't even trust the Democrats to competently run an election campaign for a dyed in the wool democrat. Don't vote for any of them, it just encourages them! /s
Tell me you never read the book without telling me you never read the book, Senator Hensley!
Spray paint a pig of a phone with goldish paint somewhere in deepest darkest Florida and suddenly you've got a phone 'made in America' as far as the average MAGA is able to tell. Add a $47.45 per month charge for a service that costs pennies to actually run, and you're in the money!! Perfect GOP grift. Now the Donald just needs to find a Faux News talking head to promote it, then become the CEO of the 'Trump Network'... where Truth (anti-)Social is the only social media app you'll ever need.
I wasn't thinking of car sales, as Disney don't sell cars and therefore shouldn't have a trademark on selling VWs. But I wouldn't recommend selling a movie nor a toy car (merch., if you prefer) with a white VW, numbered 53, with the appropriate styling, because Disney's lawyers need fed and watered with your body and blood.
Why did the commanding officers of these troups of troops carry out these clearly illegal orders? That's their single defence against tyranny (short of mutiny) - they can refuse to follow illegal orders. Oh wait, they're as inculcated in the 'brown = subhuman' cult as the next MAGA twat. (At least, that's what the evidence shows so far)
Sorry, when the alternative is Trump 2.0, knowing what he did in 1.0, and what he & his supporters said on the campaign trail about what they would do this time, not voting for Harris was idiotic and delusional... and I'm being charitable. Sometimes the lesser of two 'evils' is clearly far better for the country than the orange demon YOU HAVE let in now.
I wonder if Herbie, the white VW Beetle with the red & blue strips and the number 53 decal might be a better counter example of a car that is a character that should be copyrightable in the context of somewhat comedic films featuring a sentient racing car. As others have stated, the Batmobile far too varied to justify the copyrighting. Though trademarking of a specific iteration/expression is entirely logical.
It is time for every business, every national government, every educational establishment, every research council or laboratory outside of the USA to say, "You know that meeting/deal/partnership/relationship/conference/show you're planning in Las Vegas/Chicago/New York/Detroit/Bum-fuck, Alabama? Nah. We'll give it a miss." Sorry, not sorry. Electorates get the elected politicians they elected. The rest of us can just leave y'all to it. But if you want out, just give us a call.
Get my father (born in 1945) into an argument and you'll see the autist in him staring right back. It's somewhat toned down in me (born by 1970) .. I'm the one that got all the vaccines available throughout my childhood, so clearly vaccines also prevent autism.
Ultimately it's not the payment processors (JP Morgan Chase, Worldpay, Stripe, PayPal, etc) who're the problem. It's Visa and Mastercard (and to a lesser extent Amex) who really call the shots. And they pull the puppet-strings of the processors. If Visa and Mastercard and Amex networks won't take your requests for payment, you won't be doing business with credit cards (or debit cards) at all, regardless of what the intermediate card processors say.