Just a heads up, the link to the article from yesterday seems to be to a different domain that just shows a signup page (timestarts.now). Not sure if that's intentional?
I would also like to take this opportunity to blame Tim.
Where were you when all this was going down?
When WoW released those shite expansions and the classic experience was lost, never to be seen again until WoW Classic?
When games were abandoned and left to rot?
When the Westfold fell?
Wait, I think I got of track there with that last one...
The Sheriff’s Office wishes to express its sincere regrets to ... Joan Meyer ... for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion Police Department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record.
Sincere regret, cause she died two days after the raid. Lame.
Here's the thing. If he had yelled police, from what I read (have not watched the video), still nothing those folk did justified deadly force. "Black while standing up" is not a crime.
Maybe people would have acted differently, but their actions did not justify this even if this idiot cop had identified himself as law enforcement.
It's funny to see these guy rally to the defence of the "simple childlike joy of gaming" one second then flip to manufactured hysteria about gaming turning kids into monsters or corrupting them the next.
For example, big-tech pushes its liberal ideology in America while submitting to authoritarian regimes and censoring that same ideology in other countries. Further, those same regimes are provided a platform and rarely face the same censorship shown toward conservatives in the United States.
Pretty black and white: "We aspire to be like those regimes!"
So, I'm just curious what the Steiners actually wrote that provoked this.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's their fault or they deserved this, I would just love to see what must be the most brilliant pieces of biting sarcasm ever produced.
Ebay's behaviour in this, as an org, is fucking disgusting and their claims of "this isn't our corporate culture" ring pretty flat given the sanctioning of this on record.
So the trademark thing is patently ridiculous. The Menards brand communicates "We're like Milorganite", not "We are Milorganite".
I'm sorta surprised they didn't take a more anti-competitive slant to their claim. Menards is obviously leveraging its position as a distributor of fertilizers to encourage users to buy their product. I'm not close enough to anti-competition nuances to know if it's over the line, but it certainly seems closer to it here than the trademark claim of "their lawn fertilizer shows a lawn, just like ours".
Link to prev article seems weird
Just a heads up, the link to the article from yesterday seems to be to a different domain that just shows a signup page (timestarts.now). Not sure if that's intentional?
lolwut
I would also like to take this opportunity to blame Tim. Where were you when all this was going down? When WoW released those shite expansions and the classic experience was lost, never to be seen again until WoW Classic? When games were abandoned and left to rot? When the Westfold fell? Wait, I think I got of track there with that last one...
oops 1 day after, not 2 days.
apologies
Sincere regret
Woosh?
Precatory?
Leopards eat faces?
Why is the leopard eating my face? Why didn't anyone warn me that this starving predator would look at me as food and not a friend?
Maybe?
Here's the thing. If he had yelled police, from what I read (have not watched the video), still nothing those folk did justified deadly force. "Black while standing up" is not a crime. Maybe people would have acted differently, but their actions did not justify this even if this idiot cop had identified himself as law enforcement.
Oh no
Agreed. Now I have to go watch... the Marvels...
Title missing a word?
It's funny to see these guy rally to the defence of the "simple childlike joy of gaming" one second then flip to manufactured hysteria about gaming turning kids into monsters or corrupting them the next.
Techdirt, for all your German plumbing needs.
Aim Higher
What did the Steiners write?
So, I'm just curious what the Steiners actually wrote that provoked this.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's their fault or they deserved this, I would just love to see what must be the most brilliant pieces of biting sarcasm ever produced.
Ebay's behaviour in this, as an org, is fucking disgusting and their claims of "this isn't our corporate culture" ring pretty flat given the sanctioning of this on record.
Typo 7th paragraph
COVID spelt "COIVD" in this case. Appreciate the article as always :).
Anti competitive?
So the trademark thing is patently ridiculous. The Menards brand communicates "We're like Milorganite", not "We are Milorganite".
I'm sorta surprised they didn't take a more anti-competitive slant to their claim. Menards is obviously leveraging its position as a distributor of fertilizers to encourage users to buy their product. I'm not close enough to anti-competition nuances to know if it's over the line, but it certainly seems closer to it here than the trademark claim of "their lawn fertilizer shows a lawn, just like ours".
Moooooo
I bet they make Devin Nunes' Cow pay for this.