I think that this is firmly in the “for worse” column. I can use Google Maps and a phone call or browsing a restaurant’s menu on a website to accomplish much the same thing
If it takes a little bit of AI for the search engine to answer the question of what restaurants have empanadas, that seems like a good use of it. Phoning a bunch of restaurants not only chews up their employee time if anyone answers, but it also chews up more of my time.
Yes, if the menus are on line in some sort of usable form, rather than as images, I could probably go through them. That still takes more time than having some sort of robot answer the question.
I am not looking for creativity here. I am trying to find lunch. It seems that some sort of primitive AI might actually help in this endeavor. Compare cooking lunch, which I would prefer not to leave to the AI.
Larry and David Ellison are very obviously trying to buy up the dying remnants of U.S. corporate media (plus TikTok) in the hopes of creating yet another Fox-esque right wing propaganda mill. But again, there’s no real evidence there’s an actual audience here.
I th8ink there is an audience there. Not only is Faux News still around, but it has company in the forms of all those entities willing to sign the Pentagon Power Pledge to be allowed in parts of the building.
Stock buyers may want to look into Reynolds, because the tinfoil hat industry is sure to benefit from all this ``news'' reporting.
"To that end, the data controller must consider in particular all technical measures available in the current state of technical knowledge that are apt to block the copying and reproduction of online content.”
Consider, if you will, a web browser. Its job is to obtain a copy of the online content and reproduce it on your screen.
Democrats need to hammer this home in the coming elections. This is the most important thing to voters
It would help if they replaced the people in charge.
Right now the party is led by gutless wonders and the sort of crazy people who expect that, if do the same thing over again you will have different results.
The electorate may be ready for change, but that is not what the Dems are currently selling. Indeed, they fight it. Look at how they came out in NY to oppose a democratic socialist candidate who actually won their primary.
Discovery would have been interesting. If someone who was sued by Trump were to answer instead of moving to dismiss, they could move on to discovery as to Trump business dealings and how they were affected by the claimed defamation.
Do it in state court if possible, that way you might get a useful offer-of-judgment rule.
I don’t see anything in the Constitution of Texas that requires the Attorney General to be an actual licensed attorney
There may not be anything affecting his office holding.
None the less, sanctions for filing bogus claims may be appropirate if only as a warning to other Texas attorneys that they should be more careful in the future.
So the taxpayers in that county get to pay the damages?
Right. It seems appropriate that the voters who put those thugs into place get to pay the price for their choice.
There is, however, the other side of the question. Between the victims of the thuggery who had their homes and livelihoods invaded or damaged, and the government which did the invasion, I should think the government better able to pay the price. Government may raise taxes and spread the burden. The individual victims do not have that option.
Ultimately, then, it is a question of where the burden should fall. Either it falls on the individual victims, or it falls on all the taxpayers who put the thugs in place.
founded on the belief that “all men are created equal.”
The belief was actually that all white land-owning men of a certain age are created equal. The whiteness and landedness were presumed at the time such that there was no need to expressly state it.
There were some later amendments to allow some non-whites (obviously not to include Chinamen) to vote. Also, over time, they wound up allowing women, and persons not yet old enough to buy alcohol, to vote.
That is a shame. My keyboard has long had an [F1] key. Indeed, even before I got these keyboards, there were [F1] keys on what I did have.
Someone better tell IBM to stop using that mark on the key caps.
Call your restaurant or food, accurately or not, whatever you want.
Like I said, I'm not sure she should actually win. But she has at least a colorable argument. She built up the fame of this term where no one else was using it, even publishing some sort of material related to the restaurant, and now someone is using it as a book title.
I would be sore, too. A good trademark lawyer might tell her not to waste money suing, but there is a legitimate beef. And it may be that the trademark ought to be canceled, leaving her restaurant with its existing name, and its customers still knowing where to find it.
Even combinations of English words can be trademarks. Rapid Gator party rentals might be largely descriptive, they are prompt to deliver for pool parties and to take back on Monday morning, perfect for unwanted kids. The Steak-n-Shake chain uses descriptive terms and gets away with it. I'd expect that they could have used the Albanian terms and also gotten a trade-mark, despite it being descriptive and somewhat generic.
Which brings us back to the lady and her "Sabzi". It took on secondary meaning in her area. She developed that meaning. I am not sure she should win, but she does have a fair beef.
Trump acts as though he is a Russian asset.
It may be time to go back and review the terms left over from the McCarthy era.
* useful idiot
* fellow traveller
* asset
Indeed "Sabzi" may be the name of some foods, in a language which is not English. Nothing wrong with that. They speak a sort of English in the UK, and I imagine that "Sabzi" is not a word in the local vocabulary.
A restaurant has used that term as its name, and is publishing recipes under that name. The name looks somewhat arbitrary to a non-Persian speaker. In other words, pretty nearly ideal for a trademark.
She has a fair beef that someone is camping on the name. Maybe if the term becomes known for its meaning of spices or food it will suffer genericide. But for now, she has a beef. Not sure she should win, but I cannot dismiss it as being in the same league as "Pho", which is a term well known to English speakers to refer to a particular type of Vietnamese food.
why do we have debt ceiling process in the first place? The money has already been budgeted and contracts were signed based on the budget
The debt ceiling is intended to slow down the growth of the Federal debt. There, answered an irrelevant question.
The shutdown is not a result of a debt ceiling. The problem is that there is no budget, so in fact no ``money has already been budgeted''. Until they pass a budget, or at least a continuing resolution, there is no identied source of funds.
It is also true that the budget process may be largely a series of empty gestures. Congress can pass laws specifying spending but we have seen the executive determine not to see that those laws are faithfully executed.
If reddit doesn’t want you to scrape, but you get it from Google (who is allowed to scrape), that doesn’t suddenly make it ok.
If it does not make it OK, then something is seriously wrong. That would allow reddit to control the speech of third parties, such as Google or Bung.
The same rule would apply to newspapers. If the Daily Stormer does not want me to have and share certain information about GOP activites, but the Daily Worker finds out and gives it to me, why should I not have the information from the one who wants to share?
I would need a really convincing reason before I would grant reddit, or the Daily Stormer, control over the speech of other potential speakers.
It might be nice if they told us what was in the kit. Or if the linked page told us what was in the kit. By that I mean more than just saying how many pieces are in there.
Come, let us reason together. First step, consider what was actually done. Gunman shot at van full of detained darker-complected people.
Normally, that would suggest that he was seeking to injure the darker-complected people in the van. That is, if we assume that injury is intended to be suffered by those shot at. I think that a relatively uncontroversial assumption.
I suppose he could have aimed through the front windows if he had wanted to hit the operators of the van. That is speculation. He did not shoot where ICE goons were, he shot where the darker-complected people were.
The theory that he actually intended to injure ICE goons is supported only by the flimsiest of (not actually visible to public) evidence. Is he anti-ICE because he is shooting rather than shipping? He is not in a position to explain his motives at this point. We are therefore remitted to looking at the acts, which acts were firing shots where darker-complected, restrained detainees should be expected to be.
Rather than speculate that he intended a result other than what should be expected from his actions, I think it simpler to posit that he acted intentionally.
one of the few actual uses
there is an audience
this may present a challenge
backbones on sale in aisle six
fun fun fun until daddy takes the t-bird away
a caution to the others
who pays
good question
declaration of independence
time for a new keyboard
modernizing the executive
fairly common
stll not convinced
doing a good job, too
not convinced
Indeed "Sabzi" may be the name of some foods, in a language which is not English. Nothing wrong with that. They speak a sort of English in the UK, and I imagine that "Sabzi" is not a word in the local vocabulary. A restaurant has used that term as its name, and is publishing recipes under that name. The name looks somewhat arbitrary to a non-Persian speaker. In other words, pretty nearly ideal for a trademark. She has a fair beef that someone is camping on the name. Maybe if the term becomes known for its meaning of spices or food it will suffer genericide. But for now, she has a beef. Not sure she should win, but I cannot dismiss it as being in the same league as "Pho", which is a term well known to English speakers to refer to a particular type of Vietnamese food.
who arrests for contempt
identifying the wrong problem
who says
what would be neat
It might be nice if they told us what was in the kit. Or if the linked page told us what was in the kit. By that I mean more than just saying how many pieces are in there.
let us be more specific