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TwiceHorn

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  1. Fify.
  2. Wait, I thought no more wars. Not gonna be good for that Noble Piece Prize.
  3. This will be something of a test of the chain of command. JAG provides both prosecutors and defense lawyers and you can be relatively certain that the regular chain of command of the defendant has a strong preference for one or the other, usually prosecution, in the average case. But the opposing counsel suffers no adverse consequences for representing the disfavored side and/or obtaining a disfavored result. As immigration judges, they'll be temporarily under civilian command and if they produce disfavored results simply returned to military duty. The question then becomes whether supervising JAG officers will extend any sanctions or career consequences at the behest of the civilians. So a little petri dish microcosm of what Trump is really doing to the military. And, of course, it is beyond fucked up that the government is enlisting military lawyers to accomplish civilian goals, however legitimate or illegitimate they are.
  4. Well, that was a lost opportunity. Push him hard as either being completely full of shit or obligated to produce the informant materials.
  5. Yeah, agree this week he looked more like a young QB. I was watching Bryce Underwood yesterday pretty hard and he looked worse. Granted, he's younger than Arch, but still in his first year of starting. And I don't think blOwU is the equivalent of tOSU. And, it's probably unfair and unrealistic to judge the other skill players this early with a new QB. I won't say I have no concerns, but I think they probably resolve pretty well by the end of the season.
  6. As a long time watcher, its usually the passing that makes the setting shitty, rather than the setting being shitty itself. Poor Chloe, among others.
  7. Not defending the Congressional abdication here, but not even SCOTUS could uphold that. the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
  8. Possibly more bizarre is that the pic on the left is from 2023, pre-bastard child, while that on the right is from 2025, her "official portrait." She can't figure out whether she's Trump's wholesome whore or just a general-purpose whore.
  9. givesendgo, imo. Although I think her haircut might well put her on the wrong (or right, really left, as it were) team.
  10. Yeah, when a Supplemental registration comes up for the five year "renewal," it's about as cheap to go ahead and re-apply to the Principal and use the five-year presumption to get the full Principal registration.
  11. At the very least, the pissed-off and heavily armed recovering Republicans that infest this site are gonna get super serious.
  12. Bingo! This is the key takeaway about registering a trademark. When I have a new client that wants to register, I ask them or explain to them why they might want to register a trademark. The "school solution" answer is that it makes it much easier to assert or sue over. But the real answer, for most small businesses, is the "defensive aspect" of the registration. As long as you remain registered no one else is going to register a similar mark on similar goods and make your life an expensive pain in the ass. You can even put a mark that's rejected as descriptive on the "Supplemental Register," and it lacks some of the "offensive" characteristics of a registration, but fully serves the defensive purpose. The problem here for Sydney is that he never seemed to regard this phrase or term as a trademark and doesn't think anyone else should either, and therefore never would have considered registering. And without knowing the specifics but reckoning from the description, he may be right. And yeah, the financial disparity often governs this type of dispute. But, because they have in-house counsel doing it, there's a chance they're just being blindly aggressive and a pretty firm and credible response will deter them from further action.
  13. Being Caucasian?
  14. TwiceHorn

    Florida Gators

    *tracks
  15. Knowing you're not alone is big. You can get into a frame of mind, that I tend to associate also with gratitude, in which you remind yourself that other people are dealing with the same and worse on the daily and sort of bootstrap your way into that reminder that you're not alone.
  16. One of the things that kind of sucks is that sometimes you can talk a trademark examining attorney into withdrawing a descriptiveness rejection based on "analysis of the words" when in the real world, it's recognized as a descriptive term. Their being able to search the internet has cut that down quite a bit because they can see how words are really used. The other thing is that in most cases, the PTO will accept a sworn allegation that you've been using the mark for five years substantially exclusively as proof of secondary meaning or acquired distinctiveness and issue the registration. Acquired distinctiveness is a real thing and happens, but in my opinion, five years use is not long enough to establish it absent proof of heavy or at least pretty consistent promotion. And that registration shifts the burden of proof on acquired distinctiveness onto the putative infringer. And that's like proving a negative, muy dificil, amigos.
  17. But does he roll on Shomer Shabbos? ETA: something I should have known but had to look up, Shomer Shabbos refers to observance of the Jewish Sabbath beginning at dusk on Friday and ending at dusk on Saturday. So the answer is yes, yes he does roll on Shomer Shabbos.
  18. Kickers notwithstanding, it seemed our ST improved a bit when Banks first showed up. They've been nothing special since and seem to have pretty routine brain farts.
  19. Would Preacher Mark sue the Trump administration? I honestly don't know where he comes out on this. Immunity will be a problem regardless.
  20. What you are driving at is known in the trademark law as "descriptiveness," in which the alleged trademark describes a quality or characteristic of the goods or services to which the mark is applied. "Geographic descriptiveness" is a species of descriptiveness, in which the geographic origin is described. Extreme descriptiveness is genericness. The difference can be elusive, but the best way I know to say it is that a generic mark is the or a "dictionary definition" of the goods or services. The distinction is important because generic terms can never be protected (at common law) or registered as trademarks. Descriptive trademarks can become protectable by "secondary meaning" or "acquired distinctiveness," such that by long exclusive use and/or promotion of the mark and goods/services, the mark acquires secondary meaning or the ability to distinguish goods and their sellers. Unfortunately for Sydney, the USPTO apparently has already registered the trademark, meaning they concluded that it was neither descriptive nor generic, or if it was descriptive, that it had acquired distinctiveness. A mark can become generic through unrestrained use, as was the case with "thermos." But proving that is the case is difficult. It's the kind of defense a trademark owner will make you prove at trial, it's that difficult.
  21. Probably afraid of being truthed or a boycott. In some sense, can't blame them.
  22. Or he got busted abusing small animals and asked to leave.
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