tdhoot's comments

On: Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)

[tdhoot]

I wouldn't be so sure. Jack Daniels sued (and won) against a maker of dog toys that looked like Jack Daniels but were named "Bad Spaniels". Turns out trademark law actually is complex.

https://www.today.com/food/news/jack-daniels-dog-toy-supreme...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Daniel%27s_Properties,_In...

Jack Daniels won because the maker of the dog toys were selling them, and wanted a trademark themselves.

Here we're talking about activists making non-commercial parody usage; the EFF's letter already mentions the Lanham Act, and let us add to that the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Dilution_Revision_Ac...) which adds an express fair-use defense for noncommercial use.

On: DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

[tdhoot]

That's one of the arguments being made by TikTok in their challenge against the "TikTok ban" bill.

On: Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)

[tdhoot]

Nominative Determinisn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

On: Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)

[tdhoot]

Interac is also a for-profit corporation. It's just owned by an association of banks. Zelle would be the equivalent in the US.

On: Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector

[tdhoot]

When did Powell try and raise rates early in the pandemic? You might have your timelines confused, it was well before the pandemic.

On: MSFT Q2/2023 Earnings Release

[tdhoot]

Activision purchase hasn't closed yet.

On: RxPass from Amazon Pharmacy, a $5 prescription subscription

[tdhoot]

$0 with insurance maybe. This is $5 for all your medications, shipped, without insurance necessary. Seems like a pretty good deal IMO, esp. if you're taking multiple medications.

On: World’s only sleeping bank website

[tdhoot]

It's only $250K per account category per bank. So 5 savings accounts would only get $250K in coverage in total.

On: EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

[tdhoot]

It's not that trivial to track down.

Say a US company's French subsidiary sold something for $10 in France. If the software is developed in the US, then the US company will sell it to the French subsidiary for $9, so then they only have pay profits on $1 in France. Then in the US, they will say they paid $3 in costs and sold the software to their French counterpart for $9, booking $6 of profits in the US at a lower rate.

On: Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity

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Only once, not for every phone. So if you get it once, buying another phone won't renew it. And now it's only 3 months.