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Kelly

@ Kelly @lemmy.world

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  • How often do guys have a haircut?

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  • Around 8 times a year.

    I take my son to the barber and we have a haircut together.

    If it was just myself I wouldn't notice when my hair was long but I can see it on him so I know when its time.

  • Why is the public domain (in terms of intellectual property) useful?

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  • If you call yourself the Burger King in your kitchen, there's no trademark infringement there. However, if you start selling you food and calling yourself the Burger King, then that is a trademark violation. If you want to write Twilight fan fiction using the characters and story lines from the books, you're free to do so. There is no copyright violation. However, if you want to profit from your expansions to another author's work, you have to rename the characters and setting and call it "Fifty shades of grey".

    I believe in must jurisdictions its the distribution that makes it an issue not the selling. If you started handing out your "Burger King" burgers in a public place I would expect to be shut down.

  • Are color palettes subject to copyright protection?

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  • Its Trademark Law in Australia.

    For example Cadbury has a trademark protecting its purple (defined as pantone 2685C) from competitors in the chocolate industry. On the other hand Whiskas has one protecting its purple (defined as CMYK {40% C, 100% M) from competitors in the cat food industry.

    Because its trademark law both only cover their specific industries (so purple would be fair game for a business in another field), but despite the precise definitions used for the colours they would be able to argue that a competitor using a similar purple could cause confusion in consumers, (so they effectively block out an area of the color spectrum).

  • Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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  • I don't think the maths checks out

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    at the plasma donation place, one of the screening questions is "have you had a condition with scab formation?" - like, a superficial cut, or a mosquito bite?

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  • a condition with scab formation?

    Ask them if unsure but my guess is they mean conditions like Haemophilia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia

    Also don't rely on their screening. I believe the test a performed on bundles of donations for efficiency and a bad donation may cause the others in that bundle to be discarded too.

  • Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?

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  • A direct boycott of Amazon and its subsidiaries? Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

    But boycotting services that happen to use Amazon? Impossible!

    Any business may use products ordered from there. Your local toll gate may use AWS. Unless you are a major client nobody is going to let you audit their supply contracts.

  • Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow, someone who would never build for you?

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  • That's the whole gene vs meme concept.

    The same principal applies in that people who come after you can receive your ideas.

  • Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?

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  • You mean Fahrenheit right?

  • Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?

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  • So... How often do you have to change the filter?

  • A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire

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  • It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

    For anyone already using using these services its also included in both Game Pass and PS+ Extra at the moment.

  • GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke".

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  • Weird sales pitch. I'm not sure who he is trying to appeal to here?

  • Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" server so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?

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  • Phone numbers are a "legacy system" if they were designed today they would be different.

  • How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal

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  • Do you have a link to the archived screenshot?

  • What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?

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  • Mobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don't get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even a couple of seconds.

    Its the worst of both worlds.

  • Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian

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  • chips

    Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them "chips", and call them "crisps" instead:

    The product was originally known as Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato "chip" since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the phrase: "potato chips made from dried potatoes". Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato "crisps", instead of chips.

    In the UK, they argued they were not "potato crisps" because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.

    In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled "Potato Crisps" on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, "is not found in nature". This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles

  • Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway

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  • If they stole the code that would be copyright infringement.

  • Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway

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  • Wait... How do Trade Secrets work?

    I thought that the individuals might be in legal trouble if they violate NDAs or No Compete clauses but that once the "secret" was out it was fair game.

  • For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?

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  • Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian

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  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Dad?

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Aussie Government announces Loot Box and Gambling content classification changes - Vooks

    www.vooks.net /aussie-government-announces-loot-box-and-gambling-content-classification-changes/