The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Oh, I like this idea. Virtual credit card you can sign up for free trials with which automatically cancels at the end of the trial.
Why has no-one come up with this idea before?
Why has no-one come up with this idea before?
GasBandit
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Because the people in charge of credit card technology previously found it more advantageous to separate consumers from their money.
That's the thing. Eat 'n Park is.
Umm... you seem to be taking this a bit personally.
Dave
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Sorry. Didn't mean to come across that way.Umm... you seem to be taking this a bit personally.
I'm with Dave on this one. No one is going to be confused by Tim Horton's putting a smiley face on a cookie.
http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2007/11/cookie-controversy-sure-to-make-you.html
And the case for trademark dilution is weak because
https://www.trademarknow.com/blog/six-frustrating-ways-lose-trademark-rights
It should be noted that Eat 'N Park has sued twice before (from what I can find) over their smile cookie, but both lawsuits were settled before going to court. I think that if they were to sue in this instance, and go all the way to court, things might not turn out so well in Eat 'N Park's favor.
http://www.vegastrademarkattorney.com/2007/11/cookie-controversy-sure-to-make-you.html
Basically, from what I gather, this trademark attorney thinks the Eat 'N Park's mark is a weak trademark, since it's already so similar to the traditional smiley face we all know and love.
And the case for trademark dilution is weak because
The lawyer makes another good point:
Trademark isn't like copyright. With copyright, you can be selective about enforcement. For instance, an author can let people write fanfic, but if someone writes some fic you don't like, you can use the law to get them to take it off the internet. Not so, with trademark. If you don't actively pursue protection of your trademark, you can lose it. And if it can be shown in court that Eat 'N Park hasn't tried to stop people from using the smiley, and instead have only selectively been enforcing it, they can lose their trademark.
https://www.trademarknow.com/blog/six-frustrating-ways-lose-trademark-rights
All of that said, I think trying to trademark a smiley face on a cookie is ridiculous, and I'm totally fine with Tim Horton's having a smiley face cookie. It doesn't even look like Eat 'N Park's trademarked cookie.
It should be noted that Eat 'N Park has sued twice before (from what I can find) over their smile cookie, but both lawsuits were settled before going to court. I think that if they were to sue in this instance, and go all the way to court, things might not turn out so well in Eat 'N Park's favor.
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I don't know if this link is to the same article I read (EDIT: it wasn't) but in the one I saw a few months ago, they explain that the hardest part was finding a bank willing to do this, because all the "virtual" numbers are actually sub-accounts of the one main business account that was issued to DoNotPay.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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"Smell" is generally quantified by parts-per-billion of the odor-causing agent, and is measured by an olfactometer.
“Small” Ian measured in nanometers and such, or in things like arc seconds if distant.
There are supposed to be a set of “base smells” which can be combined to make odors like RGB makes colors, but the idea of an odor printer never really caught on.
—Patrick
There are supposed to be a set of “base smells” which can be combined to make odors like RGB makes colors, but the idea of an odor printer never really caught on.
—Patrick
Noooooo!
The world’s best bush plane is destroyed on take off in Reno
(all the passengers are fine)
Dangit, that thing was amazing.
--Patrick
The world’s best bush plane is destroyed on take off in Reno
(all the passengers are fine)
Dangit, that thing was amazing.
--Patrick
Did they run out of "Fuck Off"?
GasBandit
Staff member
GasBandit
Staff member
Technically, it does not say "do not cross this line," it says "Go away." The mat cannot keep me inside the house, as that would be preventing me from going "away."
So, more like, if some scamp turns it around, I am homeless.
It just means you can't ever return to the PvE area and you're stuck living at Gargantua City now.
--Patrick
I feel like this is some kind of Sims trick, like removing the pool's ladder.
Good luck, Gas. Go build a rocket.
And I barfed everywhere 
Are you for hire; what is your hourly rate and do you do windows?Done all the laundry, made the beds, swept the house, did all the dishes, did the recycling, took out the trash, cleaned the downstairs and loft cleaned the cat litter, scrubbed the toilets and completed a two week grocery shop, so I am ready to go on my 12 day work trip!
