It’s a pretty solid way of saying “these plastic giveaway toys are shite, please stop wasting our time”.

“...allparties involved are calmly discussing...”

Thanks for this, Kate. TakeOut has passed through some bad headlines in the past (but mostly for unimportant stuff). This one’s important.

Nice to see an AV Club article that reaches back to the old Onion roots.

I think you just may have cracked this case, Clancy.

Gotcha. I do think it’s a bit unfair to be frustrated at the letter write here. The situation I envision is someone who was hired to run the reception desk at some small community service nonprofit whose “clients” come in regularly. When she was trained by the outgoing receptionist, they said “Remember that when you…

Dude, are you a joke or something? You are the one claiming that tax-free-at-purchase is some shady bullshit. You’re the one who said “I don’t understand how you can ‘opt out’ of paying sales tax”. I then briefly described the process and showed you a link that fully describes it.

Are you... agreeing with me? Because your tone sure sounds like disagreement.

You’re really uninformed but extremely certain they’re doing everything wrong. They could have a small storefront place in NYC with no kitchen facilities, no budget to hire a chef, etc.

She said these orders are classified as tax exempt (i.e. not subject to sales tax).

Here’s the thing. The biggest distinction between ketchups out in the real world isn’t brand, it’s temperature.

So, you’re saying your main point is that they don’t automatically own a domain they didn’t register. So your main point was simply a non sequitur, completely non-responsive to the article at hand?

Wiggle room, did you seriously dismiss my comments pointing out how wrong you were to castigate the business owners in this case? Real cool, guy.

Interesting list. Bears no relationship to 90% of what you said previously. Here’s a (noncomprehensive) list of prior statements you are now abandoning:

Not sure why that proof would be relevant on any given sale.

As someone who was into the ‘94 World Cup and has no idea what Lalas has been doing since, I’ll always be an Alexi fan. Cool hair.

Some real username/comment synergy here, dude. You’re making some hypertechnical argument that all you were saying is that they didn’t have a legal right to unregistered names, and so you were right because it would only become their name once someone else registered it and was sued?

Just to be clear, you’re at least partially incorrect in your second bolded section — in any case where the restaurant has trademarked its name, it can have a legal right to those domain names. Beyond that, it is unclear whether 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d)‘s protection of “personal names” extends to businesses; the term is…

Yes, that movie sounds much more appealing to me. I’d love to see a guy struggle with the fact that nobody’s heard of the Beatles and that his performance of their work _doesn’t_ move people. Basically, he knows how huge the songs should be, and ends up wondering if he’s taking crazy pills.

Your two scenarios don’t come close to spanning the gamut.