Copyright allows for the copyright holder to do whatever they want. Trademarking requires the holder to protect it. And yes, not protecting a trademark is grounds to lose that trademark. 

As far as I understand copyright law.  You have to defend it for each case you MIGHT want to use it. If you think that you might want to release an energy drink. You'd have to stop someone from releasing their own Diablo energy drink. Blizzard isn't going after the cartoon.  Just the merchandise.  

I don’t get it either.  And yeah, they obviously are probably are part of a gang.  They almost killed someone to steal dogs for a value of like $12K.  Who is surprised these people are probably in a gang?

not to be ignorant, but I don’t get what you’re saying. That it isn’t gang related just because it could be propaganda used to justify anti-BLM sentiment?

I take strong exception to the author’s lumping HEB in with these “affluent,” exclusionary grocery chains.
HEB’s stores, while certainly clean, well laid out and stocked with a variety of quality merchandise, is hardly exclusive or overpriced. The HEB stores in my city frequently undercut even Wal-Mart’s prices, and…

organic free-range-coddled-by-a-human eggs and grass-fed-brushed-a-hundred-times-a-night beef

Part of why 9/11 happened - part - was because the US lacked human intelligence. Specifically - it did not have enough native Arabic speakers on staff, or people with intimate cultural familiarity with the region. It also lacked Farsi speakers, Pashtu speakers, and so forth.

The ad’s a bit cringe, but I like part of it. And not to be too cynical, but I think it would be a good thing if the CIA in particular and the National Security set of agencies were not made up entirely of reactionaries.

“We can strive to make the content of our politics immune to appropriation, but tragically the language we use to talk about those politics isn’t incorruptible.”

“Humans of CIA”

Why was it deemed necessary to conflate Jeffrey Epstein having met Bill Gates as part of this divorce story? That coupled with the fact that you apparently don’t know what the Gates Foundation does amounts to some shitty ‘reporting’, Joan.

Joan, stop proving what an ignorant asshole you are.

A librarian after my own heart!

You’ll understand when you’re older, and NO, I don’t mean that in a shitty patronizing way. I reread because I sometimes don’t remember whodunit. Also, comfort reading during a pandemic is very... comforting. Barbara Michaels and Armistead Maupin got me through cancer. I’ve reread both at least twice.

Oh, for heaven’s sake. By color?! Um, no.

Consider this wild idea: Arranging your books like they are actual BOOKS with CONTENT that you’re actually interested in: By subject and then author!

Or people who do not worry about ever having to find any book easily again. “One and done” readers, perhaps. That is not me. If a book is in my house, it’s been read more than once. If I don’t like it enough to reread, it is passed along.

Fucking monsters.

YEP

Arranging books by colour is book arranging for people who do not read!