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”

The article says it was easiest to look at for long periods of time. I think that matches what you are saying.

All of that money was spent on people developing this who then in turn paid mortgages, fed their families, and spent without our economy. The money doesn’t just vanish.

Mmm I think someone else tells them where to fire and but the men of the mortar crew still aim it? FOs. I know the difference is more semantical than anything and yet.

The people that fire the mortars are not the people that aim the mortars.  So that works just as well at night as it does during the day.

You see advanced alien race, I see 80s music video

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!