Trademark != patent.

“It’s unclear if Purple would even be legally allowed to enforce the clause”

“on some mystic beach”

Did nobody learn anything from GATTACA?

“What do you do then?”

I was booked on the American LHR-LAX flight which was going to be the “test run” for the liquid bomb plan, but the UK police picked up the conspirators the day of the flight, and essentially shutdown LHR.

Any game which *requires* more than two consecutive hours of time in order to play it is fundamentally incompatible with any form of adulting that involves a 40+ hour workweek, a wife, and kids.

Oh, good, there’s an adult in the room now.

That’s how I interpret the comment I quoted.

There is always jury nullification, which allows jurors to vote however they want regardless of what the law says. It was used a lot during the Prohibition Era, in fact. SCOTUS has ruled that jurors are allowed to do that, but also ruled that the judge doesn’t have to tell them it’s an option if they don’t agree with…

“Obviously, this is domestic violence not the gang-related, youth, violence that’s usually in oppressed communities. But it’s not a coincidence that oppressed women are the most likely victims, and oppressed men are more likely to commit domestic violence.”

I don’t have dogs. It was every outdoor dog at every house within earshot. Somewhere between five and ten of them, from what I could tell. They went nuts, and several minutes later the earthquake hit.

I was in Big Bear a number of years ago when it got hit with a decent sized earthquake in the middle of the night. It wasn’t the earthquake itself that woke me up (I usually sleep through anything below a 3.0 anyway, even though this was around a 6, IIRC), but the dogs barking about 5-10 minutes before it hit. Not…

The Winona Ryder crush is powerful, nonetheless.

“I have the weirdest boner...”

Funny, I can’t find any reference in this story as to Mr. Perez’ political affiliation. Oh, look, Google tells me he’s a Democrat.

He’ll be writing for Giz within a week.

The press is reporting that the data center went down due to a power issue.

Are they planning on trying to use it to hijack the plane? No? Then I don’t care.