Big step forward in Cylon evolution. Dr. Adamala is leading the way.
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Matt Bruneig decided to make a website countering a company’s anti union web page. The company’s lawyers didn’t like it.
I pointed out that this sort of nominative fair use is very common in the labor context. TraderJoesUnited.org, which is about the Trader Joe’s organizing campaign, is not an IP infringement. Neither is StarbucksWorkersUnited.org. When I asked them whether they believe those are IP infringements, I was told that they don’t answer hypothetical questions.
Beyond demanding that I give them the domain, all I got were vague objections to the content being too similar. They objected to the fact that my FAQ page has the same questions on it as the Fred Hutch anti-union FAQ page, which itself has the same questions on it as the Providence Regional Medical Center FAQ page and the Providence Swedish FAQ page. They are, after all, frequently asked questions.
In response to these objections, I asked them whether they are really contending that I cannot ask “What is a labor union?” or “What is the NLRB?” on my website because Fred Hutch asked the same thing. To which I got a vague non-answer about how I should make something totally original.
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They’re still prokaryotes, right? Good that I’m not a biologist and working on this. I would just put some mitochondria in it to see what happens.
Maybe but they say they’re not alive, so no? Philosophy, man.
Just when you can’t imagine it being any more idiotic the American legal system says “hold my beer”.
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Goes back to the 13th century in English common law. UK eliminated felony murder in 1957. They don’t call it “felony murder” in Canada, but they still have it and one can get life for it.
The felony murder statute is not new but it does lead to some strange outcomes. I remember reporting on a couple of trials probably at least 40 years ago. Two young men were accused of stealing the purse of an elderly woman. She chased after them, had a heart attack and died. Both suspects were charged with felony first degree murder. The case centered on whether one of the kids snatched the purse cleanly off the woman’s arm. If he did, it was just a misdemeanor purse-snatching. But if there was even a two-second struggle, it became the felony of strong-arm robbery and triggered the felony murder law. The suspects were tried separately. The so-called “mastermind” of the theft was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole for at least 25 years. The kid who actually did the purse-snatching was found not guilty.
Didn’t watch, but my favorite are when the driver isn’t even at the scene, cop shoots one of the perps, and driver get charged with murdering the guy the cop killed.
I’m not normally a fan, but I did call for felony murder charges for everyone in ICE after the Pretti murder.
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Genuinely stupid law with no possible justification.
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This is genius.
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So I guess I’m wrong and this is actually happening at MSG. So bizarre to me; it’s what I would expect some ultra-tacky monied person to do, like a Trump kid or something. Although I guess NY Post is reporting that they got married privately and this is more a party, which makes a bit more sense to me, but I still don’t understand why you’d pick MSG over so many other places. You own a gorgeous oceanfront mansion in Newport. Have Bon Jovi perform on your lawn there.
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Lol, when I heard about this I assumed they were gonna sell tickets or something and there would be 20k people there. But it’s just a normal wedding reception at fucking MSG? I guess Port Authority and the Javits Center were booked already. At least guests can pre-game at Penn Station.
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If their wedding was in a smaller city it would be hard to not take it over, like Bezos in Venice. It makes less of a blip in NY than just about anywhere.
It’s there for one reason. Security. Few access points most of which are underground and no windows or open space for paparazzi.
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She’s a marketing genius. She could have gone off and had it on a private island where no one would have known about it, but instead she does a super top-secret wedding at Madison Square Garden that gets more press coverage than Bezos taking over Venice.
Security is one issue. Papparazi has no avenue to photograph the festivities in the arena unless they sneak in.
True, but she has never struck me as the type to seek out every possible moment of publicity. Other than going in and out of NYC restaurants sometimes, I can’t really think of times where I see her photo splashed all over the tabloids. She always struck me as the type that would see a wedding as a personal moment and not something to be wielded to grab public attention. Maybe I’m giving her too much credit.
It’ll be interesting to see how/if she monetizes it. Exclusive photos sold to some magazine? Release a video special?
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