Interesting Links for 12-03-2012
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andrewducker- Lib Dem members oppose NHS reforms in conference vote
- Does higher atmospheric CO2 cause (some) people to eat more? *MOAR RESEARCH NEEDED*
- The Nazis' Control-Freak Hatred of Jazz
- Chinas has awesome 3D pixel-art maps of their cities
- Andrew Hickey has now read the NHS Bill. Three times. His opinion is worth reading.
- The banks failed not because of bizarre hedging structures, but because they lent too much to bad things
- The seven types of forum contributor
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation is effective for depression
- Game are about to go bankrupt. The end of high-street game retailers?
And HMV are moving away from music. Does that leave a high-street full of clothes shops?
- Getting older makes us happier, because we give up on our dreams
- Watching soap operas makes women socially aggressive.
- American Psycho author Brett Easton Ellis plans Patrick Bateman return in Twitter rant
- Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Using Trademark Law To Prevent The Use Of Public Domain Stories
- Doonesbury is covering abortions this week. I assume there will be fireworks.
- Mumsnet campaigns against rape - 10% of women raped, 35% assaulted, 66% knew attacker, 83% do not report.
- Train timetables and daylight-savings time. The results are....interesting
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Date: 2012-03-12 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-12 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 11:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 11:54 am (UTC)(BTW, the S in DST is 'saving' singular, not 'savings'.)
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Date: 2012-03-12 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 12:03 pm (UTC)No! The High Street survived the coming and going of book chains, it'll survive Virgin Megastore, GAME and HMV.
There's the perennial favourite of junk food shops.
And there's been successive waves of new shops on the High Street for an awfully long time: they explode all over the place, the wave breaks, but there's plenty left after the peak. Shoe shops in the 80s. Coffee shops in the early 90s. Mobile phone shops in the late 90s. Nail bars in the early 00s. And then, since the crash in the late 00s, pound/discount shops.
There are more food shops too - Tesco (and to a lesser extent the other major supermarkets) are sprouting Metro/Express/One-Stop stores like mushrooms. And even Waitrose is undergoing an eye-popping expansion.
There's also more transient phenomena, from the late-80s indie computer shop to the just-passing-now fish pedicure establishment.
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Date: 2012-03-12 12:20 pm (UTC)And the idea of bragging about the murders on Facebook and nobody giving a shit is also brilliant.
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Date: 2012-03-12 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-13 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 12:32 pm (UTC)BOLLOCKS TO THAT!
I am happier but because I have very much NOT given up on dreams. In fact I am better equipped to make what I want to happen in my life actually come to pass.
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Date: 2012-03-12 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 07:07 pm (UTC)What the story you link to only mentions in passing: the early stories are out of copyright in the US, but not in all other countries. The UK is one where they're still in copyright, for example.
What it doesn't mention at all: Dynamite originally approached ERB to get a license. Only after they couldn't get one did they decide to go ahead anyway. This may harm their defence.
What it understates: "some of the covers which feature partial nudity". Where "feature partial nudity" should read "are actually pretty pornographic". I would put a link to the Beat in here, as they have more on the story, including examples of the covers, but the site appears to be down at the moment.
Honestly, I'm no fan of copyright by the back door, so to speak, but in this case, Dynamite haven't exactly covered themselves in glory, so it's no surprise that ERB are taking action to protect their brand as a result. And going back to what I said earlier, I think the fact that Dynamite originally tried to work something out with ERB is going to be a key factor in the case.