Post reads: "my wife left her purse on a chair and now it won't stop telling me to bring it han solo" above a photo of a handbag set down in a way that makes it look like Jabba the Hutt
I just deleted a post where I mentioned I'm having this same issue. Glad I'm not the only one. Some more actively moderated lemmy communities are putting pretty fun/useful stuff in their pins.
X.com was Musk's site after he worked at Scotiabank. They merged with another site that had a product called Paypal that was getting some traction. Musk tried to tie the other services X.com was offering at the hip with Paypal, and if you're old enough you probably remember a "Paypal by X.com" (or similar) branding back when you needed to buy a used 56k modem from eBay.
Musk wanted to rebrand everything to x.com, was a huge baby about it, and got pushed out as an executive and replaced by Peter Thiel. A few years ago, Musk purchased the X.com domain name from Paypal like it was a treasured childhood sled, and he's finally found something (very stupid) to do with it.
It's intentional in the sense that they all involve intangible works of the mind and are only "property" in the legal system due to developments much, much later than the "I'll bash you with a club if take my food" or the "I'll stab you with a spear if occupy my farm" social contracts of personal and real property. It was very useful for those learning the law.
You're right that they do very different things in society though, and it's not particularly helpful outside the legal profession to bundle them so tightly together. Trademarks in particular should only protect branding and identity and when not abused provide a pretty valuable direct service for consumers in that you know who you're dealing with.
The other two protect creators and therefore indirectly promise to "encourage innovation" that should benefit everyone, but they're literally nothing more than legalized, if limited, monopolies. As Disney has shown though, you can smear the edges of copyright and trademark until they start to blend together.
Yeah, I mean the bill itself has some good stuff in it, compared to the prior system. In the end though, it's still taking something that is effectively a job and locking in protections that are less robust than the collectively-bargained job market would be for people with this rare skillset.
Found in my files (files.catbox.moe)
Post reads: "my wife left her purse on a chair and now it won't stop telling me to bring it han solo" above a photo of a handbag set down in a way that makes it look like Jabba the Hutt
Ask Americans - Got a question Americans are particularly well suited to answer? Want to hear us go on and on about ourselves? Ask away! There's at least one listening. (lemmy.world)
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Recognition of pinned posts from other communities
It doesn't seem like Kbin is aware of pinned posts on other communities. Is this a feature that can be added?
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)
First fountain pen came in yesterday. (i.imgur.com)
Left hand Lamy Safari Vista alongside a travelers company notebook in basic brown leather.
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)
Power 5 conferences release statement on bipartisan NIL bill draft (www.on3.com)
Translation "NIL turns out to be extremely expensive and annoying. Please help us in our efforts to collude and suppress wages."...