stupid Lawyers & Suits vs PCI guy

[beermat]

Observed on Slashdot, so went to http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ to see what the fuss is about.
PCI-SIG apparently got their lawyer to tell a guy who ran a popular PCI Vendor & Device ID database to 'cease & desist'.

And recently on the PCI-SIG maillist I'm on : "I hope they also go after: http://www.pci.org because it's pretty obvious that the Prestressed Concrete Institute is infringing on the PCI trademark and many people will mistakenly order a PCI card but receive instead several tons of concrete."

stupid greedy Borg-esque corporate America (==Britain, the 5(1st?2nd?3rd) state, otherwise known as the dummy target. Especially with RAF Fylingdales radar upgrade for son of star wars ...)

Need a cave to go live in and hunt wooly mammoths.
That's a cave with a decent DSL connection, please.

Wonder if I can defect to SeaLand?

Comments

[bouncykitten.livejournal.com]

SeaLand looks quite cool, let's elope together! :P

[beermat]

1st to get a passport.
May be tricky as they stopped doing them when the germans tried to put their towel on their land to claim it...

Re:

[bouncykitten.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read that there are thousands and thousands of fake passports, but if you can get to be mates with the Prince Regent or something....who knows :D

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

It is getting a bit...unnerving, isn't it?

At least Skylarov and Johansen got off. That was good to see.

On the other hand...

[beermat]

I was about to mention the garage door opener too ...

Steps to freedom

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

Step 1: Put together a team of geeks/goths to penetrate Sealand and overthrow the current monarchy.
Step 2: Enjoy new ownership of small manmade island by playing Quake over high speed internet link and maybe have a few drinks.
Step 3: Recover from heavy LAN gaming/piss up session
Step 4: Prove to the world that this all NEW Sealand is not to be messed with by sending the following message to George Bush, Saddam Hussain and Osama Bin Laden... "Come and have a go if you think your hard enough".
Step 5: Build large rotating neon statue of nadnad

Re: Steps to freedom

[beermat]

so if we towed out own gas/oil rig out into the sea, we could just set up shop as an independant nation?

Now just where of the NW of Scotland did they dump that old rig :)

[ex-dogmeat720.livejournal.com]

Smacks of Unisys and the GIF malarkey...

[beermat]

think it may be time to copyright/trademark AIR and deny its use to any suits or lawyers...