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Yes and because most people expect Ad-filled free services from Google

FTFY

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Yes, generic words do have something to do with trademarks because if the word is used generically, then it’s not a trademark violation. “Profile” is used generically on most social networks, so a company called “Profile” couldn’t really enforce their trademark even if they created “profile” pages because other sites use it generically.

The court, however, determined that “Timeline” was a product name and not a generic term used to display a persons timeline. I honestly think it’s a bit ridiculous, but wtf ever. Trademarking single words that are even possible to be used generically shouldn’t be allowed. Is it really that hard to create new company names? Plenty of companies do that just fine.

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A 20% mortality rate is surely lethal. (108 cases and 22 deaths)
Of diseases, that would make it one of the most lethal diseases on the planet. It’s was an ignorant statement because he clearly doesn’t understand what the word “lethal” means.

Has nothing to do with how contagious or wide-spread it is. It’s a term used for how likely it is to kill you if you catch it.

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Government needs to regulate airports and planes for the same reason the government needs to regulate airwave spectrum. It needs to be extremely organized, not fragmented, and all the proper tools need to be in place ahead of time that might cost more than companies are willing to pay for them until they feel obligated too.

I would not argue that government doesn’t have the right to regulate airspace, I can point to quite a few parts of the constitution that would grant them that power. The easiest of which is the Commerce Clause. What I will argue is that the people should be involved in the process and privacy should be taken into account.

The reason that air traffic control are paid through taxes is because without any private flights happening at all, we still need air traffic control. If all flights are grounded, we still need it. Their is military purpose for it, and a large one that that. We have air traffic control for public safety, and public safety is everyones responsibility and everyone needs to pitch for it.

What I will argue though is that we need to have a say in what we are paying for and what rights we are giving up while doing it. I will not give them a hail mary pass to protect at all costs. There’s a lot of waste in TSA and it needs to be taken care of. And air traffic control is similar in the respect, I feel a lot of money could be saved by utilizing technology advances.

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I don’t believe government gives us privileges, I believe that the people tell the government what we want them to regulate and they regulate it. Not the other way around. I hate the whole, “it’s a privilege to do x, y and z because the government says so”. We decide what is and is not allow by being taxpaying, voting citizens and this mentality enrages me. This is a democracy, a representative democracy, but a democracy nonetheless.

If the PEOPLE want to fly, they have the right to do so, so long as they use the legal process to do so. It’s not a privilege. The government doesn’t “allow” us to fly, we “allow” them to regulate it. And if people don’t want “nude full body scanners”, then we have the right to take that regulation out of the books.

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Not to mention it’s just laziness. When we let government invade policy for safety, we are telling them they have no duty to try to protect both. They could be using MMS technology to do the same thing and we can tell them they need to figure out new technologies if that’s not enough. Regardless, letting them walk all over our privacy is just an easy way out for them and a lazy way out.

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