UConn James

Not when copyrights are allowed to be ripped by Chinese manufacturers and the American consumer goes along with it, like Hansel and Gretel being led into the oven. When our patents and trademarks are stolen, there is less incentive for people to come up with new products because these ideas and formulas will just be stolen. But, a lot of people fail to see this point.... Case in point: the counterfeit jersey threads. Amazing tho. God bless curious people who want to make life easier.

Waldo's in the Super Bowl this year. So, I could certainly think of sadder. The North Carolina education system for one.

Meh... An understanding can exist of involvement in a preferred area i.e. the open secret during the '08 DNConvention that Hillary would be given State.

Even if Ron Paul would be offered Treasury or to chair the Fed? That smacks of not actually wanting change in fiscal and monetary policy. I could understand Libertarian Party voters with Johnson making their moot point, but you're telling me that Paul could get a chair to do many of the things he's talked about for so long, and his supporters wouldn't vote for that? It's really all-or-nothing? Or... better put, all-or-we-may-vote-for-the-guy-who-rickrolled-us-with-the-stimulus?

Cow got your tongue?

Is there a time limit on # of years or chances for consideration? When does any chance get kicked to the Seniors Committee (at which point he'd have to wait 15-20 or more years)?

Interesting article from WaPo on the Romney-Paul "alliance." I'd say that if Romney does get the nomination and wins in the general, Paul-ites could expect their guy to have some influence on the monetary and budget side of things. If not Treasury Secretary, then certainly an economic adviser. I haven't heard too much disagreement b/w them on that. Foreign & Defense policy differences is another matter entirely, but not something that a domestic economy arm of an administration would really touch. If Paul supporters want their voices to have any shot at / any kind of weight in actual governance, this might be their best bet for a long time. With the ground game both of these candidates have built, I don't think Obama would stand a chance.

Don't you have some jerseys to counterfeit?

With 17 teams in each conference, where would the extra go division-wise? That would raise all kinds of hell WRT schedule-making, no?

Bills fan!

... And Imus was fired for a really, really terrible joke. When does Mr. Matthews get to sit in Al Sharpton's studio and get preached and leered at for 30 minutes?

Thaddeus Matthews: ‘Get Your Stupid A**’ Out & I‘m Scared Your ’Whiteness’ Might Rub Off on Me

Gotta say that I was hoping for exactly this move when I heard that the Indy staff was being cleared. I also hope that Chan finally got that the TE --- when you get one who's worth more than a bucket of warm stevestojan --- can be a very important part of an offense as a dump-off target for a QB whose bread-and-butter is short-to-mid-range throws.

Putting the main focus on middle-income people and growing jobs will raise all boats, the "very poor" included, in the fastest way possible. Until jobs come back, the only way to "help" the very poor would be to give them hand-outs (that this country can ill afford) end-without-end-amen rather than giving them a hand-up. You really feel for people who have been put in such straits through no fault of their own... but as Romney said, the safety net is there and if it needs to be reworked, he'll do that. But the main focus has to be on what can do the most good for the most people by averting a fiscal debt and employment crisis that could put a lot more people into the "very poor" category if the most attention is not put there.

That's why I put "paying himself $47K" --- instead of $114K. Tho I'm sure he grabs a chunk of that $67K.

THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. RTFP --- I wrote "in previous threads." Like this one. Recommendations for which sellers to buy from. There've been other threads with direct links to Chinese counterfeiter ordering sites. I just don't have time to go through them all, but they've been on here. There've also been direct links to streaming game feeds. I'm sure the people that get busted all think that too. Some version of SOPA will be passed sooner or later. The point is that this site should not be put at risk. Appropriation / infringement / unfair commercial use = theft of patented trademarks and designs. You're going to split hairs over this?

Gingrich paying himself $47K from campaign funds Maybe he's gotta spring for some earrings for Calista? I'm sure his donors like to see Mr. Gingrich pocketing the money they send him to campaign with.

Touche. At this time, it is not illegal to purchase for personal use. I would say to those people who buy a number of jerseys for the bulk price, as I remember several people here said they do, and either give or sell (even for just the cost) jerseys to other people are committing a crime, according to lawyers on a few sites I've seen, as the text reads that this simple "distribution" qualifies as illegal in the flow of counterfeit material. But the point about the NFL not taking kindly to TBD not moderating threads that include links to Chinese counterfeiters and illegal game streams does stand. And this is subject to get much stickier whenever some derivative of SOPA passes.

Chef Jim has Beiber Fever.

Listen, I'm not interested in your justifications. Make no mistake that you committed a crime. The or selling and buying of knock-off anything is illegal. If you are caught with DVDs of ripped and burned movies (and you don't have an original; at that, the current law seems to be that you can have one copy) you can be arrested --- you see that FBI/Interpol warning at the start of movies? Same stevestojan. You saying, "But it's not a real movie --- it's a photocopied dustjacket and a Magnavox DVD-R!" isn't a legal excuse.

Correct. Don't think that the NFL isn't beyond shutting down sites. Look what the govt has done to other file-sharing sites like Megaupload. When they start cracking down, they're going to go full-bore. They see that TBD has hosted threads where posters have been allowed to say 'Use seller XY, it's spot-on!' and provide a link to that seller's store? Where links to illegally-streamed games are provided. Where a trademarked logo is used in the banner. Where users see ads and the site ostensibly makes some $.... There's a certain level of stuff they'll put up with in the name of it being like free advertising. But it's a dangerous thing to be treading on ground that hurts the NFL bottom line by being a conduit to / facilitating copyright infringement.

There's no link here. Just discussion. There have been threads in the past where Chinese counterfeit seller recommendations and links have been posted. In the thread title, even. Not to mention threads about where to watch games online illegally. I'm just trying to say that TBD needs to watch how it conducts itself. Those words "All accounts, descriptions, and rebroadcasts of this game are exclusive property of the NFL..." aren't there for nothing. It won't matter whether you think it's a freedom of speech issue; the NFL has more $, more lawyers and more politicians than SDS/TBD. How many "irregulars" do you really think there are? The hologram is a fake too. It's not the same as discount stores. Further, I doubt the NFL even allows the sale of "irregulars" rather than ordering to destroy them and scrapping a contract with a sub-par manufacturer. You don't see how many busts have been made in the counterfeit sports jersey market? It is rife here on the Internet, and even kiosks at events and some otherwise legitimate stores have been busted. There was one bust earlier this month in the Buffalo area. It's widespread and it's huge $. If you don't want to pay for an authentic jersey, then don't buy one, or buy a replica... and if you don't want a replica, then don't buy one. The 'Yippee! Cheap stuff! Who cares who gets hurt and what laws are broken in the process?!!?' attitude that pervades is sickening.

You're touching on a sore subject to me WRT the laxity of TBD enforcing direct links to illegal activity in the area of copyright theft. Count on the NFL stepping up enforcement, and just bear in mind that many things on this site exist on the good graces of the NFL and the Bills alone. If you're intent on breaking the law, then so be it. I can't stop you. But don't bring it to this site's living room. There's plenty of other places online to discuss it where they don't care if their site gets shut down.

As a tie-in with that, the Carolina Panthers were compelled to release their logo change early, as someone at Nike put out photos of the gloves that featured a changed Panthers logo (tho not the one they released) on a Facebook post. WaPo: Carolina Panthers unveil ‘more aggressive’ logo as Nike takes over NFL rights I dunno, but the anime-cartooning of logos is not something I'm looking forward to.

With Holder Testimony Set for 2 Feb., Emails Reveal That DOJ Initially Suggested Gun-Running I wonder if Holder is going to see his shadow....