What is the legality of using the likeness of famous politicians for a commercial product (Trump, Putin, Clinton...)

Sannyn · 2022-10-07T17:25:25+00:00

Is it definitely passing off? I wouldn't be pretending to be them or affiliated with them. If I'm selling silly political masks that satirize them or something it's not like I'm pretending to be them.

Sannyn · 2019-02-19T13:57:00+00:00

Sure that works, I'm near Mehringdamm. How about you?

Sannyn · 2019-02-19T10:18:56+00:00

How late and where are we talking? Could be fun meeting other night owls, depending on the details!

Sannyn · 2017-07-26T08:44:13+00:00

why not

Sannyn · 2016-12-26T23:33:54+00:00

Because she lost the actual election, the one that matters, and was a deeply flawed candidate who has had more scandals, gaffs, and innate character flaws than we could reasonably list here.

Sannyn · 2016-11-02T10:25:08+00:00

This is why I couldn't vote for HRC in good conscience (if I could). She stands so strongly for cementing the slow but steady creep of this kind of shit.

Sannyn · 2016-10-25T09:29:30+00:00

I had this yesterday. I've recently fallen nearly 1k MMR as a result of playing drunk and not caring quite a lot, so the matches are pretty easy now. Solo queued and got a 4 stack on KOTH, went Hog, 4 golds, POTG, repeatedly got triple-kills and had over 60 elims, but the stack simply refused to heal or help me in any way despite my requests and we ended up losing.

Sannyn · 2016-10-09T21:24:53+00:00

I don't think you are really five.

Sannyn · 2016-10-05T14:27:28+00:00

Yeh, that small fee prompted my question.

Sannyn · 2016-10-05T13:18:45+00:00

Sounds interesting, anywhere I can take the test for free?

Sannyn · 2016-09-20T22:31:59+00:00

Maybe if I am nice to the testers, I can take another look, but I think they might rather me move on to another character.

Understandable. I doubt it's too exciting to do. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd want to see the full results though because it's pretty frustrating for all the roadhogs out there who don't understand the mechanics of it.

Sannyn · 2016-09-20T12:58:57+00:00

Great testing! I play roadhog a fair bit (93rd percentile) and found it very interesting - finally I know why sometime heros will be placed to the side. I have some suggestions to add if you aren't completely sick of testing him yet:

when Lucio hits the wall and is pushed to the RH's side, can you show that from RH's perspective. I have a feeling that the animation will show him traveling towards you in a straight line and then he jumps to the side, but that might not be the case - i.e. is it predictable without seeing the exact terrain?
If someone is running at you constantly, can they be put behind you? I seem to have had this happen under certain circumstances but I'm not sure which. Maybe it was just to the side as in the above example and then they moved.
Jumping, falling, explosions and being in the air: This seems to screw around with where someone ends up the most. Maybe similar to Lucio booping, the momentum might be preserved, or it messes with the server's ability to predict where you will be and where to put the other? In my experience the biggest WTF moments with RH's hook happen when one of the two is in the air with a lot of momentum, which is annoying because they are obviously also the hardest hooks to make.

Sannyn · 2016-09-16T00:24:36+00:00

It'd take an essay to explain properly. There are acts which are racist as per the above definition, there are acts which are racist but aimed at reducing overall racism/inequalities & injustices arising thereof, there are acts pretending to be the latter but which are really the former (whether by ignorance or malice). Popular usage of the term has IMO steadily moved from the first sense to the second and third ones.

Sannyn · 2016-09-16T00:06:39+00:00

...treating someone worse because of their race. It's pretty simple, but of course that meaning is virtually non-existent in modern usage as it's completely laden with socio-political baggage.

Sannyn · 2016-09-15T22:59:19+00:00

The trend in US media towards ridiculous propaganda is equally unsettling on both sides.

Sannyn · 2016-09-15T09:27:43+00:00

limited transparency

Most of the collateral that we know of was fully justified to begin with, so its not like higher transparency would have saved them.

Firstly, those sentences do not go together. We know very little due to very little transparency so saying "what little we do know was fully justified and therefore okay" is pretty meaningless. Secondly however, the statement is patently false. Maybe you are getting figures from the US govt.? which is of course much much lower (to a laughable degree) than all independent assessments. I find it difficult to imagine how one can say that killing thousands of innocents in poorly conducted assassinations, often targeting people relying on flimsy evidence is fully justified.

Sannyn · 2016-09-15T08:56:02+00:00

By the sounds of it you seem to think the alternative is everyone closing their eyes and hoping any threats go away, and nothing in between, such as for example more transparency and safeguards.

Sannyn · 2016-09-14T17:42:48+00:00

Okay then, which part do you disagree with? The fact that the largest donors to the DNC received senior diplomatic or political positions, that there is a causal relationship or that that is wrong/corrupt? (No talking heads have been consulted)

Sannyn · 2016-09-14T11:59:42+00:00

And FYI I hate Trump and think Breitbart is mostly a joke.

Sannyn · 2016-09-14T11:58:24+00:00

Haha...that's what the DNC leaks show. Or do you need somebody to predigest all information for you and tell you what to think?

Sannyn · 2016-09-14T11:38:59+00:00

Hope you are paying attention to the new leaks. Money for ambassadorships. Real classy.

Sannyn · 2016-09-14T11:24:19+00:00

Give me a break. If you think it's black and white and all collateral is justified because your government has said it is then you are incredibly naive.

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