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The Chicago Bears win the Stanley Cup?
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Everyone knows that its the White Bull Cubs.
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...And then, he said "Your ketchup is probably not for minors."
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CNN spotted what they thought was an ISIS flag at the London Gay Pride march... turns out it was, well shall we say, something else.
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Lewis Hamilton gets told off by the Queen for his table manners:
http://m.skysports.com/article/formula1//9898042
http://m.skysports.com/article/formula1//9898042
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...Y'know, I really don't understand why the poor Vauxhalls are being targetted...
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...Y'know, I really don't understand why the poor Vauxhalls are being targetted...
I wonder if the parts go abroad to places where German (Opel) parts are much more expensive? As the article notes they're the kind of parts replaced in shunt-and-front accidents... very odd.
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Not just those bits, but even the wheels. Those photos show the... "victims" without their, uhm, legs. Or shoes. Whatever.
Anyway, I had a Nissan Almera nicked off me a few years ago so I know how it feels to be Auto-violated...
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...Y'know, I really don't understand why the poor Vauxhalls are being targetted...
Given the British sense of humour, probably just for a laugh. There have been previous reports of crime waves affecting just one particular item, like people who steal garden gnomes, hundreds of them, and putting them all in one poor woman's garden. Things like that are just part of this peculiar little island's make up....
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What happens when rugby players become politicians?
I'm so glad you asked!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...ns-to-shirtfront-tony-abbott-over-csg/6601432
I'm so glad you asked!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...ns-to-shirtfront-tony-abbott-over-csg/6601432
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A Chinese filmmaker is in defense mode after critics called his film The Autobots a blatant rip-off of Pixar's 2006 film Cars.
The animation for Zhuo Jianrong's film is so similar to Pixar's hit that detractors are saying he plagiarized the concept for The Autobots, which was released on July 4. Even the posters look fairly similar. (It's also worth mentioning that "autobots" are the good guys in the Transformers franchise.)
"I know of the movie Cars, but I have never seen it. I don't even know the names of its characters," Jianrong told CNN.
Photo stills from the film were shown on Japanese morning show Sukkiri.
Jianrong, who makes his animated film debut with The Autobots, continued his defensive streak, claiming that the outrage is being blown out of proportion.
"Aren't the cars you see in the street similar?" he asked CNN. "If somebody else looks like you, does that person violate the laws?"
He told CNN that he had received letters from the Walt Disney Company's legal team. The company owns Pixar. A spokeswoman for Disney gave a statement to CNN about the matter: "We share the same concerns as many netizens and movie fans in China but have no further comment at this stage."
More posters for the film also show similarities to certain characters from Cars. Lightning McQueen, the main red car, and Francesco Bernoulli, a red and green racing car, look especially similar to Jianrong's characters, Kotaku points out.
For comparison, here's Bernoulli in Cars.
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That's just standard operating procedure in China though, right? I have seen so many knock-off toys from China, including blatant attempts to be mistaken for Cars, that I just thought copyright laws didn't exist there.
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The stories I've heard seem to indicate the officials tend to look the other way. I don't doubt the matter will end when the Chinese decide they don't really see the resemblance.
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It's pretty much at the point where car manufacturers licence Chinese manufacturers to produce knock-offs of their own models - they know they can't stop the Chinese from plagiarising their designs, so they licence the model to have some control over the manufacturing process because the build quality and safety standards of the knock-offs has been so poor in the past that they threaten to damage the reputations of the original manufacturer.
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Didn't the german court prevent a knock off being sold in germany.
It seems many countries so everything they can to stop counterfeiting of things like clothes and bags as it "hurts" the designers, yet they will allow a knock off car to be sold only because it is not badged as the original?
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http://www.ip-watch.org/2008/02/20/...courts-to-fight-alleged-chinese-counterfeits/
They can block them from entering in the country so they do have some control, if all countries did this.
The car can only be sold in china, and smaller countries.
