Steve's Copyright message

[BilltheDiver]

If Elvis comes back to life is he still allowed to call himself Elvis, or is that name copyrighted?

[northie66]

Hahaha!  Good one Bill!

[Spartan scroller]

You can copyright just about anything. Micheal Buffer snapped up "let's get ready to RUMBLE!"  Somebody copyrighted "Sh*t happens".  I'm thinking of jumpin on "it is what it is"  "I'm just sayin..." and "BOOOYAHHH".

[Rightarm]

    This reminds me of a problem I ran into a few years back. I had a fire truck in the shop. I needed information, something on the engine, I don't remember. So I call a Sales/Mantenance Shop in Indy, and asked for the info. This guy that was in charge told me, "I'm sorry. But if you are not a factory trained tech, we can't give you this info"..............WHAT. You have got to be kidding me! We spent almost a million dollars on this truck, and you don't have to give me the info I need to get it back in service. NO he replied, and hung up. Well that set me off. I started checking around, and found out there is a bill pending in Legislation call "Right To Repair Act". It's been stalled for a few years now. It comes to find out that the big auto manufactors do not want you working on your own vehicles. Don't want you buying shop manuals, even parts. Can you imagine the small shop that you take your car, gone, not factory trained. My argument is this. If you buy something, that should make it yours. You should be able to do with it, whatever you please. I just can't believe somebody would sell their patterns, knowing somebody, paid good money, would labor a lot of hours, might..... just might, want to show it off!  Dave    P.S. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION!                                   

[northie66]

It's a conspiracy! 

[dgman]

Hey Dave, I looked under the hood of my wife's new Nissan Murano, I can't even see anything that looks like spark plugs or spark plug wires. They make cars so we can't work on them!

[boxmaker]

I agree Dave, If you are willing to try and work on them you should be able to, but read the fine print sometimes if you attempt repairs it can void the warranty, I learned the hard way. I wonder if they still even sell Chilton's auto manuals, I used to buy one for whatever vehicle I currently owned, although I am not sure if you could get one for a firetruck. Yes, where have the times went when we could work on most vehicles, spark plugs, carburetors, distributor caps.

                                                     Mark

[WigWag Workshop]

The comment above, if you buy it, it's yours.  For the longest time, it was "illegal" to modify or unlock "your" I-product (Iphone) a new "law" just passed that says it's now legal.  If you are into computers, and other electronic stuff, have a look at Hack-A-Day, those folks do some cool stuff with what the "own".  Two other words that ring out in Geek world - "Open Source".

Steven