Quote from: b_dubb on July 09, 2014, 09:37:32 AM
Do you hold the exclusive trademark on awake? I don't see a TM anywere.
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,3031.msg62364.html#msg62364
Thank you; of course you are correct. And as I stated in my original post "I don't "own" the name Awake of course but it is something I use often. ".
I was requesting a favor of a sort from MV. I'd been a member for a few years and thought it not much of an inconvenience. It isn't something owed to me in any way. If MV had done the civil thing, as Onan has, and pointed me to a section of the rules which precludes the deletion of accounts I would have understood. Rather than do the courtesy of that though MV chose to reply with "later" and then "go fuck yourself". Those responses are themselves indicative of what this site has become and what I want no part of it.
Onan, Thank you! I see you as sort of a Sisyphus character endlessly arguing for rationality. Your posts are excellent and I'm glad you fight the good fight. I'm just done fighting. Thank you also for pointing out that the deletion of accounts is against the rules. I was not aware of that and I'm glad to have that knowledge. MV, if you read this, I now understand. If you'd simply pointed me toward that rule rather than being, well....you, I'd have understood.
I now understand that my membership is some sort of lifetime sentence and that is fine. Thanks again, Onan, for pointing it out.
Bart Ell, good luck with that stand up career.