Canada Seal Slaughter begins

casebro said:
Watterson intentionally gave his Calvin copyright to the public domain.
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I'm fairly confident that this statement is, in fact, untrue.

The original copyright is owned, of course, by United Press Syndicate under the usual terms.

The reproduction rights for the various publications are owed by Andrews McNeilly, and Waterson himself still owns the rights to the characters. As recently as 2006, Dartmouth College was forced to rename the 96th Winter Carnival as "Stupendous Games: Mischief in the Snow" because using the original Calvin and Hobbes theme would have violated Waterson's copyright.

I have been unable to find any source that suggests that Waterson placed the characters in the public domain, and an number of sites that state otherwise.

Don't like it? Go piss up a rope. or a W. Or make up yopu own Calvin cartoon, of Calvin pissing on a Calvin pissing on a Calvin... Or complain to a moderator. Ooops, can I say pissing? whether or not somebody can have a cartoon of it?
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casebro said:
Watterson intentionally gave his Calvin copyright to the public domain.
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Further evidence that this statement is untrue. The US Patent and Trademark Office lists "Calvin and Hobbes" as a word mark (serial number 73586466), filed March 6, 1986 and owned by "ANDREWS MCMEEL UNIVERSAL CORPORATION."

Similarly, the Copyright Registry Office of the Library of Congress lists several entries for "Calvin and Hobbes," all related to the ownership by UPS/Andrews McMeel; the only transfer on record is a name-change when UPS became AMcM.

Check it out yourself.
 
Burning down people's houses.. a reason to join PETA, so you can get paid to do that.
 
ClintonHammond said:
"Yes, he does."
Then 'he' has zero clue about what a dog-eat-dog world it is. He's concerns and opinions are therefor irrelevant.

Ever seen what a polar bear does to a baby seal? Makes what humans do to them look like heavy petting... (Or do you honestly believe the BS that child-friendly nature shows try to tell people about 'prey' animals not feeling the pain of being taken down? HA!)

But I suppose we aughta ban polar bears too eh?
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I saw a nature documentary that showed lions attacking an animal that was stuck in the mud (it was a large herd animal like a wildebeest). Since it couldn't move, there was no reason to kill it before eating it, so...they ripped it to shreds while it was still alive and conscious.

Mother Nature is a cruel, vindictive rhymes-with-witch.
 
ClintonHammond said:
I'll learn to 'quote' when you learn not to double and triple post...

"Most Canadians oppose the Seal hunt"
Wrong....
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/seal-phoque/myth_e.htm

And that article refutes every one of your claims about the seal hunt.... and it comes from a much more reputable source than any of the articles you've posted.

You claim that you refuted that article... but you tried to do it with information that is woefully out of date. So you've refuted nothing in the least.

So you resort to logical fallacies like "Appeal to emotion" (misleading vividness for example) .... which only serve to further weaken your 'case'

Here's some popcorn and some bread-crumbs....
Now, shoo little pigeey... fly away home....
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Sample from this site:
An Ipsos-Reid survey conducted in February 2005 concluded that 60% of Canadians are in favour of a responsible hunt.
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I'm included in that number.

Also, concerning the cute little beasties used in all the anti-sealing ads:
The image of the whitecoat harp seal is used prominently by seal hunt opponents. This image gives the false impression that vulnerable seal pups are targeted by sealers during the commercial hunt.

The hunting of harp seal pups (whitecoats) and hooded seal pups (bluebacks) is illegal – and has been since 1987. Marine Mammal Regulations prohibit the trade, sale or barter of the fur of these pups. The seals that are hunted are self-reliant, independent animals.
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casebro said:
Watterson intentionally gave his Calvin copyright to the public domain.
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If that were true, there would be Calvin and Hobbes merchandise everywhere. As far as I can tell, the only thing Watterson allows to be sold are books (with maybe occasional exceptions for charity and such).

But that being said, I'm not a fanatic about it. I am plenty disrespectful to a number of people, so Ken has the right to be so too. It just annoys me that such a great and literate comic strip has been co-opted by people who turn it into a crude and juvenile insult. But I'll get over it.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I wonder if seal meat tastes good. If it does, I would like someone to fund me in starting a restaurant. All that meat needs to be turned into cash.
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Seal meat tastes nasty.

The waste really grates on my nerves.
With cows and pigs, most of the animal is used. Not so with these types of hunts (whales, walrus, seals). I have seen skins rotting on drying racks, carcasses in dumpsters or on the ground next to dumpsters, shot and harpooned animals - dead or injured - washed up on the beach. There is something wrong when it is so easy to waste so much.
 
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Dustin said:
... how wrong you are to endorse the wholesale inhumane slaughter of ...
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But... But... Aren't they slaughtered by HUMANS!?

(Don't dare mention "figurative", because then every argument can be argued to be figurative)

"Humane" - here lies largely the point of this discussion.


Humans are intelligent enough to determine right from wrong, therefore humans have more responsibility to treat others better.
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Uh... So what are seals going to do about it?

Chupa - MEXICAN - cabras.
 
Dustin:

You seem to be taking this whole thing a bit too seriously.

I suggest a quick catching up on this webcomic, The Pet Professional.

Also, a little Frank Zappa from the song "Nanook Rubs It."

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Frank-Zappa/Nanook-Rubs-It.html

Bits excerpted as being apropos of this discussion:

Well right about that time, people,
A fur trapper
Who was strictly from commercial (Strictly Commershil)
Had the unmedicated audacity to jump up from behind my igyaloo
(Peek-a-Boo Woo-ooo-ooo)
And he started in to whippin' on my fav'rite baby seal
With a lead-filled snow shoe . . .
I said:
With a lead
LEAD
Filled
LEAD-FILLED
A lead-filled snow shoe
SNOW SHOE

He said Peak-a-boo
PEEK-A-BOO
With a lead
LEAD
Filled
LEAD-FILLED
With a lead-filled snow shoe
SNOW SHOE
He said Peak-a-boo.
PEEK-A-BOO

He went right up side the head of my favorite baby seal
He went WHAP!
With a lead-filled snow shoe

An' he hit him on the nose 'n he hit him on the fin 'n he . . .

That got me just about as evil
As an Eskimo boy can be . . . so I bent down 'n I reached down 'n I scooped down
An' I gathered up a generous mitten full of the deadly . . .
YELLOW SNOW
The deadly Yellow Snow from right there where the huskies go

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mitten full
Of the deadly Yellow Snow Crystals
And rub it all into his beady little eyes
With a vigorous circular motion
Hitherto unknown to the people on this area,
But destined to take the place of THE MUD SHARK
In your mythology

Ah, Zappa, RIP, you crazy dude, you made the world a funnier, sicker, more delightful place.
Chupacabras said:
Uh... So what are seals going to do about it?
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Die

DR
 
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