IP, monkey selfies, and now PETA.

Hehe

Just another day in the good, or rather not so good, world of wannabes and their fifteen minutes of fame.

PETA is a menace to rational thought.

Hear! Hear!

Frankly, I don't see why monkeys can't take photos/selfies and own the copyrights to said materials. 

Then all David J Slater would have to do is become the monkey's legal guardian to sue on its behalf.

Oh, and Cauldyth, do you hold the copyright for the selfie that is your avatar?

Assigning human inputs into Global warming trends is an error.  Obviously, we have finally uncovered the cause of global warming.  The monkeys are responsible.  There is a direct inverse correlation between the number of monkeys alive on the planet and rising climate (not weather) temperatures.  Therefore there is a connection between global warming thread and the PITA / monkey business. 

You mean beyond the law dealing with it?

If you take it as a concept, it's absurd that a monkey which has no idea what a photograph/painting, etc. is, should have 'rights' to anything 'produced', really. To take it a step further, what would a monkey do with said 'rights'? Does a monkey have any conception of 'rights', or (more likely) is it a ploy to set PETA (or a bunch of lawyers) up with yet another source of income "administering" those rights and the funds and fees associated with the products? 

Imagine. A whole new field: Monkey (or elephant, whale, etc.) banking, financial services and the governmental aspect: Yes, taxes...more money for politicians, lawyers and bankers. Nah. Better to leave the monkeys to be monkeys wherever and the 'humans' to do what we do best...

Just to push a point.

As long as there is no call to end the "Ban Game" thread I applaud.

Here here......one is overplayed ad infinitum and the other injects humor into an otherwise banal world.

I object, Uvah - they both inject humor into an otherwise banal world.

Leave the poor AGW thread alone.

At least the monkey has lack of cognative ability to use an excuse for taking a selfie. What excuse do humans have?

Man that monkey's got great teeth.  I dunno, he's looking pretty smug there showing off his pearly whites, maybe "Planet of the Apes" has begun....

Shallow end of the gene pool?

Thing is, Doc, monkeys do a better job at being human than some humans.  I mean, look at the history of cock-ups perpetrated by the powers that be over the last couple hundred years.  At least a monkey's life is uncomplicated, simplistic and free of taxes, charges and fees.

Yup, I say we fire our current masters and elect a monkey today. 

The Alaska Zoo was selling Annabelle's paintings for years.  She made hundreds of thousands of dollars off paintings as an elephant.

Like screw everything up. Elect the monkey and Annabelle too. They might even do a better job.

There's no might about it, Ross, not only a better job but far less bullshit and far fewer lies/broken promises.

As for Annabelle, she should be made Speaker.

In my opinion animals have not devolved to the point where they know how to lie.

Annabelle died quite quite a few years back, so unless we're going for Speaker for the Dead...

Uvah, animals are quite adept at lying.  I had a dog that would shit in the house as revenge for leaving him alone, and then hide the evidence in an attempt to avoid the spanking.  He'd drag around things like rugs, newspapers, covering his mess up before you got back.  The little bastard was a real pain in the ass but when it was too cold to leave him outside, it was too cold.

My dad had a dog that was even smarter when he was a kid, he'd clean the tops off with his paws, looking for a good sized carrot, yank the sucker out, clean it, eat it, and dispose of the stem.  The kids got blamed for it since it was so obviously a person doing it, no one suspected the dog until he was caught in the act.

Don't mistake being vindictive for lying. I have a cat that does the same thing if he doesn't get his own way. In time they get over it.

Hiding the evidence of the crime dude, subterfuge.

And that's why they'd make better politicians... like you could count on it when they said: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

More to the point, they wouldn't con the world into invading Iraq [or anywhere else for that matter] over non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

There ya go again, blaming the dog for your failure to keep him properly amused.  Yup, it was your fault he had to resort to playing practical jokes to amuse himself.  He hid those turds deliberately, orright, but not to avoid a "spanking".  No, he did it in the hope you'd step on one and feel the squelch of it spreading under-foot.  You never saw or heard it, but he was laughing like Muttley on the inside.

Quoting starkers, reply 4

Oh, and Cauldyth, do you hold the copyright for the selfie that is your avatar?

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I'd be proud to be a monkey.  Apes are overrated.

Quoting psychoak, reply 20

Hiding the evidence of the crime dude, subterfuge.

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Separation anxiety can manifest itself in different ways. It isn't a deliberate lie, like saying no I did not when, in fact, I did. The dog must have experienced 'the spanking' and is trying to avoid it. Animals learn by rote. A repeated episode is not forgotten and the response is a primal one. Avoid the hurt.

actually, some studies have shown several species of simians do practice deception / misdirection - especially when hiding food.  Are deception and/or misdirection forms of lying?