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Mickey was selling foods under that trademark in Paraguay since 1835. When did Disney start competing in that market segment with their Mickey Mouse brand?
by aij 2y ago
Mickey was selling foods under that trademark in Paraguay since 1835. When did Disney start competing in that market segment with their Mickey Mouse brand?
- kragen 2y agowell, 01935, not 01835. not a lot of paraguayan businesses from 01835 survive thanks to the war of the triple alliance
- aij 2y agoAck, yes, I meant 1935. I'm on mobile and typoed that in a way the spell checker couldn't catch... Even now in the US I have yet to see Disney selling rice under the Mickey Mouse brand in a way that could be at all confused with the Mickey rice in Paraguay that I grew up with.
- klyrs 2y agoNeither 8 nor 9 are valid octal digits, please stop that
- darthoctopus 2y agoThis is valid (if somewhat obscure) notation for decimal dates in particular, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
- dpassens 2y agoIt's a stupid notation: > the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem That just sets you up for the year 100,000 problem. The objectively better idea is to just parse years as regular integers, something that I'm confident people will figure out in the remaining 8 millennia until the problem actually hits.
- defrost 2y agoIt's true that they say that: The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. ~ https://longnow.org/about/ https://longnow.org/about/ but the truth is more subtle, love it or hate it the five digits are part of a campaign to encourage people to think about humans in timescales a tad longer than a few decades at most.
- shultays 2y agoIt just sounds like a way for people to try showing how smart they are while in reality it just adds confusion to completely irrelevant discussions, such as this one. I think the campaign does opposite of what it says. Using 5 digits limits your dates to dates to a maximum of year 99999. While not giving a fuck, using the digits needed to represent a year, works for all years. No one is clamping their years to 4 digits when they say '2024', they are just using the necessary digits needed for that year
- kragen 2y ago> a way for people to try showing how smart they are given the choice between trying to demonstrate intelligence, and trying to demonstrate viciousness, i prefer the former. i guess your preference is different
- shultays 2y agoOr you can try neither and use a year format that does not confuse us plebs.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoSomeday we'll admit that Roman numerals were perfectly efficient, and the only reason we switched to decimal was because of that DCLXVI guy. (As of A.D. MMXXIV)
- sionisrecur 2y ago
- everybodyknows 2y agoHow does promotion by a single non-profit talking shop, however celebrated or intellectual were its founders, make it a "valid notation"? Five digits don't even make sense in practical anthropic terms, since we're obviously headed for a shitload of trouble long before the hundreds digit next wraps.
- klyrs 2y agoIndeed, my joke was written with the full knowledge of this farce. To make any prediction about technology in use 8000 years from now is just silly.
- tangus 2y agoTo add some context as to why businesses wouldn't survive it, that war happened between 00001864 and 00001870, and wiped more than 00000050% of the male population (estimates vary).