I signed up for the NY list and almost bailed after a day. You want to see some whinging and whining, you should see New Yorkers when they get it all in a twist. The current piss-fest is over whether the BMorg or some NY burners have trademarks rights to DeCon/DeCom. And it's getting personal. I'm ...

I'm sorry... had you posted evidence that the LLC has charged money for the use of "Decompression" for "major metropolitan decoms"? Otherwize, you're ranting and raving over speculation on what MIGHT happen. On top of that, you've just implied that the LLC is misapropriating funds based on an asump...

Right, but didn't Burning Man have the largest attendance ever this year? And aren't a lot of those projects funded by the Black Rock Arts Foundation? (at least the bigger ones?) And weren't ticket prices the most expensive they've ever been this year? Exactly! Large scale art was damn thin on the ...

well... there's no indication that the BMORG LLC is going to charge for use of the description "Decompression". It's is forseeable that the LLC just wants the ability to limit the use of "decompression" as a label on (for example) a Budweiser Music Festival or the Philip Morris Post Playa Decompres...

Anyone know what the F**** is up with this: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78218887 I mean, what the . . .? Are we going to have to pay the Borg every time we get together with some of our burner friends for some drinks, or camping, after the burn? This just seems like a big ...