Word of these ripoffs has reached those working in Ethiopia.
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There's some flagrant Built to Spill ripoffs on that record.
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Anything goes, and that means you have to watch carefully for ripoffs and scams.
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An unending stream of "Cards Against Humanity" ripoffs, and similar adult-oriented party games.
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It changed the Fox network's fortunes and spawned countless competitors and ripoffs around the world.
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Earlier this year, Facebook unveiled clear ripoffs of Snapchat Filters, Snapchat Snaps and Snapchat Stories.
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Another year, a bunch of shows aimed to rip off one of those earlier ripoffs — Friends.
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It's no mystery that the animation industry is clearly much better off now without these ripoffs, though.
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At other restaurants, skewers can feel like ripoffs; here they are reasonably substantial and easy to share.
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Not all for-profit schools are ripoffs, and there are some good things about for-profit schools.
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One year, there were a bunch of Seinfeld ripoffs about witty single people living in New York City.
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But that probably won't dissuade a flood of millions and zillions of ripoffs, hopefully with neat non-exploding features.
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And would you look at that — it has a notch, its own Animoji ripoffs, and a Face ID unlock clone.
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Last year saw some high-profile Surface tablet ripoffs, so it's only logical that the trend will continue in 2016.
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This latest twist on ripoffs was the subject of a Wednesday panel at TD Ameritrade's National LINC conference in Orlando.
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Thanks to Ways & Means and Education/Labor Committees for your work on Bills to protect patients and end medical bill ripoffs!
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"It was, like, John Woo ripoffs, where we'd take plastic guns and paint them black and wear long trenchcoats," Driver said.
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Facebook has been on a roll lately, inventing features and products that are in no way just wholesale ripoffs of other companies.
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So there I was, clicking through Amazon, searching desperately for a clear choice of dongle replacement, drowning in a sea of knockoffs and ripoffs.
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Evidence points to financial troubles as a leading cause of military suicides, and the MLA is one of our strongest tools for preventing ripoffs.
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In the video, "The DIY Brilliance of Turkish Star Wars," film historian Ed Glaser explains how and why he occasionally rereleases foreign ripoffs and remakes.
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There should be no ripoffs at the Democratic convention in which establishment superdelegates seek to overturn the will of the people expressed in primaries and caucuses.
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Shop Art Theft, a website launched by Kurtz, offers side-by-side comparisons of independent artist's designs and Zara's alleged ripoffs, with links to buy the originals.
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The Japanese company just announced two products that could safely be called ripoffs of Apple's newest products: a slick set of wireless earbuds and a smart home speaker.
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Not only are they ripoffs, but they're also incredibly wasteful, both in terms of packaging and the marketing required to make us forget, for example, that mops exist.
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The design includes a microphone, speaker, and voice recognition technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to build what will essentially be Amazon Echo and Google Home ripoffs.
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Cue every royal-romance trope you can possibly think of and a few shameless shot-for-shot ripoffs of The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Beauty and the Beast.
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We were ready for tears of boredom and low-tempo Sophie Ellis-Bextor ripoffs or, at best, a diluted attempt at something "cool" like that All Saints comeback nobody remembers.
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The 'Shanzhai' As a refresher on the term: those are generally "grassroots brands", covering both creative electronics like the infamous shaver phone, as well as unsafe electronics and blatant ripoffs.
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One of a number of Chinese companies fancying itself to become "the Apple of China," Xiaomi first rose to global notoriety by selling products that looked like utterly shameless Apple ripoffs.
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Social media is rife with cautionary tales of ripoffs and swindles, often involving scenic — but unsolicited — drives past Rome's historic sights or taxi meters that spin faster than they probably should.
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He heralded his nuclear deal with Iran, his opening to Cuba, his global climate agreement, his creation of a new agency to prevent financial ripoffs, and the legalization of gay marriage.
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If you want to pressure China into respecting intellectual property, you need to assemble a coalition of nations hurt by Chinese ripoffs — that is, other advanced countries, like Japan, South Korea and European nations.
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The future implications of cases like "Blurred Lines" and the "Thinking Out Loud" one definitely come up in pub conversations, but anyone who knows music can spot a rip off and those aren't ripoffs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, logo ripoffs, art's connection to OxyContin, Saudi Arabia's destruction of Yemeni cultural heritage, gender disparity in the art world, and more.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A week ago, Los Angeles-based artist Tuesday Bassen posted a photo on Instagram contrasting her original designs for pins and patches with alleged ripoffs sold by Zara, the international clothing brand.
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I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
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Frankly, I thought I was going to get sick of all the Goonies/Gremlins/Ghostbusters/other 80s movies references, jokes, and ripoffs, but the pastiche actually works pretty well (with a major exception that I'll get into later on).
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It was a proven style that birthed a slew of Spielberg ripoffs that often went direct to video, like the disaster that is Xtro, The Willies, and The Stuff, all of which miss the mark of the genre despite attempts to capitalize on its success.
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If you'd told me the scene had been lifted straight out of Snow White and the Huntsman or Jack the Giant Slayer or The Hobbit or any of the other countless Lord of the Rings ripoffs we've seen in the past 15 years, I probably would've believed you.
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Bridle wasn't the first person to point out that there are some fucked-up videos on YouTube aimed at kids — the Outline had written about deranged ripoffs of popular characters, and just a week before Bridle's Medium post in November, the New York Times wrote about YouTube's lack of moderation for its kids app.
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He's been out of the public eye for decades, so you'd be forgiven for not knowing who he is, but his work, his comedic philosophy, and his hands-on advice are directly responsible for the careers of dozens and dozens of professionally funny people, not least among them Judd Apatow and Ricky Gervais, making him the grandfather of all those Apatow and Gervais ripoffs currently playing everywhere.
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Brian Raftery. "Now Playing: Cheap-and-Schlocky Blockbuster Ripoffs ", Wired, 21 December 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2011. The film was panned by critics.
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Equalizer 2000, also known as Defender 2000, is a 1987 action movie, filmed in the Philippines, featuring an appearance by Robert Patrick. The film is best described as one of the many Mad Max ripoffs which were prevalent in the mid-1980s.
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Mockbusters and ripoffs can be filmed and released outside of the original films’ countries. Low-budget studios in foreign countries may produce illegitimate sequels to pre-existing higher budgeted films series that began in other countries. These sequels are unofficial, and often even unknown to the creators and producers of the original films. These unofficial sequels are rarely, or never, released in the original country, usually due to licensing issues.
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Modern show include La familia P. Luche it features a dysfunctional family living in a city with a lot of plush fabric with plenty of terms related to family drama and general everyday life and Vecinos the series portrays the life of everyday people in Mexican barrios, where anything can be found — the jealous housewife, the spinster, the strange family, etc. Each episode features the interactions between these peculiar neighbors, where they deal with problems both real and imagined, such as ghosts, treasures, ripoffs, fights, etc..
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By 14 November, the "70 News" result was the second link shown when searching for results of the election. When asked shortly after the election whether fake news influenced election results, Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded: "Sure" and went on to emphasize the importance of stopping the spread of fraudulent sites. On 14 November 2016, Google responded to the problem of fraudulent sites by banning such companies from profiting on advertising from traffic through its program AdSense. Google previously had a policy for denying ads for dieting ripoffs and counterfeit merchandise.
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In 2006, IGN ranked the game's finishing moves ("Overkills") as the best gore effects in video game history. In 2011, Complex included it on the list of ten "most blatant Mortal Kombat ripoffs" but added that it was "one of the more successful faux-MK fighters" and "the only thing that sucked was the difficulty." Complex also featured it on the 2012 list of the 25 Sega franchises they would like to see revisited and ranked it as the 24th best 2D fighting game of all time in 2013.
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There are many types of mail fraud schemes, including employment fraud, financial fraud, fraud against older Americans, sweepstakes and lottery fraud, and telemarketing fraud. Additional information about these various types of mail fraud schemes can be found on the United States Postal Inspection Service website. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chief Postal Inspector Martin McGee, also known as "The Top Sleuth" or "Mr. Mail Fraud", led his department in exposing and prosecuting numerous mail fraud swindles such as land sales, phony advertising practices, insurance ripoffs, and fraudulent charitable organizations that used the mail to facilitate their illegal activities.
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When Choice Cuts was released in the UK it was well received by critics, but the band were still in Australia and short of money, they could do little to exploit their opportunities. As the tour dragged on, they began to falter, and endured ripoffs by unscrupulous promoters. They had reached another low ebb, with the chances of returning to UK now reduced, the band reluctantly decided to split up. On the verge of the break-up, EMI's John Halsall called from London to inform them that Choice Cuts was receiving glowing notices in the English music press, including a rave review in Melody Maker.
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When Choice Cuts was released in the UK it was well received by critics, but the band were still in Australia and short of money, they could do little to exploit their opportunities. As the tour dragged on, they began to falter, and endured ripoffs by unscrupulous promoters. They had reached another low ebb, with the chances of returning to UK now reduced, the band reluctantly decided to split up. On the verge of the break-up, EMI's John Halsall called from London to inform them that Choice Cuts was receiving glowing notices in the English music press, including a rave review in Melody Maker.
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Lennon espoused Weberman's principles in his interactions with the music press, stating that he was dedicated to making politically motivated music without a thought for commercial gain. In early December, the RLF demonstrated outside Capitol Records, protesting the company's delay in releasing the live album from the Concert for Bangladesh after Harrison had accused them of refusing to distribute the record at cost price. During the protest, Weberman announced that Lennon and Ono had joined the Liberation Front, which he defined as "a group dedicated to exposing hip capitalist counterculture ripoffs and politicizing rock music and rock artists". Yoko Ono and John Lennon performing at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in December 1971 Through Lennon, Rubin came to be involved with the RLF, and soon sidelined Weberman.
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1991 - 1998: Mark Mikel formed a band with David Murnen, Mark Kelley, Dan Chalmers and Scott Tabner named after himself. They performed numerous times and released two original albums named Sorghum Pudding in 1991, The Idiot Smiles in 1994, and one cover album named Blatant Ripoffs in 1996. After building fame in their area, they decided to change their name to make them more Beatles-esque, which because The Beatles were one of their greatest influences, makes "The Pillbugs" a fitting name. After they changed their name in early 1998, they began work on their first album under the name. June 1998: The first Pillbugs CD is released on their own label (Omniphonic). This was a 32 song double-disc set.
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Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a mixed review, calling it "neither good enough—nor bad enough," and writing, "The Meg, a rote sci-fi horror adventure film that features a shark the size of a blue whale, comes on like it wants to be the mother of all deep- sea attack movies. But it's really just the mother of all generically pandering, totally unsurprising Jaws ripoffs." Scott Mendelson of Forbes was impressed by the film's special effects and called it "a polished B movie that delivers the goods," while IGN's William Bibbiani praised the performances of the cast, particularly Statham. Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Simon Abrams said the film was "refreshingly unpretentious" and "a breath of fresh air" compared to the Sharknado series.
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Layton has made it clear he will campaign for the position of prime minister itself this time, but also returned to a longstanding NDP theme: alleged abuses by big business. He promised to stop what he called "ripoffs" by big oil, cellphone and banks, and his attacks are expected to focus on the Conservatives and all but ignore the Liberals. Elizabeth May of the Green Party said Canadians would care enough about the environment to vote for her party, as long as she was able to get into the television debates. Stephen Harper has stated his objection to including the Green Party into television debates because of the similar policies of the Green and Liberal party, and how it would be unfair.
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Bloom County has had an influence on other cartoonists, particularly cartoonists who have an irreverent bent or tackle political topics in their work. For example, Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP, acknowledged Breathed's contributions at one point with a strip expressing the opinion that "so many webcomics. ..are nothing but Bloom County ripoffs", then lampooning itself by mimicking Breathed's art and dialogue style in the final panel.PvPonline » Archive » Fri Oct 01 Aaron McGruder, creator of the comic and later animated series The Boondocks, has paid tribute to Breathed's work as well, with a few aspects of the strip bearing more than a passing resemblance to important Bloom County features (including at least a couple of artistic similarities), and an episode of the animated series wherein the character Uncle Ruckus calls Breathed "Master Penguin Draw'er".
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Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as Orca, Grizzly, Mako: The Jaws of Death, Barracuda, Alligator, Day of the Animals, Tintorera, and Eaten Alive. Spielberg declared Piranha, directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles, "the best of the Jaws ripoffs". Among the various foreign mockbusters based on Jaws, three came from Italy: Great White, which inspired a plagiarism lawsuit by Universal and was even marketed in some countries as a part of the Jaws franchise; Monster Shark, featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title Devil Fish;Mystery Science Theater 3000 Series 9 Episode 11 – first broadcast August 15, 1998 and Deep Blood, which blends in a supernatural element. The 2009 Japanese horror film Psycho Shark was released in the United States as Jaws in Japan.
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" He believed to recognize semi-plagiarism on songs such as "Been Here Before" and "Make a Change" which he considered ripoffs of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" and En Vogue's "Don't Let Go" and added: "As much as one would wish for the four remaining Angels, they certainly did not shoot down the bird with their comeback. The bottom line is a pretty mediocre album." Ruth Schneeberger und Jürgen Schmieder, writers for Süddeutsche Zeitung, noted that "listening to the album feels like chewing on an old Hubba Bubba, that is to squeezed to produce more bubbles." Highly critical with the album lyrics, they found that "every song sounds like the other: Probably the drum computer was broken, because it always plays the same beat [...] Everything is heartache [and] the drama is sighed for but the music sounds more like a boring autumn afternoon than a real emotion.
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After closing the Lighthouse Cinema, Nyback remained in New York partially supporting himself by screening independent films shows. His program "Screw the Mouse: Ripoffs, Parodies and Deviant Versions of Disney Cartoons and Characters" ran for one week at the Cinema Village, on East 12th Street, in Manhattan, from January 3 to 10.Disney Gets Dissed, Lewis Beale, Daily News, New York, 1/3/97 From January 15 to February 19, 1997, he had a six-week screening every Wednesday at the Cinema Village. Patricia Thompson reported on it: > ....Nyback's eclectic series offers some true rarities, like the patently > racist jazz films (1/22) in which Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway > and other jazz greats not only play, but act. The series then jumps to > cross-dressing clips(1/29) existential educational films from the gray- > flannel '50s (2/5), '60s vision of the year 2000 (2/12), and cigarette and > beer ads (2/19).
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Ironically, after ripoffs endured as The Masters Apprentices, Keays and his band were the only group at Sunbury who were paid—Keays had wisely arranged an outside sponsor—low attendance and the huge $60,000 fee paid to headliner Deep Purple meant that none of the other Australian acts were paid, and the festival organisers went into liquidation soon after. Keays continued his solo musical career, fronting Southern Cross, and from 2000 he has toured as a member of Cotton Keays & Morris with 1960s artists Darryl Cotton from Adelaide's Zoot and Russell Morris from Melbourne's Somebody's Image. Wheatley moved into a career in management, applying lessons learned and contacts made with his band to managing other bands. He spent several years in UK and America, on the eve of his return to Australia at the end of 1974, he was invited to manage the reformed version of Australian harmony-rock band Mississippi, after a name change to Little River Band they set about cracking the American market and Wheatley was instrumental guiding them to their historic American commercial breakthrough in 1976–1977.
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