Well, it certainly wouldn't be a DCMA complaint, unless you've got the copyright on small members (or signs to small members, perhaps)?
Most likely it would be considered a form of harassment, possibly libel.
In the case of a search engine and to some extent a torrent index though, it's more like "There are signs located in the men's bathroom on fifth avenue, as well as in the back alley on third that say Jones_Supa has a small johnston"
It seems to me that the infringement is alleged, but the ownership shouldn't be. If they can't even come up with something definitive as to *what* is infringed, I would hope they could be liable.
And autoCAD, and MS Project. Visio. Exchange... and that proprietary application that's really popular with X.
Linux isn't really fighting against usability (yes, it does have some issues there), it's fighting against an entrenched user-base whose needs are tied to existing software. Porting Adobe might help for some, but there are still plenty of other things out there.
In the same vein, though, for a lot of users it's more than enough. It's got email, web browsing
Would that be "genocide" or "gendercide"?
Maybe females were less likely to attempt kickstarting stupid things like booby apps etc, or their projects are more meaningful to a given audience. Remember, not every kickstarter is a geek toy etc, there are a lot of projects with a more personal/direct aim that may be able to easily solicit funds from a targeted audience.
Then again, some dude managed to kickstart making potato salad for a ton of cash, so it seems there are still plenty of people out there to fund stupid projects too.
management is overrated, overpaid and in general the reason that things go south when (not if) they do
Well, when many companies have management that's making more in the first day than regular employees make in a year, yet when "things go south" they leave with a big severance package... yeah I can see where that idea may have come from.
If the engineer screws up big, (s)he's going to be fired or possibly charged.
Yes. Thus far. Gas is also generally lower than up here (Canada, about $1.32/L or $5/gallon), but it's certainly not going down in the long-run...
Unfortunately, an alternatively likely scenario might be.
Very few cars, because gas has reached a point where it's unaffordable to the average person and alternative energy/transportation sources have been prevented by powerful lobbying and government hubris.
It's basic a gamble in the reverse sense of the lottery. Instead of a big win, the insurance covers you against a big loss. Given the state of the court system, it's not even just in case you're really at fault. There was a case where a kid was biking with no reflectors/lights on a foggy night, he cut in front of a car and got hit. Of course it's a terrible thing, but given the situation there wasn't anything the driver could have done to avoid the accident.
However, a jury hears "young kid hit by car, crippled for life, medical expenses etc." Are you willing to gamble against paying some number that has a *lot* of zeroes behind it?
My current favourite is laptop backlight support. I haven't figured out if it's an issue with recent kernels or the recent fglrx drivers, but the last update gave me a blank screen after X starts. Several people have reported it, mostly Asus laptops but also some Toshiba I believe.
Or at least it looked blank, until I took it into a room with good light and discovered that - hey - the backlight is just dialed down to zero. So now my choice is no vendor-accelerated driver, or no using the LCD
Sometimes a switch may be warranted if you're running into a physical limitation. One issue I could see is that - if upgrading just for the "looks better" factor - you might end up in the realm of Dude3d/DNF, where constant changes push your end date so far out it never reaches a realistic/satisfactory completion.
That said, I see the issue of switching as one of the weakness of graphical toolkits. The underlying code could be fairly engine-agnostic in many ways, so a full rewrite shouldn't be necessary depending on what the base language/structure is.
These guys have apparently been denounced by the major religious denominations which they claim to belong to. I'm not sure what the criteria are to be a church (in many cases, the government seems to be a little unclear on this as well), but they're pretty much operating in isolation.
Actually, that claim is not so undisputed as you might think. Still in the USA though.
But given the "Eurotrash" comment I'm probably just feeding a troll.
If people just ignored them more often instead of getting all bent out of shape, the trend would go away.
Some might, but in many cases they'll just increase the level of trolling to intolerable levels. It's like a certain "church" in the U.S. that trolls funerals, they troll whether if you feed them or not, but if they're ignored they'll just do even crazier/nastier stuff.
Wow... that's so close to something else at first I thought the name was a joke... given the context where "Sieg Heil" was popularly used...
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