Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.

I’m not gonna say there were signs that these two weren’t the most law abiding of citizens to begin with, buuuuut…

Poor trump, I feel for the guy.

Born too late to play Napoleon, born too early to play a Mad Max warlord.

It’s a tragedy really.

…fucking clown.

I cancelled my YouTube subscription when they increased the price by 50%, and I’m never subscribing again.

I haven’t bought a full price game in decades, unless it’s an indie/under €30.

I’m finally building up my PS4 game collection, for ages I had 2 games - RD2 and FFXV. Yesterday I got this in the mail, I paid less for those 4 used games than what Sony is asking for a digital copy of FFVII Remake in their store…

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.

You’re saying that if the creator of the sticker wanted to be recognized or was concerned about others making use of his design without his approval, he’d have signed it or added his username? That isn’t necessary, you still own the rights to a work you made even if you don’t sign it - including the right to give it away and allow free use, but that’s a right that needs to be exercised.

For example, Linux source code is free, for any use (as per the GPL). The name “Linux”, however, is a trademark, registered by Linus in the US and other places, and it’s usage is protected (the Linux foundation has a page about it).

I don’t think anyone’s gonna be mad about stickers, the point I was trying to make was about what FOSS means in the context of Linux and software in general, but also how it relates to other forms of intellectual property protection.

That’s unrelated to OPs point that because Linux is FOSS, so is the drawing. As an advocate for open source, I try to clear up this kind of confusion.

The fact that the Linux source code license is open doesn’t give permission to another work about Linux.

An analogy would be a park - you can use it, go running, etc with no issues. But if you setup your easel and make a painting of the park, that painting is an original creative work, and it is protected under copyright laws.

The same for that sticker. Even with the image of Tux being made “free” (attribution) by its creator, this stylized combination of drawing and text is still copyrighted, so we’d have to ask their permission for the stickers.

Inb4 no one contributes voluntarily, so they make it mandatory.

I can see the headlines: US invents taxes.

Not sure about public domain. Perhaps a non-commercial license would be best - this way fans can carry on the work, but others wouldn’t be tempted to profit off of the IP.

How I love the tag feature!

See you around!

Good strategy, use few words to keep people guessing if you’re that dimwitted, or just being paid per post by your masters.

God forbid you try to explain yourself and confirm which one it is.

What?

The government is doing its job, protecting consumers from predatory and monopolistic practices, and you’re crying “oh no, the poor billionaires”??

It is the rejection of exploitation of animals as far as is possible and practicable, as per the vegan society’s definition.

I’m sure individual opinions can differ and that others might hold more restrictive views, but like you said, in extreme circumstances people would probably not judge, we’re in agreement 🤝

Applying ethics isn’t saying that it’s unethical.

I’m making this distinction because the post he’s replying to said they “only applied ethics to their equals or betters”, which is appalling: it’s not even concluding that something bad is ethical, it was just outright denying that ethics even applied to “lesser beings”.

Regarding your point, I think it’s widely consensual that killing for sustenance, if no other choices exist, is ethical - even vegans agree with this, and by nature, they don’t tend to agree with much (haha joke, calm down vegans!).

Where it gets more debatable is killing animals, who are very much capable of suffering and do possess a measure of self awareness and intelligence, when alternatives exist.

Do explain then.

Edit: since he’s not picking up, I’ll raise what I think his point might be.

He sees ethics applying to his equals or betters. In that case, even if a more advanced race comes along, it would still apply to him, because he made himself the measuring stick, so he would oppose torturing of, at least, some humans.

Where our dimwitted friend failed to follow the reasoning is that, if value (in the case, being worthy of ethical concern) is in the eye of the beholder, a more advanced race then would see our dimwitted friend as a lesser animal and butcher him with no qualms.

So if a more advanced alien race came over and started torturing and butchering humans, by your logic you’d be perfectly OK with that.

A well organized drawer or cabinet should still be O(1). It takes at least 2 more steps, assuming you don’t leave them open all the time, but the number of operations doesn’t change depending on the number of clothing items you need to retrieve.

A pile of clothes is faster, but only for a small number of items. As the number of articles pile up, they hide older items and need to be pushed side before the intended article can be found and then retrieved. This is now O(N), and less efficient than just storing things in the proper place…

Makes sense, got it. So if it applied to both words, the way you’d signal that is by hyphenating the previous word?

Seems so strange to just have a hyphen lying there in the middle of a phrase, but that’s just my lack of familiarity.

This is the kind of corporate bullshit that I pray the EU will pounce on and skin them alive for.

This needs to be met with a fine that is a % of global revenue. It’s the only language they understand.

My kids’ public school is full microslop - outlook branded emails, meetings via teams, .docx files, SharePoint document sharing 🤮

I love the initiative, but in reality we’re very far away.

An absolute tangent, but why are certain worlds in German “glued togetht”?

“Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung”

Isn’t this for “digital and state modernization”? Like, modernization applies to both, right? Why is one merged together but not the other?