I’ve had a couple cases I could’ve presented there, but it just wasn’t worth it to me to take the time to gather the evidence and write out my case. There’s good reason I’m neither a lawyer, nor a politician.
Since I invariably wind up getting “name suits” types of comments, here’s the explanation behind it:
Around the turn of the millennium, I was trying to come up with a username to use on a particular site that had a shortish character count limit for usernames. My goal was something related to the fact that I would often be making my points in arguments with “holier-than-thou” types by taking what they were saying, and turning it on its head so the offensive stuff was directed back at them.
I also happened to learn shortly beforehand that many years ago “'ape” was somewhat commonly used as a verb to mean “imitate” or “copy.”
I’m sure you can figure the rest out.
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Brings a while new meaning to “breakfast in bed.”
Finally - a literal shit(ten)post!
1·3 months agoThe Internet Archive has tons of old scanned books on the subject. Computers were new to a LOT of people at the time most of these were published, so they usually assume minimal knowledge.
Personally, I grew up on COMPUTE! magazine, and found their books to be very good when I was a kid learning this stuff.
Nothing was said about requiring it, but I agree that it’s a bit annoying when there’s downvotes without anyone justifying even a single one of them.