“ General Research combines coordinated operations to identify and neutralize foreign actors using technological advancements, international covert operations, and networking analysis as an Internet Service Provider.”

What is so hard to understand????

This makes it sound like they kill spies.

May the four winds blow you safely home.

It was a privilege to see him perform many times.

While I completely agree with the sentiment, there are 100 million reasons why it will never happen. Having dealt with Oracle for over 20 years, I have seen their predatory relationship with their customers. They will hold onto this trademark in the hope that they can somehow monetize it.

At some point they will approach companies, likely tech companies that produce a product or offering that can't be described without using the word "JavaScript". They will offer a "convenient" licensing agreement of $50,000 per year for the use of their trademark.

They used this playbook with Java, an easier path because they had something more substantial than a trademark, but the approach will be the same. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/165kzxg/oraclejav...

As Oracle's debt problems mount, the company seems increasingly likely to weaponize this trademark against companies—despite otherwise showing little interest in the word. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/w...

Pretty much, at least at the semantic layer. https://publish.obsidian.md/followtheidea/Content/AI/Ontolog...

Perhaps just me still carrying some latent trauma, but the upside down, legs bent moment reminded me of a picture from 9/11. Not going to link to it.

Based on the title, I was expecting the article to be a lamentation on Jira and Scrum.

And perhaps a sense of civic duty: Those tax rates were created (hopefully) by elected representatives.

Makes Fleabag’s cafe more normal (Guinea Pigs are not Hamsters, I know).

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”

Overheard every few sprints…

Yah, yah, yah... [waves people away while walking through offices, before sitting down to a cup of tea and some correspondence]

That scene is how most Monday mornings feel as I start to process my inbox. Including dropping the cup of tea all over myself and immediately needing a meeting with my superiors.

Me too! I have shared this point with several people over the years and none understood this. I guess I was a WordPerfect nerd.

I see you. There are dozens of us!