They made a big mistake. Clearly the right option would have been to sue the internet to get all those potential dollars. In fact, sue also the people who bought the game.
Give us some of that internet money! Come on buddy!
Should we have a law that makes it a crime to sell meat-based food to underage kids if their parent wants them to be a vegan? If the parent wants the kid to follow a very specific and censored lifestyle, it is up to him to enforce that. Everybody else doesn't have the obligation to do the parenting for him under threat of jail or whatever.
So it's not the job of Burger King to follow your parenting rules if your kid goes by himself to one of their food places and orders a Whopper.
Would it still be nice if he attributed it, just to appease the other author, even if the attribution had to be a lie and it wasn't the inspiration at all?
"A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app), in the jargon of marketing teams, has been used to refer to any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, or an operating system. A killer app can substantially increase sales of the platform on which it runs."
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Scannell, Ed (February 20, 1989). "OS/2: Waiting for the Killer Applications". InfoWorld (Menlo Park, CA: InfoWorld Publications) 11 (8): pp 41–45. ISSN 0199-6649. Early use of the term "Killer Application".
Well, to be fair, cops in London have, at times, shot a person several times in the head and chest for sorta kinda looking completely different from a suicide bomber.
They pirated internets because they used an internet that someone else had created. If they didn't want to be accused of pirating the internets, they should create their own internets.
Simply stop autocompleting ANYTHING that includes the Hotel's name, and same thing for anyone else who sues. Instead of making the algorithm stop suggesting "scam" when related to "CNFDI", ignore the word "CNFDI" entirely. In fact, don't include it in search results either.
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"It's from the latin root, 'to love'. To be an amateur is to love the game."
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Give us some of that internet money! Come on buddy!
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Fortunately, the cure is more cowbell.
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So it's not the job of Burger King to follow your parenting rules if your kid goes by himself to one of their food places and orders a Whopper.
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"I don't see any elephants!"
"See? That's how well it works."
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Re: popularized vs invented
"A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app), in the jargon of marketing teams, has been used to refer to any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, or an operating system. A killer app can substantially increase sales of the platform on which it runs."
References:
Scannell, Ed (February 20, 1989). "OS/2: Waiting for the Killer Applications". InfoWorld (Menlo Park, CA: InfoWorld Publications) 11 (8): pp 41–45. ISSN 0199-6649. Early use of the term "Killer Application".
Please lie more.
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