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Comment Serifs clarify what the letter is. (Score 3, Informative) 174

I agree with this, but for another reason. Because there are problems with non-serif fonts. For instance for myself, with an unusual first name that starts with I, which regularly gets confused with l (and if you have to think about this, it's because I've typed in two different Latin letters in different cases). So much so, that now when someone tells me that they have sent me an email, and I cannot see it, I know that they typed my name out, because they are probably not capable of copying via the clipboard.

Comment Re:The title is stupid. (Score 1) 53

I know it is not in the US as for this story; but there is Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Easyjet and several other 'Easy---' companies, in the UK and Europe. He seems to think that he therefore owns the right to every use of the word 'Easy' in trade names. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keystonelaw.com%2Fke... , and also some other more recent lawsuits that he has launched since that article.

Comment Re: It doesn't seem so odd (Score 1) 169

Scotland has water supplied by Scottish Water, which is government owned (by the Scottish Govt), and has no other shareholders. There's a big hint for the UK government there (in this context, to the English government). But no one in the UK government wants to upset private companies who might give them a job when they get kicked out by the voters.

Comment Re:Everybody is to blame (Score 4, Informative) 48

7. That everyone has known about this since it was first reported in aroud 2015, but everyone has done their best to conspicuously ignore it.

It was first reported long before then, from 2009 according to the wikipedia article. I remember reading about it in https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.com%2F at about that time, and saw articles in Private Eye not long after.

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