My dad said something a few years ago - we’re all more interested in being ‘funny’ and ‘edgy’ than acting like adults and getting on with each other. The world has gotten very embarrassing.
Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Au contraire, FOSS allows you to fork and make modifications.
This just confirms OP’s point that "you don't have any say in what the developer does", since the only way to get your modifications in if the developer disagrees is to maintain your own version of the code.
This is also true of paid software, except you have to start from scratch.
Re: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user I can't remember the details, but I've heard a story multiple times about a fake-sounding name being used in testing -- I think US military payroll? -- and causing problems when a real person had that name. Can anyone here remember this? In any case, "batman" is just about plausible enough that it could be real. I tend to use names like "Mr. Testy Testalicious" which…
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems: Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen? Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many t…
People named Null are also having struggles in the modern world:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
Re: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user I can't remember the details, but I've heard a story multiple times about a fake-sounding name being used in testing -- I think US military payroll? -- and causing problems when a real person had that name. Can anyone here remember this? In any case, "batman" is just about plausible enough that it could be real. I tend to use names like "Mr. Testy Testalicious" which…
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems: Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen? Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many t…
This seems like a good spot for the link to @patio11's "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"
So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably
make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of
them next time you write a system which touches names.
Re: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah this is not the place to let folks get cutesy. If anything the standards should be strict and uniform.
Yes, the dragon is terrible and it's very inappropriate, but someone can't behave sensibly may still be someone whose case the courts must hear.
They’re more than willing to hear the case. It’s the lawyer, not the complainant, who the court is chastising.
If anything, it scans like the court is concerned, like you are, that this vulnerable person’s case isn’t being presented with the seriousness it deserves.
Re: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah this is not the place to let folks get cutesy. If anything the standards should be strict and uniform.
Yes, the dragon is terrible and it's very inappropriate, but someone can't behave sensibly may still be someone whose case the courts must hear.
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#118From the PDF linked in TFA:
> Respectfully submitted,
DRAGON LAWYERS PC
Re: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
#119- "The whole story would be far more humorous were it not from a case in which Perrone represented a woman who claims that she nearly died after being incarcerated and not given proper medical care. Perrone must now refile his complaint in that case—without the cartoon dragon." That should be more offensive than cartoons. In a just world. It's not as if the victim had the luxury of many choices of law firms, or any c…
To a normal person, sure. But the legal system ruins lives and deals in ruined lives every day. They don't blink twice at that stuff. A cartoon dragon on the other hand...
The formality of the process helps them keep their conscious clear. Attacking the formality of the process therefore threatens them.
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#120If watermarks are thing, and the judge just doesn’t like this one because he finds it disrespectful, that sounds like a first amendment issue.