"Terrorist" is a name assigned by people. It isn't necessarily a helpful one to try and split into component parts.
"Terrorists", for the most part, don't directly care about causing terror. But they'll use it in an attempt to further their aims. If they feel that destroying a country's infrastructure will further their aims, do you *really* think they'll stop and say "wait, this won't induce terror, can't do that"?
(as an example, IRA (generally considered to be a terrorist group) bomb hoaxes, whilst having some element of terror involved, were much more about mass disruption than anything else)
Eh? How is that different from "If you were running a http server, what do the clients care what they're connecting to? That can be moved."? The web rules über alles?
So somebody is upset about basing the name of a separate organisation on 'Debian' and abbreviate that to a 'D'. Well wanker, I tell you something: you cannot trademark a single letter, or we'd only have about 36 possible companies.
Great, I'm going to start a new Linux distribution tomorrow. I'll call it, oh, "Microsoft Windows Inspired Operating System". Then I'll get worried about trademarks and change it to "MWI Operating System", but make it clear what "MWI" is an abbreviation for. Finally, on the website I'll stick the Microsoft Windows logo to the left of "MWI Operating System" as part of the title.
The next day, everyone will be shocked when Microsoft isn't particularly happy.
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"Terrorist" is a name assigned by people. It isn't necessarily a helpful one to try and split into component parts.
"Terrorists", for the most part, don't directly care about causing terror. But they'll use it in an attempt to further their aims. If they feel that destroying a country's infrastructure will further their aims, do you *really* think they'll stop and say "wait, this won't induce terror, can't do that"?
(as an example, IRA (generally considered to be a terrorist group) bomb hoaxes, whilst having some element of terror involved, were much more about mass disruption than anything else)
Eh? How is that different from "If you were running a http server, what do the clients care what they're connecting to? That can be moved."? The web rules über alles?
Sitefinder.
(not that I seriously consider this a reason for taking sole control of DNS from the US, but it's worth remembering)
Great, I'm going to start a new Linux distribution tomorrow. I'll call it, oh, "Microsoft Windows Inspired Operating System". Then I'll get worried about trademarks and change it to "MWI Operating System", but make it clear what "MWI" is an abbreviation for. Finally, on the website I'll stick the Microsoft Windows logo to the left of "MWI Operating System" as part of the title.
The next day, everyone will be shocked when Microsoft isn't particularly happy.