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Abortions in first 12 weeks should be legalised in Germany, commission says
  • Yeah, but it’s a brand. There’s nothing special about the Coca-Cola company that makes it impossible for other soda manufacturers to make brown sweet drinks either, but they have exclusive rights to the name.

    Why would you even want to name your sparkling wine after the Champagne region unless you’re making it there? It’s because the name has a value, and the origin laws are there to protect that value.

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    Features lost across versions of macOS
  • The bash that comes with macOS is a fork of the last version distributed under version 2 of the GPL, most likely because Apple doesn’t want to distribute GPLv3 code as part of macOS, and it is ancient. They keep it updated with security fixes but nothing else, so it has gradually become less and less compatible with current bash.

    Since zsh has become a popular bash replacement and it isn’t GPLv3, they switched the default shell to that.

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    Why do dinosaurs have big heads and tiny arms?
  • T. rex was around for 20 million years or so, I’d say they passed for long enough to be considered successful. Despite the tiny arms.

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