In all likelihood they license it through a licensing library and the original rights holder isn't in the loop.

Curious how they define professional use, like my work desktop is windows, but all the servers are rhel

I'm not sure I buy into the not wanting to share idea, but I do agree I find it hard to see how anyone could make the risk/reward calcs stack up in favour of taking an appreciable share the market - and they'd need to take a decent chunk to make it viable.

I kinda think it should become some supranational entity like the UN or something - somehow the govts of the world pay Google for it and have it exist independent of a corporation and not be for profit. I've not really got the words for what I think it should be, but I know there's too much worth in the media it has for it to go away.

Firmly believe we should ban all mention of Scunthorpe from the instance.

Because it's a load of shite mostly.

I remember reading a post once that pondered on why there are so many gentle giants, why a lot of naturally tall muscular men seem so chill.

A gentle giant on the chain responded "it's because you're taught from a very young age that if you pop off and lose it there's a really good chance you're going to kill someone"

I think men need to understand they are threats, in general it's not their fault they're threats, in general nobody is really expecting them to go ape on anyone, but ultimately men are threats.

To quote you

The kid could have done this woth a knife that was left in her purse

Which is absolutely disingenuous. The teacher was facing the child reaching out for the gun when the child shot. Next time you're around a child in that age range have a game of slapsies, even with your fingertips touching and you having to hold still until the child tries to slap your hand they'll struggle to get you.

Both knife and gun could absolutely result in a death by a six year old given the right circumstances but they're not equivalent, not even close.

You're vastly overestimating how strong a six year old is, the effective range of a six year old with a knife and underestimating how much faster and stronger an able bodied grown adult is in comparison and how relatively easy it is to defend yourself from a six year old you're literally facing down when they're limited by their own strength.

The bayonet is a weapon of last resort, the US army haven't trained with them in more than a decade and last fought a bayonet battle 70 years ago, there's not a professional army on the planet who's primary weapon is an edged blade. More bad faith horse shit.

I don't even think the phone box is still there if I'm honest.

It's not going to solve it, but it's one less thing for parents to need to worry about. Honestly wearing a school uniform/having kids who wear a school uniform is not something I've ever been too worried about.

So long as it's a standardisation process I think it's fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who's rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it's exactly the same as the status quo.