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* MOOSE - "'''M'''anned '''O'''rbital '''O'''perations '''S'''afety '''E'''quipment" aka "'''M'''an '''O'''ut '''O'''f '''S'''pace '''E'''asiest" - a [http://www.boggsspace.com/strange_but_true.asp project] of an [[Escape Pod]]/personal reentry vehicle from General Electric (late 1960-s). |
* MOOSE - "'''M'''anned '''O'''rbital '''O'''perations '''S'''afety '''E'''quipment" aka "'''M'''an '''O'''ut '''O'''f '''S'''pace '''E'''asiest" - a [http://www.boggsspace.com/strange_but_true.asp project] of an [[Escape Pod]]/personal reentry vehicle from General Electric (late 1960-s). |
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* [[DRM]] is the abbreviation used by the publishers of proprietary software and entertainment works for what they call "digital rights management". Opponents of DRM have adopted Richard Stallman's [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement suggestion to expand it instead as "digital ''restrictions'' management"]. Intellectual property itself, being an [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html after-the-fact synthesis of disparate areas of law], has been called "intellectual protectionism", "intellectual prohibition",<ref>Stephan Kinsella. [http://archive.mises.org/15240/intellectual-poverty/ Intellectual Poverty]. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011-01-06. Accessed 2014-08-29.</ref> "intellectual privilege", or "imaginary property".<ref>Mike Masnick. "[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458/if-intellectual-property-is-neither-intellectual-property-what-is-it.shtml If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?]". ''Techdirt'', 2008-03-06. Accessed 2014-08-29.</ref> |
* [[DRM]] is the abbreviation used by the publishers of proprietary software and entertainment works for what they call "digital rights management". Opponents of DRM have adopted Richard Stallman's [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement suggestion to expand it instead as "digital ''restrictions'' management"]. Intellectual property itself, being an [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html after-the-fact synthesis of disparate areas of law], has been called "intellectual protectionism", "intellectual prohibition",<ref>Stephan Kinsella. [http://archive.mises.org/15240/intellectual-poverty/ Intellectual Poverty]. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011-01-06. Accessed 2014-08-29.</ref> "intellectual privilege", or "imaginary property".<ref>Mike Masnick. "[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458/if-intellectual-property-is-neither-intellectual-property-what-is-it.shtml If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?]". ''Techdirt'', 2008-03-06. Accessed 2014-08-29.</ref> |
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* Due to the "official" name "[[Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]]" being artificially created for advertising and extremely ambiguous (literally any game with online multiplayer combat fits these words) an alternate and more specific term arose '''A'''eon of '''S'''trife '''S'''tyle(d) '''F'''ortress '''A'''ssault '''G'''ame (sometimes extended to include '''G'''oing '''O'''n '''T'''wo '''S'''ides. |
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