Microsoft's Calibri font is at the center of a political scandal in Pakistan

Even if it seems obvious, how are you going to prove that they didn't actually download the font or have the special Windows edition?

Although it might turn public perception, it shouldn't, I believe, be considered judicially.

This is not the U.S., though, and I ain't a lawyer anyway.

I'm totally serious Virtuabhi

In total, the amount of lives lost to fighting in the north, and with internal oppositionary movements amounts to around 4300 people over 10 years - that digit is from Hina Rabbani Khar. This is not much for such a populous country.

Armed struggle rarely reach big cities where the majority of business activity take place. On my observation, something big only happens in big cities once a year or less.

I do not believe that OBL, AQ and co. count for more than a small nuisance.

No armed group ever came close to trampling the central government, nor will they ever be in the foreseable future.

India is a genuine issue for the country. Not solely because of its military ambitions. The constant economic and diplomatic pressure from India is the reason for much of international isolation of the country.

The army, and previously regular army coups could've been seen as an issue in the past. In my own observation, I see that army's freedom of action was already on the downward trajectory during Musharaf's reign, and that was partially responsible for him falling out of power so fast (other being that Zia's era generals simply died of old age). The civil society (Pakistani oligarchate), is in antagonistic relations with the army. They are squeezing them out of power, preventing them from gaining any momentum. Generals are not coming back to power in our generation. Big buck has won over the military.

Most notably this:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Ayup. I use Oxygen on pretty much everything because I really like how it looks and it's part of the distinctive style I impart to the stuff that I'm building. The number of users who have really strong opinions about fonts versus the number of users who either consciously or unconsciously appreciate a good-looking design is not a ratio in favor of caring about the former.

(Also agreed on performance; that's why I use one font family and use it from Google Fonts--because it caches.)

> Even among type professionals, there’s a growing acceptance that for most people, the terms font and typeface can be used interchangeably. Only experts really need to worry about it.

> “For most people in most situations, those terms can swap around without any trouble,” Tobias Frere-Jones tells Co.Design. “The distinction would matter in type design, obviously, but also contexts which involve engineering, like app development or web design.”

I'd agree with that. To save you reading the entire article, here's the rough definition presented in it:

Typeface refers to the set of all the distinct shapes. It's what most people mean when they say "font" in everyday life.

Font refers to a specific weight at a specific size.

Even as a web developer I find that distinction confusing because a single "font" file will usually support any number of sizes and can be rendered in different weights or even as oblique, although of course the result will be less sophisticated than using the "hand-crafted" weight variants or italics. And of course there are file formats that can actually contain more than one such "font" (even from different typefaces).

So outside of actual type design or technical specifications I would say that the terms should be treated as interchangeable because nobody can be bothered using them correctly.

I'd actually argue even type designers don't care much what you call them. Or at least that seems to go for the kind of type designers that actually design types rather than correcting people on the Internet.

Doesn't it?