Well, I figured the fact that I was saying something similar to "We all know that 1+1=3..." but I guess when it comes to the free market, such an obviously contradictory statement is commonplace and meant seriously, sadly.
We use Google Docs for all documents. Recently, after an employee left the company we deleted his account. Every document that he shared with the company is still visible in the Docs list, but there is no way to open them. It returns an error. Posts on Google Docs help site have gotten 0 useful responses other than "documents shared with others should still be accessible". They are not. There is no tech support.
Damn that sucks, but why would you EVER trust a third-party with the only copy of your data? Use the cloud for services, not critical data storage. If they don't make it easy to keep a local mirror, you need to find another solution. Hell, I keep copies of most everything I download, because I never know when the provider will go and remove it from their site.
Wouldn't "The Last Stop For Space Station-bound Software" be the space station, and not the testing environment?
I thought more about this and I think it's correct. There are two stops the software makes: testing, and the space station. At the first stop, it's bound for the space station. At the second stop, it's not bound for the station anymore since it's already there. Thus, the first stop is the last stop for the space station-bound software. And the last stop is the first stop for the software that's at the space station.
What? Another Microsoft partner screwed over only to find that they were being used as a testbed for Microsoft's own plans??
I remember in the 1990s when Microsoft was first doing tests on TVs, though I never realized it at the time. You know the blue screen that VCRs used to show when the input signal was corrupt.... need I say more?
A free market is a market in which there is no economic intervention and regulation by the state, except to enforce private contracts and the ownership of property. It is the opposite of a controlled market, in which the state directly regulates how goods, services and labor may be used, priced, or distributed, rather than relying on the mechanism of private ownership.
I hope it was clear that I was using sarcasm in my previous message.
Your competitor might actually like that. It means that you stop buying from your distributor, such that you might not be able to buy from them again, or not as good a price as you used to, so when your competitor stops selling at below-wholesale prices, you are worse off than before.
Nonsense! When I visit that site, I see a HUGE button and some normal, selectable text ("Click here to get the plug-in"). A screenreader would do fine with that. Oh, wait...
Let's be honest. Copyrights expire at death, with a minimum term (like 15 years) to support any children. Or how about death + years until any children are over 18.
You just summarized their real purpose exactly: welfare for not just the author, but his children too.
Suspicion (not proof, just if they felt like it) was enough to give them the right
to cancel my phone service (and reclaim the phone phone IIRC) and I had to keep paying the monthly fee. And there was no appeal or ability to protest your innocence.
By signing the contract, YOU would be giving them that right. Your appeal or ability to avoid this is to not sign the contract. It's ALL voluntary, which is why you shouldn't sign contracts you find disgusting.
If they really think PG is doing a "tremendous service" then what's the deal with the loaded language?
It's the usual fake respect. "We highly respect your activities, and want you to correct this error you made with our propery, you fucking assholes... err, great organization." The fact that they slipped in the word "kidnapped" shows their true feelings on the matter.
Someone claiming a right to dictate what I do with my property (the real kind, not the imaginary kind) doesn't mean they actually have that right. Rights are more than an arbitrary set defined by people who have lost their marbles.
But, but, my great-grandchildren will be stolen from if copyright is less than life + 99 years!
No, even worse, they'll be kidnapped! Copyright infringement is theft, kidnapping, extortion, murder, and genocide, didn't you hear? It's the lowest of the low!
Why does Google have to do its search a certain way? It's provided with its own servers, so they can do whatever the hell they want. I guess Google needs to put a big disclaimer on their site, "This site's results are biased in favor of providing useful results for users, not your website. Get over it."
It would be more like a robot enter your vehicle through its wide-open windows, jacking into the electric system, manufacturing more robots out of the car material, then sending more robots out to enter other cars with open windows.
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But yeah, Slashdot summaries these days are almost always just copy-and-paste from the article.
Well, I figured the fact that I was saying something similar to "We all know that 1+1=3..." but I guess when it comes to the free market, such an obviously contradictory statement is commonplace and meant seriously, sadly.
Damn that sucks, but why would you EVER trust a third-party with the only copy of your data? Use the cloud for services, not critical data storage. If they don't make it easy to keep a local mirror, you need to find another solution. Hell, I keep copies of most everything I download, because I never know when the provider will go and remove it from their site.
I thought more about this and I think it's correct. There are two stops the software makes: testing, and the space station. At the first stop, it's bound for the space station. At the second stop, it's not bound for the station anymore since it's already there. Thus, the first stop is the last stop for the space station-bound software. And the last stop is the first stop for the software that's at the space station.
How about "The Penultimate Stop for Space Station-bound Software"?
I remember in the 1990s when Microsoft was first doing tests on TVs, though I never realized it at the time. You know the blue screen that VCRs used to show when the input signal was corrupt.... need I say more?
Because they still have lots of unskippable ads left over from their DVD production.
I hope it was clear that I was using sarcasm in my previous message.
Your competitor might actually like that. It means that you stop buying from your distributor, such that you might not be able to buy from them again, or not as good a price as you used to, so when your competitor stops selling at below-wholesale prices, you are worse off than before.
Indeed, they shouldn't be allowed to do such a thing in a free market.
Nonsense! When I visit that site, I see a HUGE button and some normal, selectable text ("Click here to get the plug-in"). A screenreader would do fine with that. Oh, wait...
You just summarized their real purpose exactly: welfare for not just the author, but his children too.
By signing the contract, YOU would be giving them that right. Your appeal or ability to avoid this is to not sign the contract. It's ALL voluntary, which is why you shouldn't sign contracts you find disgusting.
You are aware that next year begins in 31 days, correct?
Nice way to end the discussion before it even began.
Indeed, since the century wasn't supposed to end until December 31, 2000.
It's the usual fake respect. "We highly respect your activities, and want you to correct this error you made with our propery, you fucking assholes... err, great organization." The fact that they slipped in the word "kidnapped" shows their true feelings on the matter.
Someone claiming a right to dictate what I do with my property (the real kind, not the imaginary kind) doesn't mean they actually have that right. Rights are more than an arbitrary set defined by people who have lost their marbles.
No, even worse, they'll be kidnapped! Copyright infringement is theft, kidnapping, extortion, murder, and genocide, didn't you hear? It's the lowest of the low!
Unfortunately it makes your CPU slower, because it has to translate all the blocked ADD instructions into a NEG SUB pair.
Why does Google have to do its search a certain way? It's provided with its own servers, so they can do whatever the hell they want. I guess Google needs to put a big disclaimer on their site, "This site's results are biased in favor of providing useful results for users, not your website. Get over it."
What about four Kinects? Oh man, 5D... they'd like create a new dimension!!!
And avoiding the need for war would pay for itself, but wait, that would destroy lots of jobs for people who make the machines of war. Carry on then.
It would be more like a robot enter your vehicle through its wide-open windows, jacking into the electric system, manufacturing more robots out of the car material, then sending more robots out to enter other cars with open windows.
Yep, I can imagine a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit brewing right now in the US...