Sure UF does poke some fun at some of their clueless users, who can blame them. I work in field service and have travelled over 100 miles to load paper in a printer before, its hard not to chuckle at something like that.
But the techs in UF do a lot more than just sit around making fun of clueless users. There is a lot fun being poked at techs and geeks themselves, these people have plenty of quirks the,selves and Illiad does not hesitate to take a shot at them. Its a shame more people can't take themselves a little less seriously and not always be on the lookout for a new reason to be offended.
I always thought that UF was funny, however after reading all the posts here that tell me it isn't I realize I must be wrong. Thank god for all you saving me from the pitfall of free thought.
I agree, what they ar doing is unethical, but thats life. As I understand it they haven't taken anything yet, they are just putting conditions on the continued use of their service. You have the choice of taking it or leaving it. There is no (insert diety/goverment/philosophy/dogma of choice here) given right to a page on the internet. The only way you can be sure of having a place on the net that will be yours and under your own conditions os to pay for it.
Seems like that is not a popular philosophy nowdays, everybody has their hand out waiting for something. By all means boycott Yahoo if you feel they are out of line, I think they kind of are, but all the whining because the people that have been giving you something for nothing all this time suddenly change the rules.
Time to get back to reality, if a web page is iportant enough to get this upset over, maybe its important enough to pay for.
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Sure UF does poke some fun at some of their clueless users, who can blame them. I work in field service and have travelled over 100 miles to load paper in a printer before, its hard not to chuckle at something like that.
But the techs in UF do a lot more than just sit around making fun of clueless users. There is a lot fun being poked at techs and geeks themselves, these people have plenty of quirks the,selves and Illiad does not hesitate to take a shot at them. Its a shame more people can't take themselves a little less seriously and not always be on the lookout for a new reason to be offended.
I always thought that UF was funny, however after reading all the posts here that tell me it isn't I realize I must be wrong. Thank god for all you saving me from the pitfall of free thought.
I wondered if someone would bring up that point.
I agree, what they ar doing is unethical, but thats life. As I understand it they haven't taken anything yet, they are just putting conditions on the continued use of their service. You have the choice of taking it or leaving it. There is no (insert diety/goverment/philosophy/dogma of choice here) given right to a page on the internet. The only way you can be sure of having a place on the net that will be yours and under your own conditions os to pay for it.
Seems like that is not a popular philosophy nowdays, everybody has their hand out waiting for something. By all means boycott Yahoo if you feel they are out of line, I think they kind of are, but all the whining because the people that have been giving you something for nothing all this time suddenly change the rules.
Time to get back to reality, if a web page is iportant enough to get this upset over, maybe its important enough to pay for.