Point is, they're not all just horrible ripoffs designed to fuck you in the ass. Get overyourself and take off the tinfoil hat.
Okay, you got me. I'm blinded by my rage towards Best Buy. However, they are designed to fuck me in the ass - that is where "fucking in the ass" involves taking my money.
It's a business, do you think they ever have my best interest at heart? I'm talking corporate policies that are made behind closed doors that revolve around numbers, not people. It's not that insane to think that they try to think of ways to make money. Is it?
And getting over myself... I'm not taking it personal. It isn't just me they are trying to "fuck in the ass", it's you too. You know, sometimes it's a real deal... but caveat emptor. If it sounds to good to be true, it likely is. All that jazz. Besides, I don't shop there.
I bet right now however that the Seagate ST3120026A (yeah, this one for less than $70) will come down to that low $49 price pretty soon, two weeks tops. Do you think Best Buy makes it a practice to sell items at a loss?
Maybe they stopped rebates because they realized they were paying people to shop there... get real.
Problem with Best Buy (especially in that situation) is that shit rolls downhill. It always comes from the top, the people who deal with customers the least.
No matter, they broke the law in not giving what was advertised so his budget practices don't even enter into the logic game you try to play. You can't blame a customer for not getting what they were promised.
Or can you? That is the movement that companies are making now a days...
Your writing/music/video is not your house. You have no fundamental right to prevent someone 6000km away from you from making a copy of a disc to one of his friends, an activity that has no direct bearing on you at all.
Copyright exists only to help the general public by encouraging production of new works. Giving "the right to redistribution" to the artist exclusively is a mere legal convenience. We shouldn't let our ethics be distorted by copyright holders' use of inaccurate terms like "theft" and "piracy".
Copyright. Get it?
You, and others, forget that your "right" to make copies (fair use) is given to you with the same stroke of the pen that gave you the responsibility to respect the owner of that copyright.
I'm not an **AA agent trolling here, I'm trying to make a valid point. The law gave you certain rights, but it also gave the producer of the work certain rights. Words like "theft" and "piracy" are over used, and I disagree with the legal tactics of the **AA (as I do the BSA's tactics and others who overstep their bounds, Orrin Hatch listening?).
However, as a music, movie, software or literary producer you've got the right to decide how and where your work gets used (within limits). You sign a deal with Sony or Time Warner, not for recording time and promotion, but so they can mass distribute your music and make those decisions for you. Otherwise you'd have to do that yourself - and you already had the music thing down.
The reason you go for GPL or FDL licenses is because you want to ensure people respect your wishes that modifications are made openly and so forth...
It really burns me to see the same people making issues of GPL/copyleft violations while attacking other people's right to copyright. Copyleft is still copyright, no matter which way you look at it.
Make copies for your friends, but don't hide behind that next time, thinking mass distribution is your right. It's this type of thinking, the application of the idea that "information wants to be free" to entertainment, that makes more restrictive laws necessary and possible. Stop! Because people crying about "freedom" the most are the ones costing us the most. I'm sure RMS thinks Microsoft is wrong for charging what they do for software - but I doubt he advocates breaking the law to demonstrate that idea.
Rebates do make it seem like you are getting a deal, but you can go to one of Best Buy's competitors and buy the same item for Best Buy's price minus the rebate.
Even better, order the item online - you might wait a few days for the item but it will be cheaper, even with shipping. No matter it's a scam because the reason they, or the manufacturer, offer a rebate is because there was a price break.
There once was a time, you might just remember, when rebates were offered after you bought your item. Like the original "Zip" drive. I paid $200 for it when it came out, the same week it came out. Then after a few months they started offering rebates but they made it retroactive. That is what a rebate should be like.
Using rebates to sucker in customers isn't always going to work. It's not that they are bad always, my current computer was a huge deal because of the rebate. Then again, it dropped in price the same amount two weeks later.
Waiting two weeks would have kept the money in my pocket and I wouldn't have had to loan the computer company $250 for 2 months.
Their rebate policy was flawed, but so are their other "policies". I will no longer shop at Bust Buy because "policy" always trumps the customer.
Take for instance their refund policy. If you buy a computer, and pay cash, and that computer doesn't work when you get home - you must wait for a check if you want to return it for a full refund. I advised my mother on going there because of the good prices. She paid cash and got a good deal. The PC was fried and they didn't have another to exchange.
Apparently another policy is that Bust Buy doesn't ship items from store to store or order replacement items if they are out of stock. Her options were: Wait 1 month for them to fix the computer, for free; wait 6 to 8 weeks for a refund; or pay the manufacturer to ship a replacement (and pay to take the broken machine).
After their sales staff insulted her in the store (only for wanting what was due), she decided to get the refund and buy a machine elsewhere.
Still, if I pay cash - why should I wait for a check in the mail? Cashing a check isn't cheap for people who don't have checking accounts, not everyone does have one too. Hell, they discourage the use of checks as it is.
Someone should also look into the fact that they never honor their rewards program. In one visit we bought $300 in DVD's and was supposed to get a $25 store credit in the mail (after paying another $10 to join the "club"). The credit never came and they don't even have us on file. Worst part is that we bought more, expensive, items there hoping we'd get a reward!
I prefer to see more Novell in the marketshare whether it's open or closed source. Hopefully Linux users support will push them to open more technology like some companies have done, but overall Novell products are a lot better than there rivals. The eDirectory platform is better than Active Directory in many respects, including but not limited to security, cross-platform support (duh) and reliability... scalability, database size, license cost, standards based transactions and data handling...
You get the picture.
If you were a Suse fan, stick in there. If you are a developer help out, open communication with Novell. Ignore the articles and push through the filter. Find situations where it works and implement it. I belive that eDirectory combined with what is now the Novell Linux Desktop will someday be a force to reckon with in the enterprise space.
If you've managed or designed a network you appreciate the technology Novell can offer you. I know many system administrators who would love to return to a day where the enterprise desktop isn't anything but an interface to work applications. I'd prefer a Linux desktop I could roll out with the features and security measures I want and be able to manage all the functionality at the server. It's the current Windows server sales pitch, but Novell's is better.
But then again, technology doesn't win in the board room. If it did Novell wouldn't be in a cash crunch now. But then again, I'm becoming a shill and ignoring some of the bad decisions Novell has made - either way, support them.
Taking on SCO would help their cause quite a bit as well...
But I see your point. Imagine that I could take a.us domain name and create something that looks real. Especially because we already have official pages under the [statecode].us pages.
I guess we don't want "attorneygeneral.calif.us" to be a phishing site asking people to sign up for identity theft protection.
"It's not like 300 grades were changed or anything like that," he said. "It's not even close."
Like one person getting credit for something they didn't do isn't enough... its got to be mass fraud to care?
"It's believed at this time that [Ramirez] accessed the computer system from her house," Signa said. "There is also a second indication that the computer was accessed at one point from the office where she worked, so its believed [she used eGrades at] both locations."
I live in Cincinnati and Cleveland is east of me and I hate being called the "Midwest"!
Damn, they have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - how can they be Midwest?
And why do people (politicians mainly) think Midwest is a nice way of saying "Americans from the central states" when I think "idiots from the central states"..?
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Point is, they're not all just horrible ripoffs designed to fuck you in the ass. Get overyourself and take off the tinfoil hat.
Okay, you got me. I'm blinded by my rage towards Best Buy. However, they are designed to fuck me in the ass - that is where "fucking in the ass" involves taking my money.
It's a business, do you think they ever have my best interest at heart? I'm talking corporate policies that are made behind closed doors that revolve around numbers, not people. It's not that insane to think that they try to think of ways to make money. Is it?
And getting over myself... I'm not taking it personal. It isn't just me they are trying to "fuck in the ass", it's you too. You know, sometimes it's a real deal... but caveat emptor. If it sounds to good to be true, it likely is. All that jazz. Besides, I don't shop there.
I bet right now however that the Seagate ST3120026A (yeah, this one for less than $70) will come down to that low $49 price pretty soon, two weeks tops. Do you think Best Buy makes it a practice to sell items at a loss?
Maybe they stopped rebates because they realized they were paying people to shop there... get real.
Yeah right.
Problem with Best Buy (especially in that situation) is that shit rolls downhill. It always comes from the top, the people who deal with customers the least.
No matter, they broke the law in not giving what was advertised so his budget practices don't even enter into the logic game you try to play. You can't blame a customer for not getting what they were promised.
Or can you? That is the movement that companies are making now a days...
I don't have the patience, I would have punched someone in the mouth.
Your writing/music/video is not your house. You have no fundamental right to prevent someone 6000km away from you from making a copy of a disc to one of his friends, an activity that has no direct bearing on you at all.
Copyright exists only to help the general public by encouraging production of new works. Giving "the right to redistribution" to the artist exclusively is a mere legal convenience. We shouldn't let our ethics be distorted by copyright holders' use of inaccurate terms like "theft" and "piracy".
Copy right. Get it?
You, and others, forget that your "right" to make copies (fair use) is given to you with the same stroke of the pen that gave you the responsibility to respect the owner of that copyright.
I'm not an **AA agent trolling here, I'm trying to make a valid point. The law gave you certain rights, but it also gave the producer of the work certain rights. Words like "theft" and "piracy" are over used, and I disagree with the legal tactics of the **AA (as I do the BSA's tactics and others who overstep their bounds, Orrin Hatch listening?).
However, as a music, movie, software or literary producer you've got the right to decide how and where your work gets used (within limits). You sign a deal with Sony or Time Warner, not for recording time and promotion, but so they can mass distribute your music and make those decisions for you. Otherwise you'd have to do that yourself - and you already had the music thing down.
The reason you go for GPL or FDL licenses is because you want to ensure people respect your wishes that modifications are made openly and so forth...
It really burns me to see the same people making issues of GPL/copyleft violations while attacking other people's right to copyright. Copyleft is still copyright, no matter which way you look at it.
Make copies for your friends, but don't hide behind that next time, thinking mass distribution is your right. It's this type of thinking, the application of the idea that "information wants to be free" to entertainment, that makes more restrictive laws necessary and possible. Stop! Because people crying about "freedom" the most are the ones costing us the most. I'm sure RMS thinks Microsoft is wrong for charging what they do for software - but I doubt he advocates breaking the law to demonstrate that idea.
Rebates do make it seem like you are getting a deal, but you can go to one of Best Buy's competitors and buy the same item for Best Buy's price minus the rebate.
Even better, order the item online - you might wait a few days for the item but it will be cheaper, even with shipping. No matter it's a scam because the reason they, or the manufacturer, offer a rebate is because there was a price break.
There once was a time, you might just remember, when rebates were offered after you bought your item. Like the original "Zip" drive. I paid $200 for it when it came out, the same week it came out. Then after a few months they started offering rebates but they made it retroactive. That is what a rebate should be like.
Using rebates to sucker in customers isn't always going to work. It's not that they are bad always, my current computer was a huge deal because of the rebate. Then again, it dropped in price the same amount two weeks later.
Waiting two weeks would have kept the money in my pocket and I wouldn't have had to loan the computer company $250 for 2 months.
Their rebate policy was flawed, but so are their other "policies". I will no longer shop at Bust Buy because "policy" always trumps the customer.
Take for instance their refund policy. If you buy a computer, and pay cash, and that computer doesn't work when you get home - you must wait for a check if you want to return it for a full refund. I advised my mother on going there because of the good prices. She paid cash and got a good deal. The PC was fried and they didn't have another to exchange.
Apparently another policy is that Bust Buy doesn't ship items from store to store or order replacement items if they are out of stock. Her options were: Wait 1 month for them to fix the computer, for free; wait 6 to 8 weeks for a refund; or pay the manufacturer to ship a replacement (and pay to take the broken machine).
After their sales staff insulted her in the store (only for wanting what was due), she decided to get the refund and buy a machine elsewhere.
Still, if I pay cash - why should I wait for a check in the mail? Cashing a check isn't cheap for people who don't have checking accounts, not everyone does have one too. Hell, they discourage the use of checks as it is.
Someone should also look into the fact that they never honor their rewards program. In one visit we bought $300 in DVD's and was supposed to get a $25 store credit in the mail (after paying another $10 to join the "club"). The credit never came and they don't even have us on file. Worst part is that we bought more, expensive, items there hoping we'd get a reward!
Scam!
I get no respect at all /rimshot
...especially when that directory services product runs on multiple platforms and can contain a billion objects. Who needs Windows 2000 or 2003?
Signed,
Huge Novell Fanboy
It's not just open source stupid!
... scalability, database size, license cost, standards based transactions and data handling...
And I say that with total humor.
I prefer to see more Novell in the marketshare whether it's open or closed source. Hopefully Linux users support will push them to open more technology like some companies have done, but overall Novell products are a lot better than there rivals. The eDirectory platform is better than Active Directory in many respects, including but not limited to security, cross-platform support (duh) and reliability
You get the picture.
If you were a Suse fan, stick in there. If you are a developer help out, open communication with Novell. Ignore the articles and push through the filter. Find situations where it works and implement it. I belive that eDirectory combined with what is now the Novell Linux Desktop will someday be a force to reckon with in the enterprise space.
If you've managed or designed a network you appreciate the technology Novell can offer you. I know many system administrators who would love to return to a day where the enterprise desktop isn't anything but an interface to work applications. I'd prefer a Linux desktop I could roll out with the features and security measures I want and be able to manage all the functionality at the server. It's the current Windows server sales pitch, but Novell's is better.
But then again, technology doesn't win in the board room. If it did Novell wouldn't be in a cash crunch now. But then again, I'm becoming a shill and ignoring some of the bad decisions Novell has made - either way, support them.
Taking on SCO would help their cause quite a bit as well...
Its page worse than FLOSS;
And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss
DRM, inability to transport your media?
I call dupe!
Yeah?
Because it's illegal they'd be tracked down? What about phishers?
Any type of fraud is just as illegal.
http://www.digitaldistractions.org/
pay nothing...
I do...
.us domain name and create something that looks real. Especially because we already have official pages under the [statecode].us pages.
But I see your point. Imagine that I could take a
I guess we don't want "attorneygeneral.calif.us" to be a phishing site asking people to sign up for identity theft protection.
Is it in?
/rimshot
Put freakin' laser-beams on the heads of those nano-probes and have them kill cancer?
http://www.mintruth.com/wiki/index.php?Crashed%20D iebold%20ATM
I bumber sticker I wanted to make (Slashdot's disclaimer makes it mine - see bottom of page):
Don't Blame Me I Accidentially Voted For Buchanan
"It's not like 300 grades were changed or anything like that," he said. "It's not even close."
Like one person getting credit for something they didn't do isn't enough... its got to be mass fraud to care?
"It's believed at this time that [Ramirez] accessed the computer system from her house," Signa said. "There is also a second indication that the computer was accessed at one point from the office where she worked, so its believed [she used eGrades at] both locations."
Idiot!
They!
they put dubya back in office, not us.
I live in Cincinnati and Cleveland is east of me and I hate being called the "Midwest"!
Damn, they have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - how can they be Midwest?
And why do people (politicians mainly) think Midwest is a nice way of saying "Americans from the central states" when I think "idiots from the central states"..?
It really won't be long until we are all labeled terrorists by the huge, swelling, religious right.
Terrorism? Yeah, it's the only way sometimes.
Sometimes you are driven to it.
Actually, it's not all that funny considering I run a site which is extreme...
http://www.mintruth.com/
I had a really good response but it was too extreme and since I don't want trouble I'll keep it to myself.
I for one welcome our freedom hating overlords...
In Soviet Russia The Government Flushes You!!!
So? Or... more on topic:
In Soviet Russia The Government Steals Your Code!!!
ahh forget it...