Ooops, sorry, this one is different because of the "* Note: This bundle is Windows-only and provides Steam keys only. You must pay $1 or more to receive the games."
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
I am fully aware of the reality in Iran, far more than you, as you only read articles on the internet rather than do any real research. I am also aware of what the reality is in Azerbaijan and how that differs from what you read on the internet. Maybe you should travel more instead of just reading about the world and you will find out how different it is from what you read. My research is based on reality and yours is based on the writings of other people that you have never met, but you wish to insult me and tell me how superior your reading is. You think that it is me that is the fool when I know what the reality is:-) and then you wonder why so many think Americans are idiots:-)
Living there tells me that no one bothered to change the law to comply with your pieces of paper. How about Iran? Did they also sign your paper? Do they care if they did?
I realise that you may have a limited education but it is not a pirated movie in Azerbaijan. This is exactly the type of narrow minded stupidity that we are talking about. You can sell a copy of a movie in a store on the high street in Azerbaijan and there is no law being broken. The greatest stupidity that the US has is thinking that IP is a object that you can export but do not worry, you can carry on living in your American dream while the rest of us wake up.
The guilds were abolished in the middle ages and they should stay abolished. America got rich by stealing other people's ideas (you are using one now) and now they want to force the rest of us to respect that theft and convince us that we are thieves when we do the same. Sleep well and take a look at how your economy is doing when you wake up:-)
This is exactly why the US is not fit to run the global domains. The US keeps using this position to apply US law to other countries which is extremely wrong. People here seem to think that there is only one law and that it is right but that is just stupid. If someone in Azerbaijan or Iran wants to sell their DVDs or clothes or whatever, which they are legally allowed to sell on the high street, to a wider audience, why not? The US keeps selling their crap to Azerbaijan etc. without any regard to their laws and then says that all these countries must abide by US laws. Most of us just move away from.com but why should we? This is wrong and the US should stick to policing its own people.
They are probably still up and running with one of their other domains and it is only you, the prospective customer, that does not know how to find them. I stopped registering.com etc. a long time ago because I do not trust the thought police, these guys also have second domains in more stable regions. This only really hurts the US credibility and economy.
When I introduced my mother to Linux she was surprised how easy it was as she had heard all the scare mongering. You turn it on and get a desktop, like with Windows. You have a menu like with Windows. You click on items and the programmes start, like with Windows. Do I need to go on or do you all get the idea that she thought it was just like Windows except the really big bad difference... click once instead of twice, which she really liked. I went away and a couple of years later she was using Gimp which I had not shown her. She said she preferred Photoshop on the Mac which they had at art school. So eventually she bought a Mac and learnt another system. If a 70 year old great-granny can get through all that and not see what the fuss is about, I think it is time we starting sacking people who cannot.
and a competent Linux admin can do far more good than a competent Windows admin (or is that an oxymoron?). So the moral is hire competent people and sack incompetent people.
We are now several years down this road and their people are now far more trained with Limux and OpenOffice (why?) that with MS and Office. The long term benefits are already being felt.
No one should be expected to sign a non disclosure agreement in relation to something like this. I would also refuse. If I had in fact been downloading stuff in a country where downloading is not allowed, I would consider the 600 Euro settlement but to be asked to sign away any right to argue to legality or fairness of my treatment should be illegal.
The worst thing about wine is that it stopped developers from creating games that really worked on Linux. Wine is great for Office etc. but games go deeper and need some real thought put into them. Now developers have got lazy and just bring out a wine version that has problems...
If you really need Office, install it. The discussion was about which games people want. I have had Office running on all OSs and do not see what you are talking about. Codeweavers is better than wine for this but that is up to you as well. I no longer need or want the macros to run but when I did I would just install MSOffice on the Linux box. I switched to OSX and started to use Office for Mac but it is as bad as the Windows version. Now I prefer Pages but it does not matter because it is not relevant. Install what you want on your machine and get back to the discussion.
Having set up several businesses, I fail to see your first question. It takes money, and we are talking about a situation where an excess of money is the problem. So of course it is easy.
Your second point is strange because Bitcoins do not in any way clean the money, they only transfer the money which still has to be cleaned in some way. If the IRS arrive at your house asking for an explanation with regard to the $6m that you just bought your new house with, they are not yet asking how it got from one place to another, they first want to know how your earnt it and if you you have paid tax on it. If you follow my advice then you will not have a problem, in fact you will not even get asked as you will have paid the tax but if you use Bitcoin you have not done anything to answer the questions. All you have done is avoided paying the bank the 6% transfer fee.
It is not wanting to see black people die that is wrong, it wanting to see any people die that is wrong. If you make it illegal to want to see black people die then that is unfair on people who get attacked because they have red hair or a big nose. We are not fighting racism by bringing out racist laws, we are encouraging it.
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Ooops, sorry, this one is different because of the "* Note: This bundle is Windows-only and provides Steam keys only. You must pay $1 or more to receive the games."
You can set the price to less than $1 if you complete the captcha. i.e. $0.01.
Why not just buy the cheaper, Windows version, reject the EULA and demand a refund, then install Linux yourself?
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
I am fully aware of the reality in Iran, far more than you, as you only read articles on the internet rather than do any real research. I am also aware of what the reality is in Azerbaijan and how that differs from what you read on the internet. Maybe you should travel more instead of just reading about the world and you will find out how different it is from what you read. My research is based on reality and yours is based on the writings of other people that you have never met, but you wish to insult me and tell me how superior your reading is. You think that it is me that is the fool when I know what the reality is :-) and then you wonder why so many think Americans are idiots :-)
Living there tells me that no one bothered to change the law to comply with your pieces of paper. How about Iran? Did they also sign your paper? Do they care if they did?
It is "rather than answer" and not "rather then answer"!!!
I realise that you may have a limited education but it is not a pirated movie in Azerbaijan. This is exactly the type of narrow minded stupidity that we are talking about. You can sell a copy of a movie in a store on the high street in Azerbaijan and there is no law being broken. The greatest stupidity that the US has is thinking that IP is a object that you can export but do not worry, you can carry on living in your American dream while the rest of us wake up.
The guilds were abolished in the middle ages and they should stay abolished. America got rich by stealing other people's ideas (you are using one now) and now they want to force the rest of us to respect that theft and convince us that we are thieves when we do the same. Sleep well and take a look at how your economy is doing when you wake up :-)
This is exactly why the US is not fit to run the global domains. The US keeps using this position to apply US law to other countries which is extremely wrong. People here seem to think that there is only one law and that it is right but that is just stupid. If someone in Azerbaijan or Iran wants to sell their DVDs or clothes or whatever, which they are legally allowed to sell on the high street, to a wider audience, why not? The US keeps selling their crap to Azerbaijan etc. without any regard to their laws and then says that all these countries must abide by US laws. Most of us just move away from .com but why should we? This is wrong and the US should stick to policing its own people.
They are probably still up and running with one of their other domains and it is only you, the prospective customer, that does not know how to find them. I stopped registering .com etc. a long time ago because I do not trust the thought police, these guys also have second domains in more stable regions. This only really hurts the US credibility and economy.
I do not, nor will I ever, live in USSA. I value my freedoms and I could not live in such an oppressive country.
When I introduced my mother to Linux she was surprised how easy it was as she had heard all the scare mongering. You turn it on and get a desktop, like with Windows. You have a menu like with Windows. You click on items and the programmes start, like with Windows. Do I need to go on or do you all get the idea that she thought it was just like Windows except the really big bad difference... click once instead of twice, which she really liked. I went away and a couple of years later she was using Gimp which I had not shown her. She said she preferred Photoshop on the Mac which they had at art school. So eventually she bought a Mac and learnt another system. If a 70 year old great-granny can get through all that and not see what the fuss is about, I think it is time we starting sacking people who cannot.
and a competent Linux admin can do far more good than a competent Windows admin (or is that an oxymoron?). So the moral is hire competent people and sack incompetent people.
We are now several years down this road and their people are now far more trained with Limux and OpenOffice (why?) that with MS and Office. The long term benefits are already being felt.
Freiburg found that Microsoft would pay them well not to be a free burg any longer...
No one should be expected to sign a non disclosure agreement in relation to something like this. I would also refuse. If I had in fact been downloading stuff in a country where downloading is not allowed, I would consider the 600 Euro settlement but to be asked to sign away any right to argue to legality or fairness of my treatment should be illegal.
Wouldn't it be better to just leave it in her locker and always be at school?
... to my information? I want to keep my right to privacy and although I accept that she can ask, she does not have a right to it.
The worst thing about wine is that it stopped developers from creating games that really worked on Linux. Wine is great for Office etc. but games go deeper and need some real thought put into them. Now developers have got lazy and just bring out a wine version that has problems...
If you really need Office, install it. The discussion was about which games people want. I have had Office running on all OSs and do not see what you are talking about. Codeweavers is better than wine for this but that is up to you as well. I no longer need or want the macros to run but when I did I would just install MSOffice on the Linux box. I switched to OSX and started to use Office for Mac but it is as bad as the Windows version. Now I prefer Pages but it does not matter because it is not relevant. Install what you want on your machine and get back to the discussion.
... in Bitcoins.
I would be happy with a woman like that when I am 60 :-) Eyes are not that good now and will only get worse.
Having set up several businesses, I fail to see your first question. It takes money, and we are talking about a situation where an excess of money is the problem. So of course it is easy.
Your second point is strange because Bitcoins do not in any way clean the money, they only transfer the money which still has to be cleaned in some way. If the IRS arrive at your house asking for an explanation with regard to the $6m that you just bought your new house with, they are not yet asking how it got from one place to another, they first want to know how your earnt it and if you you have paid tax on it. If you follow my advice then you will not have a problem, in fact you will not even get asked as you will have paid the tax but if you use Bitcoin you have not done anything to answer the questions. All you have done is avoided paying the bank the 6% transfer fee.
It is not wanting to see black people die that is wrong, it wanting to see any people die that is wrong. If you make it illegal to want to see black people die then that is unfair on people who get attacked because they have red hair or a big nose. We are not fighting racism by bringing out racist laws, we are encouraging it.
The curse of Cain...