Smart. It will keep people paying. Good business practice. Oh you may not think so, but nobody cares.
Yeah, they spend millions upon millions of dollars for PR and marketing because nobodofy cares what you think. Companies fire employees at the mere suggestion that they may have masturbated while thinking of a woman, and they cowtow to the Twitter outrage machine cause they is so swaggeringly cool that they don't care what anybody thinks. Awwww yeah, baby, shit , motherfuckers better recognize, fool, Nintendo don't take no shit from nobody ya heard? They do what they want and man my balls are so big right now I'm going to go get my Anonymous Coward on and tell people how it is yeah yeah! Fuck you people and uour opinion, nobody cares!
Oh man I so did it! I so told them what was up. I wish my girl could have seen me. Fuck it, I'm takin the laptop to Wendy's so she can see.
Yeah fine, can't expect it, but, why can't you make a local backup of that data? I don't think it would be an issue if people could store it themselves. The inability to do so is what makes it nefarious. Assuming I'm reading the policy correctly. I sure hope I'm not.
Political Correctness flourises during periods of prosperity. This is because the needs of the affluent class are met, and the human mind craves problems to solve. Lacking adequate challenges to overcome, people will create their own. If you pay attention during the next recession, policital correctness will attenuate, only to come roaring back when things turn back around. It's also used as a hedge against lower-class cooperation during periods of expanding wealth inequity. You want the poor black man to look suspiciously at the poor white man, which is why wealthy whites whack the racial bees nest as often as possible then point to the "rednecks", and not the wealthy politicians who routinely sell them all. out. Fewer things scare the upper-classes more than the lower-classes begin to existing relatively peacefully. After all, there's way more of the lower classes than there are of the upper. Divide and conquer.
Just one problem. Apple and every other company depends on people NOT reading them.
Do you know how you can tell a reasonable rule from an unreasonable one?
Figure out what would happen if everyone obeyed it.
Try your best to think of what would happen if everyone did what you are advocating that they do. Would it make things better? Worse? The same?
Well, in this case, were everyone to read, in full, every TOS, adhesion contract, "agreement", and policy put in front of them, the global economy would grind to a halt overnight. People could buy nothing, as they would be perpetually chasing the partner's privacy policy which was linked from the previous parter's terms and conditions which was linked from the original website you wanted to buy box of pencils from.
Much less understand what they read, which you typically have to argue and show some evidence of in order for a contract to stand up. This is the reason so many pre-nups were thrown out a decade or so ago. Men's lawyers were getting their wives-to-be to sign these lengthy one-sided documents, and when the men sought to enforce them, judges were tossing them left and right because the wives-to-be didn't have their own lawyers, and therefore didn't fully know what they were signing. Now, lawyers will typically require the other spouse-to-be have a lawyer, otherwise, they know the prenup has a good chance of not holding up.
Yet online magalocorps routinely have people with IQ's of well under 90 signing multi-page legelese-laden documents.
Anyway, were everyone to stop and read every term put in front of them, in very little time, people would be massively laid off, and businesses, at least those online, would start dropping like flies.
I guess within some time, we'd go back to the early 90's, which maybe isn't so bad. I mean, I think we'd all like to see one more Nirvana show.
But the notion that people are supposed to actually read all of this is not only silly, it's also about as bad faith a claim as can be made.
See, the companies know that people can't read all of the "terms". People have to go to work, pay their taxes, feed their kids, do all of the other things they're mandated to do, not to mention poop, put the mackdown smackdown on some fly hoo-ha, eat, etc. A company can't very well claim in good faith that it expects people to read the thing, knowing that the very existence of their business depends on this not happening.
Besides, every company knows full well when you've only spent 3 second reading the "terms". After all, theyhave web logs, and they can't really claim in good-faith that they thought you read the terms, when they had the means to know that you only saw them for 3 seconds.
Let me ask you something... when they present you with 27 pages of text, shouldn't they at least put a 27 minute timeout on the 'I Agree' button? After all, you'd need at least a minute a page, and they sure wouldn't want you to accidentally click the button before you're done.
Right?
But alas, they don't. They don't because they either want nor expect you to read them, which pretty much turns 100+ years of contract law on it's very head.
So, as it turns out, I need a keeper, you need a keeper, we all need a keeper.
Online agreements are still bullshit, though, and only industrialized nations rapidly devolving into banana republics would give them any credibility.
I don't think it's so much that they made the movies he purchased unavailable, it's that they kept the money he paid for the movies that they no longer have the right to distribute. They're trying to have it both ways here, and you absolutely, positively, without any qualms whatsoever blame Apple for this.
If they sell you something, with the tacit understand that you will have access to it whenever you'd like, and then they remove that access, for whatever reason, they can't keep the money.
Even though it's becoming increasingly standard practice, the customer is not supposed to be left holding the bag.
Except you didn't get a 60kWh battery. You got a 75 kWh battery. You seem to think a 75 kWh batter is 60 kWh simply because someone says so. Or because two people agree that it is. Or because a document that you signed says it's a 60 kWh battery.
Despite all of that, it is still, factually, a 75 kWh battery. Tesla just gave you software to access 60 kWh of it.
And since you paid for it, you own it. It is your personal property. It's your car.
People mod their cars all the time, though. That's the great thing about owning your own car. You can do what you want with it. You can't mod a rental car. Well, you can but I wouldn't recommend it.
Let's say you really want a Ferrari, but you're just too poor to own one. One day you pass a guy selling his Farrari, and you stop and admire it, but explain to him that you can't afford it.
"Hey", he says, "I'll tell you what... I'll sell you this car for 1/10th the price, so long as you don't drive it over 60 Mph... "I mean, I want your money, I want you to have a Ferrari, but I don't want you to get the enjoyment out of it that a wealthier person would."
Homeboy plunks down the cash and drives off. He gets on the freeway and proceeds to floor it.
According to you, the guy is a thief. The cool thing about opinions is that everyone gets to have one of their very own. Even if they promise others that they won't have one. You're entitled to have one anyway.
And dude is entitled to drive his car anyway he wants (well, within the traffic laws at least). Upon spotting him doing 70 in the fast lane, the seller could sue him (you can sue anyone for anything), but he's not going to get arrested for theft.
Why?
Because even he may be a theif to you, but the law doesn't agree with your opinion. When you're Anonymous Coward, it rarely does.
Kudos for not putting your ID next to that little diatribe. That one I agree with you on.
Clearly some Tesla owners disagree with you and are glad they have the freedom to choose based on their own opinion and not based on some poster on slashdot's opinion.
And clearly some Slashdot users disagree with you and are glad they have the freedom to form and offer their opinion and not have to offer one based on how some Tesla owner feels about their purchase.
Okay, now your turn to state something obvious while phrasing it like an in-context rebuttal.
Every day I stand at my window, face toward Slashdot HQ, throw up a milddle finger, then do a 180 and rip the most pugnacious fart I can muster in the general direction of Slashdot for not having a freaking edit button.
You guys't couldn't at least throw a '
' in there where you see blank lines?
I could write if for you in seven and a half seconds if you need help.
"You void your warantee if you root/fix your phone/fail to say three 'Hail Apples' every night" is one of the most enduring myths I've seen. Apple cannot "void your warantee" for anything they want, believe it or not, we even have laws that prevent it right here in the Banana Republic States of America.
Alright, they're hardly ever enforced, so you can be forgiven for not knowing that they exist, but for what it's worth, Apple is violating the law by doing this, and the FTC is at least starting to pretend like they are going to do something about it.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...https://motherboard.vice.com/e...https://www.cultofmac.com/5407...https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
"But. but, it's a free market! Apple should be able to stick a three-foot long kilbasa in your rectum as punishment for not bricking your phone within 3 days of their releasing an update! What, you think you're special? If you don't update, you might get infected, and then infect others, so it's your obligation to brick your phone like everyone else because a working phone can be compromised! You owe it to them! It's right there on page 27 of the fine print! You agreed to it so you have to do it! You agreed to it! You agreed to it of your own free will! In a free market no less! A free market!"
The "free market" hasn't devlolved quite that much yet, but give it another couple of years and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
You do realize insurance premiums were rising anyway and the trend dramatically shrunk after ACA. So while it didn't completely stop global warming we only went up by.1 degrees instead of 2 whole degrees. Really not a hard concept and one the few things it actually delivered on.
No, no, Mr. Coward (if that is your real name), that's not true.
Had the ACA not been signed, global temperatures would have increased by 17.152 degrees (NOT 17.149 degrees that some Republican thinktank lowballed).
I get sick and tired of the Trump disciples low-balling the amount the temperature would have increased. Scientists said 17.152 degrees, and they don't lie. In fact, Science never lies. Except when it claims that there are only two sexes because there are only two chromosome combinations. Chromosomes are a Nazi concept that all real scientists rebuff. Everyone knows that sex and gender are determined by a consensus of highly-educated white people from the suburbs who moved to the city and gentrified all minorities out of it while shouting "Black Lives Matter".
Science also says that men and women are the same, as are all races and creeds of peopl... wait, no it doesn't say that... look, I believe the Science that the media and entertainment industry believes in, and I came to the conclusion all by myself without any influence or peer pressure. Did too. DID TOO!
You know how you know that I'm sincere?
Why, I live my values, of course. Sure, studies show that self-identified "progressives" take more flights each year, and fly more miles each year, than do self-identified "conservatives". Not me, though. I don't have a car, don't fly, I actually care enough about the environment that my daily actions reflect that concern. No, really. DO TOO! And I hate the working-class, rednecks who pollute less than I do but REFUSE TO TALK THE TALK. Oh they just MAKE . ME. SO. MAD! I'm so mad! Look at how mad I am! The climate! The earth! The earth climate! Nothing is more important to me than the comfort of the terrible breeder's offspring 60 years from now. The over-populate the planet, and I hate them yes, but dammit, I want them to be comfortable and to enjoy beachfront property unencumbered. I don't know why I care about that, I just do. Don't tell anyone but I might be God. I mean, my parents always told me I was and I always suspected they were right, but.... anyway.
It's not just me that cares about the climate, but all of California cares too.
Wait, I mean... fuck you! I bet you voted for the big Cheeto or some guy with bass in his voice! Macho Bro asshole! Impure! Unclean! Shame! Shame! Shame!
My college professor said climate change and science and even when promoting the establishment view I do so as anonymous coward so NYAH! Nyah! Nyah!
Companies have gone on records as stating that they would gladly give up the top 10% of their most "demanding" customers. We've even seen some companies, like Sprint, dump customers for calling the service lines X% of average.
You see, in reality, the minority is forced to accept what the majority will tolerate. If you were to break out a curve, and plot it out, you'd see that the free market favors the unexceptional and mediocre, and thus can be quite frustrating to those who wish things were better.
For instance:
If you accept that "critical" or "abstract" thinking, at least in a consistent sense, begins at an IQ of 110-115, you then realize that roughly 20% of Americans fall below this threshold. A super-majority people are under this, and with certanly some exceptions, the super majority tends not to care about things like Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, etc.
But hey, if you posess an IQ greater than 115, and care about policies and foot voting, all is not lost. All you need to do is patronize companies that care about your concerns and all will be... wait... what's this... there are no companies which cater to the Top 20% anymore? They all gear their policies to what the lower 80% will accept?
Oh well, that's the free market. If you don't like it, you could always try eating lead paint. If you eat enough of it, you too may not care about silly things like Arbitration Clauses and lack of privacy. It would be for the best. After all, the free market doesn't really want you.
It's kind of like Democracy itself. Democracy is a terrible form of government. It's idiot-rule. It's a system where people with IQs of 80-90, have the same weight as those with IQs of 130-140. And do you know how those with lower IQ's learn? Repetition. That's why you see all of those commercials and billboards at election time. Screw the susbtance, a picture, a name, and maybe a simple slogan like "working for American values" is really all that's needed. The super-majority will ignore the rest.
And you will have to accept their decision.
The "free market" as it exists in the USA is leading to America's decline on a global scale, as companies consistently meet the meager expectations of the masses, while those who hope for more can "vote with their feet", which essentially means "quit your job, patronize no companies, and live in a tent in the woods"... because really, when it comes to foot voting, there are fewer and fewer places for those feet to take you.
Since those with average-and-lower IQs more or less set the standard for what the public is forced to accept, I think we'll see increasing discontent amongst the other 20% as time goes on.
Whether they can or will do something about it is another story, but if there's any hope at all, lawmakers tend to be culled from the Top 20% pool. Also amongst the top 20% are a few percentage points of people who are smart, but make a living exploiting the existing system.
At the end of the day, corruption tends to be the deciding factor, though, so the bright will be at the mercy of the less bright for the foreseable future.
Then stop giving it to them. People used to have webpages. Now they have Facebook pages. If you don't own your stuff, it's just a matter of time before someone takes it from you.
If i understand correctly, they aren't getting paid, and thus have nothing to lose besides being moderators. Yet, being moderators is valuable enough for them to endure no pay and death threats.
People desiring the power of a moderator that much, have historically rubbed people the wrong way ie. the kid who helps the teacher enforce rules.
I am 100% for worker's rights. However, being that they can leave at any time, with zero penalty (other than, you know, not getting to moderate), I struggle to sympathize here. People who crave the ability to exert power over others to the extent that they will endure death threats, for nothing, have issues of their own. It's kind of unsurprising that they evoke strong emotions from those with an equally strong hatred of being controlled. I mean, wars have been fought for less.
Linux is the most-used OS in the world. That's why you had to cherrypick the one area where it does not make a big showing. The IQ of the average American is 98, and there are 3 OS choices verses how many phone makers? Rooting is a higher IQ endeavor, and the higher IQ generally are nore influencial than the lower. The high group contains most of the builders and creators. The people who argue for an expedited progression to idiocracy are typically in the lower group.
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, it's it time we talked about something important.
Sumpin like, oh I don't know, like... ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!!!
Woo-hoo!
We're gonna go all the way this year, I just know it! We finally got some fresh meat in the backfield, and finally got someone who can throw the ball. Yeooow, boy's a stud!
You guys act like this 'lobbying' shit matters, but what matters is getting the first down without getiing a flag on the play. I mean, first down, baby, that's what it's all about... a couple of those and booya !! 6 points baby, who's your daddy, I'm your daddy, just ask yo momma! I mean, wait til I pull out first, but then totally ask her when I'm finished! That's right, baby! My team totally stomped your team and we won. That's right, WE won... no they don't pay me, but I don't need it, I have a good job and am proud to be the 12th man that helps my squad win! I can't help it if you don't have tesm spirit! I gots spirit yes I do, I gots spirit how bout you? What's that? No? Didn't think so, natch!
The rest of you losers can sit around yapping about politics this and corrupt that, but I'm gonna watch me some FOOT BOWWW, Baby! Ya heard?! Some Foot BOW WOW WOW YIPPIE OH YIPPIE AYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
> And as the Terms and Conditions state, Verizon can change the Terms and Conditions any time they want to.
Tell that to Zappos whose entire T&C was thrown out for being illusory in the manner you mention above.
You cannot 'agree' to future terms which you don't know the details of. English common law and the basis for the US legal system.
Contracts and agreements with the clause you stated are generally deemed 'illusory' and are invalidated.
With every carrier containing the same questionsble terms, though, you can't really claim that the Fire Department has a choice, and this is in direct contradition to s capitalist free market economy where true choice is an absolute necessity.
Capitalism does not, btw, entitle maximum profits by any means in which they can be obtained. That's the main reason you don't see 'Captain Crunch's new and improved Methemphetamine recipe'.
I hear what you're saying, though. If people have to die, include possibly firefighters, so that large corporations can make a bit more profit, then they should do so because it's the American way.
I don't agree with you, but I do understand your point.
Or... and hear me out now.... they can take the free education.... and.... are you ready?.... STILL go into super-high-paying specialties!
I know, right? Cha motherfucking CHING, baby! C'mon... up top!
If the Internet has proven anything beyond all reasonable doubt, it's that humans are not inherently good, ultrustic, unselfish creatures, and the notion that all of these students were pining to do the most good, if only their gosh-darn loans weren't so high, will turn out to be largely unfounded.
Look, there aren't a lot of poor kids going to NYU Med School. They're probably already better off than 98% of the population. Do they really need the money? Probably not, but it's because they're in the bourgeoise that so many wealthy folks were willing to help them. Good luck getting that much money to help Alabama kids get through automotive trade school.
At the end of the day, people are more likely to give money to people that don't need it. It's a weird psychological tick of the human mind. They're also more likely to give to people who are more like themselves. NYU Med School students are seen as better investments than the working-class kids whose futures are less certain.
It's not like this money was taken away from other, more deserving students. If they weren't who they were, there would have been no money in the first place.
Look at the computer. The microwave. Your car in the driveway. Look at the plane flying overhead. Look at the air conditioner. Admire your indoor plumbing. How about that elevator that takes you to your office every morning? I'll bet you love electricity, don't you? I know I do. Look around some more. Look out the window. When you've exhausted what you can see, think of every technological advancement that makes yours among the most priviledged lifestyles in the history of the world.
Now, realize that 98% of everything you've just seen, was created by the 48% minority known as "men".
It's astounding. Truly astounding.
It's absolutely overwhelming.
Were it not for the specific ingenuity of men, we'd all, including women, be trying to heat what we caught for dinner tonight by banging two rocks together.
Damn.... near.... everything.
Invented by men.
So, I hear men make up the majority of corporate board positions.
So you're saying that, currently, equally qualified women (who, we're told, accept 76 cents on the dollar to do the exact same jobs as men), are not allowed to be board members because they are women, and for no other reason?
I mean, if women were equally as skilled as men, corporations could immediately decrease payroll by a quarter, with zero loss in skill by hiring only women.
But, they don't do this, because it's more important for them to have male workers/board members/whatever than more money?
Why would that be? I'm pretty sure companies only care about money. I'm pretty sure they'd hire monkeys if they could get the job done for less money.
But they won't hire women?
Why would all equally qualified women by completely blackballed from jobs they are fully qualified to do?
What's your theory here? They just don't want woman at their company, women who will make them wealthy, because... they just hate women and would gladly pay more to see to it that no woman gets a job they are qualified to do?
To what do you attribute their motivation to lose all of this money? "Sexism"?
They better make more, since they start life with far more debt. Now that every barista in town has a college degree, however, they don't have the value they used to have.
Companies have kind of caught on to the notion that degrees are now commodities, and there seems to be a renewed interest in the self-taught, as they often bring to the table a stronger work ethic since they had to work harder to get where they are, without the crutch of the degree. I mean, we all know a few handfuls of college-educated co-workers who try and skate by, but rare is the self-taught person who does the same. They had to work twice as hard just to get in the same room, and it usually shows.
Not saying that college degrees aren't great things to have, but as an investment, they're getting less valuable. That's what happens when supply rises. Now, everyone is supposed to have a degree. Once upon a time, it was okay to learn a trade.
College is a business like any other, and people with reasonably affluent parents are virtual assured a degree. Perhaps in Art History, but it's a degree nonetheless.
Having a college degree is not what it used to be.
It gives us one bad actor to direct most of our ire toward, and allows us to postpone for one more day the realization that the entire system is designed to abuse us.
I mean, if you or I did what Wells did, or a business we started had done so, we'd be sitting in jail right now. I don't think we'd have an assets left.
Bank are allowed to write themselves out of the law, though. Seriously, they can compel binding, confidential arbitration even when a state or federal law has been broken.
That Wells has done what it's done, only to see it's profit decline by 12%, would be beyond shocking had we not alread been trained to expect massive profits regardless of what harm a bank has caused consumers.
May we all be as fortunate as Wells Fargo, and escape our massive malfeasance with only a 12% decline in profits.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. "
-Henry Ford
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, they spend millions upon millions of dollars for PR and marketing because nobodofy cares what you think. Companies fire employees at the mere suggestion that they may have masturbated while thinking of a woman, and they cowtow to the Twitter outrage machine cause they is so swaggeringly cool that they don't care what anybody thinks. Awwww yeah, baby, shit , motherfuckers better recognize, fool, Nintendo don't take no shit from nobody ya heard? They do what they want and man my balls are so big right now I'm going to go get my Anonymous Coward on and tell people how it is yeah yeah! Fuck you people and uour opinion, nobody cares!
Oh man I so did it! I so told them what was up. I wish my girl could have seen me. Fuck it, I'm takin the laptop to Wendy's so she can see.
A pimp gotta do what a pimp gotta do.
Yeah fine, can't expect it, but, why can't you make a local backup of that data? I don't think it would be an issue if people could store it themselves. The inability to do so is what makes it nefarious. Assuming I'm reading the policy correctly. I sure hope I'm not.
Political Correctness flourises during periods of prosperity. This is because the needs of the affluent class are met, and the human mind craves problems to solve. Lacking adequate challenges to overcome, people will create their own. If you pay attention during the next recession, policital correctness will attenuate, only to come roaring back when things turn back around. It's also used as a hedge against lower-class cooperation during periods of expanding wealth inequity. You want the poor black man to look suspiciously at the poor white man, which is why wealthy whites whack the racial bees nest as often as possible then point to the "rednecks", and not the wealthy politicians who routinely sell them all. out. Fewer things scare the upper-classes more than the lower-classes begin to existing relatively peacefully. After all, there's way more of the lower classes than there are of the upper. Divide and conquer.
Just one problem. Apple and every other company depends on people NOT reading them.
Do you know how you can tell a reasonable rule from an unreasonable one?
Figure out what would happen if everyone obeyed it.
Try your best to think of what would happen if everyone did what you are advocating that they do. Would it make things better? Worse? The same?
Well, in this case, were everyone to read, in full, every TOS, adhesion contract, "agreement", and policy put in front of them, the global economy would grind to a halt overnight. People could buy nothing, as they would be perpetually chasing the partner's privacy policy which was linked from the previous parter's terms and conditions which was linked from the original website you wanted to buy box of pencils from.
Much less understand what they read, which you typically have to argue and show some evidence of in order for a contract to stand up. This is the reason so many pre-nups were thrown out a decade or so ago. Men's lawyers were getting their wives-to-be to sign these lengthy one-sided documents, and when the men sought to enforce them, judges were tossing them left and right because the wives-to-be didn't have their own lawyers, and therefore didn't fully know what they were signing. Now, lawyers will typically require the other spouse-to-be have a lawyer, otherwise, they know the prenup has a good chance of not holding up.
Yet online magalocorps routinely have people with IQ's of well under 90 signing multi-page legelese-laden documents.
Anyway, were everyone to stop and read every term put in front of them, in very little time, people would be massively laid off, and businesses, at least those online, would start dropping like flies.
I guess within some time, we'd go back to the early 90's, which maybe isn't so bad. I mean, I think we'd all like to see one more Nirvana show.
But the notion that people are supposed to actually read all of this is not only silly, it's also about as bad faith a claim as can be made.
See, the companies know that people can't read all of the "terms". People have to go to work, pay their taxes, feed their kids, do all of the other things they're mandated to do, not to mention poop, put the mackdown smackdown on some fly hoo-ha, eat, etc. A company can't very well claim in good faith that it expects people to read the thing, knowing that the very existence of their business depends on this not happening.
Besides, every company knows full well when you've only spent 3 second reading the "terms". After all, theyhave web logs, and they can't really claim in good-faith that they thought you read the terms, when they had the means to know that you only saw them for 3 seconds.
Let me ask you something ... when they present you with 27 pages of text, shouldn't they at least put a 27 minute timeout on the 'I Agree' button? After all, you'd need at least a minute a page, and they sure wouldn't want you to accidentally click the button before you're done.
Right?
But alas, they don't. They don't because they either want nor expect you to read them, which pretty much turns 100+ years of contract law on it's very head.
So, as it turns out, I need a keeper, you need a keeper, we all need a keeper.
Online agreements are still bullshit, though, and only industrialized nations rapidly devolving into banana republics would give them any credibility.
If they sell you something, with the tacit understand that you will have access to it whenever you'd like, and then they remove that access, for whatever reason, they can't keep the money.
Even though it's becoming increasingly standard practice, the customer is not supposed to be left holding the bag.
Despite all of that, it is still, factually, a 75 kWh battery. Tesla just gave you software to access 60 kWh of it.
And since you paid for it, you own it. It is your personal property. It's your car.
People mod their cars all the time, though. That's the great thing about owning your own car. You can do what you want with it. You can't mod a rental car. Well, you can but I wouldn't recommend it.
Let's say you really want a Ferrari, but you're just too poor to own one. One day you pass a guy selling his Farrari, and you stop and admire it, but explain to him that you can't afford it.
"Hey", he says, "I'll tell you what ... I'll sell you this car for 1/10th the price, so long as you don't drive it over 60 Mph ... "I mean, I want your money, I want you to have a Ferrari, but I don't want you to get the enjoyment out of it that a wealthier person would."
Homeboy plunks down the cash and drives off. He gets on the freeway and proceeds to floor it.
According to you, the guy is a thief. The cool thing about opinions is that everyone gets to have one of their very own. Even if they promise others that they won't have one. You're entitled to have one anyway.
And dude is entitled to drive his car anyway he wants (well, within the traffic laws at least). Upon spotting him doing 70 in the fast lane, the seller could sue him (you can sue anyone for anything), but he's not going to get arrested for theft.
Why?
Because even he may be a theif to you, but the law doesn't agree with your opinion. When you're Anonymous Coward, it rarely does.
Kudos for not putting your ID next to that little diatribe. That one I agree with you on.
And clearly some Slashdot users disagree with you and are glad they have the freedom to form and offer their opinion and not have to offer one based on how some Tesla owner feels about their purchase.
Okay, now your turn to state something obvious while phrasing it like an in-context rebuttal.
You guys't couldn't at least throw a '
' in there where you see blank lines?
I could write if for you in seven and a half seconds if you need help.
Please?
"You void your warantee if you root/fix your phone/fail to say three 'Hail Apples' every night" is one of the most enduring myths I've seen. Apple cannot "void your warantee" for anything they want, believe it or not, we even have laws that prevent it right here in the Banana Republic States of America. Alright, they're hardly ever enforced, so you can be forgiven for not knowing that they exist, but for what it's worth, Apple is violating the law by doing this, and the FTC is at least starting to pretend like they are going to do something about it. https://www.theregister.co.uk/... https://motherboard.vice.com/e... https://www.cultofmac.com/5407... https://venturebeat.com/2018/0... "But. but, it's a free market! Apple should be able to stick a three-foot long kilbasa in your rectum as punishment for not bricking your phone within 3 days of their releasing an update! What, you think you're special? If you don't update, you might get infected, and then infect others, so it's your obligation to brick your phone like everyone else because a working phone can be compromised! You owe it to them! It's right there on page 27 of the fine print! You agreed to it so you have to do it! You agreed to it! You agreed to it of your own free will! In a free market no less! A free market!" The "free market" hasn't devlolved quite that much yet, but give it another couple of years and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
No, no, Mr. Coward (if that is your real name), that's not true.
Had the ACA not been signed, global temperatures would have increased by 17.152 degrees (NOT 17.149 degrees that some Republican thinktank lowballed).
I get sick and tired of the Trump disciples low-balling the amount the temperature would have increased. Scientists said 17.152 degrees, and they don't lie. In fact, Science never lies. Except when it claims that there are only two sexes because there are only two chromosome combinations. Chromosomes are a Nazi concept that all real scientists rebuff. Everyone knows that sex and gender are determined by a consensus of highly-educated white people from the suburbs who moved to the city and gentrified all minorities out of it while shouting "Black Lives Matter".
Science also says that men and women are the same, as are all races and creeds of peopl ... wait, no it doesn't say that ... look, I believe the Science that the media and entertainment industry believes in, and I came to the conclusion all by myself without any influence or peer pressure. Did too. DID TOO!
You know how you know that I'm sincere?
Why, I live my values, of course. Sure, studies show that self-identified "progressives" take more flights each year, and fly more miles each year, than do self-identified "conservatives". Not me, though. I don't have a car, don't fly, I actually care enough about the environment that my daily actions reflect that concern. No, really. DO TOO! And I hate the working-class, rednecks who pollute less than I do but REFUSE TO TALK THE TALK. Oh they just MAKE . ME. SO. MAD! I'm so mad! Look at how mad I am! The climate! The earth! The earth climate! Nothing is more important to me than the comfort of the terrible breeder's offspring 60 years from now. The over-populate the planet, and I hate them yes, but dammit, I want them to be comfortable and to enjoy beachfront property unencumbered. I don't know why I care about that, I just do. Don't tell anyone but I might be God. I mean, my parents always told me I was and I always suspected they were right, but .... anyway.
It's not just me that cares about the climate, but all of California cares too.
I mean just look at this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/1...
Wait, I mean ... fuck you! I bet you voted for the big Cheeto or some guy with bass in his voice! Macho Bro asshole! Impure! Unclean! Shame! Shame! Shame!
My college professor said climate change and science and even when promoting the establishment view I do so as anonymous coward so NYAH! Nyah! Nyah!
I'm so good.
Companies have gone on records as stating that they would gladly give up the top 10% of their most "demanding" customers. We've even seen some companies, like Sprint, dump customers for calling the service lines X% of average.
You see, in reality, the minority is forced to accept what the majority will tolerate. If you were to break out a curve, and plot it out, you'd see that the free market favors the unexceptional and mediocre, and thus can be quite frustrating to those who wish things were better.
For instance:
If you accept that "critical" or "abstract" thinking, at least in a consistent sense, begins at an IQ of 110-115, you then realize that roughly 20% of Americans fall below this threshold. A super-majority people are under this, and with certanly some exceptions, the super majority tends not to care about things like Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, etc.
But hey, if you posess an IQ greater than 115, and care about policies and foot voting, all is not lost. All you need to do is patronize companies that care about your concerns and all will be ... wait ... what's this ... there are no companies which cater to the Top 20% anymore? They all gear their policies to what the lower 80% will accept?
Oh well, that's the free market. If you don't like it, you could always try eating lead paint. If you eat enough of it, you too may not care about silly things like Arbitration Clauses and lack of privacy. It would be for the best. After all, the free market doesn't really want you.
It's kind of like Democracy itself. Democracy is a terrible form of government. It's idiot-rule. It's a system where people with IQs of 80-90, have the same weight as those with IQs of 130-140. And do you know how those with lower IQ's learn? Repetition. That's why you see all of those commercials and billboards at election time. Screw the susbtance, a picture, a name, and maybe a simple slogan like "working for American values" is really all that's needed. The super-majority will ignore the rest.
And you will have to accept their decision.
The "free market" as it exists in the USA is leading to America's decline on a global scale, as companies consistently meet the meager expectations of the masses, while those who hope for more can "vote with their feet", which essentially means "quit your job, patronize no companies, and live in a tent in the woods" ... because really, when it comes to foot voting, there are fewer and fewer places for those feet to take you.
Since those with average-and-lower IQs more or less set the standard for what the public is forced to accept, I think we'll see increasing discontent amongst the other 20% as time goes on.
Whether they can or will do something about it is another story, but if there's any hope at all, lawmakers tend to be culled from the Top 20% pool. Also amongst the top 20% are a few percentage points of people who are smart, but make a living exploiting the existing system.
At the end of the day, corruption tends to be the deciding factor, though, so the bright will be at the mercy of the less bright for the foreseable future.
I'm glad it works for you, though. Enjoy.
Then stop giving it to them. People used to have webpages. Now they have Facebook pages. If you don't own your stuff, it's just a matter of time before someone takes it from you.
People desiring the power of a moderator that much, have historically rubbed people the wrong way ie. the kid who helps the teacher enforce rules.
I am 100% for worker's rights. However, being that they can leave at any time, with zero penalty (other than, you know, not getting to moderate), I struggle to sympathize here. People who crave the ability to exert power over others to the extent that they will endure death threats, for nothing, have issues of their own. It's kind of unsurprising that they evoke strong emotions from those with an equally strong hatred of being controlled. I mean, wars have been fought for less.
Linux is the most-used OS in the world. That's why you had to cherrypick the one area where it does not make a big showing. The IQ of the average American is 98, and there are 3 OS choices verses how many phone makers? Rooting is a higher IQ endeavor, and the higher IQ generally are nore influencial than the lower. The high group contains most of the builders and creators. The people who argue for an expedited progression to idiocracy are typically in the lower group.
Not me, though.
When they say 'Are you ready for some Football?!', I say yes.
Yes I am.
Sounds like someone needs to watch some FOOTBALL!
Sumpin like, oh I don't know, like ... ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!!!
Woo-hoo!
We're gonna go all the way this year, I just know it! We finally got some fresh meat in the backfield, and finally got someone who can throw the ball. Yeooow, boy's a stud!
You guys act like this 'lobbying' shit matters, but what matters is getting the first down without getiing a flag on the play. I mean, first down, baby, that's what it's all about ... a couple of those and booya !! 6 points baby, who's your daddy, I'm your daddy, just ask yo momma! I mean, wait til I pull out first, but then totally ask her when I'm finished! That's right, baby! My team totally stomped your team and we won. That's right, WE won ... no they don't pay me, but I don't need it, I have a good job and am proud to be the 12th man that helps my squad win! I can't help it if you don't have tesm spirit! I gots spirit yes I do, I gots spirit how bout you? What's that? No? Didn't think so, natch!
The rest of you losers can sit around yapping about politics this and corrupt that, but I'm gonna watch me some FOOT BOWWW, Baby! Ya heard?! Some Foot BOW WOW WOW YIPPIE OH YIPPIE AYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
Woooooooooooooo!
I sure like me some football.
Tell that to Zappos whose entire T&C was thrown out for being illusory in the manner you mention above.
You cannot 'agree' to future terms which you don't know the details of. English common law and the basis for the US legal system.
Contracts and agreements with the clause you stated are generally deemed 'illusory' and are invalidated.
With every carrier containing the same questionsble terms, though, you can't really claim that the Fire Department has a choice, and this is in direct contradition to s capitalist free market economy where true choice is an absolute necessity.
Capitalism does not, btw, entitle maximum profits by any means in which they can be obtained. That's the main reason you don't see 'Captain Crunch's new and improved Methemphetamine recipe'.
I hear what you're saying, though. If people have to die, include possibly firefighters, so that large corporations can make a bit more profit, then they should do so because it's the American way.
I don't agree with you, but I do understand your point.
I know, right? Cha motherfucking CHING, baby! C'mon ... up top!
If the Internet has proven anything beyond all reasonable doubt, it's that humans are not inherently good, ultrustic, unselfish creatures, and the notion that all of these students were pining to do the most good, if only their gosh-darn loans weren't so high, will turn out to be largely unfounded.
Look, there aren't a lot of poor kids going to NYU Med School. They're probably already better off than 98% of the population. Do they really need the money? Probably not, but it's because they're in the bourgeoise that so many wealthy folks were willing to help them. Good luck getting that much money to help Alabama kids get through automotive trade school.
At the end of the day, people are more likely to give money to people that don't need it. It's a weird psychological tick of the human mind. They're also more likely to give to people who are more like themselves. NYU Med School students are seen as better investments than the working-class kids whose futures are less certain.
It's not like this money was taken away from other, more deserving students. If they weren't who they were, there would have been no money in the first place.
The Federal Government has the constitutional power to create its own currency. Why does it need yours?
No, seriously, look around you.
Look at the computer. The microwave. Your car in the driveway. Look at the plane flying overhead. Look at the air conditioner. Admire your indoor plumbing. How about that elevator that takes you to your office every morning? I'll bet you love electricity, don't you? I know I do. Look around some more. Look out the window. When you've exhausted what you can see, think of every technological advancement that makes yours among the most priviledged lifestyles in the history of the world.
Now, realize that 98% of everything you've just seen, was created by the 48% minority known as "men".
It's astounding. Truly astounding.
It's absolutely overwhelming.
Were it not for the specific ingenuity of men, we'd all, including women, be trying to heat what we caught for dinner tonight by banging two rocks together.
Damn .... near .... everything.
Invented by men.
So, I hear men make up the majority of corporate board positions.
Sounds about right.
I mean, if women were equally as skilled as men, corporations could immediately decrease payroll by a quarter, with zero loss in skill by hiring only women.
But, they don't do this, because it's more important for them to have male workers/board members/whatever than more money?
Why would that be? I'm pretty sure companies only care about money. I'm pretty sure they'd hire monkeys if they could get the job done for less money.
But they won't hire women?
Why would all equally qualified women by completely blackballed from jobs they are fully qualified to do?
What's your theory here? They just don't want woman at their company, women who will make them wealthy, because ... they just hate women and would gladly pay more to see to it that no woman gets a job they are qualified to do?
To what do you attribute their motivation to lose all of this money? "Sexism"?
They better make more, since they start life with far more debt. Now that every barista in town has a college degree, however, they don't have the value they used to have. Companies have kind of caught on to the notion that degrees are now commodities, and there seems to be a renewed interest in the self-taught, as they often bring to the table a stronger work ethic since they had to work harder to get where they are, without the crutch of the degree. I mean, we all know a few handfuls of college-educated co-workers who try and skate by, but rare is the self-taught person who does the same. They had to work twice as hard just to get in the same room, and it usually shows. Not saying that college degrees aren't great things to have, but as an investment, they're getting less valuable. That's what happens when supply rises. Now, everyone is supposed to have a degree. Once upon a time, it was okay to learn a trade. College is a business like any other, and people with reasonably affluent parents are virtual assured a degree. Perhaps in Art History, but it's a degree nonetheless. Having a college degree is not what it used to be.
The third-world of the first-world. The USA has seen better days, and most of us know it.
It gives us one bad actor to direct most of our ire toward, and allows us to postpone for one more day the realization that the entire system is designed to abuse us. I mean, if you or I did what Wells did, or a business we started had done so, we'd be sitting in jail right now. I don't think we'd have an assets left. Bank are allowed to write themselves out of the law, though. Seriously, they can compel binding, confidential arbitration even when a state or federal law has been broken. That Wells has done what it's done, only to see it's profit decline by 12%, would be beyond shocking had we not alread been trained to expect massive profits regardless of what harm a bank has caused consumers. May we all be as fortunate as Wells Fargo, and escape our massive malfeasance with only a 12% decline in profits. "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. " -Henry Ford