What a load of crap.
If you held any consistency you would lay it out like this.
God has the power but no motive to deceive. A universe without a deity likewise has no motive to deceive.
Some humans have the motivation to deceive because they don't want to believe in god (spurious at best, but more likely just lazy thinking), and some humans are motivated to convince you that there is a god.
Or how about this. A church has a financial interest in convincing you that there is a god and he wants you to tithe.
Or how about by convincing you there is a god, and that god speaks through them, forgives through them, or whatever through them, that therefore you must submit to them and do as they say.
I mean really what you wrote is utterly lazy thinking at it's best.
Indeed! I can add that to the list that the dishonest conservatives ignore when trying to falsely associate all liberals and progressives with dictators mass murderers.
The blood of millions of people is on the heads of the "progressive" nitwits in the West who supported Mao and Stalin and the dozens of minor tyrants who followed them.
I think Tim makes some great points and is a step in the right direction of the publishing mindset but it is not the complete picture, especially when it comes to subscriptions. I currently use p2p because my musical appetite is so much larger than my financial capability to sustain it by buying the all the CD's I listen to, especially when it comes to exploring. An all you can eat subscription services will fix this one particular segment of my consumer habit, however, there are only so many subscriptions that I can afford. ISP, Cable TV, assume a music service will exist, dvd/video store, book club, subscription websites, online games, virus scanning updates, other software, upgrades, etc etc etc etc. And that is excluding all the normal bills we all pay. There are only so many subscriptions we can financially contribute to. So it will end up in the same situation, saturation of possibilities to explore, to many subscriptions to afford. I will seek other ways of sustaining my exploration whilst still enjoying the sheer pleasure of owning something I treasure. In my case that may mean I will treasure my "all I can eat" music subscription (if it ever happens) more than something else, but I will still make the same decisions I do now, just focused on something else.
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Welcome to a new twist on DRM. Why when we buy their software can they dictate how we are to use it but when it comes to human rights abuse can they not take any responsibility?
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So how many sects of people who don't believe in Santa Claus?
What a load of crap. If you held any consistency you would lay it out like this. God has the power but no motive to deceive. A universe without a deity likewise has no motive to deceive. Some humans have the motivation to deceive because they don't want to believe in god (spurious at best, but more likely just lazy thinking), and some humans are motivated to convince you that there is a god. Or how about this. A church has a financial interest in convincing you that there is a god and he wants you to tithe. Or how about by convincing you there is a god, and that god speaks through them, forgives through them, or whatever through them, that therefore you must submit to them and do as they say. I mean really what you wrote is utterly lazy thinking at it's best.
Indeed! I can add that to the list that the dishonest conservatives ignore when trying to falsely associate all liberals and progressives with dictators mass murderers.
I think Tim makes some great points and is a step in the right direction of the publishing mindset but it is not the complete picture, especially when it comes to subscriptions. I currently use p2p because my musical appetite is so much larger than my financial capability to sustain it by buying the all the CD's I listen to, especially when it comes to exploring. An all you can eat subscription services will fix this one particular segment of my consumer habit, however, there are only so many subscriptions that I can afford. ISP, Cable TV, assume a music service will exist, dvd/video store, book club, subscription websites, online games, virus scanning updates, other software, upgrades, etc etc etc etc. And that is excluding all the normal bills we all pay. There are only so many subscriptions we can financially contribute to. So it will end up in the same situation, saturation of possibilities to explore, to many subscriptions to afford. I will seek other ways of sustaining my exploration whilst still enjoying the sheer pleasure of owning something I treasure. In my case that may mean I will treasure my "all I can eat" music subscription (if it ever happens) more than something else, but I will still make the same decisions I do now, just focused on something else. Left intentionally blank
Welcome to a new twist on DRM. Why when we buy their software can they dictate how we are to use it but when it comes to human rights abuse can they not take any responsibility? Darren
Have you check the definition for microsoft at dictionary.com?