You might get that impression, but for me the fact they are all AC and all using the same hyperbole is a factor. Or to put it another way - a named person with an anecdote >= pseudo horde with anonymous hyperbole
That was pretty much how I used the Internet after I moved on from CIS. Dialed a national number (no local access) then waited for email upload/download and usenet sync. After my first £200 phone bill I decided to trim my Usenet newsgroups to a minimum.
But its not just unlimited or metered - those aren't the only choices. At the moment I get 500 minutes for £10 a month (more than enough for my personal and daily sales calls). So that is about 2p a minute - a long way from even 25p (or cents). Perhaps the US is less competitive though?
I consider myself more of a realist, and whilst I agree they didn't know the full impact before hand, I have no doubt that they would have carried on regardless had they known. They weren't playing for stakes, they were playing for the world championship and to win they had to dominate. If all they cared about was gifting social media to the world and making a lifetime's worth of cash on the side then they would have created something much more open - perhaps even a protocol and a reference platform.
The folk that came before the commercialisation of the Internet were the Lewis and Clarks, the homesteaders and even the gold diggers. These guys are the robber barons of the Internet.
You're talking like its Jimmy's Breaks and Shocks and his 3 franchisees in Belize. Many of these franchisees are also multi-national companies, with hotels across the world. You'd need to be some crazy ass cowboy executive to give away all your European assets, trademarks and current and future income as well as your goodwill across the world (how are your other franchisees going to feel about you simply abandoning your European franchisees out of spite). And you would still owe the fine, still have to go through the lawsuits (no matter how sure you are they'd win), face diplomatic pressure and have to explain it to the shareholders.
And the EU hotels would now have free reign to use the Hilton name without any need to pay.
Against Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc for breach of the franchise contract. I imagine they have contractual obligations to supply services to franchisees (bookings, etc) and franchisees have a license to use the name and business processes.
They don't own the hotels - they license the name and business model/services. Its a franchise - http://www.franchisedirect.com.... To shut down they would have to have the agreement of all the businesses that have a franchise. Why would a local business with a Hilton Hotel in Little Uppington agree to destroy their business because of some dispute between Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc and the EU?
More than that, all the hotels would be open the next day under new ownership so there would be zero loss of anything.
To be honest, I'm not ever sure that Hilton could shut down as its really just a franchise. The hotels are not generally owned by Hilton, who are simply paid a franchise fee for the brand and booking systems. Shutting down 'Hilton' in the EU would just lead to multiple lawsuits from the franchisees for breach of contract.
I don't even own a computer. What I do own is a large library of manuscripts. If you cannot wait until monks scratch the information onto vellum then perhaps you should reconsider your priorities in life...
Why would a publisher wait 20 years to print a book which is now out of copyright and therefore freely available to everyone, including other publishers?
I'm not saying that's what the GP is suggesting, but most times these days when someone says 'do your own research' what they mean is 'watch the same poor quality Youtube videos as me'. That's certainly where my friend found the conclusive evidence that the earth is flat.
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"Confused by lighting" is just the politically correct way of saying that the device thinks "all you <insert race> look alike to me." X^D
(Disclaimer: I have no idea what race the family in question, and I assume it's not stated anywhere.)
Human, I think. The proper phrasing would be - "all you meatbags look alike to me"
My nipples explode with delight!
I hope that's a troll because such ignorance would be frightening.
Nice narrative
But then we can't have an enemy. Remember liberalism = communism and conservatism = nazi. Now get in the ring!
Its lucky the world is so binary.
This is why we can't have nice discussions anymore.
I've read it. Which section are you referring to?
You might get that impression, but for me the fact they are all AC and all using the same hyperbole is a factor. Or to put it another way - a named person with an anecdote >= pseudo horde with anonymous hyperbole
Funnily enough all the comments about SJW stupidity are posted by ACs. You might get the impression some group was trying to keep a meme going.
It seemed so pathetic that it wasn't worth confronting. Still - well said. Couldn't agree more about the Scotland bit ;)
Worst troll ever. You should be ashamed.
That was pretty much how I used the Internet after I moved on from CIS. Dialed a national number (no local access) then waited for email upload/download and usenet sync. After my first £200 phone bill I decided to trim my Usenet newsgroups to a minimum.
Do you mean a Gof?
But its not just unlimited or metered - those aren't the only choices. At the moment I get 500 minutes for £10 a month (more than enough for my personal and daily sales calls). So that is about 2p a minute - a long way from even 25p (or cents). Perhaps the US is less competitive though?
Its not our problem if you live in a third world country. Where I live the local cab services have had apps and tracking for years.
I consider myself more of a realist, and whilst I agree they didn't know the full impact before hand, I have no doubt that they would have carried on regardless had they known. They weren't playing for stakes, they were playing for the world championship and to win they had to dominate. If all they cared about was gifting social media to the world and making a lifetime's worth of cash on the side then they would have created something much more open - perhaps even a protocol and a reference platform.
The folk that came before the commercialisation of the Internet were the Lewis and Clarks, the homesteaders and even the gold diggers. These guys are the robber barons of the Internet.
You're talking like its Jimmy's Breaks and Shocks and his 3 franchisees in Belize. Many of these franchisees are also multi-national companies, with hotels across the world. You'd need to be some crazy ass cowboy executive to give away all your European assets, trademarks and current and future income as well as your goodwill across the world (how are your other franchisees going to feel about you simply abandoning your European franchisees out of spite). And you would still owe the fine, still have to go through the lawsuits (no matter how sure you are they'd win), face diplomatic pressure and have to explain it to the shareholders.
And the EU hotels would now have free reign to use the Hilton name without any need to pay.
Against Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc for breach of the franchise contract. I imagine they have contractual obligations to supply services to franchisees (bookings, etc) and franchisees have a license to use the name and business processes.
They don't own the hotels - they license the name and business model/services. Its a franchise - http://www.franchisedirect.com.... To shut down they would have to have the agreement of all the businesses that have a franchise. Why would a local business with a Hilton Hotel in Little Uppington agree to destroy their business because of some dispute between Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc and the EU?
More than that, all the hotels would be open the next day under new ownership so there would be zero loss of anything.
To be honest, I'm not ever sure that Hilton could shut down as its really just a franchise. The hotels are not generally owned by Hilton, who are simply paid a franchise fee for the brand and booking systems. Shutting down 'Hilton' in the EU would just lead to multiple lawsuits from the franchisees for breach of contract.
I don't even own a computer. What I do own is a large library of manuscripts. If you cannot wait until monks scratch the information onto vellum then perhaps you should reconsider your priorities in life...
I thought the Pyramids were built by Yule Bryner
That's how they fly
Why would a publisher wait 20 years to print a book which is now out of copyright and therefore freely available to everyone, including other publishers?
Youtube.
I'm not saying that's what the GP is suggesting, but most times these days when someone says 'do your own research' what they mean is 'watch the same poor quality Youtube videos as me'. That's certainly where my friend found the conclusive evidence that the earth is flat.
I don't have a mother so good luck with that Mr Hacker.