The UN is useless. The only reason it hasn't gone the way of the League of Nations is because of nuclear weapons. Mutually assured destruction has done more to prevent another World War than the UN ever did.
It depends on your agenda. if you are trying to slowly move to a one world government situation with each country losing its sovereignty and all laws dropping to the lowest common denominator, then you are still on track for that goal to be successful.
They seem to have been doing ok running 'exclusive'. So i pose the question again, why should they invite competition?
As a side note, there are some similar non compete restrictions when you buy Visual studio from Microsoft, so this isn't like its a new concept and they seem to be doing well with it.
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I can claim anything.
( or was that sarcasm that i missed? )
If you refuse, you don't get the job you can guarantee.
Just sell off some of your daytime data to the highest bidder.
It also isn't the end of the world either. The user just clicks ok without reading and moves on with his free stuff.
Open-office also has one on first use. I'm sure there are others.
Its still free.. i don't see the big deal.
You mean back to the good old days when the kernel could barely self-host and you had to bit edit to get things to boot off a IDE hard drive?
Ah, those were the days.
Return opened software for a refund? Good luck.
Unless you are someone special they really wont care.
After their preset limit, they would just stop talking to you and tell you to buy a new copy.
I have heard the securom wont work with a VM
By keeping and not eliminating DRM, they have ensured that it will continue to rise for their products.
I lump the UN, WTO, etc all into one big bucket.
And if the UN gets its way, proxies will be illegal. So will open wifi. Anything that might let you hide will be banned.
Perhaps there will be a good use for botnets after all :)
The UN is useless. The only reason it hasn't gone the way of the League of Nations is because of nuclear weapons. Mutually assured destruction has done more to prevent another World War than the UN ever did.
It depends on your agenda. if you are trying to slowly move to a one world government situation with each country losing its sovereignty and all laws dropping to the lowest common denominator, then you are still on track for that goal to be successful.
Well thats easy: By definition, governments don't like unabated anonymous speech.
The ability to ( effectively ) hide is what scares the government the most about the internet.
Ya, cant let our citizens speak out without being identifiable by the government.
It can also eat away at their bottom line just as easily.
Its a business risk they don't feel is worth doing.
I must have missed the court decision where they were declared a monopoly. Mind showing us your reference?
They seem to have been doing ok running 'exclusive'. So i pose the question again, why should they invite competition?
As a side note, there are some similar non compete restrictions when you buy Visual studio from Microsoft, so this isn't like its a new concept and they seem to be doing well with it.
From a business standpoint, why should they allow it?
Just hire me as a consultant and ill take care of it for you.
And this is a surprise to you? They are selling a product, not safety.
I would also imagine that if a major bug is found, they might have to refund all the purchases to date, and go under.
early Nazi Germany" wasn't notable for "citizen snitching"
My meaning is that it was known for the fear of that. Fear went a long way.
Sort of blows me using my ipod eh?
If you want my business again you will do 2 things:
1 - remove *all* DRM, both direct and indirect forms of it.
2 - produce product worth my money.
And you don't think it already is?
Potholes, and that long haired guy across the hall you think is a pothead.