I'm in the middle of the process of moving away from the IT career to "something else", as well.
Studying law for a change.
And has found a coleague of the same age, doing the same, saying "I'd prefer being retired
lawyer then being retired IT guy".
And since nowadays there's more and more law related issues in IT and the Internet, law was
even logical choice for me.
Rubbish. Once pricetag is placed on a donation it's not donation any more. In fact, this can easily be seen as a way to steal taxes from the IRS since donations are tax deductable, while items sold for money are generating taxable income.
And the fact that Microsoft makes it compulsory for a recepient of the donation to "watch adds" makes it perfectly clear how much this whole deal is worts. "No watching = no computers", so adds = computers.
Again, this is patently wrong for many reasons, and in my first writing I pointed out just the first reason.
The deal would be legal if Microsoft would reveal in advance "how many adds?", "for how long?", "total time that a person would commit by watching adds", etc. For Microsoft "watching adds" is clearly a business. They should simply reveal what EXACTLY do they expect from the person or persons, and not something that's more like "voluntary slavery".
Regards!
This should be illegal if it's not already. Messing with personal freedom is something that should not be easily let go even under disguise of IP laws (eg. patents). In a way, this is patently wrong.
One should never forget that in Stalin's Soviet Union or in fact on most of the former socialist countries the crime rate was relatively low compared to the crime rate in the West. Freedom inevitably brings more incidents. In socialist countries, however, one did not need prying eyes in form of ever watching cameras, but rather the task was delegated to each and every person, so that they would come forward as witnesses and most of the time they even wouldn't hasitate catching the criminal himself, making "citizen's arrest". Now, one may argue that there's a thin line between beeing a witness and beeing a spy. But what the heck, crime rate WAS low.
Now, if west (and east which in the meantime abandoned police methods of the past embracing "anything-goes" attitude) is satisfied with the loss of privacy to the much greater extent then it was possible in the socialism, so be it. Why should only few critical voices "see" the dangers while others are not capable of seeins that exchanging freedom for security doesn't bring security at all, but takes freedom away nevertheless?
Excellent observation! If it's yours then you should get Nobel price.. E=MC^2, but also M=E/C^2, so radiating energy (light and every other kind of electromagnetic energy) E that permeates confined space V should definetely cause light bending (and every other gravitational efect) as if it would be mass M. Great!
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I, for one, salute our genetically engineered overlords!
I for one salute our new Google overlords!
In fact, 100% af all US IMPORTS are coming from abroad!
I'm in the middle of the process of moving away from the IT career to "something else", as well. Studying law for a change. And has found a coleague of the same age, doing the same, saying "I'd prefer being retired lawyer then being retired IT guy". And since nowadays there's more and more law related issues in IT and the Internet, law was even logical choice for me.
Rubbish. Once pricetag is placed on a donation it's not donation any more. In fact, this can easily be seen as a way to steal taxes from the IRS since donations are tax deductable, while items sold for money are generating taxable income. And the fact that Microsoft makes it compulsory for a recepient of the donation to "watch adds" makes it perfectly clear how much this whole deal is worts. "No watching = no computers", so adds = computers. Again, this is patently wrong for many reasons, and in my first writing I pointed out just the first reason. The deal would be legal if Microsoft would reveal in advance "how many adds?", "for how long?", "total time that a person would commit by watching adds", etc. For Microsoft "watching adds" is clearly a business. They should simply reveal what EXACTLY do they expect from the person or persons, and not something that's more like "voluntary slavery". Regards!
This should be illegal if it's not already. Messing with personal freedom is something that should not be easily let go even under disguise of IP laws (eg. patents). In a way, this is patently wrong.
One should never forget that in Stalin's Soviet Union or in fact on most of the former socialist countries the crime rate was relatively low compared to the crime rate in the West. Freedom inevitably brings more incidents. In socialist countries, however, one did not need prying eyes in form of ever watching cameras, but rather the task was delegated to each and every person, so that they would come forward as witnesses and most of the time they even wouldn't hasitate catching the criminal himself, making "citizen's arrest". Now, one may argue that there's a thin line between beeing a witness and beeing a spy. But what the heck, crime rate WAS low. Now, if west (and east which in the meantime abandoned police methods of the past embracing "anything-goes" attitude) is satisfied with the loss of privacy to the much greater extent then it was possible in the socialism, so be it. Why should only few critical voices "see" the dangers while others are not capable of seeins that exchanging freedom for security doesn't bring security at all, but takes freedom away nevertheless?
Excellent observation! If it's yours then you should get Nobel price.. E=MC^2, but also M=E/C^2, so radiating energy (light and every other kind of electromagnetic energy) E that permeates confined space V should definetely cause light bending (and every other gravitational efect) as if it would be mass M. Great!