Because he wants to continue doing business with companies in the UK and as a cost of doing business in the UK his business has to comply with UK laws, including when parliament calls.
This is no different than going to congress when asked in the US, he lost his right to refuse when he became CEO of a congressionally granted corporation and accepted all the benefits and indemnification that goes with it.
If he wants to be a billionaire, he can go do something to earn it, which he pretty much has never done.
Buying power from nuclear powered France doesn't count as being 'nuke free' any more than buying power from a coal burning country makes you coal free. Or the fact that it buys a lot of that other 48% from coal burning plants in Poland.
Stop using Germany as a poster child, you just look stupid to people with a brain. The only people impressed with what Germany did after the tsunami are people to stupid to realize they did a political roundabout that changed nothing but made you think they were doing the right thing.
Wouldn't it be delicious if this derailed humanity's path to the stars long enough that we didn't make it as a species?
Yes, that's exactly what we should be hoping for, the end of our species because of some stupid trivial bullshit. What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you live your whole life hoping people fail just so you can be smug about it? Your attitude is seriously messed up.
I honestly can't think of a worse group of folks than financial lawyers,
Rapists, Serial Killers, Most of the politicians in DC (guess those are mostly lawyers). You put exactly 0 effort into trying to think of someone. Oh haha lawyer joke, how clever and original of you, we've never seen those before.
or a better group of people than SpaceX
What makes them better? You like the company? Do you actually KNOW ANYONE that works there personally or are you just fanboying over how awesome it is that they play with rockets and Musk has a big mouth he likes to brag from? What makes the employees of SpaceX so much better than the employees of NASA or Boeing, LM, Scaled Composites or Blue Origin? Do you have some evidence that the people at these other companies are some how evil?
You put exactly 0 statement into your entire post I now realize, grow up, it wreaks of angsty teen stuck in his bedroom but your UID is too low for that so basement I guess?
SO-- You can TOTALLY replace that epic clusterfuck WD put on it, and replace it with a completely sane and sanitary minimalist debian installation, which lacks a web GUI to attack in the first place.
Doesn't that make the whole mycloud purchase kind of stupid then since its pretty shitty hardware meant for less tech savvy end users?
Both sides need to stop these end-runs around the Constitution, due process, and checks & balances. Any gains you make will be fleeting, the next person/people can roll ir all right back and then do even worse to you.
Which is exactly what they want. If they do it right and the issue is resolved in some more permeant way . . . they don't get bribes to get them to vote on that particular subject.
Congress people have no actual reason to fix it and are financially motivated not to. These end runs just mean they get to do it again with the next guy.
If we want decent government we have to elect a government that does what it says its going to do, not saying one thing and doing another. And when they run their first term and don't actually do what they say they were, elect someone else. Doesn't matter who. Do it only a few times to show them they will be out on their ass with their cushy congress seat and they'll start thinking about actually getting relected by the people not the corporations.
Americans are controlled by corps, not just congress. We deserve this because we're too stupid to vote properly and let them keep doing it to us.
Seriously, show me an example of a tech company actually DOING something.
AirBNB giving away someone else bedroom is not impressive. It doesn't cost them anything and gives them a bunch of free good press.
Verizon giving away talk time and data that literally costs them the same thing if you use it or not is not impressive. They're paying to power those towers and the circuits to them no matter how much data you use or don't use. It costs them the exact same if you use bandwidth as if you don't. The only question is when does it saturate. They aren't paying their providers 'per GB' like you do.
Datto is providing equipment for free... so they can sell you a monthly service.
Give me an example of one of these companies that is just doing the right thing and exposing themselves to some cost. So far all of these major things are accomplished effectively by one give toggling a switch on a website somewhere and maybe entering some region data about who gets affected by that bit flip.
The reason people are switching away from Firefox isn't because it can't render text at 60fps. Its because you never finish a fucking thing and start a new one to fix the problems with the last shiny new thing you didn't bother to finish properly.
Focus.
100 new lines of code won't make the previous slow 10 lines any faster., you just have 110 lines of code now
You clearly know nothing about why people use epi pens. They are emergency devices you hope to never use. They exist solely to help you live long enough to get to an ER.
When having an allergic reaction, the problem is that you may not be able and/or rational enough to inject yourself.
Epi pens are more or less idiot/panic proof. My 4 year has needed to and effectively treated himself for a reaction with an epi pen.
As a software developer. I have never written a program and said there it is done, this program is absolutely perfect.
So basically you're saying you're not capable of making the app better and selling upgrades based on new features and you want to instead rent something incomplete, but ensuring revenue since the customer doesn't really have recorse to encourage you to update your product, you get paid either way. Thats what you're getting at right?
As a developer myself, I get utterly annoyed when other developers think I WANT their shitty upgrades that break features I use just to be replaced with some shiny new feature that no one cares about.
You sell me something at a fair price, that something may or may not include some limited amount of support as long as its clear up front. When that agreement is complete, you owe me nothing, I owe you nothing, I can upgrade if YOU provide a reason for me to buy your NEW WORK, not just because you want to charge me again.
Heres the problem though, someone else will come along and write the better software anyway so you'll still not make money long term as people realize you're just taking advantage of them.
DDos attacks try to block servers by keeping connections open as long as possible WITHOUT transmitting data.
That is one type of DDoS attack. There are many different types. A simple ping flood that runs on multiple hosts us also a DDoS. As was posting a link to slashdot back in the day.
Capitalism is based on openly trying to makes as much money and power for yourself and those you like. It can be regulated by people with less power fairly easy in our current form. Its predicated on people being selfish, something life forms of all kinds do naturally. We evolved to be this way.
Communism is a fantasy about everyone working for the common good. Some will do that, but the same people who end up at the top in capitalism now rule the land because they cheat the system and manipulate it so everyone else legally doesn't have a chance to compete with them.
Animals are greedy and for every 10000 people that contribute fairly, there is on person who will manipulate/lie/cheat to put themselves in a position of power then engineer themselves to stay there.
Communism fails if even one person is corrupt and power hungry.
Capitalism just makes that human natural behavior part of the system. It's not perfect but communism will simply never work with humans involved. You can deny it, but facts are against you.
Socialism has a far better chance of being better for everyone, but still fails for the same reasons eventually
Eventually they WILL be able to reduce service levels to a point where they are profitable,
And at that point, there will be exactly 0 benefits to the user for using MoviePass. Which means they'll cease to exist.
The whole premise is stupid. They want to sell a resource that they have absolutely no control over for less than the cost of the resource itself with the plan to make it up on marketing revenue... but they have pretty much 0 value-add on their marketing data to date. Turns the popular places to go before and after a movie are popular for those same time periods if you don't go to a movie... The marketing data they collect... pretty much only movie theaters care about it.
BTW my same business model to make a fortune while revitalizing malls across the country: In malls put a bill changer machine that accepts 1,5 $10 bills as input, and for each bill provided, it returns a $20 bill in its place. I promise you that I'll have the largest revenue of any company on the planet as long as someone keeps giving me free money to throw away on 'customers'. I'll be able to tell malls exactly how many people came, when, how much money they gave/made, all sorts of great marketing data. I'll have revenue better than Apple.
And I'll go out of business about like MoviePass. MoviePass isn't a business, its a stupid idea that some jackass managed to somehow get VC money for. If the guy wanted to do us a service, he'd take out the idiots that gave him VC money so they can't fund this kind of wasteful stupid stuff in the future.
Because revenue is all that matters! Not balancing the books!
A former boss of mine which had made plenty of money starting startups and selling them used to laugh that he could probably make a billion dollars by selling a company based on revenue from an ATM-like machine in a mall that would spit out $20 bills... if you gave it a $5.
From a revenue perspective, you'd have near infinite amounts since people would be happy to give you $5 and get $20 in return, and thats what venture capital and all the people who buy companies think matters.
Of course your losses are 4x your revenue but whatever, someone on Wall Street will be happy to buy the next big revenue generator.
While his idea was utterly fucking retarded . . . I'm pretty sure it can be done. You probably can sell a company like that for billions because having a sound business model isn't important, revenue is.
Let's say I am stopped, I refuse a search, and now the police charge me for driving without a license because my refusal invalidated my license to drive. Does driving without a license allow for a search of my vehicle?
No, they can't charge you for driving without a license, you have a license. You refused a search after driving, thats different.
They can revoke your license on the spot for refusing (in some states) to follow the rules. In some states, like mine, that means regardless of guilt you lose your license for a year.
At which point if the search was bullshit you can go to court and fight it out to get the revocation reversed but its unlikely to happen before the year is up. You will however not end up (potentially) not being found guilty of the possible worse charge that you might have gotten.
In the end, they punish you regardless of guilt for a year without even having a judge involved.
Indeed, Godspeed Roblimo, one of the editors that made this place great. Thanks for all you gave us, so long and thanks for all the fish. The world is less without you here. My condolences to your family and friends.
Seriously both RHEV and VMware ESXi+vSphere can be installed by most techies in a day if they know how they want their environment configured, doesn't matter if you do it on one machine or 500 both let you bootp the machines from bare metal to fully functional in an hour once one server is setup. Both are well documented and pretty idiot friendly.
OpenStack on the other hand is a monstrous mess of poorly written crap. I've installed all 3, multiple times for giggles cause I like creating a 'perfect' setup for my hardware. I can literally go from nothing to fully functional vSphere or RHEV setup in a day. I wouldn't even want to think about considering installing OpenStack without the ansible scripts I spent weeks tweaking to make the OpenShift ansible actually work.
Sorry Shuttleworth, unless you've conjured a miracle no one but large providers are going to fuck with OpenStack, its WAY too much effort for something that isn't really that great. I personally prefer VMware, but its damn expensive. oVirt (RHEV upstream) beats the pants off OpenStack, provides most of the functionality of VMware with only slightly more effort than the 'next next next' VMware installers.
Lets face it, this guy that we've elected is an example of how to do every fucking thing wrong. Even if his phone was secure, he's going to post the secrets on twitter himself anyway. His phone being insecure is pretty much the least of our problems.
We elected Zaphod Beeblebrox as our president . . . no . . . Zaphod at least had a plan.
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Except the AC put work into making all those things, and expects that the work will result in AC getting benefit in the form of payment so that AC can continue to eat and make new works.
The AC will notice when they can't pay their own bills or eat.
I was all about pirating content when I was younger... then I became a software developer and suddenly it finally clicked in that even though its just a copy, its still is taking things away from those who made it. If one person buys my software and just gives copies to everyone else, I can't sustain the process of making software. Its that simple.
If you don't want to pay for it, DON'T. That doesn't give you the right to just take it however.
If you don't like the way Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video work, don't use it. They aren't unreasonable services and you can get content elsewhere. They do a pretty good job of balancing the subscription model with the all you can eat when you want it goal.
Broadcast television is a little different, people getting bent over streaming broadcast television are part of the problem even though they make themselves out as completely the victim, but we as a society of elected people who determine to make laws that says we can't do that. Vote for politicians who will fix those laws.
Reserve civil disobedience for things that actually matter. Human rights. Equal treatment of all people. Not first world spoiled brat problems, which is what you're doing when you steal media.
Yes, its just a copy, but you're an idiot if you think taking it without paying for it isn't detrimental to the people who produce it and yourself in the long term.
Or, rather that just expecting a hand out after their shitty jobs were automated away, they could do something else productive that hasnt been automated.
Why do people like you not understand that you dont just sit on your ass because you lost your job? Do you have any clue the damage a bored unemployed person WITH money will do?
HINT: its way worse than the starving guy whos atleast looking for food
No, they won't. That is illegal and has been since 1975, that is in fact the very source of what this is about.
They can say it all day long, and they'll get their asses spanked to hell and back if they actually tried to deny a claim JUST because you got it repaired some where else.
They have to prove that the repair caused the problem your warranty claim is about. If you put in some cheapass battery pack from a random manufacture and it burns up the car, you don't get to make a warranty claim. If you put in a new headlight from a 3rd party that works exactly as the original spec and suddenly the radio stops working, they have to fix your radio anyway.
I can say I own all of your stuff. Doesn't make it true, but if I can scare you into believing it, I don't need it to be true I still win.
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Because he wants to continue doing business with companies in the UK and as a cost of doing business in the UK his business has to comply with UK laws, including when parliament calls.
This is no different than going to congress when asked in the US, he lost his right to refuse when he became CEO of a congressionally granted corporation and accepted all the benefits and indemnification that goes with it.
If he wants to be a billionaire, he can go do something to earn it, which he pretty much has never done.
Buying power from nuclear powered France doesn't count as being 'nuke free' any more than buying power from a coal burning country makes you coal free. Or the fact that it buys a lot of that other 48% from coal burning plants in Poland.
Stop using Germany as a poster child, you just look stupid to people with a brain. The only people impressed with what Germany did after the tsunami are people to stupid to realize they did a political roundabout that changed nothing but made you think they were doing the right thing.
Open your eyes.
Wouldn't it be delicious if this derailed humanity's path to the stars long enough that we didn't make it as a species?
Yes, that's exactly what we should be hoping for, the end of our species because of some stupid trivial bullshit. What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you live your whole life hoping people fail just so you can be smug about it? Your attitude is seriously messed up.
I honestly can't think of a worse group of folks than financial lawyers,
Rapists, Serial Killers, Most of the politicians in DC (guess those are mostly lawyers). You put exactly 0 effort into trying to think of someone. Oh haha lawyer joke, how clever and original of you, we've never seen those before.
or a better group of people than SpaceX
What makes them better? You like the company? Do you actually KNOW ANYONE that works there personally or are you just fanboying over how awesome it is that they play with rockets and Musk has a big mouth he likes to brag from? What makes the employees of SpaceX so much better than the employees of NASA or Boeing, LM, Scaled Composites or Blue Origin? Do you have some evidence that the people at these other companies are some how evil?
You put exactly 0 statement into your entire post I now realize, grow up, it wreaks of angsty teen stuck in his bedroom but your UID is too low for that so basement I guess?
SO-- You can TOTALLY replace that epic clusterfuck WD put on it, and replace it with a completely sane and sanitary minimalist debian installation, which lacks a web GUI to attack in the first place.
Doesn't that make the whole mycloud purchase kind of stupid then since its pretty shitty hardware meant for less tech savvy end users?
Both sides need to stop these end-runs around the Constitution, due process, and checks & balances. Any gains you make will be fleeting, the next person/people can roll ir all right back and then do even worse to you.
Which is exactly what they want. If they do it right and the issue is resolved in some more permeant way . . . they don't get bribes to get them to vote on that particular subject.
Congress people have no actual reason to fix it and are financially motivated not to. These end runs just mean they get to do it again with the next guy.
If we want decent government we have to elect a government that does what it says its going to do, not saying one thing and doing another. And when they run their first term and don't actually do what they say they were, elect someone else. Doesn't matter who. Do it only a few times to show them they will be out on their ass with their cushy congress seat and they'll start thinking about actually getting relected by the people not the corporations.
Americans are controlled by corps, not just congress. We deserve this because we're too stupid to vote properly and let them keep doing it to us.
Seriously, show me an example of a tech company actually DOING something.
AirBNB giving away someone else bedroom is not impressive. It doesn't cost them anything and gives them a bunch of free good press.
Verizon giving away talk time and data that literally costs them the same thing if you use it or not is not impressive. They're paying to power those towers and the circuits to them no matter how much data you use or don't use. It costs them the exact same if you use bandwidth as if you don't. The only question is when does it saturate. They aren't paying their providers 'per GB' like you do.
Datto is providing equipment for free ... so they can sell you a monthly service.
Give me an example of one of these companies that is just doing the right thing and exposing themselves to some cost. So far all of these major things are accomplished effectively by one give toggling a switch on a website somewhere and maybe entering some region data about who gets affected by that bit flip.
The reason people are switching away from Firefox isn't because it can't render text at 60fps. Its because you never finish a fucking thing and start a new one to fix the problems with the last shiny new thing you didn't bother to finish properly.
Focus.
100 new lines of code won't make the previous slow 10 lines any faster., you just have 110 lines of code now
Epipens are devices. Different set of rules to govern them.
You clearly know nothing about why people use epi pens. They are emergency devices you hope to never use. They exist solely to help you live long enough to get to an ER.
When having an allergic reaction, the problem is that you may not be able and/or rational enough to inject yourself.
Epi pens are more or less idiot/panic proof. My 4 year has needed to and effectively treated himself for a reaction with an epi pen.
As a software developer. I have never written a program and said there it is done, this program is absolutely perfect.
So basically you're saying you're not capable of making the app better and selling upgrades based on new features and you want to instead rent something incomplete, but ensuring revenue since the customer doesn't really have recorse to encourage you to update your product, you get paid either way. Thats what you're getting at right?
As a developer myself, I get utterly annoyed when other developers think I WANT their shitty upgrades that break features I use just to be replaced with some shiny new feature that no one cares about.
You sell me something at a fair price, that something may or may not include some limited amount of support as long as its clear up front. When that agreement is complete, you owe me nothing, I owe you nothing, I can upgrade if YOU provide a reason for me to buy your NEW WORK, not just because you want to charge me again.
Heres the problem though, someone else will come along and write the better software anyway so you'll still not make money long term as people realize you're just taking advantage of them.
You want new money do new work or STFU.
DDos attacks try to block servers by keeping connections open as long as possible WITHOUT transmitting data.
That is one type of DDoS attack. There are many different types. A simple ping flood that runs on multiple hosts us also a DDoS. As was posting a link to slashdot back in the day.
Distributed Denial of Service
Capitalism is based on openly trying to makes as much money and power for yourself and those you like. It can be regulated by people with less power fairly easy in our current form. Its predicated on people being selfish, something life forms of all kinds do naturally. We evolved to be this way.
Communism is a fantasy about everyone working for the common good. Some will do that, but the same people who end up at the top in capitalism now rule the land because they cheat the system and manipulate it so everyone else legally doesn't have a chance to compete with them.
Animals are greedy and for every 10000 people that contribute fairly, there is on person who will manipulate/lie/cheat to put themselves in a position of power then engineer themselves to stay there.
Communism fails if even one person is corrupt and power hungry.
Capitalism just makes that human natural behavior part of the system. It's not perfect but communism will simply never work with humans involved. You can deny it, but facts are against you.
Socialism has a far better chance of being better for everyone, but still fails for the same reasons eventually
You're one of those morons that believes what he said rather than documented facts, aren't you?
Saying Trump self financed is about as truthful as saying I'm the current POTUS.
You can say it all you want, it's still bullshit.
Eventually they WILL be able to reduce service levels to a point where they are profitable,
And at that point, there will be exactly 0 benefits to the user for using MoviePass. Which means they'll cease to exist.
The whole premise is stupid. They want to sell a resource that they have absolutely no control over for less than the cost of the resource itself with the plan to make it up on marketing revenue ... but they have pretty much 0 value-add on their marketing data to date. Turns the popular places to go before and after a movie are popular for those same time periods if you don't go to a movie ... The marketing data they collect ... pretty much only movie theaters care about it.
BTW my same business model to make a fortune while revitalizing malls across the country: In malls put a bill changer machine that accepts 1,5 $10 bills as input, and for each bill provided, it returns a $20 bill in its place. I promise you that I'll have the largest revenue of any company on the planet as long as someone keeps giving me free money to throw away on 'customers'. I'll be able to tell malls exactly how many people came, when, how much money they gave/made, all sorts of great marketing data. I'll have revenue better than Apple.
And I'll go out of business about like MoviePass. MoviePass isn't a business, its a stupid idea that some jackass managed to somehow get VC money for. If the guy wanted to do us a service, he'd take out the idiots that gave him VC money so they can't fund this kind of wasteful stupid stuff in the future.
MoviePass shouldn't even be listed.
Because revenue is all that matters! Not balancing the books!
A former boss of mine which had made plenty of money starting startups and selling them used to laugh that he could probably make a billion dollars by selling a company based on revenue from an ATM-like machine in a mall that would spit out $20 bills ... if you gave it a $5.
From a revenue perspective, you'd have near infinite amounts since people would be happy to give you $5 and get $20 in return, and thats what venture capital and all the people who buy companies think matters.
Of course your losses are 4x your revenue but whatever, someone on Wall Street will be happy to buy the next big revenue generator.
While his idea was utterly fucking retarded . . . I'm pretty sure it can be done. You probably can sell a company like that for billions because having a sound business model isn't important, revenue is.
Idiots.
Let's say I am stopped, I refuse a search, and now the police charge me for driving without a license because my refusal invalidated my license to drive. Does driving without a license allow for a search of my vehicle?
No, they can't charge you for driving without a license, you have a license. You refused a search after driving, thats different.
They can revoke your license on the spot for refusing (in some states) to follow the rules. In some states, like mine, that means regardless of guilt you lose your license for a year.
At which point if the search was bullshit you can go to court and fight it out to get the revocation reversed but its unlikely to happen before the year is up. You will however not end up (potentially) not being found guilty of the possible worse charge that you might have gotten.
In the end, they punish you regardless of guilt for a year without even having a judge involved.
Not everyone knows where he came from and where he was dwelling just days ago.
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Indeed, Godspeed Roblimo, one of the editors that made this place great. Thanks for all you gave us, so long and thanks for all the fish. The world is less without you here. My condolences to your family and friends.
It'll take you more than a day to get Fuel started. Game over before you even try. I've used it too.
Seriously both RHEV and VMware ESXi+vSphere can be installed by most techies in a day if they know how they want their environment configured, doesn't matter if you do it on one machine or 500 both let you bootp the machines from bare metal to fully functional in an hour once one server is setup. Both are well documented and pretty idiot friendly.
OpenStack on the other hand is a monstrous mess of poorly written crap. I've installed all 3, multiple times for giggles cause I like creating a 'perfect' setup for my hardware. I can literally go from nothing to fully functional vSphere or RHEV setup in a day. I wouldn't even want to think about considering installing OpenStack without the ansible scripts I spent weeks tweaking to make the OpenShift ansible actually work.
Sorry Shuttleworth, unless you've conjured a miracle no one but large providers are going to fuck with OpenStack, its WAY too much effort for something that isn't really that great. I personally prefer VMware, but its damn expensive. oVirt (RHEV upstream) beats the pants off OpenStack, provides most of the functionality of VMware with only slightly more effort than the 'next next next' VMware installers.
That moron is going to tweet about it anyway.
Lets face it, this guy that we've elected is an example of how to do every fucking thing wrong. Even if his phone was secure, he's going to post the secrets on twitter himself anyway. His phone being insecure is pretty much the least of our problems.
We elected Zaphod Beeblebrox as our president . . . no . . . Zaphod at least had a plan.
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Except the AC put work into making all those things, and expects that the work will result in AC getting benefit in the form of payment so that AC can continue to eat and make new works.
The AC will notice when they can't pay their own bills or eat.
I was all about pirating content when I was younger ... then I became a software developer and suddenly it finally clicked in that even though its just a copy, its still is taking things away from those who made it. If one person buys my software and just gives copies to everyone else, I can't sustain the process of making software. Its that simple.
If you don't want to pay for it, DON'T. That doesn't give you the right to just take it however.
If you don't like the way Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video work, don't use it. They aren't unreasonable services and you can get content elsewhere. They do a pretty good job of balancing the subscription model with the all you can eat when you want it goal.
Broadcast television is a little different, people getting bent over streaming broadcast television are part of the problem even though they make themselves out as completely the victim, but we as a society of elected people who determine to make laws that says we can't do that. Vote for politicians who will fix those laws.
Reserve civil disobedience for things that actually matter. Human rights. Equal treatment of all people. Not first world spoiled brat problems, which is what you're doing when you steal media.
Yes, its just a copy, but you're an idiot if you think taking it without paying for it isn't detrimental to the people who produce it and yourself in the long term.
Or, rather that just expecting a hand out after their shitty jobs were automated away, they could do something else productive that hasnt been automated.
Why do people like you not understand that you dont just sit on your ass because you lost your job? Do you have any clue the damage a bored unemployed person WITH money will do?
HINT: its way worse than the starving guy whos atleast looking for food
No, they won't. That is illegal and has been since 1975, that is in fact the very source of what this is about.
They can say it all day long, and they'll get their asses spanked to hell and back if they actually tried to deny a claim JUST because you got it repaired some where else.
They have to prove that the repair caused the problem your warranty claim is about. If you put in some cheapass battery pack from a random manufacture and it burns up the car, you don't get to make a warranty claim. If you put in a new headlight from a 3rd party that works exactly as the original spec and suddenly the radio stops working, they have to fix your radio anyway.
I can say I own all of your stuff. Doesn't make it true, but if I can scare you into believing it, I don't need it to be true I still win.