Although I understand the sentiment and agree, it's one reason I *don't* mark emails from companies I do business with as spam.
If a company annoys me and won't let me opt out of marketing crap, that is one of many factors in my decision to stay with them or find another provider of whatever the service is...
Unfortunately, there's precedent for businesses to contact their customers to make sales - so legally, they won't have to distinguish between sales contacts and notifications -- but there might be hope yet for consumers. If I opt out of receiving communications from a company, but the law says they must notify me of some change they plan to make to the contract, then we'll have to see how that plays out in court. Hopefully they'll be required to send those notices, even while I've opted out of other communication... so I wonder where the courts will land on that issue - whether opting out of communications also means you opt out of notifications...
And now I'm modded down for trolling? That's -5 Troll and +5 Interesting/Insightful.
Maybe I'd better explain: I just meant that "also a Republican" would probably spark angry replies from Republicans. So it wasn't trolling - it was meant to be funny/insightful/whatever.
Yeah, no bothering with warranties at all for anything! I mean, warranties exist to cover situations where things are supposed to work, but don't, right? So next time I buy a car - no warranty for me, it'll just *work*, right? After all, that's 10-30K for something - it damned well better work!...Hyperbole aside, yes, things *should* work, but in the real world, they don't always. This is neither to say that Microsoft has done enough, nor to say that they should be shut down as a company over this issue........ just that it's reasonable for things to go wrong and for companies to have to try and fix them.
I mean, that's seriously like a two year old dropping a cookie on the floor and having a tantrum "WANT COOKIE! WWAAAAAAAAANT COOKIE!"
(On the other hand, one begins to suspect that companies hire two year olds, so maybe it's a fair trade. heh)
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What incentive? Well, as soon as one of the twenty is off the list, #21 gets put on, now doesn't it? And as far as not working on #21, well, the other 20 are worse, yes?
Further, that assumes that a system was put in place specifically as written - why limit to 20? Why not come up with a list of needed solutions and bounties to cover more than twenty?...this assumes that the system isn't crap - which for the sake of conversation, why not?
I believe it was a hypothesis, not a conclusion, and I'd expect everyone to have figured out that the courts aren't always able to determine truth... Or do you think someone is only guilty or innocent after the findings of a court, regardless of what actually happened in real life? Put another way - if courts are able to reach accurate verdicts 100% of the time, no matter the nature of the case, why is there so much unsolved crime? The Justice System is pretty good, all things considered; but it's not at all like television. You don't always get fingerprints; you can send stuff off to the lab and get a clearcut answer all the time...
Har, har, and yes, you have a point, and yes you were being funny, but I'm just so sick of hearing this with every single new version of Windows... I was a DOS user until 3.1; I remember this same sentiment with '95, '98, ME, 2000, XP, and now Vista. And in each case, at least, through XP, after a while, people grew to like the next-to-last version of Windows.
I'm not saying there aren't problems; just that it gets old seeing it every single time...
It's illegal to drive 1 mph over the speed limit, but that's extremely rarely enforced.
Just because something isn't enforced doesn't make it illegal.
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong.
None of the above comments reflect my views on the issue at hand, mind...
Long distance, maybe, but the Baby Bells were still very much Bellish in nature... They earned that name, and continue to do so. Don't forget that one of them - Southwestern Bell, AKA SWB AKA SBC AKA AT&T has grown again... As a Texan who grew up with SWB, now living in Florida where Bellsouth was just purchased by the entity that was originally Southwestern Bell but is now AT&T......... I'm not saying it's necessarily all bad, mind, just that to say Ma Bell went up in smoke is... not nearly the whole story IMHO.:)
"Ebbesmeyer - that's quite a good name for someone who works with the sea."
I sea your point -- it's rather tidy. Oh, shun me if you will, wetter you do or don't, I don't care - you just wish you'd come up with all these bad puns.;-)
Woot! Endless supply of cheap labour and beautiful beaches coming right up: New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico!
Good points, but the thing is -- since we only know the tiniest bit about how our *own* life system works (oh, we know a lot, but what we don't know just dwarfs it), how can we imagine what other forms might exist? And yet, I agree with you to some degree - one bit of logic that seems reasonable is that it's more likely that life *won't* be like ours... And yet, if you think about it from an evolutionary point of view, the ones saying that it's surely likely that it will be some form of biped..... that also has merit. I think the key is that we really and truly have no idea. Sure, not all ideas are equal; but I don't think there's absolutely any practical way to figure out who's right on this one...
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Although I understand the sentiment and agree, it's one reason I *don't* mark emails from companies I do business with as spam.
If a company annoys me and won't let me opt out of marketing crap, that is one of many factors in my decision to stay with them or find another provider of whatever the service is...
Unfortunately, there's precedent for businesses to contact their customers to make sales - so legally, they won't have to distinguish between sales contacts and notifications -- but there might be hope yet for consumers. If I opt out of receiving communications from a company, but the law says they must notify me of some change they plan to make to the contract, then we'll have to see how that plays out in court. Hopefully they'll be required to send those notices, even while I've opted out of other communication... so I wonder where the courts will land on that issue - whether opting out of communications also means you opt out of notifications...
...those who think it's about ternary, and those who know it's a joke about quaternary? ;-)
No, I'm pretty sure Canadia will invade as soon as we get rid of our nukes.
Don't trust `em!
(ps: I like Canada)
And now I'm modded down for trolling? That's -5 Troll and +5 Interesting/Insightful.
:P
Maybe I'd better explain: I just meant that "also a Republican" would probably spark angry replies from Republicans. So it wasn't trolling - it was meant to be funny/insightful/whatever.
Yeesh.
I just want to point out the obvious -- that both of those puns are tubular. Zing! ;-)
Driving is probably very simple to you now, but probably not quite so simple when you first started.
Yeah, no bothering with warranties at all for anything! I mean, warranties exist to cover situations where things are supposed to work, but don't, right? So next time I buy a car - no warranty for me, it'll just *work*, right? After all, that's 10-30K for something - it damned well better work! ...Hyperbole aside, yes, things *should* work, but in the real world, they don't always. This is neither to say that Microsoft has done enough, nor to say that they should be shut down as a company over this issue........ just that it's reasonable for things to go wrong and for companies to have to try and fix them.
I mean, that's seriously like a two year old dropping a cookie on the floor and having a tantrum "WANT COOKIE! WWAAAAAAAAANT COOKIE!"
(On the other hand, one begins to suspect that companies hire two year olds, so maybe it's a fair trade. heh)
"also a Republican,"
Well, I foresee this ending well... heh.
What incentive? Well, as soon as one of the twenty is off the list, #21 gets put on, now doesn't it? And as far as not working on #21, well, the other 20 are worse, yes?
...this assumes that the system isn't crap - which for the sake of conversation, why not?
Further, that assumes that a system was put in place specifically as written - why limit to 20? Why not come up with a list of needed solutions and bounties to cover more than twenty?
I believe it was a hypothesis, not a conclusion, and I'd expect everyone to have figured out that the courts aren't always able to determine truth... Or do you think someone is only guilty or innocent after the findings of a court, regardless of what actually happened in real life? Put another way - if courts are able to reach accurate verdicts 100% of the time, no matter the nature of the case, why is there so much unsolved crime? The Justice System is pretty good, all things considered; but it's not at all like television. You don't always get fingerprints; you can send stuff off to the lab and get a clearcut answer all the time...
>>Go calm down, have yourself a cigarette...
;-)
>How?
Preferably by sticking it on the end of a knitting needle and jamming it in your eye, of course.
(mods see great-great-great-grandparent of this post before modding me down, pleeeeease!)
"Stick with XP."
Har, har, and yes, you have a point, and yes you were being funny, but I'm just so sick of hearing this with every single new version of Windows... I was a DOS user until 3.1; I remember this same sentiment with '95, '98, ME, 2000, XP, and now Vista. And in each case, at least, through XP, after a while, people grew to like the next-to-last version of Windows.
I'm not saying there aren't problems; just that it gets old seeing it every single time...
Spot on.
"I'm buggered"
;-)
O RLY?
Yes, but the provision is that they can base their costs on what local competitors are selling at. Disclaimer: I don't know the legal details...
monolopy, eh? ...I wouldn't ask, but you used it *three times*. heh.
There are multiple ways of interpreting it, but it's a valid reply to its parent.
It's illegal to drive 1 mph over the speed limit, but that's extremely rarely enforced. Just because something isn't enforced doesn't make it illegal. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong. None of the above comments reflect my views on the issue at hand, mind...
Long distance, maybe, but the Baby Bells were still very much Bellish in nature... They earned that name, and continue to do so. Don't forget that one of them - Southwestern Bell, AKA SWB AKA SBC AKA AT&T has grown again... As a Texan who grew up with SWB, now living in Florida where Bellsouth was just purchased by the entity that was originally Southwestern Bell but is now AT&T......... I'm not saying it's necessarily all bad, mind, just that to say Ma Bell went up in smoke is... not nearly the whole story IMHO. :)
So... who wants an M.L.T.? That's a Microsoft, Linux, and tomato sandwich.
"Ebbesmeyer - that's quite a good name for someone who works with the sea."
;-)
I sea your point -- it's rather tidy. Oh, shun me if you will, wetter you do or don't, I don't care - you just wish you'd come up with all these bad puns.
....or maybe New Mexico? ;-)
Woot! Endless supply of cheap labour and beautiful beaches coming right up: New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico!
Planet of the Humans, eh? Or as Spaceballs commented so well, "Oh dear, there goes the planet". -- but that's rather a good idea.
Good points, but the thing is -- since we only know the tiniest bit about how our *own* life system works (oh, we know a lot, but what we don't know just dwarfs it), how can we imagine what other forms might exist? And yet, I agree with you to some degree - one bit of logic that seems reasonable is that it's more likely that life *won't* be like ours... And yet, if you think about it from an evolutionary point of view, the ones saying that it's surely likely that it will be some form of biped..... that also has merit. I think the key is that we really and truly have no idea. Sure, not all ideas are equal; but I don't think there's absolutely any practical way to figure out who's right on this one...