What happens if I buy your software, and you go out of business in 5 years or so?
Then I try to install it again, because I like some random function n that your program does, but your validation server no longer exists.
This is why I am greatly annoyed by the recent trend in PDA (PalmSource) applications, of binding a program to a particular device's flash ID.
Considering I change devices about once a year, I end up with a choice, of either tracking down every developer I purchased something for, and having to go through the "prove you bought it" validation with them, or download warez versions of programs I own and paid for, because I don't feel like dealing with the hassle.
This is especialy annoying, as at least a few of these developers have started saying that you can only get a new key once every six months, and recently when my PDA died and I had to replace it, I ended up avoiding contacting them, because I couldn't be sure that I would get the code again, at the time that I pick up a new device.
IANAL but it's mainly because you as a person are capable of making the distincion between immediate threat and not, while a booby trap can not. So having a trip-wire activated machine gun at your back door is illegal, but you shooting down a guy in your living room after he broke down the back door has a defensible position.
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I am not sure I see it as being "fascist" when a town of 5000 has no itnerest to accept votes of the 2000 or so prisioners that are being held in a prision on the outskirts of it.
Especialy if you keep in mind that the people in the prision have a vested interest in lowering the capability of the government/law enforcment capability of the area that they are interred in.
They should certanly be allowed to do absentee votes for the area of their permanent residence, but I am not sure I see why they should have an influence on the area.
With college students it would be quite different, because at the least they chose to live in the area, and they do interact with the area they live in on a more stable basis.
since when can't you legally shout obscenties on the streets? I see/hear this in New York City on a very regular basis, and no one is hauling those crackpots away.
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or for walking down the street ;)
http://slate.com/id/2109141/
stop whining.
how is that offtopic??
Aside from that being rather absurd of a statement in general, the 100,000 math is off.
http://slate.com/id/2108887/
communist
the truth of the grandparent being flamebait?
welcome to the interweb ;)
Could you enlighten us on the proper way then? ;)
What happens if I buy your software, and you go out of business in 5 years or so? Then I try to install it again, because I like some random function n that your program does, but your validation server no longer exists. This is why I am greatly annoyed by the recent trend in PDA (PalmSource) applications, of binding a program to a particular device's flash ID. Considering I change devices about once a year, I end up with a choice, of either tracking down every developer I purchased something for, and having to go through the "prove you bought it" validation with them, or download warez versions of programs I own and paid for, because I don't feel like dealing with the hassle. This is especialy annoying, as at least a few of these developers have started saying that you can only get a new key once every six months, and recently when my PDA died and I had to replace it, I ended up avoiding contacting them, because I couldn't be sure that I would get the code again, at the time that I pick up a new device.
IANAL but it's mainly because you as a person are capable of making the distincion between immediate threat and not, while a booby trap can not.
So having a trip-wire activated machine gun at your back door is illegal, but you shooting down a guy in your living room after he broke down the back door has a defensible position.
hear hear!
I am from a communist country myself, and a US citizen now, and I get the same feeling you do, looking over the mainstream US media.
damn it that was ST:IV
I am not sure I see it as being "fascist" when a town of 5000 has no itnerest to accept votes of the 2000 or so prisioners that are being held in a prision on the outskirts of it. Especialy if you keep in mind that the people in the prision have a vested interest in lowering the capability of the government/law enforcment capability of the area that they are interred in. They should certanly be allowed to do absentee votes for the area of their permanent residence, but I am not sure I see why they should have an influence on the area. With college students it would be quite different, because at the least they chose to live in the area, and they do interact with the area they live in on a more stable basis.
don't feed the trolls.
since when can't you legally shout obscenties on the streets? I see/hear this in New York City on a very regular basis, and no one is hauling those crackpots away.
and daughter
Doesn't starbucks own a trademark on this? google archive of article