This is not the whole picture. Bribes can also remove artificial barriers to entry into a market, such as customs levies etc. We are talking about *free market*, aren't we?
Providing Internet access is a good thing. The intention of undermining Cuban government or any other government (including USA government and my home country government) to the extent it oppresses freedom is a good intention. And I don't care if it's done by CIA, MI-6, FSB or Mossad.
it's actually completely pointless now, due to changes in the law.
Interesting. Can you clarify this? What do you mean by changes in the law? Are there some new laws in effect stating that all software is sold, license language notwithstanding?
It doesn't matter whether the comments are genuine or not. If what they state are only opinions, not facts, then their influence on the reader is his own problem. The downmodded comments can be viewed as well.
It begs the question of whether or not an advertisement should unconditionally be treated in a special way. I say that it shouldn't, and in a significant number of cases it won't be a fraud.
Note that I do not refer to any actual laws here - I only express my opinion on what the laws should be.
Depends of the nature of the positive comments. If these are purely statements of opinion, then frankly, your impression is your problem. Yes, posting as many different people is committing a lie. No, it's not necessarily a lie about the product.
So what? If the content in question is fiction (and it's made clear), then it can't be fraudulent as such. If it's non-fiction, then it's not fraudulent if it doesn't make false assertions regarding the product. Everything else is strictly viewer's problem.
I stand corrected regarding your point 2. As to the point 1 - which is somewhat entangled with 2, but we can eliminate it by considering free content uploading as such, not piracy or pretended piracy: the argument that piracy causes losses while limited and calculated free distribution of content under the owner's control boosts sales doesn't seem hypocritical to me.
The difference is that the bogus users do it with a proper authorization from the studios, therefore no copyright infrigement occurs. And copyright infringement is the issue here, not uploading as such.
Not that I'm a big supporter of copyright, but it's IMHO entirely logical: the studios do it (via hired astroturfers) with *their own* content. You are free to upload hi-def content as long as it's yours, so no hypocrisy here.
Some bank client software At least two popular CAT programs, one open-source and one proprietary The excellent TuxGuitar (IIRC, it's compiled) The JSampler sampler frontend
It's funny how you continue to miss the point and write longer and longer irrelevant rants only to demonstrate this very fact.
'free market' is a delusion
Here it is. You've said it yourself. Now can you please stop trying to use this term - that doesn't refer to anything real, as you say - to describe something that has to do with this reality.
You miss the point entirely. This doesn't even have anything to do with the question whether free market capitalism is good or bad. You're just misusing the term.
A situation when there are laws that interfere with private economic activities cannot be called "free market capitalism" by definition.
You can at least tame the launchers by using the quicklounge applet aka Launchers List. Also, don't forget to lock all items to the panel, including this applet.
If anybody there had a brain they'd take Word, Powerpoint, and Maybe OneNote, and package that as "MSFT Office Home" and push that in the low end market and to OEMs instead of more "Web 2.0" crap.
They had a cheapish package called "Works Suite" that at least contained full-featured Word.
Never used Outlook, but Thunderbird works just fine for me with more than 3Gb of email on a Celeron D with 512M RAM on Windows XP and even better on Linux.
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This is not the whole picture. Bribes can also remove artificial barriers to entry into a market, such as customs levies etc. We are talking about *free market*, aren't we?
Providing Internet access is a good thing.
The intention of undermining Cuban government or any other government (including USA government and my home country government) to the extent it oppresses freedom is a good intention.
And I don't care if it's done by CIA, MI-6, FSB or Mossad.
So what if somebody does a good thing with (questionably) bad intentions.
it's actually completely pointless now, due to changes in the law.
Interesting. Can you clarify this? What do you mean by changes in the law? Are there some new laws in effect stating that all software is sold, license language notwithstanding?
It doesn't matter whether the comments are genuine or not. If what they state are only opinions, not facts, then their influence on the reader is his own problem. The downmodded comments can be viewed as well.
It begs the question of whether or not an advertisement should unconditionally be treated in a special way. I say that it shouldn't, and in a significant number of cases it won't be a fraud.
Note that I do not refer to any actual laws here - I only express my opinion on what the laws should be.
Depends of the nature of the positive comments.
If these are purely statements of opinion, then frankly, your impression is your problem.
Yes, posting as many different people is committing a lie. No, it's not necessarily a lie about the product.
So what? If the content in question is fiction (and it's made clear), then it can't be fraudulent as such. If it's non-fiction, then it's not fraudulent if it doesn't make false assertions regarding the product. Everything else is strictly viewer's problem.
I don't think that everything that serves as an advertisement should be marked as such.
I stand corrected regarding your point 2.
As to the point 1 - which is somewhat entangled with 2, but we can eliminate it by considering free content uploading as such, not piracy or pretended piracy: the argument that piracy causes losses while limited and calculated free distribution of content under the owner's control boosts sales doesn't seem hypocritical to me.
The difference is that the bogus users do it with a proper authorization from the studios, therefore no copyright infrigement occurs. And copyright infringement is the issue here, not uploading as such.
Not that I'm a big supporter of copyright, but it's IMHO entirely logical: the studios do it (via hired astroturfers) with *their own* content. You are free to upload hi-def content as long as it's yours, so no hypocrisy here.
Some bank client software
At least two popular CAT programs, one open-source and one proprietary
The excellent TuxGuitar (IIRC, it's compiled)
The JSampler sampler frontend
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Hehe, I see what you did there.
FIDOnet had been fairly popular here in Russia before Internet became widespread.
When I had a cat, it used to get high from smelling T-shirt underarms. Really hilarious to watch.
Yes I do have issues with comprehending self-contradicting statements.
Have a nice day you too.
It's funny how you continue to miss the point and write longer and longer irrelevant rants only to demonstrate this very fact.
'free market' is a delusion
Here it is. You've said it yourself. Now can you please stop trying to use this term - that doesn't refer to anything real, as you say - to describe something that has to do with this reality.
You miss the point entirely. This doesn't even have anything to do with the question whether free market capitalism is good or bad. You're just misusing the term.
A situation when there are laws that interfere with private economic activities cannot be called "free market capitalism" by definition.
This doesn't have anything to do with free market capitalism.
Copyright as such is not compatible with free trade, but what ABC, NBC, and CBS do here is.
You can at least tame the launchers by using the quicklounge applet aka Launchers List. Also, don't forget to lock all items to the panel, including this applet.
If anybody there had a brain they'd take Word, Powerpoint, and Maybe OneNote, and package that as "MSFT Office Home" and push that in the low end market and to OEMs instead of more "Web 2.0" crap.
They had a cheapish package called "Works Suite" that at least contained full-featured Word.
Never used Outlook, but Thunderbird works just fine for me with more than 3Gb of email on a Celeron D with 512M RAM on Windows XP and even better on Linux.
This is indeed possible, but then you basically have to install a lot of KDE stuff you otherwise don't need.
Another option is LXDM, but last I tried, I couldn't figure out how to make it actually replace GDM.
Thanks! From the description, it does make some things easier, though it does not fix the ugly look of the login window itself.