You are absolutely right about this: she has every right to simply cancel any purchase made over the Internet within two weeks without giving any reason whatsoever. It's the law, and it's totally on her side in this case.
She also does not need a lawyer or anything. She just needs to tell them she wants to cancel. Perhaps she'll have to do it via snail mail, but that depends. E-Mail should do, given it's apparently a web shop.
There is no such danger indeed. Basically, that Giersch guy is just someone who smells money in the opportunity to kick a large company up the arse. A plain nuisance, nothing else. Ridiculously enough, he is said to be right by German justice. Completely not understandable.
Those two cannot possibly be confused with each other unless you're some creepy kind of lawyer that manages to convince some clueless judge of their idiot opinion.
Craziness. Ah, well. Let the Giersch guy be happy 'bout himself and rejoice in whatever he wants.
well... on my box, there's a perfectly legitimate installation of Windows XP (seldom used, though). The registration key belongs to a volume license from my (ex-)university. Guess what happened. Correct. The stupid genuine advantage tool thought that this was not a properly licensed installation. (By the way, I have never changed any of the hardware in there.)
So I called Microsoft. No one there, office hours... well, what the heck. I found some tool on the Web that removed the crap, and everything's fine again.
How come this company is still selling so much software when they continually insult their customers like this?
"Virtual machines have finally arrived. Dismissed for a number of years as merely academic curiosities, they are now seen as cost-effective techniques for organizing computer systems resources to provide extraordinary system flexibility and support for certain unique applications."
Now guess who said that, and when.:-)
Robert P. Goldberg said that, in 1974.
The fun thing about this is, it's still a very accurate statement. Other than in 1974, though, it doesn't solely apply to mainframes, but, as someone wrote in an earlier post, to everyday computers: desktop systems. I think that's great, and the above quote is more true than ever. Working on Mac OS X and having a Parallels session up and running where some Java application (for example) is tested in a Windows or what environment... lovely.
Yes, I'm a virtualisation enthusiast, if you haven't guessed so already.;-)
...at least from a German point of view, which is quite naturally the only one I can have with regard to this topic.;-)
That term suggests that the church is somehow an official organ of the state. In Germany, that is not true. The churches (!) that are officially acknowledged as churches (!) by the state have the right to have their members pay taxes. This has been laid down in "concordats", i.e., treaties between state and churches, several of which exist since 1924.
The churches themselves are still independent, and so is the state.
It's not too much money, by the way. Not a reason for me to resign from my church anyway. Which, in turn, is just a personal opinion, of course.:-)
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You are absolutely right about this: she has every right to simply cancel any purchase made over the Internet within two weeks without giving any reason whatsoever. It's the law, and it's totally on her side in this case. She also does not need a lawyer or anything. She just needs to tell them she wants to cancel. Perhaps she'll have to do it via snail mail, but that depends. E-Mail should do, given it's apparently a web shop.
... these.
OMeta: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awarth/ometa/
The more recent OMeta 2.0: http://jarrett.cs.ucla.edu/ometa-js/
And, of course, COLA - http://piumarta.com/software/cola/
Self-sustainment, anyone? ;-)
One more link: http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/
There is no such danger indeed. Basically, that Giersch guy is just someone who smells money in the opportunity to kick a large company up the arse. A plain nuisance, nothing else. Ridiculously enough, he is said to be right by German justice. Completely not understandable.
Those two cannot possibly be confused with each other unless you're some creepy kind of lawyer that manages to convince some clueless judge of their idiot opinion.
Craziness. Ah, well. Let the Giersch guy be happy 'bout himself and rejoice in whatever he wants.
Hi,
well... on my box, there's a perfectly legitimate installation of Windows XP (seldom used, though). The registration key belongs to a volume license from my (ex-)university. Guess what happened. Correct. The stupid genuine advantage tool thought that this was not a properly licensed installation. (By the way, I have never changed any of the hardware in there.)
So I called Microsoft. No one there, office hours... well, what the heck. I found some tool on the Web that removed the crap, and everything's fine again.
How come this company is still selling so much software when they continually insult their customers like this?
Bah.
Greetings,
Michael
Not a "Self" fan, a fan of dynamic languages whatsoever. ;-)
Can Sun claim to be backing dynamic languages when people like David Ungar are looking for a new employment? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/self-interest/m essage/1943
Maybe they're too "old-school", but hey, those guys created Self!
Now guess who said that, and when. :-)
Robert P. Goldberg said that, in 1974.
The fun thing about this is, it's still a very accurate statement. Other than in 1974, though, it doesn't solely apply to mainframes, but, as someone wrote in an earlier post, to everyday computers: desktop systems. I think that's great, and the above quote is more true than ever. Working on Mac OS X and having a Parallels session up and running where some Java application (for example) is tested in a Windows or what environment... lovely.
Yes, I'm a virtualisation enthusiast, if you haven't guessed so already. ;-)
...at least from a German point of view, which is quite naturally the only one I can have with regard to this topic. ;-)
That term suggests that the church is somehow an official organ of the state. In Germany, that is not true. The churches (!) that are officially acknowledged as churches (!) by the state have the right to have their members pay taxes. This has been laid down in "concordats", i.e., treaties between state and churches, several of which exist since 1924.
The churches themselves are still independent, and so is the state.
It's not too much money, by the way. Not a reason for me to resign from my church anyway. Which, in turn, is just a personal opinion, of course. :-)