EdHominem

Isn't it amazing that you're in all the racist threads.

Oh yes, I'm sure you have so much interesting stuff to tell us about why you're a racist. Here I was thinking you're a normal immigrant-hater but you're a Jew-hater as well. You're like a master racist. A true virtuoso of vitriol.

Do you primarily hate Jews because they steal Christian babies, or because they conspire to keep the white man down? Do you hate foreigners for their swarthy good looks and their large ... hands, or do you hate them because they took your job? I'm sure the biggest thing you fear isn't your sister being hurt by an immigrant, it's her being seduced by an immigrant. When you get violent with the immigrant prostitutes you solicit, is it fear that you aren't really that different that causes the rage? Or is the rage always there because they're keeping you from achieving your white destiny?

You're so complex, with so much to share. A font of limitless wisdom.

Right, which is why you hate immigrants, and now we see jews as well - because they lie about you.

Oh well, I didn't understand you were only racist because you were the victim of a global conspiracy to keep you down. Carry on then.

Branching out from your usual immigrant-hatred for a change, or is this the norm for you?

> Having a perpetual license is basically an infinite future expense even if the cost is trivial.

It's a one-time expense if budgeted properly. Buy a perpetuity to cover it. If you ever discontinue the service you can release an unlimited copy of the software and recover the value of the perpetuity.

Working in a cloud company all of us are pretty conscious of the cycles we consume in our architecture and the resources we consume on our client's machines. If we accidentally ran our debug code fleet-wide I'm sure we'd single-handedly bring more than a few coal peaker-plants online to handle the surge.

But our motivation is our customer's happiness and our pocketbook. For an advertiser you aren't the customer, you're the cattle.

So your adblocker is actually saving the world. One drop of oil at a time.

I think that's precisely the trump issue... "Reality" TV costs peanuts and gets more views, even if everything in it is staged.

You're the one who thinks you're informed, and that a judge would overrule the DA if they got out of hand, so I suggest you go find out.

I'm pretty much in the camp that the DA would fuck you up and the police and judge would all be in on it. Try telling a cop what the law is, especially if you're right...

The DA is the one who offers you a plea bargain, or not, and decides how many counts they charge you with. And recommends charges.

But yeah, after that it's all the judge.

So can we simply bulk-send registered letters to everyone involved so they know and we know they know?

If that's the case it's your responsibility to go over their head, all the way if necessary - as it would be for an engineer whose boss said to use Balsa wood for a support instead of steel.

If Edward had to do it, we do too.

> Saying the US citizens are involved with that decision is, again, wrong and offensive.

How's that defense working for an ISIS funder?

"Oh, I didn't send the money for bombs, I sent it for their work with children..."

It can be 67 years at the whim of the DA. The maximum punishment is very real and they're just itching to use it.

If it was an unbiased roll of the dice that would be one thing, and the average and the distribution would be meaningful. But when it's arbitrary it doesn't matter what anyone else got, only what you'll get. And if you have any complaints about your treatment, etc, you're immediately in the full-penalty group.

The managers of this hypothetical software company would surely complain if their cars were remotely disabled because the manufacturer wanted to sell a new model. Similarly their customers should complain (via the courts) when the product they bought is remotely disabled to force them to upgrade.

As a sibling poster points out, running a license server is a trivial expense and if you require it for your product you should budget to keep it running. It's roughly $400 for a perpetuity paying $20/y to run the server indefinitely.

I've been around NB a fair bit, but never seen the monks.

> > "When the dishes are clean, we can talk."

> That's addressing a very different issue.

That's the generic answer to people who won't cleanup after themselves. Room setup and tool positions are a bit abstract but everyone understands dirty dishes. And everyone recognizes the type of person who always tries to play the X-card (religion in this case) to avoid cleaning up after themselves.

There's always some esoteric reason why they and their activities are special, but relating it to dishes usually cuts through the special and gets to the mundane - nobody wants to pick up after you to use the space.

No, this isn't. If that was your worry you especially wouldn't use proprietary software where the issue is much more prevalent. As others point out, you could pay FOSS maintainers if you wanted to.

Instead, people who don't use X make up excuses as to why not, rather than simply saying they like Y. If you like AutoCAD, use it.

In taking customer feedback it's important to only ask potential customers, not people who'd never use your product anyways. Even if their feedback is honest it won't help with what you're doing.