Indeed, and the ugly guys don't even have to be rich. Any men who are surprised by this haven't been paying attention to what women want as much as the guys with hot wives and girlfriends do.
"When I buy from local companies, I like to spend cash"
Me too, and not just for local companies, but for all companies. Using a card at a store is essentially the same as using an affinity card (which I avoid like the plague): it's one of the primary ways that stores spy on you.
48% of moviegoers are willing to pay $1 or more per ticket for the additional measures. Nineteen per cent of respondents said they would pay $3 or more.
This is utterly depressing. I cannot imagine a circumstance in which I would be willing to undergo a bag check just to go to a movie theater.
But people are willing to pay to be subjected to this?? That's pure insanity.
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Oh, I see -- you're talking about specific web services, not the web. Yes specific services can be (and many are) instances of lock-in. That has nothing to do with the web, though.
"I bet most, if not all, of your personal email--the very foundation of your online identity--runs through webmail services."
And you would lose that bet. I don't use webmail services I don't operate for anything remotely important. Honestly, I can't think of a single web site that I am locked in to even a little bit.
Don't worry. When it comes to Pharma companies in particular, I'm sure that they already have a comprehensive list of every possible way that they can profit from evil and will hop on it the instant that technology allows.
"This extra knowledge seems to be identified by the rest of you as evidence of being part of the propaganda army."
Umm, no, not at all. I suspect that you aren't understanding the criticisms being made, since the things you're pointing out are utterly irrelevant to them.
"You can have two different Wifi networks on channel 1, each with it's own unique Wifi name, without interference."
It depends on what you mean by "interference". Multiple hotspots using the same channel do interfere with each other at the radio level, which is why you see performance degradation when that happens. They don't interfere with each other in the sense of completely disrupting the connections, though.
How is the web system of lock-in? Also, the web is not the internet.
My point is that you're correct -- when business comes into an arena, it pretty much destroys it. That's what's happened to the internet. It's an inevitable progression.
As such, to think of "the internet" as something that is or should be eternal is a mistake. It can't be. Systems like this, once they become popular enough to be profit centers, will always be destroyed and replaced by something else.
It's not delusional, it's the way these things have always worked.
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What mistake?
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Last I checked, the closest requirement for being President is that you are a natural born citizen. Ancestry is irrelevant.
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Re: I'm a customer
Me too, and not just for local companies, but for all companies. Using a card at a store is essentially the same as using an affinity card (which I avoid like the plague): it's one of the primary ways that stores spy on you.
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Utterly depressing
This is utterly depressing. I cannot imagine a circumstance in which I would be willing to undergo a bag check just to go to a movie theater.
But people are willing to pay to be subjected to this?? That's pure insanity.
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Re: Re: Yeah, "DisCo"... Go to home page and you'll find it gushing over "current" facial recognition even while giving dark warning:
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"I bet most, if not all, of your personal email--the very foundation of your online identity--runs through webmail services."
And you would lose that bet. I don't use webmail services I don't operate for anything remotely important. Honestly, I can't think of a single web site that I am locked in to even a little bit.
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Umm, no, not at all. I suspect that you aren't understanding the criticisms being made, since the things you're pointing out are utterly irrelevant to them.
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Good!
"new ones erected on the grounds of St. Elizabeths, a onetime insane asylum"
On the other hand, that is so poetic and appropriate that I almost wish it would happen.
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It depends on what you mean by "interference". Multiple hotspots using the same channel do interfere with each other at the radio level, which is why you see performance degradation when that happens. They don't interfere with each other in the sense of completely disrupting the connections, though.
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Re: Re: Re: YOU "non-programmer" don't grasp what an API is! It's INTRINSIC AND INSEPARABLE FROM OTHER CODE.
It's not true. I understand how this confusion comes about, but it's confusion.
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Re: Re: Re: Making popcorn. Lots and lots of popcorn!
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My point is that you're correct -- when business comes into an arena, it pretty much destroys it. That's what's happened to the internet. It's an inevitable progression.
As such, to think of "the internet" as something that is or should be eternal is a mistake. It can't be. Systems like this, once they become popular enough to be profit centers, will always be destroyed and replaced by something else.
It's not delusional, it's the way these things have always worked.
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