You are correct the company is within their rights to do absolutely nothing. What you continuously fail to understand is there are consequences for actions (or even inaction). This post and indeed many of the posts here discuss ways for a company or an individual or even an artist to avoid blunders like these that tend to erode your customer base or in other ways negatively impact your cash flow.
I suspect that if you ran Onity you would be calling congress to demand they do something about hackers ruining your reputation, no?
I realize I'm following you off topic but I agree with you on the politicians.
I recently heard something about how the current congress is the worst ever because they only passed a handful of bills, and my thought was that should make this the best congress ever.
What's really stupid is that now the third graders are going to keep beating on the "I told you so, Masnick is a Google shill, Masnick is a Google shill, Masnick is a Google shill" drum until their arms fall off.
Someone with some art skills design a shirt/hoodie for Mike's family that says "My dad/husband ran a blog for 15 years and all I got was this lousy shirt" bonus points if you include the "Eagle" on it.
I took on ground classes from a "for profit" school, they used e-books with varying drm schemes. The good thing was it was a flat $75 per course regardless of how many texts were used. Mostly I just would print them to pdf to remove the drm. Oh and if you completed your undergraduate work at the school they didn't charge you for textbooks during graduate classes.
Still not great but better than a lot of what I see out there.
For those of us that have just spent 50-70 hrs of the last week trying to eek out an existence, while simultaneously trying to cope with the repeated assaults on our freedoms and liberties from the likes of the ...AA's and other morally bankrupt individuals, corporations, and governments, this provides some entertainment that doesn't kill brain cells.
Other reasons a Bachelors degree has replaced a high school Diploma:
1: It's harder to get a drivers license from the DMV than to get a high school diploma.
2: Many companies are using a bachelors degree as a psuedo background and reference check. It is cheaper than an actual background check and works as an great filter. It demonstrates a certain level of ability to see something through.
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The porn is what keeps their wives from murdering them.
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You are correct the company is within their rights to do absolutely nothing. What you continuously fail to understand is there are consequences for actions (or even inaction). This post and indeed many of the posts here discuss ways for a company or an individual or even an artist to avoid blunders like these that tend to erode your customer base or in other ways negatively impact your cash flow.
I suspect that if you ran Onity you would be calling congress to demand they do something about hackers ruining your reputation, no?
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I recently heard something about how the current congress is the worst ever because they only passed a handful of bills, and my thought was that should make this the best congress ever.
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Re: Re: Dubai, where you will be jailed for having eaten a popy seed bagel.
A: So they can hide in cherry trees.
Q: Did you ever see an elephant in a cherry tree?
A: Hide pretty good don't they.
Q: Why should you never go in the jungle between 2:00 & 4:00?
A: Because that is when the elephants are jumping out of the cherry trees.
Q: Why are pygmies so short?
A: Because they go in the jungle between 2:00 & 4:00.
Q: What do you find between an elephant's toes?
A: Slow running pygmies.
Sorry but the stepping on cannibals remark triggered a childhood memory dump.
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Gratzies.
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He posted copyrighted lyrics without permission.
After all who does the FBI work for anyways?
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Still not great but better than a lot of what I see out there.
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I'm favoring a helicopter from a ship waiting in international waters.
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It's Friday evening, time to lighten up.
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Re: Unintended consequences
1: It's harder to get a drivers license from the DMV than to get a high school diploma.
2: Many companies are using a bachelors degree as a psuedo background and reference check. It is cheaper than an actual background check and works as an great filter. It demonstrates a certain level of ability to see something through.
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Re: For those who continue to not understand what a paywall is..
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On the Bright side...
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"Yes I know.. nearly three am here.. and enjoying the Insanity"
and when I hit the am instead of a.m. I realized it was meant to be read in Yoda's voice. Well done.
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