Posts by call-me-mark 69 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2021
I know which half: it's the half of your money that the agency spent advertising itself to other potential clients and trying to win industry awards. It might be wasted in your eyes but the agency feels it's an essential part of their work.
A law so universal that the generalised version was in the Meaning of Liff:
NOTTAGE (n.)
Nottage is the collective name for things which you find a use for immediately after you've thrown them away. For instance, your greenhouse has been cluttered up for years with a huge piece of cardboard and great fronds of gardening string. You at last decide to clear all this stuff out, and you burn it. Within twenty-four hours you will urgently need to wrap a large parcel, and suddenly remember that luckily in your greenhouse there is some cardboard...
"it's not as if the publishers put in a EULA before you could buy a book"
Almost every print book I own has this or something very similar in the preamble:
"This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being placed on the subsequent purchaser."
Seems awfully like an EULA to me.
I'm sure that we all know that it's "free like free speech not like free beer" but do users necessarily know that? It wasn't the users who chose to use that (potentially misleading) word. With that in mind, I don't think it's spitefulness that the typical user then turns around to Canonical (or whoever) and say "you told us it was free; why should we pay?"
People are forgetting that Musk has form for stock manipulation via his social media accounts. He only made the original 4.4B "offer" to try to manipulate the price of twitter shares, so he could then sell the 9% of the company he already owned at a profit. Allegedly.
Of course this plan backfired and he was forced into making the purchase anyway; now he's burning the thing to the ground rather than admit failure.
"One of those sad bits of history that tends to be overlooked by those on the left who happily call those on the right 'racist'. It was the Dems that wanted to keep slavery and segregation after all."
So the Democratic and Republican parties are and always have been the ultimate arbiters of what left-wing and right-wing mean? Yeah, it makes perfect sense to ignore a century or more of political history during which the two American political parties swapped sides.
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