The fact that it was not onstalled in the "business line" machines indicates that they KNEW it was crooked before they did it. They just hoped the sheeple...er I mean consumers wouldn't notice.
That is one way to look at it. A competing hypothesis is that the business line systems are more profitable in general, while the consumer lines are subsidized by the software that they install on them before shipping. Hence the consumer level ones were being consistently filled up with an ever-increasing load of crapware to make them more (if only marginally) profitable. Whether there was ever any ethics considered by the company is not clear.
I've never met anyone with a lenovo for their at home use, always dell's or hp's.
Well, some people really love to embrace mediocrity.
And anyone that I've met that did have a lenovo used it just for business.
The business Lenovo systems - ThinkPad laptops and ThinkStation workstations - were not part of this as Lenovo never installed superfish on any of them. This only applied to their mediocre consumer-level units that were sold as Lenovos with other model names.
Just another reason why I only buy ThinkPads for my own use. Home, work, etc; I won't buy anything else. Lenovo knows better than to risk that golden goose.
Your consistency is not being challenged
You are consistently not reading what I write, that is clear.
Now, even if pot wasn't the safest of all recreational drugs, even if it were the deadliest, how does your neighbor getting stoned affect you or society at large?
I believe I've said this before, but I'll rephrase it. If my neighbor wants to get stoned at home and stay home, I don't care. Hell he can do heroin, coke, whatever he wants at home as long as he stays home. I don't care if he uses a combination of different recreational drugs as long as he stays home.
I have a problem when people who are under the influence go out and interfere with non-intoxicated society. If someone has too much to drink and goes out wandering around they can expect to be charged with drunk in public, if they are stupid enough to attempt to drive a car they get DUI. I want to see the same for all recreational drugs. At that point, we would truly be treating them all the same.
The Pro Pot Propaganda Pushers should support this if they really want pot treated the same as alcohol. Instead we have many people who want pot treated more like water than like alcohol.
I believe I have also stated before that what I want to see is a reliable and quantifiable test for when someone has had too much to be out in public. Again, this is what we do with alcohol - I want to see it for any recreational drug that we legalize for general consumption.
Because I feel like it. I need no reason, or purpose.
True, you need no purpose. I don't care that you have none, but the lack of a purpose does make you look rather ridiculous.
And I don't need to back up anything to you.
True, but by never backing anything up you end up supporting the hypothesis that nothing you write comes with any sincerity at all
You are free to ignore. I do not care.
Considering how often you write replies to what I write - particularly since you reply to what I write without reading what I write - you can't make much of an argument for not caring.
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