In this case, someBODY did not send them anythng. A company did.

This is another issue which arises from the idea of a corporation as a person. It is NOT a person. It is a legal entity. As such they are exempt from moral/ethical obligations, their only obligation is to stockholders.

Those companies have no ethical obligation to you, and thuis I would argue you have none to them. Treating a corporaiton like a person is actually feeding into the idea that they are people. They are not, and treating them like one makes it worse.

In fact, I would argue that you have a moral obligation to treat all corporations EXACTLY how they treat you. You only obligation in regards to them is to your shareholders. (your family) Do whatever is in their best interest at all times.

The problem with your action model is that it is a net negative for you, and a net positive for them. You give them $$ for free in the form of time and energy spent calling, arraging the return, and probably time getting to the place for the drop off. I value my time far to much to do this for the vast majority of companies. Especially large companies. MAYBE if it is a local or small business I have a relationship with I will.

If a company who makes such a mistake is willing to either credit me for my time or literally send someone to my house to pick it up and not have me fill out paperwork, then I would happily return it. Otherwise they are SoL. I am not their bitch, I am not their mommy to fix their mistakes. I will not expend effort to fix their mistakes. I will not notify them, fill out RMA forms, go to a FexEx or UPS store to send it, etc.

That is not an ethical issue, it is an economic one.

Examples:

If I see someone drop $20 on the street, I will pick it up and give it back to them.
If I am at my favorite bar or restaraunt and I find $20 on the ground I will give it to management (the owner might ask the management and if he/she does the place I like will stay open longer, thus value for me).
If I am walking down the street and there is $20 lying on the ground and noone is in the area, I am NOT going to go to a police station, report it lost, fill out the forms, and come back weeks later. If it was $20,000 I might but not for $20.

NOTE: I did once return a drivers license I found near my house, went out of my way for 30 minutes. I think the reason was simple empathy. It was super easy, I had an address, and I empathized with someone losing their license.

And why does contradicting human psychology cause problem in a physics theory?

I am in no way up on deep QM theory, but it seems to me that a lot of QM goes against our built in psychology. And that is ok. Humans are built to survive WAY above the quantum level. Early homonids didn't need to understand quantum theory to hit an animal with a stick. (or not). Their development was not based on something that by definition they could not observe or recognize.

As I said, I am not no expert, but if one theory breaks a bunch of laws of physics, and another doesn't, the first theory seems to hold more weight. Even if that theory removes choice from the equation of existence.

This also applies to evolution. If consciousness can't perceive the quantum split, then it can effectively exist blissfully ignorant of it.

On a side note, the removal of choice as a variable is NOT the same as removing choice. In a way that is a beautiful theory because while we cannot perceive all of the potential options, they are all real, and all valid. There is a serenity in that knowledge.

My personal belief is that probably all of these theories are fundamentally wrong and in 500 years they will look back in QM like we look at 'equants' today.

Apparently when a Dev says something will happen (no #pV) and 9 months later they Devs change their minds, it is now considered 'oath breaking'

This is the same logic that people use to say that when a politician says he is for something, then is presented evidence of that position being wrong and changes it, that said politician is wishy washy.

Changing your mind when presented with evidence is a GOOD thing.

The GP is making a serious effect to misinform Slashdot. Literally NOTHING he posted is true. There is a subset of the userbase that I believe is intentionally trying to tank the game through misinformation after they realized that PGI is not going to make the game exactly the way thy want (#SAVEMWO). They are children who refuse to acknowledge that compromise in game making happens.

As StJobe said, there have been decisions made by PGI I dont agree with, but all the crap posted in the GP is just dead wrong.

MWO is a good game with the potential to be a great game. Will it get there....I don't know. I hope so, but there are serious hurdles. IF the Community Warfare plays out well and fairly quickly after launch, I think ti will have along life.....if it flops or suffers further delays...not so much.

3PV has minimal impact in the game. No one uses it, it has some moderate drawbacks, and frankly it is just not that great.

Was it a waste of development time. Yes. Is it a real problem. No.

Cool Shot (a one time use heat disipation module) is NOT pay to win.

There is an in game module you can get that has the EXACT same effect.

As someone above stated, there have been issues some peopl e have had (3PV) but PTW is not one of them.

Frankly I think the 'uproar' is a tempest in a teapot. The 3PV is annoying, but certainly not game changing. They wasted development time on it, but that is really y only problem with it at this time.

Honestly, this post seems like one guy whining about something he doesn't like in a game.

The idea that grocery delivery is the same as other types of goods is a red herring.

Consumable good, (food, liquor, cigarettes, maybe light bulbs or smaller household needs, etc) are good candidates for delivery because they are usually time sensitive/perishable, and because EVERYONE needs them.

electronics, books, tools, etc are a different story. The population & population density required and the equipment required to make delivering a flat screen TV same day and making it cost effective are prohibitive except in the very largest cities. NYC, Boston, SF, Chicago,, and maybe LA/Dallas/Atlanta. Heck I would not be surprised if it was not even feasible in NY.

You would need a large warehouse, the ability to package large equipment and small, light and heavy, and especially frozen/cold storage. And be able to retrieve it, get it on the truck, and deliver it all in the same day (or even overnight). That is going to be expensive unless you have the traffic to support it. And once you go past overnight, then you have to compare the cost of maintaining the local warehouse vs just having the item delivered via fed-ex or UPS and giving free shipping.

Or they have lots of deliveries and can optimize. It is not that complex.

Sure there will be times where you are the only person and they lose money on gas and driver time. And there will be times where they have 2 dozen deliveries and the gas for your piece costs $0.15

The trick is to make the delivery coverage area the right size to account for the volume of orders.

All of these fall into two categories
1) Environment- You have contorl over this. If you fail to control your rnvironment, it is your own fault.
2) self employment- True even if you worked at a clients office

None of these are elated to 'working from home' except maybe the 'being at home for days on end and no place to walk to. Both can be fixed by getting off your ass and exercising.

Sounds like VGA planets to me. Man I miss that game. Play by Email, 11 races, excellent special abilities and functions, fairly easy to run and automate. Very slick for its time.

It was the one example I can give where an entire game franchise was destroyed by a virus (primary programmer was infected and it killed his 90% complete new version). Sure he had no backup, but it was 1994 or '95, and it was a one man operation. He eventually recreated a VGAP 4.0, but it never caught on like the 3.5 version did.

Sounds like you get off on being a dick. Which is cool if that floats your boat, but it is exactly why I never played Eve.

I dont think this would be difficult or time consuming. Assuming they could fast forward through the content they would simply need to timestamp the start/stop times for all commercials. Then they would have something in the Hopper coding to look for the timestamps and skip those minutes.

Or if they invested just a little more time they could edit out the content, perhaps even automatically, again using timestamps.

A proficient tech could probably do the entire network for a day in 15 minutes.

You remember the prodcuts, so they were successful. Advertisers don't care if your memories are associated with negative opinions. It has been shown not to matter what a consumers feels are regarding the advertisement, as long as they remember.