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i almost peed in my pants with "the whole system is backed by the security and reliability of microsoft cloud".

oh, well, it's just about a popularity contest for a sock puppet, i guess propietary closed software and hardware will do ...

isis and al qaeda? you're watching way too much television, son.

read tfa. this is about some complete morons' desire to make ciphered communication between users transparent to agencies, which is suicidal.

only if you can trust those developers to be available and loyal. for years. industry has a VERY hard time promoting loyalty, and panics at the sole idea of losing control. hence 'replaceable' professionals are the way to go.

it is also much easier to foster loyalty with a few key people who doesn't know jack shit about much anything (so they'll have a hard time finding an equivalent opportunity) than with a lot of developers who are in high demand in the industry.

don't get mad at me, you're totally right, but that's what it is. and I think it's not that much about cost but about the very nature of modern enterprise: externalize everything you possibly can.

the problem is no religion (except zen, afaik) provides a method to approach those questions, but random invented answers so you stop asking.

we humans are indeed religious beings, but most human religions are bullshit. keyword: crowd control.

ancient japanese got it right, they were utterly tolerant about religion which was considered a private affair (as it should). this could only be so because their society was already so strictly classed and the authority so indisputable that they didn't need to use religion for that.

yes, they did slaughter some christians at some point. but only after realizing how they were creeping for influence and power. nobody had invited them, after all.

believe me, you would have a hard time debating with someone who seriously insists he (and everything around him) was created by a flying spaghetti monster, although you can't prove that's impossible.

if you want to assert bullshit like "a woman spontaneously conceived the son of god" then that's your problem, pal. and i've no problem at all with the crap you may believe, as long as you don't want me to behave according to your beliefs. be rational, or forget about being taken seriously.

every novel has one. the earliest record in jesus' life which is historically accepted is that he was baptized, some few years before death. everything before that is just gospell, brought up almost a century after the facts to give the emerging new cult some proper mythical background. regardless of what the usual meaning of 'virgin' was at the time, the gospells actually meant 'conceived without bang' because that's the dogma they explicitly established, that he was the son of god blablabla. yes, people was gullible at the time ... oh, wait!

didn't you watch brian's life, you blasphemous clod??

you don get it. of course there are bugs. the aim is not a defect free system, but to avoid a total catastrophe in a system built and maintained by waves of replaceable monkeys. it's already remarkable that it works at all, but yes, this is the industry average. shrug.

with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

this is also necessary condition for 'theft' in about any legal code. this condition is not met in this case, and unless you can prove it is, your discourse just doesn't stand.

if you're betting on 'loss of rightful revenue', it's a skewed and controversial concept. the problem here is the term 'rightful' which is a nebulose trying to coerce 'their right to sell' into 'my obligation to buy'. needless to say, i don't buy it. but even then, assuming some imaginary context where that 'rightful revenue' really existed ... you can't 'deprive' someone of something they never had. so without deprivation it can't possibly be theft, and i'm not a thief. you should be really able to grasp this simple and fundamental fact.

call it something else. take your pick, i don't care. but calling it theft is irrational or dishonest or both.

sigh ... since you insist in totally ignoring the accepted meaning of 'theft' i assume you are not interested in any rational discussion whatsoever. as for me, i'm not interested in watching you writing 'thief' in a loop, in bold caps and with exclamation marks, as if you were having a mental breakdown. you have made your point. have a cookie. take care.

i have no need to define such a person because i see nothing special or particularly defining in that act, so please suit yourself. my point, however, is that equating this with 'theft' or 'piracy' can't possibly be attributed to lack of knowledge of the language, but very much with deliberate misrepresentation and intoxication. not saying you are the source, though, it's very widespread bullshit and my impression is that you just swallowed it without critical thinking. i hereby just invite you to deeper reflection. how would YOU call such a person?

words have meaning, meaning is important. you even spout that proudly on your own sig.

http://www.merriam-webster.com...

so since i'm not depriving anyone of anything, not even 'loss of rightful revenue" because there never was any to begin with, what i do can harldy be theft, no matter how much you want to put it in bold letters and ... well, twist the meaning of words to misrepresent it. catch the irony, troll.

and i dislike the bullshit in equating use of software without a license to piracy. so what? do you have something interesting to say about the topic or not?

i don't. but that's just because i don't give a crap about windows and its licenses. i have non-genuine w7 to run games, i would't personally use it for anything else, nor do i want it, so why should i pay any license? and no doubt i will have a non-genuine w-whatever as soon as games ask for it. that's a deal between game developers and microsoft, they should sort that out themselves or else let me choose. i don't think the game developer has any issue with my windows being non-genuine, so why should i? you calling me a pirate because of this only makes you look funny. you know, 'pirates', those guys used to barbecue your guts after pulling them out of you after raping you. you ip zealots really should get a grip already.

you need to save the new setting and reboot.

yet another victim of the cloud. tragic.

i do understand intellectual property rights, that's how i know intellectual property is fundamentally wrong.

you, however, seem to fail to understand how the media industry works.