Comment Re:Cue increase in accidents (Score 1) 825
The government isn't AT&T, it doesn't get to impose bullshit laws unless the public good outweighs individual liberty.
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The government isn't AT&T, it doesn't get to impose bullshit laws unless the public good outweighs individual liberty.
You must be new here.
As you say providing Nintendo makes money on the device itself then they've really got nothing to complain about
Nintendo are not the only ones who make software for their systems. Third-party developers depend on sales of their software. It hardly matters to them whether Nintendo makes a profit on the hardware or not.
it's not like they even seemed to try hard to prevent piracy
Nintendo stuck with cartridges a generation longer than anyone else and used a non-standard format for their first disc-based system. Just because they don't take the same approach as other manufacturers doesn't mean they're not trying to prevent piracy.
I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I'm still amazed that this is rated "5, Insightful" when you got the basic phrasing backwards.
It's "Innocent until proven guilty" not "Guilty until proven innocent". It may seem like a minor quibble, but when that phrase is all most people will remember, it's important to get it right.
What are CPAN-driven upgrades?
The way you describe it, it sounds like CPAN was using some sort of push technology to force-feed you upgrades. If the program was working, and the company was just trying to "keep it working" then why the upgrades? Or could they not get it installed and working in the first place because of something on CPAN?
I'm honestly curious. I haven't used perl or CPAN in years but if memory serves, installing the latest and greatest modules all the time has always been a recipe for disaster.
But don't go forgetting that learning can be both good and bad.
In the context of this article I would say that conditioning, being subconscious, can be both good and bad, whereas learning is conscious and generally good.
This doesn't account for "learning" things that are not true, which might be better termed misinformation or indoctrination.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.