I disagree. Technically the first prostitute wasn't a prostitute until she'd done the deed, and that didn't happen until she'd marketed her wares. Marketing is the oldest profession, prostitution a very close second. ;-)

Man, I really hope you take the time to verify that the glasses are recording and that it's actually Google Glass and not some hipster look-alikes.

Otherwise randomly punching people in the face for no reason is hardly self defense. Nor do I think a court would see it that way even if he WAS wearing Google Glass.

I didn't realize that the law saying "You shall not punch another dude in the face" was the same law that says "You shall not record the actions of another dude without his consent". Are you absolutely sure they're not two separate laws?

No, laws about assault, battery etc. mean you can't punch people in the face.

That and being a decent human being.

For the time being why not just keep using WinAMP? They're not remotely disabling all installations of the program, they're just removing all ability to get more updates or even to get the install file. From them, at least. I'm sure it'll be floating around for ages.

If WinAMP works perfectly for you right now it's a reasonable bet it will continue to do so for at least a few years down the line. It's not like the mp3 spec is changing weekly, for instance, and that collection of music sitting on your hard drive? So long as you don't re-rip it to the latest and greatest codec those files aren't going to change. If they work today in WinAMP, they will work in WinAMP in twenty years.

Height: 182 cm., 01/01/2004 on a chart written in 2013 would be a dead giveaway for 'not measured, used old data'.

What?

You are confusing 'free' with 'paid for by your tax dollars'.

People are not going to suddenly spend half their day on a bus driving back and forth because suddenly it's free (at the point of getting onto the bus) to do so. They will go where they need to go, just as they do today.

The operator will get X million dollars from the government (from your tax dollars) to keep the busses running, serviced etc. If they go over budget they're screwed, which means they will want to increase efficiency so there's money left over for bonuses for the managers.

That's not how international companies work.

If not by polls, how do you suggest we figure out what the majority wants?

Democracy is essentially a poll on a massive scale, so I guess you just threw that out the window. Should we just have an All-Knowing Emperor tell us what we want?

If you think that just because an opinion seems the logical one to you that means it's the best one and/or the one supported by the majority then you are the, quote, gullible idiot.

So umm ... Did you mean L. Ron Hubbard or George Lucas? ;-)

Play the 75% they like, and use the gold they make from that to buy the mats from the 25% they don't like?

The word trolling never appeared in the GP post. Joking is not the same thing as trolling.

Then please read back to the post I originally replied to, which asked how the app model is different from any other negotiation. If you want to argue with anyone, that would be the guy to argue with.

My apologies for English being my fourth language and perhaps not picking the most precise word to convey my thoughts.

In a sense it is extortion. There is an app you want to use to, say, get updates on events at a con. But in order to get these updates you have to allow them to post as you and essentially spam your friends, followers or whatever it's called. You don't get to negotiate. You don't get to make suggestions. You either take the deal as the producer has envisioned it, or you can pretty much fuck off.

You want something? You are pressured into getting it one way and one way only, completely at the mercy of whoever made the product. No 'sales' or anything of the like where only the functionality you want is available. No ability to suggest some other form of 'payment', for however much you'd call it 'payment' to let the producer of an app take control of your Twitter account.

I am interested to hear from you, however, since you disagreed so vehemently with my choice of a single word how you will defend this practice as actually being a negotiation. Really, I'm curious.

It is different because you don't get to give a counter-offer in the form of a modified list of permissions you are okay with.

This is not a negotiation. It's extortion.