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Comment Re:Which is why... (Score 1) 32

The issue with advertising is that current marketers seem to have no limits or boundaries in which they are not willing to cross

Exactly this - just like the early web, marketers arrogantly think that because they can (have the ability to) shove ads in our faces, that they must shove ads in our faces or that the ability somehow "gives them permission" to do so, forcefully.

Comment Re:Something to improve consumer laws? (Score 1) 53

Just don't engage yourself by contract if you don't expect to keep your words or ask for cancellation terms in advance if you don't keep your words.

... and this law requires that you actually do have those terms in advance, and that they're not hidden from you until you want to know them.

Comment Bad reasoning for initial lockouts (Score 3, Interesting) 29

I've read elsewhere that one of the possible reasoning for forcing Synology-only drives was that supporting (tech support) other drives led to compatibility issues and was a reason they wanted to eliminate those as variables when trouble arose. So it was supposed to be a win-win: customers ran into fewer compatibility issues, and they got sales of their own drives instead of losing them to competitors' drives

But some idiot in the chain of decision decided that gouging customers was also a better 'win', and apparently unbeknownst to them that doing so also alienates those customers for good.

Comment Re:Will he be as good as Tim Apple? (Score 1) 28

That's why he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants to cure his very curable cancer until he got to stage 4 when it was too late for real medicine to help.

Indeed, as smart and innovative as he was, he was a total moron in how he treated his disease, totally against his doctors' recommendations.

Even smart people do "insanely" stupid things.

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