So, if you send a package to the wrong address by mistake, you are OK with the receiver keeping it?
Only if I address it to someone who lives at that address.
If I get something in the mail that doesn't belong to me clearly by the addressee listed on the package, I need to mark it not at this address and arrange for its return, which will cost me nothing. If I get something in the mail addressed to me that I didn't order, I'm keeping it.
Blackholing doesn't work for me, because I regularly come across sites that won't work.
If you are on android and are willing to root, there is an adblock that works via the hosts file.
Blackholing doesn't work for me, because I regularly come across sites that won't work.
Even back then they had submarines with room for nuclear missiles in them. You could certainly remove the armaments from an "ordinary" attack sub and fill the space with an array. It would be nontrivial and expensive, but they're spending our money.
This recent work basically suggests that the theory might be true.
Are you sure? It seems more to me like it suggests that the theory might not be false. Lots of models look accurate right up until they don't.
If it turns out that the spies were stopping a James Bond level supervillain every month or so then it might have been worth it.
That's the problem with all of this massive state defense apparatus bullshit. I know people who are various types of special forces and they will happily tell you that there are real threats out there, but then they will tell you that they can't tell you anything about them. In truth, they actually know fuck-all, and are just going by whatever their higher-ups have told them. They have no idea who the hell they're being sent out to kill, except what they're told.
In fact, our military has been shown to act primarily for profit, not for defense. Poor, brainwashed dupes. I'd feel worse for them if they weren't killers for hire.
I'm fat, clean, and Mexican. I have a big fat question mark about the phrase spic and span.
Blackholing doesn't work for me, because I regularly come across sites that won't work.
This is only a big problem for me on mobile, where Adblock Plus doesn't exist and noscript doesn't work. There exists a mobile noscript but it breaks every other page load or so, and the developer is unresponsive.
Unskippable, right up until the point I run it through a computer to format-shift the content to a medium that isn't under someone else's control.
I've got a ton of DVDs that don't rip correctly, though, with any ripper; not with dvdbackup, nor with DVDFab, etc etc. I can rip them to a collection of DVD files and play that successfully in most cases, but that doesn't get me out of unskippable ads. XBMC does that. I can skip things I'm not supposed to be able to skip.
Over the past few years, the "Linux community" now includes millions of people who accept locked bootloaders as standard and install closed source apps from an app store whose goal is to collect as much information about them as possible.
Users have outnumbered developers at least since Slackware. Build a bridge, and clamber over it awkwardly.
Gaming is kiddy shit (sorry) and it's naive to expect much idealism from from the core audience.
Not that you're not a known troll, but there are now more adult gamers than juvenile ones*, and gaming now brings in more money than movies.
For Linux to reach a larger audience means catering to portions of that audience who just want free stuff.
Oddly, it also means catering to the portions of that audience who just want to give away free stuff.
* According to a 2007 Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey, more than half (53 percent) of American adults play video games, and about one in five adults (21%) play every day or almost every day.
What happens once all the still-working used netbooks on Amazon are bought up?
Then you buy chromebooks. They are sold at a similar price point (the low-end ones anyway) and will generally run full-fledged Linux, or in some cases even other operating systems.
The comments on this article make a good reality check for Libertarians.
They make a good reality check for anyone. Nobody should expect the receiver to pay for return shipping. I guess libertarians are most likely to expect that, though. After all, if you want to maintain the system, you'll have to pay for it.
Although they state that "unsolicited goods" can be treated as unconditional gifts that do not need to be returned, and that it is illegal for the sender to threaten legal action - the legislation they are based on adds the qualification that this only applies if there was no "prior request made by or on behalf of the recipient".
But without reading the law in question, and I would have no idea where to start because it's not US law, what does that actually mean? Prior request for what? A prior request for anything? If I buy a Lamborghini Hat and then I am delivered a Lamborghini Aventador, does that count? I certainly haven't requested a car. Likewise, these people haven't requested a PS Vita.
But what is the *right* thing to do?
Keep it, to motivate them to get their shit straight next time. They write it off as a loss and maybe make some kind of insurance claim. Maybe they fire the person responsible, do a little housecleaning.
if somebody sends me something by mistake, then asks for it back, they are getting it back because that's what I would want them to do if I sent them something by mistake.
Maybe you shouldn't be sending things to people by mistake. It's pretty hard for an individual to do.
If you take it literally, yes. But you are being too literal.
Judges are like that as well "too literal". Haven't you people heard of situations of bank mistakes, people taking the money and running? Do you remember how they didn't get to keep it and did jail time for attempting to do so? The only difference here is the value is trivial in comparison, which means it's often considered a small enough amount that it's not worth locking people up for their dishonesty.
That is a lie, and you are a liar. The difference here is that someone has put a physical item in the mail, and sent it to you, and now you have it in your hot little hands. Absent an agreement to send it back, it is now yours as per U.S. law, as it is illegal for them to have actually sent you the package to begin with!
Now, this didn't happen in the US, so that's totally fucking irrelevant. But still, right now we're talking about US law, and it says that if someone sends you something you didn't order, you can keep it, send it back, donate it to charity, or indeed stick it up your arse if you're not violating any sodomy laws or other ostensibly unconstitutional but still-on-the-books bullshit.
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
