isn’t any gift received by the president property of the government? or so i gathered from watching the west wing 😆

lol. “This is a rare instance where the big corporation’s interests happen to be to make the best possible product,” said a person who suggested to “think for myself”.

you need some serious cult deprogramming.

no, it is not, you just did not get it.

now hush, go pay something to google for a privilege to have your data analyzed for targeting your ads as everyone else and feel superior about it, you valued customer!

as a person from across the ocean, i don’t get this. why would there be need for some different curriculum for homeschooling, and why would the choice depend on the parent? how is it possible you just get to chose? don’t you have to comply with some general standard? here, home-schooling is extremely rare, but if someone undergoes it, they have to use the same textbooks as everyone else and from time to time pass some exams in school to be sure the kid is not behind its peers.

when did you last check where your flash 8 installer is?

all the genius it takes to bankrupt a casino is at play here…

i think people would be more likely to see some kind of scam and just shut the door today. maybe if you are in some kind of uniform it helps, but lets admit it, the whole exchange less for more principle of the game is suspicious from the beginning 😆

we did the same, but that was 30 years ago, i wonder how that game translates to today’s world. probably not very well.

There’s more to the cost of college classes than tuition.

yeah, no. that is literally it. once you pay the tuition (where applicable), you can visit the classes. you specifically used the phrase “money for classes”, so don’t try to bullshit your way around what you said. i know you need to eat and house yourself. these are not money for classes.

i see you must be from the freedom country. in civilized world, you can do that without the money 😜 it is just that the wording wasn’t very clear.

I understand why normies are shocked and feel betrayed.

they can’t say they have not been warned. sometimes the “we told you so” is not as satisfying as it should be…

Where did you get twenty-something from?

that’s usual age when people are at the university. your “as an old” might probably be worded more clearly if you meant something different.

How are they not customers?

if they were treated as such, we wouldn’t be having this discussion, would we?

These people are paying customers.

well, it is a good thing they are treated as such and there is no problem then 😂

I’m in university (as an old) (…) I know better, but young people

wait, are you saying that twenty-something is old? 😂

yeah, the funny and sad thing here is, that there are people in the world for whom “locally” means “in my phone”. 🤷‍♂️

I never really liked Google, but their whole thing was supposed to be that you never needed to worry about backups.

no it wasn’t. no sane person ever told you that. everyone always knew situation like the one described here will come sooner or later.

google might have told you so, but it is of similar value to when tobacco company tells you that smoking is healthy and to please continue smoking (and giving us money).

they’ve decided to screw people over who relied on their drive and office suite.

these people are not the customers. i will repeat that, because this part is really important - THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE CUSTOMERS.

when you don’t pay for the service, you are not the customer, you are the merchandise that is being sold. and you are treated like one. when you are selling screwdrivers and one of them fall of the shelf, you don’t bother yourself thinking if it hurt.

Not limited to any specific jurisdiction, just want to know what happens in general.

what would happen is, in general, all about the specific jurisdiction. in my country, downloading anything is not illegal, what can be illegal is sharing stuff you don’t own.

so in your case, nothing would happen, not because of the pirated content. (i mean if they really wanted to get you and all they had to work with would be your disney collection, they would probably try to prove you shared/sold it).

i am not native speaker as well, so it is sometimes hard to judge the nuances. in the old days of the internet there was a saying “be conservative in what you say and liberal in what you hear”. so maybe do that. or don’t care at all and just move on 🤷‍♂️ sorry i don’t have anything better.

Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn’t being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.

These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.

jesus fucking christ. i am sorry this is happening to you or anyone else.