No, I didn’t expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can’t turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn’t make claims that it can’t back up?

I’m not saying it’s right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn’t. That’s on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn’t mean it. And furthermore, why give them the benefit of the doubt? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To a company that wouldn’t care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?

And sure, they can "clarify"all they want that he didn’t mean the words that he said precisely and accurately in unambiguous English. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s not some random employee. He is an executive. He knows, and everyone else should know as well, that he speaks as a representative of the company. Otherwise what’s to keep them from lying through their teeth about whatever features they want? “It prints free money! It’ll cure all your diseases! No, no… he didn’t mean that.”

I’d like to think so too, but there’s a whole generation growing up without anything else in their reference frame to switch to - this IS their lives. It’s easy for old farts like me to change to something else - we had a couple decades BEFORE the internet.

He’d probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don’t know…

THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY’D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

Pepperidge Farm remembers, Microsoft scum.

So tiptoe around the bully and change your behavior in the hopes he decides to leave you alone?

Screw him, and screw his feelings. We have the right to free speech, it’s not “free speech as long as we don’t upset a jerk.” If he goes off the rails and pulls a Nero over it, that’s on HIM. I’m not gonna tiptoe around him with this “he who must not be named” crap in the hopes that he can be appeased by keeping quiet, and I’m ESPECIALLY not going to do it for MY servant, which is what he, as the president, is.

Okay, before we get too far into ANOTHER argument here based on taking a generalization as a universal assertion…

I’m not saying progressives aren’t ready to defend themselves, I’m not saying progressives don’t own guns, I’m not saying every gun owner is this.

I was responding to this:

They always talk how they need guns to prevent tyranny and they are in a tyranny for over 6 months now and nothing…

Which is very clearly talking about a VERY SPECIFIC kind of VERY VOCAL gun owner. I’d like it very much if you could just take my acknowledgement that I asserted something about a group that DOES NOT apply to everyone as the grumbling, empathizing complaint about conservatives it was intended to be, and we can both just get on with our days without degenerating into another unnecessary, pointless slap fest.

Okay, I overgeneralized… I don’t mean EVERYONE who owns guns falls into that category.

But you can’t deny it’s the vast majority, and at the very least the LOUDEST group.

Edit: Oh, it’s you again! Hey, buddy! How’s life?

That was never the reason.

Like anything else, conservatives only want things because smarter people suggest to them that they don’t need them.

Guns, unhealthy food, horse paste, religion, fossil fuel power, gendered bathrooms…

Everything is pigheaded contradiction like a 2 year old.

Yeah. We can’t even get people to agree to stop using social media networks that spread misinformation and fund the worst elements in society. You can’t even SUGGEST it to them without being met with angry, ignorant, defensive nonsense. If we can’t even manage that, how are we going to convince them to risk everything on revolution? I think we’ve Brave New World’d too hard - the old rules do not apply.

I don’t know what the answer is. But the problem is clear.

There are also lots and lots of guns wielded by lots of misguided poor people being paid by very rich people who have nearly infinite resources at their disposal.

I’m not saying the conclusion is wrong - but it’s not easy either.

Good idea!

Settles in to watch the Nami’s background/Arlong arc in One Piece.

I want to believe this is real SO badly, but it’s just too perfect… It can’t be… can it?

Don’t worry. The people who were really scared never stopped. They didn’t get their vaccinations (education) and are susceptible to all kinds of infections (bullshit).

The One Piece take on powerful people has turned out to be scarily prescient.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Because collapse is coming.

There’s a book called “The Forge of God” by Greg Bear, and in it,

And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I’m just a guy on the internet. I don’t know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I’d think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!

Well, you’re right. Everyone has to draw their own line. I’ll agree with you this is probably less egregious than some, and I personally do make make purchases I shouldn’t from institutions I shouldn’t to get by.

But I do every single one of those holding my nose and acknowledging I’m contributing to a problem.

I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn’t have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn’t need to jump in here.

Heck, I specifically addressed my initial comment to “lazy, doormat Spotify users” and for some reason you decided I was talking about you.

You are so cool. I am very impressed.

Look, I can’t expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.

But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.

I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.