Microsoft = Censorship of the Truth!

[kurttrail]

They are chicken-sh*t's. Can beat me with logic, they have to stoop to
censor me!

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[JAX]

Hi Kurt,

I see your posts at both 2:50 and 3:03.

JAX

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Hi Kurt,

I see your posts at both 2:50 and 3:03.

You just downloaded them before they were pulled.

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[Kurt's a dumbass]

Kurt's a dumbass

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Kurt's a dumbass

I believe you said that already. Can't you come up with some new
insult?

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[David Williams]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"



I believe you said that already. Can't you come up with some new
insult?

Can't you come up with a real reason that would really stop Microsoft using
Product Activation. If you don't agree with their licence agreement (which
is a valid legal contract when you click "I Agree") you can send the
software back to them and get a refund.

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Can't you come up with a real reason that would really stop Microsoft
using Product Activation.

MS's won't stop using it, unless you morons stop paying them to keep it.

If you don't agree with their licence
agreement (which is a valid legal contract when you click "I Agree")
you can send the software back to them and get a refund.

And as with every contract, it is legal to break any term that you feel
won't be legally enforced by a court. MS can sue to try to convince a
judge to enforce those terms, but they won't as long as there is a good
chance they'd lose. Hell, I announced in a private MS newsgroup over 2
years ago, that I used the same MS OS on more than one computer, and I'm
still waiting for MS to try to legally enforce their usage term. If a
boy cries "Wolf" over and over again, when do you stop believing him
when there is no wolf to be found? After many Windows OS's since
Win3.1's introduction of the "One Computer" FUD-ULA term, and MS never
suing any private individual to legally enforce that term, MS is no
different than the boy that cried "Wolf," except they cry "One Computer"
instead of "Wolf."

And if you don't have web access, it is virtually impossible to find out
how & where to return that software.

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[Grant]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"


You just downloaded them before they were pulled.

Either that or, like me, they use a newsserver that ignores requests to remove
messages.

 

[David Williams]

And if you don't have web access, it is virtually impossible to find out

how & where to return that software.

It's called a telephone. If you don't even have that, i'm sure the store
would take it back or you could write to MS. But then again there would be
all those people who don't have a pen.

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

It's called a telephone.

Is the phone number in the packaging?

If you don't even have that, i'm sure the
store would take it back

Go ahead and try to take back software with the shrinkwrap broken open.

or you could write to MS.

Which would be more out of pocket expense. To return MS software, you
have to pay for shipping & handling.

But then again
there would be all those people who don't have a pen.

It's not a true refund. And you gotta jump through hoops, then wait for
months before you even see a partial refund.

But since MS has no right to know who even buys their software, MS has
no right to enforce their alleged contract on any party that has every
right to remain anonymous to them. So it's less hassle, both
practically & legally, just to ignore the unenforceable nonsense, than
to return the software.

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[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Either that or, like me, they use a newsserver that ignores requests
to remove messages.

Yep, that's another possibility.

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[Ian Merrithew]

Grant wrote:

Yep, that's another possibility.

That's what makes these MS-censorship stunts (if they are, in fact,
pulling the posts) so petty. Many Usenet servers won't honour third-
party cancel requests unless the newsgroup is moderated, which this group
isn't. I can see all of your posts just fine, Kurt (heck, yours are the
only ones I read most days .

 

[Ian Merrithew]

If you don't agree with their licence
agreement (which is a valid legal contract when you click "I Agree")
you can send the software back to them and get a refund.

Or I can exercise my right under copyright law, as the owner of a copy of
software, to install and use that software, EULA be damned. I'll argue
coercion to agree to the EULA, in that Microsoft provides no means for me
to exercise my legal right otherwise, in which case my agreement becomes
non-binding and the EULA is void. Since the right to install & use under
the law is mine, Microsoft can't deny it to me.

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

That's what makes these MS-censorship stunts (if they are, in fact,
pulling the posts) so petty. Many Usenet servers won't honour third-
party cancel requests unless the newsgroup is moderated, which this
group isn't. I can see all of your posts just fine, Kurt (heck,
yours are the only ones I read most days .

I eventually reposted after the "problem" was fixed. And Thanks, Ian.

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