ProtonMail was a huge disappointment. I was a paying customer.

But I’m happy so far with Tuta.

And thoughts like, “What kind of fucking moron votes for this guy 3 times, and then whines about getting screwed by Trump on national TV?”

And then some genius cooked it AGAIN and invented toast!

Brother printers to the rescue. I think they are still untainted by crap bloatware and just do the thing.

I though this was the “Mildly terrifying” forum for a sec.

I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀

Some heros don’t wear capes, but you can if you want to

I guess it depends on intent.

If you’re just conjuring images for your D&D game with your buddies, so what.

If your intention is monetizing and selling it, then that’s probably a problem.

The point is, the artist has an idea and their to use it to communicate something to you. Does the art make you feel anything other than frustrated? Usually I try to figure out what the artist was saying with the piece.

It’s also possible that the artist did not do a good enough job in their communication.

My unsolicited opinion as an artist of a few different media.

Good art communicates emotions and feelings of the artist to the audience through its medium. Parody is “new” when it takes an original artist’s message, and responds with another artist’s absurd take.

Without emotions or feelings, a computer just wings it, and tries to simulate it. It’s like receiving a message from an insincere person - maybe pretty but ultimately shallow and hollow.

In the future, computers will be better at faking it. However, I think that will make real art from humans more valuable, not less.

EULA’s are widely honored and established law. However, anyone can push back on anything they put in an agreement.

To fight Microsoft, you have to fight Microsoft’s lawyers, in Microsoft’s jurisdiction. But you can’t sue them, because you already agreed to arbitration. And you’d have to pay lawyers in what would be a long, drawn out process.

If Microsoft demands things that are incredibly weird like what you describe above, there definitely would be a chance it could be appealed to a court and eventually see a judge. I think it would be a long and expensive process for both sides getting there. And Microsoft’s argument would be, “The user has the option to stop using it.”

There are undoubtedly severance clauses in there, so if a court deems a part of a license illegal, then it is stricken, and the rest of the agreement stands.

So, Microsoft’s lawyers only put things in the agreement that they are 99+% sure of wanting and winning. So they probably won’t request your spleen. They don’t want that. They just want your money, your data, and your eyeballs connected to your brain.

It kinda does make it legal. If you don’t agree to the terms of the product, then you are using it illegally. It sucks, but that’s where the law is. I am typing this on a Linux laptop in Firefox, but those have terms and conditions, too!

Yes, but - in many of those contracts (particularly end-user license agreements) you agreed to them changing the terms of the contract. You also have an “out” - not using the product any more.

You’re right though: it’s slimy. Anything slimy thing can be put into a contract!

Source: I’m not a lawyer, but worked in an office with a lot of them, and worked with software license agreements in particular.

I bet Trump has other people pay fines for him. “Take it out of the special Russian account.”

1. So what?
2. Damn straight they are locked. Other wise you get Nicole spam on all of them, instead of just a few.
3. So what?

The buck stops with the previous guy.

Wow, are you me? Because this is a pretty accurate biography of my life!

When I hear that, I am inwardly proud of myself in spite of being ADHD.

It feels like the rest of the world is running on a flat surface, and I’m running uphill. It’s not fair, but it is what it is.

“Local Arsonist Requests Reward for Dowsing Fire He Started”

I’m asking for…

NO A.I.