Random Raves #39: Life is good

[Kyriakos]

You are incorrigible, Dachs ^^

 

[Arakhor]

I read an article a while back that said the options to turn off those snooping features don't really turn them off. Microsoft just put those options there to make people think they have a choice when they really don't.

Well, if that's true, someone will probably end filing a lawsuit of some description against Microsoft.

 

[Commodore]

Well, if that's true, someone will probably end filing a lawsuit of some description against Microsoft.

Microsoft can get around any lawsuit though with the EULA. Microsoft's EULA (which virtually no one ever reads) says that by updating to Windows 10, you are giving them your implied consent to collect data on you. Just merely having Windows 10 on your computer means you are giving them permission to snoop on you. So the only way to truly revoke your consent for them to snoop on you, would be to uninstall Windows 10.

 

[Arakhor]

Those sorts of EULAs don't hold water in the EU. It remains to be seen what (if anything) happens in Europe about that.

 

[Snerk]

Does that mean they'll soon hold water in the UK?

 

[Arakhor]

I have no idea.

 

[Takhisis]

Microsoft can get around any lawsuit though with the EULA. Microsoft's EULA (which virtually no one ever reads) says that by updating to Windows 10, you are giving them your implied consent to collect data on you. Just merely having Windows 10 on your computer means you are giving them permission to snoop on you. So the only way to truly revoke your consent for them to snoop on you, would be to uninstall Windows 10.

I believe that that is a textbook example of an unconscionable clause.

 

[dusters]

My mom herself suggested to loan me the rest of the money I need for my orchiectomy surgery. Seems like she has finally accepted I'm not cis and she understands I will be happier after transition.

 

[Takhisis]

What a… radical piece of news. It's congrats-worthy, I supposed. And also shocking.

 

[dusters]

Well, I mean I came out to mom 11 years ago and only in last year she has actually started to consider supporting me. My dad is out of question, he doesn't even understand what it means to have a depression.

I dunno, I felt like sharing. This forum has been something stable in my life since I started looking up strategies how to get better at Civ3.

 

[Takhisis]

Civ3 rules of course.

Your dad sounds like a somewhat intolerant person. Those can be tough. :/

 

[Commodore]

I believe that that is a textbook example of an unconscionable clause.

And yet the concept of implied consent is considered legal and enforceable here in the US. Consumer protection isn't something our leaders take too seriously over here.

 

[Takhisis]

I am finally rid of the pathetic chondrichthyan weather films! The Sharknado films are finally done. Tomorrow, the Doctor returns to my screen, and things will be as they should be.

 

[JohannaK]

Just had my first taste of haggis at the Whiski Bar in Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Surprisingly good.

 

[Takhisis]

‘Surprisingly’?

 

[gay_Aleks]

"Good"? For haggis?

 

[Snerk]

I don't see why haggis shouldn't taste nice. And would probably benefit with some nice Akvavit on the side.

 

[gay_Aleks]

because it is literally everything chopped up that couldn't be used for anything else?

 

[W|M]

Unwanted animal parts aren't necessarily bad; Feijoada started off as a stew made from beans and the parts of pigs that the Portuguese refused to eat, and it's delicious

 

[Takhisis]

That's what a sausage is meant to be, Tolni.

And the Akvavit should help.