It's worse then I thought
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Aces Spade
Raise you One♠
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
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05-20-2006 16:36
From: David Valentino I guess some of us still get outraged by people's lack of morals, ethics or honesty. I am certainly never suprised by folks doing crappy things in the name of self-interest, but I still don't believe it's right or should be accepted quietly. I agree with you there 
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So where is the "i don't give a shit'' option?
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Jopsy Pendragon
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Join date: 15 Jan 2004
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05-20-2006 16:40
From: Jonas Pierterson
But I'm sure harshing on those wo complain about the parasite will have a positive effect, right?
Well if you're going to bring it up everytime that Jamie posts... please at least drop the hypocritical necroequinoflagination comment from your sig.  |
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Jonas Pierterson
Dark Harlequin
Join date: 27 Dec 2005
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05-20-2006 16:59
I don't bring it up everytime. So no reason to remove it.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
Join date: 22 Dec 2003
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05-20-2006 20:37
From: Jonas Pierterson necroequinnoflaggetation The double "n"in in "necroequinnoflaggetation" would make it be procounced with a short I sound as in "thin. It would probably be better spelled with one "n" at that location. "Flaggettation", I assume, is supposed to come from flagellation. So I propose that the spelling of this term be altered to "necroequinoflagellation". Hyphens might good to make it clearer, thus "necro-equino-flagellation".
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Musuko Massiel
Registered User
Join date: 4 Nov 2005
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05-21-2006 00:46
Yikes. Who ressurected this?
Anyhoo...
""It is a deceptive business practice to let customers think they're paying someone for a product designed and created by the person being paid, when instead they're really only paying for the labor to find the item and box it up for sale.""
I'm sure you'll find none of the people working in supermarkets made the goods they are selling (except perhaps in the in-store bakeries).
To play devil's advocate again...
Boxing and presenting the item is worthy of a fee. And if the newbies were unaware of the products and their freebie nature before they found and bought them, surely that suggests that the seller has earnt their finders fee?
Call it not a price for the item. Call it, instead, a fee for bringing the freebie to the attention of the purchaser.
"Ethics. Taking what soemone intended to be free and making a profit. "
Lets see, the gravity boots I've been suspended with were intended for exercising. The electrodes I've been zapped with were intended for building up muscles, and the very enjoyable vibrating thing...well, that was meant to be a back massager.
And let's not forget the padlocks meant for toolboxes, the CB3000 intended "for novelty purposes only", and the stinging nettles...god knows what stinging nettles are for.
My, what an unethical person I am, using all these things in ways not intended by the manufacturers (except perhaps the people who made the back massager. Who are they kidding?)
Musuko.
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
Join date: 18 Jun 2003
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05-21-2006 01:58
Selling freebies is just another way to steal from the innocent.
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Jopsy Pendragon
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Join date: 15 Jan 2004
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05-21-2006 02:30
From: Musuko Massiel Yikes. Who ressurected this? That'd be me.. sorry... =) From: Musuko Massiel I'm sure you'll find none of the people working in supermarkets made the goods they are selling (except perhaps in the in-store bakeries). Yes, but it's REASONABLY safe to assume that a supermarket didn't go and 'appropriate' one banana and is now selling lots of copies of it.  From: Musuko Massiel Call it, instead, a fee for bringing the freebie to the attention of the purchaser. Ah, but the problem is, the people that do that... rarely if ever, "call" it that. The buyer is lead to believe they're paying a fair market price for a legitimate product... when instead they're really only paying an extremely marked up finder's fee. Ultimately it still boils down to what you can get away with, until SecondLife has an in-world staff of lawyers and binding arbitration of some sort. Not the kind of world I particularly want to be in really... but I would like to have the notion of "piracy" more clearly defined... one way or another. |
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Fade Languish
I just build stuff...
Join date: 20 Oct 2005
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05-21-2006 03:05
Devlin I just love your signature... every time I see it I smile, because my favourite person in the world ever, now sadly passed, used to make that joke, and I still laugh at it to this day. |
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Jonas Pierterson
Dark Harlequin
Join date: 27 Dec 2005
Posts: 3,660
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05-21-2006 06:07
From: SuezanneC Baskerville The double "n"in in "necroequinnoflaggetation" would make it be procounced with a short I sound as in "thin. It would probably be better spelled with one "n" at that location. "Flaggettation", I assume, is supposed to come from flagellation. So I propose that the spelling of this term be altered to "necroequinoflagellation". Hyphens might good to make it clearer, thus "necro-equino-flagellation". Rusty latin. And Dyslexia. Both of them and msyelf thank you.
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Good freebies here and here I must protest. I am not a merry man! - Warf, ST: TNG, episode: Qpid You killed my father. Prepare to die. - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride You killed My father. Your a-- is mine! - Hellboy
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