It's really no dumber than the Adobe subscription model that all of their software has already gone to, or the Microsoft planning for "Windows as a service" that is in the works, or the various "cloud" services that store your data somewhere else, on someone else's computer, all for a monthly fee to access that foreign computer.. All of those ideas are equally stupid.
I won't be partaking of any "pay every damned month to continue playing and having access to your own shit" schemes. As far as I can tell, it's all a part of the WEF's "you'll own nothing and be happy" conspiracy. If I can't lay hands on and use my own stuff at will, then it really isn't "my own" stuff - it belongs to someone else, and I have no desire to ransack THEIR stuff or reassign ownership to them of MY stuff.
I'll just go fishing instead.
With my own fishing tackle.
Even if I have to make it myself.
At least it will be mine.
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Always remember this: there is no "cloud" - it's just someone else's computer, one that they've wrangled you into putting YOUR data on, thereby giving them defacto ownership of what YOU created.
That, too, is a dumb idea. If they want MY data, then they need to pay ME for it, not vice-versa.
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I won't be partaking of any "pay every damned month to continue playing and having access to your own shit" schemes. As far as I can tell, it's all a part of the WEF's "you'll own nothing and be happy" conspiracy. If I can't lay hands on and use my own stuff at will, then it really isn't "my own" stuff - it belongs to someone else, and I have no desire to ransack THEIR stuff or reassign ownership to them of MY stuff.
I'll just go fishing instead.
With my own fishing tackle.
Even if I have to make it myself.
At least it will be mine.
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Always remember this: there is no "cloud" - it's just someone else's computer, one that they've wrangled you into putting YOUR data on, thereby giving them defacto ownership of what YOU created.
That, too, is a dumb idea. If they want MY data, then they need to pay ME for it, not vice-versa.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake